@inproceedings{pal-etal-2019-answering,
    title = "Answering Naturally: Factoid to Full length Answer Generation",
    author = "Pal, Vaishali  and
      Shrivastava, Manish  and
      Bhat, Irshad",
    editor = "Wang, Lu  and
      Cheung, Jackie Chi Kit  and
      Carenini, Giuseppe  and
      Liu, Fei",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization",
    month = nov,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Hong Kong, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/D19-5401",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/D19-5401",
    pages = "1--9",
    abstract = "In recent years, the task of Question Answering over passages, also pitched as a reading comprehension, has evolved into a very active research area. A reading comprehension system extracts a span of text, comprising of named entities, dates, small phrases, etc., which serve as the answer to a given question. However, these spans of text would result in an unnatural reading experience in a conversational system. Usually, dialogue systems solve this issue by using template-based language generation. These systems, though adequate for a domain specific task, are too restrictive and predefined for a domain independent system. In order to present the user with a more conversational experience, we propose a pointer generator based full-length answer generator which can be used with most QA systems. Our system generates a full length answer given a question and the extracted factoid/span answer without relying on the passage from where the answer was extracted. We also present a dataset of 315000 question, factoid answer and full length answer triples. We have evaluated our system using ROUGE-1,2,L and BLEU and achieved 74.05 BLEU score and 86.25 Rogue-L score.",
}