Abstract:
A word string acquirer unit acquires a word string including a plurality of words. An extractor extracts partial strings including words contained in the word string acquired by the word string acquirer. A division pattern generator generates division patterns containing division flags indicating whether or not the word string acquired by the word string acquirer is divided at spaces between the words contained in the partial strings extracted by the extractor. The division probability coefficient acquirer acquires division probability coefficients indicating a degree of a certainty that the word string is divided with a division method indicated by the division patterns generated by the division pattern generator, for each of the partial strings extracted by the extractor. A partitioning unit partitions the word string based on the division probability coefficients acquired by the division probability coefficient acquirer.
Abstract:
The text search apparatus has an information storage that stores plural transposed indexes associating characters or character strings appearing in a document to be searched with the appearance positions of the characters or character strings. The transposed indexes were generated for a document in which beginning marks are added in front of texts to be subject to forward matching search. The incremental searcher of the text search apparatus adds a beginning mark in front of a search keyword and executes a forward matching search using a set of transposed indexes. The main searcher executes a partial match search using the same set of transposed indexes.
Abstract:
A speech determiner determines whether or not a target individual is speaking when facial images of the target individual are captured. An emotion estimator estimates the emotion of the target individual using the facial images of the target individual, on the basis of the determination results of the speech determiner.
Abstract:
A search device comprises a memory device for storing document data containing search target character strings to which delimiting characters are appended at both ends; an acquirer for acquiring keywords; a generator for generating a search character string by appending delimiting characters to both ends of the keywords; a designator for designating appearance positions where those extracted partial strings from the search character string appear in the search target character string of the document data; a determiner for determining the frequency with which partial strings common to the partial strings of the search character string appear with a positional relationship similar to the search character string in the search target character string; an evaluator for evaluating the degree of similarity between the search target character string and the search character string; and an output device for outputting the search target character string.