Abstract: [Object] An object of the present invention is to provide a system for collecting elements as a basis for generating a social scenario useful for people to make well-balanced good decision. [Solution] A scenario generating apparatus includes: a causality phrase pair DB 70 storing causality phrase pairs; synonimity generators 600, 602 and 604, searching, for each of the causality phrase pairs, causality phrase pairs having a cause phrase with causal consistency with the result phrase of the causality phrase pair, and generating join information for joining causality phrase pairs; join relation DB 610 storing the join information; and a causality joining unit 612 joining, to a result phrase of a causality phrase pair, a causality phrase pair having a cause phrase with causal consistency with the phrase by using the join information, and thereby linking causality. A join relation generator 606 that finds a hidden relation between phrases and linking causality phrase pairs may be provided.

Abstract: A system for collecting elements as a basis for generating a social scenario useful to make a well-balanced good decision. A complex predicate template collecting apparatus includes: a simple predicate template DB storing simple predicate templates having positive or negative polarity values added; an object noun dictionary; a complex predicate template candidate extractor extracting complex predicate template candidates each formed of a combination of a word specified by the object noun dictionary and a simple predicate template, from a WEB archive; a sahen-noun polarity adder, a quantifier noun polarity adder and a trouble-noun polarity adder, determining polarity of a noun in each of the complex predicate template candidate; and a complex predicate template polarity calculator calculating polarity of a complex predicate template candidate by a combination of the polarity of the noun and the polarity of the simple predicate template included in the complex predicate template.

Abstract: [Object] An object of the present invention is to provide a system for collecting elements as a basis for generating a social scenario useful to make well-balanced good decision. [Solution] A phrase pair collecting apparatus includes: a causality seed pair DB 410 storing seed pairs each consisting of a pair of phrases including a combination of a noun and a predicate template; a semantic relation pattern DB 400 storing semantic relation patterns between words; a word pair DB 402 storing word pairs related to any of the semantic relation patterns; a semantic relation pattern matching unit 470 for determining which of the semantic relation pattern matches a noun pair in each seed pair stored in causality seed pair DB 410; and a word pair replacing unit 472 for replacing the noun pair of a seed pair using, of the word pairs stored in the word pair DB 402, each of those word pairs which are related to the semantic relation pattern determined to be matching the noun pair, and thereby generating new hypotheses.

Abstract: [Object] An object of the present invention is to provide a system for collecting elements as a basis for generating a social scenario useful for people to make well-balanced good decision. [Solution] A scenario generating apparatus includes: a causality phrase pair DB 70 storing causality phrase pairs; synonimity generators 600, 602 and 604, searching, for each of the causality phrase pairs, causality phrase pairs having a cause phrase with causal consistency with the result phrase of the causality phrase pair, and generating join information for joining causality phrase pairs; join relation DB 610 storing the join information; and a causality joining unit 612 joining, to a result phrase of a causality phrase pair, a causality phrase pair having a cause phrase with causal consistency with the phrase by using the join information, and thereby linking causality. A join relation generator 606 that finds a hidden relation between phrases and linking causality phrase pairs may be provided.

Abstract: [Object] An object of the present invention is to provide a system for collecting elements as a basis for generating a social scenario useful to make a well-balanced good decision.

Abstract: [Object] An object of the present invention is to provide a system for collecting elements as a basis for generating a social scenario useful to make well-balanced good decision. [Solution] A phrase pair collecting apparatus includes: a causality seed pair DB 410 storing seed pairs each consisting of a pair of phrases including a combination of a noun and a predicate template; a semantic relation pattern DB 400 storing semantic relation patterns between words; a word pair DB 402 storing word pairs related to any of the semantic relation patterns; a semantic relation pattern matching unit 470 for determining which of the semantic relation pattern matches a noun pair in each seed pair stored in causality seed pair DB 410; and a word pair replacing unit 472 for replacing the noun pair of a seed pair using, of the word pairs stored in the word pair DB 402, each of those word pairs which are related to the semantic relation pattern determined to be matching the noun pair, and thereby generating new hypotheses.

Abstract: An information retrieval service system 40 includes: a storage device 64 for storing a question corpus; a clustering unit 100 clustering the questions and determining a prototype of each cluster; an auctioning unit 104 executing auctions for the prototypes; an updating unit 112 associating each of the questions with a winning bidder of the prototype sentence of the cluster to which the question belongs; a question-URL correspondence DB 68 storing, for each of the questions, a URL designated by the winning bidder; a question-searching unit 132 receiving a search request and searching for a question having the shortest distance to the search request; and URL searching units 134, 136 and a query issuing unit 138, transmitting the query generated from the search request to the URL corresponding to the searched out question and transmitting resulting information to an information service using terminal 48.