Tencent Technology (shenzhen) Company Limited

Rongling Yu

Yunfeng Liu

Haisong Yang

Zhiyuan Liu

Embodiments of the present invention provides a chatting system for a virtual pet, including a pet client, configured to receive a natural language sentence of a pet master, and send the natural language sentence to a virtual pet server; the virtual pet server, configured to forward the natural language sentence to a questioning and answering server, and return a natural language response to the pet client; the questioning and answering server, configured to perform processing of natural language understanding on the natural language sentence, obtain language characteristics of the pet master, generate the natural language response according to a natural language understanding result and the language characteristics of the pet master, and return the natural language response to the virtual pet server. Embodiments of the present invention further provide a chatting method for a virtual pet and a questioning and answering server.

Chatting system, method and apparatus for virtual pet

A virtual pet system includes: a virtual pet client, adapted to receive a sentence in natural language and send the sentence to a Q&A server; the Q&A server, adapted to receive the sentence, process the sentence through natural language comprehension, generate an answer in natural language based on a result of natural language comprehension and reasoning knowledge, and send the answer in natural language to the virtual pet client. A method for virtual pet chatting includes: receiving a sentence in natural language, perform natural language comprehension for the sentence, and generating an answer in natural language based on a result of natural language comprehension and reasoning knowledge. A Q&A server includes: a sentence comprehension engine unit, adapted to process a received sentence in natural language through natural language comprehension, and send a result of natural language comprehension to a reasoning engine unit; the reasoning engine unit, adapted to generate an answer in natural language based on reasoning knowledge and the result of natural language comprehension, and send the answer in natural language; a knowledge base, adapted to store the reasoning knowledge.

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