INFORMATION MATCHING APPARATUS, METHOD OF MATCHING INFORMATION, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED INFORMATION MATCHING PROGRAM

The information matching apparatus includes: a training data setting unit that sets supervised data in a machine learning device of supervised learning that learns judgment criteria used for a judgment of identicalness, similarity, and relevance between a plurality of records by matching the records configured by sets of values corresponding to items; a check point setting unit that sets a check point configured by one set of two records used for evaluating the set supervised data; and a learning result evaluation unit, for the set check point, acquires a change between a judgment result using judgment criteria derived as a result of learning based on set first supervised data and a judgment result using judgment criteria derived as a result of learning based on set second supervised data set and evaluates the supervised data based on the acquired change.