Query Understanding for Natural Language Enterprise Search

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06238v1
• Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:57:25 GMT
• Title: Query Understanding for Natural Language Enterprise Search
• Authors: Francisco Borges, Georgios Balikas, Marc Brette, Guillaume Kempf, Arvind Srikantan, Matthieu Landos, Darya Brazouskaya, Qianqian Shi
• Abstract summary: Natural Language Search (NLS) extends the capabilities of search engines that perform keyword search allowing users to issue queries in a more "natural" language. We present an NLS system we implemented as part of the Search service of a major CRM platform.
• Score: 0.7363840001905632
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Natural Language Search (NLS) extends the capabilities of search engines that perform keyword search allowing users to issue queries in a more "natural" language. The engine tries to understand the meaning of the queries and to map the query words to the symbols it supports like Persons, Organizations, Time Expressions etc.. It, then, retrieves the information that satisfies the user's need in different forms like an answer, a record or a list of records. We present an NLS system we implemented as part of the Search service of a major CRM platform. The system is currently in production serving thousands of customers. Our user studies showed that creating dynamic reports with NLS saved more than 50% of our user's time compared to achieving the same result with navigational search. We describe the architecture of the system, the particularities of the CRM domain as well as how they have influenced our design decisions. Among several submodules of the system we detail the role of a Deep Learning Named Entity Recognizer. The paper concludes with discussion over the lessons learned while developing this product.

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