2023
Interpreting Indirect Answers to Yes-No Questions in Multiple Languages
Zijie Wang, Md Mosharaf Hossain, Shivam Mathur, Terry Cruz Melo, Kadir Bulut Ozler, Keun Hee Park +5
EMNLP 2023long findings
Yes-no questions expect a yes or no for an answer, but people often skip polar keywords. Instead, they answer with long explanations that must be interpreted. In this paper, we focus on this challenging problem and release new benchmarks in eight languages. We present a distant supervision approach…