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What Are the Implications of Your Question? Non-Information Seeking Question-Type Identification in CNN Transcripts

Yao Sun, Anastasiia Tatlubaeva, Zhihan Li, Chester Palen-Michel

Abstract

Non-information seeking questions (NISQ) capture the subtle dynamics of human discourse. In this work, we utilize a dataset of over 1,500 information-seeking question(ISQ) and NISQ to evaluate human and machine performance on classifying fine-grained NISQ types. We introduce the first publicly available corpus focused on annotating both ISQs and NISQs as an initial benchmark. Additionally, we establish competitive baselines by assessing diverse systems, including Generative Pre-Trained Transformer Language models, on a new question classification task. Our results demonstrate the inherent complexity of making nuanced NISQ distinctions. The dataset is publicly available at https://github.com/YaoSun0422/NISQ_dataset.git

BibTeX
@inproceedings{sun-etal-2024-implications,
    title = "What Are the Implications of Your Question? Non-Information Seeking Question-Type Identification in {CNN} Transcripts",
    author = "Sun, Yao  and
      Tatlubaeva, Anastasiia  and
      Li, Zhihan  and
      Palen-Michel, Chester",
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      Kan, Min-Yen  and
      Hoste, Veronique  and
      Lenci, Alessandro  and
      Sakti, Sakriani  and
      Xue, Nianwen",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1516/",
    pages = "17444--17448"
}
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