Abstract

Techniques for generating a natural language prompt to further a goal of a dialog, are described. During a dialog, the system receives one or more user inputs including a user question, a user response to the question, and a request to generate a further question following the response. The system determines ASR output data corresponding to the user inputs, and determines dialog history data of the dialog. Using the ASR output data and the dialog history data, the system determines a category and an explanation of relevance corresponding to the category. Using the ASR output data, the dialog history, the category, and the explanation, the system determines the further question to be output to the user.

Date

October 28, 2025

Authors

A Kumar, Y Fung, P Natarajan, A Galstyan, H Ji

Inventors

Anoop Kumar, Yi Fung, Premkumar Natarajan, Aram Galstyan, Heng Ji

Patent_office

US

Patent_number

12456015

Application_number

18193693