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Text structure analyzing apparatus, abstracting apparatus, and program recording medium

  • US 6,374,209 B1
  • Filed: 03/18/1999
  • Issued: 04/16/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/19/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A text structure analyzing apparatus analyzing a connection between respective elements constituting a text and based on an analyzed result, indicating a structure of the text by means of a tree structure which represents the respective elements as nodes, comprising:

  • an element appearance position storing section dividing an inputted text into the elements and storing an appearance position relationship among the elements on the inputted text;

    a relation degree computing section determining a precedent element of an attention element with reference to the appearance position relationship and computing a relation degree representing strength of a connection between the attention element and each precedent element;

    an importance degree computing section computing an importance degree of the attention element, based on a relation degree between the attention element and each precedent element and an importance degree of a head element of the inputted text;

    a structure determining section determining a tree structure of the inputted text by determining the precedent element having an optimum value as an importance degree of the attention element as a parent element of the attention element; and

    an output section outputting the determined tree structure of the inputted text.

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