Program
Friday, November 4
Session 1. Introduction and invited talk.
9:00 - 9:30 Introduction
9:30 - 10:30 Invited talk by Patricia Alexander (bio)
Title: QUESTION ASKING AND HUMAN INTENTIONALITY (slides)
Abstract: In this presentation, Dr. Alexander will consider question asking from the perspective of learner intentions as a way to explore the implications of asking questions when prompted or directed to do so by others versus when questions arise spontaneously or intentionally on the part of the learner. The underlying relation between question asking and learner intentionality will then be examined vis-a-vis current research on knowledge, expertise, epistemic beliefs, metacognition and self-regulation, and relational reasoning. Finally, issues that arise from examination of these bodies of research will be considered in light of the orchestration of environments that promote academic development.
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10:30 am - 11:00 am Break
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Session 2. Paper Presentations: Human perspective
Chair: Aravind Joshi
11:00-11:25 Kallen Tsikalas. Effects of Video-Based Peer Modeling on the Question Asking and Text Comprehension of Struggling Adolescent Readers
11:25-11:50 Jamie Jirout. Curiosity and the development of question generation skills
11:50-12:05 Wei Chen, Jack Mostow and Gregory Aist. Using Automatic Question Generation to Evaluate Questions Generated by Children
12:05-12:30 Moderated Discussion
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12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch
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Session 3. Paper Presentations: Tutoring and Educational Applications.
Chair: Jack Mostow (slides)
2:00-2:25 Itziar Aldabe, Montse Maritxalar and Ander Soraluze. Question Generation Based on Numerical Entities in Basque
2:25-2:50 Sarah Luger. A Graph Theory Approach for Generating Multiple Choice Exams
2:50-3:05 Sandra Williams. Generating Mathematical Word Problems
3:05-3:30 Moderated discussion
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3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Break
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Session 4.
4:00-5:30 Poster presentations session
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Geert-Jan Kruijff and Miroslav Janicek. Planning and Realizing Questions in Situated Human-Robot Interaction.
Donna Gates, Greg Aist, Jack Mostow, Margaret Mckeown and Juliet Bey. How to Generate Cloze Questions from Definitions: a Syntactic Approach.
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Claire McConnell, Prashanth Mannem, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi. A New Approach to Ranking Over-Generated Questions.
Pascal Kuyten, Hugo Hernault, Helmut Prendinger and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Evaluating HILDA in the CODA project: a Case Study in Question Generation using Automatic Discourse Analysis.
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Reception
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Saturday, November 5
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Session 5.
9:00-10:00 Invited talk by Jack Mostow (bio)
TITLE: Questions and answers about questions and answers:
Lessons from generating, scoring, and analyzing questions in a reading tutor for children
(slides pptx
pdf)
Abstract: This talk will review attempts over the years to automatically generate and administer questions in Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor; to log, score, and analyze children's responses; and to evaluate such questions. How can a tutor use questions? How can it generate them? How can it score children's responses? What can they tell us? How can we evaluate questions? Which questions succeeded or failed?
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Session 6. Question Generation Approaches
Chair: Rashmi Prasad
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10:30 am - 11:00 am Break
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11:00-11:25 Xuchen Yao. Generating More Specific Questions
11:25-11:50 Lee Becker, Martha Palmer, Sarel Van Vuuren and Wayne Ward. Evaluating Questions in Context
11:50-12:05 Julius Goth, Eun Ha and James Lester. Towards a Model of Question Generation for Promoting Creativity in Novice Writers
12:05-12:30 Moderated Discussion (25 minutes)
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12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch
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2:00-3:00 Session 7. Invited Talk by Vasile Rus (bio)
TITLE: BOOSTING QUESTION GENERATION RESEARCH THROUGH SHARED TASKS EVALUATION CAMPAIGNS
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Abstract: I will argue in this talk for shared tasks evaluation campaigns (STEC) in Question Generation (QG) as a way to engage the community, create resources, and address core issues in QG research. After an overview of the first QG STEC, I will address opportunities and challenges for future QG STECs and other efforts aimed at creating open resources to boost research on Question Generation.
3:00- 3:30 Introduction to break-out working group.
Topics TBA.
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3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Break
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4:00-5:30 Working group discussions
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Plenary Session
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Sunday, November 6
9:00-10:30 Working group discussions/presentations
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 -12:00 Working group presentations
12:00 - 12:30 Concluding discussions
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