Automated question generator for Tagalog informational texts using case markers

Author

Montenegro, C.S. ; Engle, V.G. ; Acuba, M.G.J. ; Ferrenal, A.M.A.

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput. Studies, Silliman Univ., Dumaguete City, Philippines

fYear

2012

fDate

19-22 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents an automated natural language question generator for Tagalog informational texts. It takes a target text as an input and generates a set of what, where and who question and answer pairs extracted from the source text. The resulting questions are also ranked using a proposed acceptability criterion. The implementation consists of three modules: a part of speech tagger, an anaphora resolver, and a question ranker. Questions generated from the experiment were rated by three evaluators. Of the generated questions, 33% were rated as acceptable by the evaluators, 96% of which were in need of modifications.

Keywords

natural language processing; question answering (information retrieval); text analysis; Tagalog informational text; acceptability criterion; anaphora resolver; answer pairs; automated natural language question generator; automated question generator; case markers; part of speech tagger; question ranker; source text; Educational institutions; Generators; Natural language processing; Semantics; Speech; Syntactics; Tagging; anaphora resolution; natural language; parsing; part of speech tagging; question generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2012 - 2012 IEEE Region 10 Conference

Conference_Location

Cebu

ISSN

2159-3442

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4823-2

Electronic_ISBN

2159-3442

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2012.6412273

Filename

6412273