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Sungjin Ahn

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Generating Factoid Questions With Recurrent Neural Networks: The 30M Factoid Question-Answer Corpus
Iulian V. Serban
Alberto García-Durán
Caglar Gulçehre
Sungjin Ahn
Sarath Chandar
Aaron Courville
Yoshua Bengio
Over the past decade, large-scale supervised learning corpora have enabled machine learning researchers to make substantial advances. Howeve… (see more)r, to this date, there are no large-scale question-answer corpora available. In this paper we present the 30M Factoid Question-Answer Corpus, an enormous question answer pair corpus produced by applying a novel neural network architecture on the knowledge base Freebase to transduce facts into natural language questions. The produced question answer pairs are evaluated both by human evaluators and using automatic evaluation metrics, including well-established machine translation and sentence similarity metrics. Across all evaluation criteria the question-generation model outperforms the competing template-based baseline. Furthermore, when presented to human evaluators, the generated questions appear comparable in quality to real human-generated questions.
2016-08-01
Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (published)
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