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Baraniuk, Richard Wang, Jack 2020-04-28T17:01:59Z 2020-04-28T17:01:59Z 2020-05 2020-04-23 May 2020 2020-04-28T17:01:59Z Wang, Jack. "QG-Net: A Data-Driven Question Generation Model for Educational Content." (2020) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/108451">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/108451</a>. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/108451 The ever growing amount of educational content renders it increasingly difficult to manually generate sufficient practice or quiz questions to accompany it. This thesis introduces QG-Net, a recurrent neural network-based model specifically designed for automatically generating quiz questions from educational content such as textbooks. QG-Net, when trained on a publicly available, general-purpose question/answer dataset and without further fine-tuning, is capable of generating high quality questions from textbooks, where the content is significantly different from the training data. Indeed, QG-Net outperforms state-of-the-art neural network-based and rules-based systems for question generation, both when evaluated using standard benchmark datasets and when using human evaluators. QG-Net also scales favorably to applications with large amounts of educational content, since its performance improves with the amount of training data. application/pdf eng Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder. automatic question generation personalized education machine learning deep learning natural language processing QG-Net: A Data-Driven Question Generation Model for Educational Content Thesis Text Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering Rice University Masters Master of Science open.access