Abstract:High-quality question-answering plays an important role in human activities and artificial intelligence because it can help to obtain knowledge from articles, improve the performance of question-answering systems, and promote machine reading comprehension. The current mainstream question-answer pair generation methods usually rely on candidate answers in the provided article to generate specific questions based on these answers. However, some candidate answers may generate questions that cannot be answered from the article, or the answers to the generated questions are no longer the same as the candidate answers, which thus results in a poor correlation of the question-answer pairs and affects the quality of the question-answer pairs. In order to solve these problems, this study proposes a method to generate question-answer pairs based on key phrase extraction and filtering. The method can automatically extract key phrases suitable for generating questions from the input text as the candidate answers and then generate question-answer pairs by a question generator and an answer generator according to the candidate answers. Finally, the method outputs question-answer pairs with high quality by comparing the similarity between the candidate answers and the generated answers and filtering out those question-answer pairs that have a low correlation with the candidate answers. The proposed method is evaluated by experiments on SQUAD1.1 and NewsQA datasets, and the quality of generated question-answer pairs is manually checked. The results show that this method can effectively improve the quality of generated question-answer pairs.