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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2002
Akiko Murakami, Yokohama, JP;
Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Sagamihara, JP;
Tetsuya Nasukawa, Fujisawa, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A candidate synonym acquisition device acquires a set of candidate synonyms similar to an input word for each writer from data for each writer, and acquires a set of candidate synonyms similar to the input word from a collective data. A generated candidate synonym set is inputted to a candidate synonym determination device to evaluate the candidate synonyms of the collective data. In the evaluation, the status of 'absolute' is given to a word matching a word ranked first in the candidate synonyms for each writer and the status of 'negative' is given to words matching words ranked second and lower therein.