Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

CONSISTENT: Open-Ended Question Generation From News Articles

  • The New York Times R&D
  • Columbia University

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

5 Scopus citations

Abstract

Recent work on question generation has largely focused on factoid questions such as who, what, where, when about basic facts. Generating open-ended why, how, what, etc. questions that require long-form answers have proven more difficult. To facilitate the generation of open-ended questions, we propose CONSISTENT, a new end-to-end system for generating open-ended questions that are answerable from and faithful to the input text. Using news articles as a trustworthy foundation for experimentation, we demonstrate our model's strength over several baselines using both automatic and human-based evaluations. We contribute an evaluation dataset of expert-generated open-ended questions.We discuss potential downstream applications for news media organizations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publicationEMNLP 2022
EditorsYoav Goldberg, Zornitsa Kozareva, Yue Zhang
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages6983-6997
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)9781959429432
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event2022 Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022 - Hybrid, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Duration: Dec 7 2022Dec 11 2022

Publication series

NameFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022

Conference

Conference2022 Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited Arab Emirates
CityHybrid, Abu Dhabi
Period12/7/2212/11/22

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'CONSISTENT: Open-Ended Question Generation From News Articles'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this