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_id: '55404'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Explanations are pervasive in our lives. Mostly, they occur in dialogical
form where an explainer discusses a concept or phenomenon of interest with an
explainee. Leaving the explainee with a clear understanding is not straightforward
due to the knowledge gap between the two participants. Previous research looked
at the interaction of explanation moves, dialogue acts, and topics in successful
dialogues with expert explainers. However, daily-life explanations often fail,
raising the question of what makes a dialogue successful. In this work, we study
explanation dialogues in terms of the interactions between the explainer and explainee
and how they correlate with the quality of explanations in terms of a successful
understanding on the explainee{’}s side. In particular, we first construct a corpus
of 399 dialogues from the Reddit forum {Explain Like I am Five} and annotate it
for interaction flows and explanation quality. We then analyze the interaction
flows, comparing them to those appearing in expert dialogues. Finally, we encode
the interaction flows using two language models that can handle long inputs, and
we provide empirical evidence for the effectiveness boost gained through the encoding
in predicting the success of explanation dialogues.
author:
- first_name: Milad
full_name: Alshomary, Milad
id: '73059'
last_name: Alshomary
- first_name: Felix
full_name: Lange, Felix
id: '67893'
last_name: Lange
- first_name: Meisam
full_name: Booshehri, Meisam
last_name: Booshehri
- first_name: Meghdut
full_name: Sengupta, Meghdut
id: '99459'
last_name: Sengupta
- first_name: Philipp
full_name: Cimiano, Philipp
last_name: Cimiano
- first_name: Henning
full_name: Wachsmuth, Henning
id: '3900'
last_name: Wachsmuth
citation:
ama: 'Alshomary M, Lange F, Booshehri M, Sengupta M, Cimiano P, Wachsmuth H. Modeling
the Quality of Dialogical Explanations. In: Calzolari N, Kan M-Y, Hoste V, Lenci
A, Sakti S, Xue N, eds. Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference
on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024).
ELRA and ICCL; 2024:11523–11536.'
apa: Alshomary, M., Lange, F., Booshehri, M., Sengupta, M., Cimiano, P., & Wachsmuth,
H. (2024). Modeling the Quality of Dialogical Explanations. In N. Calzolari, M.-Y.
Kan, V. Hoste, A. Lenci, S. Sakti, & N. Xue (Eds.), Proceedings of the
2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources
and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) (pp. 11523–11536). ELRA and ICCL.
bibtex: '@inproceedings{Alshomary_Lange_Booshehri_Sengupta_Cimiano_Wachsmuth_2024,
place={Torino, Italia}, title={Modeling the Quality of Dialogical Explanations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational
Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)}, publisher={ELRA
and ICCL}, author={Alshomary, Milad and Lange, Felix and Booshehri, Meisam and
Sengupta, Meghdut and Cimiano, Philipp and Wachsmuth, Henning}, editor={Calzolari,
Nicoletta and Kan, Min-Yen and Hoste, Veronique and Lenci, Alessandro and Sakti,
Sakriani and Xue, Nianwen}, year={2024}, pages={11523–11536} }'
chicago: 'Alshomary, Milad, Felix Lange, Meisam Booshehri, Meghdut Sengupta, Philipp
Cimiano, and Henning Wachsmuth. “Modeling the Quality of Dialogical Explanations.”
In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational
Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), edited
by Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani
Sakti, and Nianwen Xue, 11523–11536. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL, 2024.'
ieee: M. Alshomary, F. Lange, M. Booshehri, M. Sengupta, P. Cimiano, and H. Wachsmuth,
“Modeling the Quality of Dialogical Explanations,” in Proceedings of the 2024
Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources
and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), 2024, pp. 11523–11536.
mla: Alshomary, Milad, et al. “Modeling the Quality of Dialogical Explanations.”
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics,
Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), edited by Nicoletta
Calzolari et al., ELRA and ICCL, 2024, pp. 11523–11536.
short: 'M. Alshomary, F. Lange, M. Booshehri, M. Sengupta, P. Cimiano, H. Wachsmuth,
in: N. Calzolari, M.-Y. Kan, V. Hoste, A. Lenci, S. Sakti, N. Xue (Eds.), Proceedings
of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language
Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), ELRA and ICCL, Torino, Italia, 2024,
pp. 11523–11536.'
date_created: 2024-07-26T13:04:25Z
date_updated: 2024-12-17T11:30:25Z
department:
- _id: '600'
- _id: '660'
editor:
- first_name: Nicoletta
full_name: Calzolari, Nicoletta
last_name: Calzolari
- first_name: Min-Yen
full_name: Kan, Min-Yen
last_name: Kan
- first_name: Veronique
full_name: Hoste, Veronique
last_name: Hoste
- first_name: Alessandro
full_name: Lenci, Alessandro
last_name: Lenci
- first_name: Sakriani
full_name: Sakti, Sakriani
last_name: Sakti
- first_name: Nianwen
full_name: Xue, Nianwen
last_name: Xue
language:
- iso: eng
page: 11523–11536
place: Torino, Italia
project:
- _id: '118'
name: 'TRR 318 - INF: TRR 318 - Project Area INF'
publication: Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational
Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
publisher: ELRA and ICCL
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Modeling the Quality of Dialogical Explanations
type: conference
user_id: '67893'
year: '2024'
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