COMMUNITY-DRIVEN, CONTEXT-AWARE INTELLIGENT RESEARCH ASSISTANT SYSTEMS

Community-driven, context-aware (e.g., geospatially and space-time aware) intelligent research assistant systems are provided. A virtual assistant application of a user computing system may receive a query from a user and provide the query to a server. The server may determine a category and topic of the query and determine whether an application exists for the category and topic. When the application exists, the server may call an application programming interface (API) associated with the application that executes finite state machine (FSM) logic to determine a context-aware answer to the query and provide the determined context-aware answer to the virtual assistant application.