johndpope / blanq

BlanQ : Using NLP to generate Multiple-Choice Questions from any document

BlanQ

• Get the BlanQ android app from the PlayStore
• View demo here.
  • Quiz on Topic : Chennai -> Architecture
  • Quiz on PDF : Document about History of Android
  • Quiz on Text : Introduction to Battle of Plassey from Wikipedia
• Bonus demo : Quiz on Game of Thrones

Using NLP to generate Multiple-Choice Questions from any document

• Statistically determines best entities to blank
• Generate semantically similar options based on context and corpus
• Better than subjective questions MC questions tests student's understanding of concepts and can exhibit broad ranges of difficulty, probe different cognitive processes and, therefore, test different levels of under- standing.

Problem

Quiz creation currently requires

• Manual effort,
• Making the process difficult to adapt and scale.

Features

Generate quiz

• From any document
• On any topic in any genre (Educational or Recreational)
• From any paragraph

Scope

• Competitive Exams
• Quiz Games
• Test knowledge on any topic or book
• Helps students learn without any adult supervision

Incentivizing kids to learn

• Requires RaspberryPi controlling power of TV
• Kids can click on "Submit" after each quiz
  • Score is sent to a Flask Server (PiServer.py) running on Pi
  • If score > 70, an hour of TV (viewing time) is added to timeout

Note : Quality of questions generated from PDFs depends on PDF and text parsed from PDF

Made by

• Vishal Gupta (Question Generation & NLP): [email protected]
• Sundararaman (Server endpoints): [email protected]
• Shrikanth Ravi(Android app): [email protected]