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Hema Venkatarangan
dblp:209/9725
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2018
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 2
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
2 papers |
Question answering and dialogue systems · 33% Knowledge representation and reasoning · 33% Language models and text generation · 33% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 100% | |
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Services computing and microservices · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Knowledge representation and reasoning
knowledge graph |
0.3 | 1 | 2018 | Hi, How Can I Help You?: Automating Enterprise IT Support Help Desks · AAAI 2018 |
Information retrieval › retrieval models › lexical retrieval
bag-of-words retrieval |
0.1 | 1 | 2018 | Hi, How Can I Help You?: Automating Enterprise IT Support Help Desks · AAAI 2018 |
Services computing and microservices › service management
IT service management |
0.1 | 1 | 2018 | Agent Assist: Automating Enterprise IT Support Help Desks · AAAI 2018 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
natural language processing · 0.7knowledge graph · 0.7bag-of-words search · 0.7agent assistance · 0.7deep learning classifiers · 0.3deep learning classifier · 0.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Hi, How Can I Help You?: Automating Enterprise IT Support Help DesksabstractQuestion answering is one of the primary challenges of natural language understanding. In realizing such a system, providing complex long answers to questions is a challenging task as opposed to factoid answering as the former needs context disambiguation. The different methods explored in the literature can be broadly classified into three categories namely: 1) classification based, 2) knowledge graph based and 3) retrieval based. Individually, none of them address the need of an enterprise wide assistance system for an IT support and maintenance domain. In this domain, the variance of answers is large ranging from factoid to structured operating procedures; the knowledge is present across heterogeneous data sources like application specific documentation, ticket management systems and any single technique for a general purpose assistance is unable to scale for such a landscape. To address this, we have built a cognitive platform with capabilities adopted for this domain. Further, we have built a general purpose question answering system leveraging the platform that can be instantiated for multiple products, technologies in the support domain. The system uses a novel hybrid answering model that orchestrates across a deep learning classifier, a knowledge graph based context disambiguation module and a sophisticated bag-of-words search system. This orchestration performs context switching for a provided question and also does a smooth hand-off of the question to a human expert if none of the automated techniques can provide a confident answer. This system has been deployed across 675 internal enterprise IT support and maintenance projects. Senthil Mani, Neelamadhav Gantayat, Rahul Aralikatte, Monika Gupta 0002, Sampath Dechu, Anush Sankaran, Shreya Khare, Barry Mitchell, Hemamalini Subramanian, Hema Venkatarangan |
AAAI | 10 |
| 2018 | Agent Assist: Automating Enterprise IT Support Help Desks
Senthil Mani, Neelamadhav Gantayat, Rahul Aralikatte, Monika Gupta 0002, Sampath Dechu, Anush Sankaran, Shreya Khare, Barry Mitchell, Hemamalini Subramanian, Hema Venkatarangan |
AAAI | 10 |