Virtual Assistant That Provides Answers Based On Past Conversations

It is often the case that participants in a conversation, e.g., a chat conversation via a messaging app or an audio/video call, do not remember the details of the conversation. This disclosure describes the use of machine learning techniques to automatically answer questions related to a past conversation by use of machine reading comprehensive models. The models are trained using conversation transcripts and provide answers based on a conversation between users, or between a user and a virtual assistant. The models can be incorporated in a virtual assistant that can reason over any number of conversations to arrive at an answer