US Patent 10409848 Text mining system, text mining method, and program

The present invention is a text mining system comprising a synonym cluster acquiring section configured to acquire synonym clusters from texts in text data to be analyzed, the synonym clusters each being a collection of synonymous texts, an implication relationship acquiring section configured to acquire implication relationships among the synonym clusters, and an implication graph generating section configured to generate an implication graph including vertices of synonym clusters and directed edges each indicating a direction from an implied synonym cluster to an implying synonym cluster from the implication relationships among the synonym clusters.