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近年来，在线教育资源如雨后春笋般涌现，但这些资源往往缺乏配套的测试题，无法有效地帮助学生进行自测和评估学习成果。如何大规模地生成高质量的教育问题，成为了在线教育发展的重要课题。
本文将介绍一项名为 EduQG 的新方法，它通过对预训练语言模型进行微调，可以有效地生成高质量的教育问题，为在线教育的规模化发展提供助力。
预训练语言模型：教育问题生成的新引擎
预训练语言模型 (PLM) 在自然语言处理领域取得了重大突破，它们通过学习海量文本数据，获得了强大的语言理解和生成能力。近年来，研究人员开始探索将 PLM 应用于教育问题生成领域，取得了一些成果。
现有的研究表明，通过对 PLM 进行微调，可以使其生成高质量的教育问题。然而，这些方法往往依赖于特定领域的训练数据，难以实现大规模的应用。
EduQG：面向教育的预训练语言模型
为了解决这一问题，研究人员开发了 EduQG 模型，它通过以下步骤来生成高质量的教育问题：
EduQG 的优势
实验结果表明，EduQG 模型在生成科学问题方面表现出色，其优势主要体现在以下几个方面：
未来展望
EduQG 模型的出现为在线教育的发展带来了新的希望。未来，研究人员将继续探索如何进一步提高 EduQG 模型的性能，使其能够生成更加多样化、更具挑战性的教育问题，为个性化学习提供更强大的支持。
参考文献:
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