Building and Evaluating Open-Domain Dialogue Corpora with Clarifying Questions (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances on neural approaches to natural language processing have triggered a renaissance in end-to-end neural open-domain chatbots. |
| Approach: | They propose to use offline and online steps to evaluate the quality of clarifying questions in various open-domain dialogues to improve the quality and accuracy of the system response. |
| Outcome: | The proposed pipeline is suitable as a foundation for further research. |
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