Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Yuchen Zhang

John P Bufe, Iii

Jesse Daniel Eskes Rusak

Jayant Sivarama Krishnamurthy

Jacob Daniel Andreas

Alan Xinyu Guo

Andrei Vorobev

David Leo Wright Hall

Adam David Pauls

Jason Andrew Wolfe

A method of adapting a computerized assistant program to satisfy an updated constraint. The method comprises maintaining a dialogue history including a first utterance that indicates an initial constraint. The method further comprises receiving a second utterance indicating a new constraint that conflicts with the initial constraint. The method further comprises recognizing a revision function statement parametrized by a reference to an initial computerized assistant program configured to satisfy the initial constraint, and a reference to the new constraint. The method further comprises executing instructions derived from the revision function statement to return a revised computerized assistant program that is configured to satisfy the new constraint.

Updating constraints for computerized assistant actions

A computer-implemented method of responding to a conversational event is presented. The method comprises receiving a conversational event at a conversational computing interface. Based on the received conversational event, an applicable generation rule of a plurality of candidate generation rules is selected. The applicable generation rule is configured with one or more parameters. A computer-executable plan is then selected based on the selected generation rule. The one or more parameters are passed from the selected generation rule to one or more additional generation rules. The one or more additional generation rules configured with the one or more parameters are recursively applied to extend the selected computer-executable plan. One or more candidate responses to the conversational event are output via the conversational computing interface based on the recursive application of the one or more additional generation rules configured with the one or more parameters.

Response generation for conversational computing interface

A computer-implemented method of responding to a conversational event. The method comprises enacting, by a conversational computing interface, an initial computer-executable plan based on a conversational event received by the conversational computing interface, wherein the initial computer-executable plan is configured to output an initial value based on the conversational event. The method further comprises selecting, by the conversational computing interface, an extended computer-executable plan based on determining that the initial value is insufficient for generating an extended description responsive to the conversational event. The method further comprises enacting, by the conversational computing interface, the extended computer-executable plan to output additional information beyond what the initial computer-executable plan is configured to output, the additional information sufficient for generating the extended description responsive to the conversational event. The method further comprises outputting, via the conversational computing interface, a response to the conversational event including the extended description.

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