Patent ID: 7401016

Claim:
A communication support system for supporting communication between users using natural languages, the system comprising: a semantic analysis section for performing semantic analysis processing to a natural language sentence received from a first user to extract a semantic structure that represents word information, case information, and attribute information of the sentence by a nest structure of attribute-value pairs; a tree structure conversion section for converting the semantic structure into a tree structure by adopting each value of the attribute corresponding to the world information as a node of the tree structure and assuming that the nest structure of attribute-value pairs is a parent-child structure of the tree structure; an illustration dictionary retention section for retaining word information, case information, and attribute information and illustrations corresponding thereto; an attribute dictionary retention section for retaining a set of pairs of an attribute or a value appearing in the semantic structure and an attribute or a value represented by a second language or by an illustration; and an illustration representation presentation section for converting words in the nodes of the tree structure obtained by the tree structure conversion section into an illustration by referring to the illustration dictionary retention section, the illustration representation presentation section for converting the attribute-value pairs of the tree structure into the second language or the illustration by referring to the attribute dictionary retention section, the illustration representation presentation section for presenting to a second user an illustration representation of the tree structure converted from the semantic analysis result received from the semantic analysis section.