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Automatic Question Generation from text is a critical component of educational technology applications such as Intelligent Tutoring Systems. We describe an automatic question generator that uses semantic-based templates. We evaluate the system along with two comparable systems for both linguistic quality and pedagogical value of generated questions and find that our system outperforms prior work.
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Mazidi, K., Nielsen, R.D. (2014). Pedagogical Evaluation of Automatically Generated Questions. In: Trausan-Matu, S., Boyer, K.E., Crosby, M., Panourgia, K. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8474. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07221-0_36
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