Automatic generation of information-seeking questions using concept clusters

  • Authors:
  • Shuguang Li;Suresh Manandhar

  • Affiliations:
  • University of York, UK;University of York, UK

  • Venue:
  • ACLShort '09 Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference Short Papers
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

One of the basic problems of efficiently generating information-seeking dialogue in interactive question answering is to find the topic of an information-seeking question with respect to the answer documents. In this paper we propose an approach to solving this problem using concept clusters. Our empirical results on TREC collections and our ambiguous question collection shows that this approach can be successfully employed to handle ambiguous and list questions.