Towards Self-Contained Answers: Entity-Based Answer Rewriting in Conversational Search

arXiv:2403.01747v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Conversational information-seeking (CIS) is an emerging paradigm for knowledge acquisition and exploratory search. Traditional web search interfaces enable easy exploration of entities, but this is limited in conversational settings due to the limited-bandwidth interface. This paper explore ways to rewrite answers in CIS, so that users can understand them without having to resort to external services or sources. Specifically, we focus on salient entities -- entities that are central to understanding the answer. As our …

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