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title = "Towards Natural Interactive Question Answering",
author = "Fliedner, Gerhard",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}{'}06)",
month = may,
year = "2006",
address = "Genoa, Italy",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/210_pdf.pdf",
abstract = "Interactive question answering systems should allow users to lead a coherent information seeking dialogue. Compared with systems that only locally evaluate a question, interactive systems facilitate the information seeking process and provide a more natural feel. We show that by extending a QA system to handle several types of anaphora and ellipsis, the naturalness of the interaction can be considerably improved. We describe an implementation in our prototype QA system for German and give a walk-through example of the enhanced interaction capabilities.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Towards Natural Interactive Question Answering](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/210_pdf.pdf) (Fliedner, LREC 2006)
ACL
- Gerhard Fliedner. 2006. Towards Natural Interactive Question Answering. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06), Genoa, Italy. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).