JP2018025833A - Information searching method, information searching program, terminal for information searching, and information searching device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to appropriately search for and provide information on sightseeing desired by a user while the user feels almost no difference in language, by utilizing non-linguistic information as input and output in information search.SOLUTION: An information searching system comprises: a receiving part 110 that receives an input of first non-linguistic information from a plurality of candidates for the first non-linguistic information; a syntax creation part 130 that creates a search syntax from the first non-linguistic information the input of which has been received; an information searching part 220 that searches for information to be searched for on the basis of the search syntax; and a display part 160 that displays a result of the search as second non-linguistic information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

  The present invention relates to an information search method, information search program, information search terminal, and information search apparatus using non-linguistic information.

  In preparation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the number of foreign tourists is expected to increase significantly over the next 10 years. From such a background, a tourist spot search system that is easy to use for foreigners is desired. However, there are various languages used by foreigners. For this reason, in the tourist information information system in a foreign language, the system is multilingual so that guidance can be provided in main languages such as English, Chinese, French, and Spanish (Patent Documents 1 and 2).

  Patent Document 1 describes a tourism guide information system that can download a file that guides and guides tourist guide information of each tourist spot in a language desired by the user.

  Further, in Patent Document 2, a foreign tourist or the like uses a mobile phone (smartphone) or the like from an information tag attached to a guide board or a signboard installed in a sightseeing spot or the like, or a mobile phone or the like. Describes a tourist guidance system that selectively obtains, via the Internet, guidance data about the above-mentioned sightseeing spots and explanation data consisting of characters / graphics, which are configured in a plurality of languages, from the position information obtained by GPS.

  However, there are various languages used by foreign tourists visiting from various regions, and the above-mentioned main languages cannot always be used, and it is difficult to develop a system corresponding to all languages. For this reason, even in the systems of Patent Literature 1 and Patent Literature 2, there is a problem that it is difficult for foreign tourists who are not good at the main languages described above to obtain tourist information.

JP 2000-029942 A JP 2012-038278 A

  The present invention has been studied and completed by paying attention to such problems, and its purpose is to utilize non-linguistic information for input and output in information retrieval, so that the user can hardly feel the language disparity. It is to be able to appropriately search and provide information such as tourism desired.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, the present invention provides a reception step of receiving input of first non-language information from a plurality of first non-language information candidates, and a search syntax from the first non-language information that has received input. A generation step for generating the search information, a search step for searching for information to be searched based on the search syntax, and a display step for displaying the search result of the search step as second non-language information.

  According to the present invention, information desired by a user can be appropriately searched and provided by non-linguistic information, so that the burden of multilingualization can be suppressed and language disparity can be corrected.

1 is an overall view of an information search system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. It is a block diagram which shows schematic structure of the information search system of FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the input screen of the information search system of FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the result display screen of the information search system of FIG. It is a flowchart which shows an example of operation | movement of the information search system of FIG. It is a block diagram which shows schematic structure of the information search system which concerns on Example 2 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the outline of the data structure which the relationship storage apparatus of FIG. 6 memorize | stores. It is a figure which shows the other example of a result display screen.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is an overall view of an information search system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. Here, as an example of the information search system, a sightseeing information search system for searching for sightseeing spots will be described. The information search system includes a client terminal 100 and a server 200. The client terminal 100 may be a portable information terminal such as a smartphone (hereinafter simply referred to as a terminal). Then, the terminal 100 downloads and installs the information search application software according to the first embodiment as a program, thereby realizing an information search system in cooperation with the server 200.

  The terminal 100 requests the server 200 to execute the information search process via the network 300, receives the search result from the server 200, and displays it on the screen of the terminal 100. Examples of the network 300 include a public wireless LAN (Local Area Network) and a mobile phone network such as LTE (Long Term Evolution). Further, when the terminal 100 requests the server 200 to execute the information search process, the terminal 100 acquires position information of the terminal 100 from a GPS (Global Positioning System) satellite 400 and transmits the position information to the server 200.

<Configuration>
First, the configuration of the information search system according to the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 2, 3, and 4. FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of the information search system according to the first embodiment. The flow of processing in the terminal 100 and the server 200 is indicated by a solid line, and information exchange between the terminal 100 and the server 200 is indicated by a dotted line.

  The terminal 100 is received by the input unit 110 that receives input from a foreign tourist (hereinafter referred to as a user), the position information acquisition unit 120 that acquires the position information of the terminal 100 from the GPS satellite 400, and the input unit 110. From the input and the position information acquired by the position information acquisition unit 120, a syntax generation unit 130 that generates a syntax for information search, a transmission unit 140 that transmits the generated syntax to the server 200, and a result of the information search as a server 200 includes a receiving unit 150 that receives the received search results, and a display unit 160 that displays the received search results.

  Here, the input unit 110 and the display unit 160 are configured as the same touch panel display of a terminal (for example, a smartphone). The location information acquisition unit 120 may acquire location information of the terminal 100 from GPS information, or may acquire location information from a signal from a mobile phone network such as a public wireless LAN or LTE, or a beacon. Also good. The syntax generation unit 130 corresponds to the processor and memory of the terminal 100 on which the information search application software operates. The transmission unit 140 and the reception unit 150 correspond to a wireless communication module, and execute communication with the server 200 via a network.

  The server 200 includes a receiving unit 210 that receives information search syntax from the terminal 100, an information search unit 220 that searches for information to be searched that is stored in the information storage device 500 using the received syntax, A transmission unit (output unit) 230 that transmits the search result to the terminal 100.

  Here, the information search unit 220 executes information search processing on the information storage device 500 in cooperation with the processor and the memory of the server 200. The information storage device 500 may be provided inside the server 200. Further, it may be provided as an external storage device. In the case of an external storage device, the server 200 executes transmission / reception of information with the external storage device. The reception unit 210 and the transmission 230 correspond to a wireless communication module, and communicate with the terminal 100 via a network such as a public wireless LAN or a cellular phone network such as LTE.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of an input screen displayed on the input unit 110. The input screen 600 includes a moving means selection screen 610 for a user to select a moving means, a moving time selection screen 620 for selecting a time spent for moving, and a charge selection for selecting an entrance fee for a sightseeing spot. A screen 630 and a search execution button 640 for starting a search based on a user instruction are provided.

  The moving means selection screen 610 displays a guidance symbol (pictogram) which is non-language information. Here, as the display of the moving means, “walking” 611, “car” 612, “train” 613, “bus” 614 are displayed in order from the left in the upper row, and “airplane” is sequentially displayed from the left in the lower row. Reference symbols 615, “Ship” 616, and “Bicycle” 617 are displayed, and can be selected by touching at least one moving means. In this figure, “walk” 611 is selected and highlighted.

  The travel time selection screen 620 displays a clock mark that is non-language information, and can be selected from a plurality of travel time interval candidates from a pull-down menu. In this figure, the down arrow of the pull-down menu is clicked, and “˜15 minutes” is selected. That is, the condition “movable within 15 minutes” is selected. The reason why the user can understand the display of this figure in this sense is that the moving time selection screen 620 is displayed below the moving means selection screen 610 and the clock mark which is non-language information is displayed. This is because selection of moving means and moving time is recalled. Therefore, even a foreign tourist (user) who uses any language can intuitively understand that the Arabic numeral “15” displayed on the screen 620 represents the travel time. Here, Arabic numerals are non-linguistic information.

  Here, when the Arabic numeral is smaller than “24”, it may be difficult for the user to understand whether it is “minute” or “hour”. Therefore, by displaying the English word “minutes” representing “minute” together with Arabic numerals, the user can understand as supplementary information of Arabic numerals (that is, non-linguistic information). As supplementary information, the abbreviation “min” or “m” may be displayed instead of the English word “minutes”. A simple English word or abbreviation such as “minutes” can be understood as meaning “minute” even by a foreign tourist (user) who is not good at English.

  The complementary information need not be displayed for all candidates for the travel time interval. For example, when “15-30” is simply displayed after “˜15 minutes” in the pull-down menu, the user can estimate “15-30 minutes”. For tourists, recalling that “15 minutes to 30 hours” has too long time intervals as candidates for travel time, and that the candidate for selection is “15 hours to 30 hours” after the above selection candidates. This is because it cannot be obtained.

  The charge selection screen 630 displays a Japanese yen mark that is non-linguistic information, and by clicking a down arrow on the pull-down menu, a plurality of money interval candidates can be selected. In this figure, “Unspecified” is selected, which means “no particular charge is selected”.

  In this way, the user can understand that the display of this figure means “no particular charge selection” is for this information search system to search for tourist spots, and a plurality of amounts. This is because it is possible to recall that it is an item related to the selection of a charge since the candidate for the interval is selectable. For this reason, even a foreign tourist (user) using any language can intuitively understand that the screen 630 is an entrance fee for a tourist spot.

  Further, symbols such as “-” (hyphen) and “-” (dash) may be used instead of the English word “Unspecified”. In this way, even a user who does not know the English word “Unspecified” can intuitively use this system.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the search execution button 640 is provided in a specific area on the input screen 600, and a search by the information search system is executed by touching the user after selecting a search condition. As described above, a configuration using a combination of an image display and a touch panel display may be used, and a mechanical switch or the like arranged in the terminal 100 may play a similar role. When the user presses the search execution button 640, a search according to a predetermined search condition is instructed.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a result display screen displayed on the display unit 160. On the result display screen 700, a geographical information screen 710 around the tourist spot as a search result, a pictorial symbol (pictogram) 720 indicating the type of the tourist spot, and a tourist spot information screen 730 are displayed. On the tourist spot information screen 730, the tourist spot information 731 indicated by the above-mentioned guidance symbol 720 is displayed.

  The geographic information screen 710 displays a map around the tourist graphic symbol 720 for a tourist spot as a search result. The guide graphic symbol 720 indicating the search result is displayed in a so-called white color (the background color of the symbol is dark and the symbol in it is displayed in white), and it is intuitive to the user that the search result is a tourist spot. Can understand. In this figure, the symbol “hot spring” is displayed.

  The tourist spot information screen 730 displays tourist spot information 731 which is a detailed display of the search result guidance symbol 720. Here, a spatial image photograph of the tourist spot “hot spring” indicated by the guide graphic symbol 720 (photo that can intuitively understand the outline of the tourist spot) and the name of the “hot spring” displayed in white by the guide graphic symbol 720 Is written in Roman letters as “Onsen 1”. In addition, when writing the name, it is generally desirable to use Roman letters or English. In this way, in addition to the spatial image photograph, the name is written as supplementary information, even if the user cannot understand the supplementary information, people around the user (such as shop assistants at tourist spots) understand This is because there are cases where it can be done. Spatial image photographs are non-linguistic information.

  In FIG. 4, in addition to the guide symbol 720 for tourist spots, a plurality of types of guide symbols (guide symbols 721, 722, 723) are displayed. For example, when the user selects one of the guide symbols 721, 722, and 723 for a plurality of tourist spots (for example, when 721 is selected), the guide symbol 721 is displayed in white, and until now, it is white. The displayed guidance graphic symbol 720 is normally displayed (the background color of the symbol is white and the symbol therein is darkly displayed). Then, the display of the tourist spot information on the tourist spot information screen 730 is switched from the tourist spot information 731 corresponding to the guide graphic symbol 720 to the tourist spot information corresponding to the guide graphic symbol 721. Here, the geographic information and the guidance symbol are non-linguistic information.

  The tourist spot information on the tourist spot information screen 730 can be slid left and right. For example, when the tourist spot information 731 of “hot spring” in FIG. 720 returns to the normal display and the guide graphic symbol 723 is selected and displayed in white, and the tourist spot information corresponding to the guide graphic symbol 723 is displayed on the tourist spot information screen 730 instead of the tourist spot information 731. Further, when the tourist spot information 731 is slid to the right side, the guide graphic symbol 720 on the geographic information screen 710 is returned to the normal display and the guide graphic symbol 722 is selected and displayed in white as in the above case. Instead of the tourist spot information 731, tourist spot information corresponding to the guide graphic symbol 722 is displayed on the screen 730. In order to encourage the user's intuitive operation, it is preferable that the slide direction of the tourist spot information corresponds to the arrangement of the guide graphic symbols on the geographic information screen 710.

  In some cases, the guide symbols 721, 722, and 723 for a plurality of sightseeing spots are not displayed.

  4 is different from the guidance symbol shown on the input screen 600 of FIG. 3, but may be the same. That is, it does not prevent the input guidance symbol and the guidance symbol output and displayed from being the same. For example, the same guidance graphic symbol “hot spring” as the guidance graphic symbol “hot spring” 720 shown in the result display screen 700 of FIG. 4 is displayed on the input screen 600 of FIG. Good.

<Operation>
Next, the operation of the information search system according to the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. 2, FIG. 3, and FIG. FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the operation of the information search system.

  First, when the user selects “walk” 611 as the moving means on the moving means selection screen (610 in FIG. 3), the syntax generation unit 130 accepts that the moving means is “walk” 611 (S110). Next, when the user selects a travel time interval of “˜15 minutes” on the travel time selection screen (620 in FIG. 3), the syntax generation unit 130 accepts that the travel time interval is “within 15 minutes” ( S120).

  Subsequently, when the user selects “Unspecified” on the fee selection screen (630 in FIG. 3), the syntax generation unit 130 accepts that the admission fee selection is “None” (S130).

  Finally, when the user presses the search execution button (640 in FIG. 3), the syntax generation unit 130 searches the search syntax (that is, the search) based on the one or more non-linguistic information (search conditions) selected by the user. (Formula) is generated (S140).

  In the above-described example, the syntax generation unit 130 performs AND (movement means: walking) from information selected by the user as “movement means: walking”, “movement time: within 15 minutes”, and “entrance fee: not specified”. (Movement time: within 15 minutes) A search expression of AND (entrance fee: not specified) is generated.

  Here, the syntax generation unit 130 acquires the position information of the terminal 100 when the user presses the search execution button (640 in FIG. 3) from the position information acquisition unit 120 in FIG. The acquired position information may be sent to the server 200 in a format separated from the search formula, or may be sent in a format put in the search formula.

  As described above, the user selects the travel means on the travel means selection screen 610, selects the time spent on travel on the travel time selection screen 620, selects the entrance fee for the tourist spot on the charge selection screen 630, and finally, By pressing the search execution button 640, a search syntax using a logical product (AND condition) can be generated from information selected by the user.

  Here, the selection of the user is accepted for each of the processes of steps S110, S120, and S130. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the processes of S110, S120, and S130 are performed when the user presses the search execution button in S140. All user selections may be accepted. Further, the order of steps S110 to S130 can be changed.

  The transmission unit 140 transmits the search syntax generated by the syntax generation unit 130 to the reception unit 210 of the server 200.

  The information search unit 220 searches the information storage device 500 using the search syntax received by the reception unit 210, and transmits the search result from the transmission unit 230 to the reception unit 150 of the client terminal 100 as non-language information. The display unit 160 can display the received search results as shown in FIG.

  According to the first embodiment, the user does not directly input the text information for generating the search syntax, but inputs (or selects) one or a plurality of non-language information on the input screen 600 of FIG. Then, the non-language information is received by the input unit 110, the syntax generation unit 130 generates a search syntax from the received non-language information, and the information search unit 220 can search for information. Here, the input of non-linguistic information means that one non-linguistic information is selected from a plurality of non-linguistic information candidates when receiving the input of one non-linguistic information.

  Also, as shown in FIG. 4, the search result display screen uses non-linguistic information such as spatial image photographs of tourist spots and guide symbols, so that the tourist spots that are the search results can be intuitively understood. There is an effect. As a result, foreign tourists using any language can obtain tourist information.

  In addition, when displaying a sightseeing spot, in addition to a space image photograph, the name is described as supplementary information using language information for convenience. However, it should be noted that supplementary information is not essential.

<Modification 1-1>
In the first embodiment, the syntax generation unit 130 is provided in the client terminal 100. However, the configuration is not limited thereto, and the syntax generation unit 130 may be provided in the server 200.

<Modification 1-2>
In the first embodiment, the search syntax is generated by concatenating the selection results of the movement means selection screen 310, the movement time selection screen 320, and the charge selection screen 330 with the logical product (AND condition). However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the search syntax may be generated by concatenation with logical sum (OR condition), logical negation (NOT condition), or the like. In this case, the input unit 110 may be able to input graphic symbols representing OR conditions and NOT conditions, or may be able to input English words such as “OR” and “NOT” as complementary information.

<Modification 1-3>
In the first embodiment, the syntax generation unit 130 acquires the position information of the terminal 100 when the user presses the search execution button (640 in FIG. 3) from the position information acquisition unit 120 in FIG. Information is transmitted to the server 200. However, the position information acquisition unit 120 is not limited to this, and the position information of the terminal 100 may not be acquired.

  For example, the input screen 600 of FIG. 3 is provided with a screen (not shown) that allows the user to select the type of tourist spot as a pictorial symbol (pictogram), selects “restaurant” as the type of tourist spot, When an asterisk (not shown) for displaying the restaurant rank is selected from a guide symbol (pictogram), a search syntax that can sufficiently narrow down the search target can be generated. Therefore, when the information search unit 220 searches for information, the position information of the terminal 100 is not always essential.

<Configuration>
FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of an information search system (client terminal 1100 and server 1200) according to the second embodiment. In the input unit 110 described in the first embodiment, it is difficult to specify detailed conditions as compared with the case where the keyword is input as text. For this reason, it is difficult to reflect the detailed search intention of the user. Therefore, in the second embodiment, an information recommendation unit 800 is newly provided.

  The information search process, that is, the process from the input unit 110 to the information search unit 220 is the same as that in the first embodiment, and a description thereof will be omitted.

  In the second embodiment, the information search unit 220 searches the information storage unit 500 to acquire a tourist spot as a search result, and then transmits the tourist spot as a search result to the information recommendation unit 800. Then, the information recommendation unit 800 searches the relevance storage device 900 for a tourist spot similar to the tourist spot of the search result, and returns a similar tourist spot as the information recommendation result to the information search unit 220. The association storage device 900 may be provided inside the server 200. Further, it may be provided as an external storage device.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an outline of the structure of data stored in the relationship storage device 900. The data structure is a network structure in which each piece of information (here, a tourist spot) is a node, and a relationship between information and information (a common attribute between tourist spots) is a link. In this network structure, names and attributes of tourist spots, which are text data, are configured in an XML (Extensible Markup Language) database.

  For example, the node “hot spring 1” and the node “hot spring 2” are linked with a common attribute “hot spring”. Further, the node “hot spring 1” and the node “hot spring 2” are linked by the common attributes “accommodation possible” and “large public bath”, and are also linked by the travel time “train 1 hour”. Further, the node “hot spring 1” is linked to the node “aquarium 1” with a travel time “train 30 minutes” and is linked to the node “tower 1” with a travel time “train 1 hour”.

  Upon receiving the name information of the tourist spot “Onsen1” as the search result, the information recommendation unit 800 receives the name information of the similar tourist spot from the relevance storage device 900, for example, the similar tourist spot “Onsen2” from the common attribute “hot spring”. Recommend the similar tourist spot “Hotel 1” from the common attributes “Accommodation Allowed” and “Large Bath”.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a result display screen of the display unit 160 according to the second embodiment. The tourist spot information 1010 of the tourist spot “Onsen1” as an information search result includes a spatial image photograph screen 1020 on which a spatial image photograph of this tourist spot is posted, a geographic information screen 1030, a transportation means, a telephone number, an address, A supplementary information screen 1040 such as an entrance fee, business days, business hours, etc. is displayed. And the space image photograph as non-language information is displayed on the similar tourist spot information screen 1050 under it. Here, spatial image photographs of four similar tourist spot information are displayed.

<Operation>
The user who has seen the screen of FIG. 7 can tour this tourist spot if the tourist spot information 1010 as the information search result satisfies a plurality of non-language information (search conditions) selected by the user. Good.

  On the other hand, when the user's search condition is not satisfied, the user does not search again but is displayed as a similar tourist spot information screen 1050 on the touch panel display in which the input unit 110 and the display unit 160 are integrated. One of a plurality of spatial image photographs can be selected (ie, a narrowing search is performed). The input unit 110 receives the selection result and sends it again to the information recommendation unit 800.

  Then, the information recommendation unit 800 extracts information directly related to the selection result, that is, information directly linked to the selected information, and the display unit 160 displays the extracted information.

  According to the second embodiment, the user narrows down the search and repeats displaying information that meets the conditions from the linked information, thereby eliminating the inconvenience of information search using non-language information. It has the effect of being able to. That is, it is possible to eliminate the inconvenience that detailed conditions cannot be specified as compared with keyword input.

<Modification 2-1>
In the similar tourist spot information screen 1050 of FIG. 8, four similar tourist spot information is displayed equally. However, if the relevance storage device 900 has the strength of relevance of each node (sightseeing spot), the information recommendation unit 800 recommends the strength of relevance as a rank, and the display unit 160 recommends the rank that is recommended. May be displayed on the similar tourist spot information screen 1050. For example, three star marks are assigned as ranks to similar tourist spots that are most relevant to the tourist spot 1010 as the information search result, and two star signs are assigned to similar tourist spots that are the next most relevant. In addition, one star may be given to a similar tourist spot having the next highest relevance.

<Modification 2-2>
The relevance storage device 900 of FIG. 6 extracts a plurality of search results from a plurality of information storage devices 500, and performs so-called big data analysis from the plurality of search results in advance, whereby the network structure of FIG. You may ask for.

  Although the embodiments (including modifications) of the present invention have been described above, two or more embodiments may be combined and implemented. Alternatively, one of these examples may be partially implemented. Furthermore, among these, two or more embodiments may be partially combined.

  For example, the present invention is an information retrieval system using non-linguistic information, and can be applied to a general navigation system, for example, other than a system that handles tourism information, regardless of the embodiment of the information system.

  For example, when implemented as a Web system, a Web server stores a recording medium that holds graphical symbols, Arabic numerals, spatial image photographs, and geographic information, and responds to a client (Web browser) using such information. It is good also as a system. Alternatively, the Web server may be obtained as needed from another server without having a recording medium.

  If implemented as a terminal application such as a smartphone, the search term input may be performed with at least one of guide symbols, Arabic numerals, spatial images, and geographic information. These pieces of information may be held in a terminal, or may be held in a server and transferred in response to a request from an application.

  The present invention is not limited to the description of the embodiments of the invention. Various modifications may be included in the present invention as long as those skilled in the art can easily conceive without departing from the description of the scope of claims. For example, the input unit 110 and the display unit 160 are described as being configured as the same touch panel display, but may be configured as separate touch panel displays.

100, 1100 Client terminal 200, 1200 Server 110 Input unit 120 Location information acquisition unit 130 Syntax generation unit 140, 230 Transmission unit 150, 210 Reception unit 160 Display unit 220 Information search unit 500 Information storage device 800 Information recommendation unit 900 Relevance storage apparatus

Claims (15)

An accepting step of receiving input of first non-language information from a plurality of first non-language information candidates;
Generating a search syntax from the first non-linguistic information that has received an input;
A search step of searching for information to be searched based on the search syntax;
A display step of displaying the search result of the search step as second non-language information;
An information search method comprising:   The information search method according to claim 1, wherein the reception step receives selection of the first non-language information from the plurality of first non-language information candidates displayed on the screen.   The information search method according to claim 1, wherein the first non-language information that has received an input is the same as or different from the second non-language information to be displayed.   The information search method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the first and second non-linguistic information includes at least one of a guide graphic symbol, Arabic numerals, a spatial image photograph, and geographic information.   5. The information search method according to claim 1, wherein the receiving step receives an English word, an abbreviation of an English word, or a Roman character as complementary information of the first non-language information.   The information receiving method according to claim 1, wherein the accepting step accepts at least one of logical product, logical sum, and logical negation as a graphic symbol.   The information retrieval method according to claim 1, wherein the accepting step accepts at least one input of logical product, logical sum, and logical negation in English words.   The said search step receives the place of the input which the said reception step received as positional information, and searches the said information search device based on the said search syntax and the said positional information. Information retrieval method. An accepting step of receiving input of first non-language information from a plurality of first non-language information candidates;
A transmission step of transmitting information based on the first non-language information to an information search device;
Receiving a search result from the information search device;
Displaying the search result as second non-language information;
An information retrieval program that can be executed on a computer.   The information search program according to claim 9, wherein the information based on the transmission first non-linguistic information is a search syntax for the information search device to perform a search. A reception unit that receives input of first non-language information from a plurality of first non-language information candidates;
A transmission unit that transmits information based on the first non-language information to an information search device;
A receiving unit for receiving a search result from the information search device;
A display unit for displaying the search result as second non-language information;
An information retrieval terminal comprising: A search unit that searches for an information storage device that stores information to be searched based on first non-language information selected from a plurality of first non-language information candidates;
An output unit for outputting the search result of the search unit as second non-language information;
An information retrieval apparatus comprising:   The information search device according to claim 12, further comprising an information recommendation unit that recommends information related to the search result as non-language information from a relevance storage device.   14. The information search device according to claim 13, wherein the data structure stored in the relationship storage device is a network structure in which the search result is a node and a relationship between the search result and other information is a link. 15. The information search device according to claim 14, wherein the relationship storage device has a strength of relevance between the search result and the other information, and the information recommendation unit recommends the strength of the relevance as a rank.

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