Ayush Singhal

Ayush Singhal, Ravindra Kasturi, Ankit Sharma et al.

Assigning relevant keywords to documents is very important for efficient retrieval, clustering and management of the documents. Especially with the web corpus deluged with digital documents, automation of this task is of prime importance. Keyword assignment is a broad topic of research which refers to tagging of document with keywords, key-phrases or topics. For text documents, the keyword assignment techniques have been developed under two sub-topics: automatic keyword extraction (AKE) and automatic key-phrase abstraction. However, the approaches developed in the literature for full text documents cannot be used to assign keywords to low text content documents like twitter feeds, news clips, product reviews or even short scholarly text. In this work, we point out several practical challenges encountered in tagging such low text content documents. As a solution to these challenges, we show that the proposed approaches which leverage knowledge from several open source web resources enhance the quality of the tags (keywords) assigned to the low text content documents. The performance of the proposed approach is tested on real world corpus consisting of scholarly documents with text content ranging from only the text in the title of the document (5-10 words) to the summary text/abstract (100- 150 words). We find that the proposed approach not just improves the accuracy of keyword assignment but offer a computationally efficient solution which can be used in real world applications.

Ayush Singhal, Rakesh Pant, Pradeep Sinha

The demand for stream processing is increasing at an unprecedented rate. Big data is no longer limited to processing of big volumes of data. In most real-world scenarios, the need for processing stream data as it comes can only meet the business needs. It is required for trading, fraud detection, system monitoring, product maintenance and of course social media data such as Twitter and YouTube videos. In such cases, a "too late architecture" that focuses on batch processing cannot realize the use cases. In this article, we present an end to end Big data platform called AlertMix for processing multi-source streaming data. Its architecture and how various Big data technologies are utilized are explained in this work. We present the performance of our platform on real live streaming data which is currently handled by the platform.

Ayush Singhal, Pradeep Sinha, Rakesh Pant

With the exponential increase in the amount of digital information over the internet, online shops, online music, video and image libraries, search engines and recommendation system have become the most convenient ways to find relevant information within a short time. In the recent times, deep learning's advances have gained significant attention in the field of speech recognition, image processing and natural language processing. Meanwhile, several recent studies have shown the utility of deep learning in the area of recommendation systems and information retrieval as well. In this short review, we cover the recent advances made in the field of recommendation using various variants of deep learning technology. We organize the review in three parts: Collaborative system, Content based system and Hybrid system. The review also discusses the contribution of deep learning integrated recommendation systems into several application domains. The review concludes by discussion of the impact of deep learning in recommendation system in various domain and whether deep learning has shown any significant improvement over the conventional systems for recommendation. Finally, we also provide future directions of research which are possible based on the current state of use of deep learning in recommendation systems.