International Business Machines Corporation
Disambiguation of generic commands for controlling objects

Abstract:

A computer system performs an action on an object identified from a command. A command is analyzed to perform an action on a target object, wherein the command includes a term for the target object that refers to a plurality of different candidate objects. The target object is identified from the plurality of different candidate objects based on historical associations of the term with specific ones of the candidate objects, recent interactions with the different candidate objects, and a state of the candidate objects provided by network devices. The action is performed on the identified target object. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for performing an action on an object identified from a command in substantially the same manner described above.