Patent Document ID: 8965896
Application ID: 13518401

Base Claim:
1. A document clustering system comprising: a control device comprising a computer device that executes each of: a concept tree structure acquisition unit that acquires a concept tree structure that represents the hierarchical relationship of a concept of a plurality of words; a document set acquisition unit that acquires a document set, which is a collection of documents; a concept similarity computation unit that finds the concept similarity between two arbitrary words of the document set that was acquired by the document set acquisition unit, the concept similarity being an index indicating the closeness of the two words in a concept; an inter-document similarity computation unit that finds inter-document similarity, which is the degree of semantic similarity between two documents that are included in the document set that was acquired by the document set acquisition unit, based on the concept similarity found by the concept similarity computation unit; a clustering unit that performs document clustering of the document set based on the inter-document similarity that was found by the inter-document similarity computation unit; a co-occurring pattern acquisition unit that acquires co-occurring patterns that include words and co-occurrence that co-occur with the words in the concept tree structure that was acquired by the concept tree structure acquisition unit; and a superconcept setting unit that selects context conforming higher-order words, which are higher-order words of the higher-order words that are common with the two words, and of which the number of the words in a specified range in each document that includes each of the two words that coincide with the words of the co-occurring pattern acquired by the co-occurring pattern acquisition unit for the common higher-order words is a maximum, wherein the concept similarity computation unit finds the concept similarity based on the context conforming higher-order words that were selected by the superconcept setting unit from among the higher-order words that are common with the two words.

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Claim 6:
6. The document clustering system according to claim 1 , wherein the superconcept setting unit references to the document set and selects words around the two words, references to the co-occurring pattern and compares that with the co-occurring pattern of the higher-order words of the surrounding words, and selects the context conforming higher-order words by finding the average of the degree of coinciding co-occurrence.