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title = "Learning to Generate Question by Asking Question: A Primal-Dual Approach with Uncommon Word Generation",
author = "Wang, Qifan and
Yang, Li and
Quan, Xiaojun and
Feng, Fuli and
Liu, Dongfang and
Xu, Zenglin and
Wang, Sinong and
Ma, Hao",
editor = "Goldberg, Yoav and
Kozareva, Zornitsa and
Zhang, Yue",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = dec,
year = "2022",
address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.4",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.4",
pages = "46--61",
abstract = "Automatic question generation (AQG) is the task of generating a question from a given passage and an answer. Most existing AQG methods aim at encoding the passage and the answer to generate the question. However, limited work has focused on modeling the correlation between the target answer and the generated question. Moreover, unseen or rare word generation has not been studied in previous works. In this paper, we propose a novel approach which incorporates question generation with its dual problem, question answering, into a unified primal-dual framework. Specifically, the question generation component consists of an encoder that jointly encodes the answer with the passage, and a decoder that produces the question. The question answering component then re-asks the generated question on the passage to ensure that the target answer is obtained. We further introduce a knowledge distillation module to improve the model generalization ability. We conduct an extensive set of experiments on SQuAD and HotpotQA benchmarks. Experimental results demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed approach over several state-of-the-art methods.",
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%T Learning to Generate Question by Asking Question: A Primal-Dual Approach with Uncommon Word Generation
%A Wang, Qifan
%A Yang, Li
%A Quan, Xiaojun
%A Feng, Fuli
%A Liu, Dongfang
%A Xu, Zenglin
%A Wang, Sinong
%A Ma, Hao
%Y Goldberg, Yoav
%Y Kozareva, Zornitsa
%Y Zhang, Yue
%S Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
%D 2022
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
%F wang-etal-2022-learning-generate
%X Automatic question generation (AQG) is the task of generating a question from a given passage and an answer. Most existing AQG methods aim at encoding the passage and the answer to generate the question. However, limited work has focused on modeling the correlation between the target answer and the generated question. Moreover, unseen or rare word generation has not been studied in previous works. In this paper, we propose a novel approach which incorporates question generation with its dual problem, question answering, into a unified primal-dual framework. Specifically, the question generation component consists of an encoder that jointly encodes the answer with the passage, and a decoder that produces the question. The question answering component then re-asks the generated question on the passage to ensure that the target answer is obtained. We further introduce a knowledge distillation module to improve the model generalization ability. We conduct an extensive set of experiments on SQuAD and HotpotQA benchmarks. Experimental results demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed approach over several state-of-the-art methods.
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.4
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%P 46-61
Markdown (Informal)
[Learning to Generate Question by Asking Question: A Primal-Dual Approach with Uncommon Word Generation](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.4) (Wang et al., EMNLP 2022)
ACL
- Qifan Wang, Li Yang, Xiaojun Quan, Fuli Feng, Dongfang Liu, Zenglin Xu, Sinong Wang, and Hao Ma. 2022. Learning to Generate Question by Asking Question: A Primal-Dual Approach with Uncommon Word Generation. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 46–61, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.