Information collection support apparatus, method of information collection support, computer readable medium, and computer data signal

Abstract

An information collection support apparatus that presents keyword information used for information collection, the information collection support apparatus includes: a retention unit that retains a candidate of the keyword information extracted from documents to which past work was applied by a user and probability weight information for each user to each of evaluation factors, the evaluation factors including evaluation factors relating to the candidate of the keyword information; a correction unit that corrects the probability weight information based on user's work applied to the documents; and an output unit that outputs the keyword information relevant to each document selected out of a document group using the probability weight information of the evaluation factor.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

An exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail based on the following figures, wherein:

FIG. 1 is a block diagram that illustrates a configuration example of an information collection support apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic representation that illustrates an example of an evaluation factor database of the information collection support apparatus according to the embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic representation that illustrates an outline example of a Bayesian network used by the information collection support apparatus according to the embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic representation that illustrates an example of a database for retaining the numbers of occurrences of keyword information candidates in the information collection support apparatus according to the embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic representation that illustrates an example of a database for retaining the number of important documents and the number of non-important documents in the information collection support apparatus according to the embodiment of the invention; and

FIG. 6 is a flowchart that illustrates a processing example of the information collection support apparatus according to the embodiment of the invention.

Claims

1. An information collection support apparatus that presents keyword information used for information collection, the information collection support apparatus comprising: a retention unit that retains a candidate of the keyword information extracted from documents to which past work was applied by a user and probability weight information for each user to each of evaluation factors, the evaluation factors comprising evaluation factors relating to the candidate of the keyword information;a correction unit that corrects the probability weight information based on user's work applied to the documents; andan output unit that outputs the keyword information relevant to each document selected out of a document group using the probability weight information of the evaluation factor.

2. The information collection support apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the evaluation factors relating to the candidate of the keyword information comprise an evaluation factor concerning a plurality of the candidate of the keyword information.

3. A method of information collection support that presents keyword information used for information collection, the information collection support method executed by a document processing system comprising: a retention unit that retains a candidate of the keyword information extracted from documents to which past work was applied by a user and probability weight information for each user to each of evaluation factors, the evaluation factors comprising evaluation factors relating to the candidate of the keyword information,the information collection support method comprising:correcting the probability weight information based on user's work applied to the documents; andoutputting the keyword information relevant to each document selected out of a document group using the probability weight information of the evaluation factor.

4. A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for presenting keyword information used for information collection, the computer comprising:a retention unit that retains a candidate of the keyword information extracted from documents to which past work was applied by a user and probability weight information for each user to each of evaluation factors, the evaluation factors comprising evaluation factors relating to the candidate of the keyword information, the process comprising:correcting the probability weight information based on user's work applied to the documents; andoutputting the keyword information relevant to each document selected out of a document group using the probability weight information of the evaluation factor.

5. A computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave for presenting keyword information used for information collection, the computer comprising: a retention unit that retains a candidate of the keyword information extracted from documents to which past work was applied by a user and probability weight information for each user to each of evaluation factors, the evaluation factors comprising evaluation factors relating to the candidate of the keyword,the process comprising:correcting the probability weight information based on user's work applied to the documents; andoutputting the keyword information relevant to each document selected out of a document group using the probability weight information of the evaluation factor.