Information processing apparatus

An information processing apparatus that is accessible to each of:

• a question storage unit that stores a plurality of questions associated with predetermined types or predetermined details of “innovation”;
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• a conversion device storage unit that stores a plurality of types of conversion devices respectively associated with the predetermined types or the predetermined details of “innovation”, each of the conversion devices adopting a different conversion policy and each the conversion devices being a device that converts a keyword or a sentence into another keyword or another sentence according to a predetermined conversion policy,
• the information processing apparatus comprising:
• an inference portion that infers, based on a prior survey on a user, at least a portion of a type and a detail of “innovation” that the user desires;
• a question setting portion that extracts a question from or that arranges the question extracted from the question storage unit based on a result of the inference by the inference portion to set the one or more questions;
• a first extraction portion that extracts a plurality of first keywords or first sentences respectively from replies by the user to the one or more questions that is or are set by the question setting portion;
• a second extraction portion that extracts, from the conversion device storage unit, a conversion device to be applied to the plurality of first keywords or first sentences extracted by the first extraction portion based on the result of the inference by the inference portion;
• a conversion portion that uses the conversion device extracted by the second extraction portion and converts each of the plurality of first keywords or first sentences extracted by the first extraction portion into each of a plurality of second keywords or second sentences;
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• a contextualization portion that contextualizes at least a portion of the plurality of second keywords or the second sentences and generates one or more third sentences.