WordNet: a lexical database for English
Communications of the ACM
Human-Computer Interaction
An Information-Theoretic Definition of Similarity
ICML '98 Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Machine Learning
A method for word sense disambiguation of unrestricted text
ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
Logic form transformation of WordNet and its applicability to question answering
ACL '01 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
An analysis of clarification dialogue for question answering
NAACL '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology - Volume 1
On the means for clarification in dialogue
SIGDIAL '01 Proceedings of the Second SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue - Volume 16
Using information content to evaluate semantic similarity in a taxonomy
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Semantic similarity based on compact concept ontology
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Designing an interactive open-domain question answering system
Natural Language Engineering
Follow-up question handling in the imix and ritel systems: A comparative study
Natural Language Engineering
A Revisit of Query Expansion with Different Semantic Levels
DASFAA '09 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
Modeling reference interviews as a basis for improving automatic QA systems
IQA '06 Proceedings of the Interactive Question Answering Workshop at HLT-NAACL 2006
A data driven approach to relevancy recognition for contextual question answering
IQA '06 Proceedings of the Interactive Question Answering Workshop at HLT-NAACL 2006
Personalized, interactive question answering on the Web
KRAQ '08 Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning for Answering Questions
Towards an empirically motivated typology of follow-up questions: the role of dialogue context
SIGDIAL '10 Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Answering contextual questions based on ontologies and question templates
Frontiers of Computer Science in China
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We examine the implementation of clarification dialogues, a mechanism for ensuring that question answering systems take into account user goals by allowing them to ask series of related questions either by refining or expanding on previous questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algorithm for clarification dialogue recognition through the analysis of collected data on clarification dialogues and examine the importance of clarification dialogue recognition for question answering. The algorithm is evaluated and shown to successfully recognize the start and continuation of clarification dialogues in 94% of cases. We then show the usefulness of the algorithm by demonstrating how the recognition of clarification dialogues can simplify the task of answer retrieval.