Question noise in BSB
There is a large volume of unusable questions in the questions drawn from Bible study booklets. Some of these can be programmatically corrected or dropped as useless out of context. For my example I chose a passage that spans parts of 3 chapters - the same span shown in the resource on the right:
- "This paragraph" has no referent - it needs to be replaced by an actual reference
- Presents a note but not the actual question (3. Paragraph 6:1–10: An Ambassador’s Marks / Paul singles out three marks of an ambassador of Christ in these verses. Record them:/ vv. 1–2 (Note: Render “in vain” as “without using it,”3 and relate this to the phrase “workers together with him [God]”): 3 Berkeley Version.) Dropping the footnote telling me that the question references a specific translation doesn't help.
- Need the chapter number
- Reference to an invisible chart
- repeats first issue of "this paragraph" having no referent.
This is a good resource to identify other problems in the generation of questions such as not recognizing when the answer is requested in table form, occasional dropping of good questions for no apparent reason, . . .
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
Comments
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#1 This can be improved by a resource update. I'll kick off that question.
#2 This is type of question that we've tried to weed out but it technically meets our requirements for a valid question. We've considered manually removing questions like this but haven't developed it yet.
#3 This is being looked into.
#4 Same as #2. We might consider omitting questions that feature internal links.0
