INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20110264443A1
• Filed: 04/12/2011
• Published: 10/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: TAKAMATSU, SHINGO
• Application Number:
  US13/084,756
• Publication Number:
  US 20110264443A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/30 of unstructured textual data document management systems G06F16/93

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an information processing device including: a data acquirer configured to acquire a sentence collection having a plurality of sentences and a plurality of phrases included in the sentence collection; a phrase feature decider configured to decide phrase features each representing a characteristic of a respective one of the phrases acquired by the data acquirer; a collection feature decider configured to decide a collection feature representing a characteristic of the sentence collection; and a compressor configured to generate compressed phrase features by using the phrase features and the collection feature, the compressed phrase features having a dimension lower than a dimension of the phrase features and each representing a characteristic of the respective one of the phrases acquired by the data acquirer.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a data acquirer configured to acquire a sentence collection having a plurality of sentences and a plurality of phrases included in the sentence collection;

a phrase feature decider configured to decide phrase features each representing a characteristic of a respective one of the phrases acquired by the data acquirer;

a collection feature decider configured to decide a collection feature representing a characteristic of the sentence collection; and

a compressor configured to generate compressed phrase features by using the phrase features and the collection feature, the compressed phrase features having a dimension lower than a dimension of the phrase features and each representing a characteristic of the respective one of the phrases acquired by the data acquirer.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the phrase feature is vector quantity having components each corresponding to a respective one of words that appear in the plurality of phrases.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein

the collection feature is a matrix having components each corresponding to a respective one of combinations of words that appear in the sentence collection, and

at least part of a vector space of the phrase feature overlaps with part of a vector space of row vectors or column vectors configuring the collection feature.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the compressor calculates a latent variate by maximum likelihood estimation in a probabilistic model in which the phrase features about the plurality of phrases and the collection feature are treated as observed data and the latent variate contributes to occurrence of the observed data, and

the compressed phrase feature is included in the latent variate.

5. The information processing device according to claim 4, wherein

a latent variate that contributes to occurrence of the collection feature and a latent variate that contributes to occurrence of the phrase feature are latent variates that are in common with each other at least partially in the probabilistic model.

6. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the compressor calculates a first lower-order matrix having an order lower than an order of the collection feature by matrix decomposition of the collection feature, and calculates a second lower-order matrix having an order lower than an order of a phrase feature matrix including the phrase features about the plurality of phrases by matrix decomposition of the phrase feature matrix,

the second lower-order matrix is a matrix that approximately derives the phrase feature matrix by a product with a matrix having part in common with the first lower-order matrix, and

the compressed phrase feature is included in the second lower-order matrix.

7. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the collection feature decider decides the collection feature depending on the number of times of co-occurrence in the sentence collection about each of the combinations of the words.

8. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the collection feature decider decides the collection feature depending on a synonymous relationship between words.

9. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising

a clustering part configured to perform clustering of a plurality of compressed phrase features generated by the compressor depending on similarity between features.

10. The information processing device according to claim 9, wherein

the clustering part gives each of at least one clusters generated as a result of clustering a label corresponding to a phrase as a representative of the cluster.

11. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the data acquirer extracts pairs of words that are both included in one sentence in the sentence collection and acquires the plurality of phrases each representing a relation between the words about a respective one of the extracted pairs.

12. The information processing device according to claim 11, further comprising:

a clustering part configured to perform clustering of a plurality of compressed phrase features generated by the compressor depending on similarity between features; and

a summarizer configured to pay attention to a specific word included in the sentence collection and create summary information about an attention word by using a result of clustering by the clustering part about phrases relating to the attention word.

13. An information processing method carried out by using processing means in an information processing device, the information processing method comprising the steps of:

acquiring a sentence collection having a plurality of sentences and a plurality of phrases included in the sentence collection;

deciding phrase features each representing a characteristic of a respective one of the acquired phrases;

deciding a collection feature representing a characteristic of the acquired sentence collection; and

generating compressed phrase features by using the phrase features and the collection feature, the compressed phrase features having a dimension lower than a dimension of the phrase features and each representing a characteristic of a respective one of phrases among the plurality of phrases.

14. A program for causing a computer that controls an information processing device to function as processing means comprising:

a data acquirer configured to acquire a sentence collection having a plurality of sentences and a plurality of phrases included in the sentence collection;

a phrase feature decider configured to decide phrase features each representing a characteristic of a respective one of the phrases acquired by the data acquirer;

a collection feature decider configured to decide a collection feature representing a characteristic of the sentence collection; and

a compressor configured to generate compressed phrase features by using the phrase features and the collection feature, the compressed phrase features having a dimension lower than a dimension of the phrase features and each representing a characteristic of the respective one of the phrases acquired by the data acquirer.

15. An information processing device comprising:

data acquisition means for acquiring a sentence collection having a plurality of sentences and a plurality of phrases included in the sentence collection;

phrase feature decision means for deciding phrase features each representing a characteristic of a respective one of the phrases acquired by the data acquisition means;

collection feature decision means for deciding a collection feature representing a characteristic of the sentence collection; and

compression means for generating compressed phrase features by using the phrase features and the collection feature, the compressed phrase features having a dimension lower than a dimension of the phrase features and each representing a characteristic of the respective one of the phrases acquired by the data acquisition means.