INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM

The invention relates to an information processing apparatus, method and program which can execute task assigning with low cost. According to one embodiment, the information processing apparatus comprises a first storage, a first extractor, a second extractor and a determiner. The first storage stores worker information including an explanation that concerns a skill of a worker. The first extractor extracts, based on the at least one keyword included in the worker information, a worker skill word representing a characteristic of the skill of the worker, and a worker skill value corresponding to the worker skill word. The second extractor extracts, based on the keyword included in a task summary describing a task, a task skill word representing a characteristic of the task, and a required skill value necessary for a process represented by the task skill word. The determiner determines, as a task candidate, a task indicating that the task skill word matches the worker skill word and indicating that the worker s