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Using Machine Learning to Recommend Similar Questions onStack Overflow== Motivation ==In this project you will explore information retrieval on Stack Overflow. Information retrieval isan important task on question answering forums such as Stack Overflow and Quora. Questionretrieval is helpful in the following two cases:(1)Question search: search inside Stack Overflow(2)Similar question recommendation: recommend its most similar questions. This task isespecially important when the current question is not answered yet, it can help the questionasker find answers from the similar questions.Information retrieval on Stack Overflow is challenge. The challenge mainly lies in the difficulty infindingsemanticallyrelated questions. For the software development domain, in particular, partof the challenge comes from the programming logic encoded in the questions and answers.Simple keywords matching is not enough for understanding such logic. For example, thefollowing questions contain almost the same keyword tokens, however, they contain differentmeanings:Question 1:

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