From Recall to Creation: Generating Follow-Up Questions Using Bloom’s Taxonomy and Grice’s Maxims

Archana Yadav, Harshvivek Kashid, Medchalimi Sruthi, B JayaPrakash, Chintalapalli Raja Kullayappa, Mandala Jagadeesh Reddy, Pushpak Bhattacharyya


Abstract
In-car AI assistants enhance driving by enabling hands-free interactions, yet they often struggle with multi-turn conversations and fail to handle cognitively complex follow-up questions. This limits their effectiveness in real-world deployment. To address this limitation, we propose a framework that leverages Bloom’s Taxonomy to systematically generate follow-up questions with increasing cognitive complexity and a Gricean-inspired evaluation framework to assess their Logical Consistency, Informativeness, Relevance, and Clarity. We introduce a dataset comprising 750 human-annotated seed questions and 3750 follow-up questions, with human evaluation confirming that 96.68% of the generated questions adhere to the intended Bloom’s Taxonomy levels. Our approach, validated through both LLM-based and human assessments, also identifies the specific cognitive complexity level at which in-car AI assistants begin to falter information that can help developers measure and optimize key cognitive aspects of conversational performance.
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2025.acl-industry.93
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Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track)
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Georg Rehm, Yunyao Li
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1322–1338
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10.18653/v1/2025.acl-industry.93
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Archana Yadav, Harshvivek Kashid, Medchalimi Sruthi, B JayaPrakash, Chintalapalli Raja Kullayappa, Mandala Jagadeesh Reddy, and Pushpak Bhattacharyya. 2025. From Recall to Creation: Generating Follow-Up Questions Using Bloom’s Taxonomy and Grice’s Maxims. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track), pages 1322–1338, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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