Summary of How to Engage Your Readers? Generating Guiding Questions to Promote Active Reading, by Peng Cui et al.
How to Engage Your Readers? Generating Guiding Questions to Promote Active Reading
by Peng Cui, Vilém Zouhar, Xiaoyu Zhang, Mrinmaya Sachan
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper investigates the effectiveness of using written text with questions to improve readability, a strategy known as active reading. The authors introduce GuidingQ, a dataset containing 10K in-text questions from textbooks and scientific articles. They analyze this dataset to understand the linguistic characteristics and distribution of these questions, and explore various approaches to generate similar questions using language models. The results highlight the importance of capturing inter-question relationships and identifying question positions for effective generation. A human study is also conducted to evaluate the impact of generated questions on reading comprehension, showing that they are almost as effective as human-written questions in improving readers’ memorization and comprehension. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at how using questions in written text can help people read better. The authors create a special dataset called GuidingQ with 10,000 questions from textbooks and scientific articles. They study this dataset to see what makes good questions and how they are used. They also try different ways to generate new questions using computers. Their results show that it’s important to consider how questions relate to each other and where they appear in the text. A human test is done to see if computer-generated questions can help people learn as well as questions written by humans. |
