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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2018
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Osaka University, Suita, JP;
Hiroaki Sugiyama, Soraku-gun, JP;
Hiromi Narimatsu, Soraku-gun, JP;
Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Suita, JP;
Takamasa Iio, Suita, JP;
Tsunehiro Arimoto, Suita, JP;
Hiroshi Ishiguro, Suita, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Suita, JP;
Abstract
It is an object of the present invention to prevent inattentive listening to a dialogue of an agent without taking it seriously and to make it easier to understand the dialogue with the agent. A dialogue systemconducts a dialogue with a user. A humanoid robot-presents a leap-in-logic utterance, which is an utterance, of which a logical structure is partially missing. The userexpresses a confirmation action which is an action confirming the missing information in the leap-in-logic utterance. The humanoid robot-presents a supplementary utterance which is an utterance describing the missing information.