Patent ID: 7249046

Claim:
A computer executing an optimum operator selection support system, comprising: a document computer executable management part that manages a plurality of documents stored by the computer related to a plurality of jobs, with additional information on a plurality of operators who generated the plurality of documents; a document feature computer executable extraction part that extracts operator-specific documents generated by one of the plurality of operators from the document computer executable management part, and extracts a plurality of features of the operator-specific documents for the one of the plurality of operators; and a job feature computer executable extraction part that extracts job features from the plurality of features by detecting common features based on a frequency of occurrence of terms in the operator-specific documents extracted by the document feature computer executable extraction part, wherein the document computer executable management part identifies an operator as the optimum operator for an assigned task based on the job features; a job structure computer executable generation part that generates a structure representing roles of the plurality of operators related to a job, wherein the job structure computer executable generation part generates an association diagram showing the job based on roles in the job, and describes the roles of the plurality of operators and features extracted from generated documents in the association diagram.