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ML for Question and Answer Understanding @Quora
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Summary
Nikhil Dandekar discusses how Quora extracts intelligence from questions using machine learning, including question-topic labeling, removing duplicate questions, ranking questions & answers, and more. He highlights lessons he has learned from applying state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to consumer products at scale.
Bio
Nikhil Dandekar is a Senior Engineering Manager at Quora, where he leads the NLP team. He joined Quora from Foursquare, where he led the search ranking team. Prior to that, he worked as an engineer and manager on several teams working on web search (Bing) at Microsoft. His expertise is in applying machine learning to internet-scale products.
About the conference
Software is changing the world. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.
Jan 12, 2018