The Importance of Being Important: Question Generation
Lucy Vanderwende · 2008
We propose that the task of question genera-tion should incorporate not only measures of grammaticality, but also a measure of the im-portance of a question automatically generat-ed. Necessarily, importance of a given question can be judged only in context, so we propose that the data for a shared task be larg-er than a single sentence, data point or state-ment in a knowledge base. By focusing on the importance of questions, the community will be in a position to address the shortcom-ings of existing systems that employ question generation. 1