Most learners fail to develop deep text comprehension when reading textbooks passively. Posing questions about what learners have read is a well-established way of fostering their text comprehension. However, many textbooks lack self-assessment questions because authoring them is timeconsuming and expensive. Automatic question generators may alleviate this scarcity by generating sound pedagogical questions. However, generating questions automatically poses linguistic and pedagogical challenges. What should we ask? And, how do we phrase the question automatically? We address those challenges with an automatic question generator grounded in learning theory. The paper introduces a novel pedagogically meaningful content selection mechanism to find question-worthy sentences and answers in arbitrary textbook contents. We conducted an empirical evaluation study with educational experts, annotating 150 generated questions in six different domains. Results indicate a high linguistic quality of the generated questions. Furthermore, the evaluation results imply that the majority of the generated questions inquire central information related to the given text and may foster text comprehension in specific learning scenarios.

文章探讨了如何使用基于学习理论的自动提问生成器来生成能够提升教材阅读理解的问题，通过教育专家的实验评估，结果表明生成的问题语言质量高，并且询问了与给定文本相关的中心信息，在特定学习场景中可以促进阅读理解。

我不理解我不能定义的事物：基于教育驱动内容选择的自动问题生成