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Natural Language Understanding with the Quora Question Pairs Dataset (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: Testing many models on Quora's paired questions to spot duplicates, from simple linear and tree-based ones to neural networks. A basic neural net that just adds up word meanings beat the fancier ones that read word by word or weigh word importance.

Abstract

This paper explores the task Natural Language Understanding (NLU) by looking at duplicate question detection in the Quora dataset. We conducted extensive exploration of the dataset and used various machine learning models, including linear and tree-based models. Our final finding was that a simple Continuous Bag of Words neural network model had the best performance, outdoing more complicated recurrent and attention based models. We also conducted error analysis and found some subjectivity in the labeling of the dataset.

Lakshay Sharma, Laura Graesser, Nikita Nangia, Utku Evci
arXiv:1907.01041 · cs.CL, cs.LG · submitted Jul 1, 2019
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