INSCIT: Information-Seeking Conversations with Mixed-Initiative Interactions

Understand

In an information-seeking conversation, a user may ask questions that are under-specified or unanswerable.

• An ideal agent would interact by initiating different response types according to the available knowledge sources.
• However, most current studies either fail to or artificially incorporate such agent-side initiative.
• This work presents InSCIt, a dataset for Information-Seeking Conversations with mixed-initiative Interactions.