METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CATEGORIZING INFORMATION, AND A COMPUTER PRODUCT

The information categorizing apparatus comprises a feature element extraction section which extracts a feature element for each categorizing category from a plurality of sample texts included in the categorizing sample data in which a sample text group and a plurality of categories are associated with each other in advance. Further, a categorizing method determination section determines a categorizing method based on the categorizing sample data. A categorizing learning information generation section generates categorizing learning information representing a feature for each category, based on the extracted feature elements, in accordance with the determined categorizing method. An automatic categorizing section categorizes a new text group to be categorized for each category, in accordance with the determined categorizing method and the categorizing learning information.