<div>QUESTION GENERATION SHARED TASK EVALUATION CAMPAIGN 2010</div><div>=======================================================</div><div><br></div>Colleagues,<br><br>This is a reminder that teams interested in the Question Generation Tasks described below should make their interest known to Vasile Rus<<a href="mailto:vrus@memphis.edu">vrus@memphis.edu</a>> and Brendan Wyse<<a href="mailto:bjwyse@gmail.com">bjwyse@gmail.com</a>>.<br>
<br>Task A: Open Question Generation from Paragraphs<br>======================================<br><br>Teams are given a paragraph of text from OpenLearn, Wikipedia or Yahoo Answers.<br>QG Systems should produce six questions at various scope levels from this text.<br>
<br>Example:<br><br>Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), the 16th President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. His tenure in office was occupied primarily with the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. As the civil war was drawing to a close, Lincoln became the first American president to be assassinated.<br>
<br>1) Who is Abraham Lincoln?<br><br>2) What major measures did President Lincoln introduce?<br><br>3) How did President Lincoln die?<br><br>4) When was Abraham Lincoln elected president?<br><br>5) When was President Lincoln assassinated?<br>
<br>6) What party did Abraham Lincoln belong to?<br><br><div><br>Task B: Question Generation from Sentences<br>=================================<br><br>Teams are given a single sentence of text from OpenLearn, Wikipedia or Yahoo Answers.<br>
They are also given a target question type (WHO? WHEN? WHERE? etc.)<br>QG Systems should produce a question of the target type and the question will typically be answered by the given sentence.<br><br>Example:<br><br>The Council of Europe was set up in 1949.<br>
<br>Target Question Type: WHEN?<br><br>1) When was the Council of Europe set up?<br><br><br></div><div>We have a further task whereby teams can submit interesting reports on Question Generation.<br><br>Please see <a href="http://questiongeneration.org/QGSTEC2010">http://questiongeneration.org/QGSTEC2010</a> for more details.<br>
<br>We will have development data available very soon from this site.<br><br>Thank You.<br><br>QGSTEC2010 Organisers<br>===================<br>Brendan Wyse (The Open University)</div><div>Vasile Rus (The University of Memphis)</div>
<div>Mihai Lintean (The University of Memphis)<br>Art Graesser (The University of Memphis)<br>Svetlana Stoyanchev (The Open University)<br>Paul Piwek (The Open University)<br></div>