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Patent No.:

US 10838951 B1

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Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 02, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Jaydeep Sen, Kolkata, IN;

Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Bangalore, IN;

Diptikalyan Saha, Bangalore, IN;

Manasa Markandeya Jammi, Kharagpur, IN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/2425 (2019.01); G06F 16/243 (2019.01); G06F 16/2428 (2019.01);
Abstract

One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving a natural language query from a user; identifying a plurality of interpretations for interpreting the natural language query, wherein the plurality of interpretations are based upon at least one ambiguity in the received natural language query; generating, for each of the plurality of interpretations, a plurality of example queries; generating, for each of the interpretations, both (i) an answer to the received natural language query and (ii) an answer to each of the generated plurality of example queries; and providing, to the user, (i) the generated answer for each interpretation of the natural language query and (ii) a plurality of question/answer pairs for each of the identified plurality of interpretations that assists in disambiguating the ambiguity, wherein each question/answer pair comprises at least one of the generated plurality of example queries and the corresponding generated answer to the example query.


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