DIALOGUE SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREFOR

A dialogue system includes a response utterance selecting unit generating a response utterance original sentence to an input utterance; an input utterance emotion estimating unit estimating emotion of the input utterance by calculating input utterance emotion scores indicating degree of matching between the emotion represented by the input utterance and a plurality of emotions; and a response utterance modifying unit for calculating response utterance emotion scores of a response utterance original sentence as emotion scores for each of the plurality of emotions, modifying the response utterance original sentence by a method of modification determined by the values of input utterance emotion score and the response utterance emotion score, and thereby generating and outputting a response utterance.