Patent ID: 8332753

Claim:
A device comprising: an information storage device that stores entry words and information on each of the entry words; an input unit for inputting a series of words; a judgment unit that judges whether or not any word contained in the inputted series of words is a verb, an adjective, or a noun; a keyword retrieval unit that sets as a keyword a word in the inputted series of words that is judged to be a verb, an adjective, or a noun, and retrieves each entry word that corresponds to the keyword from the information storage device; a series-of-words information extraction unit that selectively extracts, from the information stored in the information storage device on each retrieved entry word, each item of information that contains all of the inputted series of words; a series-of-words information display unit that displays each extracted item of information containing all of the inputted series of words in association with the entry word corresponding to the extracted item of information; and a series-of-words identification unit which adds an example mark or a phrase mark to each item of information that is extracted by the series-of-words information extraction unit comprising a block of the item of information and the inputted series of words; wherein the series-of-words information extraction unit replaces placeholder data in the information on each retrieved entry word, with the keyword, and selectively extracts each item of information that contains all of the inputted series of words after the placeholder data is replaced with the keyword; and wherein the series-of-words information display unit displays each extracted item of information together with the example mark or phrase mark added thereto.