Topics of Interest

We invite submissions that deal with theoretical, empirical, and computational aspects of Question Generation, encouraging completed as well as speculative or in-progress work. Topics will include, but will not be limited to, the following:

  • Cognitive models of QG
  • Question taxonomies
  • Empirical approaches to QG
  • QG tasks and subtasks
  • Evaluation methods for QG (human, automatic, semi-automatic)
  • Corpus annotation schemes for QG
  • Automated question assessment
  • Representation language(s) for data/resource sharing between QG systems
  • Impact of NLP technologies on QG tasks
  • Context-sensitive question type selection or ranking
  • Descriptions of implemented systems or components
  • Applications of QG (intelligent tutoring systems, dialogue systems, web querying, querying over information repositories, etc.)
  • Generation from different inputs – knowledge bases, ontologies, text, queries
  • QG system implementations description