Abstract: A scenario generation system, a scenario generation method, and a scenario generation program are provided. A scenario generation system used for video playback synchronized with musical piece playback includes a situation estimating portion for estimating a situation expressed by the musical piece, a video specifying portion for specifying at least one video suited for the estimated situation in the video constituted by scenes each having a time-series order, and a scenario generating portion for generating a scenario associating the scenes constituting the specified video with each section of the musical piece. As a result, a scenario can be generated by the scenes each having the time-series order, and the synchronized video with a natural impression can be reproduced corresponding to the musical piece playback on the basis of the scenario.

Abstract: Provided is a page/site server and so on for immediately displaying a noteworthy place in a page content. The page/site server enables communication with a comment server allowing contributors to send their comments to one another and responds with a page content including text according to a page acquisition request transmitted from a terminal. The page/site server comprises: a comment group retriever retrieving from within the comment server a comment group related to the page content; a characteristic word extractor extracting from the comment group a characteristic word included in text of the page content with high appearance frequency under a predetermined condition; a characteristic word retriever retrieving a place where the characteristic word appears in the page content; and a browsing-part display controller controlling the objective page content to be displayed on the terminal in such a way that the place where the characteristic word appears can be browsed.

Abstract: A scenario generation system, a scenario generation method, and a scenario generation program are provided. A scenario generation system used for video playback synchronized with musical piece playback includes a situation estimating portion for estimating a situation expressed by the musical piece, a video specifying portion for specifying at least one video suited for the estimated situation in the video constituted by scenes each having a time-series order, and a scenario generating portion for generating a scenario associating the scenes constituting the specified video with each section of the musical piece. As a result, a scenario can be generated by the scenes each having the time-series order, and the synchronized video with a natural impression can be reproduced corresponding to the musical piece playback on the basis of the scenario.

Abstract: A method of selecting a factor for estimating characteristics of viewers who view a same content is disclosed. This method includes: storing a multi-layered hierarchal list of attribute words expressing viewer attributes, each of which is a candidate of the factor; extracting the attribute words from the same content; generating a first vector indicative of frequencies with which the attribute words occur in the same content; for a successively-selected one of the attribute words, successively generating a second vector indicative of frequencies with which the attribute words occur in ones of sets of learned-text information which contain the successively-selected attribute word; calculating a similarity score between the vectors on a per-attribute-word basis; and selecting one of the attribute words as the factor, which is associated with subordinate attribute words on a lower layer, based on a dispersion level of the similarity scores calculated for the subordinate attribute words.

Abstract: A content conversion system according to the present invention divides content data in which a display layout of content components is described using tags, so as to display, on a terminal, contents formed of the content components displayed on a screen, and includes: a primary division unit that divides the content data on a basis of the display layout of the content components; and a secondary division unit that divides the content data on a basis of a distance between the content components in a data description, the secondary division unit divides primary divided content data divided by the primary division unit, and the primary division unit performs re-division of the primary divided content data according to number of divisions made by the secondary division unit.

Abstract: A search unit 11 presents a Web search result report to a client terminal 20. A theme space construction unit 12 updates theme information within a theme information DB 13 by a user-acquired information feedback from the client terminal 20, and performs a Web search to construct a theme space. The search unit 11 includes an exhaustivity calculation unit that calculates exhaustivity being a ratio of a user-acquired part to a part of an entire target theme. Moreover, the search unit 11 includes a difference calculation unit that calculates a difference between a “user-acquired” range when a user has acquired target Web pages and a user-acquired range before that, and a relevance calculation unit that calculates relevance of the target Web pages to the target theme.

Abstract: A method of selecting a factor for estimating characteristics of viewers who view a same content is disclosed. This method includes: storing a multi-layered hierarchal list of attribute words expressing viewer attributes, each of which is a candidate of the factor; extracting the attribute words from the same content; generating a first vector indicative of frequencies with which the attribute words occur in the same content; for a successively-selected one of the attribute words, successively generating a second vector indicative of frequencies with which the attribute words occur in ones of sets of learned-text information which contain the successively-selected attribute word; calculating a similarity score between the vectors on a per-attribute-word basis; and selecting one of the attribute words as the factor, which is associated with subordinate attribute words on a lower layer, based on a dispersion level of the similarity scores calculated for the subordinate attribute words.

Abstract: An information retrieval apparatus for retrieving a web page using a retrieval keyword includes a word extract portion for extracting an objective word from the web page on a display based on the specifying a display position of the web page on the display, wherein the word extract portion further extracts a peripheral word placed around the objective word, and a retrieval portion that performs web page retrieval using the objective and peripheral words.

Abstract: A search unit 11 presents a Web search result report to a client terminal 20. A theme space construction unit 12 updates theme information within a theme information DB 13 by a user-acquired information feedback from the client terminal 20, and performs a Web search to construct a theme space. The search unit 11 includes an exhaustivity calculation unit that calculates exhaustivity being a ratio of a user-acquired part to a part of an entire target theme. Moreover, the search unit 11 includes a difference calculation unit that calculates a difference between a “user-acquired” range when a user has acquired target Web pages and a user-acquired range before that, and a relevance calculation unit that calculates relevance of the target Web pages to the target theme.

Abstract: A content conversion system according to the present invention divides content data in which a display layout of content components is described using tags, so as to display, on a terminal, contents formed of the content components displayed on a screen, and includes: a primary division unit that divides the content data on a basis of the display layout of the content components; and a secondary division unit that divides the content data on a basis of a distance between the content components in a data description, the secondary division unit divides primary divided content data divided by the primary division unit, and the primary division unit performs re-division of the primary divided content data according to number of divisions made by the secondary division unit.

Abstract: A content conversion system of the present invention includes a divider that determines a division point in content data using a determination reference based on a distance (content distance) on a data description between content components in the content data, and divides the content data based on the determination result, a reconstructing unit that reconstructs the divided data as the respective content data, and a division parameter setter that, based on the difference between a variation in distances in the data description between content components in reference content data and a variation in distances in the data description between content components in division target content data, corrects an optimum determination reference of the reference content data, and creates a determination reference for the division target content data.

Abstract: An information retrieval apparatus for retrieving a web page using a retrieval keyword includes a word extract portion for extracting an objective word from the web page on a display based on the specifying a display position of the web page on the display, wherein the word extract portion further extracts a peripheral word placed around the objective word, and a retrieval portion that performs web page retrieval using the objective and peripheral words.