PAQA: Toward ProActive Open-Retrieval Question Answering

arXiv:2402.16608v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Conversational systems have made significant progress in generating natural language responses. However, their potential as conversational search systems is currently limited due to their passive role in the information-seeking process. One major limitation is the scarcity of datasets that provide labelled ambiguous questions along with a supporting corpus of documents and relevant clarifying questions. This work aims to tackle the challenge of generating relevant clarifying questions by taking into account the inherent ambiguities present in …

abstract arxiv conversational conversational search cs.cl cs.ir datasets information language major natural natural language process progress question question answering questions responses retrieval role search systems the information type