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 …

Review on neural question generation for education purposes

S Al Faraby, A Adiwijaya, A Romadhony - International Journal of Artificial …, 2024 - Springer
Questioning plays a vital role in education, directing knowledge construction and assessing
students' understanding. However, creating high-level questions requires significant …

Diverse and specific clarification question generation with keywords

Z Zhang, K Zhu - Proceedings of the web conference 2021, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Product descriptions on e-commerce websites often suffer from missing important aspects.
Clarification question generation (CQGen) can be a promising approach to help alleviate the …

Mimics-duo: Offline & online evaluation of search clarification

L Tavakoli, JR Trippas, H Zamani, F Scholer… - Proceedings of the 45th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Asking clarification questions is an active area of research; however, resources for training
and evaluating search clarification methods are not sufficient. To address this issue, we …

Resolving intent ambiguities by retrieving discriminative clarifying questions

KD Dhole - arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.07559, 2020 - arxiv.org
Task oriented Dialogue Systems generally employ intent detection systems in order to map
user queries to a set of pre-defined intents. However, user queries appearing in natural …

Towards asking clarification questions for information seeking on task-oriented dialogues

Y Feng, HA Rahmani, A Lipani, E Yilmaz - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.13690, 2023 - arxiv.org
Task-oriented dialogue systems aim at providing users with task-specific services. Users of
such systems often do not know all the information about the task they are trying to …

Clarification question generation diversity and specificity enhancement based on question keyword prediction

M Zhou, J Zhou, J Gan, W Gao, J Xu - Applied Intelligence, 2024 - Springer
Clarification question generation is used mainly to solve the potential missing product
information problem in e-commerce. However, the problem of not being able to better …

Learning to Diversify for Product Question Generation

H Roitman, U Singer, Y Eshel, A Nus… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We address the product question generation task. For a given product description, our goal
is to generate questions that reflect potential user information needs that are either missing …

Modeling User-Machine Interactions During The Information Retrieval Process

A Mustar - 2023 - theses.hal.science
While today's search engines work well for simple queries, there are situations where search
results are not satisfactory. To cope with such situations, user-machine interactions have …