CONVERSATIONAL/MULTI-TURN QUESTION UNDERSTANDING USING WEB INTELLIGENCE

摘要

Conversational or multi-turn question understanding using web intelligence is provided. An intelligent query understanding system is provided for receiving a context-dependent query from a user, obtaining contextual information related to the context-dependent query, and reformatting the context-dependent query as one or more reformulations based on the contextual information. The intelligent query understanding system is further operative to query a search engine with the one or more reformulations, receive one or more candidate results, and select a highest ranked reformulation based on the candidate results. The system can provide the highest ranked reformulation of the highest ranked reformulation as a response.