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What's The Latest? A Question-driven News Chatbot

arXiv 2105.05392 ↗First posted 12 May 2021cs.CL cs.HCcited by 14

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Abstract (arXiv)

This work describes an automatic news chatbot that draws content from a diverse set of news articles and creates conversations with a user about the news. Key components of the system include the automatic organization of news articles into topical chatrooms, integration of automatically generated questions into the conversation, and a novel method for choosing which questions to present which avoids repetitive suggestions. We describe the algorithmic framework and present the results of a usability study that shows that news readers using the system successfully engage in multi-turn conversations about specific news stories.

Key facts. Cited by 14 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 8 of its 15 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 12 May 2021.

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References · 8

  1. 2019RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approachcited by 13,372
  2. 2018Know What You Don't Know: Unanswerable Questions for SQuADcited by 1,554
  3. 2018CoQA: A Conversational Question Answering Challengecited by 683
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  5. 2016NewsQA: A Machine Comprehension Datasetcited by 331
  6. 2017Learning to Ask: Neural Question Generation for Reading Comprehensioncited by 186
  7. 2021The Summary Loop: Learning to Write Abstractive Summaries Without Examplescited by 27
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Citing papers per year: 2021: 3; 2022: 5; 2023: 3; 2024: 1; 2025: 2.

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  1. 2025LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversationcited by 429
  2. 2021MixQG: Neural Question Generation with Mixed Answer Typescited by 28
  3. 2022Quiz Design Task: Helping Teachers Create Quizzes with Automated Question Generationcited by 12
  4. 2022Discord Questions: A Computational Approach To Diversity Analysis in News Coveragecited by 11
  5. 2024Generating Diverse and High-Quality Texts by Minimum Bayes Risk Decodingcited by 11
  6. 2022NewsPod: Automatic and Interactive News Podcastscited by 6
  7. 2022Closed-book Question Generation via Contrastive Learningcited by 6
  8. 2025Mitigating Lost in Multi-turn Conversation via Curriculum RL with Verifiable Accuracy and Abstention Rewardscited by 6
  9. 2023Diversity Enhanced Narrative Question Generation for Storybookscited by 5
  10. 2021Automated question generation and question answering from Turkish textscited by 3
  11. 2023Designing and Evaluating Interfaces that Highlight News Coverage Diversity Using Discord Questionscited by 3
  12. 2021Generating Self-Contained and Summary-Centric Question Answer Pairs via Differentiable Reward Imitation Learningcited by 2
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  1. 2022On the Evaluation of Answer-Agnostic Paragraph-level Multi-Question Generationcited by 1
  2. 2023Salespeople vs SalesBot: Exploring the Role of Educational Value in Conversational Recommender Systemscited by 1