DEVICE, PROGRAM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING DIALOG SCENARIO INCLUDING ADJECTIVE UTTERANCE CORRESPONDING TO CHARACTERISTICNESS

To provide a dialog scenario generating device capable of generating a dialog scenario that includes an utterance in which characteristicness is considered for an included epithet as well.SOLUTION: Provided is a device for generating a dialog scenario having a prescribed characteristicness from a dialog scenario that includes an adjective utterance that includes a noun and an epithet having dependency relation with this noun. The device comprises: posting search means for searching a posting that includes a character noun, among the nouns included in an adjective utterance, that is recognized as pertaining to the prescribed characteristicness and at least one epithet; epithet selection means for selecting, on the basis of the result of posting search, an epithet for replacement at later time from the epithets included in the posting; and epithet replacement means for replacing an epithet having dependency relation with the character noun included in the adjective utterance with the selected epithet. It is preferable that the posting search means does a search for a dialog counterpart attribute posting by a poster having the same or similar attribute as an acquired dialog counterpart attribute.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】含まれる形容語句についてもキャラクタ性の考慮された発話を含んだ対話シナリオを生成可能な対話シナリオ生成装置を提供する。【解決手段】名詞と、この名詞に対し係り受けの関係にある形容語句とを含む形容発話を含む対話シナリオから、所定のキャラクタ性を有する対話シナリオを生成する本装置は、形容発話に含まれる名詞のうち所定のキャラクタ性に係るものと認められたキャラクタ名詞と、少なくとも１つの形容語句とを含む投稿を検索する投稿検索手段と、投稿の検索結果に基づいて、投稿に含まれる形容語句から、後の置換用の形容語句を選択する形容語句選択手段と、形容発話に含まれるキャラクタ名詞と係り受けの関係にある形容語句を、選択された形容語句に置換する形容語句置換手段とを有する。ここで、投稿検索手段は、取得された対話先属性と同一又は類似の属性を有する投稿者による対話先属性投稿に対し検索を行うことも好ましい。【選択図】図１