LangSci Lunch Talk: Sudha Rao (CS)

Learning to ask good clarification questions

Abstract: Inquiry is fundamental to communication, and machines cannot effectively collaborate with humans unless they can ask questions. In the field of natural language processing, despite decades of work on question answering, there is relatively little work in question asking. In this talk, I will describe a new clarification questions dataset we created for learning this task. I will also describe our ongoing work on using neural network based models for generating clarification questions.

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Food and ideas bring people together. Our weekly lunch talk series provides students and faculty with the opportunity to present their in-progress work to a supportive, interdisciplinary audience.

Lunch is served starting at 12:15pm.