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Automatic Question Generation for Educational Applications – The State of Art

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Recently, researchers from multiple disciplines have been showing their common interest in automatic question generation for educational purposes. In this paper, we review the state of the art of approaches to developing educational applications of question generation. We conclude that although a great variety of techniques on automatic question generation exists, just a small amount of educational systems exploiting question generation has been developed and deployed in real classroom settings. We also propose research directions for deploying the question technology in computer-supported educational systems.

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  1. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Nguyen-Thinh Le & Niels Pinkwart

  2. Kansai University, Suita, Japan

    Tomoko Kojiri

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  2. Ile du Saulcy, LITA, UFR MIM, Metz, France

    Hoai An Le Thi

  3. Institute of Informatics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

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Le, NT., Kojiri, T., Pinkwart, N. (2014). Automatic Question Generation for Educational Applications – The State of Art. In: van Do, T., Thi, H., Nguyen, N. (eds) Advanced Computational Methods for Knowledge Engineering. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 282. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06569-4_24

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