Patent Document ID: 9626433
Application ID: 14246404

Base Claim:
1. An apparatus for supporting acquisition of information from a document including a plurality of words, the apparatus comprising: an acquisition hardware unit for acquiring first information that shows a degree to which the document belongs to each of a plurality of clusters based on a concept included in the document, and second information that shows a degree to which a single word among the plurality of words appears in each of the plurality of clusters based on a concept of the single word; a generation hardware unit for, based on the first information and the second information, generating third information that shows a degree of overlap between the concept included in the document and the concept of the single word; a determination hardware unit for determining whether or not the third information shows a degree of overlap that is lower than a predetermined criterion; an output hardware unit for, in response to determining that the third information shows the degree of overlap is lower than the predetermined criterion, outputting information indicating that the single word is a unique word in the document, wherein the unique word is a word that is found only in the document that belongs to one or more of the plurality of clusters, and wherein the document is a single document; at least one processor for retrieving the document that contains the unique word; and an extraction hardware unit for extracting words from each document of the plurality of documents, wherein, with respect to the plurality of documents, by performing clustering using words extracted from each document, the acquisition hardware unit acquires a first probability that is a probability that the document belongs to the plurality of clusters, respectively, as the first information, and acquires a second probability that is a probability that the single word belongs to the plurality of clusters, respectively, as the second information; wherein by calculating a sum total of products of the first probability with respect to a single cluster among the plurality of clusters and the second probability with respect to the single cluster for all clusters of the plurality of clusters, the generation hardware unit generates the sum total as the third information.

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Claim 3:
3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein: the determination unit determines whether or not the sum total is smaller than a predetermined threshold value that is the predetermined criterion; and in response to the determination unit determining that the sum total is smaller than the threshold value, the output unit outputs information indicating that the single word is the unique word in the document.