| Challenge: | a novel text generation task uses reading comprehension datasets to generate a hierarchy of question-answer pairs . users can click on high-level questions to reveal related but more specific questions . |
| Approach: | They propose a text-generating task which converts a document into a hierarchy of question-answer pairs . users can click on high-level questions to reveal related but more specific questions . they then use the specificity-labeled reading comprehension dataset to generate the hierarchy . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can be used to generate a hierarchy of question-answer pairs based on reading comprehension datasets. |
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