SUGGESTING A RESPONSE TO A MESSAGE BY SELECTING A TEMPLATE USING A NEURAL NETWORK

A neural network may be used to suggest a response to a received message. One or more messages of a conversation may be processed to generate a conversation feature vector that describes the conversation. The conversation feature vector may be used to select a template from a data store of templates. For example, each template may be associated with a template feature vector, and the template whose template feature vector is closest to the conversation feature vector may be selected. The selected template may have a slot corresponding to a class of words, such as a person's name. A text value may be obtained corresponding to the slot (e.g., a person's name), and the template and the text value may be used to suggest a response to the received message. A person may select the suggested response to cause the suggested response to be sent as a message.