Detecting Temporal Ambiguity in Questions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17046v1
• Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:59:58 GMT
• Title: Detecting Temporal Ambiguity in Questions
• Authors: Bhawna Piryani, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Jamshid Mozafari, Adam Jatowt,
• Abstract summary: Temporally ambiguous questions are one of the most common types of such questions. Our annotations focus on capturing temporal ambiguity to study the task of detecting temporally ambiguous questions. We propose a novel approach by using diverse search strategies based on disambiguated versions of the questions.
• Score: 16.434748534272014
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Detecting and answering ambiguous questions has been a challenging task in open-domain question answering. Ambiguous questions have different answers depending on their interpretation and can take diverse forms. Temporally ambiguous questions are one of the most common types of such questions. In this paper, we introduce TEMPAMBIQA, a manually annotated temporally ambiguous QA dataset consisting of 8,162 open-domain questions derived from existing datasets. Our annotations focus on capturing temporal ambiguity to study the task of detecting temporally ambiguous questions. We propose a novel approach by using diverse search strategies based on disambiguated versions of the questions. We also introduce and test non-search, competitive baselines for detecting temporal ambiguity using zero-shot and few-shot approaches.

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