Zero-Shot Question Generation from Knowledge Graphs for Unseen Predicates and Entity Types (N18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing factoid question answering systems rely on annotated datasets such as SimpleQuestions to generate questions from knowledge graphs. |
| Approach: | They propose a neural model that generates questions from knowledge graphs triples in a “zero-shot” setup. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art on this task. |
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