Conversational question answering: A survey

M Zaib, WE Zhang, QZ Sheng, A Mahmood… - … and Information Systems, 2022 - Springer
Question answering (QA) systems provide a way of querying the information available in
various formats including, but not limited to, unstructured and structured data in natural …

Conversational information seeking

H Zamani, JR Trippas, J Dalton… - … and Trends® in …, 2023 - nowpublishers.com
Conversational information seeking (CIS) is concerned with a sequence of interactions
between one or more users and an information system. Interactions in CIS are primarily …

Survey on evaluation methods for dialogue systems

J Deriu, A Rodrigo, A Otegi, G Echegoyen… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, we survey the methods and concepts developed for the evaluation of dialogue
systems. Evaluation, in and of itself, is a crucial part during the development process. Often …

Topiocqa: Open-domain conversational question answering with topic switching

V Adlakha, S Dhuliawala, K Suleman… - Transactions of the …, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
In a conversational question answering scenario, a questioner seeks to extract information
about a topic through a series of interdependent questions and answers. As the …

[PDF][PDF] Can you unpack that? learning to rewrite questions-in-context

A Elgohary, D Peskov, J Boyd-Graber - Can You Unpack That? Learning …, 2019 - par.nsf.gov
Question answering is an AI-complete problem, but existing datasets lack key elements of
language understanding such as coreference and ellipsis resolution. We consider …

Open-retrieval conversational question answering

C Qu, L Yang, C Chen, M Qiu, WB Croft… - Proceedings of the 43rd …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Conversational search is one of the ultimate goals of information retrieval. Recent research
approaches conversational search by simplified settings of response ranking and …

Question rewriting for conversational question answering

S Vakulenko, S Longpre, Z Tu, R Anantha - Proceedings of the 14th ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
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 by …

Query resolution for conversational search with limited supervision

N Voskarides, D Li, P Ren, E Kanoulas… - Proceedings of the 43rd …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
In this work we focus on multi-turn passage retrieval as a crucial component of
conversational search. One of the key challenges in multi-turn passage retrieval comes from …

Curriculum contrastive context denoising for few-shot conversational dense retrieval

K Mao, Z Dou, H Qian - Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Conversational search is a crucial and promising branch in information retrieval. In this
paper, we reveal that not all historical conversational turns are necessary for understanding …

[LIBRO][B] Neural approaches to conversational information retrieval

J Gao, C **ong, P Bennett, N Craswell - 2023 - Springer
A conversational information retrieval (CIR) system is an information retrieval (IR) system
with a conversational interface, which allows users to interact with the system to seek …