Automatic Question Generation System for English Exercise for Secondary Students

Abstract

Automatic Question Generation (AQG) is a research trend that assists teachers to create efficiency assessments. In this paper, we propose a web-based system as a tool to generate English exercises for secondary school students automatically. The system applies NLTK library tags function words. The source texts are selected based on their grammar. The AQG module can generate exercises in ten topics; 1) Noun, 2) Pronoun, 3) Verb, 4) Adverb, 5) Adjective, 6) Comparison, 7) Conjunction, 8) Article, 9) Preposition, and 10) twelve Verb Tenses. There are four types of generated exercises; 1) complete the missing blank, 2) choose the correct answer from two choices, 3) true or false questions, and 4) error correction. The evaluation results show that our proposed system performs effectively with 97.36% F-measure. From the user experience point of view, they are well satisfied with ease of use of the system, including the capability and accuracy to generate a variety of exercises.