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Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 27, 2014
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Motoki Tsunokawa, Chiba, JP;

Assignee:

SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 17/28 (2006.01); G10L 21/00 (2013.01); G10L 15/26 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/279 (2013.01); G06F 17/2705 (2013.01); G06F 17/2755 (2013.01); G06F 17/30026 (2013.01); G06F 17/30758 (2013.01);
Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes: an intention understanding unit configured to understand intention of a question inputted from a user; and an information extracting unit configured to extract response basic information which is a response to the question understood by the intention understanding unit and response addition information having relationship with the response basic information from a plurality of pieces of knowledge information including knowledge information relating to the user. Each piece of knowledge information includes a plurality of information elements and relationship information indicating relationship among the plurality of information elements. The information extracting unit extracts the response addition information from a group of information elements having relationship with an information element extracted as the response basic information and an information element included in the knowledge information relating to the user, directly or via one or more information elements.


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