Definition question
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A Definition question requires a long answer. Definition questions are formed according to the following abstract specification: "What does X mean?" [1][2]
Example (1):
-What is a t test?----> Definition question
Example (2):
-Explainer: ['So have you ever heard of something called a black hole?'] -Explainee: [What is a black hole?] ----> Definition question -Explainer: ['Well, it has to do with, a lot with gravity,', 'do you know what gravity is?'] -Explainee: ['No, not at all.']
Notes
- ↑ Graesser, A. C., & Person, N. K. (1994). Question asking during tutoring. American educational research journal, 31(1), 104-137.
- ↑ Nielsen, R. D., Buckingham, J., Knoll, G., Marsh, B., & Palen, L. (2008, September). A taxonomy of questions for question generation. In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge.