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How should dialogue systems best leverage conversation history for retrieval?
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- Does full conversation history improve or degrade multi-turn retrieval accuracy?
- How does selective history retrieval improve conversational search accuracy?
- Do dialogue systems need different retrieval strategies for opinions versus factual knowledge?
- Why does selective conversation history outperform including all prior context?
- Why do conversational systems struggle more than static retrieval with ambiguous queries?
- Why does selective context retrieval outperform including all historical information?
- How does multi-turn dialogue improve user satisfaction in search interactions?
- Should production CRS systems combine multiple retrieval strategies in a hybrid approach?
- What makes pronouns and demonstratives problematic in conversational retrieval systems?
- Can mention sequences exploit shortcuts like repeated items rather than learning genuine preferences?
- Why does sentiment polarity matching matter more than relevance alone?
- How do comparison and debate questions differ in their aspect retrieval needs?
- How do retrieval systems handle feedback expressed as negations rather than preferences?
- Can concept-based search bridge the vocabulary mismatch between conversation and item index?
- Can reranking candidate summaries improve perspective representation better than prompting?
- Why do abstract semantic memories outperform specific interaction histories for journey discovery?
- Should memorability systems rely on individual reports instead of group-level signals?
- Can a single meeting summary format serve both scanning and reference needs?
- Does focusing on one strong linguistic cue outperform using multiple features for detection?
- Can hierarchical key point structures improve opinion summarization?