| Challenge: | a new method to generate natural language questions from keyword-based queries is proposed . a synergy between query-to-question problem and standard machine translation (MT) model is found . |
| Approach: | They propose a method to generate well-formed natural language questions from keyword-based queries. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is well-formed natural language question generated from keyword-based query. |
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