Cobot: Real Time Multi User Conversational Search and Recommendations

Cobot is a new intelligent agent platform that connects users through real-time and off-line conversations about their health and medical issues. Intelligent web based information agents (conversational/community bots) participate in each conversation providing highly-relevant real-time informational recommendations and connecting people with relevant conversations and other community members. Cobot provides an innovative approach to facilitate easier information access allowing users to exchange information through a natural language conversational approach. Conversational Search(CS) is an interactive and collaborative information finding interaction. The participants in this interaction engage in social conversations aided with an intelligent information agent (Cobot) that provides contextually relevant factual, web search and social search recommendations. Cobot aims to help users make faster and more informed search and discovery. It also helps the agent learn about conversations with interactions and social feedback to make better recommendations. Cobot leverages the social discovery process by integrating web information retrieval along with the social interactions and recommendations.