Patent ID: 6374209
Filing Date: 2002-04-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A text structure analyzing apparatus analyzing a connection between respective elements constituting a text and based on an analyzed result, indicating a structure of the text by means of a tree structure which represents the respective elements as nodes, comprising:an element appearance position storing section dividing an inputted text into the elements and storing an appearance position relationship among the elements on the inputted text; a relation degree computing section determining a precedent element of an attention element with reference to the appearance position relationship and computing a relation degree representing strength of a connection between the attention element and each precedent element; an importance degree computing section computing an importance degree of the attention element, based on a relation degree between the attention element and each precedent element and an importance degree of a head element of the inputted text; a structure determining section determining a tree structure of the inputted text by determining the precedent element having an optimum value as an importance degree of the attention element as a parent element of the attention element; and an output section outputting the determined tree structure of the inputted text.