Automatic Question Generation from Queries
Chin-Yew Lin · 2008
With increasing popularity of community-based question answering services such as Yahoo! Answers, huge amounts of user gen-erated questions are available. In this paper, we propose using these data along with search engine query logs to create a question genera-tion shared task that aims to automatically generate questions given a query. At least two benefits could result from such a task. First, it can be used to rank possible candidate ques-tions; therefore, it would enable search of question answer archives. Second, it could be used as a more informative and richer way of query expansion to guide or aid search. 1