Learning to Ask Questions in Open-domain Conversational Systems with Typed Decoders (P18-1)
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| Challenge: | Extensive experiments show that typed decoders outperform state-of-the-art baselines and can generate more meaningful questions. |
| Approach: | They devised two typed decoders that generate questions with different types of interrogatives, topic words, and ordinary words. |
| Outcome: | Extensive experiments show that the typed decoders outperform state-of-the-art baselines and can generate more meaningful questions. |
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