Yiting Zhang
2025
CSTree-SRI: Introspection-Driven Cognitive Semantic Tree for Multi-Turn Question Answering over Extra-Long Contexts
Zhaowen Wang
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Xiang Wei
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Kangshao Du
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Yiting Zhang
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Libo Qin
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Yingjie Xia
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Li Kuang
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in natural language processing (NLP), particularly in single-turn question answering (QA) on short-text. However, their performance significantly declines when applied to multi-turn QA over extra-long context (ELC), as they struggle to capture the logical correlations across multiple chunks of ELC and maintain the coherence of multi-turn Questions. To address the challenges, we propose the CSTree-SRI framework (Cognitive Semantic Tree through Summarization, Retrieval, and Introspection). CSTree-SRI dynamically constructs the CSTree to preserve logical coherence within ELC through hierarchical synthesis and introspective validation. Then a logic-driven traversal strategy on CSTree is designed to provide efficient information retrieval for question answering. Additionally, we construct a suite of multi-turn QA datasets and an evaluation benchmark tailored for ELC tasks, and comprehensive experiments demonstrate the framework’s superiority in addressing the challenges of multi-turn QA over ELC.
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