Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ebay, Incorporated

Lawrence William Colagiovanni

Rakesh Agrawal

Ajinkya Gorakhnath Kale

Amit Srivastava

Prakash Sikchi

Ariel Fuxman

Stelios Paparizos

Zhimin Chen

Sanjika Hewavitharana

Stefan Schoenmackers

Hoa Nguyen

Juliana Freire De Lima E Silva

Vinh Khuc

Heung-Yeung Shum

Kuansan Wang

Arun Sacheti

Bo-June Hsu

Yu-ting Kuo

Chao-Chia Liu

Cornelia Carapcea

Yusuf Furkan Fidan

Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for detecting a mission changes in a conversation. A user utterance from a user device is received. The user utterance is part of a conversation with an intelligent assistant. The conversation includes preceding user utterances in pursuit of a first mission. It is determined that the user utterance indicates a mission change from the first mission to a second mission based on an application of a machine-learned model to the user utterance and the preceding user utterances. The machine-learned model has been trained repeatedly with past utterances of other users over a time period, the determining based on a certainty of the indication satisfying a certainty threshold. Responsive to the determining that the user utterance indicates the mission change from the first mission to a second mission, a reply to the user utterance is generated to further the second mission rather than the first mission.

Detection of mission change in conversation

Methods and systems for automatically synthesizing product information from multiple data sources into an on-line catalog are disclosed, and in particular, for automatically synthesizing the product information based on attribute-value pairs. Information for a product may be obtained, via entity extraction, feed ingestion, and other mechanisms, from a plurality of structured and unstructured data sources having different taxonomies and schemas. Product information may additionally or alternatively be obtained or derived based on popularity data. The product information may be cleansed, segmented and normalized. The product information may be clustered so closest products, attribute names and attribute values are associated. A representative value for an attribute name may be determined, and the on-line catalog may be updated so that entries are comprehensive, meaningful and useful to a catalog user. Updates from at least 500 million different data sources may be scheduled to occur as frequently as several times daily.

Product synthesis from multiple sources

Systems, methods and computer-storage media are provided for identifying query formulation suggestions in response to receiving a search query. A portion of a search query is received. Query formulation suggestions are identified by semantically analyzing the search query. The query formulation suggestions are used to further formulate the received search query. The query formulation suggestions include semantic-pattern-based query suggestions that are derived from semantic query patterns, one or more entities, and information associated with these entities. The query formulation suggestions are transmitted for presentation.

Interactive semantic query suggestion for content search

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