Patent Document ID: 9249287
Application ID: 14002692

Base Claim:
1. A document evaluation apparatus, realized by a computer, for evaluating a document using a set of sample documents having a first feature vector consisting of a plurality of feature values and evaluation values of the documents, comprising: a processor, wherein the processor is configured to classify the set of sample documents, based on a missing pattern indicating a set of indices whose feature values are missing in the first feature vector; use feature values that are not missing in the first feature vector and the evaluation values to learn, for each classification, a first function for calculating a first score which is a weighted evaluation value for each classification; compute a feature value corresponding to each classification using the first score, and generate a second feature vector having the computed feature values; use the second feature vector and the evaluation values to learn a second function for calculating a second score for evaluating a document targeted for evaluation; and measure an appearance frequency of the sample documents for each missing pattern, based on the set of sample documents, and match a missing pattern whose appearance frequency is less than or equal to a set threshold to a missing pattern that is most similar to said missing pattern and whose appearance frequency is greater than the threshold.

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Claim 2:
2. The document evaluation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to receive input of a set of documents targeted for evaluation, compute the second score for each document based on the second function, and rank the documents based on the second scores.