Modeling What-to-ask and How-to-ask for Answer-unaware Conversational Question Generation (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to generate conversational question are naive and do not account for the answer span. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for generating a conversational question from a context. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art in two different settings compared to existing models . it uses a sentence as the rationale and extracts the answer span from it . |
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