JP2012247834A - Document division scoring device, method, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To optimize a final score of each document.SOLUTION: Document division means 11 performs division of each document by topic sections having the same topics on one part or all parts of a set of documents which may have links to other documents. For each document A processed by the document division means 11 and each link L to the documents A, document replacement means 12 generates new documents A' by using differences in a set of topic sections in the documents A having similarity with anchor texts of the links L or topic sections including the links L in documents having the links L that is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold or within high order predetermined sequences, associates the documents A' with the links L to determine only links associated with the documents A' as links to the documents A', and replaces the documents A with a set of the documents A'. Document scoring means 13 calculates a score of each document in a set of documents on the basis of a set of documents and a set of links which are processed by the document replacement means 12.

Description

  The present invention relates to a document division scoring apparatus, method, and program, and more particularly, to a document division scoring apparatus, method, and program for obtaining a document score for ranking a document group as a search result in document search.

  In a document search for a set of documents that can have links to other documents, a page rank has been proposed as a method for calculating a document score for ranking a document group as a search result (for example, non-ranking). Patent Document 1).

In the conventional page rank, when the document set is {p _i | 1 ≦ i ≦ N}, each document p _i is given an initial score PR (p _i ) so as to satisfy the following expression (1).

Then, to update the score PR _{(p i)} of each document _{p i} to the value of the right side of the following equation (2). This is one turn.

In equation (2), M (p _i ) is a set of documents having links to the document p _i , and L (p _j ) is the number of links that the document p _j has. d is a constant that satisfies 0 ≦ d ≦ 1.

Repeat this update processing, the score PR of each document _{p i} converged the _{(p i),} and final score of the document _{p i.}

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  In general, a single document can have a plurality of topic sections. For example, the document A in FIG. 6 includes a political topic section, an economic topic section, and a topic section for current affairs in which politics and economic contents are mixed. Link X from document B to document A about politics, link Y from document C to document A about economy, link U from topic section of politics in document A to document D about politics, topic of current affairs in document A Assume that there is a link V from a section to a document E on current affairs, and a link W from an economic topic section in document A to a document F on economy.

In a certain turn, when document A is set to p _i and PR (p _i ) is updated with the right side of equation (2) (d = 1 for simplicity of explanation), document B is set to p _j The link X score corresponding to PR (p _j ) / L (p _j ): 0.2 and the link Y corresponding to PR (p _j ) / L (p _j ) when document C is p _j Since the score is 0.1, the updated PR ( _pi ) is 0.3.

In the next turn, when each of the documents D, E, and F is set to p _i and each PR (p _i ) is updated on the right side of the equation (2), PR (p _j ) when the document A is set to p _j The scores of links U, V, and W corresponding to / L (p _j ) are each 0.1.

  Here, the link X from the document B regarding the politics to the document A is a link for evaluating the topic section of the politics and the topic section of the current affairs in the document A, while the link Y from the document C regarding the economy to the document A Is a link that evaluates the economic topic section and current topic section in document A. Thus, the political topic section in document A should naturally have a higher score than the economic topic section in document A because link X, which evaluates the former, has a higher score than link Y, which evaluates the latter. is there. Therefore, the link U of the political topic section in document A should naturally have a higher score than the link W of the economic topic section in document A. Then, a higher score than the link destination document F of the link W should be propagated to the link destination document D of the link U.

  However, in the conventional page rank method, the entire link destination document is evaluated without considering which topic section of the link destination document (eg, A) is evaluated by each link (eg, X, Y). The scores of links (for example, U and W) held by different topic sections of the linked document are all scored the same. As a result, a score different from the score that should be originally propagated is propagated to the linked document (eg, D, F) of the linked document (eg, A). Therefore, there is a problem that the final score of each document is not appropriate.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and provides a document division scoring apparatus, method, and program capable of making the final score of each document more appropriate. Objective.

  In order to achieve the above object, the document segmentation scoring apparatus of the present invention is a section of the same topic for a part or all of documents in a set of documents that can have links to other documents. An anchor text of a link L in a document having a link L with respect to a document dividing unit that divides into topic sections and each document A processed by the document dividing unit and each link L to the document A, or A difference in the set of topic sections of document A whose similarity with the topic section including link L is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold or within a higher predetermined rank is generated as a new document A ′, and document A ′ is associated with link L , Only a link associated with the document A ′ is used as a link to the document A ′, a document replacement unit that replaces the document A with a set of the document A ′, and a document set and a link set after processing by the document replacement unit. It includes a document scoring means for calculating a score of each document of the document set in the are configured.

  Further, the document scoring means gives an initial score to each document in the document set after the processing by the document replacement means so that the sum of the scores of each document becomes 1, and then calculates the score of the document P. , The sum of the value obtained by dividing the score of document Q having a link to document P by the number of links of document Q multiplied by a constant d of 0 or more and 1 or less, and 1-d is a document in the document set The process of updating to a value obtained by adding the value divided by the number is repeated, and the score of each converged document can be used as the final score of the document.

  Further, the document division scoring method of the present invention is a document division scoring method in a document division scoring apparatus including a document division unit, a document replacement unit, and a document scoring unit, wherein the document division unit includes: For some or all of the documents in a set of documents that can have links to other documents, the document is divided into topic sections that are sections of the same topic, and the document replacing means is a process of the document dividing means. The degree of similarity between the document A and the link L to the document A with the anchor text of the link L or the topic section including the link L in the document having the link L is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold. Alternatively, a difference in the set of topic sections of the document A within the upper predetermined order is generated as a new document A ′, the document A ′ is associated with the link L, and the link of the link associated with the document A ′ is generated. Is a link to the document A ′, the document A is replaced with a set of documents A ′, and the document scoring means uses each document set in the document set from the document set and the link set after processing by the document replacement means. This is a method for calculating the score.

  In the document division scoring method of the present invention, the document scoring means assigns an initial score to each document in the document set after processing by the document replacement means so that the sum of the scores of each document becomes 1. Then, a value obtained by multiplying a sum of values obtained by dividing the score of the document P by the score of the document Q having a link to the document P by the number of links of the document Q by a constant d of 0 or more and 1 or less , 1-d is updated to a value obtained by adding the value obtained by dividing the number of documents in the document set, and the score of each converged document can be used as the final score of the document.

  The document division scoring program of the present invention is a program for causing a computer to function as each means constituting the document division scoring apparatus.

  As described above, according to the document division scoring apparatus, method, and program of the present invention, each document is divided into topic sections, and the similarity to the anchor text or topic section in the document having the link L A set of topic sections of a document A having a high value is generated as a new document A ′ that is a topic section group of the document A evaluated by the link L, the document A ′ is associated with the link L, and the document A ′ is associated. Since only the link is a link that evaluates the document A ′, the score of the document A ′ is appropriate, and the score of the link that the document A ′ has is also appropriate. The score of the document evaluated by the link is also appropriate, and an effect is obtained that the final score of each document becomes more appropriate.

It is the schematic which shows the structure of the document division | segmentation scoring apparatus which concerns on this Embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating the process of a document division | segmentation means. It is a figure for demonstrating the process of a document replacement means. It is a flowchart which shows the content of the processing routine of a document scoring means. It is a flowchart which shows the content of the document division | segmentation scoring processing routine in the document division | segmentation scoring apparatus which concerns on this Embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating the conventional page rank method.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  A document division scoring apparatus 10 according to the present embodiment includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a RAM (Random Access Memory), and a ROM (Read) that stores a program for executing a document division scoring processing routine described later. It is comprised with the computer provided with Only Memory. Functionally, this computer can be represented by a configuration including a document dividing unit 11, a document replacing unit 12, and a document scoring unit 13, as shown in FIG.

  The document dividing unit 11 divides the document into topic sections that are sections of the same topic, for a part or all of the documents in a set of documents that can have links to other documents.

Assuming that the document to be processed by the document dividing unit 11 is A, the document A is a word concept vector which is a concept expression of the word as in the technique described in Patent Document 1 (Japanese Patent No. 3925418). The stored word concept base 14 is used to divide each topic, and the obtained topic sections are defined as S ₁ , S ₂ ,..., S _j . Among the topic sections in the document A, the same topic may exist. For example, like the method described in Patent Document 2 (Japanese Patent No. 4333318), the topic sections in the document A are clustered based on the semantic content of each topic section using the word concept base 14, and the same Combine topic sections of topics into one cluster. In the method described in Patent Document 2, clustering is continued until all topic sections become one cluster. However, in the present embodiment, for example, when the distance between clusters is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, Stop clustering. A combination of topic sections included in one obtained cluster is defined as a final topic section, and final topic section columns are _denoted as T ₁ , T ₂ ,..., T _k .

FIG. 2 is an example of a processing result of the document dividing unit 11. By dividing the document A into topics, topic section sequences S ₁ , S ₂ ,..., S ₆ are obtained. By clustering the topic section sequences S ₁ , S ₂ ,..., S ₆ , S ₁ becomes a cluster by itself, and S ₁ is T ₁ . S ₂ and S ₄ are the same cluster, and S ₂ and S ₄ are combined to be T ₂ . S ₃ and S ₆ are the same cluster, and S ₃ and S ₆ are combined as T ₃ . S ₅ alone becomes a cluster, and S ₅ is T ₄ .

  For example, by performing the processing of the document dividing unit 11 on the document A shown in FIG. 6, a political topic section, a current topic section, and an economic topic section are obtained as final topic sections.

  The processing of the document dividing unit 11 may be performed on all the documents in the document set, or may be performed on some documents in the document set in order to shorten the processing time of the document dividing unit 11. May be.

  The document replacement unit 12 includes the anchor text of the link L or the link L in the document having the link L for each document A processed by the document dividing unit 11 and each link L to the document A. A difference in the set of topic sections of document A whose similarity to the topic section is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold value or within a predetermined upper rank is generated as a new document A ′, the document A ′ is associated with the link L, and the document A ′ Only the link associated with is used as a link to the document A ′, and the document A is replaced with a set of documents A ′.

  A description will be given by taking the document A of FIG. 6 processed by the document dividing unit 11 as an example.

For each topic section T _i in the document A, the concept vector of the word in the topic section T _{i is} acquired from the word concept base 14, and the centroid of the acquired word concept vector (or a vector obtained by normalizing the centroid to length 1) ) As a concept vector v (T _i ) of the topic interval T _i .

  For the link X to the document A, the anchor section of the link L or the topic section including the link X in the document B having the link X is taken. When the processing of the document dividing unit 11 is not performed on the document B, the topic section is the same as the document B. By using the anchor text or the topic section as R and referring to the word concept base 14, the concept vector v (R) of R is calculated in the same manner as described above.

Then, the similarity M between vectors is a cosine between vectors, and a set M of topic sections T _i having a similarity of v (T _i ) equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold (for example, a political topic) A set of sections and topic sections of current affairs). Alternatively, the topic sections T _i are sorted in descending order of similarity between v (T _i ) and v (R), and a set M of topic sections T _i with the similarity from the top to a predetermined rank is taken.

Even when the set of topic intervals T _i obtained for another link X ′ is M, the number of sets M is one.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 3, the set M is a new document A ′.

  The document A ′ is associated with the link X (or the link X ′). Only the link associated with the document A ′ in this way is set as a link to the document A ′. The links U and V of the document A ′ are links to the documents D and E, respectively, as in the case of FIG.

  By performing the same processing on the link Y to the document A, a document A ″ including the topic section of the current affairs and the topic section of the economy is obtained.

  In this way, the document A is replaced with the documents A ′ and A ″.

  The document scoring means 13 gives an initial score to each document in the document set processed by the document replacement means 12 so that the sum of the scores of each document becomes 1, and then assigns the score of the document P to the document The sum of the value obtained by dividing the score of the document Q having a link to P by the number of links of the document Q multiplied by a constant d of 0 or more and 1 or less, and 1-d is the number of documents in the document set. The process of updating to the value obtained by adding the divided value is repeated, and the score of each converged document is set as the final score of the document.

  FIG. 4 is an example of a flowchart of processing of the document scoring means 13.

Step 131)
Assume that a set of documents after processing by the document replacement means 12 is {p _i | 1 ≦ i ≦ N}.

Assume that there is a link from the document p _i to all documents including itself for an arbitrary document p _i that does not have a link to another document.

Each document p _i is given an initial score PR (p _i ) so as to satisfy the expression (1).

Step 132)
The score PR (p _i) of each document p _i, and updates the value of the right side of equation (2) described in the explanation of the background art. This is one turn.

In equation (2), M (p _i ) is a set of documents having links to the document p _i , and L (p _j ) is the number of links that the document p _j has. d is a constant that satisfies 0 ≦ d ≦ 1.

Step 133)
It is determined whether the score of each document has converged. If it is determined that it has not converged, the routine proceeds to step 132. If it determines with having converged, the repeating process of step 132 and 133 will be complete | finished.

  One determination method of whether or not the convergence has occurred is that the absolute value of the difference between the current score of one document and the previous score is greater than a predetermined threshold value, and is determined not to have converged. If it is less than the threshold value, it is determined that it has converged. Another determination method determines that the process has not converged when the repetition process of steps 132 and 133 is less than the predetermined number of times, and determines that the process has converged when the repetition process reaches the predetermined number of times. Combining these two methods, when the maximum absolute value of the difference between the current score of one document and the previous score is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, or the repeated processing of steps 132 and 133 You may determine with having converged when the predetermined number of times is reached.

Score PR and (p _i) of each document p _i at the time it is determined converged and, as the final score of the document p _i.

  Hereinafter, the processing of steps 132 and 133 will be described with an example.

In a certain turn, when document A ′ in FIG. 3 is set to p _i and PR (p _i ) is updated with the right side of equation (2) (d = 1 for simplicity here), the document From the score X of link X corresponding to PR (p _j ) / L (p _j ) where B is p _j : 0.2, the score after updating document A ′ is 0.2. Similarly, when the document A ″ is p _i and PR (p _i ) is updated on the right side of the equation (2), it corresponds to PR (p _j ) / L (p _j ) when the document C is p _j. From the score of link Y: 0.1, the updated score of document A ″ is 0.1.

  As described above, according to the method of the present embodiment, the score of the link is only included in the range (eg, A ′, A ″) evaluated by the link (eg, X, Y) in the original document (eg, A). Therefore, the document A ′ evaluated by the link X having a higher score has a higher score than the document A ″ evaluated by the link Y having a lower score.

In the next turn, when the documents D and E are respectively set to p _i and each PR (p _i ) is updated with the right side of the expression (2), PR (p _j ) when the document A ′ is set to p _j The scores of links U and V corresponding to / L (p _j ) are each 0.1. When each of the documents E and F is p _i and each PR (p _i ) is updated with the right side of the equation (2), PR (p _j ) / L (p _j ) when the document A ″ is p _j The scores of the links V and W corresponding to 0.05 are each 0.05. In this way, scores 0.1, 0.15, and 0.05 are propagated from documents A ′ and A ″ to documents D, E, and F, respectively.

  In the conventional page rank method, the same score 0.1 is propagated to the documents D and F. On the other hand, in the method of the present embodiment, the link U of the document A ′ having a higher score has a higher score than the link W of the document A ″ having a lower score. For this reason, the link destination document D of the link U having a higher score propagates a higher score than the link destination document F of the link W having a lower score.

  As described above, in the method of the present embodiment, a score is calculated for each specific range (eg, A ′, A ″) of the original document (eg, A), and the score is linked to the link (eg, the example). : U, V, W), the more appropriate score is propagated to the linked document (eg, D, E, F). As a result, the final score of each document becomes more appropriate.

Step 134)
The process of the document scoring unit 13 may be terminated when it is determined that the process has converged in Step 133. However, in step 134, the document (for example, A) subjected to the process of the document replacement unit 12 is replaced. The sum of the scores of the documents in the document group (eg, A ′, A ″) may be used as the score of the original document (eg, A). Since the network of the document set and the link set is changed by the processing of the document replacement unit 12, the score of the document A by the conventional page rank method and the result of the repeated score update processing in the document scoring unit 13 Generally, the sum of the scores of each document after the replacement of the document A by the method of the embodiment is a different value. In the example of FIG. 3, when the final scores of the documents A ′ and A ″ are 0.3 and 0.2, respectively, the score of the original document A is 0.5.

  Next, a document division scoring processing routine executed in the document division scoring device 10 of the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

  In step 110, a set of original documents to be scored is acquired, and some or all of the documents in the set of original documents are divided into topic sections.

  Next, in step 120, the anchor text of the link L in the document having the link L or the topic including the link L in the document having the link L with respect to the document A processed in the above step 110 and each link L to the document A. A difference in the set of topic sections of the document A whose similarity with the section is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold or within the upper predetermined order is generated as a new document A ′, the document A ′ is associated with the link L, and the document A ′ Only the associated link is set as a link to the document A ′, and the document A is replaced with a set of documents A ′.

  Next, in step 130, the processing (steps 131 to 134) of the document scoring means 13 described above is executed, and the processing is terminated.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications and applications are possible without departing from the gist of the present invention.

  The present invention can also be realized by installing a program on a known computer via a medium or a communication line.

  In addition, the document division scoring apparatus described above has a computer system inside, but the “computer system” includes a homepage providing environment (or display environment) if a WWW system is used. Shall be.

  Further, although cases have been described with the above embodiment where a program is installed in advance, the program can also be provided by being stored in a computer-readable recording medium.

  In addition, the document division scoring device of the present invention can be applied to a technique for obtaining a document score for ranking a document group as a search result in document search.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Document division | segmentation scoring apparatus 11 Document division | segmentation means 12 Document replacement means 13 Document scoring means 14 Word concept base

Claims (5)

Document dividing means for dividing a part or all of documents in a set of documents that may have links to other documents into topic sections that are sections of the same topic;
For each document A processed by the document dividing means and each link L to document A, the similarity between the anchor text of link L or the topic section including link L in the document having link L Generates a new set of topic sections of document A that is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold value or within a higher predetermined order as a new document A ′, associates document A ′ with link L, and links that associate document A ′ A document replacement means for replacing only document A with a set of documents A ′
Document scoring means for calculating a score of each document in the document set from the document set and link set after processing by the document replacement means;
Document scoring device including:   The document scoring means gives an initial score to each document in the document set after the processing by the document replacement means so that the sum of the scores of each document becomes 1, and then assigns the score of the document P to the document The sum of the value obtained by dividing the score of the document Q having a link to P by the number of links of the document Q multiplied by a constant d of 0 or more and 1 or less, and 1-d is the number of documents in the document set. The document division scoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a process of updating to a value obtained by adding the divided value is repeated, and a score of each converged document is set as a final score of the document. A document division scoring method in a document division scoring apparatus including a document division unit, a document replacement unit, and a document scoring unit,
The document dividing means divides the document into topic sections, which are sections of the same topic, for a part or all of the documents in a set of documents that can have links to other documents,
The document replacement means includes, for each document A processed by the document dividing means and each link L to the document A, the anchor text of the link L or the link L in the document having the link L. A difference in the set of topic sections of document A whose similarity to the topic section is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold value or within a predetermined upper rank is generated as a new document A ′, the document A ′ is associated with the link L, and the document A ′ Only the link associated with is used as a link to document A ′, and document A is replaced with a set of documents A ′.
The document scoring unit calculates a score of each document in the document set from the document set and the link set after processing by the document replacement unit.   The document scoring means gives an initial score to each document in the document set after the processing by the document replacement means so that the sum of the scores of each document becomes 1, and then assigns the score of the document P to the document The sum of the value obtained by dividing the score of the document Q having a link to P by the number of links of the document Q multiplied by a constant d of 0 or more and 1 or less, and 1-d is the number of documents in the document set. 4. The document division scoring method according to claim 3, wherein a process of updating the divided value to an added value is repeated, and the score of each converged document is set as a final score of the document.   A document division scoring program for causing a computer to function as each means constituting the document division scoring device according to claim 1.

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