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Assessing Factoid Question-Answer Generation for Portuguese (Short Paper)

Authors João Ferreira, Ricardo Rodrigues , Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira

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  • Computing methodologies → Natural language processing
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  • Question-Answer Generation
  • Corpus
  • NLP
  • Portuguese

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Abstract

We present work on the automatic generation of question-answer pairs in Portuguese, useful, for instance, for populating the knowledge-base of question-answering systems. This includes: (i) a new corpus of close to 600 factoid sentences, manually created from an existing corpus of questions and answers, used as our benchmark; (ii) two approaches for the automatic generation of question-answer pairs, which can be seen as baselines; (iii) results of those approaches in the corpus.

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João Ferreira, Ricardo Rodrigues, and Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira. Assessing Factoid Question-Answer Generation for Portuguese (Short Paper). In 9th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2020). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 83, pp. 16:1-16:9, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2020.16

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João Ferreira
  • Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Portugal
Ricardo Rodrigues
  • Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Portugal
  • Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, College of Higher Education of Coimbra, Portugal
Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira
  • Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Department of Informatics Engineering, Portugal

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This work was supported by FCT’s INCoDe 2030 initiative, in the scope of the demonstration project AIA, "Apoio Inteligente a Empreendedores (chatbots)".

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