Abstract: A cause-effect sentence analysis device including: a cause-effect sentence extraction unit configured to extract a cause-effect sentence including a cause expression and an effect expression from a text; an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a reference expression for analyzing the degree of similarity; a similarity degree analysis unit, for a cause-effect sentence extracted by the cause-effect sentence extraction unit, configured to calculate a cause similarity degree, namely, the degree of similarity between the reference expression and the cause expression included in the cause-effect sentence, and an effect similarity degree, namely, the degree of similarity between the reference expression and the effect expression; and a desired cause-effect sentence extraction unit for extracting a cause-effect sentence in which one of the cause expression and the effect expression included in the cause-effect sentence is similar to the reference expression and the other is not similar to the

Abstract: A heating element configuration that can maintain heat dissipation performance when a configuration of a thermally conductive member is changed is proposed.

Abstract: A polymer physical property prediction device includes a processor, and a memory storing program instructions that cause the processor to read a structural unit from a storage unit and use the structural unit to calculate numbers each indicating how many substructures are in a polymer, the polymer being formed of repetition of the structural unit, calculate a number indicating how many atoms are in the structural unit, calculate number densities of the substructures from the numbers of substructures and the number of atoms in the structural unit, construct a regression model that predicts a physical property value by using an experimental value of a physical property of the polymer and the number densities of the substructures, input a polymer structure of which the physical property value is to be predicted, and predict the physical property value corresponding to the input polymer structure by using the regression model.

Abstract: To present an inspection condition for efficiently detecting a scatterer present on a surface of an inspection target depending on type. An inspection condition presentation apparatus includes an intensity calculation part configured to calculate an intensity distribution of scattered light when inspection light is irradiated on a surface of an inspection target on which scatterers of different types are present according to a plurality of incidence condition candidates, and an incidence condition presentation part configured to present, to a user, an incidence condition candidate with which an intensity of the scattered light becomes a maximum.

Abstract: A method for evaluating a performance of a lubricating layer according to the present invention includes step of preparing a lubricant molecular model and a protective layer model, using quantum chemical calculation, step of performing molecular dynamics calculation of a lubricating layer initial model constructed from the lubricant molecular model and the protective layer model, and step of calculating an index of a degree of adsorption of lubricant molecules to the protective layer from a result of the molecular dynamics calculation.

Abstract: A lithium ion battery lifetime prediction method executes, by a computer, acquiring training data including cycle measurement data and lifetime data of a battery, learning a lifetime prediction model using the training data with respect to one or more cycle numbers at which a prediction is made, to acquire a set of learned lifetime prediction models corresponding to the cycle numbers at which the prediction is made, respectively, successively acquiring cycle measurement data for prediction of a battery that is a prediction target, up to the cycle numbers at which the prediction is made, respectively, and inputting the cycle measurement data for prediction acquired up to the cycle numbers at which the prediction is made, to the learned lifetime prediction models of the corresponding cycle numbers at which the prediction is made, and acquiring a probability distribution of a lifetime at the cycle numbers at which the prediction is made, respectively, as an output.

Abstract: To improve accuracy in a document search for a document that includes a typographical error. A document retrieval device according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a misidentification table storing a correctly identified character string and a misidentified character string. The document retrieval device includes a document searcher. The document searcher obtains a search character string, and retrieves the search character string from both a document and a character string that is obtained by changing the misidentified character string included in the document to the correctly identified character string.

Abstract: A document search device includes a processor, and a memory storing program instructions that cause the processor to search for an input keyword in a document database in which document information including text data extracted by using a character recognition process from document image data generated by imaging a paper document is stored, select a similar keyword in accordance with a degree of similarity to the input keyword from a group of wildcard strings generated from the input keyword and search for the similar keyword in the document database, the degree of similarity being determined by comparing each character of the input keyword with a corresponding character of a wildcard string in the group of wildcard strings, and output a search result obtained by searching for the input keyword in the document database and a search result obtained by searching for the similar keyword in the document database.

Abstract: A document retrieval apparatus includes a processor which receives an input of a keyword, acquires an author's name and a document file from a digital document database which stores document files of text data obtained by performing a character recognition process with respect to document image data of handwritten documents, and names of authors who wrote the handwritten documents, references an associating keyword database which stores information associating the authors' names, keywords, and associating keywords, to acquire an associating keyword of the input keyword, from the received input keyword and the acquired author's name, searches the acquired document file, using the input keyword and the acquired associating keyword, and outputs a search result of the searching.

Abstract: A document search device includes a document search unit configured to search for an input keyword in a document database in which document information including text data is stored, the text data being extracted, by using a character recognition process, from document image data generated by imaging a paper document, a similar keyword selecting unit configured to select a similar keyword in accordance with a degree of similarity to the input keyword, from a group of wildcard strings generated from the input keyword, and cause the document search unit to search for the similar keyword in the document database, and an output unit configured to output a search result obtained by searching for the input keyword in the document database and a search result obtained by searching for the similar keyword in the document database.

Abstract: To improve precision while maintaining a balance between accuracy and comprehensiveness of a document search. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a document search device includes an input reception unit configured to receive an input of a keyword of a document search, a document search unit configured to acquire, from a document, a hit character string matching a character string in which a portion of characters of the keyword is replaced with a wildcard, and character strings before and after the hit character string, and compute a likelihood of the hit character string, based on the hit character string, and the character strings before and after the hit character string, and a search result display unit configured to output a result of the document search based on the likelihood.

Abstract: Provided is a SiC chemical vapor deposition apparatus including: a furnace body inside of which a growth space is formed; and a placement table which is positioned in the growth space and has a placement surface on which a SiC wafer is placed, in which the furnace body comprises a first hole which is positioned on an upper portion which faces the placement surface and through which a raw material gas is introduced into the growth space, a second hole which is positioned on a side wall of the furnace body and through which a purge gas flows into the growth space, a third hole which is positioned on the side wall of the furnace body at a lower position than the second hole and discharges the gases in the growth space, and a protrusion which is protrudes towards the growth space from a lower end of the second hole to adjust a flow of the raw material gas.

Abstract: A fluorine-containing ether compound of the present invention is represented by the following General Formula (1). (In the General Formula (1), X is a trivalent atom or a trivalent atom group, A is a linking group including at least one polar group, B is a linking group having a perfluoropolyether chain, and D is a polar group or a substituent having a polar group at the end.) [Chem.

Abstract: A polyisocyanurate raw material composition containing a polyfunctional isocyanate, a compound (I) represented by general formula (I) shown below, and an epoxy compound. In general formula (I), each of R1 to R5 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkoxy group of 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkyl group of 2 to 10 carbon atoms (or an alkyl group of 1 to 10 carbon atoms in the case of R3 to R5), an aryl group of 6 to 12 carbon atoms, an amino group, a monoalkylamino group of 1 to 10 carbon atoms, a dialkylamino group of 2 to 20 carbon atoms, a carboxy group, a cyano group, a fluoroalkyl group of 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or a halogen atom (provide that R1 and R2 are not both hydrogen atoms).

Abstract: The present invention is designed to improve the accuracy of machine learning. The present invention provides: a first classification unit configured to classify data into classifiable data and initially-unclassifiable data based on a first learning model; a first annotation unit configured to annotate the classifiable data with a label; a second classification unit configured to classify the initially-unclassifiable data based on a second learning model; a label acquiring unit configured to acquire a label with which the initially-unclassifiable data is to be annotated; a second annotation unit configured to annotate the initially-unclassifiable data with a label; and a second learning model updating unit configured to update the second learning model based on the initially-unclassifiable data that is annotated with the label based on a result of classification by the second classification unit and the label acquired by the label acquiring unit.

Abstract: To improve a determination accuracy when determining each particle contained in an image of an object. An image analysis apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a shape determination unit configured to determine a shape of a particle included in a particle image that is extracted from an image of an object, so that an OK particle image which is a particle image of an OK particle that satisfies a predetermined standard for shape and a provisional NG particle image which is a particle image of a provisional NG particle that does not satisfy the predetermined standard, are obtained; a pseudo image generation unit configured to generate a pseudo image; and a similarity determination unit configured to determine whether the provisional NG image and the pseudo image are similar.

Abstract: A SiC ingot includes a core portion; and a surface layer that is formed on a plane of the core portion in a growing direction, and a coefficient of linear thermal expansion of the surface layer is smaller than a coefficient of linear thermal expansion of the core portion.

Abstract: A crystal growing apparatus includes: a crucible which includes a main body portion, and a first portion having a radiation rate different from that of the main body portion, and is capable of controlling a temperature of a specific region inside during heating to a higher or lower temperature than that of the other regions; and a heating unit which is positioned on the outside of the crucible and is configured to heat the crucible by radiant heat, and the first portion is at a position where the crucible and a line segment connecting a heating center of the heating unit and the specific region intersect with each other.

Abstract: A material design apparatus is provided that can derive an optimal solution of a design condition of a polymer that satisfies desired and required physical properties.

Abstract: A crystal growing apparatus includes: a crucible including a main body portion and a low radiation portion having a radiation rate lower than that of the main body portion; and a heating unit which is positioned on the outside of the crucible and is configured to heat the crucible by radiant heat, and the low radiation portion is provided on an outer surface of a first point which is a heating center, in a case where the crucible does not include the low radiation portion.