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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2017
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Takuya Hiraoka, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A dialog apparatusis an apparatus for responding to a dialog act of a user. The dialog apparatusis provided with: a policy unitconfigured to set a score to each of response candidates included in a set of response candidates based on the state of a dialog being performed with the user and a policy parameter, and referring to the set scores, to select one of the response candidates as a dialog act of the dialog apparatus; and a policy parameter updating unitconfigured to obtain a reward in the state of the dialog using a reward function that, as the reward, returns an evaluation of a behavior performed in a specific circumstance as a quantitatively represented numeric value, and to update the policy parameter based on the obtained reward.