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Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 28, 2018
Applicant:

Ntt Docomo, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, JP;

Inventors:

Yuriko Ozaki, Chiyoda-ku, JP;

Hiroshi Fujimoto, Chiyoda-ku, JP;

Takanori Hashimoto, Chiyoda-ku, JP;

Assignee:

NTT DOCOMO, INC., Chiyoda-ku, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/332 (2019.01); G06F 16/33 (2019.01); G06F 40/289 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/3325 (2019.01); G06F 16/3329 (2019.01); G06F 16/3334 (2019.01); G06F 40/289 (2020.01);
Abstract

A conversation device includes: an inquiry unit configured to output an inquiry including presentation of a key; an acquisition unit configured to acquire an answer; a key accumulating unit configured to accumulate keys included in the inquiry as accumulation keys in a case in which a positive answer for the inquiry is acquired; a candidate question sentence extracting unit configured to extract candidate question sentences including the accumulation keys by referring to a question sentence storing unit configured to store a question sentence and a set of keys included in the question sentence in association with each other; a key selecting unit configured to select an inquiry key that is caused to be included in a next inquiry output by the inquiry unit among a plurality of keys included in the candidate question sentences; and an output unit configured to output one question sentence among the candidate question sentences.


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