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.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.acl-industry.93
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2025
- Address:
- Vienna, Austria
- Editors:
- Georg Rehm, Yunyao Li
- Venue:
- ACL
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- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1322–1338
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/display_plenaries/2025.acl-industry.93/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- 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.
- Cite (Informal):
- From Recall to Creation: Generating Follow-Up Questions Using Bloom’s Taxonomy and Grice’s Maxims (Yadav et al., ACL 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/display_plenaries/2025.acl-industry.93.pdf