CONVERSATION EXPRESSION GENERATING APPARATUS AND CONVERSATION EXPRESSION GENERATING PROGRAM

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the degree of understanding of readers and listeners by automatically generating conversation expressions based on described monologue sentences. PSOLUTION: This conversation expression generating apparatus A comprises a monologue text acquisition means acquiring a monologue text, a pretreatment means generating one or more simple texts by dividing the acquired monologue text, a sentence end treatment means analyzing the sentence end expression of the generated simple text and allowing the sentence end expression to correspond to either of a plurality of sentence end expression patterns, a comment selection means selecting one comment text corresponding to the simple sentence text allowed to correspond to the any one sentence end expression pattern from a plurality of comment texts set as expressions to respond to the sentence end expression patterns while being related thereto, and a means generating and outputting a conversation text formed of the simple sentence text and the comment text by inserting the selected comment text after the simple sentence text. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO