Machine-aided dialog system and medical condition inquiry apparatus and method

A method of machine-aided dialog, comprising:

• providing a semantic framework for providing a dialog theme;
• providing a knowledge database for storing semantic knowledge, the semantic knowledge comprising at least one group of content-related expressions;
• and
• providing a dialog manager for managing a dialog according to the dialog theme provided by the semantic framework, wherein managing the dialog comprises:
• generating a question expression of the dialog theme based on the semantic knowledge acquired from the knowledge database;
• and ending the dialog theme upon determining that the dialog theme is completed in response to a dialog ending condition.

A medical condition inquiry apparatus, comprising:

• a user interactive interface for providing a dialog with a patient, including inquiring a patient's health status and receiving a response from the patient;
• a semantic analyzer, for extracting medical information of the patient based on the response from the patient, wherein the response from the patient is a first expression in a first expression category;
• a medical knowledge database storing a second expression of a medical condition corresponding to the medical information, wherein the second expression is in a second expression category;
• and
• a report generator, for generating a medical condition inquiry report having the medical information with the second expression.