Tech Showcase: InfoBots: AI-Powered Conversational QnA Systems

  • Manish Malik | Microsoft

As we move into the world of messaging apps, bots and botification of content, users are starting to move from keyword searches to relying on bots and assistants for their information seeking needs. Bing has built InfoBots, a set of AI- and Bing-powered QnA capabilities that bots can leverage to help users with their information-seeking needs. InfoBots QnA capabilities are tuned for answering any information-seeking question from a wide variety of content (Open domain content from the Internet, specific vertical domain content, etc.). InfoBots supports conversational QnA through multi-turn question and answer understanding to answer natural-language-based questions. InfoBots capabilities have applications in both consumer and enterprise contexts.

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