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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Flying rocks. Burning tires. Acrid smoke. Deadly gunfire. Haiti braced for a fresh round of widespread protests starting Friday, with opposition leaders demanding that President Jovenel Moïse step down next month, worried he is amassing too much power as he enters his second year of rule by decree. "The priority right now is to put in place another economic, social and political system," André Michel, of the opposition coalition Democratic and Popular Sector, said by phone. "It is clear that Moïse is hanging on to power." Opposition leaders are demanding Moïse's resignation and legislative elections to restart a Parliament dissolved a year ago. They claim that Moïse's five-year term is legally ending — that it began when former President Michel Martelly's term expired in February 2016. But Moïse maintains his term began when he actually took office in early 2017, an inauguration delayed by a chaotic election process that forced the appointment of a provisional president to serve during a year-long gap. Haiti's international backers have echoed some of the opposition's concerns, calling for parliamentary elections as soon as possible. They were originally scheduled for October 2019 but were delayed by political gridlock and protests that paralyzed much of the country, forcing schools, businesses and several government offices to close for weeks at a time. Some in the international community also condemned several of Moïse's decrees. One of those limited the powers of a court that audits government contracts and had accused Moïse and other officials of embezzlement and fraud involving a Venezuelan program which provided cheap oil. Moïse and others have rejected those accusations. Moïse also decreed that acts such as robbery, arson and blocking public roads — a common ploy during protests — would be classed as terrorism and subject to heavy penalties. He also created an intelligence agency that answers only to the president. The Core Group, which includes officials from the United Nations, U.S., Canada and France, questioned those moves. "The decree creating the National Intelligence Agency gives the agents of this institution quasi-immunity, thus opening up the possibility of abuse," the group said in a recent statement. "These two presidential decrees, issued in areas that fall within the competence of a Parliament, do not seem to conform to certain fundamental principles of democracy, the rule of law, and the civil and political rights of citizens." Moïse has dismissed such concerns and vowed to move forward at his own pace. In a New Year's tweet, he called 2021 "a very important year for the future of the country." He has called for a constitutional referendum in April followed by parliamentary and presidential elections in September, with runoffs scheduled for November. "There is no doubt elections will happen," Foreign Minister Claude Joseph told The Associated Press, rejecting calls that Moïse step down in February. "Haiti cannot afford another transition. We need to let democracy work the way it should." Joseph said Moïse remains open to dialogue and is ready to meet anytime with opposition leaders to solve the political stalemate. He also said the constitutional referendum won't give Moïse more power but said changes are needed to the 1987 document. "It is a source of instability. It does not have checks and balances. It gives extraordinary power to the Parliament that abuses this power over and over," Joseph said. "It's not the president's own personal project. It's a national project." While officials haven't released details of the referendum, one of the members of the consulting committee, Louis Naud Pierre, told radio station Magik9 last week that proposals include creating a unicameral Parliament to replace the current Senate and Chamber of Deputies, extending parliamentary terms and giving Haitians who live abroad more power. The referendum and flurry of decrees are frustrating many Haitians, including Rose-Ducast Dupont, a mother of three who sells perfumes on the sidewalks of Delmas, a neighbourhood in the capital. "The political problems in my country have been dragging on for too long," she said. "They are never able to find a solution for the nation. ... We are the ones suffering." The nation of more than 11 million people has grown increasingly unstable under Moïse, who received more than 50% of the vote but with only 21% voter turnout. Haiti is still trying to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake and Hurricane Matthew that struck in 2016. Its economic, political and social woes have deepened, with gang violence resurging, inflation spiraling and food and fuel becoming more scarce at times in a country where 60% of the population makes less than $2 a day. "I don't have a life," said Jean-Marc François, who wants Moïse gone. "I don't have any savings. I have three kids. I have to survive day by day with no guarantee that I'll come home with bread to put on the table." Some days he works in construction; others he does yardwork or disposes of garbage or moves boxes at warehouses, which sometimes pays 500 gourdes ($7) a day. François said he won't take part in the "circus act" of voting in the referendum or elections. "We're talking about voting for a new president? A new constitution? Deputies and senators? They're all going to be the same," he said. "This is a country of corruption." Moïse has faced numerous calls for resignation since taking office, with protests roiling Haiti since late 2017. The demonstrations have been fueled largely by demands for better living conditions and anger over crime, corruption allegations and price increases after the government ended fuel subsidies. The most violent protests occurred in 2019, with dozens killed, and some worry about even more violence as the opposition steps up its demands that Moïse resign amid fears that elections will be delayed once more. "Can the current status quo continue for another year?" said Jake Johnston, senior research associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington. "Moïse can announce an electoral calendar ... but what signs are there that that's going to actually happen?" ___ Associated Press writer Evens Sanon reported this story in Port-au-Prince and AP writer Danica Coto reported from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Evens Sanon And DáNica Coto, The Associated Press
What you need to know about COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday, Jan. 15
Recent developments: The city is opening a second isolation centre for men to meet growing demand. What's the latest? Ottawa Public Health (OPH) is reporting 148 new COVID-19 cases and four more deaths Friday. The city's bylaw department issued two charges for indoor social gatherings on the first day of the province's stay-at-home order, along with three warnings — two for mask violations, one for a non-essential business staying open. A second isolation centre for men will soon open at a hostel on Nicholas Street near the Rideau Centre. The city says there's growing demand for beds, especially ones that are closer to other services than the existing isolation centre the Canada Science and Technology Museum. Shipments of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine to Canada will be cut in half for the next four weeks because of expansion work at Pfizer's factory in Belgium. Shipments are expected to be back on track by the end of March, and officials say the delay won't interfere with Canada's immunization goals. How many cases are there? In Ottawa, 12,027 people have tested positive for COVID-19 as its spread reaches a record high. There are 1,261 known active cases, 10,364 resolved cases and 402 deaths from COVID-19. Public health officials have reported more than 21,600 COVID-19 cases across eastern Ontario and western Quebec, including more than 18,600 resolved cases. A hundred and three people have died of COVID-19 elsewhere in eastern Ontario and 139 people have died in western Quebec. CBC Ottawa is profiling those who've died of COVID-19. If you'd like to share your loved one's story, please get in touch. What can I do? Ontario says people need to only leave home when essential to avoid more COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. People who leave home for non-essential reasons can now be fined, though police won't be stopping people just for being outside. Travel within Ontario is not recommended. Residents who leave the province should isolate for 14 days upon returning. Private indoor gatherings are not allowed, while outdoor gatherings can't have more than five people and it's strongly recommended people stick to their households. People who live alone are still allowed to interact with one other household. Outdoor recreation venues remain open. In-person shopping is limited to essential businesses. Others can offer pickup and delivery. The province will announce by Wednesday which schools can offer general in-person learning. The Ottawa-Carleton School Board has said it won't bring that back for secondary schools until at least Feb. 1. Child-care centres remain open. The lockdown rules are in place until at least Feb. 11. In western Quebec, residents are also asked not to leave home unless it's essential and not see anyone they don't live with, with an exception for people living alone who can visit one other home. Quebec's 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew is now in effect, with fines of up to $6,000 for breaking the rules. The province has shut down non-essential businesses and has extended secondary school closures until next week. Travel from one region to another is discouraged throughout Quebec. Those rules are in place until Feb. 8. Distancing and isolating The novel coronavirus primarily spreads through droplets when an infected person coughs, sneezes, breathes or speaks onto someone or something. These droplets can hang in the air. People can be contagious without symptoms. This means people should take precautions such as staying home when they have symptoms, keeping hands and frequently touched surfaces clean and maintaining distance from anyone they don't live with — even with a mask on. WATCH | Canada Tonight on homelessness and the pandemic: Masks, preferably with three layers, are mandatory in indoor public settings in Ontario and Quebec and should be worn outdoors when people can't distance from others. OPH says residents should wear masks outside their homes whenever possible. Anyone with COVID-19 symptoms should self-isolate, as should those who've been ordered to do so by their public health unit. The length varies in Ontario and Quebec. Health Canada recommends older adults and people with underlying medical conditions and/or weakened immune systems stay home as much as possible and get friends and family to help with errands. Anyone returning to Canada must go straight home and stay there for 14 days. Air travellers have to show recent proof of a negative COVID-19 test. Symptoms and vaccines COVID-19 can range from a cold-like illness to a severe lung infection, with common symptoms including fever, a cough, vomiting and loss of taste or smell. Children can develop a rash. If you have severe symptoms, call 911. WATCH | How it feels to be home after more than two months in hospital: Mental health can also be affected by the pandemic and resources are available to help. COVID-19 vaccines have been given to health-care workers and long-term care residents in most of the Ottawa-Gatineau area. The exception for now is Renfrew County, which says it expects its first doses early next month. Ontario wants every long-term care resident and worker to have at least one shot by Feb. 15. Ottawa's mayor said Jan. 15 that was expected to happen by the end of that day in his city. In Ontario, it's expected that vaccination will expand to priority groups such as older adults and essential workers in April, and potentially even March, with vaccines widely available to the public in August. Ottawa believes it can have nearly 700,000 residents vaccinated by then. Quebec has a somewhat controversial policy of giving a single dose to as many people as possible rather than giving fewer people two doses. It says people will get their second dose within 90 days. As of Jan. 14, western Quebec's health authority had given out about 4,400 doses. It says it will have reached all of its long-term care homes by early next week. Where to get tested In eastern Ontario: Anyone seeking a test should book an appointment. Ontario recommends only getting tested if you have symptoms, if you've been told to by your health unit or the province, or if you fit certain other criteria. People without symptoms but part of the province's targeted testing strategy can make an appointment at select pharmacies. Travellers who need a test have very few local options to pay for one. Ottawa has 10 permanent test sites, with mobile sites wherever demand is particularly high. The Eastern Ontario Health Unit has sites in Cornwall, Hawkesbury, Rockland and Winchester. Its Alexandria and Casselman sites are temporarily closed. People can arrange a test in Picton over the phone or Bancroft, Belleville and Trenton, where online booking is preferred. The Leeds, Grenville and Lanark health unit has permanent sites in Almonte, Brockville, Kemptville and Smiths Falls and a mobile clinic. Renfrew County test clinic locations are posted weekly. Residents can also call their family doctor or 1-844-727-6404 with health questions. Kingston's main test site is at the Beechgrove Complex, another is in Napanee. In western Quebec: Tests are strongly recommended for people with symptoms and their contacts. Outaouais residents can make an appointment in Gatineau at 135 blvd. Saint-Raymond or 617 ave. Buckingham. They can check the wait time for the Saint-Raymond site. There are recurring clinics by appointment in communities such as Maniwaki, Fort-Coulonge and Petite-Nation. Call 1-877-644-4545 with questions, including if walk-in testing is available nearby. First Nations, Inuit and Métis: Akwesasne has had 116 residents test positive on the Canadian side of the border, 25 of them active cases, and five deaths. More than 230 people have tested positive across the community. Its curfew from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. is back and it has a COVID-19 test site by appointment only. Anyone returning to the community on the Canadian side of the international border who's been farther than 160 kilometres away — or visited Montreal — for non-essential reasons is asked to self-isolate for 14 days. Kitigan Zibi logged its first case in mid-December and has had a total of 18. The Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte had its only confirmed case in November. People in Pikwakanagan can book a COVID-19 test by calling 613-625-2259. Anyone in Tyendinaga who's interested in a test can call 613-967-3603. Inuit in Ottawa can call the Akausivik Inuit Family Health Team at 613-740-0999 for service, including testing, in Inuktitut or English on weekdays. For more information
29-year-old who spent weeks in ICU with COVID-19 finally heads home
Two months and one week after going into the hospital with COVID-19, Khalid Eldali is finally able to hold his six-month old daughter again. It's a reunion Eldali and his wife, Asmaa Addi, weren't sure would happen. The 29-year-old from Carleton Place, Ont., contracted COVID-19 at the end of October and spent nine weeks in the hospital. For half that time, he was in the intensive care unit on a ventilator. It was in the middle of a phone call with Addi when Eldali suddenly found himself unable to breathe. "[I had] chest pain and I was doing very badly," Eldali said. "I couldn't breathe at all, and that's when I called 911. And from there, I don't remember anything else." Put on a ventilator and sedated Eldali was admitted to Queensway Carleton Hospital on Nov. 5. He was put on a ventilator and sedated. Initially, hospital staff would organize video chats with Addi. It was the only way she could see her husband while she was self-isolating at home, waiting for confirmation that she also didn't have COVID-19. Addi said she spent every moment with their baby, wearing a mask. "I was so stressed. I didn't want to eat. I was just crying the whole time," Addi said. Adding to that stress, she added, was the fact both Eldali's brother and father also contracted COVID-19 and ended up in the hospital. Told he wouldn't survive Throughout November, Eldali's condition worsened and Addi was eventually told her husband likely wouldn't survive. "They called me and told me that he's dying. He's not going to be able to make it until the morning. He's got a couple of hours," said Addi, who then went to the hospital to be with her husband. "I hold his hand and I start praying and crying and praying, and I told my whole family to start praying. And all of the sudden, he squeezes my hand and he opens his eyes," she said. But Eldali's recovery would not be quick or easy. "I couldn't move. Like, I couldn't move at all," he said of his first moments after waking up. "It was just horrible." 'Can happen to anyone' Eldali would spend another month in hospital, before being released only just last week. He said he's not sure how he got sick in the first place, and while he's prone to getting pneumonia, he'd never experienced an illness like this. Although he'd gone into work during the pandemic, he'd spent as much time as possible at home. "I thought, 'I'm not going to get it,' because I'm always wearing the mask, taking care, sanitizing. I never knew that it's going to happen like this," he said. Eldali is still regaining his strength, but he's grateful to be home with his family. He said he wants his story to be a lesson that COVID-19 "can happen to anyone."


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Le Retour du frère prodigue (France) ou L'Invention (Québec) () est le  de la saison 3 de la série télévisée d'animation Les Simpson.

Synopsis
Herbert, devenu clochard par la faute de son frère, vient voir Homer : il lui demande  pour commercialiser son invention, le traducteur électronique pour bébés. Homer lui doit bien ça… mais ce dernier a une autre idée : dépenser les  reçus de la centrale pour acheter un fauteuil vibrant. Finalement, Homer donnera l'argent à Herbert qui redeviendra riche grâce à ça. En échange, Herbert accordera son pardon à Homer, et par la même occasion lui offrira le fauteuil vibrant et d'autres cadeaux pour toute la famille.

Références culturelles
 Le titre original est une parodie , célèbre chanson américaine.
 Un des sans-abri ressemblant à Charlie Chaplin mange une chaussure lors de la scène des vagabonds sous le pont ferroviaire, une référence au film La Ruée vers l'or.
 L'un des sans-abri déclare qu'il possédait les droits de Mickey Mouse.
 La scène du fauteuil est une parodie du film 2001, l'Odyssée de l'espace, de Stanley Kubrick.
 Après qu'Herbert a remis un cadeau à chaque membre de la famille, Homer lui dit : « Je crois pas qu'y ait un fauteuil relaxo-broyeur pour moi dans ton sac ». Il s'agit d'une référence à la séquence du film Le magicien d'Oz où le magicien remet un cadeau à chaque personnage et Dorothy lui dit : « Hélas, je crois qu'il n'y a rien dans votre sac noir pour moi ».
 Quand Homer se remémore des souvenirs sur le divan, on peut voir entre autres :
 la série télévisée Dallas.
 la chute du Mur de Berlin.
 Hands Across America.
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Invités
 La voix de Herbert est interprétée par Danny DeVito.
 Joe Frazier double sa propre voix.

Épisode des Simpson, saison 3

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Men's four and women's pair stand out in Serbia
Andrew Triggs Hodge, George Nash, Mohamed Sbihi and Alex Gregory are European men's four champions – a title they won with a blistering performance in Belgrade this afternoon.
"It was a fantastic start to the season", said Nash.
Helen Glover and Polly Swann added the European title to their World gold of 2013 in the women's pair in a similar style.
Both crews set European Championships best times and were the stand-out performers of the day for the GB Rowing Team.
Glover, who is also Olympic Champion, in this event said: "I think we got off to a normal start for us but the others probably went out harder than normal and paid a bit for it later".
There were also well-fought silvers from the men's quadruple scull, lightweight men's four and lightweight men's pair against world-rated opposition.
In an exciting tail-end to the Championships' finals day, the GB Rowing Team women's eight nailed a strong performance to take silver behind the much-fancied Romanians but ahead of Germany and the Netherlands.
"There were so many good performances across the boat today", said Olympian Jess Eddie. "And some very composed and consistent performances from newcomers".
The new men's eight combination closed out the event with bronze behind Olympic Champions Germany and a strong Russian line-up in an exciting final race.
Earlier Olympic champion Kat Copeland also won a bronze on her return to racing. since 2012, with Imogen Walsh in the lightweight women's double scull.
"The good thing is that the main part of the race has gone well. The sprints at the start and the finish will come", said Copeland.
The men's single and double scull and lightweight men's single scull were all sixth, the women's quad were fifth and the men's pair of Alan Sinclair and Nathaniel Reilly O'Donnell came very close to the podium with an agonising fourth place by just under two-tenths of a second.
Newcomer Charlotte Taylor put in a strong debut performance here with a fourth-place finish in the lightweight women's single scull.
"The strongest thing is how our team has progressed through the championships. We came here needing a bit of a spring clean and I think the rowers have stepped up wonderfully taking some medals that didn't seem to be quite there on Friday" said GB Rowing Team Performance Director, Sir David Tanner.
"We can now go away and be pleased with our first significant European challenge. Well done, too, to our Serbian hosts who have organised an excellent event", he added.
GB's next international outing will be at the World Cup in Aiguebelette from 20-22 June.
Sam Scrimgeour and Jonno Clegg were drawn in lane 5 of today's final of the lightweight men's pair alongside the reigning European champions Simon Niepmann and Lucas Tramer of Switzerland who set a European best time in the semi-finals here to take that honour away from the British duo who held that accolade the day before.
In the opening 500m of today's final the British duo went out with guns blazing and built an early lead. The Swiss were the main rivals and the British boat was asking questions of them and the Dutch who were trying to close the gap as the race moved through halfway.
At 1500m the British boat still had half a length over the Swiss who must have heard the cowbells ringing in the grandstands as they picked up the pace and attacked to go into the lead.
In the final 25 strokes, the GB boat responded but fell short by a canvas. On the far side the Dutch also put in a storming finish but couldn't quite catch Scrimgeour and Clegg who finished second in 6:30.32.
"We got out in front and tried to hang on", said Clegg.
"It was such a close race in that last 250m and we always felt we were in touch. I guess it was only in the last five strokes that we probably realised we weren't going to do it", said Scrimgeour. "But that wasn't a bad result as we have had minimal time together in the boat".
Adam Freeman Pask, in the lightweight men's single scull, reached today's final with a gutsy, third-placed semi-final performance. Today, drawn in lane six, he put in a decent first 500m and was lying second at the first timing point. In the next 250m Freeman Pask looked to be struggling to maintain the same pace as the leaders and slipped back to eventually finish fifth in 7:00.93 in a race won by Pedro Fraga of Portugal in 6:51.72
Whilst Freeman-Pask has a few years experience at this level, Charlotte Taylor is a newcomer to the senior ranks of the GB Rowing Team. She won her semi-final to qualify for today's final of the lightweight single scull and faced the reigning European Champion, Aikaterini Nikolaidou of Greece as well as the German and Belgian scullers with whom she closely contested her semi.
Nikolaidou made the early running and was leading the race at halfway tracked by Taylor and Loenie Pless of Germany. In a tight race, the German had moved into second place at 1500m gone with Marie-Anne Frenken of Holland also threatening.
At the line Greece were the clear winners with Holland second and Germany squeezed Taylor out of the podium slots.
John Collins and Jonny Walton are the new-look GB double scull. The duo have had a roller-coaster experience so far in this event, qualifying through their heat and semi with close calls. Hans Gruhne and Stephan Krueger of Germany started favourites for this event, having set a European best time in the earlier rounds.
In a race contested at close quarters it was the Azerbaijani boat in lane one that reached the 500m mark and halfway first with Germany surging up from the middle of the course to challenge soon after halfway. The British duo were trailing in lane six.
It was all change at the 1500m timing point as Lithuania took up the lead . Germany were trying to row them down, but the LIthuanians moved out to a length lead and weren't caught. Azerbaijan held off Germany to take silver and the British boat came home sixth.
Alan Sinclair and Nathaniel Reilly O'Donnell were drawn in lane six of their final – right next door to local heroes Veselin Savic and Dusan Bogicevic who were the title holders and who would be racing on home waters on the Sava Lake which around which a funky urban beach environment has been created for Belgrade's 1.6 million inhabitants.
The British duo got off to a good start and were in contention with 500m gone. As a hazy sunshine broke through the clouds the GB boat moved up into fifth in a race, to the delight of the home crowd, being led by Savic and Bogievic.
Sinclair and Reilly O'Donnell had now moved up to fourth place and were challenging strongly for third with the Germans. With five strokes to go it looked as if the British combination might get there but fell short by just over two tenths of a second. Holland took silver.
Imogen Walsh and Kat Copeland were next up for GB in the lightweight women's double scull final. Copeland's re-entry to the sport has been smooth and to reach a European final after a year's lay-off was an achievement of itself. Walsh comes into this season having been a World finalist with Kathryn Twyman.
Today, drawn in lane two, they had the European Champions Laura Milani and Elizabetta Sancassani on their inside.
The British duo did not get a strong start but, as per the pattern of their previous races, came back strongly as the contest moved towards the halfway point. They moved up from fourth to third. Germany had a strong lead but faced a three-boat attack behind them.
Italy began to show their pace and moved up to second before powering through the Germans who still had enough left to hold off Britain at the line who took bronze in 6:55.77.
"The good thing is that the main bulk of the race was ok today and the sprints at the start and the finish will come eventually", said Copeland.
"I think that's a good start. I'm not elated about it but I'm not devastated either", said Walsh.
Alex Gregory, Mohamed Sbihi, George Nash and Andrew Triggs Hodge had made an impact on this event before the final by setting a Championships best in the heats. Having been part of GB's World Champion men's eight last year, this is a relatively new project.
In today's final they were drawn in lane three with Greece and Italy on either side.
Greece have three of the four rowers here who were London 2012 finalists so were considered the main rivals.
By 500m gone the British boat was already in a storming lead. Barring anything bizarre, nothing looked like stopping their progress to gold. At 1500m way ahead and continued to pile on the pressure to the line to win by a significant clear-water margin in 5:46.86 – another European Championships best.
"It's a fantastic way to start the season", said Nash. We've been doing some really good times in training so we felt relatively strong coming here".
Hodge added: "We have a lot of power in that boat and we've been working on harnessing that technically".
Gregory said: "It's really exciting. I am really enjoying racing with these guys and being a part of this".
Sbihi said: "It's a good feeling and it was great to have executed our plan so well today".
Ekaterina Karsten, the much medalled doyen of women's sculling, was in the bow seat of the Belarussian quad that lined up today in lane four next to the GB quartet of Beth Rodford, Lucinda Gooderham, Victoria Meyer-Laker and Kristina Stiller. Karsten's crew had set a Championships best here already.
The British were unable to stamp their mark on the opening sequence of this race and eventually won the battle with the Ukraine for fifth place. Germany were the early leaders but were overhauled in the end by Belarus who won in 6:14.64. Poland took the bronze.
Graeme Thomas, Sam Townsend, Charles Cousins and Peter Lambert came into today's final as World bronze medallists in the men's quad but after a diffident heat which saw them needing to qualify via yesterday's repechage which they won.
Drawn in lane two the British quartet had the Ukraine European Championships "best-time" holders and European Champions, Germany, on their far side. Germany's boat here has two of the men who took the 2013 European title in it.
Early in the race the British combination were settled into a fourth place from which they could challenge the rest of the field. But it was the final 500m that brought everyone to the edge of their seat. Ukraine looked until then like clear winners but the GB boat battled back and looked like challenging for gold at one stage before being edged into silver with Germany in bronze.
Thomas said: "Not quite perfect but a really good start".
Charles Cousins added: "I am really pleased with that. You can't knock it. We were in the medals and up the front. It would have been nice to have won it but that's how it goes".
Lambert said: "It's really exciting and it was a great race. This boat class has moved on even since the Worlds last year. All credit to Ukraine with what's happening in their country for them to come out here and do that was amazing".
Townsend said: "The manner of the race was like the difference between chalk and cheese to our heat. We stepped up and put ourselves on the front foot".
Helen Glover and Polly Swann are World Champions in the women's pair. Today they went to the start to see if they could add a European title to their trophy cabinet. Having set a European Champs best time in winning their heat they were the pre-race favourites.
From lane three they started modestly and kept a weather eye on Romanians Cristina Grigoras and Laura Oprea with Grigorias having been in the Romanian boat which won the title a year ago in Seville.
From 750m gone they seemed to open the after-burners and powered to a convincing win in 7:03.62, lowering the Championships best time again and almost a full five seconds ahead of the Romanians.
"Actually that was a normal start for us. I think the others went off hard and then they paid for it after two minutes because we stayed the same speed and they dropped off", said Glover afterwards.
"You are always nervous at the beginning of the season. It's the beginning of the season and it's good to get a win under our belts", said Swann.
Poland, drawn next to Frances Houghton and Victoria Thornley who were in lane two, looked the form crew in the women's double scull judging by the heat results. Lithuania, in lane four, won this event a year ago.
This race turned, in the second half, into a battle for gold between Poland and Lithuania with the former holding on by a few tenths from the latter.
Behind them, the GB duo were unable to match the pace of the leaders and finished fifth in 6:20.37. For a large part of the second half they looked likely at times to push past Germany into fourth but never quite found the speed that was needed. Poland won the bronze.
After a searing performance in the heats, the GB Rowing Team lightweight men's four of Mark Aldred and the three 2012 silver medallists Richard and Peter Chambers and Chris Bartley, were amongst the title favourites on the start line of today's final.
Denmark, drawn next to them, started, though, as European Champions and Championships' best time holders. As usual in this event, a feast of fast and close racing looked in store.
By halfway, and with the heavens having opened on them, it was clear that this was to be a three-way tussle between Denmark – early and strong pace-setters – Great Britain and France.
The British quartet were holding the sliver medal position at the 1k mark. France were clearly going to make it hard to stay there. Denmark looked untouchable and held on to win by three-quarters of a length in 6:08.81 whilst the GB boat stamped its authority in the final 25 strokes over France to take silver in 6:10.97.
Peter Chambers said: "That wasn't too bad for our first attempt together. Good start to the racing season. Got a fight on our hands towards the next world cup".
Aldred added: "There is a sense of disappointment as we would have liked to beat the Danes. However, we have some things to wok on".
Bartley said: "We got right into a strong rhythm and did our plan well but we needed to be a bit quicker off the start".
Think of women's eight racing and it's an assumption that Romania are going to be strong. At this event they are the reigning champions and today were drawn on the far side of the British boat in lane three.
Ro Bradbury, Olivia Carnegie Brown, Katie Greves, Donna Etiebet, Jess Eddie, Zoe Lee, Caragh McMurtry, Louisa Reeve and cox Zoe de Toledo started really strongly.
"We got out of the blocks really well", said de Toledo after the race. "And we were coming back on the Romanians at the end and that's what we wanted to do".
"We should not be settling for minor medals or placings, we should have belief", said Eddie who praised rowers like Carnegie Brown, McMurtry and Lee who are still experiencing their first big contests.
"I feel that James Harris, our coach, has done a great job to create a strong atmosphere within the group and that makes a big difference. Rowers like Donna [Etiebet] put in such a composed performance with a lot of power", said Greves.
Lee said: "It's so exciting as we were coming through the last 250m and we could feel the momentum taking us away from Germany and the others, Jess [Eddie] yelled "belief" and that's what it is all about. Feeling that momentum was so great".
Etiebet said: "It's been great. I know that everyone I work with back at home has been watching and they have all been so supportive".
Olympic and world medallist Alan Campbell was drawn alongside his great friend and rival Ondrej Synek of the Czech Republic in today's final. Synek, the reigning Euroepean Champion, is known for his tactical nouse. Marcel Hacker of Germany, also a vastly experienced racer at this level would be a fierce competitor.
At the outset Campbell was well-positioned in third place behind Synek and Lithuania's Mindaugas Griskonis. By halfway Hacker had come through to challenge and then overhaul Synek. Campbell, meanwhilee, had dropped back a slot to fourth and ultimately finished sixth in 7:02.92.
Synek bit back at Hacker and he moved into the lead in the final 500m to win in 6:54.95. Lithuania took the bronze.
Phelan Hill, the 2013 World Champion cox and 2012 Olympic bronze medal winner, Pete Reed and Will Satch are the most experienced members of the British eight that lined up on the start in Serbia today for the final race of the day.
They are joined in this new-look combination by Scott Durant, Oliver Cook, Phil Congdon ,Matt Gotrel, Mat Tarrant and James Foad – the latter an Olympic bronze medallist, too.
Germany are the Olympic Champions in this event but lost their World title to GB last year. The 2014 GB boat has a very different line-up, therefore not permitting any comparisons.
Germany were out front in the early stages but were being very strongly pushed by Russia. Great Britain and Poland were challenging each other for third behind the leaders.
The British boat, on the far side, put in a push and moved up into the bronze medal position at 1500m and then a tight finish seemed in store. The race didn't disappoint.
Poland came into the frame again with a fast finish but that wasn't quite enough to catch GB who took bronze by a whisker. Gold to Germany and silver to Russia.
Jamie Kirkwood and Will Fletcher raced in the morning's B finals of the lightweight men's double scull and finished third in a race won by Greece with Poland second.
(Events featuring GB crews only. Full results: www.worldrowing.com.
Pair – Final A
1. Helen Glover/Polly Swann (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:03.62
2. Cristina Grigoras/Laura Oprea (Romania) 7:08.52
3. Aletta Jorritsma/Heleen Boers (Netherlands) 7:10.56
4. Leonora Kennedy/Lisa Dilleen (Ireland) 7:12.42
5. Sonja Keserac/Maja Anic (Croatia) 7:23.66
Eight – Final A
1. Romania 6:16.64
2. Rosamund Bradbury/Olivia Carnegie-Brown/Katie Greves/Donna Etiebet/Jessica Eddie/Zoe Lee/Caragh McMurtry/Louisa Reeve/Zoe de Toledo (cox) (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:18.32
3. Germany 6:19.97
4. Netherlands 6:21.52
5. Ukraine 6:27.47
6. France 6:32.49
Double scull – Final A
1. Magdalena Fularczyk/Natalia Madaj (Poland) 6:52.15
2. Donata Vistartaite/Milda Valciukaite (Lithuania) 6:52.59
3. Nicole Beukers/Inge Janssen (Netherlands) 6:56.60
4. Lisa Schmidla/Carina Baer (Germany) 6:59.46
5. Frances Houghton/Victoria Thornley (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:59.85
Quadruple scull – Final A
1. Tatsiana Kukhta/Yuliya Bichyk/Ekaterina Karsten/Katsiaryna Shliupskaya (Belarus) 6:14.64
2. Julia Lier/Julia Richter/Marie-Catherine Arnold/Mareike Adams (Germany) 6:15.38
3. Maria Springwald/Joanna Dittmann/Agnieszka Kobus/Monika Ciaciuch (Poland) 6:17.81
4. Claudia Belderbos/Carline Bouw/Olivia van Rooijen/Elisabeth Hogerwerf (Netherlands0 6:20.18
5. Lucinda Gooderham/Victoria Meyer-Laker/Beth Rodford/Kristina Stiller (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:20.37
6. Olena Buryak/Svitlana Novichenko/Diana Dymchenko/Anna Kontseva (Ukraine) 6:23.03
1. Veselin Savic/Dusan Bogicevic (Serbia) 6:21.75
2. Rogier Blink/Mitchel Steenman (Netherlands) 6:21.99
3. Bastian Bechler/Anton Braun (Germany) 6:24.71
4. Alan Sinclair/Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:24.92
5. Marco Di Contsanzo/Matteo Castaldo (Italy) 6:27.82
6. Alexander Sigurbjonsson Benet/Pau Vela Maggi (Spain) 6:32.34
Four – Final A
1. Alex Gregory/Mohamed Sbihi/George Nash/Andrew Triggs Hodge (GREAT BRITAIN) 5:46.86
2. Dionysios Angelopoulos/Georgios Tziallas/Ioannis Tsilis/Ioannis Christou (Greece) 5:51.02
3. Paolo Perino/Giovanni Abagnale/Cesare Gabbia/Giuseppe Vicino (Italy) 5:51.72
4. Olivier Siegelaar/Mechiel Versluis/Boaz Meylink/Robert Luecken (Netherlands) 5:53.23
5. Bjoern Birkner/Maximilian Munski/Toni Seifert/Kristof Wilke (Germany) 5:56.98
6. Dmitrii Golovin/Rostislav Drozhzhachikh/Alexander Kornilov/Daniil Andrienko (Russia) 6:00.51
2. Russia 5:34.99
3. Phil Congdon/Oliver Cook/Matthew Gotrel/Pete Reed/William Satch/Matthew Tarrant/Scott Durant/James Foad/Phelan Hill (cox) (GREAT BRITAIN) 5:35.56
4. Poland 5:35.63
6. Belarus 5:46.25
Single scull – Final A
1. Ondrej Synek (Czech Republic) 6:54.95
2. Marcel Hacker (Germany) 6:56.12
3. Mindaugas Griskonis (Lithuania) 7:00.33
4. Stanislau Shcharbachenia (Belarus) 7:01.66
5. Hannes Obreno (Belgium) 7:02.61
6. Alan Campbell (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:02.92
1. Rolandas Mascinskas/Saulius Ritter (Lithuania) 6:08.82
2. Aleksandar Aleksandrov/Boris Yotov (Azerbaijan) 6:09.36
3. Hans Gruhne/Stephan Krueger (Germany) 6:10.09
4. Nils Jakob Hoff/Kjetil Borch (Norway) 6:11.58
5. Thijs van Luijk/Dirk Uittenbogaard (Netherlands) 6:13.70
6. John Collins/Jonathan Walton (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:19.40
1. Artem Morozov/Olexandr Nadtoka/Dmytro Mikhay/Ivan Dovgodko (Ukraine) 5:41.92
2. Sam Townsend/Charles Cousins/Graeme Thomas/Peter Lambert (GREAT BRITAIN) 5:42.19
3. Kai Fuhrmann/Philipp Wende/Karl Schulze/Tim Grohmann (Germany) 5:42.83
4. Denis Kleshnev/Viacheslav Mikhaylevskiy/Vladislav Ryabcev/Sergey Fedorovtsev (Russia) 5:43.05
5. Natan Wegrzycki-Szymczyk/Dariusz Radosz/Dawid Grabowski/Piotr Licznerski (Poland) 5:47.94
6. Allar Raja/Sten-Erik Anderson/Kaur Kuslap/Kaspar Taimsoo (Estonia) 5:48.09
1. Aikaterini Nikolaidou (Greece) 7:33.12
2. Marie-Anne Frenken (Netherlands) 7:34.95
3. Leonie Pless (Germany) 7:35.86
4. Charlotte Taylor (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:37.24
5. Eveline Peleman (Belgium) 7:28.90
6. Dorottya Bene (Hungary) 7:39.31
1. Laura Milani/Elisabetta Sancassani (Italy) 6:54.85
2. Lena Meuller/Anja Noske (Germany) 6:55.56
3. Imogen Walsh/Katherine Copeland (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:55.77
4. Cecilia Lilja/Emma Fredh (Sweden) 6:59.78
5. Elisabeth Woerner/Maaike Head (Netherlands) 7:00.52
6. Joanna Dorociak/Weronika Deresz (Poland) 7:01.96
1. Simon Niepmann/Lucas Tramer (Switzerland) 6:29.57
2. Sam Scrimgeour/Jonathan Clegg (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:30.32
3. Tim Weerkamp/Ivo de Graaf (Netherlands) 6:30.49
4. Clement Duret/Theophile Onfroy (France) 6:33.93
5. Torben Neumann/Can Temel (Germany) 6:33.97
6. Stefano Oppo/Paolo di Girolamo (Italy) 6:34.55
1. Jacob Larsen/Jacob Barsoe/Kasper Winther/Morten Joergensen (Denmark) 6:08.81
2. Mark Aldred/Peter Chambers/Richard Chambers/Chris Bartley (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:10.97
3. Thomas Baroukh/Franck Solforosi/Augustin Mouterde/Guillaume Raineau (France) 6:12.81
4. Jesus Gonzalez Alvarez/Marc Franquet Montfort/Sergio Perez Moreno/Patricio Rojas Aznar (Spain) 6:18.04
5. Lars Wichert/Matthias Arnold/Jonathan Koch/Julius Peschel (Germany) 6:19.29
6. David Kaminski/Adam Sobczak/Patryk Pszczolkowski/Bartosz Pszczolkowski (Poland) 6:27.36
1. Pedro Fraga (Portugal) 6:51.72
2. Marcello Miani (Italy) 6:54.42
3. Michael Schmid (Switzerland) 6:56.44
4. Andrej Bendtsen (Denmark) 6:57.85
5. Adam Freeman-Pask (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:00.93
6. Daniel Lawitzke (Germany) 7:01.68
Double scull – Final B
1. Eleftherios Konsolas/Spyridon Giannaros (Greece) 6:17.90
2. Artur Mikolajczewski/Milosz Jankowski (Poland) 6:18.31
3. William Fletcher/Jamie Kirkwood (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:20.20
4. Jan Vetesnik/Ondrej Vetesnik (Czech Republic) 6:21.47
5. Peter Galambos/Gabor Csepregi (Hungary) 6:23.81
6. Paul Sieber/Bernhard Sieber (Austria) 6:31.86
CREW LISTS (Includes club, home town, date of birth)
GB Rowing Team for the 2014 European Championships,
Belgrade, 30 May – 1 June.
Helen Glover (Minerva Bath RC/Penzance/17.06.1986)
Polly Swann (Leander Club/Edinburgh/15.06.1988)
Coaches: Paul Thompson & Robin Williams
Rosamund Bradbury (Leander Club/Banstead/17.12.1988)
Olivia Carnegie-Brown (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Oxford/28.03.1991)
Jessica Eddie (London RC/Durham/07.10.1984)
Donna Etiebet (Sport Imperial BC/London/29.04.1986)
Katie Greves (Leander Club/Oxford/02.09.1982)
Zoe Lee (Imperial College BC/Richmond, N. Yorks/15.12.1985)
Caragh McMurty (Reading Univ BC/Southampton/22.08.1991)
Louisa Reeve (Leander Club/London/16.05.1984)
Zoe de Toledo (cox) (Leander Club/London/17.07.1987)
Coach: James Harris
Double scull
Frances Houghton (Leander Club/Oxford/19.09.1980)
Victoria Thornley (Leander Club/Wrexham/30.11.1987)
Quadruple scull
Beth Rodford (Gloucester RC/Gloucester/28.12.1982)
Lucinda Gooderham (Leander Club/Norfolk/09.06.1984)
Victoria Meyer-Laker (Leander Club/Premnay/18.03.1988)
Kristina Stiller (Tees RC/Yarm/23.06.1987)
Coach: Nick Strange
Monica Relph (Leander Club/Cambridge/15.01.1988)
Alan Sinclair (Leander Club/Inverness/16.10.1985)
Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell (Univ of London BC/Durham/13.04.1988)
Coach: Rob Dauncey
Alex Gregory (Leander Club/Wormington/11.03.1984)
Mohamed Sbihi (Molesey BC/Surbiton/27.03.1988)
George Nash (Molesey BC/Guildford/10.02.1989)
Andrew Triggs Hodge (Molesey BC/Hebden, N. Yorks/03.03.1979)
Coach: Jurgen Grobler
Phil Congdon (Molesey BC/Bury St Edmunds/06.06.1989)
Oliver Cook (Univ of London BC/Windsor/05.06.1990)
Scott Durant (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Lancaster/12.02.1988)
James Foad (Molesey BC/Southampton/20.03.1987)
Matthew Gotrel (Leander Club/Chipping Campden/01.03.1989)
Pete Reed (Leander Club/Nailsworth, Glos/27.07.1981)
Will Satch (Leander Club/Henley-on-Thames/09.06.1989)
Matthew Tarrant (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Shepperton/11.07.1990)
Phelan Hill (cox) (Leander Club/Bedford/21.07.1979)
Coach: Christian Felkel
Single scull
Alan Campbell (Tideway Scullers School/Coleraine/09.05.1983)
Coach: John West
John Collins (Leander Club/Twickenham/24.01.1989)
Jonathan Walton (Leander Club/Leicester/06.10.1990)
Coach: Mark Banks
Graeme Thomas (Agecroft RC/Preston/08.11.1988)
Sam Townsend (Reading Univ BC/Reading/26.11.1985)
Charles Cousins (Leander Club/Willingham/13.12.1988)
Peter Lambert (Leander Club/Henley-on-Thames/03.12.1986)
Coach: Paul Stannard
Matt Langridge (Leander Club/Northwich/20.05.1983)
Charlotte Taylor (Putney Town RC/Bedford/14.08.1985)
Coach: Tom Evens
Imogen Walsh (London RC/Inverness/17.01.1984)
Kat Copeland (Tees RC/Ashington/01.12.1990)
Coach: Paul Reedy
Jonathan Clegg (Leander Club/Maidenhead/14.07.1989)
Sam Scrimgeour (Imperial College BC/Forfar/28.01.1988)
Coach: Rob Morgan
Mark Aldred (London RC/London/18.04.1987)
Peter Chambers (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Coleraine/14.03.1990)
Richard Chambers (Leander Club/Coleraine/10.06.1985)
Chris Bartley (Leander Club/Chester/02.02.1984)
Adam Freeman-Pask (Reading Univ BC/Windsor/19.06.1985)
Coach: Darren Whiter
William Fletcher (Leander Club/Chester-le-Street/24.12.1989)
Jamie Kirkwood (Leander Club/Creswell/30.08.1989)
GB MEDALLISTS 2012 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
The GB Rowing Team last competed at the European Championships when a squad of, then, development rowers took five medals:
Women's pair: Caragh McMurtry and Olivia Carnegie Brown
Lightweight men's four: Adam Freeman-Pask, Jonno Clegg, Sam Scrimgeour/Will Fletcher
Lightweight women's double scull – Imogen Walsh/Ruth Walczak
Lightweight men's double scull – Chris Boddy/Mikey Mottram
Women's eight – Leonora Kennedy/Claire McKeown, Monica Relph, Victoria Meyer-Laker/Yasmin Tredell/Zoe Lee/Caragh McMurtry/Olivia Carnegie Brown/Zoe de Toledo
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\section{Introduction}

Question generation is important as questions are useful for student assessment or coaching purposes in educational or professional contexts, and a large-scale corpus of question and answer pairs is also critical to many NLP tasks including question answering, dialogue interaction and intelligent tutoring systems.
There has been much literature so far
\cite{chen2009aist,ali2010automation,heilman2010good,curto2012question,lindberg2013generating,mazidi2014linguistic,labutov2015deep} studying question generation from text.
Recently people are becoming interested in question generation from KB, since large-scale KBs, such as Freebase \cite{bollacker2008freebase} and DBPedia \cite{auer2007dbpedia}, are freely available, and entities and their relations are already present in KBs but not for texts.

Question generation from KB is challenging as function words and morphological forms for entities are abstracted away when a KB is created.
To tackle this challenge, previous work \cite{seyler2015generating,serban-EtAl:2016:P16-1} relies on massive human-labeled data.
Treating question generation as a machine translation problem, \newcite{serban-EtAl:2016:P16-1} train a neural machine translation (NMT) system with 10,000 $\langle$triple\footnote{A triple is a $\langle$subject,predicate,object$\rangle$ in KB, such as $\langle$jigsaw, performsActivity, CurveCut$\rangle$}, question$\rangle$ pairs.
At test time, input triples are ``translated'' into questions with the NMT system.
On the other hand, the question part of the 10,000 pairs are human generated, which requires a large amount of human effort.
In addition, the grammaticality and naturalness of generated questions can not be guaranteed (as seen in Table \ref{tab:30m}).

We propose a system for generating questions from KB that significantly reduces the human effort by leveraging the massive web resources.
Given a KB, a small set of question templates are first hand-crafted based on the predicates in the KB.
These templates consist of a transcription of the predicate in the KB (e.g. performsActivity$\Rightarrow$how to) and placeholders for the subject (\#X\#) and the object (\#Y\#).
A seed question set is then generated by applying the templates on the KB.
The seed question set is further expanded through a search engine (e.g., Google, Bing), by iteratively forming each generated question as a search query to retrieve more related question candidates.
Finally a selection step is applied by estimating the fluency and domain relevance of each question candidate.

The only human labor in this work is the question template construction.
Our system does not require a large number of templates because: (1) the iterative question expansion can produce a large number of questions even with a relatively small number of seed questions, as we see in the experiments, (2) multiple entities in the KB share the same predicates.
Another advantage is that our system can easily generate updated questions as web is self-updating consistently.
In our experiment, we compare with \newcite{serban-EtAl:2016:P16-1} on 500 random selected triples from Freebase \cite{bollacker2008freebase}.
Evaluated by 3 human graders, questions generated by our system are significantly better then \newcite{serban-EtAl:2016:P16-1} on grammaticality and naturalness.

\section{Knowledge Base}

A knowledge base (KB) can be viewed as a directed graph, in which nodes are entities (such as ``jigsaw'' and ``CurveCut'') and edges are relations of entities (such as ``performsActivity'').
A KB can also be viewed as a list of triples in the format of $\langle$subject, predicate, object$\rangle$,
where subjects and objects are entities, and predicates are relations.

\section{System}

\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=.6]{overview.pdf}
\caption{Overview of our framework.}
\label{fig:overview}
\end{figure}

Shown in Figure \ref{fig:overview}, our system contains the sub-modules of question template construction, seed question generation, question expansion and selection.
Given an input KB, a small set of question templates is first constructed such that each template is associated with a predicate,
then a seed question set is generated by applying the template set on the input KB, before finally more questions are generated from related questions that are iteratively retrieved from a search engine with already-obtained questions as search queries (section \ref{sec:exp}).
Taking our in-house KB of power tool domain as an example, template ``how to use \#X\#'' is first constructed for predicate ``performsActivity''.
In addition, seed question ``how to use jigsaw'' is generated by applying the template on triple ``$\langle$jigsaw, performsActivity, CurveCut$\rangle$'', before finally questions (Figure \ref{fig:google}) are retrieved from Google with the seed question.

\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{google_search.pdf}
\caption{Related search results for the question ``how to use jigsaw''.}
\label{fig:google}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Question expansion and selection}
\label{sec:exp}

\begin{algorithm}[t]
 \KwData{seed question set $S$}
 \KwResult{candidate questions $E$}
 $E \leftarrow S$\;
 $Q \leftarrow S$\;
 $I \leftarrow 0$\;
 \While{\textsc{len}$(Q) > 0$ \textbf{and} $I < I_{max}$}{
    $I = I + 1$\;
    $q_{cur}$ $\leftarrow$ $Q$.\textsc{Pop}()\;
    \For{$q_{next}$ \textbf{in} \textsc{WebExp}$(q_{cur})$}{
       \If{\textbf{not} $E$.\textsc{contains}$(q_{next})$}{
           $E$.\textsc{Append}($q_{next}$) \;
           $Q$.\textsc{Push}($q_{next}$)\;
       }
    }
 }
 \caption{Question expansion method}
 \label{algo:exp}
\end{algorithm}

Shown in Algorithm \ref{algo:exp}, the expanded question set $E$ is initialized as the seed question set (Line 1).
In each iteration, an already-obtained question is expanded from web and the retrieved questions are  added to $E$ if $E$ does not contain them (Lines 6-10).
As there may be a large number of questions generated in the loop, we limit the maximum number of iterations with $I_{max}$ (Line 4).

\begin{table*} \small
\centering
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{X|X}
\hline
Ours & \newcite{serban-EtAl:2016:P16-1} \\
\hline
\hline
what is the cultural heritage of churchill national park & where in australia is churchill national park \\
\hline
what percentage of argentina's population live in urban areas & what 's one of the mountain where can you found in argentina in netflix \\
\hline
which country is the largest financial center of latin america & what is an organization that was born in latin america \\
\hline
which country has the largest freshwater lake in central america & what are the major town three gringos in venezuela and central america book \\
\hline
how does leukemia affect the body in children & who was someone who was involved in the leukemia \\
\hline
how does the nervous system maintain homeostasis & what is the drug category of central nervous system stimulation \\
\hline
why were colonial minutemen so prepared for the arrival of the british in concord & what county is concord in \\
\hline
which is the only country to have a bible on their national flag & whats the title of a book of the subject of the bible \\
\hline
why is new york called the city that never sleeps & who was born in new york \\
\hline
what three important documents were written in pennsylvania & what is located in pennsylvania \\
\hline
\end{tabularx}
\caption{Comparing generated questions}
\label{tab:30m}
\end{table*}

\begin{table} \small
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
\hline
System & grammatical & naturalness \\
\hline
\hline
\newcite{serban-EtAl:2016:P16-1} & 3.36 & 3.14 \\
Ours & \textbf{3.53} & \textbf{3.31} \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Human ratings of generated questions}
\label{tab:30m_quan}
\end{table}

The questions collected from the web search engine may not be fluent or domain relevant; especially the domain relevance drops significantly as the iteration goes on.
Here we adopt a skip-gram model \cite{mikolov2013distributed} and a language model for evaluating the domain relevance and fluency of the expanded questions, respectively.
For domain relevance, we take the seed question set as the in-domain data $D_{in}$,
the domain relevance of expanded question $q$ is defined as:
\begin{equation}
\textsc{Rel}(q) = \cos(v(q),v(D_{in}))
\label{eq:rel}
\end{equation}
where $v(\cdot)$ is the document embedding defined as the averaged word embedding within the document.
For fluency, we define the averaged language model score as:
\begin{equation}
\textsc{AvgLM}(q) = \frac{\textsc{Lm}(q)}{\textsc{Len}(q)}
\label{eq:lm}
\end{equation}
where $\textsc{Lm}(\cdot)$ is the general-domain language model score (log probability), and $\textsc{Len}(\cdot)$ is the word count.
We apply thresholds $t_{rel}$ and $t_{flu}$ for domain relevance and fluency respectively, and
filter out questions whose scores are below these thresholds.

\section{Experiments}

We perform three experiments to evaluate our system qualitatively and quantitatively.
In the first experiment, we compare our end-to-end system with the previous state-of-the-art method \cite{serban-EtAl:2016:P16-1} on Freebase \cite{bollacker2008freebase}, a domain-general KB.
In the second experiment, we validate our domain relevance evaluation method on a standard dataset about short document classification.
In the final experiment, we run our end-to-end system on a highly specialized in-house KB and present sample results, showing that our system is capable of generating questions from domain specific KBs.

\subsection{Evaluation on Freebase}

We first compare our system with \newcite{serban-EtAl:2016:P16-1} on 500 randomly selected triples from Freebase \cite{bollacker2008freebase}\footnote{We obtain their results from http://agarciaduran.org}.
For the 500 triples, we hand-crafted 106 templates, as these triples share only 53 distinct predicates (we made 2 templates for each predicate on average).
991 seed questions are generated by applying the templates on the triples, and 1529 more questions are retrieved from Google.
To evaluate the fluency of the candidate questions, we train a 4-gram language model (LM) on gigaword (LDC2011T07) with Kneser Ney smoothing.
Using the averaged language model score as index, the top 500 questions are selected to compare with the results from \newcite{serban-EtAl:2016:P16-1}.
We ask three native English speakers to evaluate the fluency and the naturalness\footnote{whether people will ask in reality} of both results based on a 4-point scheme where 4 is the best.

We show the averaged human rate in Table \ref{tab:30m_quan}, where we can see that our questions are more grammatical and natural than \newcite{serban-EtAl:2016:P16-1}. The naturalness score is less than the grammatical score for both methods. It is because naturalness is a more strict metric since a natural question should also be grammatical.

Shown in Table \ref{tab:30m}, we compare our questions with \newcite{serban-EtAl:2016:P16-1} where questions in the same line describe the same entity.
We can see that our questions are grammatical and natural as these questions are what people usually ask on the web.
On the other hand, questions from \newcite{serban-EtAl:2016:P16-1} are either ungrammatical (such as ``who was someone who was involved in the leukemia ?'' and ``whats the title of a book of the subject of the bible ?''),
unnatural (``what 's one of the mountain where can you found in argentina in netflix ?'') or confusing (``who was someone who was involved in the leukemia ?'').

\begin{table}[t]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|}
\hline
Method & Precision \\
\hline
\hline
\newcite{phan2008learning} & 82.18 \\
\newcite{chen2011short} & 85.31 \\
\newcite{ma-EtAl:2015:VSM-NLP} & 85.48 \\
Ours & \textbf{85.65} \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Precision on the web snippet dataset}
\label{tab:relevance}
\end{table}

\subsection{Domain Relevance}

We test our domain-relevance evaluating method on the web snippet dataset, which is a commonly-used for domain classification of short documents.
It contains 10,060 training and 2,280 test snippets (short documents) in 8 classes (domains), and each snippet has 18 words on average.
There have been plenty of prior results \cite{phan2008learning,chen2011short,ma-EtAl:2015:VSM-NLP} on the dataset.

Shown in Table \ref{tab:relevance}, we compare our domain-relevance evaluation method (section \ref{sec:exp}) with previous state-of-the-art methods:
\newcite{phan2008learning} first derives latent topics with LDA \cite{blei2003latent} from Wikipedia, then uses the topics as appended features to expand the short text.
\newcite{chen2011short} further expanded \newcite{phan2008learning} by using multi-granularity topics.
\newcite{ma-EtAl:2015:VSM-NLP} adopts a Bayesian model that the probability a document $D$ belongs to a topic $t$ equals to the prior of $t$ times the probability each word $w$ in $D$ comes from $t$.
Our method first concatenates training documents of the same domain into one ``domain document'', then calculates each document embedding by averaging word embeddings within it, before finally assigns the label of the nearest (cosine similarity) ``domain document'' to each test document.

Simple as it is, our method outperforms all previous methods proving its effectiveness.
The reason can be that word embeddings captures the similarity between distinct words (such as ``finance'' and ``economy''), while it is hard for traditional methods.
On the order hand, LDA only learns probabilities of words belonging to topics.

\subsection{Evaluation on the Domain-specific KB}

The last experiment is on our in-house KB in the power tool domain.
It contains 67 distinct predicates, 293 distinct subjects and 279 distinct objects respectively.
For the 67 predicates, we hand-craft 163 templates.
Here we use the same language model as in our first experiment, and learn a skip-gram model \cite{mikolov2013distributed} on Wikipedia\footnote{https://dumps.wikimedia.org/} for evaluating domain relevance.

We generate 12,228 seed questions from which 20,000 more questions are expanded with Google.
Shown in Table \ref{tab:questions} are some expanded questions from which we can see that most of them are grammatical and relevant to the power tool domain.
In addition, most questions are informative and correspond to a specific answer, except the one ``do I need a hammer drill'' that lacks context information.
Finally, in addition to the simple factoid questions, our system generates many complex questions such as ``how to cut a groove in wood without a router''.

\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|l|}
\hline
how to change circular saw blade \\
how to measure lawn mower cutting height \\
how to sharpen drill bits on bench grinder \\
how does an oscillating multi tool work \\
how to cut a groove in wood without a router \\
what type of sander to use on deck \\
do i need a hammer drill \\
can i use acrylic paint on wood \\
how to use a sharpening stone with oil \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Example question expanded}
\label{tab:questions}
\end{table}

\section{Conclusion}

We presented a system to generate natural language questions from a knowledge base.
By leveraging rich web information, our system is able to generate domain-relevant questions in wide scope, while human effort is significantly reduced.
Evaluated by human graders, questions generated by our system are significantly better than these from \newcite{serban-EtAl:2016:P16-1} on 500 random-selected triples from Freebase.
We also demonstrated generated questions from our in-house KB of power tool domain, which are fluent and domain-relevant in general.
Our current system only generates questions without answers, leaving automatic answer mining as our future work.

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