How to approach ambiguous queries in conversational search: A survey of techniques, approaches, tools, and challenges

K Keyvan, JX Huang - ACM Computing Surveys, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The advent of recent Natural Language Processing technology has led human and machine
interactions more toward conversation. In Conversational Search Systems (CSS) like …

A review on question generation from natural language text

R Zhang, J Guo, L Chen, Y Fan, X Cheng - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Question generation is an important yet challenging problem in Artificial Intelligence (AI),
which aims to generate natural and relevant questions from various input formats, eg …

An introduction to deep learning in natural language processing: Models, techniques, and tools

I Lauriola, A Lavelli, F Aiolli - Neurocomputing, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of artificial intelligence that
involves the design and implementation of systems and algorithms able to interact through …

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 …

Towards human-centered proactive conversational agents

Y Deng, L Liao, Z Zheng, GH Yang… - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recent research on proactive conversational agents (PCAs) mainly focuses on improving
the system's capabilities in anticipating and planning action sequences to accomplish tasks …

Evaluating mixed-initiative conversational search systems via user simulation

I Sekulić, M Aliannejadi, F Crestani - … on Web Search and Data Mining, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Clarifying the underlying user information need by asking clarifying questions is an
important feature of modern conversational search system. However, evaluation of such …