JP2006127325A - Content discovery apparatus, and content discovery method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a content discovery apparatus with which various contents not restricted to a retrieval keyword are discovered; and to provide a content discovery method. <P>SOLUTION: A Web retrieval section 12 retrieves a content matched to the retrieval keyword. A grouping object selection function 151 merges a retrieval result obtained from the Web retrieval section 12 with the past retrieval result. A grouping function 141 groups retrieval results merged with each other by the grouping object selection function 151. A related keyword compliant function 142 relates the related keyword to the group. A presentation function 112 presents the related keyword to a user. The Web retrieval section 12 retrieves the selected related keyword as the retrieval keyword when the presented related keyword is selected. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a content discovery apparatus and a content discovery method for discovering content using a keyword.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, various search engines are provided for a user to search for desired content from content on the Internet. Search engines include a meta search engine and a directory search engine.
A meta search engine is a search engine that searches across multiple search engines and displays the search results displayed by each search engine together, and maintains its own search information database. The search results are displayed using databases of other search engines.

  In the integrated meta search engine, the meta search engine analyzes and classifies information by a unique method for the search results obtained from each search engine, and the relationship between the search keyword and each search result Web page. Display results organized with respect to gender. The analysis method has a feature for each search engine, but the purpose and final display content are the same. In other words, the purpose is to narrow down search results by keyword, and the search results narrowed down by keyword are displayed.

  In the directory type search engine, when information is registered in the information database for search, the registrant determines the content of the information and categorizes it in advance accordingly. The feature is that information is hierarchized into major classification, middle classification, and minor classification. The user can narrow down the search results by following the categories and going deeper.

  A content search procedure using a conventional search engine will be specifically described with reference to FIG. When searching for desired content on the Internet, first, the user operates a terminal device connected to the Internet to start a search engine, and displays the keyword input screen 101 on the display (FIG. 5A). When the user inputs the keyword 1 as a search keyword on the keyword input screen 101, the search engine matches the entire content 103 that matches the keyword 1 (that is, the keyword 1 is included in the content). The content groups 103-1, 103-2, and 103-3 are generated by grouping by a search engine-specific method based on the number of links and the like. The search engine attaches keywords 2, 2 ′, 2 ”to the generated groups 103-1, 103-2, 103-3 as keywords that characterize the groups (hereinafter referred to as“ related keywords ”) (FIG. 5). (B)).

  And the content display screen 102 shown in FIG.5 (c) is displayed on the display of a terminal device. The content display screen 102 includes a keyword display unit 102-1 and a content display unit 102-2. The keyword display unit 102-1 includes keyword 1 as a search keyword and keyword 2 as a related keyword for each group. 2 ′, 2 ″ are displayed. Further, the content display section 102-2 displays all contents that match the keyword 1 that is the search keyword.

  Next, when the user selects the keyword 2 among the related keywords displayed on the keyword display unit 102-1, the search engine sets all the content 103-1 characterized by the keyword 2 as the search result of the keyword 1. In the same way as for the contents, the contents are grouped by a method unique to the search engine based on the contents, the number of links, etc., and the contents groups 105-1 and 105-2 are generated. Then, the search engine attaches keywords 3 and 3 'as keywords that characterize each group 105-1 and 105-2 (FIG. 5D).

Based on the above processing, the content display screen 102 shown in FIG. 5E is displayed on the display of the terminal device. As shown in the figure, the keyword display section 102-1 of the content display screen 102 includes a keyword group in addition to the keyword group displayed on the keyword display section 102-1 shown in FIG. A keyword group (keywords 3 and 3 ′) obtained by grouping the contents characterized by the keyword 2 is displayed. The content display section 102-2 displays a list of all contents 15-1 included in the group having the characteristics of the keyword 2 among the contents matching the keyword 1.
By repeating such processing, the hierarchy of the keyword group displayed on the keyword display unit 102-1 in the content display screen 102 becomes deep, the number of contents displayed on the content display unit 102-2 decreases, Search results are narrowed down.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a configuration of a search device having the above-described search engine function. As shown in the figure, the search device has an input / output unit that manages input / output such as keyword input from the user and display of search results, and searches the content by accessing the network based on the input keyword. Web search unit, content management unit that manages information related to content such as URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of acquired content, content entity, and summary, and grouping of similar content according to content details It consists of a group management unit to perform.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing an example of a search processing procedure performed by the search device shown in FIG. A search processing procedure performed by a conventional search device will be described with reference to FIG. First, when the input / output unit acquires a search keyword from a user (step S301), the Web search unit acquires content via a network such as the Internet based on the search keyword (step S302). The content management unit stores content information such as the content URL acquired by the Web search unit, content entity data, and feature information acquired from the content (step S303). The group management unit divides the content group into a plurality of groups based on the content information stored by the content management unit, and extracts keywords that characterize the group (step S304). The input / output unit displays search results grouped for the user (step S305). When the input / output unit accepts a user's group selection operation (step S306; yes), the group management unit sets the content corresponding to the selected group as the grouping target content (step S307), and performs grouping again (step S307). In step S304, the input / output unit displays the grouped result to the user (step S305). When the input / output unit accepts a user's content selection operation (step S308; yes), the content management unit extracts information related to the selected content from the managed content information, and the input / output unit receives the content. The information regarding is presented to the user (step S309).

Such technical contents as extracting a keyword from a search result by a search keyword and grouping the search result are disclosed in, for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2.
JP 09-259133 A JP 2000-76279 A

In the integrated meta search engine and directory search engine, the information is narrowed down by repeatedly categorizing the information group, and the purpose is to get closer to the "desired information" that the user is searching for. . However, in such a narrowed-down search engine, the information that can be acquired by the first search keyword is limited to some extent, and the subsequent search processing is a search in the limited information first. For this reason, when the purpose of the user's search is not clear or the setting of a search keyword symbolizing the purpose or desired information is not appropriate, it is difficult to obtain desired information. In addition, search keywords entered by the user according to a certain degree of interest and purpose determine the search range and direction of information to some extent. However, it is difficult to obtain information that can lead to discovery and awareness of new interests.
The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a content discovery apparatus and a content discovery method capable of discovering various contents that are not limited to search keywords.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the invention according to claim 1 selects search means for searching for content by a search keyword, search results by the search means, and past search results as grouping target contents. A group target selection unit, a group unit for grouping the search results selected by the group target selection unit, and a group characterizing the group generated by the grouping by the group unit A related keyword associating means for associating a keyword; and a presenting means for presenting a related keyword associated with the related keyword associating means, wherein the search means selects the related keyword presented by the presenting means The selected related keyword is used as a search keyword. Providing content discovery device and performing a search for content.

  According to this configuration, each time a search is repeated, the content discovery apparatus takes in the search results so far as grouping target content, performs grouping, presents various related keywords that characterize the group, and presents them to the user. When the selected related keyword is selected, the content search can be repeated using the selected related keyword as a search keyword. For this reason, the user can discover various contents not limited to the search keyword.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the content discovery device according to the first aspect of the present invention, the content discovery device further includes a keyword history storage unit that stores a history of search keywords used for the search, and the group target selection unit includes the keyword A search result based on a search keyword stored in the history storage means is selected as a grouping target content.
According to this configuration, it is possible to accurately manage the history of past search keywords by storing the history of search keywords used in the past, and search results to be selected as grouping target content It becomes easy to grasp. In addition, the history of past search keywords can be presented to the user.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the content discovery device according to the second aspect of the present invention, the content discovery apparatus further includes a search keyword number storage unit that stores the number of search keywords to be extracted from the keyword history storage unit, The means extracts as many search keywords as the number stored in the search keyword number storage means from the keyword history storage means, and selects a search result based on the extracted search keywords as a grouping target content. To do.
According to this configuration, the number of search keywords extracted from the keyword history storage unit can be limited using the search keyword number storage unit, and the number of grouping target contents can be prevented from becoming enormous. In addition, it is possible to preferentially extract appropriate search keywords.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the content discovery device according to any one of the first to third aspects, the number of search results to be selected as grouping target content among the search results based on the search keyword is stored. The system further includes a search result number storage unit, and the group target selection unit selects as many search results stored in the search result number storage unit as grouping target contents from the search results based on the search keyword. It is characterized by that.
According to this configuration, the number of grouping target contents can be limited, and the problem that the number of grouping target contents becomes enormous and processing load is applied can be solved.

  The invention according to claim 5 includes a search step for searching for content by a search keyword, a group target selection step for selecting a current search result in the search step and a past search result as grouping target content, A group step for grouping the search results selected in the group target selection step, and a related keyword correspondence for associating a group generated by the grouping in the group step with a related keyword that characterizes the group And a presenting step for presenting the related keyword associated in the related keyword association step, and when the related keyword presented in the presenting step is selected, the selected related keyword is selected. Of this time As search keyword, the search step, the merging step, the group generation step, the related keyword associated steps, and provides a content discovery method characterized by repeating the presenting step.

  According to this method, each time a search is repeated, the search results so far can be taken as grouping target content and grouped, and various related keywords characterizing the group can be presented to the user. A related keyword can be selected to search for content. For this reason, instead of acquiring only the content narrowed down by the search keyword, it is possible to acquire content and related keywords related to the past search keyword, and the user is not limited to the search keyword. New content can be discovered.

  According to the present invention, each time a search is repeated, the content discovery device takes in the search results so far as grouping target content, performs grouping, and presents related keywords that characterize the group to the user. When a related keyword is selected, content search can be repeated using the selected related keyword as a search keyword. For this reason, the user can discover various contents not limited to the search keyword.

Next, the best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In each drawing referred to in the following description, the same reference numerals are given to the same parts as in the other drawings.
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration of a content discovery apparatus 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the content discovery device 10 accesses the network based on the input keyword 11 and the input / output unit 11 that manages input / output such as keyword input and search result display. Similar to the Web search unit 12 that searches for content, the content management unit 13 that manages information about the content such as the URL of the acquired content, the substance of the content, and feature information based on the content, and the like depending on the content Group management unit 14 for grouping content and extracting related keywords; keyword management for managing keyword history information such as search keywords, related keywords extracted from the search results, and related keywords selected by the user Part 15. Here, the content discovery device 10 is a general computer including a CPU (Central Processing Unit) that executes a program and controls the whole, a storage device that stores the program and data, and an input / output device.

  Next, the functional configuration of the content discovery device 10 will be described in detail. The Web search unit 12 includes a communication interface, a CPU, and a program for communicating with other devices via a network. The Web search unit 12 acquires information about the search keyword input by the user and the related keyword selected by the user from the input / output unit 11. The Web search unit 12 searches for content that matches the search keyword acquired from the input / output unit 11 via the network. When the related keyword selected by the user is acquired from the input / output unit 11, the Web search unit 12 treats the related keyword as a search keyword and performs a search.

  The content management unit 13 includes a CPU, a program, and a storage device. The content management unit 13 is provided in a storage device with content information including the content substance obtained by the Web search unit 12, a URL indicating the location of the content on the Internet, and feature information extracted from the content. Stored in the content information DB 16.

  The keyword management unit 15 includes a CPU, a program, and a storage device. The keyword management unit 15 stores the keyword history information in the keyword history storage DB 18 provided in the storage device. The keyword history information includes the related keyword for each group generated by grouping the search results by the search keyword, the search keyword history (the search keyword input by the user, and the related keyword selected by the user so far). Group).

  The keyword management unit 15 includes a group target selection function 151. The group target selection function 151 selects search results from the Web search unit 12 and past search results as grouping target contents. Specifically, the group target selection function 151 first acquires the history of the search keyword used for the search from the keyword history storage DB 18, and uses the search result based on the acquired search keyword as the group target content. Extract from Then, the group target selection function 151 merges the extracted search result based on the past search keyword and the search result searched by the Web search unit 12 based on the search keyword input this time from the input / output unit 11, The merged search result is delivered to the group management unit 14 as the final grouping target content. Note that the search keyword input this time from the input / output unit 11 is already registered in the keyword history storage DB 18, and the search keyword input this time is extracted from the keyword history storage DB 18 together with past search keywords. The group target selection function 151 selects the search result based on the search keyword extracted from the keyword history storage DB 18 as the final grouping target content as it is, and delivers it to the group management unit 14.

Here, a search keyword number storage DB 19 and a search result number storage DB 20 are provided in the storage device as databases for controlling the number of grouping target contents. The number of search keywords to be extracted from the keyword history storage DB 18 is stored in the search keyword number storage DB 19.
The group target selection function 151 extracts as many search keywords as stored in the search keyword count storage DB 19 from the keyword history information DB 18 and selects search results based on the extracted search keywords as grouping target contents.

  As a rule for selecting grouping target content from the keyword history storage DB 18, for example, a search keyword that is most recently registered in the keyword history storage DB 18 is preferentially extracted. In this way, relatively old search keywords can be excluded, and content close to the current user's interest can be found efficiently. Further, for example, a past search keyword having a meaning similar to the current search keyword may be preferentially extracted.

If the number of search keywords stored in the search keyword number storage DB 19 is not stored in the keyword history storage DB 18, the group target selection function 151 selects all the keywords stored in the keyword history storage DB 18. Extract search keywords.
The search result number storage DB 20 stores the number of search results to be selected as the grouping target content among the search results based on the search keyword. The number of search results to be selected here may be the number of search results to be selected from each search result by each search keyword (past search keyword, current search keyword), or the search results are merged. It may be the number of search results to be selected from the entire search results after. The group target selection function 151 refers to the search result number storage DB 20 and selects as many search results stored in the search result number storage DB 20 as grouping target contents from among the search results based on the search keyword.

  The group management unit 14 includes a CPU, a program, and a storage device. The group management unit 14 includes a group function 141 and a related keyword association function 142. The grouping function 141 analyzes the feature information in the content information for each search result selected as the grouping target content by the grouping target selection function 151, performs grouping using the feature of the content, and groups the content Is generated.

  The related keyword association function 142 associates each generated group with a related keyword that characterizes the group. Specifically, the related keyword association function 142 extracts related keywords that characterize each group from contents belonging to each group. Then, the related keyword association function 142 indicates which group each content is divided into as correspondence information between the group, the related keyword, and the content, and a correspondence information database (hereinafter “ Stored in the correspondence information DB) 17.

  The input / output unit 11 includes, for example, a keyboard, a display, and an input / output interface. The input / output unit 11 includes an input function 111 and a presentation function 112. The input function 111 accepts a search keyword input by the user and a related keyword selected on the screen. The presentation function 112 displays a list of keywords and contents on the display according to instructions from the keyword management unit 15 and the group management unit 14.

  FIG. 2 shows an example of a content display screen 402 displayed on the display of the content discovery device 10 by the presentation function 112. As shown in the figure, the content display screen 402 includes a keyword display unit 402-1 and a content display unit 402-2. The keyword display section 402-1 displays a search keyword (here “sports”) and related keywords for each group (here “baseball”, “exercise”, “autumn”). In addition, a content list for each group is displayed on the content display unit 402-2.

Next, the flow of content discovery processing performed by the content discovery device 10 will be described with reference to the processing flow shown in FIG.
First, when the input / output unit 11 of the content discovery apparatus 10 acquires a search keyword from the user (step S601), the keyword management unit 15 registers the search keyword in the keyword history storage DB 18 (step S602). The Web search unit 12 acquires content via a network such as the Internet based on the search keyword (step S603).

  The content management unit 13 analyzes the content acquired by the Web search unit 12 and stores content information including content URL, content entity data, feature information acquired from the content, and the like in the content information DB 16. (Step S604). As a method for extracting feature information from the contents of content, for example, content of text data such as HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is counted by counting the frequency of words appearing in the content by morphological analysis. There is a method of quantifying as a feature amount.

  The group management unit 14 inquires of the keyword management unit 15 whether there are a plurality of search keyword histories in the keyword history storage DB 18 (step S605). When there are a plurality of search keyword histories (step S605; yes), the group target selection function 151 of the keyword management unit 15 extracts past search keywords from the keyword history storage DB 18, and extracts each search keyword. The corresponding content information is acquired from the content management unit 13. The group target selection function 151 merges all pieces of content information acquired from the current search keyword and the past search keyword, and delivers them as grouping target content to the group management unit 14 (step S606).

  The group function 141 of the group management unit 14 divides the content group into a plurality of similar groups based on the content information of the grouping target content, and stores the correspondence information of the group and the contents belonging thereto in the correspondence information DB 17. As a method of dividing into similar groups based on content information, there is a method in which similarity between contents is obtained by clustering using digitized feature values, and groups are created in descending order of similarity.

Further, the related keyword association function 142 of the group management unit 14 extracts a related keyword that is a keyword characterizing the group from each group (step S607). As a method of extracting related keywords, you can extract words that are common in all content in the group as related keywords, or check the variation in the appearance frequency of words between groups, and only for specific groups. There is a method of extracting words that appear frequently as related keywords. In addition to extracting from the content, a keyword representing a concept characterizing all the contents in the group may be newly generated, and the keyword may be used as a related keyword.
The keyword management unit 15 stores the related keywords extracted by the group management unit 14 in the keyword history storage DB 18 (step S608). The presentation function 112 of the input / output unit 11 displays a search keyword and a list of related keywords and a grouped search result to the user (step S609).

  When the input function 111 of the input / output unit 11 receives a group (or related keyword) selection operation from the user (step S610; yes), the keyword management unit 15 sets the related keyword of the group selected by the user as a search keyword. (Step S611), the search keyword is stored in the keyword history storage DB 18 (Step S602). When the Web search unit 12 and the content management unit 13 acquire content corresponding to the search keyword and store content information (steps S603 and S604), the keyword management unit 15 stores the content from the keyword history storage DB 18 so far. The search keyword selected by the user is extracted, content information corresponding to each search keyword is acquired from the content management unit 13 and merged, and more content is delivered to the group management unit 14 (step S606). The number of past search keywords that the group target selection function 151 of the keyword management unit 15 extracts from the keyword history storage DB 18 and merges can be arbitrarily set by using the search keyword number storage DB 19. There are cases where the number of search keywords to be extracted is fixedly set on the discovery device 10 side, or the number of search keywords to be extracted is changed as needed by an operation from the user. In addition, when the number of merged contents becomes enormous, the number of contents to be extracted as a search result for each keyword may be arbitrarily set using the search result number storage DB 20.

The group management unit 14 groups the content information acquired from the keyword management unit 15 and extracts related keywords corresponding to each group (step S607), and the presentation function 112 of the input / output unit 11 performs search keyword and The related keyword list and the grouped content group are displayed to the user (step S609).
When the input / output unit 11 detects an individual content selection operation from the user (step S612; yes), the presentation function 112 acquires content information regarding the selected content from the content management unit 13, and displays the content information to the user. (Step S613).

  Next, an operation example according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. First, the user operates the keyboard of the content discovery device 10 to display a search keyword input screen shown in FIG. When the user inputs keyword 1 as a search keyword on search keyword input screen 401, input / output unit 11 of content discovery apparatus 10 accepts keyword 1 as a search keyword. The Web search unit 12 searches for content that matches the keyword 1.

  Next, as shown in FIG. 4B, the group function 141 of the group management unit 14 groups the entire content 403 matching the keyword 1 according to the content, and groups 403-1, 403-2, 403-3 is generated. The related keyword association function 142 associates related keywords (here, keyword 2, keyword 2 ', keyword 2 ") that characterize each group for each group 403-1, 403-2, 403-3.

  The presentation function 112 of the input / output unit 11 displays the content display screen 402 shown in FIG. 4C on the display. The keyword display section 402-1 of the content display screen 402 displays the search keyword (keyword 1) and the related keywords (keywords 2, 2 ′, 2 ″) for each group. The content list characterized by the keyword 2, the content list characterized by the keyword 2 ′, and the content list characterized by the keyword 2 ″ are displayed in groups.

  Next, assuming that the user performs an operation of selecting the keyword 2 displayed on the keyword display unit 402-1 shown in FIG. 4C, the group target selection function 151 of the keyword management unit 15 is The content that matches the selected keyword 2 and the content that matches the keyword 1 that is the past search keyword are merged as grouping target content. The group function 141 of the group management unit 14 divides the entire content 405 matching the keyword 1 and the content matching the keyword 2 into groups according to the contents of the content, and three groups 405-1, 405-2, 405- 3 is generated. The related keyword association function 142 associates keywords 3, 3 ', 3 "characterizing each group for each group (Fig. 4D).

  The presentation function 112 displays a content display screen 402 shown in FIG. Search keywords (keywords 1, 2) and related keywords (keywords 3, 3 ′, 3 ″) are displayed on the keyword display section 402-1 of the content display screen 402. The content display section 402-2 also displays the search keywords (keywords 1, 3 ′, 3 ″). The content list characterized by the keyword 3, the content list characterized by the keyword 2 ′, and the content list characterized by the keyword 2 ″ are displayed in groups.

  When the same operation is repeated, the keyword display section 402-1 of the content display screen 402 displays a related keyword (when the grouping is performed for all contents acquired by the n keywords input or selected by the user ( Keyword (n + 1), Keyword (n + 1) ′,...) And a list of all n keywords (keyword 1, keyword 2,..., Keyword n) that have been input or selected. In addition, the content display section 402-2 displays a list of contents characterized by the related keywords (keyword (n + 1), keyword (n + 1) ', ...).

  As described above, the content discovery apparatus 10 performs a search based on the search keyword received from the user, performs grouping of the acquired content, extracts keywords that characterize the group, and extracts the search keyword and the related keyword. Displays a list of keywords and a grouped content list. The search keyword entered first is repeated by repeating the process of re-searching with the related keyword selected by the user, merging with past search results, grouping, and extracting the related keyword. Instead of narrowing down the search results limited by the search results, the information related to the first input search keyword is taken in as the search results, and the search results are expanded to relevant content groups. It is possible to discover new content that does not.

In this way, each time the search is repeated, more content can be grouped and related keywords can be extracted, so it is possible to acquire various content related to various related keywords. Although it is a keyword search, it is possible to obtain various search results that are not limited to the search keyword.
In a conventional refined search engine, the information that can be acquired by the first search keyword is limited to some extent, and the subsequent search processing is a search in the limited information at the beginning. When it is not clear, or when the setting of a search keyword symbolizing the purpose and desired information is not appropriate, it is difficult for the user to obtain desired information. Accordingly, the user can easily obtain desired information. Also, information that can be acquired by the user does not become rutted, and it is possible to acquire information that can lead to discovery or awareness of a new interest while performing a search.

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Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to such embodiments, and various modifications can be made within the scope of the technical idea. As modifications, for example, the following can be considered.
(1) In the above-described embodiment, it has been described that the user inputs the search keyword and confirms the search result using the keyboard and display of the content discovery device 10, but the user can use the mobile phone or personal computer that the user owns. To the content discovery apparatus 10 via a wireless or wired connection to transmit a search keyword and receive a search result.

(2) In the above-described embodiment, the embodiment for searching for content on the Internet has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, a document file stored in the database of the content discovery device 10 or the like Content may be searched.
(3) In the above-described embodiment, it has been described that the search result based on the past search keyword to be grouped is acquired from the content information DB 16. By performing the above, content to be grouped may be acquired.
(4) Displayed in the past using the search keyword history and related keyword history stored in the keyword history storage DB 18 and the group (related keyword) and content correspondence information stored in the correspondence information DB 17 A mechanism capable of displaying the content display screen 402 again may be constructed.

(5) In the above-described embodiment, when the related keyword (keyword n) is selected, the content display unit 402-2 displays the newly extracted related keyword (keyword (n + 1), keyword (n + 1) ′). ,... Has been described as being displayed, but the display content is not limited to this. For example, in the content display unit 402-2, the relation selected this time among the contents that match at least one of the search keywords (keyword 1, keyword 2,..., Keyword (n-1)) so far. Content having the characteristics of the keyword (keyword n) may be displayed. Further, composite display may be performed by dividing the screen.

It is a block diagram which shows the function structure of the content discovery apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the content display screen which concerns on the embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the process sequence which the content discovery apparatus which concerns on the embodiment performs. It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the procedure of the content discovery which the content discovery apparatus concerning the embodiment performs. It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the search procedure using the conventional search engine. It is a figure which shows an example of a function structure of the conventional search device. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the search processing procedure which the conventional search device performs.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Content discovery apparatus 11 Input / output part 111 Input function 112 Presentation function 12 Web search part 13 Content management part 14 Group management part 141 Group function 142 Related keyword correspondence function 15 Keyword management part 151 Group target selection function 16 Content information DB
17 Correspondence information DB
18 Keyword history storage DB
19 Search keyword number storage DB
20 Search result number storage DB
401 Search keyword input screen 402 Content display screen 402-1 Keyword display unit 402-2 Content display unit

Claims (5)

A search means for searching content by a search keyword;
Group target selection means for selecting search results by the search means and past search results as grouping target content;
A grouping means for grouping the search results selected by the group target selection means;
A related keyword associating means for associating a group generated by grouping by the grouping means with a related keyword that characterizes the group;
Presenting means for presenting related keywords associated by the related keyword association means; and
When the related keyword presented by the presenting unit is selected, the search unit searches for content using the selected related keyword as a search keyword. A keyword history storage means for storing a history of search keywords used for the search;
The content discovery apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the group target selection unit selects a search result based on a search keyword stored in the keyword history storage unit as a grouping target content. Further comprising search keyword number storage means for storing the number of search keywords to be extracted from the keyword history storage means;
The group target selection means is:
The number of search keywords stored in the search keyword number storage unit is extracted from the keyword history storage unit, and a search result based on the extracted search keyword is selected as grouping target content. 2. The content discovery device according to 2. Search result number storage means for storing the number of search results to be selected as the grouping target content among the search results by the search keyword,
The group target selection means is:
The number of search results stored in the search result number storage means among the search results based on the search keyword are selected as grouping target contents. 4. Content discovery device. A search step for searching content by a search keyword;
A group target selection step for selecting a current search result in the search step and a past search result as grouping target content;
A group step for grouping the search results selected in the group target selection step;
A related keyword association step for associating a related keyword that characterizes the group with the group generated by grouping in the grouping step;
A presenting step of presenting the related keywords associated in the related keyword association step,
When the related keyword presented in the presenting step is selected, the selected related keyword is set as a current search keyword, the search step, the merging step, the group generation step, the related keyword association step, and A content discovery method comprising repeating the presenting step.

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