International Business Machines Corporation

Smriti Talwar

Kristina Beckley

Vincent P Burckhardt

Amy D Travis

Brent Alan Miller

Laura Janet Rodriguez

Sara Beth Weber

Marion R Summerville

Yao P A Song

Ayodeji Adesina

Mairead O'Hanlon

Yao Pang Alexis Song

Brittany Bogle

Alexis Yao Pang Song

Systems, methods, and computer programming products for alleviating ambiguity amongst the terms and language displayed by the user interface of software products and services. The disclosed solutions catalog terms displayed by the UI of software and services and identify where overlapping terms with the same or substantially similar term names are presented by the UI but have different meanings than the software most familiar to the user. Natural language processing is leveraged to derive meanings of software terms using the context of the surrounding words and text elements within the UI, as well as product documentation, error messages, sentiment and other textual clues. Ambiguity among overlapping terms is alleviated by modifying the UI, highlighting differences in term definitions from the software or services a user is most familiar with using, and updating the UI in a manner that differentiates the overlapping terms displayed by accessed products or services.

User interface disambiguation

Provided are techniques for the modification of social collaborative maps that include processors; a computer-readable storage medium (CRSM); a concept map stored on the CRSM, the concept map comprising a plurality of nodes; a plurality of connections between the plurality of nodes; and a plurality of social network connections, wherein each node of the plurality of nodes is coupled to a corresponding subset of the plurality of social network connections; and logic, stored on the CRSM and executed on the plurality of processors, for providing a user interface to provide a user access to the plurality of nodes and to the plurality of social network connections; collecting data corresponding to navigation of the user of the plurality of nodes and interaction by the user with the plurality of social network connections; analyzing the data and modifying, based upon the analyzing, the concept map to generate a modified concept map.

Social collaborative mapping

A method, computer program product, and system for voice pronunciation for text communication is described. A selected portion of a text communication is determined. A prompt to record a pronunciation relating to the selected portion of the text communication is provided at a first computing device. The recorded pronunciation is associated with the selected portion of the text communication. A visual indicator, relating to the selected portion of the text communication and the recorded pronunciation, is displayed.

Voice pronunciation for text communication

A mechanism is provided for directing users to preferred software services. An indication from a user for a software service that provides a function identified by the user is identified. One or more software services that provide the function identified by the user are identified and a determination is made as to whether an existing subscription is in place for a subset of the one or more software services. Responsive to the existing subscription being in place for the subset of the one or more software services, the subset of software services that have existing subscriptions are presented to the user.

Directing users to preferred software services

A method for content aggregation in an instant messaging system includes locating content of a specified type in an instant messaging log; organizing the located content by a parameter; and displaying the organized content. A system for content aggregation in an instant messaging system includes an aggregation module configured to locating content of a specified type in an instant messaging log; and a display module configured to organizing the located content by a parameter and to display the organized content.

Methods and systems for aggregating content in an instant messaging system

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Smriti Talwar