Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Atsushi Otsuka

Junji Tomita

Kyosuke Nishida

Hisako Asano

Itsumi Saito

Kosuke Nishida

Taichi Katayama

Ko Mitsuda

Ryuichiro Higashinaka

Kuniko Saito

Katsuji Bessho

Narichika Nomoto

Yoshihiro Matsuo

A text generation apparatus includes a content selection unit that acquires a reference text based on an input text and information different from the input text and a generation unit that generates a text based on the input text and the reference text, wherein the content selection unit and the generation unit are neural networks based on learned parameters, so that information to be considered when generating a text can be added as text.

Text generation apparatus, text generation learning apparatus, text generation method, text generation learning method and program

An encoding unit transforms a piece of text divided into a plurality of spans that are subdivided units of the piece of text and a question which have been input into a vector representation sequence representing a meaning of a span and the question based on the piece of text and the question which have been input using a pre-trained encoding model for transforming input text into a vector representation sequence representing a meaning of the input text. For each of the spans, an evidence extraction unit estimates an evidence score indicating the degree to which the span is suitable as the evidence for extracting the answer using a pre-trained extraction model for calculating the evidence score based on the vector representation sequence.

Answer generating device, answer learning device, answer generating method, and answer generating program

A sentence generation device has: an estimation unit for receiving input of a first sentence and an output length, and estimating importance of each word constituting the first sentence using a pre-trained model; and a generation unit for generating a second sentence based on the importance, and thus makes it possible to evaluate importance of a constituent element of an input sentence, in correspondence with a designated output length.

Text generation apparatus, text generation method, text generation learning apparatus, text generation learning method and program

A sentence generation device has: an estimation unit for receiving input of a first sentence and a focus point related to generation of a second sentence to be generated based on the first sentence, and estimating importance of each word constituting the first sentence using a pre-trained model; and a generation unit for generating the second sentence based on the importance, and thus makes it possible to evaluate importance of a constituent element of an input sentence in correspondence with a designated focus point.

Sentence generation using pre-trained model with word importance and focus point

To make it possible to generate dialogue data for generating a question sentence to deeply delve conversation at a low cost. For each of a plurality of pieces of data each including a set of a first utterance sentence that is a sentence uttered by a first user, a second utterance sentence that is a sentence uttered by a second user and is a response to the first utterance sentence, and a third utterance sentence that is a sentence uttered by the first user and is a response to the second utterance sentence, a dialogue data generation unitgenerates a set of the first utterance sentence of the data and the second utterance sentence of the data as dialogue data when the second utterance sentence of the data is a question sentence using an interrogative.

Dialogue data generation device, dialogue data generation method, and program

It is possible to ask an appropriate question for digging an utterance of the other party in depth. An interrogative search unit estimates an estimated used interrogative with a text, which is an utterance sentence, as an input, by using a predetermined rule or an estimator that has already learned, the estimated used interrogative being an interrogative related to the text. A candidate utterance sentence generation unit generates each of candidate utterance sentences for the utterance sentence with the text as an input through automatic utterance generation. Based on each of the candidate utterance sentences and an estimation result of the estimated used interrogative, a ranking unit ranks the candidate utterance sentenced, based on the scored.

Utterance generation device, method, and program

A question generation device includes: generating means which uses a query and a relevant document including an answer to the query as input and, using a machine learning model having been learned in advance, generates a revised query in which a potentially defective portion of the query is supplemented with a word included in a prescribed lexical set.

Question responding apparatus, question responding method and program

A text generation apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to execute acquiring a reference text based on an input text and information different from the input text; and generating a text based on the input text and the reference text, wherein the acquiring and the generating are implemented as neural networks based on learned parameters.

This disclosure is provided, in which an answer generation unit configured to receive a document and a question as inputs, and execute processing of generating an answer sentence for the question by a learned model by using a word included in a union of a predetermined first vocabulary and a second vocabulary composed of words included in the document and the question, in which the learned model includes a learned neural network that has been learned in advance whether word included in the answer sentence is included in the second vocabulary, and increases or decreases a probability at which a word included in the second vocabulary is selected as the word included in the answer sentence at the time of generating the answer sentence by the learned neural network.

To enable provision of appropriate information for a user query even in a case there are multiple information provision modules which are different in answer generation processing. A query sending unitsends a user query to each one of a plurality of information provision module unitsthat are different in the answer generation processing and that each generate an answer candidate for the user query. An output control unitperforms control such that the answer candidate acquired from each one of the plurality of information provision module unitsis displayed on a display uniton a per-agent basis with information on an agent associated with that information provision module unit

Information provision device, information provision method, and program

Provided are a dialogue device, a dialogue method, a data structure, and a program capable of realizing various dialogues while reducing the amount of description of a dialogue scenario. A knowledge transition unitdetermines a next type of knowledge based on: a knowledge basein which a relation label indicating each of relations between a plurality of types of knowledge is attached to knowledge about each of utterances to express the knowledge about the utterance; a user utterance; current knowledge; and a dialogue scenario including a basic scenario in which a transition method between the plurality of types of knowledge in the knowledge base is determined using the relation label, and an utterance generation unitgenerates a system utterance based on the next type of knowledge.

Dialog device, dialog method, data structure, and program

An information processing device includes a processing unit configured to receive as input a document and a question, and to execute processing to output an answer range as a range of a string that can be an answer to the question in the document, or an answer suitability of the document with respect to the question, by using neural networks, wherein the processing unit includes a first neural network configured to calculate the answer range, and a second neural network configured to calculate the answer suitability, and between the first neural network and the second neural network, part of layers constituting both neural networks is shared.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

Taking as input a group of text pairs for learning in which each pair is constituted with a first text for learning and a second text for learning that serves as an answer when a question is made with the first text for learning, a query expansion model is learned so as to generate a text serving as an expanded query for a text serving as a query.

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