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Back in October 2016, there was an announcement that Stack Exchange would be collaborating with the University of Melbourne on duplicate question detection.

It looks like the portion of work where we provide input ended in January.

What is the result of the work we did? Will Stack Exchange be able to utilize this work on any (or all) of the sites?

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Thanks to Julia Silge @juliasilge tweet we know that there are publications related to this from the author.

Some relevant work is here and the paper here.

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Thanks for your interest! The thing that Stack Exchange was most interested in was how to recognise when two posts are falsely labeled as duplicates.

According to Stack Exchange this is one of the biggest frustrations of new users. They take the time to write a question, and within minutes it is flagged as a duplicate. This is fine when it really is one, of course, but when it's not, it's disappointing, and can make people leave the forum, never to come back.

A paper on this topic is currently under review. If it gets accepted, then Stack Exchange can decide to use the findings if they want.

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    Any update on the paper's review?
    – Monica Cellio
    Commented Oct 25, 2017 at 20:35
  • Any chance you could post the paper to e.g. arXiv while it's under review?
    – Jeffrey Bosboom
    Commented Oct 26, 2017 at 0:25
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    Hi Monica and Jeffrey, the paper was rejected, but we worked on it some more and resubmitted it somewhere else. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to but it on arXiv, but I can definitely post a link to it here if it gets accepted.
    – Monozygotic
    Commented Oct 27, 2017 at 0:04
  • @Monozygotic Was the paper ever accepted? I have no idea how long the process takes.
    – Thunderforge
    Commented Jan 12, 2018 at 19:13
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    @Thunderforge, I submitted the paper to a journal, which can take quite a long time to respond. I'm still waiting for a reply. It would be great if they could reply within the next month, because I'm finishing my PhD, but unfortunately all we can do is wait.
    – Monozygotic
    Commented Jan 14, 2018 at 22:25
  • @Monozygotic Is the data available and the preprint public? Were we can find more about this?
    – llrs
    Commented Aug 27, 2018 at 15:35
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    "They take the time to write a question, and within minutes it is flagged as a duplicate" because in almost all cases it is a duplicate.
    – Raedwald
    Commented Mar 21, 2019 at 13:15

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