Nikhita Vedula

Modeling knowledge and functional intent for context-aware pragmatic analysis

2021 · ACM SIGWEB Newsletter

Nikhita Vedula is an Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa Science. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the Ohio State University in August 2020, advised by Professor Srinivasan Parthasarathy. She received her …

Generative Product Recommendations for Implicit Superlative Queries

2025 · arXiv (Cornell University)

In Recommender Systems, users often seek the best products through indirect, vague, or under-specified queries, such as "best shoes for trail running". Such queries, also referred to as implicit superlative queries, pose a significant challenge …