Title
Crowdsourcing Multiple Choice Science Questions.
Abstract
We present a novel method for obtaining high-quality, domain-targeted multiple choice questions from crowd workers. Generating these questions can be difficult without trading away originality, relevance or diversity in the answer options. Our method addresses these problems by leveraging a large corpus of domain-specific text and a small set of existing questions. It produces model suggestions for document selection and answer distractor choice which aid the human question generation process. With this method we have assembled SciQ, a dataset of 13.7K multiple choice science exam questions (Dataset available at this http URL). We demonstrate that the method produces in-domain questions by providing an analysis of this new dataset and by showing that humans cannot distinguish the crowdsourced questions from original questions. When using SciQ as additional training data to existing questions, we observe accuracy improvements on real science exams.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.18653/v1/w17-4413
NUT@EMNLP
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Conference
abs/1707.06209
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
24
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Johannes Welbl11477.25
Nelson F. Liu290.47
Matthew Gardner370438.49