Patent ID: 8595247

Claim:
A text mining device comprising a storage device which stores a set of texts classified according to a plurality of classification axes and a data processing device, wherein: the data processing device comprises a characteristic expression extracting device, an associated classification axis discriminating device, a peculiar category discriminating device, and an extraction result with peculiar category output device; the characteristic expression extracting device performs text mining on the set of texts read out from the storage device and extracts characteristics of the set of texts of a designated category; the associated classification axis discriminating device discriminates from the plurality of classification axes, by each of the characteristics extracted by the characteristic expression extracting device, a classification axis that is strongly associated with whether or not the text contains the characteristic; the peculiar category discriminating device discriminates the category of the classification axis discriminated by the associated classification axis discriminating device, which has the number of belonging texts largely diverted from a proper value considering the number of texts, by each of the categories of the classification axis in the entire set of the texts that contain the characteristics; and the extraction result with peculiar category output device relates the characteristic extracted by the characteristic expression extracting device to the category discriminated by the peculiar category discriminating device, judges whether the characteristics appear in a specific citation in a deviated manner, outputs the characteristics and the specific citation in a corresponding manner when the characteristics appear in the specific citation in a deviated manner, and outputs the characteristics as not being related to the specific citation when there is no deviation to the specific citation in the text containing the characteristics.