ViQG: Web Tool for Automatic Question Generation from Code for Viva Preparation

Natural language generation, a sub-field of natural language processing has extensive applications in the domain of education. One of the applications, widely explored by researchers is generating questions automatically from the text. Ample amount of research work is available with respect to automatic generation of questions for framing the question paper. However, framing the question paper is a teacher centric application. Automatic question generation can also be used for enhancing the student learning. Majority of the computer science papers include practical component and students need to appear for practical exam which encompass viva. In this paper, we have proposed a method to generate the questions automatically from the programming code for three different languages, C++, Java and Python. The proposed method is implemented as part of a web tool ViQG (Viva Question Generator). The web tool can aid students to prepare for the viva by generating the probable questions related to a specific piece of code. This can reduce the time and effort required to explore the questions related to certain code, on different platforms.