COMMUNICATION ASSISTANCE DEVICE, COMMUNICATION ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
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1. A communication assistance device comprising:
- a communication level determination unit that determines a level of a relationship between users based on similarity between the users and on user action records, the similarity between the users being obtained from preference information showing preferences of the users, and the user action records showing records of actions taken by a certain user toward a partner user with whom the certain user communicates out of the users.
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Abstract
A communication assistance device (10) includes a communication level determination unit (11) so as to determine a level of a relationship between users who communicate with each other. The communication level determination unit (11) determines the level (communication level) of the relationship between the users based on similarity between the users obtained from preference information showing preferences of the users, and on user action records showing records of actions taken by a certain user toward a partner user with whom the certain user communicates out of the users.
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1. A communication assistance device comprising:
a communication level determination unit that determines a level of a relationship between users based on similarity between the users and on user action records, the similarity between the users being obtained from preference information showing preferences of the users, and the user action records showing records of actions taken by a certain user toward a partner user with whom the certain user communicates out of the users. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11)
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8. The communication assistance device according to claim 8, wherein
the topic recommendation unit calculates degrees of preference for each topic included among the group of topics on a per-user basis, selects, as the topic that can be transmitted to the partner user, a topic for which only the partner user exhibits a degree of preference equal to or greater than a set value, or a topic for which both the certain user and the partner user exhibit a degree of preference equal to or greater than the set value, based on the level of the relationship between the users determined by the communication level determination unit and on the degrees of preference calculated on the per-user basis, determines a recommendation target user to whom the selected topic is to be recommended out of the certain user and the partner user based on information transmissibility of the certain user and the partner user or on contribution that the certain user and the partner user make to each other, and further determines the number of topics to be recommended to the recommendation target user in accordance with the level of the relationship between the users.
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9. A communication assistance method comprising:
a communication level determination step of determining a level of a relationship between users based on similarity between the users and on user action records, the similarity between the users being obtained from preference information showing preferences of the users, and the user action records showing records of actions taken by a certain user toward a partner user with whom the certain user communicates out of the users. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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10. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded therein a program including instructions for causing a computer to execute:
a communication level determination step of determining a level of a relationship between users based on similarity between the users and on user action records, the similarity between the users being obtained from preference information showing preferences of the users, and the user action records showing records of actions taken by a certain user toward a partner user with whom the certain user communicates out of the users. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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19. The communication assistance method according to Note 18, wherein
the topic recommendation step calculates degrees of preference for each topic included among the group of topics on a per-user basis, and selects, as the topic that can be transmitted to the partner user, a topic for which only the partner user exhibits a degree of preference equal to or greater than a set value, or a topic for which both the certain user and the partner user exhibit a degree of preference equal to or greater than the set value, based on the level of the relationship between the users determined by the communication level determination step and on the degrees of preference calculated on the per-user basis, determines a recommendation target user to whom the selected topic is to be recommended out of the certain user and the partner user based on information transmissibility of the certain user and the partner user or on contribution that the certain user and the partner user make to each other, and further determines the number of topics to be recommended to the recommendation target user in accordance with the level of the relationship between the users.
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27. The computer-readable recording medium according to Note 26, wherein
the topic recommendation step calculates degrees of preference for each topic included among the group of topics on a per-user basis, and selects, as the topic that can be transmitted to the partner user, a topic for which only the partner user exhibits a degree of preference equal to or greater than a set value, or a topic for which both the certain user and the partner user exhibit a degree of preference equal to or greater than the set value, based on the level of the relationship between the users determined by the communication level determination step and on the degrees of preference calculated on the per-user basis, determines a recommendation target user to whom the selected topic is to be recommended out of the certain user and the partner user based on information transmissibility of the certain user and the partner user or on contribution that the certain user and the partner user make to each other, and further determines the number of topics to be recommended to the recommendation target user in accordance with the level of the relationship between the users.
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