Extracting Simplified Statements for Factual Question Generation
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چکیده
We address the problem of automatically generating concise factual questions from linguistically complex sentences in reading materials. We discuss semantic and pragmatic issues that appear in complex sentences, and then we present an algorithm for extracting simplified sentences from appositives, subordinate clauses, and other constructions. We conjecture that our method is useful as a preliminary step in a larger question generation process. Experimental results indicate that our method is more suitable for factual question generation applications than an alternative text compression algorithm.
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