{
  "id": "self-ask",
  "code": "PTL-0042",
  "term": "Self-Ask",
  "aliases": [],
  "category": "reasoning",
  "definition": "Self-ask prompting has the model explicitly pose and answer follow-up sub-questions before answering a multi-hop question, a format that can plug a search engine in to answer each sub-question.",
  "description": "Press et al. used it to study the compositionality gap, the tendency of models to answer each sub-question correctly yet fail the composed question.",
  "example": null,
  "broader": [],
  "narrower": [],
  "related": [
    "least-to-most-prompting",
    "react"
  ],
  "introduced": 2022,
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Measuring and Narrowing the Compositionality Gap in Language Models",
      "authors": "Press et al.",
      "year": 2022,
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03350"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://protologue.com/t/self-ask/",
  "citation": "Protologue. (2026). Self-Ask. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0042). https://protologue.com/t/self-ask/"
}