Papers by Christin Müller
IndirectQA: Understanding Indirect Answers to Implicit Polar Questions in French and Spanish (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | polar questions are common in spoken dialogues and expect exactly one of two answers (yes/no) but conversational systems struggle to interpret them. |
| Approach: | They propose to use subtitle data to interpret indirect answers in french and spanish . they use subtitles to broaden polar questions to include also implicit polar ones . |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus of indirect answers shows that the task is challenging and challenging . the baseline accuracy scores drop from 61.43 on english to 44.06 for french and Spanish . |