Patent ID: 11971915
Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A language processing apparatus, comprising:
a processor; and
a storage medium having computer program instructions stored thereon, when executed by the processor, perform to:
acquires an output request including a verb to be searched for and an output target case, and a combination of a case and an argument of the verb which are search conditions from a user,
refers to an argument emergence history database which stores argument emergence patterns associated with cases and arguments of verbs for each meaning of a word or usage of a verb,
acquires an argument emergence pattern which matches the combination of the case and the argument of the verb included in the search conditions from the argument emergence history database, and
extracts an argument corresponding to the output target case from the argument emergence pattern acquired from the argument emergence history database and generates a response to the user using the extracted argument.