International Business Machines Corporation

Abhishek Mitra

Nitin Kumar Gupta

Sameep Mehta

Geetha Adinarayan

Shashank Mujumdar

Suranjana Samanta

A method, a system, and a computer program product are provided for analyzing an instructional video. Video data of an instructional video is analyzed to form multiple units of work. Each unit of work is a respective grouping of video frames of the instructional video based on a respective logical combination of activities associated therewith. Each unit of work is analyzed to produce a respective action graph of activities included in the unit of work, the respective action graph indicating interdependencies among the activities included therein. Interdependencies among activities across the units of work are determined to form a critical path graph. A received query is processed to provide troubleshooting assistance with respect to the instructional video based on the units of work, the action graphs, the critical path graph, and a knowledge base including information related to a subject matter of the instructional video.

Video processing for troubleshooting assistance

In an automatic context adaptive search and result generation, a server obtains an email corpus of a user for a current time period. The server identifies a set of triggering semantics in the email corpus, and using an ontology, identifies a set of topic-context pairs corresponding to each triggering semantic. The server identifies a set of paths in the ontology activated by the set of topic-context pairs and compares the set of activated paths with paths in each heatmap of a set of heatmaps, where each heatmap corresponds to a document in a set of documents. The server identifies one or more heatmaps of the set of heatmaps including one or more paths matching an activated path of the set of activated paths. The server then outputs a search result including the one or more documents corresponding to the one or more heatmaps.

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