Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge
Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, Pascal Bellec, Benoit Besset, Martinho Dos-Santos, Johannes Heinecke, Munshi Asadullah, Olivier Le-Blouch, Jean Y. Lancien, Géraldine Damnati, Emmanuel Mory, Frédéric Herledan
arXiv:1909.11980v1996 citations
Originality Synthesis-oriented
AI Analysis
This work addresses the challenge of enabling more natural spoken interactions for general knowledge retrieval, though it appears incremental as a proof-of-concept.
The authors tackled the problem of spoken conversational question answering by developing a proof-of-concept system that answers general knowledge queries from Wikidata, with the dialogue component handling coreferences and ellipsis.
We present a spoken conversational question answering proof of concept that is able to answer questions about general knowledge from Wikidata. The dialogue component does not only orchestrate various components but also solve coreferences and ellipsis.