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NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
An Analysis of Clarification Dialogue for Question Answering
We examine clarification dialogue, a mechanism for refining user questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algori...
Marco De Boni, Suresh Manandhar
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Towards an Empirically Motivated Typology of Follow-Up Questions: The Role of Dialogue Context
A central problem in Interactive Question Answering (IQA) is how to answer Follow-Up Questions (FU Qs), possibly by taking advantage of information from the dialogue context. We a...
Manuel Kirschner, Raffaella Bernardi
AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Identifying Unresolved Issues in Online Student Discussions: A Multi-Phase Dialogue Classification Approach
Automatic tools for analyzing student online discussions are highly desirable for better assistance and scaffolding. This paper presents an approach for automatically identifying s...
Jihie Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jia Li
ACL
1994
13 years 5 months ago
Discourse Obligations in Dialogue Processing
We show that in modeling social interaction, particularly dialogue, the attitude of obligation can be a useful adjunct to the popularly considered attitudes of belief, goal, and i...
David R. Traum, James F. Allen
FLAIRS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Diagnosing Natural Language Answers to Support Adaptive Tutoring
Understanding answers to open-ended explanation questions is important in intelligent tutoring systems. Existing systems use natural language techniques in essay analysis, but rev...
Myroslava Dzikovska, Gwendolyn E. Campbell, Charle...