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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 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;
Takamasa Iio, Suita, JP;
Tsunehiro Arimoto, Suita, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Suita, JP;
Abstract
The present invention keeps a dialogue continuing for a long time without causing uncomfortable feeling to a user. A dialogue systemincludes at least an input partthat receives a user utterance, which is an utterance from a user and a presentation partthat presents the utterance. The input partreceives a user utterance performed by the user. A presentation part-presents a dialogue-establishing utterance which does not include any content words. A presentation part-presents a second utterance associated with a generation target utterance, which is one or more utterances performed before user utterance that includes at least the user utterance, after the dialogue-establishing utterance.