Patent ID: 7328193

Claim:
A method of evaluating a summary of more than two sentences of a document employing a computer, the method comprising: accessing solution data storage means for storing solution data including a problem and one of predetermined solutions to the problem, wherein the problem comprises: a document data, and a summary of more than two sentences of the document data thereof, and wherein the predetermined solution comprises: an evaluation of the summary; evaluating the summary, comprising: obtaining the solution, data; extracting features from the problem by a predetermined analysis and creating a pair of a set of extracted problem features and the solution for each solution data; learning what kind of solution is likely to be attained in a case said set of features of the solution data by using a supervised machine learning method and storing results of the learning; obtaining an input document as a target data; extracting features from the input document data by a set forth analysis and creating a set of the extracted input document data features; calculating what kind of solution is likely to be attained in a case of the set of the features of the input document data based on the results of learning by the supervised machine learning method, and outputting the calculated solution and a classification from the computer, wherein the summary is not necessarily an extraction from the document, and wherein the solution includes a classification representing a first summary of a document, the first summary being generated by a computer, and a classification representing a second summary of the same document, the second summary being generated by a person.