JP2000057138A - Device and method for editing document - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate arrangement of a minute book by classifying speakings in a conference into categorys corresponding to their contents and to make discussion efficiency by using it for the conference. SOLUTION: A document includes at least one item, a sentence can be edited and stored for every item and also, this document editing device sets a connection relation between items. Here, it contains a content category association retrieving means 22 which sets a content category that the content of a sentence included in an item is summarized and represented, in each of the items and retrieves a content category that is associated with the content category set in each of the items based on reference relation set between content categories.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document editing apparatus and method for storing and editing documents, and more particularly to organizing the minutes of meetings by classifying the remarks in a meeting into types according to their contents. Related to search technology.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a conference or the like, what has been discussed is often recorded as a document such as a minutes. To save the trouble of inputting as a document, for example,
Some ideas have been devised, such as recording speech as speech and converting the speech information into document information. In addition, in order to allow a reader of the contents of the prepared minutes to understand the contents in a short period of time, the invention has been devised to selectively extract only the utterances that represent the key points of the minutes. The purpose of the meeting is to reach a conclusion. However, when a conclusion is made through a plurality of meetings, the above method does not make it easy for a reader to understand the contents included in a plurality of minutes recorded in the course of the meeting in a short time.

[0003] As a document editing device, a document editing device called an outline processor is known. The document editing device includes means for changing the appearance order of sentences in a document for each set item, and a hierarchical structure between items. By creating a tree structure, it is possible to efficiently create trial and error documents,
It can be done easily. However, this document editing device is different from a conventional document editing device called a word processor, and is not intended to shape a document.
It assists in the process of creating a document. The person who creates the document does not create it in order from the beginning, but starts with the part that will ultimately conclude, does not distinguish the relationship between large items and small items, etc. Complete the document while making mistakes. This mistake is corrected by the creator of the document while paying attention to a certain degree of unity in the document and considering the relationship between the unity. The outline processor hides the lower hierarchy and displays only the upper hierarchy among the items having a hierarchical relationship, so that only the heading can be browsed. In the thought process of document creation, there is a place to separate the whole from the part, and when a certain part is taken,
Both the whole and the part are referenced, such as where the part occupies in the whole, and whether there are any missing parts when looking at the whole. Thus, outline processors are well suited to assist the author in the thinking process and to organize and organize documents.

[0004] On the other hand, unlike a meeting in which the agenda is set in detail in advance, when only a rough agenda such as a meeting is set, the direction of the discussion differs for each meeting and should be discussed. In many cases, the fact is noticed after the fact. In addition, as the number of meetings and meetings is increased, the content of discussions increases, and it becomes impossible to control what and how much discussion has been performed on the target conclusion. This is because the discussion is recorded as a meeting or a document for each meeting. In order to organize and compile the contents of the minutes of multiple meetings, it is often necessary to manually arrange the minutes, and there is no good support method for that, so it requires a great deal of effort. In addition, if it is not easy to obtain organized information on the repeated discussions, new discussions will be repeated depending on the memory of those who participated in the meeting. In some cases, one forgets the content of a discussion and repeats the same discussion or draws conclusions that contradict previous discussions. Such leakage or repetition in the meeting increases the number and time of the meeting and makes the process of reaching a conclusion inefficient.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above problems, it is an object of the present invention to classify remarks in a meeting into types according to the contents thereof, thereby making it easy to organize the minutes of a meeting. By referring to the minutes of the past accordingly, proceeding without repeating the same discussion, or listing the lack of discussion on topics that are likely to be raised in advance from past experiences,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a document editing apparatus and a document editing method that support efficient discussions at a conference without omission of discussions.

[0006]

According to the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for storing and editing a document, wherein the document includes at least one item, and a text can be edited and stored for each item. In a document editing apparatus having means for setting a connection relationship between the items, there is provided a means for setting, for each item, a content type that summarizes and expresses the content of a sentence included in the item, And a content type related search means for searching for a content type related to the content type set for each item based on the set reference relationship. A document editing device for storing and editing a document, wherein the document includes at least one item, and a text can be edited and saved for each item, and a connection relationship is set between the items. Means and a content type dictionary search means for searching for a content type related to the specified character string based on the specified character string and the content type dictionary are solved. A document editing device for storing and editing a document, wherein the document includes at least one item, and a text can be edited and saved for each item, and a connection relationship is set between the items. Means, and means for setting, for each item, a content type that summarizes and expresses the content of a sentence included in the item, based on the content type set for the item and the reference relationship set between the content types. The problem is solved by having a document search unit that searches for an item in which a content type related to the content type set in the designated item is set. A document editing apparatus for storing and editing a document, wherein the document includes at least one item, and a text can be edited and saved for each item, and a connection relationship between the arbitrary items is established. Means for setting, any one or more items are selectable, and subsequent to setting the item selected by the user to the invisible state, the user does not need to add an editing operation to the item, This problem is solved by providing a document editing unit that newly creates an item having a connection relationship with an item other than the item included in the item. Here, the problem is solved by storing the information of each of the units in a storage medium for storing machine-readable information.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a functional configuration of a document editing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the document editing apparatus 1 includes an input unit 2, a document processing unit 3, and an output unit 4. The document processing means 3 includes an input / output control means 5 and a document processing unit 6. The document processing unit 6 includes a document storage unit 11, a document search unit 21, and a document editing unit 3.
1, content type related storage means 12, content type related search means 22, content type related edit means 32, content type dictionary storage means 13, content type dictionary search means 23, content type dictionary edit means 33, It consists of. Document editing device 1
Stores the input document in the document storage unit 11, searches the stored document by the document search unit 21, and edits the searched document by the document editing unit 31. Also, this document includes at least one item, and edits and saves a sentence in units of this item, and sets a connection relationship between the items. In addition, a content type that summarizes and expresses the content of the text included in the item is set for each item. Here, the content type related search unit 22 searches for a content type related to the content type set for each item based on the reference relationship set between the content types. The content type related editing means sets a reference relationship between the content types. The content type dictionary search unit 23 searches for a content type related to the specified character string based on the specified character string and the content type dictionary. The content type dictionary editing unit 33 sets a content type dictionary. Further, the document editing unit 31 selects any one or more items, and sets the item selected by the user to the invisible state, and then, without adding any editing operation, without the user adding an editing operation. A new item having a connection relationship with an item other than the item included in this item is newly created in place of the item selected by. In addition, the document editing unit 31 makes the invisible item visible if necessary, and causes the invisible item to be displayed in a display mode different from the item already set as the visible state. Further, the document editing unit 31 can selectively make any item out of the invisible state into a visible state as necessary.

FIG. 2 shows a hardware configuration of a document processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the document editing apparatus 1 includes a keyboard 202 for inputting information by a user, a mouse 203, a display 205 for displaying information, an external storage device 204 for storing programs and data, and document processing. And a computer 201 that performs various calculations.

Next, the system configuration of the document editing apparatus shown in FIG. 2 will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 3, a computer 201 mainly includes a central processing unit (CPU) 3
01 and a memory 302. In the memory 302,
An operating system (OS) 303 and a document editing program 306 are read from the external storage device 204. The document edit program 306 includes a document search program 311, a document edit program 312, a content type related search program 313, a content type related edit program 314, a content type dictionary search program 315, and a content type dictionary edit program 316. Each program is read from the external storage device 204 and executed. The memory 302 includes document data 321, content type related data 322, and content type dictionary data 323, and each data is read from the external storage device 204.
The operating system 303 includes an input / output control program 304 and a work area 305. The work area 305 is a temporary data storage location used when the central processing unit 301 performs various processes.
The input / output control program 304 includes a keyboard 202,
Mouse 203, display 205, external storage device 20
4 is connected, receives an input signal from a user, and outputs information processed by a computer. Here, a storage medium for storing machine-readable information is used as the external storage device 204, and the document search program 311 and the document edit program 31 which are the document edit programs 306 are stored in the storage medium.
2. Content type related search program 313, content type related editing program 314, content type dictionary search program 3
15. The content type dictionary editing program 316 is stored.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a conventional minutes. The minutes are numbered for each utterance, and for each utterance, a “number”, “reference number”, “speech type”, “speech content”,
"Speaker" is recorded. “Number” is a unique identification number added to each utterance. The “reference number” is the number of the utterance referred to among the utterances that appeared before. “Speech type” represents the form of speech at the meeting, and includes questions, answers, requests, proposals, opinions, and the like. For example, if the utterance type is “answer”, it is interpreted that some answer is given to a question uttered by someone. The “speech content” represents the content of the speech itself, and the “speaker” represents the person who made the speech.

FIG. 5 shows a data structure of a conventional minutes. The minutes data 501 includes a minutes file 502. The minutes file 502 includes statement data 503. The statement data 503 includes number data 511, reference number data 512, statement type data 513, statement content data 514, and speaker data 515.

FIG. 31 shows the data structure of the present embodiment. The data handled by the document editing apparatus of this embodiment is document data 321, content type related data 323, and content type dictionary 324. The document data 321 is the minutes data 31
11, request data 3112, and specification data 3113.

FIG. 7 shows minutes data 311 of the present embodiment.
1, the data structures of request data 3112 and specification data 3113 are shown. These are the same data structure. Hereinafter, this is referred to as category document data, and the category is "minutes".
It shall include “requests” and “specifications”. The category document data 701 includes a document file 702. The document file 702 includes item data 703. Item data 703
Are number data 711, reference number list data 712,
Remark type list data 713, content type list data 7
14, content data 715, speaker data 716, aggregation source number list data 717, and invisible attribute data 718. Among these data, the content type list data 71
4 is data composed of a list of content type data,
The content type data is like a keyword that summarizes the comment content data, and is used for the purpose of classifying the comment content. The aggregation source number list data 712 is data composed of a list of aggregation source number data, and the aggregation source number data is a list of the numbers of the items referred to when performing the aggregation editing or the copy aggregation editing (aggregation). Editing and copy aggregation editing will be described later.) The invisible attribute data 718 is data for distinguishing whether the item data is an item set to an invisible state by integrated editing, a reference item created by copy editing or integrated copy editing, or a normal item ( Reference items will be described later.)

FIG. 6 is an example of the minutes of the present embodiment.
The data anchor 601 displays the type of the document data. In FIG. 6, the data anchor 601 indicates that the data attached to the data anchor 601 is data relating to “minutes”. A file anchor 602 is an operation target for managing document data in units of a document file, and is displayed together with a document file name 603. Thus, multiple document files (minutes) are displayed in one display area.
By displaying the contents of, related data can be referred to immediately. File anchor 60
Reference numeral 2 denotes a connection line 630 connected to the file anchor 602.
The content of the minutes file is expanded and displayed. In the document editing apparatus of the present embodiment,
Record sentences in item units. In traditional minutes,
The comment data corresponds to this item. 621 and 62 in FIG.
2, 623, 624, and 625 are items. Items have numbers 611, 612, 613, 61, respectively.
4 and 615, and the remark type 6
41, 642, 643, 644, 645 are displayed.
In the minutes, since it is necessary to pay attention to the statement form, the statement type data is displayed so as to be listed. Connection line 63
1, 632, 633, and 634 indicate the reference relationships of items, and correspond to the reference numbers of conventional minutes.

A basic operation method of the document editing apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG.
Indicates the method of referring to the item. In the state of FIG.
By double-clicking (pointing twice), a dialog 801 is displayed. The dialog 801 includes the speaker data 811, the content type data 8
12, the statement content data 813 is included, so that detailed information of the statement corresponding to the item can be known.

FIGS. 9 and 10 show a method of adding an item. In the state of FIG. 6, after the item 625 is selected by pointing, as shown in FIG.
When "Add" is selected, an item 625 is displayed as shown in FIG.
The new item 625, numbered 616, is connected by connection line 635.

FIGS. 11 to 13 show an item deletion method. In the state of FIG. 6, after selecting the item 625 and selecting the menu "Object"-"Delete" as shown in FIG. 11, a dialog 1201 for confirming the deletion of the item is displayed as shown in FIG. You. If "Yes" is selected, the item is deleted, and the item 625 is deleted as shown in FIG.

FIGS. 37 and 38 show a method of duplicating an item. In the state of FIG. 6, after selecting the item 621 and selecting the menu “Object”-“Copy” as shown in FIG. 37, a new item 3826 is displayed as shown in FIG.
Is created by adding a number 3816 and a reference tag 3801.

FIG. 39 and FIG. 40 show a reference creation method of an item. After selecting the item 621 in the state of FIG.
When the menu “Object”-“Link” is selected as shown in FIG. 9, a new item 4 is displayed as shown in FIG.
226 is created by adding the number 4216. The item 4226 created in this way is called a reference item. The detailed information of the reference item is exactly the same as the detailed information of the item referred to by the reference item (in this case, item 621), and shares the data area.

FIGS. 14 to 18 show a method of collectively editing items. Aggregate editing is a function for organizing a plurality of items into one item. By suppressing the increase in the number of items, the overall listability can be improved, and the editor can summarize the contents of the aggregated items and save it as content data, which is effective in creating a document summary. is there. Hereinafter, performing collective editing on a plurality of items is simply referred to as “consolidating items”. In the state of FIG.
After selecting items 2 and 623, as shown in FIG. 14, when the menu "Object"-"Combine"-"Replace" is selected, the items 622 and 623 disappear as shown in FIG. 1526 is newly created. Item 1526 includes number 1516, reference tag 15
00, 1502, 1503 and connection line 1536 are added. The connection line 1536 is the item referred to by the item 622. When the group editing is performed, a new item created by grouping takes over the item references other than the item to be grouped among the items referred to by the group to be grouped. Therefore, the connection line 632 representing the reference from item 623 to item 622 is not carried over to the new item 1526. Reference tags 1500, 1502, and 1503 are operation targets for referring to items before being aggregated. FIG.
By pointing the reference tag 1502 in the state of No. 5, the items 622 before being consolidated are displayed as shown in FIG. At this time, the item 622 and the connection line 631,
632 is displayed in a display mode different from that before the aggregation,
The connection line 632 is connected to the item 622 and the reference tag 1503. By being connected and displayed on the reference tag 1503, it is possible to read that the items 622 and 623 are connected before the items 623 are aggregated in a non-display state. Also, the reference tag 1502 changes the display mode as indicated by 1752 so that the item 622 is displayed. When the pointing of the reference tag 1752 is performed, the item 622 is in a non-display state again. When the reference tag 1500 is pointed in the state of FIG. 15, all the items before the aggregation of the item 1526, that is, the items 622 and 623 are displayed as shown in FIG. The display mode is the same as that in FIG. Any item can be selected as the item to be aggregated. In the state of FIG. 6, after selecting the items 623 and 625 and selecting the menu “Object”-“Collect”-“Replace”, the items 623 and 625 disappear as shown in FIG. Item 1626 is newly created.
Item 1626 includes a number 1616, a reference tag 1600,
1603 and 1605 and connection lines 1632 and 1634 are added. The difference from FIG. 15 is that two connection lines are newly added. In both cases of FIG. 15 and FIG. 16, the newly added connection line is the one connected to the item to be aggregated, except for the connection to the item to be aggregated.

FIG. 19, FIG. 20, and FIG. 36 show a method of duplicating and editing an item. In the state of FIG. 6, after selecting the items 622 and 625, as shown in FIG. 19, when the menu “Object”-“Collect”-“Copy” is selected, as shown in FIG. Created. The item 2026 has a number 2016 and reference tags 2000, 2002, and 2003 added thereto. Item 20
No connection line connecting items other than 26 is generated. When the reference tag 2000 is pointed, a reference item 3622 of the item 622 and a reference item 3623 of the item 623 are displayed as shown in FIG. The reference item is a link to the referenced original item, and is displayed in another position as another item on display, but the data as an entity is the same as the referenced original item.

The document editing using the content type data will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 21 shows duplication of an item. The data anchor 2101 indicates that the data attached to the data anchor is data relating to “request”. After the item 621 is pointed and dragged and dropped on the file anchor 2102, a dialog 2201 is displayed as shown in FIG.
The dialog 2201 displays a message 2210 of a content requesting that a content type be set for “request” and an input field 2211 for setting a content type for “request”. Here, it is assumed that the editor has input text 2212 of “system type” in this input field 2211. Then, as shown in FIG. 23, a new item 2126 is created. Item 212
6 has a number 2116, a content type 2136, a reference tag 2
111 and a connection line 2102 are added. The item 2126 has the same data as the item 621 in the content data, but is independent as a data area, and changing the content data of the item 2126 does not affect the item 621. This is different from the reference item. The reference tag 2111 is an operation target for referring to the item 621.

A method of searching for a content type related to the content type of the selected item will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 24 shows the "request" data. Items 2411, 2412, and 241 are stored in the data anchor 2101.
3 are connected. These items are created from items 621, 623, and 625 by duplicating and editing the above-mentioned items. In the state of FIG. 24, after pointing the item 2411, as shown in FIG. 25, when the menu "Tool"-"Related type search"-"Specification" is selected, the content type related search program 313 is executed. 26, a dialog 2600 as shown in FIG. 26 is displayed. The dialog 2600 includes a text 2601 indicating that the content type to be searched is “specification” data.
And a text 2602 indicating that the content type of the “request” data referred to when searching is “system type”
And texts 2611, 2612, 26 indicating search results
13, 2614 are displayed. Such a content type search is executed by referring to the relationship between the content type data related to “request” and the content type data related to “specification”.
This association is called content type related data, and in FIG. 27, the content type data 2711 and the content type data 2721 and 272 are shown.
Associations 2731, 273 between 2, 2723, 2724
2, 2733, and 2734 are related to the content type. In the above-described search, a content type that matches the content type data “system type” held in the item 2411 is searched from the reference source data list 2701 of the content type related data 322, and as a result, the content type data 2711 matches I do. The content type related search program 313 extracts only the content type data 2721, 2722, 2723, and 2724 related to “specification” data from the reference destination data list 2702 of the content type data 2711 of the content type related data 322. These are the search results text 2611,
2612, 2613, and 2614, respectively. Since the content type to be searched is “specification” data, data other than “specification” data is not selected.

A method of searching for a content type related to a selected character string will be described with reference to FIGS. 25 and 28 to 30. FIG. 28 shows a state in which detailed information of item 2413 is displayed. A dialog 2801 includes a text 2811 representing a speaker, 2812 representing a content type,
A text 2813 representing the content is displayed. Here, when the text 2813 is selected, an indicator 2802 indicating that the text 2813 is selected is displayed as shown.
In this state, as shown in FIG.
-When "Relation type search"-"Specification" is selected, the content type dictionary search program 315 is executed.
A dialog 2901 as shown in FIG. 9 is displayed. A dialog 2901 shows a text 2902 indicating that the content type to be searched is “specification” data, and indicates that the words to be referenced when searching are three “design”, “use”, and “scale”. A text 2903 and a text 2904 indicating the search result are displayed. The content type dictionary search program 315 stores the first designated character string in FIG.
Source word list 3 of the content type dictionary 324 as shown in FIG.
002. FIG. 2 shows a character string in which the reference source word list data 3002 is sequentially searched, and a word therein is designated.
In the case of No. 8, if it is included in the text 2813, the content type data to be referred to is searched from the reference destination content type list data 3001. In FIG. 30, the content type data 3011, 3012, 3013, 3014, 3
015 and 3016 are reference destinations.
04 2911, 2912, 2913, 2
914, 2915, and 2916 respectively.

A method of searching for an item having a content type related to the content type of the selected item will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 32 shows the initial state. There is a data anchor 601 and a document file name 60
2, 603 and 604 are connected. Items 3201 and 312 are included in the document file represented by the document file name 604.
Information on 202, 3203, 3204, 3205, and 3206 is stored. The data anchor 32
51, the items 3210, 3220 are connected,
These are items 3201, 3202, and 3203, respectively.
The replication aggregation items and items 3201, 3204, 3205,
3206 is a copy aggregation item. Items 3202, 320
The content type list data of item 3 is set to “screen specification”, the content type list data of items 3204, 3205, and 3206 is set to “operation procedure” and item 32
The content type list data of 01 is set for both “screen specification” and “operation procedure”. In the state of FIG. 32, item 3
After pointing 220, as shown in FIG.
When the menu "Tool"-"Related item search"-"Minutes" is selected, the document search program 311 is executed,
As shown in FIG. 35, item 3220 and item 3501,
3502, 3503, 3504, 3201, 3204,
3205 and 3206 are indicators 3500,
3511, 3512, 3513, 3514, 3515,
Highlighted at 3516, 3517, 3518. These items 3501, 3502, 3503, 3504, 3
201, 3204, 3205, and 3206 are obtained by extracting only minutes data from items having a content type related to the content type list data “operation procedure” of the item 3220. When the document search program 311 is executed, the content type list data of the selected item is referred to. In this case, "Operation procedure" is displayed in the content type data list.
Is set. Next, the document search program 311
Executes the content type related search program 313 to search for a content type related to the content type “operation procedure”. In this case, as shown in FIG. 33, the content type related search program 313 generates a reference source list 330 of the content type related data.
A keyword “operation procedure” is searched from 1 and a content type referred to by the keyword is extracted from the reference destination list 3302. The “specifications” document search program 311 receives this result from the content type related search program 313, searches the document data for an item having the content type included in the result, extracts it, and highlights it.

[0026]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Since it is possible to search for a topic related to the content being discussed during the meeting, it is possible to eliminate omission of the discussion. In addition, since past discussions related to the content being discussed can be searched, duplication of discussions can be avoided. Thus, the efficiency of the conference can be improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional configuration diagram of a document editing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a hardware configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a system configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a conventional minutes

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a data structure of a conventional minutes

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing minutes of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a data configuration used in an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 22 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 23 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 24 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 25 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 26 is a diagram showing search results.

FIG. 27 is a diagram showing content type related data.

FIG. 28 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 29 is a diagram showing search results.

FIG. 30 shows content type dictionary data.

FIG. 31 is a diagram showing a data structure used in an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 32 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 33 shows content type related data.

FIG. 34 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 35 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 36 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 37 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 38 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 39 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 40 is a diagram showing an operation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Document editing apparatus, 2 ... Input means, 3 ... Document processing means,
4 output means, 5 input / output control means, 6 document processing unit,
11: Document storage means, 12: Content type related storage means, 1
3 ... Content type dictionary storage means, 21 ... Document search means, 31
... Document editing means, 22 ... Content type related search means, 23 ...
Content type dictionary search means, 32 ... Content type related editing means,
33 ... Content type dictionary editing means

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Claims (15)

[Claims] 1. A document editing apparatus for storing and editing a document, wherein the document includes at least one item, a text can be edited and saved for each item, and a connection relationship between the items. And a means for setting, for each item, a content type that summarizes and expresses the contents of a sentence included in the item, and sets for each item based on a reference relationship set between the content types. A document editing apparatus characterized by having a content type related search means for searching for a content type related to a specified content type. 2. The document editing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a content type related editing means for setting a reference relationship between the content types. 3. A document editing apparatus for storing and editing a document, wherein the document includes at least one item, a text can be edited and saved for each item, and a connection relationship between the items. And a content type dictionary search means for searching for a content type related to the specified character string based on the specified character string and the content type dictionary. 4. The document editing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a content type dictionary editing means for setting a content type dictionary. 5. A document editing apparatus for storing and editing a document, wherein the document includes at least one item, a text can be edited and saved for each item, and a connection relationship between the items. Means for setting, for each item, a content type for summarizing and expressing the content of a sentence included in the item, and a content type set for the item and a reference relationship set between the content types. A document editing apparatus characterized by having document search means for searching for an item in which a content type related to a content type set in a designated item has been set. 6. A document editing apparatus for storing and editing a document, wherein the document includes at least one item, and a sentence can be edited and saved for each item, and between the arbitrary items. Means for setting the connection relationship, any one or more items are selectable, and subsequent to setting the item selected by the user to the invisible state, without adding the editing operation by the user, A document editing apparatus, comprising: a document editing unit that newly creates an item having a connection relationship with an item other than the item included in the item instead of the item. 7. The document editing device according to claim 6, wherein the document editing unit sets the invisible state as a visible state as needed, and displays the invisible state in a display mode different from an item already set as a visible state. A document editing device for displaying the following items: 8. The document editing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said document editing means is capable of selectively setting any of the invisible items as visible when necessary. apparatus. 9. The document editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the storage medium stores machine-readable information, wherein the information stored in each of the units is stored in the storage medium. apparatus. 10. A document editing method for storing and editing a document, wherein the document includes at least one item, a text can be edited and saved for each item, and a connection relationship between the items. Is set, a content type that summarizes and expresses the content of the sentence included in the item is set for each item, and a reference relationship between the content types is set, and the item is set based on the set reference relationship. A document editing method characterized by searching for a content type related to a content type set for each document. 11. A document editing method for storing and editing a document, wherein the document includes at least one item, a text can be edited and saved for each item, and a connection relationship between the items. And searching for a content type related to the specified character string based on the specified character string and the content type dictionary. 12. A document editing method for storing and editing a document, wherein the document includes at least one item, a sentence can be edited and saved for each item, and a connection relationship between the items. Is set, a content type that summarizes and expresses the content of the sentence included in the item is set for each item, and based on the content type set for the item and the reference relationship set between the content types, A document editing method characterized by searching for an item in which a content type related to a content type set in a specified item is set. 13. A document editing method for storing and editing a document, wherein the document includes at least one item, and a sentence can be edited and saved for each item, and between the arbitrary items. A connection relationship is set, and any one or more items are selectable, and subsequent to setting the item selected by the user to an invisible state, the user can add the item without adding an editing operation. A new item having a connection relationship with an item other than the item included in the item. 14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the invisible state items are made visible as necessary, and the invisible state items are displayed in a display mode different from the items already set as the visible state. A document editing method characterized by the following. 15. The document editing method according to claim 13, wherein any of the invisible items can be selectively made visible as necessary.