Research / Models / Writing

Language research.
Put to work.

Selected NLP models and technical writing by Ashish Kumar. Explore the public work behind my experience in language understanding, conversational AI and enterprise AI.

Published models

Evaluating language
beyond the surface.

These models focus on specific questions in natural language processing: how well a query is formed, and how much meaningful variety a paraphrase adds. The linked model cards contain the technical details, usage examples and available files.

Text classification / RoBERTa

Query well-formedness scoring

This model scores grammatical correctness and sentence completeness. It is sensitive to capitalization, helping distinguish a complete, well-formed query from fragments or grammatically inconsistent text.

The model card describes applications in chatbot query validation, educational tools and content review. It includes an example using Hugging Face Transformers to score several sentences together.

The score describes the form of the language. Factual correctness and task relevance require separate evaluation.

Apache 2.0Text classificationGoogle Wellformed Query dataset
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Text ranking / Paraphrase evaluation

Paraphrase diversity ranking

This model distinguishes semantic variation from surface-level wording changes in paraphrases. It supports workflows that generate several candidate paraphrases and then rank them for diversity.

The model card recommends first filtering for semantic similarity using a model trained on natural language inference or semantic textual similarity, then applying the diversity ranker. That separates preserving the source meaning from assessing useful variation.

The public examples reference the Salesken model namespace. The model card provides the original training context and usage guidance.

Apache 2.0Text rankingParaphrase evaluation
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More published experiments in language generation, context resolution and text processing are available on my Hugging Face profile.

Technical writing

Questions from
building AI products.

My articles explore language understanding, training data, language generation and the relationship between AI research and practical products. Each title below links to its original publication.

Natural language understanding / 2019

Finding the Elusive ‘U’ in NLU

A look at understanding in conversational systems and the challenges involved in building a chatbot.

Natural language generation / 2020

Blending the Blender for NLG tasks?

Exploring whether an open-domain dialogue model can be fine-tuned for more specific language generation tasks.

Industry perspectives

Research and
enterprise context.

My career spans conversational banking at Active.Ai, language understanding at Reliance Jio Haptik, sales intelligence at Salesken, applied AI at Ola Krutrim and AI and data platforms at Tata Group. That background connects the technical work on this page with enterprise products and AI leadership.

Past contributions to Forbes Technology Council cover technology and business topics. The historical contributor profile lists my Salesken role at the time.

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