Deep Learning Question-Answering System

You’ve probably used a Question Answering (QA) system. Most of them are just a FAQ turned into a horrible search interface. If you don’t answer the exact question they answered, don’t bother. Other QA systems are basically just keyword search that let you put in questions.

So what is a proper question answering system? The answer seems obvious, “it is a system that answers your questions.” But to do it properly it needs to recognize synonyms, close enough answers and other aspects of the meanings of questions specifically and language generally.

In their talk, “ Enriching Solr with Deep Learning for a Question Answering System ” at this year’s Activate conference, Lucidworks data scientists Savva Kolbachev and Sanket Shahane will show you a powerful question answering system that they constructed by adding deep learning to Solr. They’ll both show how to produce more accurate answers as well as how to use Solr to scale the approach given the weights of deep learning models.

Their talk will cover technique as well as the more technical mathematical and statistical details and include a demo. Additionally they’ll detail highlighting using sentiment analysis.

If you’re trying to create an Information Retrieval system such as a QA system, or even if you’re just really interested in deep learning, you’re definitely not going to want to miss this talk. See you in Montreal next week!

Next Steps

• Register for Activate
• Check out Wayfair’s use of NLP with product reviews
• Contact Lucidworks, we love to help!