Abstract: A polymerizable liquid crystal compound represented by the following general formula (1): (the symbols in the general formula (1) are as described in the DESCRIPTION.

Abstract: A polymerizable liquid crystal compound represented by the following general formula (1): (the symbols in the general formula (1) are as described in the DESCRIPTION.

Abstract: A control method for an information processing apparatus including a processor includes: obtaining information about an amount of an item stored in a storage structure; determining whether the information about the amount of the item satisfies a first condition or not, the first condition indicating that the amount of the item is less than or equal to a given amount; and, when the first condition is satisfied, displaying, on a display, a screen including: information about the item; information related to the amount of the item, indicating that the amount of the item is less than or equal to the given amount; and a purchase suggestion for a product corresponding to the item.

Abstract: A polymerizable liquid crystal compound represented by the following general formula (1): (the symbols in the general formula (1) are as described in the DESCRIPTION.

Abstract: A bioacoustic sound testing device includes a band power calculator that calculates a band power in a predetermined period for each of a plurality of predetermined frequency bands on the basis of a bioacoustic sound, a reference power calculator that calculates a respiratory airflow reflecting power on the basis of a band power of a band reflecting a respiratory airflow, calculates a specific change reflecting power on the basis of a band power of a band reflecting a specific change in a living body, and calculates a reference power on the basis of the respiratory airflow reflecting power and the specific change reflecting power, and an index value calculator that calculates at least one index value on the basis of the reference power and the band powers of the plurality of predetermined frequency bands.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing method for performing, through interaction with a user, narrowing down regarding information that the user desires to search for. The method includes: outputting a first question, which is an open question, about a target of search; obtaining a first answer to the first question, the first answer being input by the user; if a determination is made indicating that the first answer does not satisfy a first condition and that a word or phrase corresponding to a word or phrase included in the first answer is not included in a database, outputting a second question, which is an open question, for requesting an explanation about the word or phrase included in the first answer and not included in the database; and if a determination is made indicating that the first answer satisfies the first condition, outputting a closed question about the target of search.

Abstract: An information processing method in an interactive apparatus that questions a user's symptom through interaction with a user includes: outputting first question information of a first type concerning the user's symptom to a display or a speaker connected to the interactive apparatus, receiving first answer information indicating an answer to the question in the first question information from a keyboard, a touch panel, or a microphone connected to the interactive apparatus, outputting second question information of the first type concerning the user's symptom to the display or the speaker when it is determined that the answer in the first answer information does not include a word in a negative expression, and outputting third question information of a second type concerning the user's symptom to the display or the speaker when it is determined that the answer in the first answer information includes the word in the negative expression.

Abstract: There are provided a game program and a game system for achieving a game in which, even when it is difficult to determine the location of an enemy character while searching for the enemy character in a virtual game space, it is not too difficult to find the enemy character. A game program 30a causes a CPU 10 to function as a virtual-space generating unit 40, a character control unit 42, a trace generating unit 43 that generates a trace of a non-player character and locates it in the virtual game space, a point managing unit 45 that manages a trace point obtained when a trace located in the virtual game space is collected, and a guidance executing unit 47 that performs the guidance regarding the non-player character to the user when an accumulated value Vs of the trace points reaches a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: There are provided a game program and a game system for achieving a game in which, even when it is difficult to determine the location of an enemy character while searching for the enemy character in a virtual game space, it is not too difficult to find the enemy character. A game program 30a causes a CPU 10 to function as a virtual-space generating unit 40, a character control unit 42, a trace generating unit 43 that generates a trace of a non-player character and locates it in the virtual game space, a point managing unit 45 that manages a trace point obtained when a trace located in the virtual game space is collected, and a guidance executing unit 47 that performs the guidance regarding the non-player character to the user when an accumulated value Vs of the trace points reaches a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: An information processing method includes acquiring first text information from a storage apparatus in which the first text information representing one or more utterance sentences is stored as a learning data set, identifying one or more named entities included in the acquired first text information, replacing each of the one or more identified named entities with an abstract expression abstracted based on a predetermined rule thereby generating second text information from the first text information, and learning a model of a dialogue system using, as training data, the second text information generated in the replacing.

Abstract: A decision tree generating apparatus includes an information gain calculator and a decision tree generator. When a classification target data set including a plurality of pieces of classification target data respectively having different attributes with attribute values assigned thereto is segmented into subsets in a form of a decision tree, the information gain calculator calculates an amount of entropy reduction on each attribute, and calculates an information gain, based on the amount of reduction in the entropy and reliability of a user's answer responsive to an inquiry asking about the attribute. The decision tree generator successively determines an attribute having a maximum information gain to be a node of the decision tree by recursively iterating the segmentation of the pre-segmentation data set, and generates the decision tree that is to be used to determine an order of the inquiries.

Abstract: An information processing method for information stored in a storage includes: holding a dialog history of a dialog including a question to a user and a reply from the user to the question, determining whether a manner in which a third reply indicating neither a first reply nor a second reply appears in a reply history of the reply included in the held dialog history satisfies a predetermined condition, the first reply indicating an affirmative in response to the question, the second reply indicating a negative in response to the question; and performing presentation regarding the information stored in the storage if the manner is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition.

Abstract: A speech continuation determination method includes acquiring dialogue data including a system sentence spoken to a user at a first time, a user sentence spoken by the user at a second time following the system sentence, and system intention indicating intention of the system sentence; estimating a predicted response delay amount indicating a wait time for a response to the user sentence by applying the dialogue data to a model obtained by machine learning; acquiring user status information indicating the status of the user; and determining whether a speech sentence by the user continues following the user sentence in accordance with the user status information in the wait time indicated by the predicted response delay amount.

Abstract: A control method includes displaying a decision tree including nodes and leaves, the nodes corresponding to questions asking about presence or absence of symptoms, the leaves corresponding to illnesses, and performing a first display of the nodes, acquiring an inputted, by a user, answer to a presented question, determining the inputted answer to the presented question, if it is determined that the user has answered that a symptom corresponding to a first node is present, performing a second display of a second node directly linked to the first node and located in a lower level, and if it is determined that the user has answered that the symptom corresponding to the first node is absent, performing the second display of a third node directly linked to the first node and located in a lower level, the third node being different from the second node.

Abstract: In an information processing method, display of a question and acquisition of an answer from a user to the question are repeated to narrow down information the user desires to make a search. A question regarding a target of the search is displayed in a first mode on a display included in a terminal. An answer inputted from the user to the question is acquired through the terminal. When the question is displayed, first information regarding a situation of a narrowing-down progress is displayed above the question in a second mode, and second information regarding a guide for answering the question is displayed below the question in a third mode.

Abstract: A control method includes displaying a network diagram including nodes of first and second types corresponding to symptoms and illnesses, respectively, the nodes of the second type each being linked to one or more related nodes of the first type via a connection line, emphasizing display of a first node of the first type corresponding to a symptom, the first node corresponding to a question asking about presence or absence of the symptom, acquiring an inputted answer to the question by a user, determining the user's answer to the question, and if the symptom is determined to be present, deleting all nodes from the network diagram except for the first node, one or more second nodes of the second type directly linked to the first node, and one or more third nodes of the first type directly linked to the one or more second nodes.

Abstract: A control method for an information processing apparatus including a processor includes: obtaining information about an amount of an item stored in a storage structure; determining whether the information about the amount of the item satisfies a first condition or not, the first condition indicating that the amount of the item is less than or equal to a given amount; and, when the first condition is satisfied, displaying, on a display, a screen including: information about the item; information related to the amount of the item, indicating that the amount of the item is less than or equal to the given amount; and a purchase suggestion for a product corresponding to the item.

Abstract: A method for controlling identification includes obtaining first text, which is text in a first language, obtaining second text, which is text in a second language obtained by translating the first text into the second language, obtaining correct labels, which indicate content of the first text, inputting the first text and the second text to an identification model common to the first and second languages, and updating the common identification model such that labels identified by the common identification model from the first text and the second text match the correct labels.

Abstract: A dialog act estimation method includes acquiring learning data including a first sentence to be estimated in the form of text data of a first uttered sentence uttered at a first time point, a second sentence which is text data of a second uttered sentence uttered, at a time point before the first time point, successively after the first uttered sentence, act information indicating an act associated to the first sentence, property information indicating a property information associated to the first sentence, and dialog act information indicating a dialog act in the form of a combination of an act and a property associated to the first sentence, making a particular model learn three or more tasks at the same time using the learning data, and storing a result of the learning as learning result information in a memory.

Abstract: A processing method executed by a processor that receives an order from a user at a restaurant through interaction includes analyzing information indicating the order, extracting a phrase other than a standard element from the information, with reference to a first database when the extracted phrase is a first phrase in the first database, outputting a first confirmation item corresponding to the first phrase to the user, receiving a first user response corresponding to the first confirmation item, when the extracted phrase is not a first phrase in the first database, referring to a second database, when the extracted phrase is a second phrase in the second database, selecting a third phrase in the first database from second phrase-related phrases, outputting a second confirmation item corresponding to the third phrase to the user referring to the first database, and receiving a second user response corresponding to the second confirmation item.