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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2000
Shinji Miwa, Nirasaki, JP;
Michihiro Nagaishi, Nagano-ken, JP;
Shinji Miwa, Nirasaki, JP;
Michihiro Nagaishi, Nagano-ken, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A document categorizing apparatus includes a sentence analyzerfor analyzing a plurality of documents to detect titles thereof; a feature element extractorfor extracting feature elements from the titles detected by the sentence analyzerfrom the respective documents; feature table generating meansfor generating a feature table representing the relationships between the feature elements extracted from the title and the documents including the feature elements; a document categorizing unitfor categorizing the documents into a plurality of clusters according to semantic similarity on the basis of the content of the feature table; a categorization result storage unitfor storing the clusters created by the document categorization unit; a cluster merging unitfor performing a cluster merging process upon the clusters stored in the categorization result storage unit; and an output control unitfor outputting the result of the cluster merging process to a display unit