Automated question generation and question answering from Turkish texts
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, cilt.30, sa.5, ss.1931-1940, 2022 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus, TRDizin)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 30 Sayı: 5
- Basım Tarihi: 2022
- Doi Numarası: 10.55730/1300-0632.3914
- Dergi Adı: Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Applied Science & Technology Source, Compendex, Computer & Applied Sciences, INSPEC, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1931-1940
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Turkish, question answering, question generation, answer extraction, multitask, transformer
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
© 2022 Turkiye Klinikleri. All rights reserved.While exam-style questions are a fundamental educational tool serving a variety of purposes, manual construction of questions is a complex process that requires training, experience and resources. Automatic question generation (QG) techniques can be utilized to satisfy the need for a continuous supply of new questions by streamlining their generation. However, compared to automatic question answering (QA), QG is a more challenging task. In this work, we fine-tune a multilingual T5 (mT5) transformer in a multitask setting for QA, QG and answer extraction tasks using Turkish QA datasets. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first academic work that performs automated text-to-text question generation from Turkish texts. Experimental evaluations show that the proposed multitask setting achieves state-of-the-art Turkish question answering and question generation performance on TQuADv1, TQuADv2 datasets and XQuAD Turkish split. The source code and the pretrained models are available at https://github.com/obss/turkish-question-generation.