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Manish Chablani
dblp:230/3661
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2020
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Question answering and dialogue systems · 50% Language models and text generation · 50% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › large language model training
domain-adaptive pre-training |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | Effective Transfer Learning for Identifying Similar Questions: Matching User Questions to COVID-19 FAQs · KDD 2020 |
Natural language and speech › Question answering and dialogue systems › question understanding
question matching |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | Effective Transfer Learning for Identifying Similar Questions: Matching User Questions to COVID-19 FAQs · KDD 2020 |
Information retrieval
retrieval models |
0.1 | 1 | 2020 | Effective Transfer Learning for Identifying Similar Questions: Matching User Questions to COVID-19 FAQs · KDD 2020 |
Information retrieval › similarity measure
semantic similarity |
0.1 | 1 | 2020 | Effective Transfer Learning for Identifying Similar Questions: Matching User Questions to COVID-19 FAQs · KDD 2020 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
pretrained neural network · 0.9double fine-tuning · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Effective Transfer Learning for Identifying Similar Questions: Matching User Questions to COVID-19 FAQsabstractPeople increasingly search online for answers to their medical questions but the rate at which medical questions are asked online significantly exceeds the capacity of qualified people to answer them. This leaves many questions unanswered or inadequately answered. Many of these questions are not unique, and reliable identification of similar questions would enable more efficient and effective question answering schema. COVID-19 has only exacerbated this problem. Almost every government agency and healthcare organization has tried to meet the informational need of users by building online FAQs, but there is no way for people to ask their question and know if it is answered on one of these pages. While many research efforts have focused on the problem of general question similarity, these approaches do not generalize well to domains that require expert knowledge to determine semantic similarity, such as the medical domain. In this paper, we show how a double fine-tuning approach of pretraining a neural network on medical question-answer pairs followed by fine-tuning on medical question-question pairs is a particularly useful intermediate task for the ultimate goal of determining medical question similarity. While other pretraining tasks yield an accuracy below 78.7% on this task, our model achieves an accuracy of 82.6% with the same number of training examples, an accuracy of 80.0% with a much smaller training set, and an accuracy of 84.5% when the full corpus of medical question-answer data is used. We also describe a currently live system that uses the trained model to match user questions to COVID-related FAQs. Clara McCreery, Namit Katariya, Anitha Kannan, Manish Chablani, Xavier Amatriain |
KDD | 4 |