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Learning to Ask the Right Questions

Asking questions is an integral part of learning. Asking questions can clarify concepts, test hypotheses, add missing information, or provide additional knowledge to facilitate learning. The last item motivates the work described in this paper. By asking questions, our system obtains information that serves as background knowledge for a base learner, enabling the base learner to make useful gen...

noninvasive tests of fibrosis: to get the right answers, we need to ask the right questions

Juvenile Justice: the Need to Ask the Right Questions

THIS PAPER IDENTIFIES CERTAIN FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS WHICH MUST be addressed by those concerned about the design of procedures for responding to offences by the young. The aim is to draw attention to a number of key issues to be considered when examining the objectives of the juvenile justice system and our methods of pursuing them. What Objectives can the System realistically pursue? This, the ...

Ask the Right Questions: Active Question Reformulation with Reinforcement Learning

We frame Question Answering (QA) as a Reinforcement Learning task, an approach that we call Active Question Answering. We propose an agent that sits between the user and a black box QA system and learns to reformulate questions to elicit the best possible answers. The agent probes the system with, potentially many, natural language reformulations of an initial question and aggregates the return...

Are You Asking the Right Questions? Teaching Machines to Ask Clarification Questions

Inquiry is fundamental to communication, and machines cannot effectively collaborate with humans unless they can ask questions. In this thesis work, we explore how can we teach machines to ask clarification questions when faced with uncertainty, a goal of increasing importance in today’s automated society. We do a preliminary study using data from StackExchange, a plentiful online resource wher...