US Patent Issued to NTT on March 3 for "Dialogue processing apparatus, learning apparatus, dialogue processing method, learning method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,927, issued on March 3, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Dialogue processing apparatus, learning apparatus, dialogue processing method, learning method and program" was invented by Yasuhito Osugi (Tokyo), Itsumi Saito (Tokyo), Kyosuke Nishida (Tokyo), Hisako Asano (Tokyo) and Junji Tomita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A generation unit that takes a question Qi that is a word sequence representing a current question in a dialogue, a document P used to generate an answer Ai to the question Qi, a question history {Qi-1.., Qi-k} that is a set of word sequences representing k past questions, and an answer history {Ai-1.., Ai-k} ...