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Automatic answering device, automatic answering system, conversation scenario editing device, conversation server, and automatic answering method

  • US 8,374,859 B2
  • Filed: 08/17/2009
  • Issued: 02/12/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An automatic answering device configured to answer automatically to a user utterance, the automatic answering device comprising:

  • an input unit configured to accept a user utterance; and

    an output unit configured to output a reply sentence in a form recognizable by a user, in response to the user utterance accepted by the input unit,wherein the reply sentence is determined based on a conversation scenario which is a set of inputted sentences and reply sentences, the inputted sentences each corresponding to a user utterance assumed to be uttered by the user, the reply sentences each being a reply from the automatic answering device to the inputted sentence, anddata of the conversation scenario have a data structure that enables the inputted sentences and the reply sentences to be expressed in a state transition diagram in which each of the inputted sentences is defined as a morphism and the reply sentence corresponding to the inputted sentence is defined as an object.

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