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Question Generation With Doubly Adversarial Nets

Bao, Junwei, Gong, Yeyun, Duan, Nan, Zhou, Ming, Zhao, Tiejun·2018·IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing

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We study the problem of question generation on a specific domain, where there are no labeled data. To address this problem, we propose a novel neural question generation approach called DoubAN, or doubly adversarial nets, which fully utilizes labeled data from other domains (source domains) and unlabeled data from the target domain. Learning a DoubAN involves two adversarial procedures between a question generator and two adversaries. One adversary is a domain-classification discriminator (DC-Dis), which is designed to help the generator learn domain-general representations of the input text. The other is a question-answering discriminator (QA-Dis), which provides more training data with estimated reward scores for generated text-question pairs. We conduct experiments on the SQuAD dataset as target-domain unlabeled data and the NewsQA dataset as source-domain labeled data. Experiment results show that our DoubAN achieves better results than baselines. Compared to model variants, which adopt only DC-Dis or QA-Dis, we find that the DC-Dis and QA-Dis indirectly interact with each other and jointly improve the quality of generated questions on the target domain. Moreover, extensive analysis and discussion prove the reasonableness and effectiveness of our proposed approach.

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Authors
Bao, J., Gong, Y., Duan, N., Zhou, M., & Zhao, T.
Affiliations
  • Harbin Institute of Technology (CN)
  • Microsoft Research Asia (China) (CN)
Venue
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
Published
2018-11
Volume
26
Issue
11
Pages
2230-2239
ISSN
  • 2329-9290 (ISSN-L)
  • 2329-9304
OpenAlex
W2884022884
Cited by
14
References
64
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2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1
FWCI
0.85
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Keywords
question generation, adversarial training, domain adaptation, unlabeled target domain data, reward estimation, SQuAD, cross-domain transfer

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