摘要:
[Object] Provided is a support system or a method for efficiently enabling generation of candidate synonyms, when a thesaurus usable in text mining is created. [Constitution] A candidate synonym acquisition device 130 acquires a set of candidate synonyms similar to an input word for each writer from data 110 for each writer, and acquires a set of candidate synonyms similar to the input word from a collective data 120. A generated candidate synonym set 140 is inputted to a candidate synonym determination device 150 to evaluate the candidate synonyms of the collective data 120. In the evaluation, the status of "absolute" is given to a word matching a word ranked first in the candidate synonyms for each writer and the status of "negative" is given to words matching words ranked second and lower therein.