APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING OBTAINING OF DISCUSSION STATE

• Main Authors: TSUBOI SOUGO, ASHIKAWA TAIRA, GOTO KAZUYUKI, MANABE TOSHIHIKO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.02.2009
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain relation between messages and ranges included in the messages. SOLUTION: The discussion state grasp supporting apparatus comprises: a means 102 for storing a plurality of messages; a means 103 for specifying speech action in each range included in each message; a means 104 for specifying a topic based on the frequency of a character string in each range; a means 105 for relationally storing the range and the speech action and the topic corresponding to the range; a means 106 for receiving a request for presenting information concerned with a certain topic; a means 107 for acquiring the range and the speech action related to the certain topic from the means 102, 105 and setting the topic, the range and the speech action on a base point; a means 109 for calculating a degree of easy connection between speech actions; and a means 108 for calculating a degree of speech actions set on the base point and detecting a set of ranges related to the base point from a plurality of speech actions in accordance with the calculated degree of speech actions set on the base point and the topic set on the base point. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT