Cheater’s Bowl: Human vs. Computer Search Strategies for Open-Domain QA (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Open-domain and multi-hop QA is an important problem for both humans and computers. |
| Approach: | They propose a gamified interface where a human answers complex questions with access to traditional and modern search tools. |
| Outcome: | The proposed interface compares human queries to state-of-the-art QA models . human queries can improve the accuracy of existing systems, the authors argue . |
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