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Approach: They propose to generate automatic questions from span-of-word-based scholarly articles’ Reading Comprehension dataset with approximately 10K manually checked passage-question-answer instances.
Outcome: The proposed model yields the F1 score of 37.31% and is useful for building Question-Answering (QA) systems on scientific articles.

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