Dialog supporting apparatus
First Claim
1. A dialog supporting apparatus which supports a present dialog between dialog participants, said dialog supporting apparatus comprising:
- a dialog history database for storing a previous dialog of a first dialog participant, the previous dialog including a number of utterances;
an utterance prediction unit for (a) generating first utterance prediction information based on the utterances of the previous dialog stored in said dialog history database, (b) obtaining second utterance prediction information indicating a number of utterances of a previous dialog from another dialog supporting apparatus, and (c) predicting a next utterance in the present dialog of the first dialog participant using said dialog supporting apparatus based on the first utterance prediction information and the second utterance prediction information; and
a display unit for displaying the next utterance predicted by said utterance prediction unit.
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Abstract
A dialog supporting apparatus which can support an on-going dialog so that the dialog is smoothly completed. The dialog supporting apparatus includes an utterance receiving unit which receives an utterance of a dialog participant and outputs utterance information, an utterance processing unit which translates the utterance identified by the utterance information, an utterance output unit which outputs the translated utterance information, a dialog history database, an utterance prediction unit which generates a first utterance prediction information based on the first utterance prediction information and the second utterance prediction information.
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16 Claims
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1. A dialog supporting apparatus which supports a present dialog between dialog participants, said dialog supporting apparatus comprising:
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a dialog history database for storing a previous dialog of a first dialog participant, the previous dialog including a number of utterances; an utterance prediction unit for (a) generating first utterance prediction information based on the utterances of the previous dialog stored in said dialog history database, (b) obtaining second utterance prediction information indicating a number of utterances of a previous dialog from another dialog supporting apparatus, and (c) predicting a next utterance in the present dialog of the first dialog participant using said dialog supporting apparatus based on the first utterance prediction information and the second utterance prediction information; and a display unit for displaying the next utterance predicted by said utterance prediction unit. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A dialog supporting system for supporting a present dialog between dialog participants, said dialog supporting system comprising:
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a first dialog supporting apparatus; and a second dialog supporting apparatus, wherein said first dialog supporting apparatus includes; a first dialog history database for storing a previous dialog of a first dialog participant; a first utterance prediction unit for (a) generating first utterance prediction information, based on the previous dialog stored in said dialog history database, (b) obtaining second utterance prediction information from said second dialog supporting apparatus, and (c) predicting a next utterance in the present dialog of the first dialog participant using said first dialog supporting apparatus based on the first utterance prediction information and the second utterance prediction information; and a first display unit for displaying the next utterance predicted by said first utterance prediction unit, and wherein said second dialog supporting apparatus includes; a second dialog history database for storing a previous dialog of a second dialog participant; a second utterance prediction unit for (a) generating the second utterance prediction information based on the previous dialog stored in said second dialog history database, (b) obtaining the first utterance prediction information from said first dialog supporting apparatus, and (c) predicting a next utterance in the present dialog of the second dialog participant using said second dialog supporting apparatus based on the first utterance prediction information and the second utterance prediction information; and a second display unit for displaying the next utterance predicted by said second utterance prediction unit.
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15. A dialog supporting method of a dialog supporting apparatus for supporting a present dialog between dialog participants, said dialog supporting method comprising:
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generating first utterance prediction information based on a previous dialog of a first dialog participant; obtaining second utterance prediction information from another dialog supporting apparatus; predicting a next utterance in the present dialog of the first dialog participant using the dialog supporting apparatus, based on the first utterance prediction information and the second utterance prediction information; and displaying the predicted next utterance.
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16. A computer-readable recording medium recorded with a program for supporting a present dialog between dialog participants, said program causing a computer, as a dialog supporting apparatus, to execute utterance prediction comprising:
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generating first utterance prediction information based on a previous dialog of a first dialog participant; obtaining second utterance prediction information from another dialog supporting apparatus; predicting a next utterance in the present dialog of the first dialog participant using the dialog supporting apparatus, based on the first utterance prediction information and the second utterance prediction information; and displaying the predicted next utterance.
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