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Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 23, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Ashish R. Mittal, Bangalore, IN;

Diptikalyan Saha, Bangalore, IN;

Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Bangalore, IN;

Jaydeep Sen, West Bengal, IN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/243 (2019.01); G06F 17/2785 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products for carrying out interactive dialog in natural language using an ontology are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes generating one or more domain-driven interpretations of a natural language dialogue query provided by a user via utilization of a web ontology language; determining multiple structured base queries, from among a stored collection of structured queries, that correspond to the natural language dialogue query, in view of the one or more generated domain-driven interpretations; selecting one of the multiple determined structured base queries, based on one or more items of context information pertaining to the dialogue; automatically generating a response to the selected structured base query; and outputting the generated response to the user.


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