Investigating the Impact of Question Complexity for Key Leader Engagements
Abstract
Key Leader Engagements (KLEs) are command-level operations for meeting and communicating with local community leaders in order to collect mission-relevant information. Current officer training on conducting KLEs does not consider how question structure and complexity affects successful information gathering. A crowdsourcing experiment was conducted as part of a larger study for constructing factoid question-answering (QA) data sets for evaluation of QA systems. Data from this study were reexamined to investigate how to improve communication-based training in preparation for conducting KLEs. Our data analysis results show that formulating questions with the fewest number of entities and relations can increase understanding across a broad range of engagement participants. Education level and age appear to influence accurate rephrasing of questions without changes to content and naturalness. When incorporated into an officer training program, these findings can lead to more effective interactions across engagement participants and more effective extraction of mission-relevant information.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 15, 2020
- Accession Number
- AD1109684
Entities
People
- Meaghan Bowman
- Michelle Vanni
- Sue Kase
Organizations
- Oak Ridge Associated Universities
- United States Army Research Laboratory