Information processing device, information processing method, information processing program, and recording medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9690804-B2
Application number	US-201113696441-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 30, 2011
Priority date	May 28, 2010
Publication date	Jun 27, 2017
Grant date	Jun 27, 2017

Abstract

The invention acquires article data (S 1 ), extracts characteristic words from the acquired article data (S 2 ), specifies a characteristic word which is not stored as a local area word in a database 12 b which stores a local area word indicating a local area in association with geography information for specifying the local area, from the extracted characteristic words (S 3 ), acquires a result of searching performed in a search device, according to the specified characteristic word (S 4 and S 5 ), specifies a local area related to article data based on the search result and finds geography information (S 6 ), and stores the specified characteristic word in the database 12 b as the local area word in association with the specified local area (S 7 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information processing device comprising:
at least one memory operable to store program code;
at least one processor operable to read the program code and operate as instructed by the program code, the program code including:
code configured to cause the at least one processor to store, in a local area word memory, a local area word indicating a local area in association with geography information for specifying the local area;
article data acquiring code configured to cause the at least one processor to acquire article data;
characteristic word extracting code configured to cause the at least one processor to extract characteristic words from text of the article data;
determining code configured to cause the at least one processor to, by comparing the characteristic word and each of the local area word stored in the local area word memory, determine whether or not the characteristic word matches any of the local area word;
search result code configured to cause the at least one processor to request a search device to perform a web search by using the characteristic word as a keyword and acquire a search result from the search device, the characteristic word being determined not to match any of the local area word;
local area specifying code configured to cause the at least one processor to specify a local area related to the article data based on the search result acquired by the search result code, and locate geography information;
article content specifying code configured to cause the at least one processor to match article content of the article data and a predetermined keyword, and specify the article content of the article data as at least one of the predetermined keyword;
code configured to cause the at least one processor to store, in an article data memory, the article data in association with at least one of the predetermined keyword and the specified local area;
mapping code configured to cause the at least one processor to map a symbol corresponding to the article data on a map based on the specified local area; and
relevant article collecting code configured to cause the at least one processor to refer to the article data memory, and collect information about articles related to the specified local area and the specified article content, wherein:

the local area specifying code causes the at least one processor to store the specified characteristic word in the local area word memory as the local area word in association with the specified local area;
the mapping code causes the at least one processor to map symbols in accordance with a number of the collected articles;
the search result code causes the at least one processor to search for a plurality of related words around the specified characteristic word; and
the local area specifying code causes the at least one processor to specify the local area from the related words, and locate the geography information.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the mapping code causes the at least one processor to determine an arrangement position of the article data in the symbol in accordance with an amount of information of the article data.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the article content specifying code causes the at least one processor to specify a category of the article content; and
the mapping code causes the at least one processor to change a mode of the symbol per category.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
distribution time information specifying code configured to cause the at least one processor to specify information about a distribution time at which the article data is distributed, from the article data, wherein
the article data acquiring code causes the at least one processor to acquire article data related to a search keyword, and
the mapping code causes the at least one processor to map visualization information for visually associating, on a map, symbols corresponding to a plurality of items of article data of different pieces of distribution time information in article data related to the search keyword.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the characteristic word extracting code causes the at least one processor to extract a search result characteristic word from the search result acquired by the search result code; and
the local area specifying code causes the at least one processor to refer to the local area memory, specify the local area from the search result characteristic word, and locate the geography information.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the local area specifying code causes the at least one processor to calculate an appearance frequency of the characteristic word extracted from the article data, specify the local area based on the calculated appearance frequency and locate the geography information.

7. The information processing device according to claim 6 , wherein:
the local area word memory includes a weighting value per local area word; and
the local area specifying code causes the at least one processor to specify the local area based on the calculated appearance frequency and the weighting value, and locate the geography information.

8. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the local area specifying code causes the at least one processor to specify the plurality of related word using a distance between a numbers of characters between characteristic words in the article data.

9. An information processing method of processing information in an information processing device comprising:
a local area word memory step of associating and storing a local area word indicating a local area, and geography information for specifying the local area, in a local area word memory;
an article data acquiring step of acquiring article data;
a characteristic word extracting step of extracting characteristic words from text of the article data;
a determining step of comparing the characteristic word and each of the local area word stored in the local area word memory and determining whether the characteristic word matches any of the local area word;
a search result step of requesting a search device to perform a web search by using the characteristic word as a keyword and acquiring a search result, the characteristic word being determined not to match any of the local area word;
a local area specifying step of specifying a local area related to the article data based on the search result of the search result step, and locating geography information;
an article content specifying step of matching article content of the article data and a predetermined keyword, and specifying the article content of the article data as at least one of the predetermined keyword;
an article data memory step of storing the article data in an article data memory in association with at least one of the predetermined keyword and the specified local area;
a mapping step of mapping a symbol corresponding to the article data on a map based on the specified local area; and
a relevant article collecting step of referring to the article data memory, and collecting information about articles related to the specified local area and the specified article content, wherein:
in the local area specifying step, the specified characteristic word is stored in the local area word memory as the local area word in association with the specified local area;
in the mapping step, symbols in accordance with a number of collected articles are mapped;
in the search result step, a plurality of related words around the

Assignees

• Masuko Soh
• Masuda Hajime
• Iwabuchi Shigaku
• Rakuten Inc

Inventors

• Masuko Soh
• Masuda Hajime
• Iwabuchi Shigaku

Classifications

• G06F16/29 Primary

  Geographical information databases · CPC title

• G06F17/30241 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic