Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Automatic generation of short answer questions for reading comprehension assessment. |
| Authors: |
HUANG, YAN1 yh358@cam.ac.uk, HE, LIANZHEN2 hlz@zju.edu.cn |
| Source: |
Natural Language Engineering. May2016, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p457-489. 33p. |
| Subjects: |
Reading comprehension, Writing automation, Lexical-functional grammar, Semantic computing, Paraphrase |
| Abstract: |
Writing items for reading comprehension assessment is time-consuming. Automating part of the process can help test-designers to develop assessments more efficiently and consistently. This paper presents an approach to automatically generating short answer questions for reading comprehension assessment. Our major contribution is to introduce Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) as the linguistic framework for question generation, which enables systematic utilization of semantic and syntactic information. The approach can efficiently generate questions of better quality than previous high-performing question generation systems, and uses paraphrasing and sentence selection to improve the cognitive complexity and effectiveness of questions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Engineering Source |
