Keyword extraction apparatus and keyword extraction program

• US 20060085181A1
• Filed: 10/20/2004
• Published: 04/20/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Komamura, Noriyuki, Kidokoro, Kazuaki
• Application Number:
  US10/968,271
• Publication Number:
  US 20060085181A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems

Abstract

An appropriate keyword to characterize a collection of pieces of access history information is extracted without depending on the contents of documents related to the collection. In a keyword extraction apparatus for performing processing of extracting a keyword that characterizes a collection of pieces of access history information with respect to documents, the apparatus includes a keyword acquisition part that acquires a plurality of keywords from among the pieces of access history information constituting the collection, a weighting part that weights the plurality of keywords acquired based on prescribed rule information, and a specific keyword extraction part that extracts a specific keyword from among the plurality of keywords acquired based on the weights assigned to the plurality of keywords, respectively, in the weighting part.

Claims

1. A keyword extraction apparatus for performing processing of extracting a keyword that characterizes a collection of pieces of access history information with respect to documents, said apparatus comprising:

a keyword acquisition part that acquires a plurality of keywords from among said pieces of access history information constituting said collection;

a weighting part that weights said plurality of keywords acquired based on prescribed rule information; and

a specific keyword extraction part that extracts a specific keyword from among said plurality of keywords acquired based on the weights assigned to said plurality of keywords, respectively, in said weighting part.

2. The keyword extraction apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said weighting part weights said plurality of acquired keywords on the basis of the frequencies of occurrences of said keywords acquired in said pieces of access history information constituting said collection.

3. A keyword extraction program for making a computer execute processing of extracting a keyword that characterizes a collection of pieces of access history information with respect to documents, said program adapted to make said computer execute:

a keyword acquisition step of acquiring a plurality of keywords from among said pieces of access history information constituting said collection;

a weighting step of weighting said plurality of keywords acquired based on prescribed rule information; and

a specific keyword extraction step of extracting a specific keyword from among said plurality of keywords acquired based on the weights assigned to said plurality of keywords, respectively, in said weighting step.

4. The keyword extraction program according to claim 3, wherein said weighting step weights said plurality of acquired keywords on the basis of the frequencies of occurrences of said keywords acquired in said pieces of access history information constituting said collection.

5. The keyword extraction program according to claim 4, wherein access histories constituting said collection are associated with a plurality of users.

6. The keyword extraction program according to claim 4, further comprising an extraction reference information setting step of setting an extraction reference for keywords to be extracted, wherein said weighting step weights said plurality of acquired keywords on the basis of said frequencies of occurrences of said keywords acquired in a range of said pieces of access history information determined based on said set extraction reference information.

7. The keyword extraction program according to claim 4, wherein said collection of pieces of access history information is constructed based on either of user names, the contents of accesses, and the time point at which said pieces of access history information are generated, and said weighting step performs weighting based on the keywords acquired in said keyword acquisition step and information on the frequencies of occurrences of said keywords associated with said collection.

8. The keyword extraction program according to claim 3, wherein said access history information includes information on the contents of uses of the documents, and said weighting step weights keywords acquired from among pieces of access history information with respect to the documents based on the contents of uses thereof.

9. The keyword extraction program according to claim 3, wherein said weighting step weights said plurality of acquired keywords on the basis of the frequencies of occurrences of said keywords acquired in access history information older than said pieces of access history information constituting said collection.

10. The keyword extraction program according to claim 3, further comprising a user identification step of identifying a user who is intended to perform keyword extraction, wherein said weighting step performs weighting based on the result of identification in said user identification step.

11. The keyword extraction program according to claim 3, wherein said specific keyword extraction step performs keyword extraction in such a manner that the heavier the weights assigned to said plurality of keywords in said weighting step, the higher are the significance levels of the keywords.

12. The keyword extraction program according to claim 3, wherein said specific keyword extraction step provides a screen display of said acquired keywords in a ranked order based on the weights assigned to said plurality of keywords, respectively, in said weighting step.

13. The keyword extraction program according to claim 3, wherein said keyword acquisition step acquires a plurality of keywords from among pieces of access history information constituting said collection by using a morphological analysis.

14. The keyword extraction program according to claim 3, wherein said access history information includes at least one of attribute information of the documents related to said access history information, information on the titles of said documents, and information on time points at which said documents were accessed, the contents of accesses to said documents, and users who made said accesses.