Naga Sai Krishna Adatrao
ABSTRACT
This paper aims to provide a radical rundown on Conversational Search (ConvSearch), an approach to enhance the information retrieval (IR) method where users engage in a dialogue for the information-seeking tasks. In this survey, we predominantly focused on the human interactive characteristics of the ConvSearch systems, highlighting the operations of the action modules, likely the retrieval system, question-answering, and recommender system. We labeled various ConvSearch research problems in knowledge bases, natural language processing, and dialogue management systems with action modules. We further categorized the framework to ConvSearch, and the application is directed toward biomedical and healthcare fields for the utilization of clinical social technology. Finally, we conclude by talking through the challenges and issues of ConvSearch, particularly in Bio-Medicine. Our main aim is to provide an integrated and unified vision of the ConvSearch components from different fields, which benefit the information-seeking process in healthcare systems.
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