摘要 |
To provide a dialog supporting apparatus which can support an on-going dialog so that the dialog is smoothly completed irrespective of who the other party in the dialog. The dialog supporting apparatus 100 includes: an utterance receiving unit 101 which receives an utterance of a dialog participant and outputs utterance information for identifying the utterance; an utterance processing unit 102 which translates the utterance identified by the utterance information into the other utterance form; an utterance output unit 103 which outputs the translated utterance information which is the utterance to the other dialog participant; a dialog history database 104 storing dialog histories, each of which includes two or more pieces of past utterance information of the dialog participant which are placed in time sequence; an utterance prediction unit 105 which generates a first utterance prediction information, based on the dialog history, obtains a second utterance prediction information from the other dialog supporting apparatus, and predicts the next utterance of the dialog participant who uses the dialog supporting apparatus 100 , based on the first utterance prediction information and the second utterance prediction information.
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