Abstract: An embodiment for identifying and processing poly-process natural language queries may include receiving a natural language query. The embodiment may also automatically identify a bridge entity in the received natural language query. The embodiment may also automatically determine whether the received natural language query is a poly-process query. The embodiment may further include, in response to identifying that the received natural language query is the poly-process query, automatically generating sub-queries for each process in the poly-process query and generate results for each sub-query. The embodiment may also automatically combining the results of each sub-query using the bridge entity to output a combined result. The embodiment may further include automatically generating a modified sub-query for post-processing of the combined result. The embodiment may also automatically process the modified sub-query to generate a final query result for the received natural language query.

Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for anomaly detection is provided. The present invention may include converting business process logs into a graphical data structure. The present invention may include generating an optimized graph encoding for anomaly detection using an unsupervised machine learning model. The present invention may include computing an anomaly score for each activity of the business process log using a process aware metric based on feature representation. The present invention may include labeling each of the one or more data points with a high anomaly score.

Abstract: An embodiment including a domain-agnostic natural language processing system for processing natural language queries having an explainable interpretation feedback model is provided. The embodiment may include receiving a natural language query. The embodiment may also include to automatically detecting whether the received natural language query includes implicit intent therein. The embodiment may include, in response to detecting implicit intent in the received natural language query, automatically generating a modified query including a default inference from an interpretation fact sheet. The embodiment may further include automatically presenting the modified query to the user and asking the user for feedback on the modified query.

Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for anomaly detection is provided. The present invention may include converting business process logs into a graphical data structure. The present invention may include generating an optimized graph encoding for anomaly detection using an unsupervised machine learning model. The present invention may include computing an anomaly score for each activity of the business process log using a process aware metric based on feature representation. The present invention may include labeling each of the one or more data points with a high anomaly score.

Abstract: An embodiment for identifying and processing poly-process natural language queries may include receiving a natural language query. The embodiment may also automatically identify a bridge entity in the received natural language query. The embodiment may also automatically determine whether the received natural language query is a poly-process query. The embodiment may further include, in response to identifying that the received natural language query is the poly-process query, automatically generating sub-queries for each process in the poly-process query and generate results for each sub-query. The embodiment may also automatically combining the results of each sub-query using the bridge entity to output a combined result. The embodiment may further include automatically generating a modified sub-query for post-processing of the combined result. The embodiment may also automatically process the modified sub-query to generate a final query result for the received natural language query.

Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate model transfer learning across evolving processes are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a condition definition component that defines one or more conditions associated with use of a model trained on first traces of a first process to make a prediction on one or more second traces of a second process. The computer executable components can further comprise a guardrail component that determines whether to use the model to make the prediction.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to audio/video (A/V) stream functionality verification. A stream segment of a video feed prior to transmission over a network as captured by a transmitting device within a web-based conference can be stored. A stream segment of the video feed after transmission over the network as received by a receiving device within the web-based conference can be stored. The stream segment of the video feed prior to transmission over the network can be compared with the stream segment of the video feed after transmission over the network to determine a video feed quality.

Abstract: A conversational interface generation method, system, and computer program product that includes determining a conversational artifact for a computer program from a specification of the computer program and generating a conversational interface for the computer program based on the conversational artifact for the computer program included in the specification.

Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for generating a conversational bot for an application programming interface (API)is provided. The present invention may include parsing an API schema. The present invention may include generating sentences for the conversational bot from the parsed API schema. The present invention may include constructing the conversational bot by training a deep learning model. The present invention may include receiving a natural language expression from a user. The present invention may include determining whether the natural language expression is enough to activate the bot.

Abstract: A query can be received from a user. The query can be sent to a plurality of automated agents to process the query. Results and associated confidence scores can be received from the plurality of automated agents. At least some of the results and associated confidence scores can be probed, based at least on a reason given for a result having the highest associated confidence score among the received results and associated confidence scores, to select an automated agent from the plurality of automated agents for answering the query. Information can be stored, where the information can include at least the results and associated confidence scores and a selected automated agent for answering the query, where at least one of the plurality of automated agents learns from the stored information to update its confidence score in answering the query.

Abstract: A data visualization method, system, and computer program product that includes identifying an intent from a natural language query in a conversation with a conversational system, utilizing verbiage from the natural language query and the intent to determine one or more data columns for visualization of results of the natural language query, and displaying a visualization of the determined one or more data columns.

Abstract: A method of generating a model for classifying sequential data, the method including receiving the sequential data including records having features; initializing mask weights and classifier weights on the features; processing, iteratively, frames of the sequential data using the model comprising the mask and classifier weights, wherein at each iteration the processing includes generating a current one of the frames, computing a penalty term over a data space of the current frame, and updating the mask weights using the classifier weights on the features and the penalty term; and outputting the machine learning model including updated ones of the mask weights to a service for performing a classification task based on a detection of at least one of the features in test data.

Abstract: Techniques facilitating causal reasoning for explanation of model predictions are provided. A system can generate one or more explanations of a machine learning model prediction. The one or more explanations can be based on causal relationships determined between feature data of a set of feature data and based on dataset point samples around a trace associated with the causal relationships.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for analyzing multidimensional data are disclosed. In embodiments, the method comprises obtaining an original set of data having a sequential order and multiple original dimensions; selecting a topic-based summarization scheme to summarize the original set of data; and applying the selected topic-based summarization scheme to the original set of data to transform the original set of data into a new set of data having fewer dimensions than the original set of data, while preserving, within a defined measure, the sequential order of the original set of data. In embodiments, the selecting a topic-based summarization scheme includes selecting a plurality of topics, each of the topic representing a set of the original dimensions. In embodiments, the applying the topic-based summarization scheme includes performing dimensionality reduction on the original set of data to transform the original dimensions to the topics.

Abstract: An optimization method, system, and computer program product for a number of tasks within a business process that can be automated that includes receiving access to an electronic representation of the business process, optimizing the business process to develop an optimized business process, displaying the optimized business process as a storyboard using storyboarding, and receiving an edit of the optimized business process, and automatically making a further edit to the optimized business process.

Abstract: A conversational interface generation method, system, and computer program product that includes determining a conversational artifact for a computer program from a specification of the computer program and generating a conversational interface for the computer program based on the conversational artifact for the computer program included in the specification.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for explaining black-box machine learning models. A computer or server determines a process-aware neighborhood around a data sample, using one or more business process rules. The computer or server computes proximity between the process-aware neighborhood and the data sample, using a process-aware distance metric. The computer or server finds, from a family of linear functions, a local linear model, by minimizing losses of respective ones of the linear functions and a black-box machine learning model. The computer or server provides the local linear model for explanation of output of the black-box model on the data sample.

Abstract: Techniques for distributing the training of machine learning models across a plurality of computing devices are presented. An example method includes receiving, from a computing device in a distributed computing environment, a request for a set of outstanding jobs for training part of a machine learning model. A system transmits, to the computing device, information identifying the set of outstanding jobs. The system receives, from the computing device, a selected job for execution on the computing device from the set of outstanding jobs. A chunk of training data associated with the selected job and one or more parameters associated with the selected job may be transmitted to the computing device, and the system may take one or more actions with respect to the chunk of data associated with the selected job based on a response from the computing device.

Abstract: A lifecycle management method, system, and computer program product include coordinating hardware, platform and application-level health checks for framework-independent and application-specific monitoring, failure detection, and recovery, coordinating the hardware, the platform, and the application-level health check by state-specific aggregation of distributed atomic status events, and creating a recovery policy based on the state-specific aggregation of the distributed atomic status events.

Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate model transfer learning across evolving processes are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a condition definition component that defines one or more conditions associated with use of a model trained on first traces of a first process to make a prediction on one or more second traces of a second process. The computer executable components can further comprise a guardrail component that determines whether to use the model to make the prediction.