MCQG-SRefine: Multiple Choice Question Generation and Evaluation with Iterative Self-Critique, Correction, and Comparison Feedback (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Generating multiple-choice questions (MCQG) for professional exams is challenging due to outdated knowledge, hallucination issues, and prompt sensitivity. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for converting medical cases into high-quality USMLE-style questions using a self-refine-based framework. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves human expert satisfaction regarding quality and difficulty of medical questions. |
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