Patent ID: 11893050
Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An assistance apparatus comprising one or more processors configured to:
identify a portion of a document and impart a tag to the identified portion;
extract one or more test items from the portion to which the tag has been imparted;
calculate a similarity degree between i) each sentence included in the document and ii) each of the one or more test items;
obtain a set of extracted sentences that are relevant sentences of the one or more test items comprising:
for each sentence included in the document:
determine that the similarity degree between the sentence and a corresponding test item included in the one or more test items is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold; and
extract the sentence in the document as a relevant sentence of the corresponding test item;

identify, from the set of extracted sentences, a plurality of sentences whose similarity degrees to a same test item are equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold;
group the plurality of sentences as relevant sentences of the same test item; and
extract a second test item from the grouped plurality of sentences.