JP2008203946A - Retrieving device, retrieving method, its program, and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a retrieving device for displaying sufficient information of such information desired by a user without imposing a burden on the user when an information volume of a retrieval result is not sufficient. <P>SOLUTION: After receiving designation of an index word, the device retrieves information recorded in a database for retrieval so as to be associated with the index word and displays the retrieved information. If re-retrieval designation information is included in the displayed information, the device reads the information recorded in the database so as to be associated with the re-retrieval designation information to re-display the read information in succession to the already retrieved information. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a search apparatus and search method for searching for information from a database, a program thereof, and a recording medium.

In a conventional electronic dictionary, meanings and translations corresponding to inputted headwords are searched from a dictionary database and displayed on a screen. When the user displays information such as a word to be searched again from the search results displayed on the screen, the user designates the information such as the word and then re-searches and displays it from another database. This function (jump function) is used to display other meanings and translations of the re-searched word in the electronic dictionary. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an outline of the jump function in the conventional search device. As shown in FIG. 10, a search is first performed for a headword, and when the search is displayed (a in FIG. 10), if the user does not know the word indicated by the search result, the search is performed again. There is a need. In that case, the user designates a word to be re-searched (b in FIG. 10), designates which dictionary to search for the designated word using the jump function, and performs a re-search (c in FIG. 10). . Here, in an electronic dictionary provided with such a jump function, an appropriate dictionary can be displayed without displaying candidates (jump destination candidates) from which database to search for the word to be re-searched. A technique for searching from a database (jump destination) is disclosed in Patent Document 1.
JP 2004-213146 A

  By the way, in some conventional electronic dictionaries, search results such as the meaning and translation of a headword designated by the user only display other headwords. For example, when the user searches for the word “went” in the electronic dictionary, “went” is the past tense of “go”, and therefore, only “<verb> go past tense” is displayed as the search result ( This is merely an instruction to search for the word “go” again. In such a case, when the user does not know the meaning or translation of the word “go”, it is necessary to search again for the word, and for this reason, the user can search for the word “go” displayed in the search result. It is necessary to designate and select dictionary data with the jump function and instruct to search the dictionary data using the designated word as an entry word. Therefore, in order to display the meaning and translation after designating the word “went”, the user has to perform a re-search operation using the jump function, which is troublesome. In addition, as described above, when searching for “went” as a headword, only “<verb> go past tense” is displayed as the meaning, so the display area of the screen is not effectively used, and the user There was a problem that sufficient information was not displayed.

  Therefore, the present invention provides a search device, a search method, and a program and a record thereof that can display sufficient information without putting effort on the user for information desired by the user when the amount of information of the search result is not sufficient. The purpose is to provide a medium.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention, after receiving the designation of a headword, first search means for retrieving information recorded in a search database in association with the headword, Display means for displaying the information, re-search designation information storage means for storing the re-search designation information displayed in the displayed information in advance, and the re-search designation information included in the displayed information In this case, second search means for reading the information recorded in the search database corresponding to the re-search designation information and instructing the display means to re-display following the already searched information, It is a search device characterized by comprising.

  In the search device according to the present invention, the re-search specification information is displayed in a re-search start specific character string that specifies the start of the re-search and a sentence before or after the re-search start specific character string. When the search start specific character string is detected in the information searched and displayed by the first search means, the second search unit is configured to include the search start specific character string. Detecting a headword that is displayed and positioned in a sentence before or after the text, and instructing the display means to redisplay information recorded in the search database in association with the detected headword It is characterized by.

  Further, in the above search device according to the present invention, the re-search designation information is symbol data for specifying the start of the re-search, and the second search means is the information searched and displayed by the first search means. When the symbol data is detected, the display means is instructed to redisplay the information recorded in the search database in association with the identification information of the symbol data.

  In the above-described search device, the present invention further includes search exclusion designation information storage means for preliminarily storing search exclusion designation information, wherein the second search means is included in the information retrieved and displayed by the first search means. When the search start specific character string is detected and the search exclusion designation information is further detected, it is determined to stop the re-search process.

  Further, the present invention provides the above-described search device, wherein the second search means decides to cancel the re-search process based on a range on the screen of information searched and displayed by the first search means. And

  Further, the present invention is a search method in a search device, wherein the first search means of the search device accepts designation of a headword and then records information associated with the headword and recorded in a search database. The search device display means displays the searched information, and the search device re-search designation information storage means stores in advance the re-search designation information displayed in the displayed information. When the second search means of the search device includes the re-search specification information in the displayed information, the information recorded in the search database corresponding to the re-search specification information This is a search method characterized by instructing the display means to display again following the information that has already been searched by reading.

  Further, the present invention is a program to be executed by a computer of a search device provided with a re-search specification information storage means for storing re-search specification information in advance, and is associated with the head word after accepting specification of the head word. A first search process for searching for information recorded in the search database, a display process for displaying the searched information, and the re-search specification information included in the displayed information, A second search process for reading information recorded in the search database corresponding to the re-search specification information and instructing the display means to re-display following the already searched information is executed on the computer It is a program to let you.

  The present invention is also a computer-readable recording medium that stores the above-described program.

  According to the present invention, a sufficient amount of information is displayed without exerting any effort on the user for a character string that is likely to be searched again when the amount of information in the search result is not sufficient. be able to.

Hereinafter, a search device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a search device according to the embodiment.
In this figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a search device. The search device 1 includes an input unit 11 that receives input of information from an input key, a dictionary data storage unit 12 that stores dictionary data, a re-search specification information storage unit 13 that stores re-search specification information, re-search specification information and search A registration processing unit 14 that performs processing for registering exclusion designation information, an initial search processing unit 15 that searches the dictionary data storage unit for information such as the meaning of the headword based on the headword that has been accepted, and a search in the initial search processing In the case where re-search specification information is included in the result, a re-search processing unit 16 that searches for information stored in the dictionary data storage unit 12 in relation to the re-search specification information, an initial search processing unit 15 And a display processing unit 17 for displaying the search result of the re-search processing unit 16 on the screen. The dictionary data is data in which information such as meaning and translation is stored in association with symbol data such as headwords and icons. Details of the re-search designation information will be described later.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an electronic dictionary provided with a search device function.
The electronic dictionary shown in this figure has a screen and various input keys, and has a search device function inside. When the user presses a key, information on the pressed key is notified to the input unit 11 of the search device 1. The display processing unit 17 performs a process of displaying information such as examination results on the screen of the electronic dictionary.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of data in the re-search designation information table.
This re-search specification information table is used to determine whether or not a character string indicating a re-search start instruction is included in the search result when the user searches for the meaning or translation of the headword. Is done. The re-search specification information table stores the dictionary type, re-search specification information, search exclusion specification information, and setting information in association with each other. “Dictionary type” is information indicating which dictionary function is used by the user in the electronic dictionary provided in the search device, and the re-search specification information exists in the display of the search result. This is character string information that specifies the start of the search. “Search exclusion specification information” indicates that even if there is a re-search start specific character string in the search result display, there is a character string indicated by the search exclusion specification information either before or after that. Is a character string that specifies that the re-search process is to be stopped. The “setting” information is information indicating whether the processing of the search device 1 based on the combination of the re-search specification information and the search exclusion specification information is valid or invalid. That is, if “setting” is invalid, the processing of the search device 1 based on the combination of the re-search specification information and the search exclusion specification information is not performed. The re-search designation information is represented by a combination of a character string specifying the start of the re-search and an underbar “_” indicating whether the headword is located before or after the re-search designation information.

  Then, after accepting the designation of the headword, the search device 1 searches for information associated with the headword and recorded in the dictionary data storage unit 12 and displays the retrieved information on the screen. Process. Next, the search device 1 determines whether or not the re-search specification information is included in the displayed information. If it is included, the search device 1 is recorded in the dictionary data storage unit 12 corresponding to the re-search specification information. The display processing unit 17 is notified of an instruction to read the stored information and re-display the information on the screen after the already searched information. As a result, when the amount of information of the search result is not sufficient, sufficient information can be displayed for the user-desired information without putting effort on the user.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an outline of registration processing of re-search designation information.
First, when registering the re-search specification information, the user specifies a headword and a character string for specifying the start of the re-search. Here, (a) and (b) of FIG. 4 are examples of screens when the entry word is designated. Also, (c) and (d) are screen examples when a character string for specifying the start of re-search is specified.

  Here, when searching for an entry word “went” using an electronic dictionary provided with the search device 1, only “<verb> go past tense” is displayed as the search result. If the user does not know the meaning or translation of the text, the user must perform a search again using “go” as a headword. Therefore, in order to reduce such a troublesome search, in the example of FIG. 4, the headword “go” is specified and the character string for specifying the start of the re-search is specified. When the entry word is designated, the registration processing unit 14 of the search device 1 displays an underscore in the character string of the entry word, and when the character string is specified to specify the start of the re-search. Inverts the color of the character string to notify the user that each designation has been made.

  When the registration key of the re-search designation information is pressed, the registration processing unit 14 detects whether the headword is designated before or after the character string for specifying the start of the re-search. Then, when the headword is specified before the character string for specifying the start of the re-search, the registration processing unit 14 repeats the character string for specifying the start of the re-search following the underbar. Register as the search specification information in the re-search specification information table. In addition, when a headword is designated after the character string for specifying the start of the re-search, the registration processing unit 14 adds an underbar character following the character string for specifying the start of the re-search. Register the column in the re-search specification information table as re-search specification information. As a result of this registration, when the re-search designation information is displayed on the search screen, the headword before or after the re-search designation information is re-searched. In other words, in addition to the display of the character string followed by the headword “go” and the re-search specification information “no past tense” in the search results, if there is the re-search designation information “no past tense”, Depending on the position of the underbar registered as the search designation information, the headword that precedes or follows the headword is specified, and the re-search process for the headword is performed.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an outline of registration processing of search exclusion designation information.
When registering search exclusion designation information, the user specifies the character string (search exclusion designation information) for specifying that the re-search process is to be stopped, the headword designation, and the start of the re-search. Specify a character string (re-search specification information). Here, (a) and (b) of FIG. 5 are examples of screens when designating a character string for specifying that the re-search process is stopped. Further, (c) and (d) are examples of screens when a headword is designated. Further, (e) and (f) are examples of screens when a character string for specifying the start of re-search is specified.

  Even when the user registers the re-search specification information, the user may want to prevent the re-search process from being performed under certain conditions. For example, even if there is a character string indicating re-search specification information in the information displayed on the screen as a search result, when there are a plurality of completely different meanings in the search result using the character string as a headword Since it is not known which of them corresponds to the search result desired by the user, it is necessary to exclude it from the re-search target. Therefore, in such a case, in the example of FIG. 5, the user designates a character string for specifying that the re-search process “-verb” is to be stopped, designates an entry word “go”, Specify a character string to specify the start of re-search. Note that the registration processing unit 14 of the search device 1 determines the color of the character string when the character string is specified for specifying that the re-search process is to be stopped, and the headword is specified. When the character string of the headword is displayed, an underscore is displayed, and when the character string is specified to specify the start of the re-search, the color of the character string is reversed, so that the user Is notified that each designation has been made.

  When the search exclusion designation information registration key is pressed, the registration processing unit 14 includes a character string for specifying the start of re-searching, an underbar for specifying positions before and after the headword for the character string, It is determined whether or not the re-search designation information consisting of the combinations is already registered in the re-search designation information table. If registered, the search exclusion designation information (in the case of FIG. 5, the character string “-verb”) is registered in the re-search designation information table in association with the re-search designation information. As a result, even if there is re-search specification information in the character string displayed on the screen as a result of the initial search, there is search exclusion specification information before and after the character string indicated by the re-search specification information In this case, the process of stopping the re-search is performed.

FIG. 6 is a first diagram illustrating a processing flow of the search device.
FIG. 7 is a second diagram showing the processing flow of the search device.
Next, the processing flow of the search device according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.
First, when a user searches for a character using the search device 1, the user inputs a character into the search device 1, and the search device 1 accepts the input of the character (step S101). Then, the initial search processing unit 15 reads from the dictionary data storage unit 12 a headword including a character string in the same order as the order of the input character strings, and displays the list of headwords on the screen ( Step S102). Then, it is determined whether the entry word is selected and the determination key is pressed (step S103). If the determination key is pressed, the initial search processing unit 15 stores the dictionary data in association with the selected entry word. The meaning and translation information recorded in the section 12 is read.

  Then, the initial search processing unit 15 displays the headword on the screen (step S104), and then displays the meaning and translation as the search result information on the screen in one line (step S105). Then, the re-search processing unit 16 determines whether or not the re-search designation information registered in the re-search designation information table is included in the search result of one line displayed on the screen (step S106). If the re-search designation information is not included, the initial search processing unit 15 determines whether or not the display on the entire screen has been completed (step S107), and if not completed, the process returns to step S105. The next line is displayed. If the display of all lines of the search result is completed in step S107, it is determined whether or not the next character key is pressed (step S108). If the character key is pressed, step S101 is determined. Repeat the process from. The initial search processing unit 15 determines whether or not the scroll key is pressed (step S109), and when the scroll key is pressed, starts the process of changing the displayed line downward or upward. (Step S110), the processing from Step S105 is repeated.

  If it is determined in step S106 that the re-search designation information is included in one line of the search result, the re-search processing unit 16 next includes the search exclusion designation information in the one line. It is determined whether or not there is (step S111). If it is not included, the re-search processing unit 16 indicates that the underbar for specifying the headword in the re-search specifying information is either after or before the character string for specifying the start of the re-search. Determine if it is located. If it exists before, the headword displayed before the character string for specifying the start of the re-search is specified as the re-search target. Further, when the underbar is behind the character string for specifying the start of the re-search, the re-search processing unit 16 displays the headword displayed after the character string for specifying the start of the re-search. Is identified as a re-search target (step S112). The displayed search result information stores an identifier such as an ID that identifies which character string is a headword to be searched (see FIG. 11). This identifier is an ID that also identifies the type of the reference dictionary. Therefore, when the re-search processing unit 16 specifies a headword before or after the character string for specifying the start of the re-search, the search dictionary 16 uses the ID stored in the search result information for the headword. Is specified (step S113), the dictionary data is specified in the dictionary data storage unit 12, and the re-search process is performed (step S114). FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an outline of meaning data and a display example of meaning. As shown in this figure, in the meaning data shown in (c) and (d), the headword number (referred to as the above-mentioned ID) of the reference destination (re-search target) and the position of the headword of the reference destination are displayed. Stores information about whether to do this. When “gone” or “went” is a headword, the headword number 02578 of the reference destination (re-search target) is stored in the semantic data. Therefore, the meaning data indicating “碁, go” of the headword number 02579 is not the reference destination (research target), but the correct headword is the reference destination (research target). (A) is a display example when the verb “go” in English is a headword. Further, (b) is a display example in the case where the “go” noun that is the English notation of “碁, go” is a headword.

  Next, the re-search processing unit 16 displays the search result information in one line (step S115). Then, it is determined whether or not the display on the entire screen has been completed (step S116). If there is still a margin that can be displayed on the screen, it is determined whether or not the display of all the search result information has been completed (step S117). If the display has not been completed, the process returns to step 115. If it is determined in step S116 that the display on the entire screen has been completed, it is determined whether or not the character key has been pressed (step S118), and whether or not the scroll key has been pressed (step S118). Step S119). When the character key is pressed, the process proceeds to step S115. When the scroll key is pressed, the process of changing the displayed line downward or upward is started (step S120). The processing from step S115 is repeated.

FIG. 8 is a third diagram showing the processing flow of the search device.
The processing flow shown in FIG. 8 is obtained by changing the processing of step S111 in the processing flow of FIG. 7 to processing of step S201 and step S202. In this way, the search device 1 determines whether the search result line displayed on the screen is the last line, determines whether the screen margin is more than half, and the displayed line is searched. Only when the result is the last line and the margin of the screen is more than half, the headword to be searched again may be specified and the search result of the headword may be displayed on the screen.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a display example of search results.
In this figure, (a) is an example in which the search result of the initial search process and the search result of the re-search process are displayed separated by dotted lines. Further, (b) is an example in which the search result of the re-search process is displayed following the search result of the initial search process. As described above, the search device 1 according to the present embodiment displays a small number of initial search results, and the user does not know the character string displayed in the initial search results. If there is a character string of re-search specification information, a search result using that character string as a headword is displayed.

  With the above processing, sufficient information is displayed without putting effort on the user for the character string that the search result information amount is not sufficient and the user seems to need to search again. Will be able to.

  In the present embodiment, the case where the re-search designation information is a character string has been described, but the foot search designation information may be a pattern such as an icon. In this case, if the icon is displayed in the first search result, the information registered in association with the icon information is re-searched and displayed after the first search result. Become.

  The above-described search device has a computer system inside. The process described above is stored in a computer-readable recording medium in the form of a program, and the above process is performed by the computer reading and executing this program. Here, the computer-readable recording medium means a magnetic disk, a magneto-optical disk, a CD-ROM, a DVD-ROM, a semiconductor memory, or the like. Alternatively, the computer program may be distributed to the computer via a communication line, and the computer that has received the distribution may execute the program.

  The program may be for realizing a part of the functions described above. Furthermore, what can implement | achieve the function mentioned above in combination with the program already recorded on the computer system, and what is called a difference file (difference program) may be sufficient.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of a search device. It is the schematic of the electronic dictionary provided with the function of a search device. It is a figure which shows the example of data of the re-search designation | designated information table. It is a figure which shows the outline | summary of the registration process of re-search designation | designated information. It is a figure which shows the outline | summary of the registration process of search exclusion designation | designated information. It is a 1st figure which shows the processing flow of a search device. It is a 2nd figure which shows the processing flow of a search device. It is a 3rd figure which shows the processing flow of a search device. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of a search result. It is a figure which shows the outline | summary of the jump function in the conventional search device. It is a figure which shows the outline | summary of meaning data, and the example of a display of meaning.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Search apparatus 11 ... Input part 12 ... Dictionary data storage part 13 ... Re-search designation | designated information storage part 14 ... Registration process part 15 ... Initial search process part 16 ... Re Search processing unit 17 ... display processing unit

Claims (8)

A first search means for searching for information associated with the headword and recorded in the search database after accepting designation of the headword;
Display means for displaying the retrieved information;
Re-search designation information storage means for storing in advance re-search designation information displayed in the displayed information;
When the re-search designation information is included in the displayed information, the information recorded in the search database corresponding to the re-search designation information is read and the information already retrieved is followed by the information A second search means for instructing the display means to redisplay;
A search device comprising: The re-search designation information is composed of a re-search start specific character string that specifies the start of the re-search and a headword that is displayed and positioned in a sentence before or after the re-search start specific character string,
When the second search means detects the search start specific character string in the information searched and displayed by the first search means, the second search means displays it in the text before or after the search start specific character string. 2. The headword that is positioned at the same time is detected, and the display unit is instructed to redisplay information recorded in the search database in association with the detected headword. Search device. The re-search specification information is symbol data that identifies the start of a re-search,
When the second search means detects the symbol data in the information searched and displayed by the first search means, the second search means is recorded in the search database in association with the identification information of the symbol data. The search device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit is instructed to re-display the stored information. It further comprises search exclusion designation information storage means for preliminarily storing search exclusion designation information,
The second search means detects the search start specific character string in the information searched and displayed by the first search means, and further detects the search exclusion designation information, the re-search process The search device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the stop is determined. The second search means determines to cancel the re-search process based on a range on the screen of the information searched and displayed by the first search means. The search apparatus in any one. A search method in a search device,
After the first search means of the search device accepts designation of a headword, it searches for information recorded in the search database in association with the headword,
Display means of the search device displays the searched information;
The re-search designation information storage means of the search device stores in advance the re-search designation information displayed in the displayed information,
When the second search means of the search device includes the re-search specification information in the displayed information, the second search means reads the information recorded in the search database corresponding to the re-search specification information. Then, following the information that has already been searched, an instruction to redisplay is given to the display means. A program to be executed by a computer of a search device provided with re-search specification information storage means for storing re-search specification information in advance,
A first search process for retrieving information associated with the headword and recorded in the search database after receiving the designation of the headword;
Display processing for displaying the retrieved information;
When the re-search designation information is included in the displayed information, the information recorded in the search database corresponding to the re-search designation information is read and the information already retrieved is followed by the information A second search process for instructing the display means to redisplay;
A program that causes a computer to execute.   A computer-readable recording medium storing the program according to claim 7.

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