Challenge: Question answering systems often experience performance deterioration upon user-generated questions.
Approach: They propose a question classification framework to help QA domains adapt to different domains.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves on state-of-the-art datasets against multiple datasets.

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Challenge: Question answering models often suffer from performance deterioration upon deployment .
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Challenge: Question Generation (QG) is the production of meaningful questions given a set of input passages and corresponding answers.
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