Quora InfoSession

At Quora, our mission is to "share and grow the world's knowledge". We do this by getting the right questions to the right people, and the existing answers to people who are interested in reading them. We need to build a complex ecosystem of algorithms where we value issues such as content quality, engagement, demand, interests, or reputation. Fortunately, we have lots of very good quality data on which to build machine learning solutions that can help address the previous requirements. In this talk, VP of Engineering Xavier Amatriain will describe some interesting uses of machine learning at Quora that range from different recommendation systems such as personalized ranking of the home feed, to classifiers built to detect duplicate questions or spam.