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Illustrative example of COVID-19 community answer ranking powered by side information in the form of research papers, and information from verified sources (such as CDC, WHO, and NHS).
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Community question answering and discussion platforms such as Reddit, Yahoo! answers or Quora provide users the flexibility of asking open ended questions to a large audience, and replies to such questions maybe useful both to the user and the community on certain topics such as health, sports or finance. Given the recent events around COVID-19, so...
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... experiments on 10K+ questions from both source datasets on COVID-19 show that our models can improve ranking quality by a significant margin over question-answer matching baselines in presence of external information. Figure 1 demonstrates the overall design of our system. We specifically use attention based neural architecture with temperature to automatically determine which components in the external information are useful for ranking user answers with respect to a question. ...
