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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Donna K. Byron, Petersham, MA (US);
Lakshminarayanan Krishnamurthy, Round Rock, TX (US);
Alexander Pikovsky, Laxington, MA (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and computer program product for creating or augmenting a business process model using a question and answer (Q and A) system are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A request to create the business process model of a business process is received. A knowledgebase is created using a business process modeling (BPM) data and user domain data. The user domain data comprises a combination of unstructured documents and structured documents related to an operation in a user domain. A natural language (NL) question is formed corresponding to the request. The NL question and the knowledgebase are submitted to the Q and A system. A set of answers is received from the Q and A system responsive to the NL question. An answer is presented as a part of the business process model.