A Tool for Automatic Question Generation for Teaching English to Beginner Students

• Published in: 2021 40th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC) pp. 1 - 5
• Main Authors: Moron, Martin, Scocozza, Joaquin, Chiruzzo, Luis, Rosa, Aiala
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 15.11.2021
• Subjects: Automatic Question Generation; Computer Assisted Language Learning; Computer science; Education; Linguistics; Machine learning; Natural language processing; NLP for Language Teaching; Prototypes; Semantics

We present a tool for the automatic generation of questions from texts for ESL teaching, using resources and methods from the Natural Language Processing (NLP) field. The approach presented in this paper is based on symbolic methods, using hand-crafted rules. The tool uses linguistic information, su...