Challenge: Existing methods to generate questions for verbose reviews are inefficient for potential consumers . lack of training data hinders efficient review digestion, authors say .
Approach: They propose to generate questions that can be answered by corresponding review sentences . they propose an iterative learning framework with adaptive instance transfer and augmentation .
Outcome: The proposed model can generate questions that can be answered by review sentences . it is easier to find critical review parts that are important for potential consumers .

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