De Boni, M. and Manandhar, S. (2005) Implementing clarification dialogue in open-domain question answering. Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 11 (14). pp. 343-361. ISSN 1351-3249
Abstract
We examine the implementation of clarification dialogues, a mechanism for ensuring that question answering systems take into account user goals by allowing them to ask series of related questions either by refining or expanding on previous questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algorithm for clarification dialogue recognition through the analysis of collected data on clarification dialogues and examine the importance of clarification dialogue recognition for question answering. The algorithm is evaluated and shown to successfully recognize the start and continuation of clarification dialogues in 94% of cases. We then show the usefulness of the algorithm by demonstrating how the recognition of clarification dialogues can simplify the task of answer retrieval.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Computer Science (York) |
Depositing User: | York RAE Import |
Date Deposited: | 17 Apr 2009 14:18 |
Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2009 14:18 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1351324905003682 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S1351324905003682 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:6769 |