%0 Journal Article %1 QuarteroniManandhar09nle %A Quarteroni, Silvia %A Manandhar:, Suresh %D 2009 %J Natural Language Engineering %K v1205 paper ai language processing interaction user interface dialog answer %N 1 %P 73-95 %R 10.1017/S1351324908004919 %T Designing an Interactive Open-Domain Question Answering System %V 15 %X Interactive question answering (QA), where a dialogue interface enables follow-up and clarification questions, is a recent although long-advocated field of research. We report on the design and implementation of YourQA, our open-domain, interactive QA system. YourQA relies on a Web search engine to obtain answers to both fact-based and complex questions, such as descriptions and definitions. We describe the dialogue moves and management model making YourQA interactive, and discuss the architecture, implementation and evaluation of its chat-based dialogue interface. Our Wizard-of-Oz study and final evaluation results show how the designed architecture can effectively achieve open-domain, interactive QA.

@article{QuarteroniManandhar09nle, abstract = {Interactive question answering (QA), where a dialogue interface enables follow-up and clarification questions, is a recent although long-advocated field of research. We report on the design and implementation of YourQA, our open-domain, interactive QA system. YourQA relies on a Web search engine to obtain answers to both fact-based and complex questions, such as descriptions and definitions. We describe the dialogue moves and management model making YourQA interactive, and discuss the architecture, implementation and evaluation of its chat-based dialogue interface. Our Wizard-of-Oz study and final evaluation results show how the designed architecture can effectively achieve open-domain, interactive QA. }, added-at = {2012-05-30T10:52:37.000+0200}, author = {Quarteroni, Silvia and Manandhar:, Suresh}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26558061989534efda8b5093fa60b4561/flint63}, doi = {10.1017/S1351324908004919}, file = {Cambridge University Press Site:2009/QuarteroniManandhar09nle.pdf:PDF}, groups = {public}, interhash = {2c62ba2463c388c2ad2f8e10e2953497}, intrahash = {6558061989534efda8b5093fa60b4561}, issn = {1351-3249}, journal = {Natural Language Engineering}, keywords = {v1205 paper ai language processing interaction user interface dialog answer}, number = 1, pages = {73-95}, timestamp = {2018-04-16T12:38:08.000+0200}, title = {Designing an Interactive Open-Domain Question Answering System}, username = {flint63}, volume = 15, year = 2009 }