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    "pk": 26408,
    "title": "Asking and evaluating natural language questions",
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    "abstract": "The ability to ask questions during learning is a key aspect ofhuman cognition. While recent research has suggested com-mon principles underlying human and machine “active learn-ing,” the existing literature has focused on relatively simpletypes of queries. In this paper, we study how humans constructrich and sophisticated natural language queries to search for in-formation in a large yet computationally tractable hypothesisspace. In Experiment 1, participants were allowed to ask anyquestion they liked in natural language. In Experiment 2, par-ticipants were asked to evaluate questions that they did not gen-erate themselves. While people rarely asked the most informa-tive questions in Experiment 1, they strongly preferred moreinformative questions in Experiment 2, as predicted by an idealBayesian analysis. Our results show that rigorous information-based accounts of human question asking are more widely ap-plicable than previously studied, explaining preferences acrossa diverse set of natural language questions.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Bayesian modeling; active learning; informationsearch; question asking"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4wx34357",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Anselm",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Rothe",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "New York University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Brenden",
            "middle_name": "M.",
            "last_name": "Lake",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "New York University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Todd",
            "middle_name": "M.",
            "last_name": "Gureckis",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "New York University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T20:00:00+02:00",
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}