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Svitlana Vakulenko, Vadim Savenkov, Maarten de Rijke
How can we better understand the mechanisms behind multi-turn information seeking dialogues? How can we use these insights to design a dialogue system that does not require explici…
A Wrong Answer or a Wrong Question? An Intricate Relationship between Question Reformulation and Answer Selection in Conversational Question Answering
Svitlana Vakulenko, Shayne Longpre, Zhucheng Tu +1
The dependency between an adequate question formulation and correct answer selection is a very intriguing but still underexplored area. In this paper, we show that question rewriti…
Open-Domain Question Answering Goes Conversational via Question Rewriting
Raviteja Anantha, Svitlana Vakulenko, Zhucheng Tu +3
We introduce a new dataset for Question Rewriting in Conversational Context (QReCC), which contains 14K conversations with 80K question-answer pairs. The task in QReCC is to find a…
An Analysis of Mixed Initiative and Collaboration in Information-Seeking Dialogues
Svitlana Vakulenko, Evangelos Kanoulas, Maarten de Rijke
The ability to engage in mixed-initiative interaction is one of the core requirements for a conversational search system. How to achieve this is poorly understood. We propose a set…
Question Rewriting for Conversational Question Answering
Svitlana Vakulenko, Shayne Longpre, Zhucheng Tu +1
Conversational question answering (QA) requires the ability to correctly interpret a question in the context of previous conversation turns. We address the conversational QA task b…
Common Conversational Community Prototype: Scholarly Conversational Assistant
Krisztian Balog, Lucie Flekova, Matthias Hagen +6
This paper discusses the potential for creating academic resources (tools, data, and evaluation approaches) to support research in conversational search, by focusing on realistic i…