Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080201134 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORD MEDIUM IN WHICH NAMED ENTITY EXTRACTION PROGRAM IS RECORDED, NAMED ENTITY EXTRACTION METHOD AND NAMED ENTITY EXTRACTION APPARATUS - A named entity extraction apparatus includes an extraction result acquisition unit for acquiring a named entity extraction result obtained as a result of a named entity extraction process; and a lexicon information creation unit for creating lexicon information which is utilized as clues in extracting named entities from text data, on the basis of the named entity extraction result acquired by said extraction result acquisition unit. | 08-21-2008 |
20090030887 | RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH COLLATION PROCESSING PROGRAM IS STORED, COLLATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND COLLATION PROCESSING METHOD - A collation processing device has a document storage unit, axis transforming unit, automaton creating unit, and collating processing unit. The document storage unit stores document data having a hierarchical structure in which elements are sectioned by element identifiers. The axis transforming unit executes axis transformation on a search formula when the search formula is obtained, whereby the search formula concerned is transformed to a search formula constructed of child axes. The automaton creating unit identifies the type of element identifiers contained in the transformed search formula to create the automaton corresponding to the search formula concerned. The collating processing unit collates data contained in the document data with the automaton to output the data corresponding to the search formula. | 01-29-2009 |
20090187562 | SEARCH METHOD - A search method for causing a computer to execute the search method of searching for and retrieving, when a search formula to document data having a hierarchy structure whose elements are delimited by an element identifier is obtained, data corresponding to the search formula from the document data, stores, when the search formula is obtained, the search formula to a memory device; determines, when the data corresponding to the search formula is searched for and retrieved from the document data, whether or not a hierarchy management is necessary to the search formula based on the search formula; and searches for and retrieves, when the hierarchy management is not necessary to the search formula, the document data corresponding to the search formula without executing the hierarchy management. | 07-23-2009 |
20090240669 | METHOD OF MANAGING LOCATIONS OF INFORMATION AND INFORMATION LOCATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE - An information location management method which is capable of updating information location information corresponding to locations of information which a user desired to acquire, as required. A communication log storage section stores a communication log of emails exchanged with an external device over an external network. An acquisition destination-selecting section reads out the communication log and identifies an other-end party with whom a target user has performed transmission and reception of emails not less than a predetermined number of times to select the other-end party as an information acquisition destination. An information location-generating section extracts key information related to a location of information at the information acquisition destination contained in the emails transmitted and received to and from the information acquisition destination, to generate information location information. The information location information is stored in an information location-accumulating section. An information acquisition device acquires the information based on the information location information accumulated in the information location-accumulating section. | 09-24-2009 |
20090240675 | QUERY TRANSLATION METHOD AND SEARCH DEVICE - When a search device receives a query from a terminal device, the search device specifies portions of OR condition containing OR operators from the query. The search device judges whether reverse axes and OR operators are contained in the specified portions of OR condition. When reverse axes and OR operators are contained, the search device divides the query into subqueries using the OR operators contained in the portions of OR condition as division points. | 09-24-2009 |
20090276424 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR KEYWORD MANAGEMENT - A keyword management system for managing keywords used when a user terminal connected to a network accesses contents, includes a Burst value calculating unit that calculates a Burst value indicating an increase per unit time of a keyword, an overall Burst value calculating unit that calculates an overall Burst value by correcting the Burst value based on characteristics in the contents of the keyword corresponding to the Burst value, and an output controlling unit that extracts from the contents, a relevant keyword related to the keyword corresponding to the overall Burst value based on time series changes of the overall Burst value, and outputs the keyword and the relevant keyword associated with each other to the user terminal. | 11-05-2009 |
20100005058 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, INFORMATION RETRIEVING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION RETRIEVING METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium stores therein an information retrieving program that causes a computer to execute acquiring a document to be searched and having a hierarchical structure; generating a path schema related to the acquired document; receiving input of a retrieval keyword, a retrieval condition for the retrieval keyword, and a retrieval equation specifying a retrieval range for the retrieval keyword; generating a single automaton that includes a hierarchy retrieval automaton that retrieves a hierarchy of the generated path schema and a hit keyword retrieval automaton that retrieves a hit keyword satisfying the retrieval condition, the single automaton making state transition between a hit hierarchical node where the hit keyword in the hierarchy retrieval automaton is present and a set of nodes representing the hit keyword; retrieving, from the document and using the single automaton, the hit keyword within the retrieval range; and outputting a retrieval result. | 01-07-2010 |
20100023466 | RULE LEARNING METHOD, PROGRAM AND APPARATUS - A rule learning method for making a computer perform rule learning processing in machine learning includes firstly calculating an evaluation value of respective features in a training example by using data and weights of the training examples; selecting a given number of features in descending order of the evaluation values; secondly calculating a confidence value for one of the given number of selected features; updating the weights of training example, by using the data and weights of the training examples, and the confidence value corresponding to the one feature; firstly repeating the updating for the remaining features of the given number of features; and secondly repeating, for a given number of times, the firstly calculating, the selecting, the secondly calculating, the updating, and the firstly repeating. | 01-28-2010 |
20100023467 | RULE LEARNING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND DEVICE - A rule learning method in machine learning includes distributing features to a given number of buckets based on a weight of the features which are correlated with a training example; specifying a feature with a maximum gain value as a rule based on a weight of the training example from each of the buckets; calculating a confidence value of the specified rule based on the weight of the training example; storing the specified rule and the confidence value in a rule data storage unit; updating the weights of the training examples based on the specified rule, the confidence value of the specified rule, data of the training example, and the weight of the training example; and repeating the distributing, the specifying, the calculating, the storing, and the updating, when the rule and the confidence value are to be further generated. | 01-28-2010 |
20100036815 | TRUE/FALSE DECISION METHOD - When a searching apparatus accepts a search condition including a logical condition formed of variables, transition table is created by using a BDD method. In the transition table, a combination of a bit string indicative of true or false of a variable at each level for arriving from a starting-point variable to an arrival variable and the starting-point variable is associated with the arrival variable. Then, a true/false decision on the search condition of the search target data is made by, with an arrival variable of a transition destination being taken as the starting-point variable, extracting a bit string of a predetermined number of digits from the starting-point variable from among logical bit strings of the search target data and specifying the arrival variable as the transition destination based on the combination and the transition table. | 02-11-2010 |
20100036837 | INFORMATION SEARCH METHOD AND INFORMATION SEARCH APPARATUS - An information search apparatus includes a receiving unit which receives a search request from a searcher's terminal; a search unit which searches and retrieves, from a database, candidate information that includes a content satisfying a search criteria set in the search request; a constriction unit which constricts the retrieved candidate information based on similarities between an attribute of an authorized person who is authorized to determine disclosure or non-disclosure of the candidate information included in the candidate information, and an attribute of the searcher who transmits the search request from the searcher's terminal; and a transmission unit which transmits disclosure requests for the constricted candidate information to an authorized person's terminal and transmits candidate information in which a response for the disclosure request received by the receiving unit is set to permit disclosure to the searcher's terminal. | 02-11-2010 |
20100138428 | KEYWORD OUTPUT APPARATUS AND METHOD - Related keywords having certain relations to a target keyword are extracted from a unit storing keywords according to relations among each other. Expressions corresponding to the target keyword and related keywords are read from a unit storing expressions correspondingly with each stored keyword, each expression having been extracted from a content containing the corresponding keyword. A commonness between the expressions corresponding to each related keyword and the target keyword is calculated. An association between each related keyword and the target keyword is calculated using a distance for each related keyword from the target keyword and the commonness. A related keyword having a certain association is extracted as a same-region keyword in a same region as the target keyword. A drawing including the target keyword and related keywords arranged according to the associations is output with the same-region keyword displayed distinguishably from other related keywords not included in the same region. | 06-03-2010 |
20100153438 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING FOR HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE DOCUMENT - A method and apparatus for allowing a computer to search a hierarchical structure document by creating a list in which a true flag indicating that conditions of a predicate of a search formula are satisfied or a false flag indicating that the conditions of the predicate of the search formula are not satisfied is set to a predicate node of the document data based on the search formula, and scanning the list to search for data designated by the search formula from the document data. | 06-17-2010 |
20100235385 | SEMI-STRUCTURED DATA RETRIEVAL METHOD, AND STRUCTURED DATA RETRIEVAL DEVICE - A retrieval device, from semi-structured data formed by item elements and value elements, creates aggregated structure information from the semi-structured data by aggregating the plurality of child item elements having the same name and directly connected to parent item elements having the same name, into one child item element. The device receives a retrieval request with an output condition and a constraint condition specified on the aggregate structure information. The device determines whether or not a plurality of query are created according to the retrieval request by checking a branch point at the common item elements between the output condition and the constraint condition in the aggregated structured information. And the device outputs a re-aggregate structure information corresponded to the query showing the branch point which is not expressed in the aggregate structure information to the display device. | 09-16-2010 |
20110161336 | SEARCH SUPPORTING DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR SEARCH SUPPORTING - A search supporting device includes an accepting unit for accepting an input word and a URL, a log obtaining unit for obtaining from a search log storing unit in which a log including a search word having been used for every URL of viewed data for a search of the data is stored, the log including a URL having a particular portion in common with the accepted URL and a search word having a particular portion in common with the accepted input word, and an outputting unit for outputting the search word included in the obtained log. | 06-30-2011 |
20110307511 | Computer readable storage medium recording database search program, database search device, and database search method - In a search device according to the present invention, a path trie generation unit generates an input path trie from XML data, a path trie display unit outputs the input path trie to an output unit such as a display, so that a user can specify Join points and combining conditions. An instruction reception unit generates a query serving as a command statement to combine each piece of XML data based on the Join points and the combining conditions that are specified by the user. | 12-15-2011 |
20120072406 | SEARCH PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - By carrying out search by a search keyword inputted by a searcher, an initial search result is obtained. On the other hand, extended search keywords associated with the search keyword are extracted to count the number of pertinent keywords or appearance frequency in the initial search result. Then, when the number of pertinent documents or appearance frequency is equal to or less than a predetermined value (including 0), the extended search keyword is adopted, and by carrying out search by the search keyword and adopted extended search keyword, extended search results are obtained. Then, the initial search result and extended search results are shown to the searcher. | 03-22-2012 |
20120183227 | AREA FINDING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND METHOD OF FINDING AREA - An apparatus extracts an area having a highest score or a lowest score that is calculated based on evaluation values of points from a target area including a set of a plurality of points that can be distributed at two-dimensional coordinates. It determines whether the area extracted and an area overlapping a plurality of the target areas intersect with each other, and deletes an area having a lower score or a higher score out of the areas determined to intersect with each other. It selects an area having a highest score or a lowest score out of the areas extracted at the extracting and not deleted at the determining. One or a plurality of areas are generated as the target areas based on | 07-19-2012 |
20120290593 | MATCHING DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A matching device builds a parse tree from an event pattern. The matching device builds an automaton by, while traversing the parse tree, joining child nodes of an AND node in parallel to the AND node and joining child nodes of an OR node in parallel to the OR node. The matching device performs matching of determining whether an event stream includes the event pattern by comparing the event stream with the automaton. | 11-15-2012 |