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Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 11, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Abdul Quamar, San Jose, CA (US);

Fatma Ozcan, San Jose, CA (US);

Dorian Boris Miller, Saratoga, CA (US);

Jeffrey Thomas Kreulen, San Jose, CA (US);

Christina Runkel, Guellesheim, DE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G06N 5/04 (2006.01); G06F 40/295 (2020.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G06F 16/2379 (2019.01); G06F 16/2393 (2019.01); G06F 16/243 (2019.01); G06F 40/295 (2020.01); G06N 5/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method is provided to implement a conversational system with artifact generation. A middleware component receives a user input and determines whether there is sufficient information in the user input and a conversation space in a context storage of the conversational system to identify user intent associated with the user input. Responsive to the middleware component determining there is not sufficient information to identify user intent, a communications handler component sends a natural language query to an external data source via a natural language query (NLQ) interface and receives a natural language response from the external data source. The middleware component updates the conversation space based on the natural language response and returns a user response based on the natural language response.


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