KR102226427B1 - Apparatus for determining title of user, system including the same, terminal and method for the same - Google Patents

Abstract

It relates to a name determination device for determining a name for a user in a chatterbot service, a system for providing a conversation service including the same, and a method for determining a name, wherein the name determination device includes: It may include a processor that determines a user's profile based on the extracted morpheme and determines a name corresponding to the user's profile by using the name table.

Description

A device for determining a name, a system for providing a conversation service including the same, a terminal device for determining a name, and a method for determining a name {APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING TITLE OF USER, SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR THE SAME}

It relates to an apparatus for determining a name, a system for providing a conversation service including the same, and a method for determining a name.

Chatterbot refers to a computer program designed to perform a conversation with a human (user) based on at least one of preferences, texts, images, and voices, or a device or system for performing the same. Such chatterbots are also referred to as chatbots, talkbots, chatterboxes, and the like.

Chatterbot generates a response message corresponding to the message input by the user when a user inputs a message using a keyboard, touch screen, or microphone, and converts the generated response message into text, symbols, images, and/or voice. It is designed to be provided to the user in the form of, etc. In this case, in order to generate a sentence corresponding to a message input by a user, the chatterbot also uses artificial intelligence technology or machine learning technology.

Recently, chatterbots are used in various fields. For example, financial companies, shopping companies, delivery companies, and airline companies provide information on products or services to customers or buyers, assist with the purchase of products or services, or provide information on purchased products or services to be provided. Or, they are using chatterbots to provide entertainment to simple customers or buyers. In order to provide such a chatterbot service, a separate application may be specially produced, or a conventionally known chat or messenger service may be used.

It is an object to be solved to provide a name determination device capable of providing a natural conversation, a system for providing a conversation service including the same, and a method for determining a name according to the determination of a name corresponding to the speaker according to the profile of the speaker.

In order to solve the above-described problem, an apparatus for determining a name, a system for providing a conversation service including the same, and a method for determining a name are provided.

The name determination apparatus includes a processor that determines a user's profile based on a name table constructed with information on a name and a morpheme extracted from the message, and determines a name corresponding to the user's profile using the name table. can do.

The processor may determine a name corresponding to the user's profile by further using the gender and age of the predefined name determination device.

The morpheme may include at least one of a ending ending, a title, and an exclamation point used in the message.

The user's profile may include at least one of gender and age.

The age may include youth, young adult, old and old.

The name determination apparatus may further include a communication unit that is communicatively connected to the terminal device and receives at least one of the message and the morpheme extracted from the message from the terminal device.

The processor may extract a morpheme from the message received by the communication unit.

The name table may include a profile of the name determination device and a name classified based on the profile of the user.

The conversation service providing system is a terminal device that receives a message from a user and a name determination device that determines a user's profile based on a morpheme extracted from the message, and determines a name corresponding to the user's profile using a name table. It may include.

At least one of the terminal device and the name determination device may extract the morpheme from the message.

The name determination device may determine a name corresponding to the user's profile by further using the gender and age of the predefined name determination device.

The user's profile may include at least one of gender and age.

The name table may include a name classified based on a profile of the name determination device and a profile of the user.

The terminal device determines a user's profile based on an input unit for receiving a message, a name table constructed with information on a name, and a morpheme extracted from the message, and a name corresponding to the user's profile using the name table. It may include a processor that determines the.

The steps of receiving a message, extracting a morpheme from the message, determining a user's profile based on the morpheme extracted from the message, and determining a name corresponding to the user's profile using a title table Can include.

Determining a name corresponding to the profile of the user using the title table may include determining a title corresponding to the profile of the user by further using a gender and age of a predefined name determination device. have.

The morpheme extracted from the message may include at least one of a ending ending, a title, and an exclamation included in the message.

The user's profile may include at least one of gender and age.

The age may include youth, young adult, old and old.

The name table may be constructed including a profile of the name determination device and a name corresponding to the profile of the user.

According to the above-described device for determining the name, the system for providing a conversation service including the same, and the method for determining the name, the name corresponding to the user can be appropriately determined according to the user's profile, and accordingly, the user and the device (service providing device or terminal device, etc.) It becomes possible to provide a natural dialogue between people.

According to the above-described device for determining the name, the system for providing a conversation service including the same, and the method for determining the name, it is possible to infer the user's age or gender, etc., without requiring the user to input a profile, so that convenience in providing a conversation service is improved. Improves.

According to the above-described name determination device, a conversation service providing system including the same, and a name determination method, consumers can naturally use conversation services (for example, chatterbot services) in their daily lives, and companies promote conversational commerce. It also has the advantage of being able to improve the consumer experience.

According to the above-described name determination device, the conversation service providing system including the same, and the name determination method, it is possible to improve the accuracy and quality of personalized services by continuously accumulating and learning various conversation data of users. You will be able to increase your satisfaction.

According to the above-described name determination device, the conversation service providing system including the same, and the name determination method, the conventional chatterbot service is also used as an intelligent emotional assistant service (a software agent that processes tasks requested by users and provides specialized services to users). It can be used, and accordingly, a more specialized personalized service may be possible.In addition, the provision of services that can recognize the emotions of users by further combining various information from public institutions or private sectors, and emotion recognition technology, etc. It could be possible.

In addition, according to the above-described apparatus for determining a name, a system for providing a conversation service including the same, and a method for determining a name, it is possible to reduce an existing service procedure and thereby reduce costs.

1 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a system for providing a conversation service.
2 is a block diagram of a terminal device according to an embodiment.
3 is a block diagram of an embodiment of an apparatus for determining a name.
4 is a first diagram of an embodiment of a title table.
5 is a second diagram of an embodiment of a title table.
6 is a block diagram of another embodiment of a terminal device.
7 is a flowchart of an embodiment of a method for determining a name.

In the following specification, the same reference numerals refer to the same elements unless otherwise specified. The term "unit" used below may be implemented as software or hardware, and according to the embodiment, the term "unit" is implemented as one part, or one "unit" is implemented as a plurality of parts. It is also possible.

When a part is said to be connected to another part throughout the specification, it may mean a physical connection depending on the part and another part, or it may mean that it is electrically connected. In addition, when a part includes another part, this does not exclude another part other than the other part unless specifically stated to the contrary, and it means that another part may be further included according to the designer's choice. do.

Terms such as first or second are used to distinguish one part from another, and unless otherwise specified, they do not mean sequential expressions. Singular expressions may include plural expressions, unless the context clearly has exceptions.

Hereinafter, various embodiments of a terminal device, an apparatus for determining a name, and a system for providing a conversation service will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 6.

The conversation service providing system 1 refers to a system capable of conducting a conversation with a user by outputting a predetermined message in response to a user's message. The conversation service providing system 1 may include, for example, a chatterbot system, but is not limited thereto.

As shown in FIG. 1, the conversation service providing system 1 may include at least one terminal device 10 and a name determination device 100 capable of communicating with each other through a network 9.

Here, the network 9 may include a wired communication network, a wireless communication network, or a combination thereof. The wired communication network may be constructed using a cable, and the cable may be implemented using, for example, a pair cable, a coaxial cable, an optical fiber cable, or an Ethernet cable. The wireless communication network may be implemented using at least one of a short-range communication network and a long-distance communication network. Here, the short-range communication network is, for example, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth Low Energy, CAN It may be implemented using communication or NFC (Near Field Communication), and the long-distance communication network may be implemented based on a mobile communication standard such as 3GPP, 3GPP2, or WiMAX series.

The terminal device 10 is provided to receive a message to be transmitted from a user and transmit the received message to the name determination device 100. Here, the message may include various data capable of transmitting a message (a symbol, a letter, a number, a figure defined in Unicode, etc., or a combination of at least two of them) and/or an image. Here, the image may include at least one of a still image and a moving image.

The terminal device 10, that is, the first terminal device 10 and the second terminal device 20, is, for example, a cellular phone, a smart phone, a tablet PC, a digital television, a set-top box, a desktop computer, a laptop computer, and a navigation system. Devices, personal digital assistants (PDAs), portable game consoles, head mounted display (HMD, Head Mounted Display) devices, wearable devices such as smart watches, sound reproduction devices (for example, artificial intelligence speakers, etc.), and others It may include at least one of various devices capable of inputting and modifying a sign.

2 is a block diagram of a terminal device according to an embodiment.

2, the terminal device 10, in one embodiment, the input unit 11, the storage unit 12, the output unit 13, the processor 15, the communication unit ( 14) may be included. Here, the input unit 11, the storage unit 12, the output unit 13, and the communication unit 14 are electrically connected to the processor 15 through a predetermined cable or metal wire, so that data can be mutually or unilaterally transmitted/received. have.

The input unit 11 may receive a message to be transmitted from a user. Specifically, the input unit 11 may obtain a message from a user and transmit the obtained message to the processor 15 in a predetermined form (eg, in text form). The input unit 11 is, for example, a keyboard device, a mouse device, a microphone, a touch sensor of a touch screen, a smart pen, a smart pad, a touch pad, a motion recognition sensor, an optical recognition sensor, a data input terminal and/or other It may include various devices that can receive data from a user.

The storage unit 12 is provided to store various data or applications required for various operations of the terminal device 10. Specifically, for example, the storage unit 12 stores a database (e.g., a morpheme database) required for morpheme extraction by the processor 15 of the terminal device 10, or an application for transmitting/receiving messages (e.g. , Messenger applications, etc.). Here, the application stored in the storage unit 12 may be previously created by the designer and stored in the storage unit 12, or acquired or updated through an electronic software distribution network accessible through a wired or wireless communication network 9 It may have been done.

The storage unit 12 may include, for example, at least one of a main memory device and an auxiliary memory device. The main memory device may be implemented using a semiconductor storage medium such as ROM and/or RAM. The ROM may include, for example, a conventional ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, and/or MASK-ROM. The RAM may include, for example, DRAM and/or SRAM. Auxiliary memory devices include flash memory devices, SD (Secure Digital) cards, solid state drives (SSDs, Solid State Drives), hard disk drives (HDDs, Hard Disc Drives), magnetic drums, compact discs (CDs), DVDs ) Or an optical media such as a laser disk, a magnetic tape, a magneto-optical disk, and/or a floppy disk, and at least one storage medium capable of permanently or semi-permanently storing data.

The output unit 13 outputs various types of information or data generated as a result of the operation of the terminal device 10 to the outside through text, images (still images, moving images, etc.), sound, audio, and/or other various methods. I can. For example, the output unit 13 may output a message received by the terminal device 10 from the name determination device 100 in the form of text or voice. The output unit 13 may be implemented through, for example, a display panel, a light emitting device and/or a speaker device.

The communication unit 14 connects to the network 9 and transmits a user's message to the name determination device 100 and/or a predetermined message (e.g., corresponds to the user's message) from the name determination device 100 Response message) can be received. In addition, the communication unit 14 may transmit the morpheme extracted by the morpheme extraction unit 16 and/or the morpheme selected by the morpheme selection unit 17 to the name determination apparatus 100.

The processor 15 may perform a predefined operation, determination, processing, and/or control operation, and/or may control the overall operation of the terminal device 10. The processor 15 may drive an application stored in the storage unit 12 to perform such an operation.

The processor 15 is, for example, a central processing unit (CPU, Central Processing Unit), a microcontroller unit (MCU, Micro Controller Unit), a Micom (Micro Processor), an application processor (AP, Application Processor), electronic It may include a control unit (ECU, Electronic Controlling Unit) and/or other electronic devices capable of processing various operations and generating control signals. These devices can be implemented using, for example, one or more semiconductor chips and related components.

According to an exemplary embodiment, the processor 15 may include a morpheme extracting unit 16, and may further include a morpheme selecting unit 17 according to an exemplary embodiment. The morpheme extraction unit 16 and the morpheme selection unit 17 may be logically classified or physically separated.

The morpheme extraction unit 16 may extract and obtain a morpheme from a message input by a user. The morpheme refers to the smallest unit of speech that has meaning. For example, the morpheme extractor 16 may extract and classify an independent morpheme or a dependent morpheme from each word of the text input by the user and obtain it. If the message input by the user is not text such as voice, the morpheme extraction unit 16 may further perform a process of converting the voice message into text before extracting the morpheme. The morphemes extracted by the morpheme extraction unit 16 may be transmitted to the morpheme selection unit 17 and/or to the communication unit 14 according to an exemplary embodiment. If necessary, the morpheme extraction unit 16 may transmit the morpheme to the output unit 13 for user confirmation.

The morpheme selection unit 17 may select a morpheme to be used for profile analysis of a user from among morphemes extracted by the morpheme extraction unit 16. The user's profile means information or data for representing the user's characteristics (characteristics), and may include, for example, the user's gender, age, nationality, and/or place of residence. The morpheme selection unit 17 may additionally select a morpheme useful for determining a user's profile from among the extracted morphemes. For example, among all the extracted morphemes, the morpheme selection unit 17 corresponds to the morpheme corresponding to the ending ending of the input message, the morpheme corresponding to the name included in the input message, and the exclamation included in the input message. At least one of the morphemes can be selected. The morpheme selected by the morpheme selection unit 17 may be transmitted to the communication unit 14 or may be transmitted to the output unit 13 if necessary.

The name determination apparatus 100 may determine a name for a user of at least one terminal device 10 based on a message transmitted from the at least one terminal device 10.

The name determination device 100 may be implemented using computing devices 100A and 100B such as a server device. Depending on the embodiment, the name determination apparatus 100 may be implemented using one computing device (eg, 100A), or may be implemented using two or more computing devices 100A and 100B. When the name determination device 100 is implemented using two or more computing devices 100A and 100B, the two or more computing devices 100A and 100B are mutually provided through a network separately provided internally and/or an external network 9. It may be connected to transmit and receive data.

3 is a block diagram of an embodiment of an apparatus for determining a name.

According to the exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIG. 3, the apparatus 100 for determining a name may include a storage unit 120, a processor 150, and a communication unit 180.

The storage unit 120 is provided to store various applications related to the operation of the name determination apparatus 100 and data necessary for them.

Specifically, the storage unit 120 may store a chatterbot application for generating and transmitting a response message to a message input by a user, an application for determining a name, and the like. In addition, the storage unit 120 may also store various types of data necessary for generating a response message or determining a name. For example, the storage unit 120 may store a setting value 121 for determining a name and/or a name table 122 constructed with at least one piece of information about the name. In addition, the storage unit 120 may store data obtained according to an operation result of the processor 150. In more detail, the storage unit 120 may temporarily or non-temporarily store the determination result 123 determined by the processor 150. Details of the setting value 121, the name table 122, and the determination result 123 will be described later.

The storage unit 120 may include at least one of a main memory device and an auxiliary memory device, for example, the same as the storage unit 12 of the terminal device 10, and these may include a semiconductor, a magnetic disk, a magnetic drum, and/or Alternatively, it may be implemented by employing at least one storage medium such as an optical recording medium.

The communication unit 140 may transmit a user's message from the terminal device 10 through the network 9 and/or transmit a message to the terminal device 10. In addition, the communication unit 140 may receive the morpheme extracted by the morpheme extracting unit 16 of the terminal device 10 and/or the morpheme selected by the morpheme selection unit 17 and transmit the received morpheme to the processor 150.

The processor 150 may control the overall operation of the name determination apparatus 100 and/or may perform a predetermined operation, determination, processing, and/or control operation, and/or the like as defined in advance. The processor 150 may use an application stored in the storage unit 120 to perform these operations.

The processor 150, like the processor 15 of the terminal device 10, is a central processing unit, a microcontroller unit, a microcomputer, an application processor, an electronic control unit, and/or another electronic device capable of processing various operations and generating a control signal. It can be implemented using, for example.

According to an embodiment, the processor 150 may include a gender analysis unit 151, an age analysis unit 152, and a name determination unit 153, as shown in FIG. 3, and, if necessary, a conversation execution unit. It may further include (154). The gender analysis unit 151, the age analysis unit 152, the name determination unit 153, and the conversation execution unit 154 may be logically or physically divided.

The gender analysis unit 151 may estimate and determine the user's gender based on the morpheme received by the communication unit 140. For example, the gender analysis unit 151 may estimate the user's gender based on the morpheme selected by the morpheme selection unit 17, for example, a ending ending, a title, and/or an exclamation point. The user's gender may be estimated by browsing a separate gender determination database (not shown) and extracting a selected morpheme, for example, a ending ending, a title, and/or a gender corresponding to an exclamation from the gender determination database. In this case, the gender determination database includes information on the sex corresponding to a specific ending ending (for example, the frequency of use of a specific ending ending of a specific sex, etc.), and information on the sex corresponding to a specific title (for example, , The frequency of use of a specific title of a specific sex, etc.) and/or information about a sex corresponding to a specific interjection (eg, a frequency of use of a specific interjection of a specific sex, etc.). The gender analysis unit 151 may comprehensively determine the information to determine whether the user's gender is female or male. According to an embodiment, the gender analysis unit 151 may include a deep neural network (DNN), a convolutional neural network (CNN), or a recurrent neural network (RNN) for accurate estimation of the user's gender. It is also possible to use machine learning algorithms such as.

The age analysis unit 152 may estimate and determine the age of the user based on the received morpheme. For example, the age analysis unit 152 may estimate the age of the user based on the morpheme selected by the morpheme selection unit 17, for example, a ending ending, a title, and/or an exclamation point. In detail, the age analysis unit 152 can also estimate the age of the user by searching and extracting the selected morpheme, for example, the ending ending, the title, and/or the sex corresponding to the exclamation from a separate age determination database (not shown). May be. The database for age determination may be constructed with information on age corresponding to a specific ending ending, a title, and/or an exclamation point. For example, the database for age determination may be constructed with information such as the frequency of use of a specific ending ending at a specific age group, the frequency of use of a specific title at a specific age group, and/or the frequency of use of a specific exclamation point at a specific age group. have. The age analysis unit 152 may analyze the user's age group by synthesizing information corresponding to the above-described morphemes. According to an embodiment, the age analysis unit 152 may classify and analyze a user's age group based on a predefined category. For example, the age analysis unit 152 may estimate that the user's age corresponds to any one of a youth, a young adult, an old age, and an old age. According to an embodiment, the age analysis unit 152 may also use a machine learning algorithm such as a deep neural network or a convolutional neural network to increase the accuracy of age estimation.

The name determination unit 152 may determine the user's name based on the user's gender determined by the gender analysis unit 151 and the user's age determined by the age analysis unit 152.

According to an embodiment, the name determination unit 152 may determine a name for the user by further using the setting value 121 stored in the storage unit 120. The setting value 121 may include information on a profile of the name determining device 100. For example, the setting value 121 may include at least one of a gender and an age set virtually for the name determination apparatus 100. In other words, the setting value 121 may be information on whether the name determination device 100 is to be set as a male or a female, and/or is to be set as a youth, a young man, an old man, and an old man. It may be information about.

According to an embodiment, the name determination unit 152 may use the name table 122 to determine a name. The title table 122 is a database of examples of usable titles, and can be arbitrarily set according to a designer or user's selection. The name table 122 may be prepared and constructed in advance, or may be modified, transformed, or updated in the process of determining the name.

4 is a first diagram of an embodiment of a title table, and FIG. 5 is a second diagram of an embodiment of a title table. 4 and 5 illustrate a single title table 122 divided into two 122-1 and 122-2, respectively.

As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the name tables 122 (122-1, 122-2) include at least one data, but these at least one data are based on the profile of the name determination apparatus 100 It may be classified as. In this case, the data(s) of the name table 122 may be classified based on the gender and age(s) of the name determination apparatus 100. More specifically, for example, the data(s) of the title table 122 are male-youth, female-youth, male-young, female-young, male-old, female-old, male-old and female-old It may be classified into eight categories of.

In addition, at least one data(s) of the name tables 122 (122-1, 122-2) may be classified based on a user's profile. For example, the data(s) of the name tables 122 (122-1, 122-2) may be classified based on the age and gender of the user to which the name determination apparatus 100 will communicate. More specifically, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the profile of the user is male-youth, female-youth, male-young, female-young, male-old, female-old, male-old and female -It may include eight categories of old age, and the data in the title tables 122:122-1 and 122-2 may belong to any one of these categories.

Each of the data in the name tables 122 (122-1, 122-2) may be classified according to both a profile of the name determination apparatus 100 and a profile of a user. In other words, each data in the name table 122 (122-1, 122-2) belongs to any one of a plurality of categories corresponding to the profile of the name determination device 100, and at the same time, a plurality of data corresponding to the user's profile. You fall into one of the categories.

When the name table 122 is given in this way, the name determination unit 152 is based on the virtually determined gender and age of the name determination device 100 and the gender and age of the user who will communicate with the name determination device 100. User's title can be determined.

Specifically, the name determination unit 152 first determines the profile of the name determination device 100 for male-youth, female-youth, male-young, female-young, male-old, female-old, male-old and female- It can be defined as any one of old age.

When the gender and age of the name determination device 100 are defined, the name determination unit 153 searches for the gender and age of the defined name determination device 100 in the name table 122. For example, if the name determination device 100 is set as a woman-youth, as shown in FIG. 4, a portion corresponding to a woman-youth is searched in the title table 122-1, and another example is called If the determination device 100 is set to male-old age, as shown in FIG. 5, a portion corresponding to male-old age is searched in the title table 122-2.

In addition, the name determination unit 153 may search for an appropriate title from the title table 122 using the user's gender determined by the gender analysis unit 151 and the user's age determined by the age analysis unit 152 to determine it. . For example, if the profile of the name determination device 100 (that is, the gender-age of the device 100) is set to female-youth, and the profile of the user (that is, the user's gender-age) is female-youth If this is the case, as shown in FIG. 4, a name to call the user is determined by adding "-ah" or "-ya" to the user's name. In addition, as another example, if the profile of the name determination device 100 (that is, the gender-age of the device 100) is defined as male-old age, and the profile of the user (that is, the user's gender-age) is female-old. If it is estimated, as shown in FIG. 5, a name to call the user is determined by adding "-c" to the user's name.

Accordingly, the name determination unit 153 may determine a name to be used when calling the user based on the profile of the name determination apparatus 100 and the profile estimated for the user.

According to an embodiment, the determination result 123 (ie, the determined name) of the name determination unit 153 may be transmitted to and stored in the storage unit 120. The determination result 123 may be used for a later conversation with the user and/or may be continuously updated according to the conversation with the user. The determination result 123 more accurately approaches the user's profile as the user's conversations are accumulated.

The processor 150 may further include a conversation performing unit 154 according to an embodiment. The conversation execution unit 154 generates a response message corresponding to the user's message, and transmits it to the user's terminal device 10 through the communication unit 140 to process the conversation between the name determination device 100 and the user. It may be designed to do. The conversation execution unit 154 may generate a message for a user by using the name determined by the name determination unit 153. Accordingly, a conversation using the user's profile and the name estimated based on the profile of the name determination apparatus 100 can be performed. According to an embodiment, the conversation performing unit 154 may be designed to perform interactive conversation with a user based on artificial intelligence technology. The conversation execution unit 154 may be constructed in another device physically separated from the name determination device 100 (for example, a conversation service providing apparatus, etc.), and in this case, the conversation execution unit of the name determination apparatus 100 (154) may be omitted.

According to an embodiment, the processor 150 may further include a portion corresponding to at least one of the morpheme extraction unit 16 and the morpheme selection unit 17 of the terminal device 10. For example, if the terminal device 10 transmits the message as it is or in a partially modified form to the name determination device 100, the morpheme extraction unit (not shown) of the processor 150 extracts the morpheme from the received message. And, the morpheme selection unit (not shown) of the processor 150 extracts a specific morpheme (for example, a morpheme corresponding to a ending ending of an input message, a morpheme corresponding to a name included in the input message), and At least one of the morphemes corresponding to the exclamation included in the input message) may be selected. In addition, for another example, if the terminal device 10 transmits the morpheme(s) extracted by the morpheme extracting unit 16 to the name determination device 100, the morpheme selection unit of the processor 150 is the communication unit 140 ) From the morpheme(s) received through a specific morpheme (e.g., a morpheme corresponding to the ending ending of an input message, a morpheme corresponding to a title included in the input message, and an exclamation point included in the input message) At least one of the morphemes) may be selected.

6 is a block diagram of another embodiment of a terminal device.

According to an embodiment, the terminal device 20 may perform the functions and operations of the above-described name determination device 100. In this case, the terminal device 20 may include an input unit 21, a storage unit 22, an output unit 23, and a processor 25, as shown in FIG. 6.

The storage unit 22 stores a setting value 22-1 for determining a profile (eg, gender and age) of the terminal device 20 and a name table 22-2 used for determining a name. Can include. The name table 22-2 stored in the storage unit 22 is, as described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5, the profile of the name determination device 100 and the profile of the user (for example, the user's gender and age. ) May include at least one piece of data classified on the basis of.

The processor 25 includes a morpheme extracting unit 25-1 for extracting a morpheme from a message, and a morpheme selection unit for selecting a specific morpheme (eg, a ending ending, a title word, and an exclamation point) from among the extracted morphemes ( 25-2), a gender determination unit 25-3 for determining the gender of the user based on the selected morpheme, and an age analysis unit 25-4 for determining the age of the user based on the selected morpheme, A name determination unit 25-5 for determining a name for a user based on the set value 22-1 and the name table 22-2 may be included. In addition, according to an embodiment, the processor 25 may include a conversation execution unit 25-6 that generates a message or the like to perform a conversation with a user. Each of these elements 25-1 to 25-6 may be logically divided or physically divided.

The structure, function, and/or operation of each of the elements 21, 22, 23, 25, 25-1 to 25-6 of the terminal device 20 are the corresponding elements described with reference to FIGS. Since the elements 11, 12, 13, 15, 120, 150 to 154, etc. may be substantially the same or may be implemented through some modifications, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of a method for determining a name will be described with reference to FIG. 7.

7 is a flowchart of an embodiment of a method for determining a name.

Referring to FIG. 7, a user inputs a message using a terminal device or the like (201). The input of a message may be performed through a user's manipulation of a keyboard or a touch screen, or may be performed by receiving a user's utterance through a microphone or the like.

When a message is input, a morpheme is extracted from the message (203). The morpheme extraction may be performed by a terminal device, or may be performed by a name determining device communicatively connected to the terminal device. If necessary, the message may be further transformed into a form for processing (eg, text, etc.).

When the morpheme is extracted, at least one of the terminal device and the name determination device performs morpheme analysis (205). Accordingly, a specific morpheme, for example, a ending ending, a title and/or an exclamation point, among all the morphemes extracted is obtained.

When a specific morpheme is extracted, a user's profile (eg, age and gender) may be inferred based on at least one of the extracted specific morpheme, that is, a ending ending, a title, and an exclamation (207). That is, the age or gender of the user may be determined based on a ending ending, a title, or an exclamation point that is used differently according to the age or gender of the user. This process can be performed by at least one of a terminal device and a name determination device.

When the user's profile is determined, and the profile of the name determination device (eg, virtually assigned and defined age and/or gender, etc.) is determined according to a predefined setting value, the title table is browsed (209), and the name From the table, a name corresponding to the profile of the user and the profile of the name determination device may be detected. The name table may include gender and age(s) of the name determination device, and a group of titles classified based on the gender and age of the user, and at least one of the terminal device and the name determination device is an acquired user And at least one of a group of titles may be extracted according to the gender and age of each of the name determination devices.

Accordingly, at least one of the terminal device and the name determination device may determine a name for the user (211).

The name determination method according to the above-described embodiment may be implemented in the form of a program that can be driven by a computer device. Here, the program may include a program command, a data file, a data structure, or the like alone or in combination. The program may be designed and manufactured using machine code or high-level language code. The program may be specially designed to implement the above-described method, or may be implemented using various functions or definitions that are known and available to those of ordinary skill in the computer software field. In addition, here, the computer device may be implemented including a processor or a memory that enables the function of a program to be realized, and may further include a communication device if necessary.

A program for implementing the above-described method for determining the name may be recorded in a computer-readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium includes, for example, a magnetic disk storage medium such as a hard disk or a floppy disk, a magnetic tape, an optical recording medium such as a compact disk or a DVD, a magnetic-optical recording medium such as a floppy disk, and a ROM. , A semiconductor storage device such as RAM or flash memory, etc., may include various types of hardware devices capable of storing a specific program executed according to a call from a computer.

Although various embodiments of the above name determination apparatus, a conversation service providing system including the same, and a name determination method have been described, the name determination apparatus, a conversation service providing system including the same, and a name determination method are limited to the above-described embodiments. no. Various devices or methods that can be implemented by modifying and modifying based on the above-described embodiment by a person of ordinary skill in the relevant technical field may also be examples of the above-described name determination device, a conversation service providing system including the same, and a name determination method have. For example, the described techniques are performed in an order different from the described method, and/or components such as a system, structure, device, circuit, etc. described are combined or combined in a form different from the described method, or other components or Even if it is replaced or substituted by an equivalent, it may be an embodiment of the above-described apparatus for determining a name, a system for providing a conversation service including the same, and a method for determining a name.

10: terminal device of the first embodiment 11: input unit
12: storage unit 13: output unit
15: processor 16: morpheme extraction unit
17: morpheme analysis unit 19: communication unit
20: terminal device 100 of the second embodiment: name determination device
120: storage unit 121: set value
122: designation table 150: processor
151: gender analysis unit 152: age analysis unit
153: name determination unit 154: dialogue execution unit
190: Ministry of Communications

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A title table constructed with information on the title; And
A processor that determines a user's profile based on the morpheme extracted from the message, and determines a name corresponding to the user's profile using the name table; And
And a communication unit communicatively connected to a terminal device and configured to receive at least one of the message and the morpheme extracted from the message from the terminal device,
The morpheme includes at least one of a ending ending, a title, and an exclamation used in the message,
The processor includes a morpheme selection unit that selects a morpheme that can be used to determine a user's profile, which means information or data for representing a user's characteristic, from the extracted morphemes, and further uses the gender and age of a predefined name determination device. Thus, a name corresponding to the user's profile is determined, and a morpheme is extracted from the message received by the communication unit,
The user's profile includes gender and age,
The age includes youth, young adult, mature and old,
The user's profile is defined as any one of male-young, female-young, male-young, female-young, male-old, female-old, male-old and female-old,
The name table includes a profile of the name determination device and a title classified based on a profile of the user,
When the gender and age are defined, the processor searches the gender and age of the defined name determination device in a name table. delete delete delete delete delete delete delete A terminal device receiving a message from a user; And
Including; a name determination device for determining a user's profile based on the morpheme extracted from the message, and determining a name corresponding to the user's profile using a name table,
At least one of the terminal device and the name determination device extracts the morpheme from the message, and the morpheme includes at least one of a ending ending, a title, and an exclamation point used in the message, and
The processor included in the name determination device includes a morpheme selection unit for selecting a morpheme that can be used to determine a user's profile, which means information or data for representing a user's characteristic, from the extracted morphemes,
The name determination device further determines a name corresponding to the user's profile by further using the gender and age of the predefined name determination device,
The user's profile includes gender and age,
The user's profile is defined as any one of male-young, female-young, male-young, female-young, male-old, female-old, male-old and female-old,
The name table includes a name classified based on a profile of the name determination device and a profile of the user,
When the gender and age are defined, the name determination device searches for the gender and age of the defined name determination device in a name table. delete delete delete delete delete As a name determination method performed by a name determination device,
Receiving a message;
Extracting a morpheme from the message;
Determining a user's profile based on the morpheme extracted from the message; And
Including; determining a title corresponding to the profile of the user by using the title table; Including,
The morpheme extracted from the message includes at least one of a ending ending, a title, and an exclamation included in the message,
The determining of the user's profile includes selecting a morpheme available for determining the user's profile,
The determining of a title corresponding to the profile of the user using the title table includes: determining a title corresponding to the profile of the user by further using a gender and age of a predefined name determination device; and ,
The user's profile includes gender and age,
The above age includes youth, young adult, mature and old,
The user's profile is defined as any one of male-young, female-young, male-young, female-young, male-old, female-old, male-old and female-old,
The name table includes a name classified based on a profile of the name determination device and a profile of the user,
When the gender and age are defined, a name determination method for searching the gender and age of the defined name determination device in a name table. delete delete delete delete delete

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