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dad-10720	Piwek, Paul ; Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth 	Varieties of Question Generation: Introduction to this Special Issue: Introduction to this Special Issue	2012	9	.pdf	application/pdf	5114	288	49	Microsoft Word Template Dialogue and Discourse 3(2) (2012) 1˗9 doi: 0.5087/dad.2012.201 ©2012 Paul Piwek and Kristy Boyer Varieties of Question Generation: Introduction to this Special Issue Paul Piwek P.PIWEK@OPEN.AC.UK Centre for Research in Computing The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom Kristy Elizabeth Boyer KEBOYER@NCSU.EDU Department of Computer Science North Carolina State University 890 Oval Dr. Campus Box 8206, Raleigh, NC 27695-8206, United States Introduction Questions are a topic that is ideally placed at the intersection of research on dialogue and discourse: in most dialogue, questions are the driving force, setting its direction, whereas answers to questions require discourse processing (e.g., contextual resolution in the case of short answers) or can be viewed as a piece of discourse themselves (e.g., an explanation in response to a why- question). In contrast with Formal/Computational Semantics and Natural Language Processing, Question Generation has a substantial history in Education and Psychology, see Olney et al.	cache/dad-10720.pdf	txt/dad-10720.txt