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Automated question generation and question answering from Turkish texts

11 Nov 2021arXiv:2111.06476archive 2025-07-28

Fatih Cagatay Akyon, Devrim Cavusoglu, Cemil Cengiz, Sinan Onur Altinuc, Alptekin Temizel

While exam-style questions are a fundamental educational tool serving a variety of purposes, manual construction of questions is a complex process that requires training, experience and resources. Automatic question generation (QG) techniques can be utilized to satisfy the need for a continuous supply of new questions by streamlining their generation. However, compared to automatic question answering (QA), QG is a more challenging task. In this work, we fine-tune a multilingual T5 (mT5) transformer in a multi-task setting for QA, QG and answer extraction tasks using Turkish QA datasets. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first academic work that performs automated text-to-text question generation from Turkish texts. Experimental evaluations show that the proposed multi-task setting achieves state-of-the-art Turkish question answering and question generation performance on TQuADv1, TQuADv2 datasets and XQuAD Turkish split. The source code and the pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/obss/turkish-question-generation.

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