Residential College | false |
Status | 已發表Published |
Automatic question generation system for english reading comprehension | |
Fung, Yin Chun1; Kwok, Jason Chun Wai1; Lee, Lap Kei1; Chui, Kwok Tai1; U, Leong Hou2![]() | |
2020 | |
Conference Name | 5th International Conference, ICTE 2020 |
Source Publication | Communications in Computer and Information Science
![]() |
Volume | 1302 |
Pages | 136-146 |
Conference Date | August 19-22, 2020 |
Conference Place | Macau, China |
Abstract | This paper presents a web-based automatic question generation (AQG) system to generate reading comprehension questions and multiple-choice (MC) questions on grammar from a given English text. Such system saves teachers’ time on setting questions and facilitates students and their parents to prepare self-learning exercises. Our web-based system can automatically generate Wh-questions (i.e., what, who, when, where, why, and how) and MC grammar questions of selected sentences. Wh-questions can also be generated from user-specified answer phrases. The generation of Wh-questions exploits the pre-trained natural language understanding model, Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer (T5), and an adapted version of the SQuAD 2.0 machine reading comprehension dataset. The generation of MC questions involves identifying regular verbs in a text and using the verb’s lexemes as the answer choices. Our system takes an average time of about 1 s to generate a Wh-question and it generates a MC question almost instantly. User evaluation indicated that our system is easy-to-use and satisfactory in usefulness, usability, and quality, revealing the effectiveness of our system for teachers and parents. |
Keyword | Automatic Question Generation English Reading Comprehension Multiple-choice Questions Natural Language Processing Wh-questions |
DOI | 10.1007/978-981-33-4594-2_12 |
URL | View the original |
Language | 英語English |
Scopus ID | 2-s2.0-85098249352 |
Fulltext Access | |
Citation statistics | |
Document Type | Conference paper |
Collection | Faculty of Science and Technology |
Affiliation | 1.School of Science and Technology, The Open University of Hong Kong, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong 2.SKL of Internet of Things for Smart City, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, Macao |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Fung, Yin Chun,Kwok, Jason Chun Wai,Lee, Lap Kei,et al. Automatic question generation system for english reading comprehension[C], 2020, 136-146. |
APA | Fung, Yin Chun., Kwok, Jason Chun Wai., Lee, Lap Kei., Chui, Kwok Tai., & U, Leong Hou (2020). Automatic question generation system for english reading comprehension. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 1302, 136-146. |
Files in This Item: | There are no files associated with this item. |
Items in the repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
Edit Comment