Device for creating electronic thesaurus from electronic document by determining burstiness value depending on frequency and distribution of words

摘要

The device has a processor for performing the following steps: determining a 'burstiness' value for at least part of the words in the electronic document, depending on the frequency of the respective words and the distribution in which the word occurs in the document; and forming an electronic thesaurus based on the determined 'burstiness' values. Independent claims are included for (1) a computer-readable storage medium. (2) a computer program element.