Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Solutions Corporation

Yoshinori Masaoka

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Shigeaki Sakurai

Shozo Isobe

Shigeru Matsumoto

Kazuyoshi Nishi

Kyoko Makino

Yoshimi Saito

Provided is a knowledge extracting apparatus for extracting knowledge information related to a knowledge-extraction target from an electronic document distributed continually in a state where the electronic document is not associated with the knowledge-information extraction target. A knowledge extracting apparatus according to one embodiment is a knowledge extracting apparatus including: an information receiving section for receiving an electronic document; a knowledge extracting section for extracting a concept from the electronic document based on a target word to extract knowledge information and a clue word to extract knowledge information and forming knowledge information in which the concept thus extracted and the target word are associated with each other; a storage section for storing the knowledge information thus extracted; and an information analysis section for, after the knowledge information is stored, analyzing the electronic document based on the knowledge information in the storage section.

Forming knowledge information based on a predetermined threshold of a concept and a predetermined threshold of a target word extracted from a document

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Yokohama, Japan

Yoshinori Masaoka