Patent ID: 7752051
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: G06F,G10L

Abstract:
1. A dialog supporting apparatus which supports an on-going dialog made by a first dialog participant and a second dialog participant, said apparatus comprising: a recording medium for storing a plurality of dialog histories each comprised of dialogs which are utterance strings of a plurality of people including the first dialog participant, the second dialog participant, and one or more dialog participants other than the first dialog participant and the second dialog participant, the dialog histories being stored in association with first information identifying the people, including the first dialog participant, the second dialog participant, and the one or more dialog participants other than the first dialog participant and the second dialog participant, of the dialog histories and second information indicating a topic of a dialog; a dialog history selection unit operable to: an utterance prediction unit operable to predict a next utterance of either the first dialog participant or the second dialog participant in the dialog, based on the dialog history selected by said dialog history selection unit, and to predict, as a next utterance of either the first dialog participant or the second dialog participant in the dialog, an utterance which is included in the dialog history selected by said dialog history selection unit and appears next to an utterance corresponding to an utterance in the dialog.