Dialogue Generation Adjusting Positive Negative Sentence Proportion

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional conversation systems struggle to create clear and understandable responses, as positive and negative will feeling words are irregularly mixed, making it difficult for users to comprehend the content, especially in communication devices using agent functions.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system and method that detect a user's proficiency level with respect to an agent device and generate dialogue sentence data by adjusting the proportion of positive and negative sentences based on the user's proficiency level.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If positive and negative will feeling words are irregularly mixed in response sentences, then the agent can demonstrate various dialogue expressions, but the user finds it difficult to understand the content

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedialogue expression varietyVSAvoiduser understanding
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts the proportion of positive and negative sentences based on real-time detection of user proficiency level. When proficiency is low, the system increases positive sentences to improve understanding. When proficiency is high, the system increases negative sentences to enhance dialogue variety. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction by making the system responsive to user state changes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of sentence proportion (positive vs. negative) according to the detected user proficiency level. By adjusting this parameter dynamically, the system optimizes both understandability and expression variety at different stages of user interaction, resolving the contradiction between these two objectives.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Ease of operation

If only positive sentences are used, then the content is easy to understand, but the dialogue expression becomes limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser understandingVSAvoiddialogue expression variety
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically transitions from using primarily positive sentences when user proficiency is low to using a more balanced or negative-sentence-heavy approach when proficiency is high. This dynamic strategy ensures that expression variety is maintained without compromising understanding at any stage of user interaction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system preliminarily uses positive sentences to establish clear communication when the user is less proficient, then gradually introduces negative sentences as user proficiency increases. This staged approach ensures understanding is established before introducing complexity, resolving the contradiction between ease of understanding and expression variety.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If negative sentences are not used at all, then the content is easy to understand, but the agent's function is not demonstrated

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser understandingVSAvoidagent function demonstration
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically introduces negative sentences into the dialogue based on the detected user proficiency level. When proficiency is high, the system incorporates negative sentences to demonstrate full agent functionality. When proficiency is low, the system maintains positive sentences to ensure understanding, thus resolving the contradiction between functionality and understandability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback from user proficiency detection to adjust the sentence composition. The detected proficiency level serves as feedback that triggers appropriate adjustment in sentence usage, ensuring that negative sentences are introduced only when the user can handle them, thus maintaining both functionality and understandability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20250139148A1Information processing system and information processing method
Publication Date: 2025.05.01 NISSAN MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

An information processing system includes an agent device and an information processing device. The agent device has an agent function. The information processing device generates dialogue sentence data for a user. The information processing system outputs the generated dialogue sentence data to the user using the agent function. The information processing device includes: a load estimation unit that estimates a load when the user recognizes the dialogue sentence data; and a data generation unit that generates the dialogue sentence data using response sentence information classified into positive sentences and negative sentences. When the load of the user is relatively high, the data generation unit increases a proportion of the positive sentences used in the dialogue sentence data as compared to when the load of the user is relatively low.