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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2020
Applicant:
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/166 (2020.01); G06F 40/242 (2020.01); G06F 40/253 (2020.01); G06F 40/268 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/166 (2020.01); G06F 40/242 (2020.01); G06F 40/253 (2020.01); G06F 40/268 (2020.01);
Abstract
An expanded utterance that is used to output a more appropriate output utterance for an utterance can be generated. An utterance sentence expansion device includes an expansion unit that inserts, for an utterance that is an utterance to be expanded that includes a noun and is morphologically analyzed in advance, by using information of an expansion dictionary, which includes higher-level categories of the noun, one or more higher-level categories of the expansion dictionary corresponding to the noun included in the utterance into a position before the noun of the utterance to generate an expanded utterance.