SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ARTIFICIAL CONVERSATIONAL ENTITIES ENHANCED BY SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE

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15265615

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A method for answering a natural-language user query includes receiving a query from a user by a central agent, parsing the query, and determining if an answer is known to the central agent as being within a local database. If the answer is known, the query is answered with a known natural-language answer using the local database. If not, artificial conversational entity (ACE) invocation is performed. The ACE invocation includes determining a topical field for the query, determining an ACE, of a plurality of ACEs, to send the query to, based on the topical field, and sending the query to the ACE. If the ACE is capable of answering, a natural-language answer is received from the ACE and presented to the user. If not, a natural-language answer is created using social knowledge and presented to the user. Social knowledge includes data crawled from subscriber-provided content of social media services.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONNEW ORCHARD ROAD ARMONK NY 10504

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Braz, ALAN Campinas, BR 15 201
Cavalin, Paulo Rodrigo Reo De Janeiro, BR 9 157
Diniz, de Figueiredo Flavio Vinicius Reo De Janeiro, BR 2 132
Gatti, De Bayser Maira Reo De Janeiro, BR 9 158
Santos, Souza Renan Francisco Reo De Janeiro, BR 4 147

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