Do we need to answer that question? Salience and Answerability of Potential Questions in Naturalistic Dialogue

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arXiv:2609.31130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We empirically investigate Question Under Discussion based modelling in naturalistic dialogue by studying whether the salience of generated potential questions predicts their subsequent resolution. Building on Wu et al. (2024), we construct a dataset of 7,124 questions automatically generated from utterances and preceding context from the British National Corpus, and annotated for salience and answerability. We find a robust but low positive correl