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Conversational search aims to retrieve passages containing essential information to answer queries in a multi-turn conversation. In conversational search, reformulating context-dependent conversational queries into stand-alone forms is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yunah Jang , Kang-il Lee , Hyunkyung Bae , Hwanhee Lee , Kyomin Jung

Question answering (QA), giving correct answers to questions, is a popular task, but we test reverse question answering (RQA): for an input answer, give a question with that answer. Past work tests QA and RQA separately, but we test them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Nishant Balepur , Feng Gu , Abhilasha Ravichander , Shi Feng , Jordan Boyd-Graber , Rachel Rudinger

Conversational question answering (ConvQA) over law knowledge bases (KBs) involves answering multi-turn natural language questions about law and hope to find answers in the law knowledge base. Despite many methods have been proposed.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Mi Wu

In this paper, we propose a novel data augmentation method, referred to as Controllable Rewriting based Question Data Augmentation (CRQDA), for machine reading comprehension (MRC), question generation, and question-answering natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Dayiheng Liu , Yeyun Gong , Jie Fu , Yu Yan , Jiusheng Chen , Jiancheng Lv , Nan Duan , Ming Zhou

Question Answering (QA) is a challenging topic since it requires tackling the various difficulties of natural language understanding. Since evaluation is important not only for identifying the strong and weak points of the various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Katerina Papantoniou , Yannis Tzitzikas

Recent studies have explored the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA). They typically require rewriting retrieved subgraphs into natural language formats…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Yike Wu , Yi Huang , Nan Hu , Yuncheng Hua , Guilin Qi , Jiaoyan Chen , Jeff Z. Pan

Query rewriting plays a vital role in enhancing conversational search by transforming context-dependent user queries into standalone forms. Existing approaches primarily leverage human-rewritten queries as labels to train query rewriting…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Fanghua Ye , Meng Fang , Shenghui Li , Emine Yilmaz

Conversational Query Rewriting (CQR) aims to rewrite ambiguous queries to achieve more efficient conversational search. Early studies have predominantly focused on the rewriting in isolation, ignoring the feedback from query rewrite,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Zhiyu Cao , Peifeng Li , Qiaoming Zhu

We present ChatR1, a reasoning framework based on reinforcement learning (RL) for conversational question answering (CQA). Reasoning plays an important role in CQA, where user intent evolves across dialogue turns, and utterances are often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Simon Lupart , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Evangelos Kanoulas

This paper explores the task of Difficulty-Controllable Question Generation (DCQG), which aims at generating questions with required difficulty levels. Previous research on this task mainly defines the difficulty of a question as whether it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Yi Cheng , Siyao Li , Bang Liu , Ruihui Zhao , Sujian Li , Chenghua Lin , Yefeng Zheng

We frame Question Answering (QA) as a Reinforcement Learning task, an approach that we call Active Question Answering. We propose an agent that sits between the user and a black box QA system and learns to reformulate questions to elicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Christian Buck , Jannis Bulian , Massimiliano Ciaramita , Wojciech Gajewski , Andrea Gesmundo , Neil Houlsby , Wei Wang

Query rewriting (QR) is a critical technique in e-commerce search, addressing the lexical gap between user queries and product descriptions to enhance search performance. Existing QR approaches typically fall into two categories:…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Duy A. Nguyen , Rishi Kesav Mohan , Van Yang , Pritom Saha Akash , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

Conversational passage retrieval relies on question rewriting to modify the original question so that it no longer depends on the conversation history. Several methods for question rewriting have recently been proposed, but they were…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Svitlana Vakulenko , Nikos Voskarides , Zhucheng Tu , Shayne Longpre

A Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-based question-answering (QA) system enhances a large language model's knowledge by retrieving relevant documents based on user queries. Discrepancies between user queries and document phrasings often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Qi Wang , Yixuan Cao , Yifan Liu , Jiangtao Zhao , Ping Luo

Conversational search systems require effective handling of context-dependent queries that often contain ambiguity, omission, and coreference. Conversational Query Reformulation (CQR) addresses this challenge by transforming these queries…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Changtai Zhu , Siyin Wang , Ruijun Feng , Kai Song , Xipeng Qiu

Query rewriting (QR) systems are widely used to reduce the friction caused by errors in a spoken language understanding pipeline. However, the underlying supervised models require a large number of labeled pairs, and these pairs are hard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yunmo Chen , Sixing Lu , Fan Yang , Xiaojiang Huang , Xing Fan , Chenlei Guo

The rise of personal assistants has made conversational question answering (ConvQA) a very popular mechanism for user-system interaction. State-of-the-art methods for ConvQA over knowledge graphs (KGs) can only learn from crisp…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Magdalena Kaiser , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Gerhard Weikum

Most previous work on Conversational Query Rewriting employs an end-to-end rewriting paradigm. However, this approach is hindered by the issue of multiple fuzzy expressions within the query, which complicates the simultaneous identification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Zhiyu Cao , Peifeng Li , Qiaoming Zhu

Conversational search plays a vital role in conversational information seeking. As queries in information seeking dialogues are ambiguous for traditional ad-hoc information retrieval (IR) systems due to the coreference and omission…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Sheng-Chieh Lin , Jheng-Hong Yang , Rodrigo Nogueira , Ming-Feng Tsai , Chuan-Ju Wang , Jimmy Lin

Conversational Question Generation (CQG) enhances the interactivity of conversational question-answering systems in fields such as education, customer service, and entertainment. However, traditional CQG, focusing primarily on the immediate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Shasha Guo , Lizi Liao , Jing Zhang , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen