US Patent 7584189 Sentence classification device and method

A sentence classification device includes a storage unit, arithmetic processing unit, and screen display unit. The storage unit stores a document set of a plurality of documents and a term list including a plurality of terms each having one or more words. The arithmetic processing unit classifies the respective documents stored in the storage unit on the basis of the term list. The screen display unit displays a processing result obtained by the arithmetic processing unit on a screen.