A Virtual Member of a Community of Practice for the Society of Petroleum Engineers: From Prototype to Deployment
A Virtual Member of a Community of Practice for the Society of Petroleum Engineers: From Prototype to Deployment
石油工程师协会实践社区的虚拟成员：从原型到部署
Abstract: We describe the evolution of a virtual assistant, called ATHENA, designed to support the capture, retrieval, and dissemination of knowledge for members of a Community of Practice (CoP) related to the Oil and Gas sector. 摘要： 我们描述了一款名为 ATHENA 的虚拟助手的演进过程，该助手旨在支持石油和天然气行业实践社区（CoP）成员的知识获取、检索和传播。
An evaluation of a first prototype involving 75 professionals from the Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE) showed that ATHENA dramatically improved both their productivity and performance equality on a set of realistic well-planning tasks compare to their use of a state-of-the-art RAG baseline system. 对涉及 75 名石油工程师协会（SPE）专业人员的首个原型进行的评估显示，与使用最先进的 RAG（检索增强生成）基准系统相比，ATHENA 在处理一系列实际油井规划任务时，显著提高了他们的生产力和绩效均衡性。
However, the evaluation also identified areas for improvement. This paper describes technical advances to our first prototype in the areas of multi-document retrieval, support for answer validation, and more focused proactive dissemination. 然而，评估也指出了需要改进的地方。本文描述了我们在首个原型基础上取得的技术进步，包括多文档检索、答案验证支持以及更具针对性的主动传播。
Evaluation results show that this enhanced version of ATHENA provides better support for completing knowledge-intensive tasks related to well planning than does a state-of-the-art baseline. ATHENA has been integrated into the SPE Research Portal and is being deployed for use by the society’s membership. 评估结果表明，与最先进的基准系统相比，这一增强版的 ATHENA 为完成与油井规划相关的知识密集型任务提供了更好的支持。ATHENA 现已集成到 SPE 研究门户网站中，并正在部署供该协会成员使用。
Submission Details:
- Authors: John Boden, Joshua Eckroth, Dayne Freitag, Skyler Gipson, Johnathan Keefe, Karen Myers, Eric Schoen, Pedro Sequeira, Reid Smith, Michael Wessel
- Date: 26 May 2026
- Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
- DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2608.19199
提交详情：
- 作者： John Boden, Joshua Eckroth, Dayne Freitag, Skyler Gipson, Johnathan Keefe, Karen Myers, Eric Schoen, Pedro Sequeira, Reid Smith, Michael Wessel
- 日期： 2026 年 5 月 26 日
- 学科： 计算与语言 (cs.CL)；人工智能 (cs.AI)；信息检索 (cs.IR)
- DOI： 10.48550/arXiv.2608.19199