A Double Phases Generation Network for Yes or No Question Generation (Student Abstract)

Authors

  • Jiayuan Xie School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China Key Laboratory of Big Data and Intelligent Robot (South China University of Technology), Ministry of Education
  • Feng Chen School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China Key Laboratory of Big Data and Intelligent Robot (South China University of Technology), Ministry of Education
  • Yi Cai School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China Key Laboratory of Big Data and Intelligent Robot (South China University of Technology), Ministry of Education
  • Zehang Lin The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v35i18.17962

Keywords:

Question Generation, Keyword Extraction, Attention

Abstract

This paper aims to solve the task of generating yes or no questions, which generates yes/no questions based on given passages. These questions can be used for evaluation automatically. We propose a double phases generation network that can identify specific phrases related to facts from the input passage and use them as auxiliary information for generation. Specifically, the 1st-phase prediction uses the extracted phrases as assistance to generate an initial question. Then, the 2nd-phase prediction utilizes an attention network to focus on the relevant phrases related to the initial question in the passage to generate questions that are more relevant to the specific facts contained in the initial question. Extensive experiments we performed on BoolQ dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework.

Downloads

Published

2021-05-18

How to Cite

Xie, J., Chen, F., Cai, Y., & Lin, Z. (2021). A Double Phases Generation Network for Yes or No Question Generation (Student Abstract). Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 35(18), 15931-15932. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v35i18.17962

Issue

Section

AAAI Student Abstract and Poster Program