The invention discloses a template inspection method and device and belongs to the field of information extraction. The method comprises the following steps of obtaining a key information item set corresponding to an extraction template, wherein the key information item set includes at least one key information item extracted by the extraction template; obtaining an effective participle set of a communication message which belongs to a predetermined category, wherein the effective participle set includes at least one effective participle screened from a participle result of the communication message; detecting whether the effective participle has the matched key information item in the key information item set; and determining that the extraction template has the missing key information items if the matched key information item does not exist. The embodiments do not need a user to report initiatively, a server analyzes the original communication message, so that the server can inspect the extraction accuracy of the extraction template, and thus the server can automatically discover whether the extraction template has omissions in order to improve the extraction template timely.