@inproceedings{flor-riordan-2018-semantic,
    title = "A Semantic Role-based Approach to Open-Domain Automatic Question Generation",
    author = "Flor, Michael  and
      Riordan, Brian",
    editor = "Tetreault, Joel  and
      Burstein, Jill  and
      Kochmar, Ekaterina  and
      Leacock, Claudia  and
      Yannakoudakis, Helen",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of {NLP} for Building Educational Applications",
    month = jun,
    year = "2018",
    address = "New Orleans, Louisiana",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/W18-0530/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-0530",
    pages = "254--263",
    abstract = "We present a novel rule-based system for automatic generation of factual questions from sentences, using semantic role labeling (SRL) as the main form of text analysis. The system is capable of generating both wh-questions and yes/no questions from the same semantic analysis. We present an extensive evaluation of the system and compare it to a recent neural network architecture for question generation. The SRL-based system outperforms the neural system in both average quality and variety of generated questions."
}