公开(公告)号：US11429784B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-30

申请号：US17040524

申请日：2019-03-27

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Nozomi Kobayashi ,  Kuniko Saito ,  Junji Tomita

IPC: G10L15/00 ,  G06F40/20 ,  G06F40/56 ,  G10L15/02 ,  G10L15/22 ,  G10L15/26 ,  G10L13/08 ,  G06F40/268

Abstract: To make it possible to generate a response sentence with respect to an input speech sentence without preparing a large amount of data.
A response-type determining unit 117 determines, based on an analysis result of a speech sentence analyzed by a speech-content analyzing unit 112, a speech type indicating a type of the speech sentence and determines a response type with respect to the determined speech type based on the speech type and a type conversion rule prescribing, for each speech type, a rule for a response type with respect to a speech of the speech type. A response-sentence generating unit 119 generates the response sentence based on the response type and a response sentence database.

公开(公告)号：US11989976B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-21

申请号：US16969765

申请日：2019-02-15

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Ryo Ishii ,  Ryuichiro Higashinaka ,  Taichi Katayama ,  Junji Tomita ,  Nozomi Kobayashi ,  Kyosuke Nishida

IPC: G06V40/20 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G06V40/10 ,  G10L15/22

CPC classification number: G06V40/28 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G06V40/10 ,  G10L15/22 ,  G10L2015/225

Abstract: A nonverbal information generation apparatus includes a nonverbal information generation unit that generates time-information-stamped nonverbal information that corresponds to time-information-stamped text feature quantities on the basis of the time-information-stamped text feature quantities and a learned nonverbal information generation model. The time-information-stamped text feature quantities are configured to include feature quantities that have been extracted from text and time information representing times assigned to predetermined units of the text. The nonverbal information is information for controlling an expression unit that expresses behavior that corresponds to the text.

公开(公告)号：US12165672B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-10

申请号：US16969242

申请日：2019-02-15

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Ryo Ishii ,  Ryuichiro Higashinaka ,  Taichi Katayama ,  Junji Tomita ,  Nozomi Kobayashi ,  Kyosuke Nishida

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G10L15/02 ,  G10L15/06 ,  G10L25/63

Abstract: A nonverbal information generation apparatus includes a display unit that partitions text into predetermined units, displays the text partitioned into the predetermined units, and makes nonverbal information that represents information about behavior of a verbal output agent or nonverbal information that represents information about behavior of a receiver of verbal information of the verbal output agent that corresponds to the text when the verbal output agent outputs the verbal information visible in association with the predetermined units of the text.

公开(公告)号：US20240321011A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-26

申请号：US18631778

申请日：2024-04-10

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Ryo ISHII ,  Ryuichiro Higashinaka ,  Taichi Katayama ,  Junji Tomita ,  Nozomi Kobayashi ,  Kyosuke Nishida

IPC: G06V40/20 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G06V40/10 ,  G10L15/22

CPC classification number: G06V40/28 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G06V40/10 ,  G10L15/22 ,  G10L2015/225

Abstract: A nonverbal information generation apparatus includes a nonverbal information generation unit that generates time-information-stamped nonverbal information that corresponds to time-information-stamped text feature quantities on the basis of the time-information-stamped text feature quantities and a learned nonverbal information generation model. The time-information-stamped text feature quantities are configured to include feature quantities that have been extracted from text and time information representing times assigned to predetermined units of the text. The nonverbal information is information for controlling an expression unit that expresses behavior that corresponds to the text.

公开(公告)号：US11809820B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-07

申请号：US17049939

申请日：2019-04-22

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Kuniko Saito ,  Nozomi Kobayashi ,  Junji Tomita

IPC: G06F40/00 ,  G06F40/20 ,  G06F40/58 ,  G06F40/51 ,  G06F40/263 ,  G06F40/295 ,  G06F40/30 ,  G06F40/268

CPC classification number: G06F40/20 ,  G06F40/263 ,  G06F40/295 ,  G06F40/30 ,  G06F40/51 ,  G06F40/58 ,  G06F40/268

Abstract: It is an object to successfully absorb a difference in characteristics to be taken into consideration between languages and implement common named entity extraction in a processing system.
A language characteristic extraction device 11 includes a language characteristic extraction unit that selects an abstract rule corresponding to a characteristic of a target language from among a collection of abstract rules common to a plurality of languages and sets, as a language-specific characteristic extraction rule, a concrete feature extraction method suited to the target language and a definition given as an output condition, defines, for each of a plurality of target languages, the language-specific characteristic extraction rule, and extracts a feature corresponding to a language of an input sentence from a morphological analysis result of the input sentence while referring to the language-specific characteristic extraction rule defined for the language and aimed at extracting a feature related to a representation or a part of speech included in the morphological analysis result and outputs the feature as a language characteristic extraction result.