This is a demo of a system for automatically generating literal reading comprehension questions about arbitrary English texts. The system is being developed by Michael Heilman and Noah A. Smith. Below is a technical report describing the system.
M. Heilman and N. A. Smith. 2009. Question Generation via Overgenerating Transformations and Ranking. Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Technical Report CMU-LTI-09-013. [PDF]
Enter some text in the box below (e.g., a single sentence, a paragraph) and click "Generate Questions." The system will take a few seconds per sentence to respond. Note: the system currently makes a lot of mistakes with anaphora (e.g., "he", "I"), but we are working on incorporating an anaphora resolution component to address that issue.