Patent ID: 8412715
Filing Date: 2013-04-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus performing dialogue processing, comprising: acquisition means for acquiring text data described in a natural language, wherein the acquisition means includes: example storage means for storing a plurality of examples each including an example statement and frame information described using a frame format and corresponding to the example statement, similarity calculation means for generating an input word string based on the text data acquired by the acquisition means, and for calculating a similarity between the input word string and the example statement stored by the example storage means, example selection means for selecting an example corresponding to an example statement whose similarity to the text data acquired by the acquisition means is the highest from among the plurality of examples stored by the example storage means in accordance with the similarity calculated by the similarity calculation means; text data processing means for processing the text data acquired by the acquisition means to convert the text data into the frame format accordance with the frame information corresponding to the example selected by the example selection means; and dialogue processing means for performing the dialogue processing in accordance with the text data processed and converted into the frame format by the text data processing means, wherein the dialogue processing means puts information corresponding to a target of the acquired text data to be reported to the user in one of the plurality of slots included in the frame format for generating an output statement, and wherein the similarity calculation means uses the similarity for the example statement calculated in a last dialogue processing immediately preceding a current dialogue processing as a correction value or a value for the weighting.