Index term extraction device for document-to-be-surveyed

• US 20090077073A1
• Filed: 04/21/2006
• Published: 03/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intellectual Property Bank Corp.
• Original Assignee: Intellectual Property Bank Corp.
• Inventors: Masuyama, Hiroaki, Sato, Haru-Tada
• Application Number:
  US11/918,793
• Publication Number:
  US 20090077073A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/31 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures

Abstract

A device comprises input means (1) for inputting a document (d) to be examined, a group of documents (P) to be compared, and a group of similar documents (S), index word extracting means (120) for extracting an index word in the document (d), first frequency calculating means (143) for calculating in GFIDF(P) of the extracted index word in the document group (P), second frequency calculating means (171) for calculating in GFIDF(S) of the extracted index word in the similar document group (S), and output means (4) for outputting the index words and their positioning data according to the combination of the calculated ln GFIDF(P) and ln GFIDF(S) in the document group to be compared and the similar document group. With this, when a document to be examined is given, the assertion of the document can be easily grasped.

Claims

1. An index term extraction device comprising:

input means for inputting a document-to-be-surveyed, documents-to-be-compared that are compared with the document-to-be-surveyed, and similar documents that are similar to the document-to-be-surveyed;

index term extraction means for extracting index terms from the document-to-be-surveyed;

first appearance frequency calculation means for calculating a function value of an appearance frequency of each of the extracted index terms in the documents-to-be-compared;

second appearance frequency calculation means for calculating a function value of an appearance frequency of each of the extracted index terms in the similar documents; and

output means for outputting each index term and its positioning data based on the combination of the function value of the appearance frequency in the documents-to-be-compared and the function value of the appearance frequency in the similar documents, respectively calculated for each index term,

wherein at least one of the function value of the appearance frequency in the documents-to-be-compared calculated by the first appearance frequency calculation means and the function value of the appearance frequency in the similar documents calculated by the second appearance frequency calculation means has a global frequency IDF as its variable.

2. The index term extraction device according to claim 1, wherein the input means calculates, with respect to the document-to-be-surveyed and each document of source-documents-for-selection from which the similar documents are selected, a vector having as its component a function value of an appearance frequency in each document of each index term contained in each document, or a function value of an appearance frequency in the source-documents-for-selection of each index term contained in each document, selects the documents with a vector of a higher degree of similarity to the vector calculated for the document-to-be-surveyed from the source-documents-for-selection and inputs the selected documents as the similar documents.

3. The index term extraction device according to claim 1, wherein the output means arranges and outputs each index term by taking the function value of the appearance frequency in the documents-to-be-compared as a first axis of a coordinate system, and taking the function value of the appearance frequency in the similar documents as a second axis of the coordinate system.

4. The index term extraction device according to claim 1, wherein both of the function value of the appearance frequency in the documents-to-be-compared calculated by the first appearance frequency calculation means and the function value of the appearance frequency in the similar documents calculated by the second appearance frequency calculation means have the global frequency IDF as a variable.

5. The index term extraction device according to claim 1, wherein the function value having a global frequency IDF as its variable is a logarithm of such global frequency IDF.

6. The index term extraction device according to claim 1, wherein the function value having a global frequency IDF as its variable is a function value having a ratio or difference between the global frequency IDF and a term frequency in the document-to-be-surveyed as a variable.

7. An index term extraction method comprising:

an input step for inputting a document-to-be-surveyed, documents-to-be-compared that are compared with the document-to-be-surveyed, and similar documents that are similar to the document-to-be-surveyed;

an index term extraction step for extracting index terms from the document-to-be-surveyed;

a first appearance frequency calculation step for calculating a function value of an appearance frequency of each of the extracted index terms in the documents-to-be-compared;

a second appearance frequency calculation step for calculating a function value of an appearance frequency of each of the extracted index terms in the similar documents; and

an output step for outputting each index term and its positioning data based on the combination of the function value of the appearance frequency in the documents-to-be-compared and the function value of the appearance frequency in the similar documents, respectively calculated for each index term,

wherein at least one of the function value of the appearance frequency in the documents-to-be-compared calculated by the first appearance frequency calculation step and the function value of the appearance frequency in the similar documents calculated by the second appearance frequency calculation step has a global frequency IDF as its variable.

8. An index term extraction program for causing a computer to execute:

an input step for inputting a document-to-be-surveyed, documents-to-be-compared that are compared with the document-to-be-surveyed, and similar documents that are similar to the document-to-be-surveyed;

an index term extraction step for extracting index terms from the document-to-be-surveyed;

a first appearance frequency calculation step for calculating a function value of an appearance frequency of each of the extracted index terms in the documents-to-be-compared;

a second appearance frequency calculation step for calculating a function value of an appearance frequency of each of the extracted index terms in the similar documents; and

an output step for outputting each index term and its positioning data based on the combination of the function value of the appearance frequency in the documents-to-be-compared and the function value of the appearance frequency in the similar documents, respectively calculated for each index term,

wherein at least one of the function value of the appearance frequency in the documents-to-be-compared calculated by the first appearance frequency calculation step and the function value of the appearance frequency in the similar documents calculated by the second appearance frequency calculation step has a global frequency IDF as its variable.