Information collection support apparatus, method of information collection support, computer readable medium, and computer data signal

摘要

An information collection support apparatus that presents keyword information used for information collection, the information collection support apparatus includes: a retention unit that retains a candidate of the keyword information extracted from documents to which past work was applied by a user and probability weight information for each user to each of evaluation factors, the evaluation factors including evaluation factors relating to the candidate of the keyword information; a correction unit that corrects the probability weight information based on user's work applied to the documents; and an output unit that outputs the keyword information relevant to each document selected out of a document group using the probability weight information of the evaluation factor.