International Business Machines Corporation
Morphed conversational answering via agent hierarchy of varied granularity

Abstract:

A hierarchy of agents is constructed from a set of agents. Each agent in the hierarchy is trained to answer a question according to a corresponding corpus associated with the agent, which contains a portion of knowledge about a subject-matter. The question is submitted to a first subset of agents, the agents in the first subset occupying a first level in the hierarchy. From a first agent in the first subset, a first answer is propagated to a second agent in a second subset of agents, the first agent computing the first answer using a first portion of knowledge about the subject-matter. to form a first morphed answer, a second answer is added to the first answer, the second answer being computed by the second agent using a second portion of knowledge about the subject-matter. The morphed answer is produced in response to the question.