Evaluation, Testing & Optimization·Task 4.2·Bloom: analyse·Difficulty 4/5·9 min read·Updated 2026-07-14

Multi-Turn Eval Design for Conversational Systems

Design evaluation datasets and test frameworks using mixed methodologies

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In short
Multi-turn eval design means building a separate golden dataset of full conversation transcripts, each with known high-quality responses at every turn, to evaluate a conversational system across an extended conversation. It scores whether prior context is kept straight, whether follow-ups are answered without inventing earlier details, and whether quality holds as the conversation lengthens. A single-turn eval that scores individual prompt-response pairs cannot certify these properties, and the transcript dataset must cover the follow-ups, topic shifts, and conversation lengths the system will actually see in production.

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