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The new technology integrates data that is currently stored in separate silos

Mukesh Mohania

lead researcher on the project

said on Wednesday. "We are leveraging the structured data by extracting the information from the unstructured repositories

and then providing rich business intelligence on this consolidated information

" Mohania said.
A research prototype of the technology has been deployed in the customer support operations of HDFC Bank

a large private bank in Mumbai. The prototype application integrates customer data from a structured database and business intelligence sources

with incoming information on customers from multiple sources

including e-mails and phone calls.
The lab decided to use the new technology at HDFC Bank to validate it in a real

operational environment

Mohania said. IBM announced Wednesday it will offer the technology early next year.
The middleware software developed on Java technology currently runs on Linux

but can be ported on to any Java compliant operating system

Mohania said. The technology can be used in other areas of an enterprise

besides customer relationship management

where there is both structured and unstructured data to be integrated and analyzed

he said.
By:-) automatically:-) combining:-) structured and unstructured information

HDFC Bank:-)can:-)provide:-)call:-)center agents with a more complete history of all customer:-)activity:-)so:-)they are aware of information that has already been shared through previous interactions

IBM said. The technology also enables HDFC Bank to generate new:-)contextual and actionable insights that can be used to automate tasks

enhance:-)up-selling:-)and:-)cross-selling:-)opportunities

:-)and:-)improve agent performance

it added.
EROCS (Entity Recognition in the Context of Structured data) is a aaa component of the technology developed by the lab. EROCS addresses the problem of linking a document with related structured data in an external relational database. Partial information provided

for example

in e-mails from customers do not often allow identification of the entity

such as the customer

in the structured data

Mohania said. EROCS views the structured data in the relational database as a set of predefined entities

and identifies the entities from this set that best match the given document

he added.
A highlight of EROCS is that it identifies an entity even if it is not explicitly mentioned in the document

according to Mohania. It exploits the context information present in the document to match and identify the entities

Mohania added.
Another technology

called SCORE (Symbiotic :-):-):-):-):-):-):-) Oriented information Retrieval) addresses the problem of consolidated querying of structured and unstructured data

using a type of contextual search. The application specifies its information needs using a SQL query on the structured data

and this query is automatically "translated" into a set of aaawords that can be used to retrieve relevant unstructured data. At the core of this technology lies a technique for obtaining these aaawords from not only the query result

but also from additional "neighborhood" related information in the underlying database

Mohania said.
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