Teaching Machines to Ask Questions

Teaching Machines to Ask Questions

Kaichun Yao, Libo Zhang, Tiejian Luo, Lili Tao, Yanjun Wu

Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 4546-4552. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/632

We propose a novel neural network model that aims to generate diverse and human-like natural language questions. Our model not only directly captures the variability in possible questions by using a latent variable, but also generates certain types of questions by introducing an additional observed variable. We deploy our model in the generative adversarial network (GAN) framework and modify the discriminator which not only allows evaluating the question authenticity, but predicts the question type. Our model is trained and evaluated on a question-answering dataset SQuAD, and the experimental results shown the proposed model is able to generate diverse and readable questions with the specific attribute.
Keywords:
Natural Language Processing: Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning: Deep Learning
Natural Language Processing: Question Answering
Natural Language Processing: Natural Language Generation