Quriosity: Analyzing Human Questioning Behavior and Causal Inquiry through Curiosity-Driven Queries
Roberto Ceraolo, Dmitrii Kharlapenko, Ahmad Khan, Am\'elie Reymond, Punya Syon Pandey, Rada Mihalcea, Bernhard Sch\"olkopf, Mrinmaya Sachan, Zhijing Jin

TL;DR
This paper introduces Quriosity, a large dataset of 13.5K human curiosity-driven questions from various sources, analyzing their linguistic and cognitive properties, especially causal questions, to enhance understanding and future research in open-ended inquiry.
Contribution
The paper presents Quriosity, a novel dataset of human questions, and develops methods to identify and analyze causal questions within it, advancing research on curiosity and inquiry.
Findings
Causal questions constitute up to 42% of the dataset.
Identified linguistic and cognitive features of causal questions.
Developed an iterative prompt framework for causal question detection.
Abstract
Recent progress in Large Language Model (LLM) technology has changed our role in interacting with these models. Instead of primarily testing these models with questions we already know answers to, we are now using them for queries where the answers are unknown to us, driven by human curiosity. This shift highlights the growing need to understand curiosity-driven human questions - those that are more complex, open-ended, and reflective of real-world needs. To this end, we present Quriosity, a collection of 13.5K naturally occurring questions from three diverse sources: human-to-search-engine queries, human-to-human interactions, and human-to-LLM conversations. Our comprehensive collection enables a rich understanding of human curiosity across various domains and contexts. Our analysis reveals a significant presence of causal questions (up to 42%) in the dataset, for which we develop an…
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Taxonomy
TopicsExplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) · Semantic Web and Ontologies · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
MethodsSparse Evolutionary Training
