Detecting Duplicate Quora Questions

Quora (www.quora.com) is a community-driven question and answer website where users, either anonymously or publicly, ask and answer questions. In January 2017, Quora first released a public dataset consisting of question pairs, either duplicate or not. A duplicate pair of questions is semantically similar; in other words, two questions being duplicated means that they carry the same meaning, although they use a different set of words to express the exact same intent. For Quora, it is paramount to have a single question page for each distinct question, in order to offer a better service to users consulting its repository of answers, so they won't have to look for any more sources before finding all they need to know. Moderators can be helpful in avoiding duplicated content on the site, but that won't easily scale, given the increasing...