Challenge: a popular format for knowledge bases is question-answer pairs (Q&As) specialized knowledge bases that extract and store question-annwer pairs are prevalent .
Approach: They propose a framework for question generation that generates diverse questions from text . they propose 'protege' framework that can generate diverse questions using a variety of prompts .
Outcome: The proposed framework improves diversity and fidelity over diverse beam search and prompt-based baselines on three public Q&A datasets.

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