Automatically Generate Questions for National Examinations in English Reading Comprehension

Sammanfattning: In recent years the amount of research in automatically generated questions (AQG) have been on the rise. AQG can be applied to many different fields where one such field is education. The Swedish national test (Nationella provet) is a nation wide test in Sweden that can take 1,5 to 2 years to create. This report aims to investigate if humans are able to distinguish questions written by humans from questions generated by computer as well as if AQG can be used to create exam questions for the Swedish national test. The results showed that the participants within the study were able to identify the generated questions in a majority of cases. In conclusion the general public is in most cases able to identify automatically generated questions but further research must be made on the generated questions educational value within the Swedish national test.