International Business Machines Corporation

Nikhil Verma

Harshit Kumar

Jinho Hwang

Larisa Shwartz

Sachindra Joshi

Ajay Gupta

Danish Contractor

Gargi Banerjee Dasgupta

Pooja Aggarwal

Amar Prakash Azad

Raghav Batta

Jakub Krchák

Prateeti Mohapatra

Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating dialog system workspaces are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining (i) a set of policy documents and (ii) a set of initial questions; identifying at least one of the policy documents in the set of policy documents that is relevant to answering a given one of the initial questions in the set of initial questions; generating, based at least in part on an analysis of said identified policy document, (i) at least one follow-up question to said given initial question and (ii) two or more candidate answers to said at least one follow-up question; generating a dialog tree comprising at least (i) a parent node corresponding to the at least one follow-up question and (ii) child nodes corresponding to the two or more candidate answers; translating the dialog tree into a dialog workspace; and deploying the dialog workspace in an intelligent dialog system.

Generating dialog system workspaces

Methods, computer program products, and/or systems are provided that perform the following operations: in an information technology (IT) management system, grouping one or more ongoing service failure events into a service failure record; identifying a representative event for the service failure record; identifying one or more conversations that relate to the one or more ongoing service events; computing, using a similarity algorithm, feature similarity scores for respective conversations of the one or more conversations based, at least in part, on the features associated with the representative event and features associated with the respective conversations; linking a subset of the one or more conversations to the one or more ongoing service events in the service failure record based, at least in part, on the computed feature similarity scores; and providing the service failure record to a collaboration platform utilized in addressing the one or more ongoing service events.

Discovering insights and/or resolutions from collaborative conversations

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Nikhil Verma