WO2016117382A1

WO2016117382A1 - Information processing device, information processing method, and program

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Publication number: WO2016117382A1
Application number: PCT/JP2016/050448
Authority: WO
Inventors: 宮嵜　充弘; 一憲荒木
Original assignee: ソニー株式会社
Priority date: 2015-01-23
Filing date: 2016-01-08
Publication date: 2016-07-28
Also published as: JP2016136355A

Abstract

This technology pertains to an information processing device capable of appropriately presenting a user with information, an information processing method, and a program. A server obtains information pertaining to a user context. The server selects presentation information to be presented to a user on the basis of the obtained user context. The server controls a method for presenting the presentation information on the basis of the user context. This technology is applicable, for example, to a server or the like providing a service for recommending news articles and the like.

Description

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program. For example, the present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that can appropriately present information to a user.

Conventionally, a technique has been proposed in which content to be recommended to a user is determined based on the degree of coincidence between information on a user's situation and content metadata (for example, refer to Patent Document 1).

JP 2010-262436 A

However, with the technology described in Patent Document 1, it is not possible to optimize the content and presentation method of the recommended content in response to a situation that changes from moment to moment depending on user behavior.

This technology has been made in view of such a situation, and enables information to be appropriately presented to the user.

The information processing apparatus according to the first aspect of the present technology includes a context acquisition unit that acquires information about a user's context, and a selection unit that selects presentation information that is information to be presented to the user based on the user's context; And a presentation control unit that controls the presentation information presentation method based on the context of the user.

The selection unit can select the presentation information based on the user's preference for each context.

It is possible to further provide a learning unit for learning the user's preference for each context.

The learning unit can learn the preferences of each user by changing the context classification method for each user.

A learning unit that learns the user's preference with respect to the presentation method may be further provided for each user context, and the presentation control unit may control the presentation method based on a learning result of the learning unit.

The presentation control unit can select the means for transmitting the presentation information based on the user's context.

The transmission means can be any of text, still image, moving image, audio, or a combination thereof.

The user's context may include at least one of a context related to time, a context related to a place, and a context related to the user's behavior.

The user's context may include a person who is with the user, and the selection unit may select the presentation information based on at least the person who is with the user.

The user's context may include the type of device that the user uses to present the presentation information, and the presentation control unit may control the presentation method based on at least the type of the device.

The selection unit displays the presentation information based on the context of the user for each of two or more viewpoints based on a distribution of reaction information, which is information indicating a predetermined reaction by the user among information presented to the user. Can be selected.

Based on the first viewpoint based on the range of the cluster to which the reaction information belongs, the second viewpoint based on the distribution of the reaction information for each cluster, and the newness of the reaction information The presentation information can be selected for each of at least two or more viewpoints among the third viewpoint based on the distribution and the fourth viewpoint based on the distribution based on the popularity of the reaction information.

It is possible to further provide a context detection unit for detecting the user's context.

An information processing method according to the first aspect of the present technology includes a context acquisition step of acquiring information related to a user's context, and a selection step of selecting presentation information that is information to be presented to the user based on the user's context; And a presentation control step for controlling the presentation information presentation method based on the context of the user.

The program according to the first aspect of the present technology includes a context acquisition step of acquiring information related to a user's context, a selection step of selecting presentation information that is information to be presented to the user based on the context of the user, Based on a user's context, a computer is made to perform the process including the presentation control step which controls the presentation information presentation method.

An information processing apparatus according to a second aspect of the present technology controls a presentation method of presentation information, which is information presented to the user, based on a context acquisition unit that acquires information related to the user's context and the user's context. A presentation control unit.

The information processing apparatus according to the third aspect of the present technology selects a presentation information that is information to be presented to the user based on a context acquisition unit that acquires information about the user's context and the user's preference for each context. And a selection unit.

In the first aspect of the present technology, information related to a user's context is acquired, and based on the user's context, presentation information that is information to be presented to the user is selected, and based on the user's context, the The presentation information presentation method is controlled.

In the second aspect of the present technology, information related to the user's context is acquired, and based on the user's context, a method of presenting presentation information that is information to be presented to the user is controlled.

In the third aspect of the present technology, information related to a user's context is acquired, and presentation information that is information to be presented to the user is selected based on the user's preference for each context.

According to the first to third aspects of the present technology, information can be appropriately presented to the user.

It should be noted that the effects described here are not necessarily limited, and may be any of the effects described in the present disclosure.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of an information processing system to which the present technology is applied. It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the function of a server. It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the function of a client. It is a flowchart for demonstrating an information acquisition process. It is a flowchart for demonstrating an information analysis process. It is a flowchart for demonstrating an information presentation process. It is a figure which shows the 1st example of the screen shown in a client. It is a figure which shows the 2nd example of the screen shown in a client. It is a figure which shows the 3rd example of the screen shown in a client. It is a figure which shows the 4th example of the screen shown in a client. It is a figure which shows the 5th example of the screen shown in a client. It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of a computer.

Hereinafter, modes for carrying out the present technology (hereinafter referred to as embodiments) will be described. The description will be given in the following order.
1. Embodiment 2. FIG. Modified example

<1. Embodiment>
{Configuration example of information processing system 1}
FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of an information processing system 1 to which the present technology is applied.

The information processing system 1 is configured to include a server 11 and clients 12-1 to 12-n. The server 11 and the clients 12-1 to 12-n are connected to each other via the network 13 and communicate with each other. The communication method of the server 11 and the clients 12-1 to 12n can adopt any communication method regardless of wired or wireless.

The server 11 provides a search / recommendation service for searching and recommending various information and objects to users who use the clients 12-1 to 12-n. Further, the server 11 provides the clients 12-1 to 12-n with application programs (hereinafter referred to as a search / recommendation service APP) necessary for using the search / recommendation service, as necessary.

The clients 12-1 to 12-n are used when each user uses a search / recommendation service provided by the server 11, for example. The clients 12-1 to 12-n may be of any embodiment as long as they can use the search / recommendation service. For example, the clients 12-1 to 12-n are smartphones, tablets, mobile phones, portable information terminals such as notebook personal computers, wearable devices, desktop personal computers, game machines, video playback devices, music playback devices, etc. Consists of. For the wearable device, for example, various types such as a glasses type, a watch type, a bracelet type, a necklace type, a neckband type, an earphone type, a headset type, and a head mount type can be adopted.

In the following description, the server 11 searches and recommends articles such as news.

Hereinafter, the clients 12-1 to 12-n are simply referred to as clients 12 when there is no need to distinguish them individually.

{Example of configuration of function of server 11}
FIG. 2 shows a configuration example of functions of the server 11. The server 11 is configured to include an information collection module 111, an information editing module 112, a language analysis module 113, a topic analysis module 114, an information personalization module 115, and an information integration module 116.

The information collection module 111 is configured to include an input unit 121, an information collection unit 122, a display unit 123, and a storage unit 124.

The input unit 121 includes various input devices such as a keyboard, a mouse, a button, a switch, a pointing device, and a microphone. The input unit 121 is used, for example, for inputting commands and data to the information collection module 111, and supplies the input commands and data to the information collection unit 122.

The information collection unit 122 is configured by, for example, a processor. The information collection unit 122 collects articles to be presented to the user from other servers (not shown) via the network 13 and supplies information related to the collected articles to the management unit 181 of the information integration module 116.

The display unit 123 includes, for example, a display, and displays a screen for using the information collection module 111.

The storage unit 124 is configured by a storage device, for example, and stores data and the like necessary for the processing of the information collection unit 122.

The information editing module 112 includes an input unit 131, an information editing unit 132, a display unit 133, and a storage unit 134.

The input unit 131 includes various input devices such as a keyboard, a mouse, a button, a switch, a pointing device, and a microphone. The input unit 131 is used, for example, for inputting commands and data to the information collection module 111, and supplies the input commands and data to the information editing unit 132.

The information editing unit 132 is configured by, for example, a processor. The information editing unit 132 acquires information on articles collected by the information collection module 111 from the management unit 181 and performs information editing. Here, the information editing is, for example, to exclude malicious articles or articles on a website with a security problem, or to preferentially select an article recommended to the user. The information editing unit 132 supplies information indicating the result of information editing to the management unit 181.

The display unit 133 is configured by, for example, a display and displays a screen for using the information editing module 112.

The storage unit 134 is configured by a storage device, for example, and stores data and the like necessary for the processing of the information editing unit 132.

Note that the information acquisition module 101 includes the information collection module 111 and the information editing module 112.

The language analysis module 113 is configured to include a language analysis unit 141 and a storage unit 142.

The language analysis unit 141 is constituted by, for example, a processor. The language analysis unit 141 acquires metadata of each article from the management unit 181 and performs language analysis of each article. The language analysis unit 141 supplies the result of language analysis to the management unit 181.

The storage unit 142 is constituted by a storage device, for example, and stores data and the like necessary for the processing of the language analysis unit 141.

The topic analysis module 114 is configured to include a topic analysis unit 151 and a storage unit 152.

The topic analysis unit 151 includes, for example, a processor. The topic analysis unit 151 acquires the language analysis result of each article from the management unit 181 and performs topic analysis of each article based on the result of the language analysis. The topic analysis unit 151 supplies the topic analysis result of each article to the management unit 181.

The storage unit 152 is configured by a storage device, for example, and stores data and the like necessary for the processing of the topic analysis unit 151.

The language analysis module 113 and the topic analysis module 114 constitute the clustering unit 102.

The information personalization module 115 is configured to include a selection unit 161, a learning unit 162, and a storage unit 163.

The selection unit 161 and the learning unit 162 are configured by, for example, a processor.

The selection unit 161 selects an article to be presented to each user. The selection unit 161 is configured to include a search unit 171 and a recommendation unit 172.

The search unit 171 searches for articles to be presented to each user. For example, the search unit 171 acquires from the management unit 181 the search condition specified by the user and information related to the article to be presented to the user, and searches for an article that matches the search condition. The search unit 171 supplies the search result to the management unit 181.

The recommendation unit 172 selects an article recommended for each user. For example, the recommendation unit 172 acquires from the management unit 181 information regarding the user reaction history, the topic frequency tabulation result, and the article to be presented to the user. Note that the user response history is a record of each user's response to articles presented in the past. The topic frequency indicates the distribution of topics to which articles to which each user responds belong. Also, the recommendation unit 172 acquires the learning result of each user's preference from the management unit 181. And the recommendation part 172 selects the article recommended to each user based on the acquired data. The recommendation unit 172 supplies information indicating articles recommended to each user to the management unit 181.

The learning unit 162 learns each user's preference. For example, the learning unit 162 acquires the user reaction history of each user and the results of language analysis and topic analysis of each article from the management unit 181. The learning unit 162 learns each user's preference for articles based on the acquired data and the like. The learning unit 162 supplies the learning result of each user's preference to the management unit 181.

In addition, the learning unit 162 aggregates topic frequencies for each user based on the user reaction history of each user. Further, the learning unit 162 calculates the information search degree of each user based on the total result of the topic frequency. Here, the information search degree is a value obtained by analyzing the tendency of the user to search for information (distribution of articles in which the user has reacted) from a plurality of viewpoints, and details will be described later. The learning unit 162 supplies the management unit 181 with the result of counting the topic frequency of each user and the calculation result of the information search degree.

Also, the learning unit 162 learns each user's preference for the article presentation method based on the user reaction history of each user. More specifically, the learning unit 162 totals the presentation method frequencies indicating the distribution of the presentation methods of articles in which each user has reacted. The learning unit 162 supplies the total result of the presentation method frequency of each user to the management unit 181.

The storage unit 163 includes, for example, a storage device, and stores data necessary for the processing of the search unit 171, the recommendation unit 172, and the learning unit 162.

Note that the presentation information selection unit 103 is configured by the information personalization module 115.

The information integration module 116 is configured to include a management unit 181, a presentation control unit 182, a user information acquisition unit 183, a communication unit 184, and a storage unit 185.

The management unit 181, the presentation control unit 182, and the user information acquisition unit 183 are configured by, for example, a processor.

The management unit 181 controls, for example, the processing of each module and the exchange of data and the like between the modules. In addition, the management unit 181 stores the data acquired from each module, the presentation control unit 182 and the user information acquisition unit 183 in the storage unit 185, or stores the data stored in the storage unit 185 in each module and To the presentation control unit 182.

The presentation control unit 182 transmits, for example, data for presenting an article to the user to each client 12 via the communication unit 184 and the network 13, and controls the article presentation method and the like in each client 12.

The user information acquisition unit 183 receives user information about each user from each client 12 via the network 13 and the communication unit 184. The user information includes, for example, user operation information indicating the operation content for the user search / recommendation service, user reaction information indicating the content of the user's response to the presented article, user context information regarding the user's context, and the like. The user information acquisition unit 183 supplies the received user information to the management unit 181.

The communication unit 184 is configured by a communication device, for example, and communicates with each client 12 via the network 13.

The storage unit 185 is configured by a storage device, for example, and stores data and the like necessary for the processing of the entire server 11.

{Configuration example of client 12 function}
FIG. 3 shows a functional configuration example of the client 12. The client 12 is configured to include an information presentation module 201, a reaction detection module 202, a context detection module 203, and an information integration module 204.

The information presentation module 201 is a module that controls the presentation of information in the search / recommendation service. The information presentation module 201 is configured to include an input unit 211, a control unit 212, a presentation unit 213, and a storage unit 214.

The input unit 211 includes various input devices such as a keyboard, a mouse, a button, a switch, a pointing device, and a microphone. The input unit 211 is used, for example, for inputting commands and data to the information presentation module 201 and supplies the input commands and data to the control unit 212.

The control unit 212 includes, for example, a processor. The control unit 212 controls search / recommendation service processing in the client 12. For example, the control unit 212 receives data or the like transmitted from the server 11 via the network 13 or the like, and controls the presentation of articles to the user in the presentation unit 213 based on the received data or the like. In addition, the control unit 212 supplies user operation information indicating the content of the user operation input by the user using the input unit 211 to the management unit 241 of the information integration module 204.

The presentation unit 213 includes, for example, a display device, an audio output device, and the like. Under the control of the control unit 212, the presentation unit 213 displays a screen for using the information presentation module 201, outputs audio, and the like.

The storage unit 214 is configured by a storage device, for example, and stores data and the like necessary for the processing of the control unit 212.

The reaction detection module 202 is a module that detects a user reaction to an article presented in the search / recommendation service. The reaction detection module 202 is configured to include an input unit 221, a detection unit 222, a reaction analysis unit 223, and a storage unit 224.

The input unit 221 includes various input devices such as a keyboard, a mouse, a button, a switch, a pointing device, and a microphone. The input unit 211 is used, for example, for inputting commands, data, and the like to the reaction detection module 202 and for inputting user feedback for articles presented in the information presentation module 201. The input unit 211 supplies the input command, data, and the like to the reaction analysis unit 223.

The detection unit 222 includes, for example, a voice recognition device, an image recognition device, a biological information sensor, and the like. The detection unit 222 detects information indicating a user's reaction to the article presented in the information presentation module 201 and supplies the detected information to the reaction analysis unit 223.

Based on the user feedback input by the input unit 221 and the information indicating the user response detected by the detection unit 222, the reaction analysis unit 223 performs a user response to the article presented in the information presentation module 201. To analyze. The reaction analysis unit 223 generates user reaction information indicating the analysis result of the user's reaction, and supplies it to the management unit 241 of the information integration module 204.

The storage unit 224 is configured by a storage device, for example, and stores data and the like necessary for the processing of the reaction analysis unit 223.

The context detection module 203 is a module that detects a user's context. Here, the user's context includes, for example, the user's own state and situation, and the user's surrounding state and situation. The user state and situation include, for example, user attributes, behavior, posture, emotion, physical condition, the type of client 12 used by the user, and the like. The user's attributes include, for example, the user's name, sex, age, nationality, address, occupation, hobby, special skill, personality, physical characteristics, and the like. The state and situation around the user include, for example, date and time, place, weather, temperature, ambient brightness, ambient sound, ambient odor, people and objects around the user, and the like.

The context detection module 203 is configured to include, for example, an input unit 231, a detection unit 232, a context analysis unit 233, and a storage unit 214.

The input unit 231 includes various input devices such as a keyboard, a mouse, a button, a switch, a pointing device, and a microphone. The input unit 231 is used, for example, for inputting commands and data to the context detection module 203, and supplies the input commands and data to the context analysis unit 233.

The detection unit 232 includes, for example, various devices that detect data related to the user's context. For example, the detection unit 232 includes a radio clock, a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver, a voice recognition device, an image recognition device, various sensors, and the like. Various sensors include, for example, an optical sensor, an image sensor, a speed sensor, an acceleration sensor, an angular velocity sensor, a magnetic sensor, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a biological information sensor, and the like.

Further, the detection unit 232 includes, for example, a communication device and acquires data related to the user's context from an external device or sensor. Furthermore, the detection unit 232 acquires data related to the user's context from a service or application program other than the search / recommendation service APP being executed by the client 12, for example. The service and application program include, for example, SNS (Social Networking Service), scheduler, and the like. The data related to the user's context acquired by the detection unit 232 includes, for example, data related to a location around the user (for example, POI (Point Of Interest) data, etc.), data related to the user's behavior, and the person with whom the user is together. Data on the user, data on the user's schedule, and the like.

Then, the detection unit 232 supplies data regarding the detected or acquired user context to the context analysis unit 233.

The context analysis unit 233 analyzes the user's context based on the data from the detection unit 232. The context analysis unit 233 supplies user context information indicating the analysis result of the user's context to the management unit 241 of the information integration module 204.

The storage unit 234 is constituted by a storage device, for example, and stores data and the like necessary for the processing of the context analysis unit 233.

The information integration module 204 is configured to include a management unit 241, a communication unit 242, and a storage unit 243.

The management unit 241 is configured by, for example, a processor. For example, the management unit 241 controls processing of each module and controls exchange of data and the like between the modules. In addition, the management unit 241 supplies data acquired from each module to the communication unit 242 or stores the data in the storage unit 243. Further, the management unit 241 supplies the data acquired from the communication unit 242 to each module or stores the data in the storage unit 243. In addition, the management unit 241 supplies data and the like stored in the storage unit 243 to each module and the communication unit 242.

The communication unit 242 is configured by a communication device, for example, and communicates with the server 11 via the network 13.

The storage unit 243 is configured by a storage device, for example, and stores data and the like necessary for the processing of the entire client 12.

{Processing of information processing system 1}
Next, processing of the information processing system 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 to 11.

(Information acquisition process)
First, the information acquisition process executed by the server 11 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. Note that this process is periodically executed, for example, once a day or once an hour. Alternatively, this process is executed, for example, according to a command from a search / recommendation service administrator (hereinafter referred to as a service administrator).

In step S1, the server 11 collects information. For example, the information collection unit 122 of the information collection module 111 crawls a website providing RSS information (hereinafter referred to as an RSS site) via the network 13. The information collecting unit 122 supplies information related to new articles and updated articles (hereinafter referred to as new / updated article information) of each RSS site obtained as a result of crawling to the management unit 181 of the information integration module 116. The management unit 181 causes the storage unit 185 to store the acquired new arrival / update article information.

The new arrival / update article information includes the metadata of each article. The metadata of each article includes, for example, the article title, the article text, the issue date / time, the update date / time, the URL of the web page on which the article is posted, the language used, and the like.

In step S2, the server 11 performs information editing. Specifically, the management unit 181 supplies newly arrived / updated article information acquired in the process of step S <b> 1 to the information editing unit 132 of the information editing module 112. The information editing unit 132 extracts problematic articles from the articles included in the new arrival / update article information, and registers them in the black list. Here, the problematic article is, for example, a malicious article or an article on a website having a security problem.

Note that this blacklist registration process may be performed manually by hand, or may be automatically executed by the information editing unit 132. In the former case, for example, the service administrator selects an article to be registered in the black list. In the latter case, for example, the information editing unit 132 automatically selects an article to be registered in the black list using a learning model or the like.

In addition, the information editing unit 132 selects an article that is preferentially recommended to the user from among the articles included in the newly arrived / updated article information in accordance with, for example, a command input by the service administrator via the input unit 131. And register to the pick-up list.

The information editing unit 132 supplies the black list and the pickup list to the management unit 181. The management unit 181 stores the black list and the pickup list in the storage unit 185.

In step S3, the management unit 181 of the information integration module 116 registers the analysis target article. Specifically, the management unit 181 registers an article excluding an article registered in the black list, among the articles included in the new arrival / update article information, as an analysis target article.

After that, the information acquisition process ends.

(Information analysis processing)
Next, information analysis processing executed by the server 11 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. Note that this process is periodically executed, for example, once a day or once an hour. Alternatively, this process is executed after the information acquisition process described above with reference to FIG. Alternatively, this process is executed according to a command from a service manager, for example.

In step S51, the server 11 performs language analysis of the analysis target article. Specifically, the language analysis unit 141 of the language analysis module 113 acquires the metadata of the analysis target article from the storage unit 185 via the management unit 181. The language analysis unit 141 performs a morphological analysis of the title and body of each analysis target article using, for example, a word dictionary stored in advance in the storage unit 142, and extracts words from the title and body of each article.

Hereinafter, the total number of words registered in the word dictionary is represented by M, and each word is represented by a word w _i (i = 1, 2,..., M). Further, hereinafter, the total number of articles to be analyzed is N, and each article is represented by an article d _j (j = 1, 2,..., N). In the following, if it is not necessary to distinguish the word w _i are simply referred to as word w or word, if it is not necessary to distinguish the articles d _j individually, it referred to simply as articles d or articles.

The language analysis unit 141 calculates tf _{i, j} and df _i for each word w _i registered in the word dictionary held in advance. Here, tf _{i, j} is the appearance frequency (number of appearances) of the word w _i in the article d _j . Further, df _i represents the number of articles d including the word w _i .

In addition, the language analysis unit 141 calculates tfidf _{i, j} of each word w _i in each article d _j according to the following equation (1).

Furthermore, the language analysis unit 141 generates a word vector W _j composed of the weight of each word w _i in each article d _j according to the following equation (2).

W _j = {tfidf _{1, j} , tfidf _{2, j} ,..., Tfidf _{M, j} } (2)

That is, the word vector W _j is a feature vector that represents the feature of each article d _j based on the weight of each word w _i .

The language analysis unit 141 supplies the language analysis result of the analysis target article to the management unit 181, and the management unit 181 stores the language analysis result of the analysis target article in the storage unit 185. Incidentally, the language analysis result of each analyzed article, tf _{i, j} and tfidf i, _j of the calculation results for each analyzed articles, as well as containing the word vector W _j.

In step S52, the server 11 performs topic analysis. Specifically, the management unit 181 supplies the language analysis result of the analysis target article to the topic analysis unit 151 of the topic analysis module 114. The topic analysis unit 151 uses, for example, a topic analysis of an article to be analyzed using a probabilistic topic model such as PLSA (ProbabilisticlysisLatent や Semantic Analysis) or LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation). I do.

For example, the topic analysis unit 151 receives tf _{i, j} and tfidf _{i, j} which are language analysis results of the analysis target article _, and the number K of topics (clusters) to be classified, and is expressed by the following equation (3). Using the PLSA, the probability of belonging p (z _k | d _j ) to each topic z _k (k = 1, 2,..., K) of each article d _j and each word in each topic z _k to calculate the _{_{| (z k w i) w}} i of the occurrence probability p.

Note that p (w _i | d _j ) is an occurrence probability of the word w _i in the article d _j .

Further, the topic analysis unit 151 generates a topic vector T _j composed of the topic attribution probability p (z _k | d _j ) of each article d _j to each topic z _k according to the following equation (4).

T _j = {p (z ₁ | d _j ), p (z ₂ | d _j ),..., P (z _K | d _j )} (4)

That is, the topic vector T _j is a feature vector that represents the feature of each article d _j based on the probability belonging to each topic z _k .

The topic analysis unit 151 supplies the topic analysis result of the analysis target article to the management unit 181, and the management unit 181 stores the topic analysis result of the analysis target article in the storage unit 185. The topic analysis result of each analysis target article includes the word vector W _j of each analysis target article.

Note that by increasing the number K of topics to be classified, for example, topics of the same genre can be classified in more detail. For example, economic topics can be classified into stock topics, specialized topics, introductory topics, and the like.

The details of PLSA are described in "Thomas Hofmann," "Probabilistic" latent "semantic" indexing "," 1999, "Proceedings" of "the" 22 "annual" international "ACM" SIGIR "conference" on "Research" and "development" in "information" retrieval ". The details of LDA are described in "David M. Blei, Andrew Y Y N N, Michael I, Jordan," Latent Dirichlet Allocation ", 2003, Journal Of Learning, Volume 3, and so on.

In addition, hereinafter, when it is not necessary to distinguish the topics z _k individually, they are simply referred to as topics z or topics. Further, hereinafter, when it is not necessary to individually distinguish the word vector W _j and the topic vector T _j , they are simply referred to as a word vector W and a topic vector T, respectively. Hereinafter, when it is not necessary to individually distinguish the topic attribution probability p (z _k | d _j ), it is simply referred to as topic attribution probability p (z | d).

In step S53, the management unit 181 of the information integration module 116 registers the browsing target information. Specifically, the management unit 181 registers each analysis target article in the browsing target information together with the metadata of each article, the word vector W _j , the topic vector T _j , and the topic with the highest attribution probability.

Here, the topic with the maximum attribution probability is a topic having the maximum topic attribution probability p (z _k | d _j ) of the article d _j . For example, the number of topic classifications (hereinafter referred to as the total number of topics) K is 10, and the value of the topic vector T ₁ of the article d ₁ is {0.2, 0.4, 0.8, 0.1, 0. .3, 0.5, 0.1, 0.1, 0.3, 0.6}, the topic with the highest attribution probability of the article d ₁ is the topic z ₃ . That is, articles d ₁ is the highest probability that belong to the topic z _3, is predicted to contain the largest number of contents related to the topic z _3.

In the following, an article registered in the browsing target information is referred to as a browsing target article.

After that, the information analysis process ends.

(Information presentation process)
Next, information presentation processing executed by the information processing system 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In this process, for example, the user uses the input unit 211 of the information presentation module 201 of the client 12 to operate the search / recommendation service provided by the server 11 (for example, start of the search / recommendation service APP). It starts when an operation is performed.

In the following, in order to make the explanation easy to understand, attention is given to one user, and the processing for that user (hereinafter referred to as the noted user) will be described. However, in practice, the processes described below are executed in parallel for a plurality of users.

In step S101, the control unit 212 of the information presentation module 201 of the client 12 determines whether to wait for a user operation. If it is determined to wait for a user operation, the process proceeds to step S102.

In step S102, the information processing system 1 acquires user operation information. Specifically, when the user of interest performs a predetermined operation on the search / recommendation service using the input unit 211 of the information presentation module 201 of the client 12, the input unit 211 displays information indicating the operation content in the control unit 212. To supply.

As the predetermined operation for the search / recommendation service, for example, an operation for starting or updating the presentation of an article by the search / recommendation service or an operation for ending the search / recommendation service is assumed. In addition, for example, an operation for setting an article search condition such as input of a search query, setting of a period (date and time) for searching an article, setting of a language used in the article, selection of an RSS site for distributing an article is assumed. Is done. The operation indicating the reaction to the presented article is performed in step S112 described later.

The control unit 212 generates user operation information indicating the operation content of the user of interest. The control unit 212 transmits the generated user operation information to the server 11 via the management unit 241, the communication unit 242, and the network 13. The user information acquisition unit 183 of the information integration module 116 of the server 11 receives the user operation information transmitted from the client 12 via the communication unit 184 and supplies it to the management unit 181. The management unit 181 supplies the acquired user operation information to each module as necessary.

Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S103.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S101 not to wait for the user's operation, the process of step S102 is skipped, and the process proceeds to step S103. This is the case, for example, when starting or updating the presentation of an article by the search / recommendation service without user operation.

In step S103, the context analysis unit 233 of the context detection module 203 of the client 12 determines whether to detect the user's context. If it is determined that the user context is detected, the process proceeds to step S104.

In step S104, the context detection module 203 detects the user's context. Specifically, the detection unit 232 of the context detection module 203 detects data related to the context of the user of interest. In addition, the detection unit 232 acquires data regarding the context of the user of interest from an external device, a sensor, or the like, or a service or application program other than the search / recommendation service APP being executed by the client 12 as necessary. The detection unit 232 supplies the detected and acquired data to the context analysis unit 233.

Next, the context analysis unit 233 analyzes the current user's context based on the acquired data. Then, the context analysis unit 233 classifies the current user's context according to a predetermined classification method as necessary.

Note that the case where the context of the user of interest is classified as follows will be described below. For example, the type of the client 12 used by the user of interest is classified into a wearable device, a smartphone, a tablet, or a personal computer. The current day of the week is classified as a weekday or holiday. The current time zone is classified as morning, noon or night. The place where the user of interest is located is classified into a home, a company, a vehicle (for example, a train, etc.), or a place to go. The current attention user behavior is classified as standing, sitting, or walking.

Also, when there is no person with the attention user together, the user is a wife, a child, or a wife and a child. Note that the context analysis unit 233 detects, for example, whether the target user is one person or another person based on an image obtained by photographing the periphery of the target user. Moreover, the context analysis part 233 specifies the person who is together, for example using techniques, such as face recognition, when an attention user is with another person. Alternatively, the context analysis unit 233 detects a person who is with the user of interest based on information from an application program such as SNS, for example.

Furthermore, the context analysis unit 233 analyzes the situation around the user of interest (for example, congestion, noise level, etc.).

It should be noted that any method can be adopted as the context analysis method and classification method. The context classification method is not necessarily fixed, and can be changed for each user or changed according to the situation.

The context analysis unit 233 generates user context information indicating the current context of the user of interest, and transmits the user context information to the server 11 via the management unit 241, the communication unit 242, and the network 13. The user information acquisition unit 183 of the information integration module 116 of the server 11 receives the user context information transmitted from the client 12 via the communication unit 184 and supplies it to the management unit 181. The management unit 181 supplies the acquired user context information to each module as necessary, or causes the storage unit 185 to store the acquired user context information.

Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S105.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S103 that the user's context is not detected, the process of step S104 is skipped, and the process proceeds to step S105.

In step S105, the search unit 171 of the information personalization module 115 of the server 11 determines whether to search for information to be presented to the user. If it is determined to search for information to be presented to the user, the process proceeds to step S106.

In step S106, the search unit 171 searches for information to be presented to the user. Specifically, the search unit 171 acquires browsing target information from the storage unit 185 via the management unit 181. Then, for example, the search unit 171 searches for articles that match the search condition specified by the user of interest from among the browsing target articles. The search unit 171 supplies information indicating the search result to the management unit 181, and the management unit 181 stores the information indicating the search result in the storage unit 185.

Hereinafter, the article searched in the process of step S106 is referred to as a search article.

Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S107.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S105 that information to be presented to the user is not searched, the process of step S106 is skipped, and the process proceeds to step S107.

In step S107, the recommendation unit 172 of the information personalization module 115 of the server 11 determines whether or not to recommend information to the user. If it is determined to recommend information to the user, the process proceeds to step S108.

In step S108, the recommendation unit 172 selects information to be recommended to the user. Specifically, the recommendation unit 172 stores the browsing target information, the word preference vector (hereinafter referred to as WPV) and the topic preference vector (hereinafter referred to as TPV) of the target user via the management unit 181. From 185.

Here, WPV is a vector indicating the user's preference for the word, and TPV is a vector indicating the user's preference for the topic. WPV and TPV are generated for each unit for classifying the context of the user of interest in step S114 described later.

For example, weekday WPV and TPV of the user of interest and holiday WPV and TPV are generated. Also, the morning WPV and TPV, the daytime WPV and TPV, and the night time WPV and TPV of the user of interest are generated. Further, WPV and TPV at the home of the user of interest, WPV and TPV at the company, WPV and TPV in the vehicle, and WPV and TPV at the outside are generated. Also, WPV and TPV when the user of interest stands, WPV and TPV when sitting, and WPV and TPV when walking are generated. Furthermore, WPV and TPV when there is no person who is the target user, WPV and TPV when the wife is, WPV and TPV when the child is, and WPV when the wife and the child are A TPV is generated.

The recommendation unit 172 uses the WPV and TPV corresponding to the current context of the target user among the WPV and TPV for each classification unit of these contexts, and uses the WPV corresponding to the current context of the target user (hereinafter referred to as an integrated WPV). And TPV (hereinafter referred to as integrated TPV). For example, when the attention user stands on the train on a weekday morning, the recommendation unit 172 adds the WPV of the attention user on the weekday, the morning WPV, the WPV in the vehicle, and the WPV when standing. Thus, an integrated WPV is generated. Similarly, the recommendation unit 172 generates an integrated TPV by adding the weekly TPV of the user of interest, the morning TPV, the TPV in the vehicle, and the TPV when standing.

Further, for example, when the focused user is a child at home, the recommendation unit 172 generates an integrated WPV by adding the WPV at the focused user's home and the WPV when the person being together is a child. . Similarly, the recommendation unit 172 generates an integrated TPV by adding the TPV at the home of the focused user and the TPV when the person who is together is a child.

Then, the recommendation unit 172, for example, the similarity between the integrated WPV of the target user and the word vector of each browsing target article, and the similarity between the integrated TPV of the target user and the topic vector of each browsing target article, for example. Based on at least one of the above, a recommendation score for each reading target article is calculated.

Note that the similarity between vectors is calculated by, for example, a cosine distance, and the recommendation score increases as the similarity between vectors increases. Then, the recommendation unit 172 selects a predetermined number of articles having a higher recommendation score as articles to be recommended based on the user's preference (hereinafter referred to as preference recommendation articles).

Thereby, in addition to the user's preference, an article corresponding to the current context of the user is selected as the preference recommendation article. In other words, an article having a high preference level of the attention user in the current context is selected as a preference recommendation article.

Also, the recommendation unit 172 selects an article recommended to the user from the preference recommendation articles (hereinafter referred to as an area recommendation article) based on the viewpoint of the information search degree (area). Here, the degree of information search (broadness) is the breadth of the topic range to which the article to which the target user has shown a positive reaction belongs, in other words, the breadth of the types of articles to which the target user has shown a positive response. Information search degree based on

For example, the recommendation unit 172 selects, from among the recommended recommended articles, an article whose topic probability of the attention user is less than a predetermined threshold (for example, the topic frequency is 0) and an article having a maximum attribution probability as the recommended article. . Note that, as described above, the topic frequency indicates the distribution of topics to which articles to which the user of interest has shown a positive reaction belongs, and is calculated in step S114 described later. As a result, for example, an article that belongs to a topic to which an article to which the attention user has not shown a positive reaction so far belongs (for example, a topic to which an article that the user has not accessed much) belongs, and that matches the preference of the attention user. Selected for breadth-recommended articles.

Further, the recommendation unit 172 selects an article recommended to the user from the preference recommendation articles (hereinafter referred to as a depth recommendation article) based on the information search degree (depth). Here, the information search degree (depth) is an information search degree based on a distribution for each topic of articles in which the target user has shown a positive reaction.

For example, the recommendation unit 172 selects, as a depth recommendation article, an article in which the attention user has shown a positive reaction immediately before the article with the highest attribution probability among the preference recommendation articles. As a result, for example, an article that belongs to the same topic as the article for which the focused user has shown a positive reaction immediately before and that matches the preference of the focused user is selected as the depth recommended article.

Note that the recommendation unit 172 may select a depth recommended article based on predetermined q articles that the user of interest has shown a positive response immediately before. For example, the recommendation unit 172 includes articles in which the topic having the largest topic attribution probability p (z | d) matches the topic having the largest attribution probability in the vector after adding the topic vectors of q articles among the preference recommendation articles. May be selected as a depth recommended article.

In addition, for example, the recommendation unit 172 can select, as a recommended depth article, an article in which a topic having a topic frequency of a user of interest equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold and a topic with the highest attribution probability match among preference recommendation articles. Further, for example, the recommendation unit 172 can select, as a depth recommended article, an article having a topic with the highest topic frequency of the attention user and a topic with the highest attribution probability among the recommended recommendation articles.

Further, the recommendation unit 172 selects an article recommended to the attention user (hereinafter referred to as a novelty recommended article) from the preference recommended articles based on the viewpoint of information search (newness). Here, the information search degree (newness) is an information search degree based on a distribution based on the novelty of articles in which the target user has shown a positive reaction.

For example, the recommendation unit 172 selects a newly-arrived article as a recommended article for freshness among the recommended articles for preference. The newly arrived article is, for example, an article added or updated within a predetermined period immediately before (for example, within the immediately preceding 6 hours). Thereby, for example, a new article that matches the preference of the user of interest is selected as a recommended article for newness.

Also, the recommendation unit 172 selects an article recommended to the user (hereinafter referred to as a popular recommended article) from among the recommended recommended articles based on the viewpoint of information search (popularity). Here, the information search degree (popularity) is an information search degree based on a distribution based on the popularity degree of articles in which the user of interest has shown a positive reaction.

For example, the recommendation unit 172 selects a popular article as a recommended article from among the recommended articles. A popular article is, for example, an article whose popularity score is a predetermined threshold value or more. The popularity score is calculated based on, for example, the number of accesses to an article and the number of users who gave a good evaluation to the article. For example, when the number of accesses of all users to a certain article A is p times and the number of accesses of all users to all articles is P times, the popularity score of the article A is calculated by p / P × 100. Thereby, for example, a popular article that matches the user's preference is selected as a popular recommended article.

The recommendation unit 172 supplies information indicating the selection result of the preference recommendation article, the width recommendation article, the depth recommendation article, the novelty recommendation article, and the popularity recommendation article to the management unit 181, and the management unit 181 selects the selection result. Is stored in the storage unit 185.

Hereinafter, articles selected as articles recommended to the user in the process of step S108 are collectively referred to as recommended articles. That is, the recommended articles include a preference recommended article, a breadth recommended article, a depth recommended article, a newness recommended article, and a popular recommended article.

Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S109.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S107 that information is not recommended to the user, the process of step S108 is skipped, and the process proceeds to step S109.

In step S109, the presentation control unit 182 of the information integration module 116 of the server 11 determines whether to present information to the user. If it is determined to present information to the user, the process proceeds to step S110.

In step S110, the information processing system 1 presents information to the user. Specifically, the management unit 181 of the information integration module 116 of the server 11 acquires information indicating the selection result of the search article and the recommended article for the user of interest, and the metadata of the search article and the recommended article from the storage unit 185. . In addition, the management unit 181 obtains, from the storage unit 185, context information of the user of interest, information indicating the calculation result of the information search degree and the comprehensive search degree of the user of interest, and information indicating the total result of the presentation method frequency of the user of interest. To do. The management unit 181 supplies the acquired information and data to the presentation control unit 182.

The presentation control unit 182 selects an article presentation method for the target user from a plurality of preset presentation methods based on the current context and the presentation method frequency of the target user.

For example, article presentation methods are classified according to the combination of article transmission means (for example, text, audio, still image, video, etc.). In the following, article presentation methods are classified into four types: presentation methods that use only audio, presentation methods that use only text, presentation methods that use still images, and presentation methods that use moving images. Will be described. Note that the presentation method using still images includes not only a presentation method using only still images but also a presentation method using text in addition to still images. The presentation method using moving images includes not only a presentation method using only moving images, but also a presentation method using at least one of text or still images in addition to moving images.

Note that the criteria for classifying the article presentation method is not limited to the transmission means, and any criteria can be adopted. For example, the presentation control unit 182 can classify the article presentation method based on the ratio of transmission means used for article presentation, article presentation time, article display layout, display size, special effects, and the like. is there. The presentation control unit 182 can classify the article presentation method based on a combination of a plurality of criteria.

Also, as will be described later, the method of presenting the noticed user is tabulated for each unit for classifying the noticed user's context. For example, the presentation method frequency is tabulated for each type of client 12 used by the user of interest. For example, when the client 12 used by the user of interest is a wearable device, a smartphone, a tablet, and a personal computer, the presentation method in which the user of attention has shown a positive reaction The percentages are aggregated.

It should be noted that any kind of context can be used as the context for tabulating the presentation method frequency. It is also possible to aggregate the presentation method frequency for each combination of a plurality of types of contexts. For example, the presentation method frequency can be aggregated for each combination of the type of the client 12, the day of the week, the time zone, the place, and the action of the user of interest.

Then, the presentation control unit 182 sets the article presentation method to the attention user by giving priority to the more frequent presentation method based on the presentation method frequency in the current attention user context. For example, the distribution of the presentation method frequency in the context that matches the context of the current user of interest is as follows: Presentation method using only voice: Presentation method using only text: Presentation method including still images: Presentation method including moving images = 0.1: 0 The case where .5: 0.3: 0.2 is described.

In this case, for example, the presentation control unit 182 selects an article to be presented to the target user from the search article and the recommended article so that the ratio of the presentation method of each article is substantially the same as the presentation method frequency. That is, the presentation control unit 182 has a value close to audio-only articles: text-only articles: articles including still images: articles including moving images = 0.1: 0.5: 0.3: 0.2. Select an article. Then, the presentation control unit 182 generates information presentation control data for causing the client 12 of the user of interest to present the selected article.

Also, for example, the presentation control unit 182 selects a presentation method with a probability based on the presentation method frequency. That is, the presentation control unit 182 selects a presentation method using only voice, a presentation method using only text, 50%, a presentation method including a still image with 30%, and a presentation method including a moving image with a probability of 20%. And the presentation control part 182 produces | generates the information presentation control data for making the client 12 of an attention user show a search article and a recommendation article by the selected presentation method.

Note that when the number of times the attention user's search / recommendation service is used is small and the data amount of the user response history of the attention user is not sufficient, for example, the presentation control unit 182 may use the presentation method frequency of other users. Good. For example, the presentation control unit 182 can use a totaling result of presentation method frequencies of all users or a totaling result of presentation method frequencies of users similar to the target user. The user similar to the target user is, for example, a user whose preference is similar to the target user, a user whose attribute is similar to the target user, or the like.

The presentation control unit 182 transmits information presentation control data to the client 12 via the communication unit 184 and the network 13.

The control unit 212 of the information presentation module 201 of the client 12 receives information presentation control data from the server 11 via the communication unit 242 and the management unit 241. The control unit 212 causes the presentation unit 213 to present the article selected by the server 11 based on the information presentation control data.

Thus, an appropriate article is presented in an appropriate manner according to the user's preference and context.

For example, an article is presented by an appropriate presentation method according to the type of client 12 used by the user of interest. For example, when the client 12 of the user of interest is a wearable terminal, an article is presented only by voice.

On the other hand, when the client 12 of the user of interest is a smartphone, an article is presented by, for example, a presentation method using only text or a presentation method including a still image.

FIG. 7 shows an example of a screen 301 when an article is presented on a smartphone by a presentation method including a still image. On the screen 301, only the article title and the article distribution source are displayed as a list, and the article body is not displayed. For example, when the title of an article is clicked, the text of the article is displayed. Further, as necessary, still images related to the article (for example, the still image 311a and the still image 311b) are displayed in a small size. When the still image is clicked, the still image is enlarged and displayed.

If necessary, a thumbnail (for example, thumbnail 312) indicating the presence of a moving image related to the article may be displayed, and when the thumbnail is clicked, the reproduction of the moving image may be started.

Further, when the client 12 of the user of interest is a tablet, for example, an article is presented by a presentation method including a still image.

FIG. 8 shows an example of a screen 351 when an article is presented on a tablet by a presentation method including a still image. On the screen 351, the title, body, distribution source, etc. of the article are displayed as text. Further, as necessary, still images (for example, still images 361a to 361h) related to articles are displayed in a size larger than the screen 301 in FIG. Furthermore, thumbnails (for example, thumbnails 362a to 362c) indicating the presence of moving images related to the article are displayed as necessary. When the thumbnail is clicked, the reproduction of the moving image corresponding to the clicked thumbnail is started.

Further, when the client 12 of the user of interest is a personal computer, the article is presented by a presentation method including a still image or a presentation method including a moving image, for example.

FIG. 9 shows an example of a screen 401 when an article is presented on a personal computer by a presentation method including a still image. On the screen 401, the title, body, distribution source, etc. of the article are displayed as text. Further, if necessary, a still image (for example, still image 411) related to the article is displayed in a size larger than the screen 351 in FIG. Further, thumbnails (for example, thumbnails 412a to 412d) indicating the presence of moving images related to the article are displayed as necessary. When the thumbnail is clicked, the reproduction of the moving image corresponding to the clicked thumbnail is started.

Note that any video may be automatically played when the display of the screen 401 is started. In this case, the size of the reproduced moving image may be made larger than the size shown in FIG.

Also, for example, the presentation control unit 182 can switch the presentation method according to another context of the target user even if the type of the client 12 used by the target user is the same. For example, in the case where the user of interest often browses text-only articles while standing on a weekday morning train, the presentation control unit 182 uses the smartphone while the user of interest stands on a weekday morning train. It is possible to preferentially present text-only articles. On the other hand, in the case where an attention user often browses articles including videos while sitting on a weekday morning train, the presentation control unit 182 uses the smartphone while the attention user sits on a weekday morning train. It is possible to preferentially present articles including moving images.

Further, for example, the presentation control unit 182 can present an appropriate article by an appropriate method according to the person who is with the target user. For example, a case where the user of interest is browsing news or the like on a wall-mounted display that is one of the clients 12 at home will be described.

FIG. 10 shows an example of a screen 451 displayed on the wall-mounted display. In the screen 451, a vertically long display area 461L and a display area 461R are arranged on the left and right. Various types of information (for example, moving images, photos, articles, memos, and the like) can be displayed in a free layout in the display area 461L. On the other hand, the user's schedule is displayed together with the calendar in the display area 461R. The screen 451 can be directly touched and operated by the user. For example, the user can freely change the layout in the display area 461L or select any information in the screen 451 to display in detail. You can make it.

And, for example, the articles displayed in the display area 461L are switched according to the person with the target user. For example, when there is only one user of interest, economic articles preferred by the user of interest are preferentially displayed in the display area 461L. At this time, economic articles are displayed in the entire display area 461L.

On the other hand, when the attention user is a child, entertainment-related articles that both the attention user and the child prefer are preferentially displayed in the display area 461L. At this time, entertainment-related articles are displayed within the range of the reach of children in the display area 461L.

Also, as described above, by increasing the number K of topics to be classified in the topic analysis, for example, topics of the same genre are classified in more detail. Thereby, for example, articles of quality and quantity corresponding to the interest of the attention user, the level of knowledge level, and the like are presented for the same news.

For example, when presenting an article about the acquisition of company S, company employee A presents an article including a graph of the stock price of company S, and businessman B presents a detailed article about the company acquisition, and housewife C Will be able to present articles for introductory economics about acquisitions.

Further, the presentation control unit 182 may present the search article and the recommended article using the information search degree and the comprehensive search degree. Specifically, the presentation control unit 182 generates information presentation control data for causing the client 12 of the target user to present a search article and a recommended article using the information search degree and the comprehensive search degree. The presentation control unit 182 transmits information presentation control data to the client 12 via the communication unit 184 and the network 13.

The control unit 212 of the information presentation module 201 of the client 12 receives information presentation control data from the server 11 via the communication unit 242 and the management unit 241. Based on the information presentation control data, the control unit 212 causes the presentation unit 213 to display a screen for presenting the search article and the recommended article, and the information search degree and the comprehensive search degree.

11 shows an example of a screen displayed on the presentation unit 213 at this time.

The screen 501 is an example of a screen for presenting the attention user with a recommended article based on the information search degree and the comprehensive search degree of the attention user and the information search degree. Specifically, a guidance display unit 511, search degree display units 512a to 512e, and recommendation information display units 513a to 513d are arranged in the screen 501. More specifically, the guidance display unit 511 is arranged on the upper right of the screen 501. The recommendation information display parts 513a to 513d are arranged below the guidance display part 511 so as to be lined up and down. Search degree display sections 512a to 512d are arranged to be arranged to the left of recommendation information display sections 513a to 513d, respectively. The search degree display unit 512e is arranged below the search degree display unit 512d.

In the guidance display unit 511, a message that prompts the user to increase the information search degree displayed on the left side of the article by clicking and selecting the article in the recommended information display units 513a to 513d is displayed.

On the right side in the search degree display section 512a, a graph indicating the information search degree (width) of the user of interest is displayed. In this example, the information search degree (area) of the focused user is 60%. A method for calculating the information search degree (width) will be described later. On the left side of the search degree display unit 512a, a message indicating that the article in the recommendation information display unit 513a is an article that expands the information search range of the user of interest is displayed.

In the recommended information display section 513a, a part of an article or a headline capable of increasing the information search degree (area) is displayed. Specifically, the article in the recommended information display unit 513a is selected from the above-mentioned area recommended articles. For example, the article with the highest recommendation score is selected from the recommended articles in size. Alternatively, for example, if there is an article that is set so as to be preferentially recommended to the user of interest in an area recommended article, that article is selected.

On the right side in the search degree display section 512b, a graph indicating the information search degree (depth) of the user of interest is displayed. In this example, the information search degree (depth) of the focused user is 70%. A method for calculating the information search degree (depth) will be described later. In addition, a message indicating that the article in the recommended information display unit 513b is an article that deepens the information search of the user of interest is displayed on the left side in the search degree display unit 512b.

In the recommended information display section 513b, a part of an article or a headline capable of increasing the information search degree (depth) is displayed. Specifically, the article displayed on the recommendation information display unit 513b is selected from the above-described depth recommended articles. For example, the article with the highest recommendation score is selected from the depth recommendation articles. Alternatively, for example, if there is an article that is set so as to be preferentially recommended to the user of interest in the depth recommended article, that article is selected.

On the right side in the search degree display section 512c, a graph showing the information search degree (newness) of the user of interest is displayed. In this example, the information search degree (newness) of the noted user is 40%. A method for calculating the information search degree (newness) will be described later. In addition, a message indicating that the article in the recommended information display unit 513c is a new arrival article is displayed on the left side in the search degree display unit 512c.

In the recommended information display section 513c, a part of an article or a headline capable of increasing the information search level (newness) is displayed. Specifically, the article displayed on the recommended information display unit 513c is selected from the above-described newness recommended articles. For example, the article with the highest recommendation score is selected from the novelty recommendation articles. Alternatively, for example, if there is an article that is set so as to be preferentially recommended to the attention user in the novelty recommended article, the article is selected.

On the right side in the search degree display section 512d, a graph indicating the information search degree (popularity) of the user of interest is displayed. In this example, the information search degree (popularity) of the attention user is 30%. A method for calculating the degree of information search (popularity) will be described later. A message indicating that the article in the recommended information display unit 513d is a currently popular article is displayed on the left side in the search degree display unit 512d.

In the recommended information display section 513d, a part of an article or a headline that can increase the degree of information search (popularity) is displayed. Specifically, the article displayed on the recommended information display unit 513d is selected from the popular recommended articles described above. For example, the article with the highest recommendation score is selected from the popular recommended articles. Alternatively, for example, if there is an article that is set so as to be preferentially recommended to the attention user in the popular recommended articles, the article is selected.

The search degree display section 512e displays a graph indicating the value of the comprehensive search degree of the user of interest. In this example, the total search degree of the user of interest is 50%. A method for calculating the comprehensive search degree will be described later.

As described above, on the screen 501, recommended articles are presented individually for each viewpoint of the information search degree, so that the user of interest can easily select a recommended article based on each viewpoint. Further, the user of interest can easily grasp the completeness and diversity of his / her information search. For example, the user of interest can know by an objective numerical value how widely information is being searched based on the degree of information search (breadth). Further, the user of interest can know, to an objective numerical value, how deeply the information is being searched based on the information search degree (depth). Furthermore, the user of interest can know objectively how much new information is being searched based on the degree of information search (newness). Further, the user of interest can know objectively how many pieces of popular information are being searched based on the degree of information search (popularity).

Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S111.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S109 that no information is presented to the user, the process of step S110 is skipped, and the process proceeds to step S111.

In step S111, the reaction analysis unit 223 of the reaction detection module 202 of the client 12 determines whether or not to detect a user reaction. If it is determined that a user reaction is detected, the process proceeds to step S112.

In step S112, the reaction detection module 202 of the client 12 detects a user reaction. For example, when the notable user inputs feedback (for example, selection or evaluation of the presented article) to the presented article via the input unit 221, the input unit 221 indicates the content of the input feedback. Information is supplied to the reaction analysis unit 223. Here, the feedback of the noted user may be explicit or implicit.

Also, the detection unit 222 detects information indicating the reaction of the user of interest to the presented article, and supplies the detected information to the reaction analysis unit 223. Here, the information indicating the reaction of the user of interest is the detection result of the facial expression of the user of interest, the biological information of the user of interest (for example, the pulse, the amount of sweating, etc.).

The reaction analysis unit 223 analyzes the user's response to the presented information based on the information indicating the feedback of the attention user and the information indicating the reaction of the attention user. For example, the reaction analysis unit 223 analyzes whether the user of interest has shown a positive reaction, a negative reaction, or a neutral reaction with respect to the presented article. Note that the reaction analysis unit 223 may analyze the degree of positive or negative reaction of the user of interest. For example, the reaction analysis unit 223 analyzes the degree of positive reaction depending on whether the focused user actually accessed the article or whether the focused user gave a good evaluation.

In the following, an article in which the user of interest has shown a positive reaction is referred to as a positive reaction article. The articles in which the user of interest has shown a positive reaction are, for example, articles that have been given a good evaluation by the user of interest, articles that have actually accessed the presented article, articles that have had a positive biological reaction, and the like. Hereinafter, an article in which the target user has shown a negative reaction is referred to as a negative reaction article. Note that the articles in which the target user has shown a negative reaction are, for example, articles in which the target user has given a bad evaluation, articles that have not been accessed, articles that have shown a negative biological reaction, and the like. In addition, hereinafter, an article in which the target user has shown a positive or negative reaction is referred to as a user reaction article.

The reaction analysis unit 223 generates user reaction information indicating the analysis result of the attention user's reaction, and transmits the generated user reaction information to the server 11 via the management unit 241, the communication unit 242, and the network 13.

The user information acquisition unit 183 of the information integration module 116 of the server 11 receives the user reaction information transmitted from the client 12 via the communication unit 184 and supplies it to the management unit 181. The management unit 181 generates a user reaction history including the acquired user reaction information, metadata and presentation method of the targeted article, and information indicating the context of the focused user when the article is presented. The management unit 181 stores the generated user reaction history in the storage unit 185.

Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S113.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S111 that no user reaction is detected, the process of step S112 is skipped, and the process proceeds to step S113.

In step S113, the learning unit 162 of the information personalization module 115 of the server 11 determines whether to learn the user's preferences. When it is determined that the user's preference is learned, the process proceeds to step S114.

In step S114, the learning unit 162 learns the user's preference. Specifically, the learning unit 162 acquires the user reaction history of the attention user from the storage unit 185 via the management unit 181. Then, the learning unit 162 generates the WPV and TPV of the user of interest based on the word vector and topic vector of the article (user reaction article) that the user of interest has reacted to. For example, the learning unit 162 generates a WPV by adding word vectors of user reaction articles. Similarly, for example, the learning unit 162 generates a TPV by adding topic vectors of user reaction articles.

Here, the learning unit 162 generates not only the general WPV and TPV of the target user, but also the WPV and TPV for each context when the article is presented to the target user.

For example, the learning unit 162 classifies the user reaction articles into articles presented on weekdays to the attention user and articles presented on the holiday to the attention user. And the learning part 162 produces | generates WPV and TPV by adding the word vector and topic vector of each user reaction article for every classified group, respectively. As a result, the weekly WPV and TPV of the user of interest and the holiday WPV and TPV are generated.

Further, for example, the learning unit 162 classifies user reaction articles into articles presented to the attention user in the morning, articles presented to the attention user in the day, and articles presented to the attention user in the night. And the learning part 162 produces | generates WPV and TPV by adding the word vector and topic vector of each user reaction article for every classified group, respectively. Thus, the morning WPV and TPV, the daytime WPV and TPV, and the nighttime WPV and TPV of the user of interest are generated.

Further, for example, the learning unit 162 may update the article presented to the attention user at home, the article presented to the attention user at the company, the article presented to the attention user in the vehicle, and the article presented to the attention user on the go. Classify reaction articles. And the learning part 162 produces | generates WPV and TPV by adding the word vector and topic vector of each user reaction article for every classified group, respectively. Thereby, WPV and TPV in the home of the user of interest, WPV and TPV in the company, WPV and TPV in the vehicle, and WPV and TPV in the outside are generated.

In addition, for example, the learning unit 162 may apply a user reaction article to an article presented when the attention user is standing, an article presented when the attention user is sitting, or an article presented when the attention user is walking. Classify. And the learning part 162 produces | generates WPV and TPV by adding the word vector and topic vector of each user reaction article for every classified group, respectively. Thereby, WPV and TPV when the user of interest stands, WPV and TPV when sitting, and WPV and TPV when walking are generated.

Further, for example, the learning unit 162 may provide an article presented when the attention user is alone, an article presented when the attention user is a wife, an article presented when the attention user is a child, or an attention user. The user reaction articles are classified into articles presented when the wife and children are present. And the learning part 162 produces | generates WPV and TPV by adding the word vector and topic vector of each user reaction article for every classified group, respectively. Thereby, WPV and TPV when there is no person who is the target user, WPV and TPV when the wife is, WPV and TPV when the child is, and WPV when the person is the wife and child. And TPV are generated.

In this way, the preference for each user's context is learned.

Note that the learning unit 162 may add the word vector and the topic vector of each user reaction article with a weight depending on, for example, the type and degree of the attention user's reaction. For example, the learning unit 162 may assign different weights depending on whether the attention user's reaction is positive or negative, or may assign different weights depending on the degree of the attention user's reaction.

Further, for example, the learning unit 162 may generate the WPV and the TPV based only on the word vector and the topic vector of an article (positive reaction article) in which the target user has shown a positive reaction.

Furthermore, the target period of the user reaction history used for generating WPV and TPV can be set to an arbitrary period. For example, the learning unit 162 may use the user response history of the entire period when the user of interest has used the search / recommendation service until now, or the predetermined period immediately before (for example, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 1 User reaction history within year etc.).

Also, the learning unit 162 calculates the information search degree of the focused user. Specifically, the learning unit 162 aggregates topic frequencies indicating the distribution of topics to which articles (positive reaction articles) to which the target user has shown a positive reaction belong. For example, the learning unit 162 totals topic frequencies by totaling the topics with the highest probability of belonging to the positive reaction article of the user of interest. Therefore, the value of the topic frequency of a topic to which many positive reaction articles of the user of interest belong increases.

Note that the topic frequency tabulation period can be set to any period. For example, the topic frequency tabulation period is set to the entire period in which the user of interest has used the search / recommendation service so far, or a predetermined period immediately before (for example, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year, etc.) Is done. Alternatively, for example, the topic frequency tabulation period is set to the current search / recommendation service usage period (for example, the current search / recommendation service login period).

Also, for example, the topic frequency may be aggregated by accumulating topic vectors of articles that the positive user has shown a positive reaction. In this case, the distribution of the topic to which the article to which the user gave a positive reaction belongs is more accurately reflected in the topic frequency.

Also, the learning unit 162 calculates the information search degree based on the four viewpoints of “breadth”, “depth”, “newness”, and “popularity” based on the tabulated topic frequencies.

Hereinafter, when the topic frequency distribution is {1, 7, 0, ₃ , 0, 1, 0, 0, ₂ , 1}, that is, the topic frequency of the topic z ₁ is 1, and the topic z ₂ is A case where the topic frequency is 7,... And the topic frequency of the topic z ₁₀ is 1 will be described. In addition, the following, membership probability maximum topic of the articles immediately before the noted user has made a positive reaction (hereinafter referred to as the previous reaction topic) will be described when a topic z _2.

For example, the learning unit 162 calculates the information search degree (width) by the following equation (5).

Information search degree (area)
= Number of topics whose topic frequency is equal to or higher than threshold TH1 ÷ total number of topics × 100
... (5)

For example, when the threshold value TH1 is set to 1, the number of topics whose topic frequency is equal to or higher than the threshold value TH1 is 6 in the topic frequency example shown above. Since the total number of topics is 10, the information search degree (area) is 60%.

The degree of information search (breadth) increases as the range of topics to which articles to which the attention user has shown a positive reaction belongs is larger, and decreases as the range of topics to which articles to which the attention user has a positive reaction belongs is smaller. . Therefore, the information search degree (area) is an index indicating how much information the user of interest is searching for.

Also, the learning unit 162 calculates the information search degree (depth) by the following equation (6).

Information search degree (depth) = topic frequency of previous reaction topic / upper limit value × 100 (6)

Here, the topic frequency of the immediately previous reaction topic is the topic frequency of the topic with the highest attribution probability of an article in which the user of interest has shown a positive response immediately before. Therefore, in the present example, the topic frequency of the topic z ₂ that is the reaction topic immediately before the user of interest is 7, so when the upper limit value is set to 10, the information search degree (depth) is 70%.

The degree of information search (depth) increases as the number of times the attention user gives a positive response to an article belonging to the previous reaction topic increases, and the attention user gives a positive reaction to an article belonging to the previous reaction topic. The smaller the number of times shown, the smaller. Therefore, the information search degree (depth) indicates how deep the attention user is searching for information with respect to the immediately previous reaction topic (for example, the topic to which the article currently focused on by the user belongs). It becomes an indicator.

The upper limit value may be changed according to the total number of positive reaction articles. That is, the upper limit value may be increased as the total number of positive reaction articles increases, and the upper limit value may be decreased as the total number of positive reaction articles decreases.

Also, the information search degree (depth) may exceed 100%.

Further, the learning unit 162 calculates the information search degree (newness) by the following equation (7).

Information search degree (newness)
= Number of new articles among positive reaction articles ÷ Total number of positive reaction articles (7)

For example, a topic frequency distribution for only new articles added or updated within a predetermined period immediately before (for example, within the immediately preceding 6 hours) is represented by {0, 4, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, In the case of 0, 1, 0}, the number of newly arrived articles among the positive reaction articles is 6. Since the total number of positive reaction articles is 15, the degree of information search (newness) is 40%.

The degree of information search (newness) increases as the number of positive responses to new articles increases, and decreases as the number of positive responses to new articles decreases. Therefore, the information search degree (newness) is an index indicating how much new information is searched by the target user.

Also, the learning unit 162 calculates the information search degree (popularity) by the following equation (8).

Information search degree (popularity)
= Number of popular articles among positive reaction articles ÷ Total number of positive reaction articles (8)

For example, if the topic frequency distribution for only popular articles whose popularity score is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold is {0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0}, a positive response The number of popular articles among the articles is 3. Since the total number of positive reaction articles is 15, the degree of information search (popularity) is 20%.

The degree of information search (popularity) increases as the number of positive responses to popular articles increases, and decreases as the number of positive responses to popular articles decreases. Therefore, the degree of information search (popularity) is an index indicating how much the attention user is searching for popular information (for example, information that has become a topic or has been noticed).

In addition, the learning unit 162 calculates a comprehensive search degree by the following equation (9) based on the information search degree of each viewpoint.

General search degree = (information search degree (area) + information search degree (depth) + information search degree (newness)
+ Information search degree (popularity)) ÷ 4 (9)

That is, the comprehensive search degree is an average value of the information search degree of each viewpoint.

Furthermore, the learning unit 162 learns the preference for the presentation method of the attention user. Specifically, for example, the learning unit 162 aggregates, for each context, the presentation method frequency indicating the distribution of the presentation method of articles (positive reaction articles) in which the user of interest has shown a positive response. For example, the learning unit 162 aggregates the presentation method frequency for each type of the client 12 of the user of interest. Thereby, for example, the presentation method frequency when the client 12 used by the user of interest is a wearable device, the presentation method frequency when the smartphone is a smartphone, the presentation method frequency when the tablet is a tablet, and a personal computer The presentation method frequency is required.

The tendency of the article presentation method preferred by the noticed user is grasped according to the type of the client 12 used by this presentation method frequency. For example, when the user of interest uses a smartphone, the percentage of the presentation method using only sound, the presentation method using only text, the presentation method including a still image, or the presentation method including a moving image is used. Is grasped.

Note that the context in which the learning unit 162 aggregates the presentation method frequency is not limited to the type of the client 12, and any type of context can be used. For example, the learning unit 162 can tabulate the presentation method frequency for each day of the week, time zone, place, or behavior of the user of interest. At this time, the learning unit 162 can also total the presentation method frequencies for two or more types of contexts.

Also, the learning unit 162 can count the presentation method frequency for each combination of two or more contexts. For example, the learning unit 162 can total the presentation method frequency for each combination of the type of the client 12, the day of the week, the time zone, the place, and the action of the user of interest. Thus, for example, when a focused user stands on a train on a weekday morning and uses a smartphone, a presentation method using only voice, a presentation method using only text, a presentation method including a still image, and a moving image are included. It is grasped how much each presentation method is used.

In addition, the aggregation period of the presentation method frequency can be set to any period. For example, the total period of the presentation method frequency is set to the entire period in which the user of interest has used the search / recommendation service or a predetermined period immediately before (for example, one week, one month, one year, etc.). .

The learning unit 162 stores the WPV and TPV of the user of interest, the topic frequency tabulation result, the information search degree and the total search degree calculation result, and the presentation method frequency tabulation result in the storage unit 185 via the management unit 181. Let

Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S115.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S113 that the user's preference is not learned, the process of step S114 is skipped, and the process proceeds to step S115.

In step S115, the control unit 212 of the information presentation module 201 of the client 12 determines whether or not to end the presentation of information. For example, if the user operation content acquired in the process of step S102 is not an operation for terminating the search / recommendation service, the control unit 212 determines to continue presenting information, and the process returns to step S101.

Thereafter, the processes in steps S101 to S115 are repeatedly executed until it is determined in step S115 that the presentation of information is finished.

On the other hand, in step S115, the control unit 212 of the information presentation module 201 of the client 12 presents information when, for example, the user operation content acquired in the process of step S102 is an operation for terminating the search / recommendation service. Determine to end. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S116.

In step S116, the client 12 ends the presentation of information. For example, the control unit 212 of the information presentation module 201 of the client 12 ends the execution of the search / recommendation service APP.

After that, the information presentation process ends.

As described above, an appropriate article is presented in an appropriate manner according to the user's preference and context. Accordingly, for example, the user can quickly obtain information of interest to the user without causing trouble to the surroundings by a method suitable for the user's posture and surrounding circumstances.

Also, since articles of quality and quantity according to the user's preference and knowledge are presented, the degree of understanding and persuasion of the articles increases, and the satisfaction of the users improves.

Furthermore, since articles to be presented are selected according to the person who is with them, it is possible to present articles separately for personal preference and public preference. As a result, it is possible to prevent leakage of information that is not desired to be known to other people, and to increase the satisfaction level of people who are with the user.

In addition, when accessing information services such as RSS, SNS, and net contents, not only the degree of conformity and customs with the user's taste, but also the multiplicity of depth, depth, newness, and popularity of information Articles are recommended based on. As a result, the user can efficiently collect information in a short time.

Further, a transmission means corresponding to the display size and function of the client 12 is selected, and the information amount and display size of the presented article are appropriately adjusted. Therefore, for example, information is presented in an inappropriate size with respect to the display size of the client 12 or a method that the client 12 does not support, or the display speed is reduced due to an excessive amount of information. Feeling free is prevented. In addition, it is possible to seamlessly present information by linking a plurality of types of clients 12 possessed by the user. For example, articles related to the same topic can be simultaneously presented to different types of clients 12 owned by the user using different presentation methods. Further, for example, as the client 12 used by the user is changed, articles on the same topic can be seamlessly presented by different presentation methods.

In addition, by optimizing the content and presentation method of articles to be presented in response to contexts that change from moment to moment depending on user behavior, a highly interactive information delivery service using wearable devices, mobile devices, etc. is realized. Is done.

Here, an example of simulating the case where Mr. A who is an attention user uses the search / recommendation service will be described.

For example, the screen 451 of FIG. 10 is displayed on the wall-mounted display of Mr. A's home, and news is displayed in the screen 451. At this time, while Mr. A is with the child, an entertainment article is presented. After that, when the child goes to school and Mr. A becomes one person, it switches to an economic article.

Next, Mr. A is checking the continuation of an article of an economic system that he is interested in on the train while commuting. At this time, while the train is crowded and Mr. A stands, an economic article is read out by voice from the wearable device worn by Mr. A. After that, when Mr. A sits in the seat, an economic article is displayed on the smartphone that Mr. A has using text and still images. Furthermore, when the train is free, the surroundings are not disturbed, so the playback of economic video news is started on the smartphone.

Next, Mr. A is checking the continuation of the news related to the acquisition of Company S in the IT industry that he was worried about during his company lunch break on his personal computer. At this time, since Mr. A often checks the stock price of the company S, the article showing the stock price information of the company S is automatically displayed. Also, Mr. A sends a URL of an article related to acquisition of Company S to Mr. B of the Intellectual Property Department by e-mail because he is business-related. Mr. B is interested in trends in the IT industry and regularly checks articles about the IT industry, so when accessing the website of the URL taught by Mr. A, the background of the acquisition and the impact on the industry A detailed article on is recommended. As a result, Mr. B can immediately access the detailed article.

Next, Mr. A starts using the tablet after returning home. Since Mr. A usually checks sports news at night, an article about a soccer tournament sponsored by Company S is displayed. For example, as shown in FIG. 9 described above, the full text of the article, the thumbnail image, and the video player of the game digest are displayed on the tablet. Furthermore, since there is sufficient time, an article based on each information search degree is recommended to Mr. A as shown in FIG. And Mr. A, for example, starts with the first article, checks the topic of soccer more deeply, checks the entire news of the day widely, and checks each article while checking the newness and popularity can do.

<2. Modification>
Hereinafter, modifications of the above-described embodiment of the present technology will be described.

{Variant related to context classification method}
For example, the context classification method may be changed for each user.

For example, as shown below, it is possible to adjust the time zone classification, which is one of the contexts, for each user. For example, the learning unit 162 divides the time period of one day into two types of sections, section A and section B. In category A, one day is time zone A1 (0 to 6 o'clock), time zone A2 (6 o'clock to 12 o'clock), time zone A3 (12 o'clock to 18 o'clock), and time zone A4 (18 o'clock to 24 o'clock). Time). In Category B, one day is time zone B1 (0 o'clock to 4 o'clock), time zone B2 (4 o'clock to 8 o'clock), time zone B3 (8 o'clock to 12 o'clock), time zone B4 (12 o'clock to 16 o'clock) , And is divided into a time zone B5 (16:00 to 20:00) and a time zone B6 (20:00 to 24:00).

Then, the learning unit 162 generates a TPV in each time zone of the user of interest by adding the topic vector of each user reaction article for each time zone presented to the user of interest. Hereinafter, the TPV of the target user in the time periods A1 to A4 is referred to as TPVa1 to TPVa4, and the TPV of the target user in the time periods B1 to B6 is referred to as TPVb1 to TPVb6.

Next, the learning unit 162 calculates an average value AVGa of the distances (6 types) between the TPVs TPVa1 to TPVa4, and calculates an average value AVGb of the distances (15 types) between the TPVs of TPVb1 to TPVb6. Then, the learning unit 162 compares the average value AVGa and the average value AVGb, and adopts the category having the larger average value as the time zone category for the user of interest. That is, the time zone with the larger average value can separate the preference of the user of interest in more detail, and therefore the time zone with the larger average value is adopted.

By the same method, for example, it is possible to adjust the classification method such as the location of the user and the user's behavior for each user. For example, WPV may be used instead of TPV, or both TPV and WPV may be used.

Context types can be easily added or reduced. For example, when the user's context is classified by the combination of the day of the week, the time of day, the place where the user is, and the user's action, explanation will be given for adding a user's emotion (for example, joy, anger, sorrow, comfort). To do.

For example, the learning unit 162 may respond to an article presented when the attention user is happy, an article presented when angry, an article presented when sad, or an article presented when enjoying. Categorize articles. And the learning part 162 produces | generates WPV and TPV by adding the word vector and topic vector of each user reaction article for every classified group, respectively. Thereby, WPV and TPV when the user of interest is pleased, WPV and TPV when angry, WPV and TPV when sad, and WPV and TPV when enjoying are generated. Then, the learning unit 162 adds and adds the newly generated WPV and TPV when generating the integrated WPV and the integrated TPV. As a result, the emotion of the user of interest is added to the context.

Conversely, when reducing the type of context, for example, the learning unit 162 may not add the WPV and TPV of the type of context to be reduced when generating the integrated WPV and the integrated TPV.

Furthermore, the context analysis unit 233 can classify, for example, the same type of contexts using different methods or a hierarchical structure.

For example, the context analysis unit 233 can classify the contexts related to places in different ways depending on the types of data and information used for analysis. For example, the context analysis unit 233 can classify the location of the user of interest as home, commuting, work, going home, or going out based on data from various sensors. In addition, the context analysis unit 233 can classify the location where the user of interest is located into an office, a downtown area, a park, a stadium, or the like based on POI data, for example.

Also, for example, the context analysis unit 233 can classify the action of the user of interest into low-order actions and high-order actions based on data from various sensors. Low-order actions include, for example, resting, walking, running, boarding an elevator, boarding a train, boarding a bus, boarding a car, driving a bicycle, and the like. Higher-order actions include, for example, during meals, during sleep, during conversation, and during sports play. During sports play, it is further classified according to the type of sport.

{Variation regarding recommendation method}
For example, the recommendation unit 172 may select a recommended article from the search articles searched by the search unit 171 instead of the browsing target article.

Further, for example, the recommendation unit 172 may select a recommended article based on each viewpoint of the information search degree from articles other than an article that the user likes (preference recommendation article).

In addition, when the number of times the user's search / recommendation service is used is small and the data amount of the user reaction history is not sufficient, for example, the recommendation unit 172 selects an article recommended for the user of interest based on other users' preferences. You may make it do. For example, the recommendation unit 172 may select an article recommended for the target user using the average value of WPV and TPV of all users or the average value of WPV and TPV of a user similar to the target user. .

In addition, when the data amount of the user reaction history of the user of interest in a certain type of context is not sufficient and the reliability of the WPV and TPV in the context is low, for example, the recommendation unit 172 includes the WPV and TPV in another type of context. May be used instead. For example, when the data amount of the user reaction history of the noticed user's holiday is not sufficient and the reliability of the holiday WPV and TPV is low, the recommendation unit 172 uses the WPV and TPV of the noticed user in the morning, noon, and night instead. You may make it use.

Alternatively, the learning unit 162 may change the granularity for classifying the context. For example, if a place is classified based on a municipality, and the amount of user reaction history data is not sufficient in a municipality-based place where a currently interested user is present, for example, the learning unit 162 reclassifies the place by prefecture, You may make it calculate WPV and TPV based on the user reaction history in the place of the prefecture base where the user exists.

{Variation related to preference learning}
For example, the server 11 may present the recommendation reason when presenting the recommended article to the user, and reflect the selection result of the recommendation reason by the user in the user preference learning.

For example, the presentation control unit 182 presents so that the attention user can select “Weekday”, “Morning”, “Inside the vehicle”, and “Standing” that are the reasons for recommendation based on the context of the attention user. On the other hand, the recommendation unit 172 first generates an integrated WPV by adding the WPV of the target user on weekdays, the WPV in the morning, the WPV in the vehicle, and the WPV when standing at the same ratio. Thereafter, the recommendation unit 172 generates an integrated WPV by adding a weight according to the number of selections of each recommendation reason of the user of interest and adding the WPV. For example, when the attention user selects “inside the vehicle” most frequently, the recommendation unit 172 increases the weight for the WPV in the vehicle and adds the weight when the integrated WPV is generated. The same applies to the integrated TPV.

Also, for example, the presentation control unit 182 presents the “home” and “children”, which are the reasons for recommendation based on the context of the focused user, so that the focused user can select. On the other hand, the recommendation unit 172 first generates an integrated WPV by adding the WPV at the home of the user of interest and the WPV in the case of being with a child at the same ratio. Thereafter, the recommendation unit 172 generates an integrated WPV by adding a weight according to the number of selections of each recommendation reason of the user of interest and adding the WPV. For example, when the noticed user selects the “kid” most frequently, the recommendation unit 172 adds the largest weight to the WPV when the user is a child when generating the integrated WPV. The same applies to the integrated TPV.

Furthermore, for example, the presentation control unit 182 presents representative keywords of each topic such as “acquisition”, “investment”, and “market” as a recommendation reason so that the user of interest can select. The representative keyword of each topic is, for example, a word w _i having a high occurrence probability p (w _i | z _k ) in the above-described equation (3). On the other hand, when the focused user selects a keyword, the learning unit 162 adds topic frequencies of topics corresponding to the selected keyword. This makes it easier for an attention user to be presented with an article on a topic corresponding to the keyword selected by the attention user.

Also, for example, the presentation control unit 182 first presents the size recommendation article, the depth recommendation article, the novelty recommendation article, and the popularity recommendation article to the attention user at the same ratio. Then, the learning unit 162 individually counts the number of times of positive reaction to articles recommended based on each viewpoint of the information search degree. Then, the presentation control unit 182 may perform control so as to present more articles to the attention user based on the viewpoint in which the attention user has shown a positive response many times.

Furthermore, in the above description, the example of controlling the article to be presented and the presentation method according to the person who is with the user has been shown, but the relationship with the user of the person who is together (for example, the user's wife, child, etc.) ) Is not necessarily necessary information. For example, in the face recognition technology, it is possible to identify each individual, but it is not possible to detect the relationship between each individual. However, even if the relationship with the user of the person who is together is not known, it is possible to learn the preference when the user is with the person.

Also, people who are with the user are classified into multiple groups based on attributes, etc. (for example, gender, age, etc.), and the articles and presentation methods to be presented are changed according to the group to which the user is with the user. You may make it do. For example, if the user is together with a man and a woman and the user is alone, the user is a man, or the user is a woman, the article to be presented and the presentation method are changed. May be.

Further, for example, the article to be presented and the presentation method may be changed according to the number of people with whom the user is together.

In addition, the recommendation unit 172 can select an article to be recommended based only on the context of the focused user without considering the preference of the focused user.

{Variations regarding topic frequency counting method}
In the above description, the learning unit 162 aggregates topic frequencies only for articles for which the user has shown a positive response. However, the learning unit 162 may also include articles for which the user has given a negative reaction. Good. In other words, the learning unit 162 may perform topic frequency aggregation for all articles for which the user has responded. Alternatively, for example, the learning unit 162 may aggregate topic frequencies only for articles for which the user has given a predetermined response.

Further, for example, when the topic frequency is aggregated, the learning unit 162 may perform weighted addition according to the type of reaction. For example, the learning unit 162 may assign different weights depending on whether the user actually accessed the article or whether the user gave a good evaluation. Further, for example, the learning unit 162 may add the topic frequency when the user shows a positive response, and subtract the topic frequency when the user shows a negative response.

{Variation regarding presentation method}
The article presentation method is not limited to the example described above, and can be presented visually or audibly in various ways.

Further, for example, not only the article is presented in the client 12, but also the article is transferred from the client 12 to another device (for example, a portable information terminal, a wearable device, etc.), and the other device transmits the transferred article. It is also possible to present it.

{Variation concerning presentation object}
In the above description, an example in which the presentation target to be presented to the user is an article has been shown, but the present technology can also be applied when information other than an article is to be presented.

Note that when information other than text information (hereinafter referred to as non-text information) such as moving images, images, and sounds is to be presented, for example, the clustering unit 102 is based on the text information related to the non-text information. Each non-text information can be classified into a plurality of clusters by using the latent topic model. In this case, for example, based on text information included in metadata of non-text information (for example, title, artist, performer, genre, generation location, generation date, etc.), review papers, impressions, articles, etc. regarding non-text information. Thus, clustering is performed.

Further, for example, the clustering unit 102 classifies the non-text information into a plurality of clusters based on the attribute of the non-text information and the feature amount of the non-text information itself (for example, the feature amount of moving images, images, sounds, etc.). be able to. For example, the clustering unit 102 can classify the music data into a plurality of clusters (for example, genres) based on the feature amount of the music data.

Furthermore, the present technology can also be applied to, for example, presenting information on products, actions, places, people, and the like. As described above, the product is also clustered based on the related text information and the feature amount of the product itself.

In addition, in the present technology, any clustering method other than the above-described latent topic model can be adopted. Furthermore, for example, the clustering method employed in the present technology may be a hierarchical method or a non-hierarchical method. For example, the clustering method employed in the present technology may be soft clustering or hard clustering. Or you may make it a person perform clustering of a presentation object by a manual.

{Variation regarding function sharing}
The above-described sharing of functions between the server 11 and the client 12 is an example, and can be arbitrarily changed.

For example, all or part of the functions of the information personalization module 115 may be provided in the client 12.

Further, for example, all or part of the functions of the reaction detection module 202 may be provided in the server 11. For example, the function of the reaction analysis unit 223 may be provided in the server 11, and the server 11 may analyze each user's reaction based on information and data collected by the client 12.

Furthermore, for example, all or part of the functions of the context analysis module 203 may be provided in the server 11. For example, the function of the context analysis unit 233 may be provided in the server 11, and the server 11 may analyze the context of each user based on information and data collected by the client 12. Further, the server 11 may detect a part of data regarding the context of each user.

Further, for example, all or part of the functions of the information personalization module 115 may be provided in the client 12 so that the client 12 learns the user's preferences.

Furthermore, for example, the learning unit 162 may be provided outside the server 11, and the server 11 may acquire a learning result of the user's preference from the outside.

Further, for example, all or part of the functions of the presentation control unit 182 may be provided in the client 12, and the client 12 may select and control the presentation method.

Further, for example, all or part of the function of the detection unit 222 of the reaction detection module 202 is provided outside the client 12 so that all or part of information indicating the user's reaction is detected outside the client 12. Also good.

Further, for example, all or part of the function of the detection unit 232 of the context detection module 203 may be provided outside the client 12 so that all or part of the data related to the user's context is detected outside the client 12. Good.

Furthermore, for example, it is possible to integrate or separate the modules as appropriate. For example, the input unit, display unit, and storage unit of a plurality of modules can be shared as appropriate.

Further, for example, the function of the server 11 may be shared by a plurality of servers.

Furthermore, the present technology can be applied to, for example, the case where the client 12 collects information by itself and performs clustering.

{Example of computer configuration}
The series of processes described above can be executed by hardware or can be executed by software. When a series of processing is executed by software, a program constituting the software is installed in the computer. Here, the computer includes, for example, a general-purpose personal computer capable of executing various functions by installing various programs by installing a computer incorporated in dedicated hardware.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing an example of the hardware configuration of a computer that executes the above-described series of processing by a program.

In a computer, a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 701, a ROM (Read Only Memory) 702, and a RAM (Random Access Memory) 703 are connected to each other by a bus 704.

An input / output interface 705 is further connected to the bus 704. An input unit 706, an output unit 707, a storage unit 708, a communication unit 709, and a drive 710 are connected to the input / output interface 705.

The input unit 706 includes a keyboard, a mouse, a microphone, and the like. The output unit 707 includes a display, a speaker, and the like. The storage unit 708 includes a hard disk, a nonvolatile memory, and the like. The communication unit 709 includes a network interface. The drive 710 drives a removable medium 711 such as a magnetic disk, an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, or a semiconductor memory.

In the computer configured as described above, the CPU 701 loads the program stored in the storage unit 708 to the RAM 703 via the input / output interface 705 and the bus 704 and executes the program, for example. Is performed.

The program executed by the computer (CPU 701) can be provided by being recorded in, for example, a removable medium 711 as a package medium or the like. The program can be provided via a wired or wireless transmission medium such as a local area network, the Internet, or digital satellite broadcasting.

In the computer, the program can be installed in the storage unit 708 via the input / output interface 705 by attaching the removable medium 711 to the drive 710. Further, the program can be received by the communication unit 709 via a wired or wireless transmission medium and installed in the storage unit 708. In addition, the program can be installed in advance in the ROM 702 or the storage unit 708.

The program executed by the computer may be a program that is processed in time series in the order described in this specification, or in parallel or at a necessary timing such as when a call is made. It may be a program for processing.

In this specification, the system means a set of a plurality of components (devices, modules (parts), etc.), and it does not matter whether all the components are in the same housing. Accordingly, a plurality of devices housed in separate housings and connected via a network and a single device housing a plurality of modules in one housing are all systems. .

Furthermore, embodiments of the present technology are not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the gist of the present technology.

For example, the present technology can take a cloud computing configuration in which one function is shared by a plurality of devices via a network and is jointly processed.

Further, each step described in the above flowchart can be executed by one device or can be shared by a plurality of devices.

Further, when a plurality of processes are included in one step, the plurality of processes included in the one step can be executed by being shared by a plurality of apparatuses in addition to being executed by one apparatus.

Further, the effects described in the present specification are merely examples and are not limited, and other effects may be obtained.

Furthermore, for example, the present technology can take the following configurations.

(1)
A context acquisition unit that acquires information indicating the user's context;
A selection unit that selects presentation information that is information to be presented to the user based on the context of the user;
An information processing apparatus comprising: a presentation control unit that controls a method of presenting the presentation information based on the context of the user.
(2)
The information processing apparatus according to (1), wherein the selection unit selects the presentation information based on a preference of the user for each context.
(3)
The information processing apparatus according to (2), further including a learning unit that learns a preference for each context of the user.
(4)
The information processing apparatus according to (3), wherein the learning unit learns each user's preference by changing a context classification method for each user.
(5)
A learning unit that learns the user's preference for the presentation method for each context of the user;
The information processing apparatus according to (1) or (2), wherein the presentation control unit controls the presentation method based on a learning result of the learning unit.
(6)
The information processing apparatus according to any one of (1) to (5), wherein the presentation control unit selects the presentation information transmission unit based on the context of the user.
(7)
The information processing apparatus according to (6), wherein the transmission unit is any one of text, a still image, a moving image, audio, or a combination thereof.
(8)
The information processing apparatus according to any one of (1) to (7), wherein the user context includes at least one of a context related to time, a context related to a place, and a context related to the user's behavior.
(9)
The user's context includes a person who is with the user;
The information processing apparatus according to any one of (1) to (8), wherein the selection unit selects the presentation information based on at least a person who is with the user.
(10)
The user's context includes the type of device that the user uses to present the presentation information;
The information processing apparatus according to any one of (1) to (9), wherein the presentation control unit controls the presentation method based on at least a type of the apparatus.
(11)
The selection unit selects the presentation information based on the user's context for each of two or more viewpoints based on a distribution of reaction information, which is information indicating a predetermined reaction by the user among information presented to the user. The information processing apparatus according to any one of (1) to (10).
(12)
The selection unit includes a first viewpoint based on a range of a cluster to which the reaction information belongs, a second viewpoint based on a distribution of the reaction information for each cluster, and a distribution based on the newness of the reaction information. The information according to (11), wherein the presentation information is selected for each of at least two or more of the fourth viewpoint based on the third viewpoint and the distribution based on the popularity of the reaction information. Processing equipment.
(13)
The information processing apparatus according to any one of (1) to (12), further including a context detection unit that detects the context of the user.
(14)
A context acquisition step for acquiring information indicating the user's context;
A selection step of selecting presentation information that is information to be presented to the user based on the context of the user;
A presentation control step of controlling the presentation information presentation method based on the user's context.
(15)
A context acquisition step for acquiring information indicating the user's context;
A selection step of selecting presentation information that is information to be presented to the user based on the context of the user;
A program for causing a computer to execute a process including a presentation control step for controlling a presentation information presentation method based on a context of the user.
(16)
A context acquisition unit that acquires information indicating the user's context;
An information processing apparatus comprising: a presentation control unit that controls a presentation information presentation method that is information presented to the user based on the user context.
(17)
A context acquisition unit that acquires information about the user's context;
An information processing apparatus comprising: a selection unit that selects presentation information that is information to be presented to the user based on the user's preference for each context.

1 Information processing system, 11 servers, 12 clients, 101 information acquisition unit, 102 clustering unit, 103 presentation information selection unit, 111 information collection module, 112 information editing module, 113 language analysis module, 114 topic analysis module, 115 information personalization Module, 116 information integration module, 122 information collection unit, 132 information editing unit, 141 language analysis unit, 151 topic analysis unit, 161 selection unit, 162 learning unit, 171 search unit, 172 recommendation unit, 181 management unit, 182 presentation control Part, 183 user information acquisition part, 184 communication part, 201 information presentation module, 202 reaction detection module, 203 context detection module , 204 Information integration module, 212 control unit, 213 presentation unit, 221 input unit, 222 detection unit, 223 reaction analysis unit, 232 detection unit, 233 context analysis unit, 241 management unit, 242 communication unit

Claims

A context acquisition unit that acquires information about the user's context;
A selection unit that selects presentation information that is information to be presented to the user based on the context of the user;
An information processing apparatus comprising: a presentation control unit that controls a method of presenting the presentation information based on the context of the user.
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the selection unit selects the presentation information based on a preference of the user for each context.
The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a learning unit that learns a preference for each context of the user.
The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the learning unit learns each user's preference by changing a context classification method for each user.
A learning unit that learns the user's preference for the presentation method for each context of the user;
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the presentation control unit controls the presentation method based on a learning result of the learning unit.
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the presentation control unit selects a transmission unit for the presentation information based on the context of the user.
The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the transmission unit is any one of text, a still image, a moving image, audio, or a combination thereof.
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the user context includes at least one of a context related to time, a context related to a place, and a context related to the user's behavior.
The user's context includes a person who is with the user;
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the selection unit selects the presentation information based on at least a person who is with the user.
The user's context includes the type of device that the user uses to present the presentation information;
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the presentation control unit controls the presentation method based on at least a type of the apparatus.
The selection unit selects the presentation information based on the user's context for each of two or more viewpoints based on a distribution of reaction information, which is information indicating a predetermined reaction by the user among information presented to the user. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1.
The selection unit includes a first viewpoint based on a range of a cluster to which the reaction information belongs, a second viewpoint based on a distribution of the reaction information for each cluster, and a distribution based on the newness of the reaction information. 12. The information processing according to claim 11, wherein the presentation information is selected for each of at least two viewpoints among a third viewpoint based on the fourth viewpoint and a fourth viewpoint based on a distribution based on the popularity of the reaction information. apparatus.
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a context detection unit that detects the context of the user.
A context acquisition step for acquiring information about the user's context;
A selection step of selecting presentation information that is information to be presented to the user based on the context of the user;
A presentation control step of controlling the presentation information presentation method based on the user's context.
A context acquisition step for acquiring information about the user's context;
A selection step of selecting presentation information that is information to be presented to the user based on the context of the user;
A program for causing a computer to execute a process including a presentation control step for controlling a presentation information presentation method based on a context of the user.
A context acquisition unit that acquires information about the user's context;
An information processing apparatus comprising: a presentation control unit that controls a presentation information presentation method that is information presented to the user based on the user context.
A context acquisition unit that acquires information about the user's context;
An information processing apparatus comprising: a selection unit that selects presentation information that is information to be presented to the user based on the user's preference for each context.