Iterative answer and supplemental information extraction for machine reading comprehension

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to:

• obtain a user query and multiple items of context information related to the user query;
• identify at least one of the multiple items of context information to be used in connection with generating supplemental information for an answer to the user query by processing the user query and at least a portion of the multiple items of context information;
• generate the answer to the user query using at least one artificial intelligence-based question answering system;
• generate at least one modified version of the user query based at least in part on one or more keywords derived from the generated answer and one or more keywords derived from the user query;
• generate one or more items of supplemental information for the generated answer by processing the at least one modified version of the user query and at least a portion of the at least one identified item of context information;
• and
• perform one or more automated actions based at least in part on the one or more items of supplemental information.

A system comprising:

• a memory configured to store program instructions;
• and
• a processor operatively coupled to the memory to execute the program instructions to:
• obtain a user query and multiple items of context information related to the user query;
• identify at least one of the multiple items of context information to be used in connection with generating supplemental information for an answer to the user query by processing the user query and at least a portion of the multiple items of context information;
• generate the answer to the user query using at least one artificial intelligence-based question answering system;
• generate at least one modified version of the user query based at least in part on one or more keywords derived from the generated answer and one or more keywords derived from the user query;
• generate one or more items of supplemental information for the generated answer by processing the at least one modified version of the user query and at least a portion of the at least one identified item of context information;
• and
• perform one or more automated actions based at least in part on the one or more items of supplemental information.