CLARIFYING NATURAL LANGUAGE INPUT USING TARGETED QUESTIONS

摘要

A dialog assistant embodied in a computing system can present a clarification question based on a machine-readable version of human-generated conversational natural language input. Some versions of the dialog assistant identify a clarification target in the machine-readable version, determine a clarification type relating to the clarification target, present the clarification question in a conversational natural language manner, and process a human-generated conversational natural language response to the clarification question.

主权项

1. A dialog assistant embodied in one or more machine readable storage media, the dialog assistant accessible by a computing system to conduct a clarification dialog with a user by:
identifying a clarification target, the clarification target comprising a machine-readable version of a portion of a human-generated conversational natural language input needing clarification, the clarification target being less than the whole input; determining a clarification type relating to the clarification target, the clarification type indicating a type of clarification needed to clarify the intended meaning of the clarification target; presenting a conversational natural language clarification question based on the clarification type, the clarification question referring to the clarification target; and processing a human-generated conversational natural language response to the clarification question to clarify the intended meaning of the clarification target.