INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM

    公开(公告)号:US20180150553A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-31

    申请号:US15805915

    申请日:2017-11-07

    CPC classification number: G06F16/3344 G06F16/735 G06F16/90332

    Abstract: There is provided an information processing method for performing, through interaction with a user, narrowing down regarding information that the user desires to search for. The method includes: outputting a first question, which is an open question, about a target of search; obtaining a first answer to the first question, the first answer being input by the user; if a determination is made indicating that the first answer does not satisfy a first condition and that a word or phrase corresponding to a word or phrase included in the first answer is not included in a database, outputting a second question, which is an open question, for requesting an explanation about the word or phrase included in the first answer and not included in the database; and if a determination is made indicating that the first answer satisfies the first condition, outputting a closed question about the target of search.

    MEANING GENERATION METHOD, MEANING GENERATION APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

    公开(公告)号:US20170365252A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-12-21

    申请号:US15618383

    申请日:2017-06-09

    Abstract: A meaning generation method, in a meaning generation apparatus, includes acquiring meaning training data including text data of a sentence that can be an utterance sentence and meaning information indicating a meaning of the sentence and associated with the text data of the sentence, acquiring restatement training data including the text data of the sentence and text data of a restatement sentence of the sentence, and learning association between the utterance sentence and the meaning information and the restatement sentence. The learning includes learning of a degree of importance of a word included in the utterance sentence, and the learning is performed by applying the meaning training data and the restatement training data to a common model, and storing a result of the learning as learning result information.

    INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM

    公开(公告)号:US20180005333A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-01-04

    申请号:US15627350

    申请日:2017-06-19

    Abstract: An information processing method in an interactive apparatus that questions a user's symptom through interaction with a user includes: outputting first question information of a first type concerning the user's symptom to a display or a speaker connected to the interactive apparatus, receiving first answer information indicating an answer to the question in the first question information from a keyboard, a touch panel, or a microphone connected to the interactive apparatus, outputting second question information of the first type concerning the user's symptom to the display or the speaker when it is determined that the answer in the first answer information does not include a word in a negative expression, and outputting third question information of a second type concerning the user's symptom to the display or the speaker when it is determined that the answer in the first answer information includes the word in the negative expression.

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