Patent ID: 7853623
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A data mining system comprising: an extraction part of figure information which performs image processing on a figure in a document and extracts information on concepts and relationships between the concepts in the figure; an extraction part of text information which extracts information on concepts and relationships between the concepts from a text portion in the document; and a storing part which stores, in association with each other, images in the figure, identification information of the figure, and the information on the concepts and the relationships between the concepts in the figure, which is extracted by the extraction part of figure information, wherein the extraction part of figure information extracts the information on the concepts and/or the relationships between the concepts in the figure by utilizing the information extracted by the extraction part of text information, wherein the extraction part of text information has a function of retrieving a paragraph referring to the figure from the document and the extraction part of figure information extracts a concept that cannot be specified due to insufficient accuracy of the image processing, and a concept having lexical ambiguity, by utilizing the information on concepts or the information the concepts and the relationships between the concepts, which is extracted from the paragraph extracted by the extraction part of text information.