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title = "Question-type Driven Question Generation",
author = "Zhou, Wenjie and
Zhang, Minghua and
Wu, Yunfang",
editor = "Inui, Kentaro and
Jiang, Jing and
Ng, Vincent and
Wan, Xiaojun",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)",
month = nov,
year = "2019",
address = "Hong Kong, China",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/D19-1622",
doi = "10.18653/v1/D19-1622",
pages = "6032--6037",
abstract = "Question generation is a challenging task which aims to ask a question based on an answer and relevant context. The existing works suffer from the mismatching between question type and answer, i.e. generating a question with type $how$ while the answer is a personal name. We propose to automatically predict the question type based on the input answer and context. Then, the question type is fused into a seq2seq model to guide the question generation, so as to deal with the mismatching problem. We achieve significant improvement on the accuracy of question type prediction and finally obtain state-of-the-art results for question generation on both SQuAD and MARCO datasets.",
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%T Question-type Driven Question Generation
%A Zhou, Wenjie
%A Zhang, Minghua
%A Wu, Yunfang
%Y Inui, Kentaro
%Y Jiang, Jing
%Y Ng, Vincent
%Y Wan, Xiaojun
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%D 2019
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Hong Kong, China
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Markdown (Informal)
[Question-type Driven Question Generation](https://aclanthology.org/D19-1622) (Zhou et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
ACL
- Wenjie Zhou, Minghua Zhang, and Yunfang Wu. 2019. Question-type Driven Question Generation. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), pages 6032–6037, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.