Do we need to answer that question? Salience and Answerability of Potential Questions in Naturalistic Dialogue

arXiv:2609.31130 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Code: https://github.com/pln-fing-udelar/fast-krippendorff

Terminology

• Pragmatics — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• alpha — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Annotator Agreement — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• British National Corpus — 3× in this paper
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Pairwise Comparisons — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cooperation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• RAG — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Mistral 7B
• ChatQA: Surpassing GPT-4 on Conversational QA and RAG
• Gemma: Open Models Based on Gemini Research and Technology

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