JP4428072B2 - Electronic news analysis device, electronic news system, and electronic news analysis program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for appropriately handling electronic news containing articles that may cause copyright problems and privacy problems.

  Nowadays, some newspaper companies claim that newspaper articles are copyrighted works. In other words, since newspaper articles are copyrighted works, they indicate that the act of copying or distributing them is illegal even if used internally.

  Regardless of the illegality of using newspaper articles, companies and government agencies often need to cite articles to create materials. Therefore, it would be advantageous if the article could be used even at least avoiding the use of a description part that could infringe copyright.

  For example, in Patent Document 1, display restriction information indicating whether display is possible is held for each component constituting an article, and an article to be provided based on display restriction information when providing article information is provided. Judge whether it can be provided. If it can be provided, it is provided as it is, and if it cannot be provided, it is replaced with information indicating that. In this way, it is possible to limit the component parts of articles with copyright and privacy problems so that they are not provided in units of component parts.

JP 2003-132071 A

  However, in the conventional example, the display is simply forcibly concealed for the portion where the display is limited. For this reason, even if the reader of electronic news pays a copyright fee and wants to browse the corresponding part, he cannot respond to such a request.

  In the conventional example, the display of the corresponding component is restricted based on the display restriction information. However, the display restriction information is preset information, and how the display restriction information is set. Nothing is said about the action. Since the display restriction information is set as flag information indicating whether or not to restrict it, it is difficult to say that it is configured to meet the detailed request of the user for the display restriction portion.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and its purpose is to allow a user to effectively use electronic news including an article that includes a restriction part that cannot be used as it is. It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved electronic news analysis apparatus and electronic news processing apparatus.

In order to achieve the above object, an electronic news analyzing apparatus according to the present invention uses a receiving means for receiving electronic news and each word extracted from the components constituting the electronic news article as a key. by searching a word dictionary containing information for discriminating the otherwise words and words related to creation, each word and the extracted, it is determined whether a word associated with the creation, the determination Based on the result, calculate the ratio of the part related to creation in the component and the part that is not, and refer to the calculated result to determine whether the component is a restricted part that cannot be used as it is or not. and articles determination means for performing determination, including the ratio, which can identify that a component of articles judged restricted portions by the article determining means is limited partial restriction Characterized in that it comprises information allocation means for generating minute management information and allocating it to the component, and reconfiguration means for reconfiguring the electronic news with an article including the component to which the restricted part management information is allocated. To do.

Moreover, the article determination unit inquires whether to determine a different result to the user, the information allocation unit may allocate the restricted portions management information including the result of the inquiry to the component.

The article determination means may determine whether or not there is an appropriate inquiry as a result of the determination with reference to the ratio .

Further, wherein the words registered in the word dictionary are added weighting information indicating the degree concerning creation,
The article discriminating means calculates a ratio between a part related to creation in the component and a part not so with reference to the added weighting information .

An electronic news system according to the present invention includes an electronic news analysis device and an electronic news processing device, and the electronic news analysis device constitutes a receiving means for receiving electronic news and the electronic news article. and each word extracted from the component as a key, by searching a word dictionary containing information for discriminating the otherwise words and words related to creation, in terms of each word and the extracted related to creation determining whether to calculate the ratio between the portion and otherwise part related to creation of the components as a result of the determination, the component parts as unavailable by referring to the result of the calculation and articles discrimination means for performing unlimited unit content not Lend do restricted portions of the of one of the determination, wherein the ratio is determined that the restricted portions by said article identifying means A restriction part management information that can identify that a component part is a restriction part, and an information assigning unit that assigns the restriction part management information to the component part, and the electronic news includes a component part to which the restriction part management information is assigned. Reconstructing means for reconfiguring the article, wherein the electronic news processing device receives the electronic news transmitted from the electronic news analysis device, and processes the electronic news instructed by the user. , and having an electronic news processing means for executing while limiting the use of components that restricted portions management information is assigned, the.

The electronic news analysis program according to the present invention includes a computer, receiving means for receiving electronic news, and words related to the creation and words not using the words extracted from the components constituting the article of the electronic news. by searching a word dictionary containing information for determining bets, it is determined whether the word each word and the extracted related to creation, related to creation of the components as a result of the determination to calculate the ratio of the partial otherwise moiety, articles discriminating means for discriminating the one of the calculated result the components of the unlimited unit fraction not Lend it What unusable restriction portion comprises said ratio generates an identifiable restriction part management information that components of articles judged restricted portions by the article determining means is restricted portions, the component Information Allocation hand stage of allocating, the electronic news, and characterized in that said restricted portions management information reconstructing means reconfigured by the article comprising a component assigned functions as.

  According to the present invention, by analyzing an article included in electronic news, it is possible to automatically distinguish between a restricted part that cannot be used and an unrestricted part that cannot be used, and the analysis result is added to the electronic news. The electronic news can be used effectively based on the analysis result.

  Further, since the permission conditions are received and the processing using the electronic news can be executed in accordance with the permission conditions, it is possible to use the restricted portion that cannot be used within the permitted range.

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

  FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram showing an embodiment of an electronic news analysis apparatus and an electronic news processing apparatus according to the present invention. Each device is installed in a company or the like who is a viewer of electronic news distributed from a newspaper company distribution center. The electronic news analysis apparatus 10 is realized by a server computer that receives electronic news distributed from the distribution center. The electronic news processing device corresponds to the user terminal device 30 used by the viewer, and is realized by a general-purpose personal computer. Note that a plurality of user terminal devices 30 are connected to the electronic news analysis device 10 via a LAN (not shown) or the like. However, since each device 30 may have the same configuration, only one device is shown in FIG. . The user terminal device 50 is a terminal used by the copyright holder who created the article, and is realized by a general-purpose personal computer. The user terminal device 30 is configured to receive information directly or indirectly from the user terminal device 50 via the Internet or the like.

  The electronic news handled in the present embodiment is composed of one to a plurality of articles, and each article is composed of one to a plurality of components such as sentences and photographs. In this embodiment, it is assumed that a copyright problem occurs in each component part included in the article, and the use restriction unit is described as a component part. The purpose of restricting the use of components is to prevent copyright infringement. The use of the component means that the user performs some processing such as browsing and printing the component.

  The electronic news analysis apparatus 10 has the following configuration. First, the electronic news receiving unit 11 receives distributed electronic news. The article determination unit 12 analyzes each article included in the input electronic news based on the word dictionary 20 to determine whether each component of the article is a restricted part that cannot be used as it is, or an unrestricted part that is not so. Determine whether it is. The word dictionary 20 includes information for discriminating between words related to creation and words that are not. Specifically, each word is classified as whether it is a word reminiscent of creation, such as “guessing”, “analysis”, “thinking”, or a word that falls under 5W1H and is used to explain a fact. ing. Furthermore, weighting information is set for each word depending on the degree of creation.

  The article extraction unit 16 included in the article determination unit 12 extracts articles to be analyzed from electronic news. The component analysis unit 17 determines whether each component is a restricted part that cannot be used as it is or an unrestricted part that is not. The “restricted part that cannot be used as it is” means a component that falls under copyright infringement or may infringe if an article is used as it is. Therefore, the creative part (literary work) corresponds to the restricted part, and the copyright holder corresponds to the part where the copyright can be claimed. On the other hand, the “unlimited part” corresponds to a part created based on a fact that does not correspond to the creative part. In this embodiment, the description is limited to the copyrighted work. In the following description, the restricted part that cannot be used as it is is referred to as “creating part”, and the unrestricted part is referred to as “fact part” that does not correspond to creation. To do. In the present embodiment, it is assumed that a component part of an article that only states the fact does not correspond to creation.

  The same article collection unit 18 collects articles that have the same content as the analysis target article by making a determination based on the article headline, keywords, and the like. The article determination unit 12 generates information about the possibility that the component part determined to be the creation part is actually the creation part and adds the information to the article including the component part. This creation possibility information will be described later.

  The information assigning unit 13 assigns, to the electronic news, the creative part management information that can identify the creative part for the component of the article that is determined as the creative part by the article discriminating unit 12. In the present embodiment, a creative tag corresponding to the creative part management information is assigned to the restricted part, that is, the creative part. In the present embodiment, in order to identify the restricted part, that is, the fact part as a fact part. Let's assign fact tags. The information allocating unit 13 refers to the information included in each tag, the attribute information including information about the distribution source added to the electronic news to be analyzed, and the creativity information added to the article by the article determining unit 12. It generates based on the generation rules registered in the rule database 21 and assigns them to articles.

  The article reconstructing unit 14 reconstructs the articles constituting the electronic news based on information included in the tag assigned by the information assigning unit 13. The electronic news distribution unit 15 distributes electronic news including the reconstructed article to each user terminal device 30. The rule setting unit 19 sets and registers a generation rule in the rule database 21.

  The user terminal device 30 used by a viewer of electronic news includes the following components. The electronic news receiving unit 31 receives electronic news distributed from the electronic news analysis device 10. The electronic news processing unit 32 executes processing instructed by the user for the received electronic news. Then, electronic news is displayed on the display unit 33 in accordance with the contents of the instruction, printed on the printing unit 34, transferred to the transfer unit 35, charged to the charging processing unit 36 as will be described in detail later, or electronic news Save in the storage unit 39. The instruction input unit 37 inputs an instruction to be given to the electronic news by the user. The permission condition receiving unit 38 receives permission conditions transmitted from the user terminal device 50 used by the copyright holder.

  The user terminal device 50 used by the copyright holder includes a condition input unit 51 for a user to input permission conditions and a permission condition transmission unit 52 for sending the input permission conditions to the user terminal device 30. .

  The processes executed by the components 11 to 19, 31 to 38, and 51 to 52 in the devices 10, 30, and 50 described above are installed in the devices 10, 30, and 50 with application programs having corresponding processing functions. This can be realized by executing with the CPU. The storage means 20 to 21 and 39 in each device 10 and 30 can be realized by an external storage device such as a hard disk drive that can directly or indirectly access the PC.

  The electronic news analysis apparatus according to the present embodiment analyzes articles created in the once created electronic news to determine a creation part and a fact part, and creates an article for the convenience of electronic news users. Incorporate partial management information, that is, creative tags, and restructure the article. The operation of this electronic news analysis apparatus will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

  First, the electronic news receiving unit 11 receives the distributed electronic news (step 101). In addition to articles corresponding to actual content, attribute information is added to the electronic news. The attribute information includes electronic news identification information (news ID), distributor, distribution date and time, a license application destination and its method, etc., and each article identification information (article ID), author, etc. . The article extraction unit 16 in the article determination unit 12 extracts one article to be analyzed from the received electronic news (step 102). Since the processing content executed by the article determination unit 12 is the same for each extracted article, here, it is assumed that only one article is included in the electronic news unless otherwise specified. Further, one component to be analyzed by the component analysis unit 17 is extracted from the article (step 103). Since the processing content executed by the article determination unit 12 is the same for each extracted component, here, it is assumed that only one component is included in the extracted article unless otherwise specified. Then, the component analysis unit 17 performs the following analysis on the extracted component (step 104). Note that the component extracted here is a sentence written in a natural language such as Japanese or English.

  The component analysis unit 17 performs syntax analysis on the extracted sentence and extracts words and other words from the sentence. Then, the word dictionary 20 is searched using the extracted word or the like as a key, and it is determined whether the word or the like is a word related to the creation or a word associated with the creation. For example, a word meaning guess, such as “will” used at the end of the word, or a word meaning consideration is determined to be a word related to the creation. On the other hand, a word indicating a proper noun, date and place, etc. is regarded as a sentence describing a fact and is determined to be a fact part.

  By the way, the component analysis unit 17 must binaryly determine whether the sentence to be analyzed corresponds to a creation part or a fact part. However, a sentence contains a plurality of words, and there are many cases where words related to creation and words for explaining facts are mixed. Therefore, in the present embodiment, the creation possibility information is added to the article together with the analysis result. This process will be further described in detail.

  Weighting information is added to the words registered in the word dictionary 20 in the present embodiment depending on the degree of creation. Therefore, a predetermined calculation is performed for each of the creative part and the fact part based on the number of words included in the sentence and the weight of each word. Based on the result, it is determined whether the sentence to be analyzed corresponds to a creative part or a fact part. However, for example, even if the ratio of the calculation result between the creation part and the fact part is 90:10 or 55:45, both of the sentences to be analyzed are determined to be the creation part, but only the binary analysis result is information. If information of such a ratio is also added rather than using as a possibility, it may be effectively used in subsequent processing. Therefore, in the present embodiment, the above-described ratio (%) corresponding to each sentence is included in the creation possibility information as information indicating the possibility of being a creation part, and is associated with a component. This allows the user to use articles at various levels depending on the possibility of creation.

  The component analysis unit 17 determines whether the sentence extracted based on the word dictionary 20 as described above is a creation part or a fact part. Further, in the present embodiment, the same article collection unit 18 By other methods, it is possible to determine whether the sentence is a creative part or a fact part. That is, the same article collection unit 18 takes up the same content (topic) as the article to be analyzed by searching for the material included in the external electronic news based on the headline, keyword, etc. of the article to be analyzed. To collect articles. Then, the article discriminating unit 12 compares the analyzed article with the collected article collected using the same article collecting unit 18 and analyzed it using a predetermined method. Sentences that are considered to be substantially the same are judged as facts.

  Since the information to be analyzed is electronic news, it is highly probable that the same topic will be an article in the electronic news distributed by other companies to be compared. Accordingly, since articles such as incidents are the same topic, it can be determined as a fact part. If articles cannot be collected from the outside, discrimination by comparison of articles cannot be performed, and the discrimination result by the component analysis unit 17 using the word dictionary 20 is adopted. On the other hand, when an article can be collected from the outside, a determination result may be obtained only by analysis based on comparison of articles, or both analysis methods may be combined. For example, as an analysis result verification by the component analysis unit 17, an analysis method based on article comparison is adopted. Specifically, it is checked whether the sentence determined by the component analysis unit 17 as a creation part can be determined as a creation part also by comparing articles, and if a different analysis result as a fact part is obtained by comparison of articles, The determination unit 12 employs a fact part as an analysis result. Such a result is desirably included in the creation possibility information.

  For text, the creation part or the fact part is discriminated according to the basic analysis process as described above. However, the following rules are provided in exceptional cases. For example, if a signature is included in an article, it is determined that the work is a creative part because the possibility of the copyrighted work is high. If the component is a photograph or illustration, it is determined as a creation. In the case of a table or graph, when it is determined that the source is included, it is regarded as an article that can be used as it is and is determined to be a fact part.

  Further, a user interface may be provided so that the user can manually set the creation part and the fact part or correct the processing result by the article determination unit 12. As a result, the article discriminating unit 12 automatically discriminates whether the component part is a creation part or a fact part, but it can also be discriminated by manual operation. Further, as described above, associating the creation possibility information represented by the ratio as an index indicating the possibility of the creation part with the component part is as described above. For example, the ratio of the creation part to the fact part is 55:45 or the like. Thus, when the analysis result is such that it is difficult to say that the determination of the creation part is absolute, the user can be inquired about the appropriateness of the analysis result for the component. In some cases, the creation part can be changed to the fact part.

  Subsequently, after the article determination unit 12 determines whether each component is a creation part or a fact part, the information allocation unit 13 refers to the determination result by the article determination unit 12 and creation possibility information as follows. Tag information is generated and assigned to each article.

  The rule database 21 generates tag information as restricted part management information associated with each component based on the relationship between the creation part or the fact part of each component, creation possibility information, and electronic news attribute information. The generation rule of is registered. Accordingly, when the information allocating unit 13 receives the determination result and the creation possibility information from the article determining unit 12, and receives the attribute information added to the electronic news, the information allocating unit 13 generates the tag information according to the generation rule based on the information. . More specifically, the information assigning unit 13 assigns a creation tag to the creation part and a fact tag to the fact part (steps 105 to 107). The creative tag / fact tag includes the following information. First, prohibited / permitted actions (viewing, printing, forwarding, etc.) and their period, prohibited / permitted based on information indicating that the component is a creative part / actual part, creative possibility information, and electronic news attribute information Information such as location, scope of application, prohibited / permitted conditions is included. In addition, if the component that corresponds to the creative part of the article is not usable, if it is operated so that it is not allowed to use at all, the component part (text, photograph, etc.) of the corresponding part from the article at this point May be deleted.

  As described above, when the information allocating unit 13 generates tag information corresponding to each component, the article reconstructing unit 14 reconstructs the component associated with the tag information as one article (step 108). In this way, the electronic news received by the electronic news receiving unit 11 is reconstructed into an article including a component associated with the tag information, thereby reconstructing the distributed electronic news itself. can do.

  Next, the operation in the user terminal device 30 will be described.

  The electronic news processing unit 32 executes processing corresponding to the instruction input by the user on the electronic news received by the electronic news receiving unit 31. If the content of the instruction is displayed, it is displayed on the display unit 33, if it is printed, it is printed on the printing unit 34, and if it is transferred, the electronic news is transferred to the transfer unit 35 to the location designated by the user. Stored in the electronic news storage unit 39. However, in the case of each instruction of display, printing, and transfer, refer to the tag information associated with each component included in the article, and overwrite or delete the component corresponding to the creation part with another component. Conceal the creative part such as. As a result, if the print instruction is given, the article itself is printed, but the creative part included in the article is printed on the paper in a state where it is not printed. If it is a display instruction, the article itself is displayed, but the creative part included in the article is displayed on the screen without being displayed. If it is a transfer instruction, the article itself is transferred, but the creative part included in the article is deleted and not transferred. As a result, since the user does not correspond to using the creative part, it is considered that the act of using the electronic news by the user does not correspond to copyright infringement.

  However, in the present embodiment, the following operation is performed. That is, as described above, the creative portion cannot be used for display or the like, but in some cases, it may be desired to use it even after paying the price. Therefore, in the present embodiment, such a user request can be accommodated.

  For example, in the case of printing, the electronic news processing unit 32 prints an article together with documents such as an application form and an application method for requesting printing including a creation part in accordance with a user instruction. The user fills in the application form with the news ID, article ID, usage (printing, display, etc.) desired to be used, usage period, usage location, user information, etc. To the right holder. In the case of display, an article is displayed and an application procedure screen is displayed according to a user operation. Then, after filling in the above described items from the application screen corresponding to the application form, the application form is transmitted online.

  When the copyright holder receives the application form by any means, the license holder sets the permission conditions that set the usage period, usage location, user, etc. of the article requested to be used from the user terminal device 50 based on the items described in the application form. To do. When the condition input unit 51 accepts the permission condition set by the copyright owner, the permission condition transmission unit 52 transmits the permission condition to the user terminal device 30 used by the applicant.

  In the user terminal device 30, the permission condition receiving unit 38 receives the permission condition sent from the user terminal device 50 and sends it to the electronic news processing unit 32. As a result, the electronic news processing unit 32 executes processing using the creation part of the article within a range permitted by the received permission condition. For example, when printing an article, the electronic news processing unit 32 cannot normally print a creation part included in the article, but can print a creation part permitted under the permission condition. The same applies to the display. The same applies to transfer. In addition, there are permission conditions associated with usage, such as being able to print but not transfer. In the case of transfer, there are also permission conditions that limit the transfer destination. In this way, even if usage is prohibited in the setting content of the creative tag added to the article, the processing instructed by the user can be executed according to the permission condition including the content allowing the prohibited matter. , It is possible to respond flexibly to the handling of copyrighted works.

  Furthermore, in the present embodiment, a billing processing unit 36 is provided. This allows a billing associated with the use to be made when printing or the like is used for the creative part by permission. It is to do. Information related to calculation of the amount of payment for charging is obtained from the attribute information and permission conditions of the electronic news, and the charging processing unit 36 calculates the payment price based on these information. Further, in this example, the license can be used after being licensed, and the user is charged by using the license. However, the billing may be used after the payment is confirmed in advance.

  In the above description, the content is specific to the handling of the copyrighted work, but there is a possibility that an article having a privacy problem can be used by obtaining the permission of the person concerned.

It is the block block diagram which showed one Embodiment of the electronic news analysis apparatus and electronic news processing apparatus which concern on this invention. It is the flowchart which showed the operation | movement of the electronic news analysis apparatus in this Embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Electronic news analysis apparatus, 11, 31 Electronic news receiving part, 12 Article discrimination | determination part, 13 Information allocation part, 14 Article reconstruction part, 15 Electronic news distribution part, 16 Article extraction part, 17 Component parts analysis part, 18 Same article Collection unit, 19 rule setting unit, 20 word dictionary, 21 rule database, 30, 50 user terminal device, 32 electronic news processing unit, 33 display unit, 34 printing unit, 35 transfer unit, 36 billing processing unit, 37 instruction input unit , 38 license condition reception unit, 39 electronic news storage unit, 51 condition input unit, 52 license condition transmission unit.

Claims (6)

Receiving means for receiving electronic news;
And each word extracted from the components constituting the article of the electronic news key by searching a word dictionary containing information for discriminating the otherwise words and words related to creation and the extracted that each word is determined whether a word associated with the creation, calculates the ratio between the portion and otherwise part related to creation of the components as a result of the determination, referring to the result of the calculation and articles discrimination means for performing one of the determination of unlimited parts the components are otherwise unchanged or unavailable restricted section of the by,
Information allocation means that generates the restricted part management information that can identify that the component of the article that is determined to be the restricted part by the article determining means is the restricted part , including the ratio, and that is assigned to the component;
Reconstructing means for reconstructing the electronic news with an article including a component to which the restricted portion management information is assigned;
An electronic news analysis apparatus characterized by comprising: The electronic news analysis apparatus according to claim 1,
The article determining means, inquire whether to determine a different result to the user,
The electronic news analyzing apparatus characterized in that the information assigning means assigns restricted part management information including a result of the inquiry to the component.   The electronic news analysis apparatus according to claim 2,
  The electronic news analysis apparatus, wherein the article determination means determines whether or not there is an appropriate inquiry as a result of the determination with reference to the ratio. The electronic news analysis apparatus according to claim 1,
Weighting information indicating the degree of creation is added to the words registered in the word dictionary ,
The article discriminating means, electronic news analyzing apparatus and calculates a ratio between otherwise part and relevant parts to fashion in the assembly to see the added weighting information. An electronic news analysis device,
An electronic news processing device;
Have
The electronic news analysis device
Receiving means for receiving electronic news;
And each word extracted from the components constituting the article of the electronic news key by searching a word dictionary containing information for discriminating the otherwise words and words related to creation and the extracted that each word is determined whether a word associated with the creation, calculates the ratio between the portion and otherwise part related to creation of the components as a result of the determination, referring to the result of the calculation and articles discrimination means for performing one of the determination the components of is directly not Lend what unavailable restricted portions unrestricted portion fraction by,
Information allocation means that generates the restricted part management information that can identify that the component of the article that is determined to be the restricted part by the article determining means is the restricted part , including the ratio, and that is assigned to the component;
Reconstructing means for reconstructing the electronic news with an article including a component to which the restricted portion management information is assigned;
Have
The electronic news processing device
Receiving means for receiving electronic news transmitted from the electronic news analyzing device;
Electronic news processing means for executing processing for electronic news instructed by a user while restricting use of a component to which restricted part management information is assigned ;
An electronic news system comprising: Computer
Receiving means for receiving electronic news,
And each word extracted from the components constituting the article of the electronic news key by searching a word dictionary containing information for discriminating the otherwise words and words related to creation and the extracted it is determined whether a word in which each word is associated with creation, calculates the ratio between the portion and otherwise part related to creation of the components as a result of the determination, the component from the result of the calculation article discrimination means but to perform as it is of any use non-restricted portions of the unlimited part minute not Let depopulation of discrimination,
Wherein wherein the ratio, the components of the article it is determined that the restricted portions by the articles discriminating means generates a discernable restricted section management information to be limiting part, the information allocation hands stages assigned to the component,
Reconstructing means for reconfiguring the electronic news with an article including a component to which the restricted portion management information is assigned;
Electronic news analysis program characterized by functioning as

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