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A keyword extracting device includes high-frequency term extracting means (30) for extracting high-frequency terms which are index terms having a great weight among the index terms in a document group (E) including a plurality of documents (D), the weight including evaluation on the level of an appearance frequency of each index term, clustering means (50) for clustering the high-frequency terms on the basis of a co-occurrence degree C. which is based on the presence/absence of the co-occurrence of each document with the index terms (w) in the document group (E) in each document, score calculating means (70) for calculating a score key(w) of each index term (w) such that a high score is given to the index term among the index terms (w) that co-occurs with the high-frequency term belonging to more clusters (g) and that co-occurs with the high-frequency term in more documents (D), and keyword extracting means (90) for extracting keywords on the basis of the scores. Accordingly, the keywords indicating a feature of a document group including a plurality of documents can be automatically extracted.