Joint Multitask Learning for Community Question Answering Using Task-Specific Embeddings (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Stack-Overflow, Quora, and Yahoo! Answers forums are not moderated, which results in noisy and redundant content. |
| Approach: | They use deep neural networks to learn meaningful task-specific embeddings . they incorporate the embeddables into a conditional random field model . |
| Outcome: | The proposed task improves significantly across evaluation metrics. |
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