Asking Clarifying Questions Based on Negative Feedback in Conversational Search

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العنوان: Asking Clarifying Questions Based on Negative Feedback in Conversational Search
المؤلفون: Bi, Keping, Ai, Qingyao, Croft, W. Bruce
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Information Retrieval
الوصف: Users often need to look through multiple search result pages or reformulate queries when they have complex information-seeking needs. Conversational search systems make it possible to improve user satisfaction by asking questions to clarify users' search intents. This, however, can take significant effort to answer a series of questions starting with "what/why/how". To quickly identify user intent and reduce effort during interactions, we propose an intent clarification task based on yes/no questions where the system needs to ask the correct question about intents within the fewest conversation turns. In this task, it is essential to use negative feedback about the previous questions in the conversation history. To this end, we propose a Maximum-Marginal-Relevance (MMR) based BERT model (MMR-BERT) to leverage negative feedback based on the MMR principle for the next clarifying question selection. Experiments on the Qulac dataset show that MMR-BERT outperforms state-of-the-art baselines significantly on the intent identification task and the selected questions also achieve significantly better performance in the associated document retrieval tasks.
Comment: In the proceedings of ICTIR'21
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1145/3471158.3472232
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.05760
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2107.05760
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv