REPORT GENERATING SYSTEM, NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND REPORT GENERATING APPARATUS

• US 20140074457A1
• Filed: 08/28/2013
• Published: 03/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Masuda, Yusaku
• Application Number:
  US14/012,091
• Publication Number:
  US 20140074457A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/56 Natural language generation

Abstract

A report generating system includes a service information acquiring unit that acquires service information, a natural language processing unit that performs natural language processing on the acquired service information to extract a word, a replacing unit that replaces the word extracted from the service information with word identification information by referring to a word list in which the word and the word identification information are associated, a word identification information output unit that outputs the replaced word identification information, a word identification information acquiring unit that acquires the output word identification information, a counting unit that counts a total number of pieces of word identification information with a same value among acquired pieces of the word identification information, for each of values of the pieces of the word identification information, a generating unit that generates a report based on a counting result.

Claims

1. A report generating system comprising:

a service information acquiring unit that acquires service information that is text information on a customer service;

a natural language processing unit that performs natural language processing on the acquired service information to extract a word;

a replacing unit that replaces the word extracted from the service information with word identification information by referring to a word list in which the word and word identification information for identifying the word are associated with each other;

a word identification information output unit that outputs the replaced word identification information;

a word identification information acquiring unit that acquires the output word identification information;

a counting unit that counts a total number of pieces of word identification information with a same value among acquired pieces of the word identification information, for each of values of the pieces of the word identification information;

a generating unit that generates a report based on a counting result; and

a report output unit that outputs the generated report.

2. The report generating system according to claim 1, wherein

the service information acquiring unit further acquires location identification information for identifying a service location in which the customer service indicated by the service information is provided,

the word identification information output unit outputs the replaced word identification information and the acquired location identification information in an associated manner,

the word identification information acquiring unit further acquires the location identification information that is output in association with the output word identification information, and

the counting unit counts a total number of pairs of the word identification information and the location identification information with a same value from among acquired pairs of the word identification information and the location identification information, for each of values of the pairs of the word identification information and the location identification information.

3. The report generating system according to claim 2, further comprising:

a receiving unit that receives item type information indicating a type of a report generation item and area type information indicating a type of a report generation area, wherein

the word identification information acquiring unit acquires a pair of word identification information that corresponds to a value indicated by the item type information and location identification information that is associated with the word identification information and that corresponds to a value indicated by the area type information.

4. The report generating system according to claim 2, wherein the natural language processing unit performs, on the service information, natural language processing corresponding to a language based on the acquired location identification information.

5. The report generating system according to claim 1, wherein the word in the word list is expressed in a plurality of languages.

6. A natural language processing apparatus comprising:

a service information acquiring unit that acquires service information that is text information on a customer service;

a natural language processing unit that performs natural language processing on the acquired service information to extract a word;

a replacing unit that replaces the word extracted from the service information with word identification information by referring to a word list in which the word and the word identification information for identifying the word are associated with each other; and

a word identification information output unit that outputs the replaced word identification information.

7. The natural language processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

the service information acquiring unit further acquires location identification information for identifying a service location in which the customer service indicated by the service information is provided, and

the word identification information output unit outputs the replaced word identification information and the acquired location identification information in an associated manner.

8. The natural language processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the natural language processing unit performs, on the service information, natural language processing corresponding to a language based on the acquired location identification information.

9. The natural language processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the word in the word list is expressed in a plurality of languages.

10. A report generating apparatus comprising:

a word identification information acquiring unit that acquires word identification information for identifying a word extracted from service information that is text information on a customer service;

a counting unit that counts a total number of pieces of word identification information with a same value among acquired pieces of the word identification information, for each of values of the pieces of the word identification information;

a generating unit that generates a report based on a counting result; and

a report output unit that outputs the generated report.

11. The report generating apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

the word identification information is associated with location identification information for identifying a service location in which the customer service indicated by the service information is provided,

the word identification information acquiring unit further acquires the location identification information associated with the word identification information, and

the counting unit counts a total number of pairs of the word identification information and the location identification information with a same value among acquired pairs of the word identification information and the acquired location identification information, for each of values of the pairs of the word identification information and the location identification information.

12. The report generating apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising:

a receiving unit that receives item type information indicating a type of a report generation item and area type information indicating a type of a report generation area, wherein

the word identification information acquiring unit acquires a pair of the word identification information that corresponds to a value indicated by the item type information and the location identification information that is associated with the word identification information and that corresponds to a value indicated by the area type information.