Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jonathan Ray Bates

Yi Zhang

Shoou-Jiun Wang

Tracy My Tuyen Nguyen

Jaclyn Ruth Elizabeth Phillips

Jennifer Olivia Ede

Thinesh Thangakumar Abimanyu Rathinavelu

Embodiments are provided for detecting overlapping topics in a messaging system. In an example system, a plurality of trigger phrases is received, where each trigger phrase is configured to trigger a bot that receives the trigger phrase to select a corresponding topic for conversation. For each trigger phrase, a vector representation is generated. Measures of similarity are generated based at least on the vector representations, where each measure of similarity represents a degree of similarity between a respective pair of vector representations. A topic overlap is detected based on a pair of vector representations having a measure of similarity above a similarity threshold, where the topic overlap indicates two trigger phrases that are overlapping. The topic overlap is provided to an authoring tool that comprises one or more interactive elements to enable a user to change at least one of the two trigger phrases that are overlapping.

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Jonathan Ray Bates