Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

An information processing method comprising the steps of:

• acquiring a label assigned by a user to a content selected among a plurality of contents;
• setting a user certainty factor that refers to the certainty of the label assigned by the user;
• wherein the user certainty factor is set on the basis of at least one of a necessary amount of time the user spends and the number of label changes made by the user until the user decides upon the label to be assigned to the content;
• performing label prediction learning to predict the label on the basis of characteristics values of the content to which the label is assigned and the label;
• predicting a label regarding a content to which the label is not assigned on the basis of the results of the label prediction learning and the characteristics values of the content, and calculating a label certainty factor that refers to a certainty of the predicted label;
• performing user certainty factor prediction learning to predict the user certainty factor on the basis of the characteristics values of the content to which the label is assigned and the user certainty factor;
• predicting a user certainty factor of the predicted label regarding the content to which the label is not assigned on the basis of the results of the user certainty factor prediction learning and the characteristics values of the content, and
• selecting a content to be next assigned a label among contents to which labels are not assigned.

A program embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium that causes a computer to execute processing including the steps of:

• acquiring a label assigned by a user to a content selected among a plurality of contents;
• setting a user certainty factor that refers to a certainty of the label assigned by the user;
• wherein the user certainty factor is set on the basis of at least one of a necessary amount of time the user spends and the number of label changes made by the user until the user decides upon the label to be assigned to the content;
• performing label prediction learning to predict the label on the basis of characteristics values of the content to which the label is assigned and the label;
• predicting a label regarding a content to which the label is not assigned on the basis of the results of the label prediction learning and the characteristics values of the content, and calculating a label certainty factor that refers to a certainty of the predicted label;
• performing user certainty factor prediction learning to predict the user certainty factor on the basis of the characteristics values of the content to which the label is assigned and the user certainty factor;
• predicting a user certainty factor of the predicted label regarding the content to which the label is not assigned on the basis of the results of the user certainty factor prediction learning and the characteristics values of the content, and
• selecting a content to be next assigned a label among contents to which labels are not assigned.

An information processing apparatus comprising:

• a label acquisition section configured to acquire a label assigned by a user to a content selected among a plurality of contents;
• a user certainty factor setting section configured to set a user certainty factor that refers to a certainty of the label assigned by the user;
• wherein the user certainty factor setting section sets the user certainty factor on the bases of at least one of a necessary amount of time the user spends and the number of label changes made by the user until the user decides upon the label to be assigned to the content;
• a label prediction learning section configured to perform label prediction learning to predict the label on the basis of characteristics values of the content to which the label is assigned and the label;
• a label prediction section configured to predict a label regarding a content to which the label is not assigned on the basis of the results of the label prediction learning and the characteristics values of the content, and to calculate a label certainty factor that refers to a certainty of the predicted label;
• a user certainty factor prediction section configured to perform user certainty factor prediction learning to predict the user certainty factor on the basis of the characteristics values of the content to which the label is assigned and the user certainty factor, and configured to predict a user certainty factor of the predicted label regarding the content to which the label is not assigned on the basis of the results of the user certainty factor prediction learning and the characteristics values of the content;
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• a selection section configured to select a content to be next assigned a label among contents to which labels are not assigned;
• Wherein at least one of the label acquisition section, user certainty factor setting section, label prediction learning section, label prediction section, user certainty factor prediction section, and selection section includes a processor.