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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 30, 2019
Applicant:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kenji Iwata, Tokyo, JP;

Hiroshi Fujimura, Yokohama Kanagawa, JP;

Yuka Kobayashi, Seto Aichi, JP;

Takami Yoshida, Kawasaki Kanagawa, JP;

Masami Akamine, Yokosuka Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G10L 13/08 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 17/24 (2013.01); G10L 15/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/086 (2013.01); G10L 15/1822 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 15/26 (2013.01); G10L 17/24 (2013.01); G10L 2015/225 (2013.01); G10L 2015/226 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment, an interactive system includes following units. The knowledge reference unit refers to a question-answering knowledge based on a result of analyzing an input sentence to acquire a candidate for an answer to the input sentence. The unknown keyword detection unit detects, from the input sentence, an unknown keyword. The related keyword estimation unit acquires, in response to the detection of the unknown keyword, one or more candidates for a related keyword having a meaning close to the unknown keyword from predetermined keywords. The response generation unit generates a response to the input sentence based on the one or more candidates for the related keyword when the unknown keyword is detected.


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