Virtual Pet Chatting System Using Natural Language Understanding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional virtual pets lack the ability to engage in natural language communication and learning, limiting user interaction to simple mouse clicks and command inputs, which restricts the complexity of entertainment experiences.
Innovation Solution
A chatting system for virtual pets that includes a pet client, a virtual pet server, and a questioning and answering server, which perform natural language understanding, processing, and response generation based on user language characteristics, enabling intelligent and interactive conversations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional virtual pets use simple mouse clicking or command symbol input for interaction, then the system structure remains simple, but the intelligence and entertainment experience are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a questioning and answering server as an intermediary component between the pet client and the natural language processing system. This server receives natural language input from users, processes it through language understanding modules, and generates appropriate responses, thereby enabling complex natural language interaction without requiring the pet client itself to be overly complex
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical interaction methods (mouse clicking, command symbol input) with natural language processing. By substituting the mechanical input interface with language-based communication, the system achieves higher adaptability and intelligence while maintaining a relatively simple client structure
2Adaptability or versatility
If virtual pets lack natural language understanding capability, then the system remains simple, but the user cannot enjoy intellectualized entertainment experiences
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the natural language processing system into distinct functional modules: a questioning and answering server for receiving and processing user input, a language understanding module for analyzing semantics, and a response generation module for creating appropriate replies. This segmentation allows each component to specialize in specific tasks, improving language communication ability while managing processing complexity through modular design
Solution Approach 2:
The questioning and answering server acts as an intermediary that handles the complex natural language processing tasks, shielding the pet client from complexity while enabling advanced language communication capabilities
3Adaptability or versatility
If virtual pets cannot learn user language characteristics, then the system structure remains simple, but the user-pet relationship cannot be strengthened through personalization
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the system analyzes user language input, extracts language characteristics, and uses this information to personalize future interactions. The questioning and answering server continuously learns from user responses, adapting its language style and communication patterns to match the user's preferences, thereby strengthening the user-pet relationship through personalization
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary language analysis and characteristic extraction during initial interactions, building a profile of user language characteristics before full personalized communication begins. This preliminary action enables the system to adapt its behavior in advance, improving the user experience without requiring complete system restructuring
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AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention provides a chatting system for a virtual pet, including a pet client, configured to receive a natural language sentence of a pet master, and send the natural language sentence to a virtual pet server; the virtual pet server, configured to forward the natural language sentence to a questioning and answering server, and return a natural language response to the pet client; the questioning and answering server, configured to perform processing of natural language understanding on the natural language sentence, obtain language characteristics of the pet master, generate the natural language response according to a natural language understanding result and the language characteristics of the pet master, and return the natural language response to the virtual pet server. Embodiments of the present invention further provide a chatting method for a virtual pet and a questioning and answering server.