Yahoo! Quest (2013) Yahoo! Answers was one of the most popular Yahoo! properties were people ask and answers any type of questions. Although most of the time it was difficult to find related/similar questions. Yahoo! Quest was a smarter way to search and navigate through yahoo! answers.

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Yahoo answers text processing

Processing the text from Yahoo! Answers to obtain dependency tree.

Yahoo! Answers text with dependency tree parsing

Using syntactic information (dependencies)

The syntactic dependencies were used to extract meaningful phrases

Syntactic dependency phrases extracted from answers

online, when customer issues a query the previously extracted phrases from the results set were used to enable a faceted search.

Quest faceted search results navigation

Finding similar questions

Allowing the user to easily navigate and find similar questions previously asked.

Similar questions finder interface