Abstract: According to one embodiment, an interactive system uses at least one of the number of the retrieval result and the number of conditions told by a user to the system if a recommendable candidate is included in retrieval targets in a database which is searched with a condition obtained in the interaction with the user, and determines whether or not a behavior to present the recommendable candidate is performed is determined. Thus, the recommendable candidate can be actively recommended to the user such that the user does not feel dissatisfaction to the service.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition and the like comprising (4-{(3S)-3-[(1R)-1-(naphthalen-1-yl)ethylamino]pyrrolidin-1-yl}phenyl)acetic acid (Compound A) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof and a diluent.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a verification system includes a storage controller, first and second receivers, a comparator, a response constructor, a response generator, and an output controller. The storage controller stores, in a storage, first response data and first situation data associated with the first response data. The first receiver receives second response data. The comparator determines a similarity between second situation data indicating a second context for using the second response data and the first situation data. The response constructor constructs response content information comprising the second response data and the first response data associated with the first situation data having the similarity equal to or greater than a threshold. The second receiver receives speech data. The response generator generates a response sentence corresponding to the speech data using the response content information. The output controller outputs for display one or more response sentences.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an edit assisting system includes a server device and a client device. The client device displays a first object, which indicates first speech of a user and a first portion of the first speech, and a second object, which indicates second speech generated by the server device and a second portion of the second speech, on a screen based on a scenario indicated in scenario data. The first and second portions are editable. The client device transmits edit data indicating the first portion which is edited and/or the second portion which is edited to the server device. The server device rewrites the scenario data by changing the first portion of the first speech and/or the second portion of the second speech is the scenario by using the edit data.

Abstract: A substrate processing device includes a housing connected to ground, a cathode stage that supports a substrate, an anode unit, and a gas feeding unit that feeds gas toward the first plate. The cathode stage is applied with voltage for generating plasma. The anode unit includes a first plate including first through holes and a second plate including second through holes that are larger than the first through holes. The second plate is located between the first plate and the cathode stage. The first plate produces a flow of the gas through the first through holes. The gas that has passed through the first through holes flows through the second through holes into an area between the second plate and the cathode stage. A distance between the first plate and the second plate is 10 mm or greater and 50 mm or less.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a storage unit, a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, an analyzer, and a recognition unit. The storage unit stores first situation information about a situation assumed in advance, a first representation representing a meaning of a sentence assumed, intention information representing an intention to be estimated, and a first value representing a degree of application of the first representation to the first situation information and the intention information. The first acquisition unit acquires a natural sentence. The second acquisition unit acquires second situation information about a situation when acquiring the natural sentence. The analyzer analyzes the natural sentence and generates a second representation representing a meaning of the natural sentence. The recognition unit obtains an estimated value based on the first value associated with the first situation information and the first representation.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a dialogue data collection system includes a presenter, a determiner, a notifier and a collector. The presenter receives response information that the dialogue management apparatus generates by advancing a dialogue status based on the spoken phrases, and presents the response information to the worker. The determiner compares the response information to one or more achievement conditions predetermined relative to the task, and determines achievement or non-achievement of the task based on whether or not the achievement conditions are satisfied. The notifier notifies the worker of achievement of the task. The collector collects dialogue data including the spoken phrase and the response information.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a tagging support apparatus includes a first acquirer, an estimator, a first storage, a second acquirer, and a presenter. The first acquirer acquires a spoken sentence concerning an utterance of a user. The estimator estimates an utterance intention of the spoken sentence to obtain one or more intention candidates of the utterance intention. The first storage stores an intention system having a hierarchical structure of intentions used in a dialogue system. The second acquirer acquires, based on the intention candidates, part of the intention system as one or more hierarchical intention candidates. The presenter presents the hierarchical intention candidates.

Abstract: The invention provides a chlorine production catalyst that shows excellent reaction activity in the oxidation reaction of hydrogen chloride with oxygen into chlorine, is inexpensive and can be supplied stably, and is suited for use in a fluidized-bed reactor. The invention also provides a chlorine production process using the catalyst. The chlorine production catalyst of the invention includes spherical particles containing copper element (A), an alkali metal element (B) and a lanthanoid element (C) and having an average sphericity of not less than 0.80. The lanthanoid element (C) has a bond dissociation energy with oxygen at 298 K of 100 to 185 kcal/mol. The content of the copper element (A) in the catalyst is 0.3 wt % to 4.5 wt %.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a speech recognition apparatus includes following units. The service estimation unit estimates a service being performed by a user, by using non-speech information, and to generate service information. The speech recognition unit performs speech recognition on speech information in accordance with a speech recognition technique corresponding to the service information. The feature quantity extraction unit extracts a feature quantity related to the service of the user, from the speech recognition result. The service estimation unit re-estimates the service by using the feature quantity. The speech recognition unit performs speech recognition based on the re-estimation result.

Abstract: A catalyst has high activity and is suitable for use in producing chlorine by oxidizing hydrogen chloride with oxygen. The catalyst includes copper, an alkali metal and a rare earth and has pores of which pores having a diameter of 5 to 15 nm have a pore volume of 0.4 to 2.0 ml/g.

Abstract: A catalyst has high activity and is suitable for use in producing chlorine by oxidizing hydrogen chloride with oxygen. The catalyst includes copper, an alkali metal and a rare earth and has pores of which pores having a diameter of 5 to 15 nm have a pore volume of 0.4 to 2.0 ml/g.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a spoken dialogue apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect speech of a user; a recognition unit configured to recognize the speech; an output unit configured to output a response voice corresponding to the result of speech recognition; an estimate unit configured to estimate probability variation of a barge-in utterance, the probability variation of the barge-in utterance being the time variation of the probability of arising the barge-in utterance interrupted by the user during outputting the response voice; and a control unit configured to determine whether to adopt the barge-in utterance based on the probability variation of the barge-in utterance.

Abstract: The invention provides a chlorine production catalyst that shows excellent reaction activity in the oxidation reaction of hydrogen chloride with oxygen into chlorine, is inexpensive and can be supplied stably, and is suited for use in a fluidized-bed reactor. The invention also provides a chlorine production process using the catalyst. The chlorine production catalyst of the invention includes spherical particles containing copper element (A), an alkali metal element (B) and a lanthanoid element (C) and having an average sphericity of not less than 0.80. The lanthanoid element (C) has a bond dissociation energy with oxygen at 298 K of 100 to 185 kcal/mol. The content of the copper element (A) in the catalyst is 0.3 wt % to 4.5 wt %.

Abstract: A catalyst has high activity and is suitable for use in producing chlorine by oxidizing hydrogen chloride with oxygen. The catalyst includes copper, an alkali metal and a rare earth and has pores of which pores having a diameter of 5 to 15 nm have a pore volume of 0.4 to 2.0 ml/g.

Abstract: A surface treating method for metallizing the surface of a polymer containing silicon by the use of a non-expensive material and a method for metallizing the surface of or forming a pattern of a metal layer such as a wiring on the surface of a substrate comprising an arbitrary material, or a method for producing fine particles of a specific transition metal are provided. The method for treating the surface of a silicon-containing polymer or a method for preparing fine transition metal particles involves contacting an organosilicon compound with a solid, a solution or a suspension of a specific transition metal salt, to reduce and precipitate the transition metal and thereby precipitate fine particles of the transition metal on the surface of said organosilicon compound or in the organosilicon compound.

Abstract: It is here intended to provide a modified silicone compound having excellent heat-resistant properties and a process of producing the same, and there is disclosed a modified silicone compound having an Si—H bond and an unsaturated bond, represented by the general formula (1): 1

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a test device for a multi-items where in all the test papers for all items for one test are wetted by one shot dropping and transportation of a detecting part (module) or a test device is not required upon measurement. Also, the present invention has the object to provide an analyzer for a test device which makes it possible as in the known visual tests to conduct measurement easily while the test device is kept on a cup and thus can be used in bed side medical examinations and regional medical examinations with no considerable problem.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel fine cisplatin powder utilized as an anticancer agent. The fine cisplatin powder obtained in the present invention does not cause secondary agglomeration, is excellent in fluidity and easily handleable in the pharmaceutical preparation step. Furthermore, the fine cisplatin powder is reduced in the content of N,N-dimethylformamide as the residual solvent, and can be dissolved rapidly in physiological saline, thus being suitable for cancer therapy particularly by intra-arterial injection. This fine powder can be produced by contriving specified means for crystallizing cisplatin from a solution thereof in N,N-dimethylformamide.

Abstract: An oil-in-water emulsion containing a xanthine derivative represented by or its pharmacologically acceptable salt, wherein the xanthine derivative or salt is present within an oil phase of the emulsion.