Intention inference system and intention inference method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10460034-B2
Application number	US-201515546801-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 28, 2015
Priority date	Jan 28, 2015
Publication date	Oct 29, 2019
Grant date	Oct 29, 2019

Abstract

An intention inference system includes, a morphological analyzer to perform morphological analysis for a complex sentence with multiple intentions involved, a syntactic analyzer to perform syntactic analysis for the complex sentence morphologically analyzed by the morphological analyzer and to divide it into the first simple sentence and the second simple sentence, an intention inference unit to infer the first intention involved in the first simple sentence and the second intention involved in the second simple sentence, a feature extractor to extract as the first feature a morpheme showing execution order of operations involved in the first simple sentence and to extract as the second feature a morpheme showing execution order of operations involved in the second simple sentence, and an execution order inference unit to infer the execution order of the first operation corresponding to the first intention and the second operation corresponding to the second intention on the basis of the first feature and the second feature extracted by the feature extractor. This enables the system to infer user's intentions accurately.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An intention inference system comprising:
a morphological analyzer to perform morphological analysis for a complex sentence with multiple intentions involved;
a syntactic analyzer to perform syntactic analysis for the complex sentence morphologically analyzed by the morphological analyzer and to divide it into a first simple sentence and a second simple sentence;
an intention inference unit to infer a first intention involved in the first simple sentence and a second intention involved in the second simple sentence;
a feature extractor to extract as a first feature a morpheme included in the first simple sentence indicating a relative timing of a first operation corresponding to the first intention, and to extract as a second feature a morpheme included in the second simple sentence indicating a relative timing of a second operation corresponding to the second intention; and
an execution order inference unit to infer a sequential order in which the first operation corresponding to the first intention and the second operation corresponding to the second intention are to be executed, the sequential order being inferred on the basis of the first feature and the second feature extracted by the feature extractor.

2. The intention inference system set forth in claim 1 , wherein
the feature extractor extracts the first feature on the basis of a location of the morpheme in the first simple sentence and on the basis of a part-of-speech of the morpheme and extracts the second feature on the basis of a location of the morpheme in the second simple sentence and on the basis of a part-of-speech of the morpheme.

3. The intention inference system set forth in claim 1 , further comprising:
a speech sound receiver to accept an input of a speech sound with multiple intentions involved; and
a speech recognizer to recognize speech sound data corresponding to the speech sound entering the speech sound receiver and to perform a conversion thereof into text data of a complex sentence with the multiple intentions involved.

4. The intention inference system set forth in claim 1 , further comprising:
an operation execution unit to execute the first operation and the second operation on the basis of the sequential order inferred by the execution order inference unit; and
a notification unit to notify a user that the operation execution unit has executed the first operation and the second operation.

5. An intention inference system comprising:
a morphological analyzer to perform morphological analysis for a complex sentence with multiple intentions involved;
a syntactic analyzer to perform syntactic analysis for the complex sentence morphologically analyzed by the morphological analyzer and to divide it into a first simple sentence and a second simple sentence;
an intention inference unit to infer a first intention involved in the first simple sentence and a second intention involved in the second simple sentence;
a feature extractor to extract as a first feature a morpheme showing operation execution order included in the first simple sentence and to extract as a second feature a morpheme showing operation execution order included in the second simple sentence;
an execution order inference unit to infer execution order of the first operation corresponding to the first intention and the second operation corresponding to the second intention on the basis of the first feature and the second feature extracted by the feature extractor; and
an execution order information storage to store execution order information that shows scores of multiple features including the first feature and the second feature for each of execution order types of the first operation and the second operation,
wherein the execution order inference unit infers the execution order of the first operation and the second operation on the basis of the scores of the multiple features included in the execution order information.

6. The intention inference system set forth in claim 5 , wherein
the execution order inference unit obtains scores of the first feature and scores of the second feature using the execution order information to infer the sequential order in which the first operation and the second operation are to be executed on the basis of final scores each obtained as a product of one of the scores of the first feature and one of the scores of the second feature.

7. The intention inference system set forth in claim 5 , wherein
the execution order information storage also stores, for each of the execution order types of the first operation and the second operation, scores of multiple top-level intentions' features including a first top-level intention's feature which represents a classification or a function of the first intention and a second top-level intention's feature which represents a classification or a function of the second intention, and
the execution order inference unit infers the execution order of the first operation and the second operation on the basis of the scores of the multiple features and the scores of the multiple top-level intentions' features.

8. The intention inference system set forth in claim 7 , wherein
the execution order inference unit infers the execution order of the first operation and the second operation on the basis of final scores each obtained as a product of one of the scores of the first feature, one of the scores of the second feature, one of the scores of the first top-level intention's feature, and one of the scores of the second top-level intention's feature.

9. An intention inference method comprising:
performing morphological analysis for a complex sentence with multiple intentions involved;
performing syntactic analysis for the morphologically analyzed complex sentence and dividing it into multiple simple sentences;
inferring intentions involved in each of the multiple simple sentences;
extracting as a feature a morpheme included in each of the multiple simple sentences indicating a relative timing of an operation corresponding to the intention inferred from the corresponding simple sentence; and
inferring a sequential order in which the operations corresponding to the inferred intentions are to be executed, the sequential order being inferred on the basis of the respective features included in the multiple simple sentences.

10. The intention inference method of claim 9 , further comprising:
storing execution order information that shows scores of multiple features including the respective features included in the multiple simple sentences,
inferring the sequential order of the operations corresponding to the intentions involved in each of the multiple simple sentence on the basis of the scores of the multiple features included in the execution order information.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Jing Yi
• Koji Yusuke
• Ishii Jun

Classifications

• G06F40/30 Primary

  Semantic analysis · CPC title

• G06F40/279

  Recognition of textual entities · CPC title

• G06F40/268 Primary

  Morphological analysis · CPC title

• G06F40/211

  Syntactic parsing, e.g. based on context-free grammar [CFG] or unification grammars · CPC title

• G10L15/26

  Speech to text systems (G10L15/08 takes precedence) · CPC title