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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2015
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, JP;
Kentaro Torisawa, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Goto, Tokyo, JP;
Julien Kloetzer, Tokyo, JP;
Takuya Kawada, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
[Object] To provide a device assisting a user to easily generate, in relation to an issue of interest to the user, a question sentence guaranteed to have an answer of a certain accuracy or higher in a question-answering system. [Solution] A question sentence generating device is used with a question-answering system, and it includes: word receiving means for receiving a wordas a source for generating a question sentence; and question sentence generating databasecomprised of a plurality of entries for generating a question sentence. Each of the plurality of entries has a word as a key and includes an answer sentence pattern co-occurring with the word, used in the question-answering system. The question sentence generating device further includes a question sentence generating unit, searching the question sentence generating databasefor an answer sentence pattern using the wordreceived by the word receiving means as a key, for generating a question sentence from a retrieved answer sentence pattern and the received word