Dialog supporting apparatus

摘要

To provide a dialog supporting apparatus which can support an on-going dialog so that the dialog is smoothly completed irrespective of the other party in the dialog. The dialog supporting apparatus 100 includes: an utterance receiving unit 101 and an utterance receiving unit 103 which respectively receive the utterances of the dialog participants and output the utterance information for identifying an utterance; an utterance outputting unit 102 and an utterance outputting unit 104 which respectively output the utterance information from the other participant in the dialog as an utterance; an utterance processing unit 105 which transforms the utterance identified by the utterance information into the other utterance form; a dialog history selection unit 107 which selects the optimum dialog history in the dialog history database 201; and an utterance prediction unit 106 which predicts utterances in the dialog based on the selected dialog history.