INSPIRATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, INSPIRATION SUPPORT METHOD AND INSPIRATION SUPPORT PROGRAM

• US 20090313233A1
• Filed: 09/01/2006
• Published: 12/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Hanazawa, Ken
• Application Number:
  US12/094,538
• Publication Number:
  US 20090313233A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/30 of unstructured textual data document management systems G06F16/93
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/279 Recognition of textual entities

Abstract

An inspiration support apparatus includes: a text database that stores a plurality of texts; a text mining section that analyzes the plurality of texts stored in the text database by text mining, and outputs a text that is a result of the mining; a keyword set database that stores conversion keywords; a keyword extraction section that extracts a keyword from the text that is the result of the mining by using the conversion keywords stored in the keyword set database; a keyword conversion section that converts, with respect to the text that is the result of the mining, the keyword extracted by the keyword extraction section in the text into one of the conversion keywords stored in the keyword set database; and a result output section that outputs the text converted by the keyword conversion section.

Claims

1. An inspiration support apparatus comprising:

a text database that stores a plurality of texts;

a text mining section that analyzes the plurality of texts stored in the text database by text mining, and outputs a text that is a result of the mining;

a keyword set database that stores a keyword set that contains conversion keywords corresponding to words that express 4W1H that is made up of who, why, where, when and how;

a keyword extraction section that extracts the keywords corresponding to the words that express 4W1H from the text that is the result of the mining by referring to the keyword set database;

a keyword conversion section that converts, with respect to the text that is the result of the mining, the keywords extracted by the keyword extraction section in the text into one of the conversion keywords contained in the keyword set including the keywords; and

a result output section that outputs the text converted by the keyword conversion section.

2. The inspiration support apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a collation section that collates the text converted by the keyword conversion section with the texts in the text database and assigns an ordinal rank to the converted text on the basis of a result of collation, wherein the result output section outputs the converted text having the ordinal rank assigned by the collation section.

3. The inspiration support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the keyword set database stores as the conversion keywords synonyms or antonyms to be used in the text mining section.

4. The inspiration support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the keyword set database stores a plurality of conversion keyword candidates, and the keyword conversion section uses as the conversion keyword one of the conversion keyword candidates associated in advance with the texts stored in the text database.

5. The inspiration support apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the collation section assigns a higher ordinal rank to the text converted by the keyword conversion section if frequency with which the text has appeared in the text database is lower.

20. The inspiration support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the keyword set contains the conversion keywords corresponding to words that express 5W1H that is further made up of what, and the keyword extraction section extracts the keywords corresponding to the words that express 5W1H from the text that is the result of the mining.

6. An inspiration support method carried out by an inspiration support apparatus including a text database that stores a plurality of texts and a keyword set database that stores a keyword set that contains conversion keywords corresponding to words that express 4W1H that is made up of who, why, where, when and how, the method comprising:

analyzing the plurality of text database by text mining to output a text that is a result of the mining;

extracting the keywords corresponding to the words that express 4W1H from the text that is the result of the mining by referring to the keyword set database;

converting, with respect to the text that is the result of the mining, the extracted keywords in the text into one of the conversion keywords contained in the keyword set including the keywords; and

outputting the converted text.

7. The inspiration support method according to claim 6, further comprising collating the converted text with the texts in the text database and assigning an ordinal rank to the converted text on the basis of a result of collation, wherein, the outputting comprises outputting the converted text assigned the ordinal rank.

8. The inspiration support method according to claim 6, wherein the keyword set database stores as the conversion keywords synonyms or antonyms to be used in the text mining.

9. The inspiration support method according to claim 6, wherein the keyword set database stores a plurality of conversion keyword candidates, and the converting includes using as the conversion keyword one of the conversion keyword candidates associated in advance with the texts stored in the text database.

10. The inspiration support method according to claim 7, wherein, the collating comprises assigning a higher ordinal rank to the converted text if frequency with which the text has appeared in the text database is lower.

22. The inspiration support method according to claim 6, wherein the keyword set contains the conversion keywords corresponding to words that express 5W1H that is further made up of what, and the extracting comprises extracting the keywords corresponding to the words that express 5W1H from the text that is the result of the mining.

11. An inspiration support program causing a computer, which is connected to a text database that stores a plurality of texts and a keyword set database that stores a keyword set that contains conversion keywords corresponding to words that express 4W1H that is made up of who, why, where, when and how, to execute inspiration support processing including:

text mining processing for analyzing the plurality of texts stored in the text database by text mining to output a text that is a result of the mining;

keyword extraction processing for extracting the keywords corresponding to the words that express 4W1H from the text that is the result of the mining by referring to the keyword set database;

keyword conversion processing for converting, with respect to the text that is the result of mining, the extracted keywords in the text into one of the conversion keywords contained in the keyword set including the keywords; and

result output processing for outputting the converted text.

12. The inspiration support program according to claim 11, wherein the inspiration support processing further includes collation processing for collating the converted text with the texts in the text database and assigning an ordinal rank to the converted text on the basis of a result of collation, wherein, in the result output processing, the converted text assigned the ordinal rank is output.

13. The inspiration support program according to claim 11, wherein the keyword set database stores as the conversion keywords synonyms or antonyms to be used in the text mining processing.

14. The inspiration support program according to claim 11, wherein the keyword set database stores a plurality of conversion keyword candidates, and the keyword conversion processing includes using as the conversion keyword one of the conversion keyword candidates associated in advance with the texts stored in the text database.

15. The inspiration support program according to claim 12, wherein, in the collation processing, a higher ordinal rank is assigned to the converted text if frequency with which the text has appeared in the text database is lower.

23. The inspiration support program according to claim 11, wherein the keyword set contains the conversion keywords corresponding to words that express 5W1H that is further made up of what, and the keyword extraction processing comprises extracting the keywords corresponding to the words that express 5W1H from the text that is the result of the mining.

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19. A computer readable recording medium on which a program is embedded, the program causing a computer, which is connected to a text database that stores a plurality of texts and a keyword set database that stores a keyword set that contains conversion keywords corresponding to words that express 4W1H that is made up of who, why, where, when and how, to execute inspiration support processing including:

text mining processing for analyzing the plurality of texts stored in the text database by text mining to output a text that is a result of the mining;

keyword extraction processing for extracting the keywords corresponding to the words that express 4W1H from the text that is the result of the mining by referring to the keyword set database;

keyword conversion processing for converting, with respect to the text that is the result of mining, the extracted keywords in the text into one of the conversion keywords contained in the keyword set including the keywords; and

result output processing for outputting the converted text.

21. An inspiration support apparatus comprising:

text database means for storing a plurality of texts;

text mining means for analyzing the plurality of texts stored in the text database means by text mining, and for outputting a text that is a result of the mining;

keyword set database means for storing a keyword set that contains conversion keywords corresponding to words that express 4W1H that is made up of who, why, where, when and how;

keyword extraction means for extracting the keywords corresponding to the words that express 4W1H from the text that is the result of the mining by referring to the keyword set database means;

keyword conversion means for converting, with respect to the text that is the result of the mining, the keywords extracted by the keyword extraction means in the text into one of the conversion keywords contained in the keyword set including the keywords; and

result output means for outputting the text converted by the keyword conversion means.