Explainable Multi-hop Question Generation: An End-to-End Approach without Intermediate Question Labeling

Seonjeong Hwang, Yunsu Kim, Gary Geunbae Lee


Abstract
In response to the increasing use of interactive artificial intelligence, the demand for the capacity to handle complex questions has increased. Multi-hop question generation aims to generate complex questions that requires multi-step reasoning over several documents. Previous studies have predominantly utilized end-to-end models, wherein questions are decoded based on the representation of context documents. However, these approaches lack the ability to explain the reasoning process behind the generated multi-hop questions. Additionally, the question rewriting approach, which incrementally increases the question complexity, also has limitations due to the requirement of labeling data for intermediate-stage questions. In this paper, we introduce an end-to-end question rewriting model that increases question complexity through sequential rewriting. The proposed model has the advantage of training with only the final multi-hop questions, without intermediate questions. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our model in generating complex questions, particularly 3- and 4-hop questions, which are appropriately paired with input answers. We also prove that our model logically and incrementally increases the complexity of questions, and the generated multi-hop questions are also beneficial for training question answering models.
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2024.lrec-main.599
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Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
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LREC | COLING
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6855–6866
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Seonjeong Hwang, Yunsu Kim, and Gary Geunbae Lee. 2024. Explainable Multi-hop Question Generation: An End-to-End Approach without Intermediate Question Labeling. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 6855–6866, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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Explainable Multi-hop Question Generation: An End-to-End Approach without Intermediate Question Labeling (Hwang et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
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