Patent ID: 6654738
Filing Date: 2003-11-25
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A computer program for assisting document retrieval embodied on computer-readable medium including a retrieval assisting execution program,wherein the retrieval assisting execution program comprises a program for arranging and displaying a display area of the search results in a list of a set of retrieved documents including information in a form from which the agent identifies the retrieved document and an area for displaying topic words reflecting the search results in one of a list or a graph indicating a degree of relevance between the topic words extracted from the set of retrieved documents, a communication program with which the search query input by a user of the program is sent to an information provider computer and with which said agent computer receives necessary information produced and sent from the provider computer concerning the search results, topic words and cross-reference data between retrieved documents and corresponding topic-words, and further receives a program with a set of retrieval operations comprising: a step of adding or deleting a word display as a topic word to or from search words; a step of designating a selection/no selection state of each word displayed as a topic word; a step of emphasizing each document containing one or more selected topic words with an intensity, depending on how many selected topic words are contained; a step of rearranging and displaying the search results in decreasing order of intensity for emphasis; a step of designating a selection/no selection state of each document from the search results; a step of emphasizing topic words contained in the selected documents; a step of carrying out an associative search by using one or more selected documents as a search key; and a prune step of leaving only selected documents and gathering information about topic words only from the selected documents.