Conversational question answering (CQA) is a novel QA task that requires understanding of dialogue context.
When I meet new people in social settings, the conversational question of, "What do you do for a living?" often leads people to ask me the follow-up question, "So are you analyzing me?" While it's said in a fun, playful manner, I think it speaks to a deeper question that all of us face.
Maintaining the conversational, question-and-answer presentation style that has made the text a best-seller, the Eleventh Edition continues to incorporate true and relevant Case Studies throughout each chapter, along with new, more extensive guidance for developing critical thinking skills and scientific literacy.
Facts or friends?: Distinguishing informational and conversational questions in social Q&A sites.
Children with autism spectrum disorder often struggle to respond to conversational questions involving words such as "who," "what," and "where".
These scientifically studied practices include loving kindness (imagining our own flourishing) and conversational questions to create closeness (the tools for feeling close to anyone in under 10 minutes).
It's not entirely exhaustive, by any means — but it does come in the form of nine vaguely conversational questions that you may or may not have been embarrassed to ask.
Siri brings a very advanced collection of technologies (speech recognition, natural language processing, semantic data processing, and geo-location) to create a virtual assistant that helps you perform tasks through a conversational, question-and-answer interface.
Stack Overflow and the StackExchange network don't tolerate subjective or conversational questions either, which is a boon for people who want to browse the Apple topic with out having to read anything inquiring about Steve Jobs' health, myself included.
Our questions are: 'Where in this process do you need to apply your own judgement?', and then, 'How do you make that decision?' or 'What factors do you have to take into account when making this decision?', and similar conversational questions.
At a minimum, you've just broken the unspoken social norm that conversational questions are to be answered, not avoided.
