Patent Document ID: 20110208728
Application ID: 13121982
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented system for extracting terms from electronic document data that includes a text segment, the computer system comprising: a first extraction unit that uses a first text processing information to extract a noun word from the document data; a second extraction unit that uses a second text processing information to extract a term candidate in relation to the extracted noun word from the document data or from a corpus that includes text data described in the same language used in the document data; a weight assignment unit that, in order to determine which one of a plurality of noun word types the extracted noun word and the extracted term candidate each belong to, uses a third text processing information to select which type to assign a weight from the plurality of types and assigns the weight to the selected type for each of the extracted noun word and the extracted term candidate; a determination unit that determines the type to which the extracted noun word and the extracted term candidate each belong, based on the assigned weight; and an output unit which follows the determination to output the extracted noun word and the extracted term candidate each in association with the determined type.