Question Generation from Concept Maps

Andrew M. Olney, Arthur C. Graesser, Natalie K. Person


Abstract
In this paper we present a question generation approach suitable for tutorial dialogues. The approach is based on previous psychological theories that hypothesize questions are generated from a knowledge representation modeled as a concept map. Our model automatically extracts concept maps from a textbook and uses them to generate questions. The purpose of the study is to generate and evaluate pedagogically-appropriate questions at varying levels of specificity across one or more sentences. The evaluation metrics include scales from the Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge and a new scale specific to the pedagogical nature of questions in tutoring.
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2012.dnd-3.5
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Dialogue Discourse Volume 3
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2012
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Gregory Aist, Paul Piwek, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer
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DND
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SIGDIAL
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75–99
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https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-dnd/2012.dnd-3.5/
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10.5087/dad.2012.204
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Andrew M. Olney, Arthur C. Graesser, and Natalie K. Person. 2012. Question Generation from Concept Maps. Dialogue & Discourse, 3:75–99.
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Question Generation from Concept Maps (Olney et al., DND 2012)
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