Generating Multiple Choice Questions with a Multi-Angle Question Answering Model

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Generating Multiple Choice Questions with a Multi-Angle Question Answering Model
اللغة: English
المؤلفون: Olney, Andrew M. (ORCID 0000-0003-4204-6667)
المصدر: Grantee Submission. 2022.
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 7
تاريخ النشر: 2022
Sponsoring Agency: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Contract Number: R305A190448
1918751
1934745
نوع الوثيقة: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Test Construction, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Models, Textbooks, Natural Language Processing
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7761561
مستخلص: Multi-angle question answering models have recently been proposed that promise to perform related tasks like question generation. However, performance on related tasks has not been thoroughly studied. We investigate a leading model called Macaw on the task of multiple choice question generation and evaluate its performance on three angles that systematically reduce the complexity of the task. Our results indicate that despite the promise of generalization, Macaw performs poorly on untrained angles. Even on a trained angle, Macaw fails to generate four distinct multiple-choice options on 17% of inputs. We propose augmenting multiple-choice options by paraphrasing angle input and show this increases overall success to 97.5%. A human evaluation comparing the augmented multiple-choice questions with textbook questions on the same topic reveals that Macaw questions broadly score highly but below human questions. [This paper was published in: "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop of the Learner Data Institute," edited by S. E. Fancsali and V. Rus, Learner Data Institute, 2022, pp. 18-23.]
Abstractor: As Provided
IES Funded: Yes
Entry Date: 2023
رقم الأكسشن: ED630027
قاعدة البيانات: ERIC