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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2007
Shigeaki Sakurai, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeaki Sakurai, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A thread ranking system includes: a thread collector for collecting a thread from a bulletin board website, a thread information storage for storing the collected thread, an event extractor for extracting the event from respective threads by using the event knowledge stored in the event knowledge storage, a related expression extractor for extracting a related expression characterizing the thread from expressions contained in the thread every thread, an input/output controller for presenting information that calls upon the user to input an evaluation of a predetermined thread to the user and inputting an evaluation of the user, a related expression importance calculator for calculating importance based on the input evaluation of the user every related expression, and a thread ranking unitfor deciding ranks of respective threads based on the extracted event and the calculated importance every related expression.