Automatic Distractor Generation for Multiple Choice Questions in Standard Tests (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to generate distractors for multiple choice questions are expensive and time-consuming. |
| Approach: | They propose a question and answer guided distractor generation framework to automate distractors generated by domain experts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models and achieves state-of-the-art on a large-scale dataset. |
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