Questions and Discussion

Automatically Generating Discussion Questions

Automatic question generation can support instruction and learning. However, work to date has produced mostly “shallow” questions that fall short of supporting deep learning and discussion. We propose an extension to a state-of-the-art question generation system that allows it to produce deep, subjective questions suitable for group discussion. We evaluate the questions generated by this system...

Discussion of Twenty Questions Problem

Discuss several tricks for solving twenty question problems which in this paper is depicted as a guessing game. Player tries to find a ball in twenty boxes by asking as few questions as possible, and these questions are answered by only “Yes” or “No”. With the discussion, demonstration of source coding methods is the main concern.

COLLAGEN: Project Summary and Discussion Questions

The underlying premise of the Collagen (for Coll aborative agent) project is that software agents, when they interact with people, should be governed by the same principles that govern human-to-human collaboration. To determine the principles governing human collaboration, we have relied on research in computational linguistics on collaborative discourse, specifically within the SharedPlan fram...

Annotation Guidelines for Questions under Discussion and Information Structure

We present a pragmatic, i.e. meaning-based, method for the information-structural analysis of corpus data, which is built on the idea that for any assertion contained in a text (or transcript of spoken discourse) there is an implicit Question under Discussion (QUD) that determines which parts of the assertion are focused or backgrounded (and which ones are not-at-issue, i.e. not part of the ass...

Asking the Right Questions About Leadership: Discussion and Conclusions