DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RELATED CANDIDATE GENERATION, RELATED SYSTEM, PROGRAM FOR RELATED CANDIDATE GENERATION AND READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH THE SAME PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily generate related candidates for relating information separately in a plurality of information sources. SOLUTION: The device is equipped with: an information acquisition unit 110 for acquiring information separately from a plurality of information sources 30, a similarity calculation unit 106 for calculating the similarities of the information acquired separately by the information acquisition unit 110, an extraction unit 110 for extracting information pairs in corresponding relation based on the similarities calculated with the similarity calculation unit 106, and an output unit 102 for outputting the information pairs extracted by the extraction unit 110. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO