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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
May. 17, 2021
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Tin Kam Ho, Millburn, NJ (US);
Vadim Sheinin, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Elahe Khorasani, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of authoring a conversation service for a chatbot and a database includes receiving, from a user, a selection of a database, and connecting an authoring service of the chatbot to a table in the database; outputting, from the authoring service to the user, a question requesting a description of a subject matter of the table; receiving the description of the subject matter of the table; outputting to the user a question requesting an identification of a key column of the table that contains values that represent the subject matter of the table; receiving the identification of the key column of the table; and translating, by a natural language query service, the description of the subject matter of the table and the key column of the table into the conversation service, wherein the conversation service includes SQL statements suitable for querying the database table.