Meaning generation method, meaning generation apparatus, and storage medium

A meaning generation apparatus comprising:

• a meaning training data acquirer that acquires first meaning training data including text data of a first sentence that can be an utterance sentence, the first meaning training data also including meaning information associated with the text data of the first sentence and indicating a meaning of the first sentence;
• a restatement training data acquirer that acquires first restatement training data including the text data of the first sentence and text data of a second sentence associated with the text data of the first sentence, the second sentence being a restatement sentence of the first sentence;
• a learner that performs learning of association between the utterance sentence and the meaning information and between the utterance sentence and the restatement sentence, the learning including learning of a degree of importance of a word included in the utterance sentence, the learning performed by applying the first meaning training data and the first restatement training data to a common model;
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• a storage that stores a result of the learning as learning result information.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process comprising:

• acquiring first meaning training data including text data of a first sentence that can be an utterance sentence, the first meaning training data also including meaning information associated with the text data of the first sentence and indicating a meaning of the first sentence;
• acquiring first restatement training data including the text data of the first sentence and text data of a second sentence associated with the text data of the first sentence, the second sentence being a restatement sentence of the first sentence;
• learning association between the utterance sentence and the meaning information and between the utterance sentence and the restatement sentence, the learning including learning of a degree of importance of a word included in the utterance sentence, the learning performed by applying the first meaning training data and the first restatement training data to a common model;
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• storing a result of the learning as learning result information.