A perplexity calculation device 500 includes: a weight coefficient calculating part 501 for, with respect to each of a plurality of text constituent words constituting a text, calculating a weight coefficient for correcting a degree of ease of word appearance having a value which becomes larger as a probability of appearance of the text constituent word becomes higher based on a statistical language model showing probabilities of appearance of words, based on word importance representing a degree of importance of the text constituent word; and a perplexity calculating part 502 for calculating perplexity of the statistical language model to the text, based on the calculated weight coefficients and the degrees of ease of word appearance.