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I am a computer scientist by education and a Principal Product Manager by profession. I now work at Cerence (formerly Nuance Automotive) in Aachen, Germany. I am part of the In-car application team, driving innovation in conversational AI-related products for tier-1 OEMs. I am responsible for the success of a few next-gen innovative conversational AI products of Cerence. Some of the existing products I own are already on the road in leading car makers. My role is quite unconventional, and I work at the intersection of conversational AI research and business unit, with a concrete understanding of both domains. Hence, I not only understand how AI can improve businesses, but I do understand how to implement AI models from scratch.
Previously I was with Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany as Senior Dialogue System Researcher where I focussed on the research domain: Dialogue Systems and Question Answering. I was leading a team that improved question-answering capabilities in Fraunhofer’s spin-off dialogue system technology Sophia. In Fraunhofer, I was working with Prof. Dr. Jens Lehmann. Prior to that, I did my Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sören Auer from the University of Bonn, Germany in Question answering over Knowledge Graphs. During my Ph.D. studies, I was associated with Fraunhofer IAIS as an early-stage researcher. I received the prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship for Ph.D. studies.
I have (co)-authored several peer-reviewed publications in top conferences such as The Web Conference, EACL, NAACL, CIKM, SIGIR, ISWC, ESWC, etc. In my free time, I do open-source research in the Semantic Web, natural language processing (NLP), and Graph Representation Learning (GLR). Specifically, I focus on Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Graphs, and their application in downstream NLP tasks such as entity linking, relation extraction, and question answering. For a complete list of publications, refer to my Google Scholar. I also founded a voluntary research group "Zerotha" that helps students who seek guidance in research as their first step. I call it "Saturday research," and is one of my hobbies.
You can reach out to me on my email: kskuldeepvit (AT) Gmail (DOT) com
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Zerotha Research
Zeroth step towards research

We are a group of independent researchers who support students seeking the first step towards their research careers.

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August 2022
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Paper "Contrastive Representation Learning for Conversational Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs" accepted in CIKM 2022 full paper track
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July 2022
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Paper "How Expressive are Transformers in Spectral Domain for Graphs?" accepted in Transactions on Machine Learning Research.
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September 2021
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Paper "HopfE: Knowledge Graph Representation Learning using Inverse Hopf Fibrations" accepted in CIKM 2021 full paper track
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July 2021
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Paper "VOGUE: Answer Verbalization through Multi-Task Learning" accepted at ECML full paper track
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May 2021
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Paper accepted in ACL2021
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KGPool: Dynamic Knowledge Graph Context Selection for Relation Extraction
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Paper accepted in International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) 2021
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Better Call the Plumber: Orchestrating Dynamic Information Extraction Pipelines.
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March 2021
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Two papers accepted in Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESCW) 2021
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ParaQA: A Question Answering Dataset with Paraphrase Responses for Single-Turn Conversation
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Context Transformer with Stacked Pointer Networks for Conversational Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs
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January 2021
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Two papers accepted in EACL 2021
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CHOLAN: A Modular Approach for Neural Entity Linking on Wikipedia and Wikidata
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Conversational Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs with Transformer and Graph Attention Networks
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Paper accepted in The Web Conference 2021
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RECON: Relation Extraction using Knowledge Graph Context in a Graph Neural Network
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