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

  1. Graesser, A. C., & Person, N. K. (1994). Question asking during tutoring. American educational research journal, 31(1), 104-137.‏
  2. 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.‏