Papers with question position identification
How to Engage your Readers? Generating Guiding Questions to Promote Active Reading (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Using questions in written text is an effective strategy to enhance readability, but what makes an active reading question good, what the linguistic role of these questions is, and what is their impact on human reading remains understudied. |
| Approach: | They present a dataset of 10K in-text questions from textbooks and scientific articles and explore various approaches to generate such questions using language models. |
| Outcome: | The generated questions are of high quality and are almost as effective as human-written questions in terms of improving readers’ memorization and comprehension. |