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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2022
Filed:
May. 19, 2017
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Osaka University, Suita, JP;
Hiroaki Sugiyama, Soraku-gun, JP;
Toyomi Meguro, Soraku-gun, JP;
Junji Yamato, Soraku-gun, JP;
Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Suita, JP;
Hiroshi Ishiguro, Suita, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Suita, JP;
Abstract
The present invention improves a sense of participation in a topic and enables a dialogue to continue for a long time. A dialogue systemincludes at least an input partthat receives a user's utterance and a presentation partthat presents an utterance. In an utterance receiving step, the input partreceives an utterance performed by the user. In a first presentation step, the presentation partpresents an utterance determined based on scenarios stored in advance. In a second presentation step, the presentation partpresents the utterance determined based on the user's utterance contents. A dialogue control partperforms control to execute a dialogue at least including a first dialogue flow which is a dialogue including the utterance receiving step and the first presentation step at least one time respectively based on a predetermined scenario, and a second dialogue flow which is a dialogue including the utterance receiving step and the second presentation step at least one time respectively.