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Few-shot Question Generation for Reading Comprehension

  • Yin Poon
  • , John S.Y. Lee
  • , Yu Yan Lam
  • , Wing Lam Suen
  • , Elsie Li Chen Ong
  • , Samuel Kai Wah Chu

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    3 Citations (Scopus)

    Abstract

    According to the internationally recognized PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) assessment standards, reading comprehension questions should require not only information retrieval, but also higher-order processes such as inferencing, interpreting and evaluation. However, these kinds of questions are often not available in large quantities for training question generation models. This paper investigates whether pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) can produce higher-order questions. Human assessment on a Chinese dataset shows that few-shot LLM prompting generates more usable and higher-order questions than two competitive neural baselines.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationSIGHAN 2024 - 10th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, Proceedings of the Workshop
    EditorsKam-Fai Wong, Min Zhang, Ruifeng Xu, Jing Li, Zhongyu Wei, Lin Gui, Bin Liang, Runcong Zhao
    Pages21-27
    Number of pages7
    ISBN (Electronic)9798891761551
    Publication statusPublished - 2024
    Event10th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, SIGHAN 2024 - Bangkok, Thailand
    Duration: 16 Aug 2024 → …

    Publication series

    NameSIGHAN 2024 - 10th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, Proceedings of the Workshop

    Conference

    Conference10th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, SIGHAN 2024
    Country/TerritoryThailand
    CityBangkok
    Period16/08/24 → …

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