Semantic Graphs for Generating Deep Questions

Liangming Pan, Yuxi Xie, Yansong Feng, Tat-Seng Chua, Min-Yen Kan


Abstract
This paper proposes the problem of Deep Question Generation (DQG), which aims to generate complex questions that require reasoning over multiple pieces of information about the input passage. In order to capture the global structure of the document and facilitate reasoning, we propose a novel framework that first constructs a semantic-level graph for the input document and then encodes the semantic graph by introducing an attention-based GGNN (Att-GGNN). Afterward, we fuse the document-level and graph-level representations to perform joint training of content selection and question decoding. On the HotpotQA deep-question centric dataset, our model greatly improves performance over questions requiring reasoning over multiple facts, leading to state-of-the-art performance. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/WING-NUS/SG-Deep-Question-Generation.
Anthology ID:
2020.acl-main.135
Volume:
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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July
Year:
2020
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Online
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1463–1475
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.135
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.135
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Cite (ACL):
Liangming Pan, Yuxi Xie, Yansong Feng, Tat-Seng Chua, and Min-Yen Kan. 2020. Semantic Graphs for Generating Deep Questions. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 1463–1475, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Semantic Graphs for Generating Deep Questions (Pan et al., ACL 2020)
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PDF:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/update-css-js/2020.acl-main.135.pdf
Video:
 http://slideslive.com/38929018
Code
 WING-NUS/SG-Deep-Question-Generation
Data
HotpotQA