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Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 04, 2019
Applicant:

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Atsushi Otsuka, Tokyo, JP;

Ko Mitsuda, Tokyo, JP;

Taichi Katayama, Tokyo, JP;

Junji Tomita, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 15/06 (2013.01); G10L 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 15/063 (2013.01); G10L 15/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided are a dialogue device, a dialogue method, a data structure, and a program capable of realizing various dialogues while reducing the amount of description of a dialogue scenario. A knowledge transition unitdetermines a next type of knowledge based on: a knowledge basein which a relation label indicating each of relations between a plurality of types of knowledge is attached to knowledge about each of utterances to express the knowledge about the utterance; a user utterance; current knowledge; and a dialogue scenario including a basic scenario in which a transition method between the plurality of types of knowledge in the knowledge base is determined using the relation label, and an utterance generation unitgenerates a system utterance based on the next type of knowledge.


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