Execution engine for compositional entity resolution for assistant systems

One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:

• receive, from a client system of a user, a user input comprising a plurality of n-grams;
• parse the user input to identify one or more overall intents, one or more hidden intents, and one or more slots associated with the one or more n-grams, wherein at least one of the hidden intents is non-resolvable for being associated with partial slot information corresponding to a first n-gram that has not been resolved to a particular entity identifier, wherein the partial slot information is associated with two or more entity identifiers of two or more entities, respectively, wherein each hidden intent is associated with one of the one or more overall intents, and wherein the one or more hidden intents must be resolved prior to resolving the overall intent;
• send, to the client system, instructions for prompting the user to select one of the two or more entities to be associated with the at least one non-resolvable hidden intent and to associate the first n-gram to the entity identifier of the entity selected by the user;
• resolve the at least one non-resolvable hidden intent based on the entity identifier of the entity selected by the user;
• resolve the one or more overall intents based on the resolved at least one non-resolvable hidden intent that is resolved from the entity identifier of the entity selected by the user;
• and
• generate a response to the user input based on the resolved hidden intent and the resolved one or more overall intents.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and a non-transitory memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to:
• receive, from a client system of a user, a user input comprising a plurality of n-grams;
• parse the user input to identify one or more overall intents, one or more hidden intents, and one or more slots associated with the one or more n-grams, wherein at least one of the hidden intents is non-resolvable for being associated with partial slot information corresponding to a first n-gram that has not been resolved to a particular entity identifier, wherein the partial slot information is associated with two or more entity identifiers of two or more entities, respectively, wherein each hidden intent is associated with one of the one or more overall intents, and wherein the one or more hidden intents must be resolved prior to resolving the overall intent;
• send, to the client system, instructions for prompting the user to select one of the two or more entities to be associated with the at least one non-resolvable hidden intent and to associate the first n-gram to the entity identifier of the entity selected by the user;
• resolve the at least one non-resolvable hidden intent based on the entity identifier of the entity selected by the user;
• resolve the one or more overall intents based on the resolved at least one non-resolvable hidden intent that is resolved from the entity identifier of the entity selected by the user;
• and
• generate a response to the user input based on the resolved hidden intent and the resolved one or more overall intents.