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Approach: They propose a multi-dimensional evaluation benchmark for QG and automatic metrics that evaluates questions and automated metrics across 7 dimensions.
Outcome: The proposed benchmark evaluates QG models and automatic metrics across 7 dimensions . it shows that most QG model performs unsatisfactorily in terms of answerability and answer consistency .

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