Quiz Generator using NLTK/Python

Question

The goal of this application is produce a system that can generate quizzes automatically. The user should be able to supply any word or phrase they like (eg "Sachin Tendulkar"); the system will then look for suitable topics online, identify a range of interesting facts, and rephrase them as quiz questions.

If I have the sentence "Sachin was born in year 1973", how can I rephrase it to "Which Year was sachin born?"

Answer 1

In the general case, this is a very hard open research question. However, you might be able to get away with a simple solution a long as your "facts" follow a pretty simple grammar.

You could write a fairly simple solution by creating a set of transformation rules that act on parse trees. So if you saw a structure that matched the grammar for "X was Y in Z" you could transform it to "Was XY in Z?", etc. Then all you would have to do is parse the fact, transform, and read off the question that is produced.