arXiv:2606.00809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many real-world conversational settings for knowledge discovery, including podcasts, hiring screens, and marketplaces, require a purpose-driven understanding of a person. We study the Next-Best-Question (NBQ) problem: at each turn, an interviewer should ask the question with the highest expected information gain given what has already been learned and the conversation goal. We propose NBQ, a plug-and-play framework that seeds a diverse pool of candidate questions, maintains a compact and continuously updated user state, adaptively selects the nex
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