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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2006
Shimei Pan, Armonk, NY (US);
James C. Shaw, Tenafly, NJ (US);
Shimei Pan, Armonk, NY (US);
James C. Shaw, Tenafly, NJ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for combining natural language generation with query retrieval for context appropriate query recommendation. For example, a computer-implemented method for generating a recommended query for a conversation system in response to an original user query, wherein at least a portion of the original user query is not understandable to a query interpretation process, includes the following steps. Recommendation results are computed, in response to the original user query, using a natural language generation-based recommendation process. Recommendation results are computed, in response to the original user query, using a retrieval-based recommendation process. A recommended query is generated based on consideration of at least a portion of the natural language generation-based recommendation results and at least a portion of the retrieval-based recommendation results.