Rhetorical Question Answering Demo

Prior work in Question Answering has focused primarily on questions that can be answered. But this leads to unusual behavior when a user asks a question with no answer, commonly referred to as a rhetorical question. There are two major open problems in the area of Rhetorical Question Answering (RQA): 1) detecting rhetorical questions, and 2) answering them appropriately. We leave the former problem to future work, and focus on the latter. What could go wrong?

Read the preprint here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.13370.pdf

Examples Choose an example... How many roads must a man walk down? How can anyone even? If you prick us do we not bleed? Is this supposed to be some kind of a joke? What's the point of rhetorical questions? How do you solve a problem like Maria? Is the sky blue? Don't you have something useful to do with your time? What could go wrong?

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If you use this system in your research, please cite us!

@misc{rqa,
  author = {Stephen Mayhew},
  title = {Why would anyone want Rhetorical Question Answering?}
  year={2021},
  eprint={2111.13370},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.CL}
}