Generating Instructive Questions from Multiple Articles to Guide Reading in E-Bibliotherapy

E-Bibliotherapy deals with adolescent psychological stress by manually or automatically recommending multiple reading articles around their stressful events, using electronic devices as a medium. To make E-Bibliotherapy really useful, generating instructive questions before their reading is an impor...

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Main Authors: Yunxing Xin, Lei Cao, Xin Wang, Xiaohao He, Ling Feng
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-05-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/9/3223
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Lei Cao
Xin Wang
Xiaohao He
Ling Feng
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Lei Cao
Xin Wang
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Ling Feng
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description E-Bibliotherapy deals with adolescent psychological stress by manually or automatically recommending multiple reading articles around their stressful events, using electronic devices as a medium. To make E-Bibliotherapy really useful, generating instructive questions before their reading is an important step. Such a question shall (a) attract teens’ attention; (b) convey the essential message of the reading materials so as to improve teens’ active comprehension; and most importantly (c) highlight teens’ stress to enable them to generate emotional resonance and thus willingness to pursue the reading. Therefore in this paper, we propose to generate instructive questions from the multiple recommended articles to guide teens to read. Four solutions based on the neural encoder-decoder model are presented to tackle the task. For model training and testing, we construct a novel large-scale QA dataset named TeenQA, which is specific to adolescent stress. Due to the extensibility of question expressions, we incorporate three groups of automatic evaluation metrics as well as one group of human evaluation metrics to examine the quality of the generated questions. The experimental results show that the proposed Encoder-Decoder with Summary on Contexts with Feature-rich embeddings (ED-SoCF) solution can generate good questions for guiding reading, achieving comparable performance on some semantic similarity metrics with that of humans.
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spelling doaj.art-0f473d7cfbd1431c9d8179422481fce02023-11-21T18:34:13ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202021-05-01219322310.3390/s21093223Generating Instructive Questions from Multiple Articles to Guide Reading in E-BibliotherapyYunxing Xin0Lei Cao1Xin Wang2Xiaohao He3Ling Feng4Centre for Computational Mental Healthcare, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Research Institute of Data Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, ChinaCentre for Computational Mental Healthcare, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Research Institute of Data Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, ChinaCentre for Computational Mental Healthcare, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Research Institute of Data Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, ChinaCentre for Computational Mental Healthcare, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Research Institute of Data Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, ChinaCentre for Computational Mental Healthcare, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Research Institute of Data Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, ChinaE-Bibliotherapy deals with adolescent psychological stress by manually or automatically recommending multiple reading articles around their stressful events, using electronic devices as a medium. To make E-Bibliotherapy really useful, generating instructive questions before their reading is an important step. Such a question shall (a) attract teens’ attention; (b) convey the essential message of the reading materials so as to improve teens’ active comprehension; and most importantly (c) highlight teens’ stress to enable them to generate emotional resonance and thus willingness to pursue the reading. Therefore in this paper, we propose to generate instructive questions from the multiple recommended articles to guide teens to read. Four solutions based on the neural encoder-decoder model are presented to tackle the task. For model training and testing, we construct a novel large-scale QA dataset named TeenQA, which is specific to adolescent stress. Due to the extensibility of question expressions, we incorporate three groups of automatic evaluation metrics as well as one group of human evaluation metrics to examine the quality of the generated questions. The experimental results show that the proposed Encoder-Decoder with Summary on Contexts with Feature-rich embeddings (ED-SoCF) solution can generate good questions for guiding reading, achieving comparable performance on some semantic similarity metrics with that of humans.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/9/3223E-bibliotherapyinstructive questionreading guidanceencoder-decoderdataset
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reading guidance
encoder-decoder
dataset
title Generating Instructive Questions from Multiple Articles to Guide Reading in E-Bibliotherapy
title_full Generating Instructive Questions from Multiple Articles to Guide Reading in E-Bibliotherapy
title_fullStr Generating Instructive Questions from Multiple Articles to Guide Reading in E-Bibliotherapy
title_full_unstemmed Generating Instructive Questions from Multiple Articles to Guide Reading in E-Bibliotherapy
title_short Generating Instructive Questions from Multiple Articles to Guide Reading in E-Bibliotherapy
title_sort generating instructive questions from multiple articles to guide reading in e bibliotherapy
topic E-bibliotherapy
instructive question
reading guidance
encoder-decoder
dataset
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/9/3223
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