Date: March 17, 2023 

Source: JNU's Guangdong Institute of Smart Education 

Translator: WU Xueyi, WANG Ying

(A poster for the Quest)

A JNU team from the Guangdong Institute of Smart Education has won the championship in the Quest for Quality Questions, an international smart-education competition. The team's score has surpassed the second-place team's by 2.5 percentage points.

(The final results of the Quest)

The Quest is organized by the Learning Agency Lab, an internationally renowned nonprofit organization in the field of smart education, in collaboration with Prof. Mark Warschauer of the University of California, Irvine, Prof. Ryan S. Baker of the University of Pennsylvania, Prof. Scott Crossley of Vanderbilt University and other internationally renowned scholars. It aims to improve primary and secondary school students' reading comprehension through a question-driven approach, with artificial intelligence technology automatically generating high-quality reading questions.

To meet the challenge, the Quest invites competitors to design natural language generation models that automatically generate questions for learners based on texts and answers. These questions will be in comparison with reference questions generated by experts in such fields as education, psychology and cognitive science in the Fairytale QA dataset.

JNU team has ranked in the Quest with a score of 0.6636 and won a championship prize of $10,000. The team consists of Zhan Bojun, a first-year graduate student; Zheng Ying, a first-year graduate student; Sun Weili, a second-year graduate student and Liu Zitao, their instructor.

(Certificates of Achievement)