Patent ID: 9530405
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: G06F,G10L

Claim Text:
1. An intention estimating device that estimates a user's intention from the user's language input, said intention estimating device comprising: an intention estimation unit extractor that splits the inputted language into a plurality of morphemes and extracts, from the morphemes, one or more intention estimation units each of which is a unit on which an estimation of said intention is to be performed, each of the intention estimation units consisting of one or more morphemes; an intention estimator that estimates a respective partial intention which indicates a respective intention for each of the intention estimation units extracted by said intention estimation unit extractor; an intention co-occurrence weight calculator that calculates an intention co-occurrence weight having a value which depends on a relationship between said partial intentions estimated by said intention estimator; and an intention sequence estimator that: