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BengaliMCQ: Automatic Generation and Answer Prediction of Academic Multiple-Choice Questions in a Low-Resource Language

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arXiv:2608.15547 (cs)
[Submitted on 16 Aug 2026]

Title:BengaliMCQ: Automatic Generation and Answer Prediction of Academic Multiple-Choice Questions in a Low-Resource Language

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Abstract:Traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks process documents without attending to their hierarchical structure, leading to poor performance, especially in low-resource languages such as Bengali. To address this, we propose a structure-aware RAG framework that models Bengali textbooks as hierarchical graphs and uses a contrastively trained graph neural network to retrieve a small set of relevant passages. These passages provide focused context for a large language model, enabling topic-specific multiple-choice question (MCQ) generation and in-domain answer prediction. Experimental results demonstrate that our framework outperforms strong dense retrieval baselines across retrieval metrics, produces more relevant MCQs, and achieves superior answer prediction accuracy.
Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
Cite as: arXiv:2608.15547 [cs.CL]
  (or arXiv:2608.15547v1 [cs.CL] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.15547
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From: Abu Tarabin Surzo [view email]
[v1] Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:44:52 UTC (2,406 KB)
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