Distractor Generation

13 papers with code • 1 benchmarks • 2 datasets

Given a passage, a question, and an answer phrase, the goal of distractor generation (DG) is to generate context-related wrong options (i.e., distractor) for multiple-choice questions (MCQ).

Datasets


Exploring Automated Distractor Generation for Math Multiple-choice Questions via Large Language Models

umass-ml4ed/prompt_distractor_generation_naacl 2 Apr 2024

Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are ubiquitous in almost all levels of education since they are easy to administer, grade, and are a reliable format in assessments and practices.

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02 Apr 2024

CDGP: Automatic Cloze Distractor Generation based on Pre-trained Language Model

andychiangsh/cdgp 15 Mar 2024

Manually designing cloze test consumes enormous time and efforts.

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15 Mar 2024

A Novel Multi-Stage Prompting Approach for Language Agnostic MCQ Generation using GPT

my625/cot-mcqgen 13 Jan 2024

We introduce a multi-stage prompting approach (MSP) for the generation of multiple choice questions (MCQs), harnessing the capabilities of GPT models such as text-davinci-003 and GPT-4, renowned for their excellence across various NLP tasks.

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13 Jan 2024

BRAINTEASER: Lateral Thinking Puzzles for Large Language Models

giannispana/ails-ntua-at-semeval-2024-task-9-brainteaser 8 Oct 2023

The success of language models has inspired the NLP community to attend to tasks that require implicit and complex reasoning, relying on human-like commonsense mechanisms.

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08 Oct 2023

Distractor generation for multiple-choice questions with predictive prompting and large language models

semerekiros/distractgpt 30 Jul 2023

We also show the gains of our approach 1 in generating high-quality distractors by comparing it with a zero-shot ChatGPT and a few-shot ChatGPT prompted with static examples.

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30 Jul 2023

EduQG: A Multi-format Multiple Choice Dataset for the Educational Domain

hadifar/question-generation 12 Oct 2022

Thus, our versatile dataset can be used for both question and distractor generation, as well as to explore new challenges such as question format conversion.

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12 Oct 2022

BERT-based distractor generation for Swedish reading comprehension questions using a small-scale dataset

dkalpakchi/swequad-mc INLG (ACL) 2021

An important part when constructing multiple-choice questions (MCQs) for reading comprehension assessment are the distractors, the incorrect but preferably plausible answer options.

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09 Aug 2021

ZmBART: An Unsupervised Cross-lingual Transfer Framework for Language Generation

kaushal0494/ZmBART Findings (ACL) 2021

In this framework, we further pre-train mBART sequence-to-sequence denoising auto-encoder model with an auxiliary task using monolingual data of three languages.

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03 Jun 2021

Quiz-Style Question Generation for News Stories

google-research-datasets/NewsQuizQA 18 Feb 2021

As a first step towards measuring news informedness at a scale, we study the problem of quiz-style multiple-choice question generation, which may be used to survey users about their knowledge of recent news.

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18 Feb 2021

A BERT-based Distractor Generation Scheme with Multi-tasking and Negative Answer Training Strategies.

voidful/BDG Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020

In this paper, we investigate the following two limitations for the existing distractor generation (DG) methods.

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01 Nov 2020