PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compound word generation device and a compound word generation method which can generate compound words without using learning texts.SOLUTION: A text division unit 101 divides an input text into a plurality of character strings based on space characters, and a character string occurrence number counting unit 102 counts the number of occurrence of each character string divided by the text division unit 101 and also creates a set of character string including divided character strings as candidate character strings. Then, based on the candidate character strings included in the set of character strings created by the character string occurrence number counting unit 102, from the set of character strings, an element character string combination extraction unit 103 extracts combinations of element character strings that can compose the candidate character strings by connecting a plurality of element character strings which are compound word elements.
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