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Table 1 Question templates proposed for question generation

From: Evaluation of a question generation approach using semantic web for supporting argumentation

Type

Question

Definition

What is <X>?

What do you have in mind when you think about <X>?

What does <X> remind you of?

Feature/property

What are the properties of <X>?

What are the (opposite)-problems of <X>?

What features does <X> have?

Example

What is an example of <X>?

Verification

Is there any problem with the arguments about <X>?

Judgment

What do you like when you think of or hear about <X>?

Interpretation

How can <X> be used today?

Expectation

How will <X> be in the future, based on the way it is now?

Quantification

How many sub-topics a did your partners talk about?

Which sub-topics do your partners focus on?

Concept comparison

What is the difference or relations between these sub-topics?

  1. aFor the question categories “Quantification” and “Concept comparison”, we do not use a placeholder. Instead, sub-topics indicate different concepts being discussed by the discussion partners or provided by a hyponym set