Fawzi, Fares; Balan, Sarang; Cukurova, Mutlu; Yilmaz, Emine; Bulathwela, Sahan; (2024) Towards Human-like Educational Question Generation with Small Language Models. In: Olney, Andrew M and Chounta, Irene-Angelica and Liu, Zitao and Santos, Olga C and Bittencourt, Ig Ibert, (eds.) Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners, Doctoral Consortium and Blue Sky. (pp. pp. 295-303). Springer: Cham, Switzerland.

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Abstract

With the advent of Generative AI models, the automatic generation of educational questions plays a key role in developing online education. This work compares large-language model-based (LLM) systems and their small-language model (sLM) counterparts for educational question generation. Our experiments, quantitatively and qualitatively, demonstrate that sLMs can produce educational questions with comparable quality by further pre-training and fine-tuning.

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