Inquisitive Question Generation for High Level Text Comprehension (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing data-driven questions generate questions that fill gaps in knowledge . a dataset of 19K questions is used to generate meaningful questions . |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset of 19K questions that are elicited while a person is reading a document. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model generates reasonable questions, but the task is challenging. |
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