Patent ID: 7983899

Claim:
An apparatus for analyzing Chinese language, comprising: an input unit inputting a Chinese sentence; a morpheme analyzer dividing the Chinese sentence into words; a dependency relationship analyzer analyzing a dependency relationship between a parent word being a dependency destination of each of the words and a child word being a dependent from each of the words, the words being obtained by dividing the input Chinese sentence; a memory unit that stores lihe-word information that registers a first word being a Chinese morpheme and capable of being a part of a lihe-word with a plurality of second words each forming a lihe-word with the first word, does not include words inserted between the first word and the second word, and lihe-words formed by the first word and the second words in the lihe-word information are not grouped based on similarity with other lihe-words; a lihe-word processor detecting the first word and a second word from the dependency relationship, based on the lihe-word information without using the similarity of the lihe-word with other lihe-words, and the lihe-word processor changing a dependency destination of a word depending on both the first word and the second word to the lihe-word formed by combining the first word with the second word in the dependency relationship; a generating unit generating a sentence based on the lihe-word formed by combining the first word with the second word and the word depending on the lihe-word by changing the dependency destination; and an output unit outputting the sentence.