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    "pk": 28588,
    "title": "Asking goal-oriented questions and learning from answers",
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    "abstract": "The study of question asking in humans and machines hasgained attention in recent years. A key aspect of question ask-ing is the ability to select good (informative) questions froma provided set. Machines—in particular neural networks—generally struggle with two important aspects of question ask-ing, namely to learn from the answer to their selected ques-tion and to flexibly adjust their questioning to new goals. Inthe present paper, we show that people are sensitive to both ofthese aspects and describe a unified Bayesian account of ques-tion asking that is capable of similar ingenuity. In the first ex-periment, we predict people’s judgments when adjusting theirquestion-asking towards a particular goal. In the second ex-periment, we predict people’s judgments when deciding whatfollow-up question to ask. An alternative model based on su-perficial features, such as the existence of certain key wordsin the questions, was not able to capture these judgments to areasonable degree.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Bayesian modeling; active learning; informationsearch; question asking"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentations",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/04q6z1mq",
    "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": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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