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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2022
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Hui Wan, White Plains, NY (US);
Sachindra Joshi, Gurgaon, IN;
Boaz Carmeli, Koranit, IL;
Marina Danilevsky Hailpern, San Jose, CA (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Techniques for generating a clarification to distinguish among retrieved content in interactive systems are provided. In one aspect, a method for generating a clarification prompt in an interactive system includes: obtaining a training dataset for generating the clarification prompt from existing question-answering datasets by modifying original queries in the existing question-answering datasets to obtain training examples of under-specified queries; and training a machine learning model using the training dataset how to select latent differentiating factors in content candidates obtained from an under-specified query from a user and, based on the latent differentiating factors, generate the clarification prompt to clarify an intent of the user.