JP3020803B2 - Legal document search and revision system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document management system, and more particularly to a law for retrieving legal documents by using a computer, and revising a current law from a revised law and an existing law (hereinafter referred to as a revised law). ) Which relates to a search and revision system for law documents.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Legal documents are frequently created, revised, and deleted due to the enactment, revision, or abolition of laws. Only part of the work related to these legal documents is systematized, such as searching for legal documents.Preparation of a new and old comparison table, which is the basis of the revision work of laws and regulations, and preparation of the revised laws is still manual work or word processing. Is performed individually. Here, the amendment of laws and regulations refers to the enactment of amended laws and regulations to rewrite existing laws and regulations with new laws and regulations, and the revision work is to create new laws and regulations documents and compare the old and new laws and regulations with the old and new laws and regulations. This is the work of creating a comparison table, creating and publishing revised legal documents.

[0003] Revision of laws and regulations begins with an investigation of the laws and regulations to be revised. Currently, laws and regulations are searched by referring to the collection of laws and regulations at the user's hand.
Replacement is performed only about once, and even if laws are revised, it will take six months at the latest to replace the law.
For this reason, the user manually corrects the law collection at hand based on the promulgated revised law, and errors or oversight may occur. In particular, assuming that a revision of a certain law will affect other laws and regulations, it will take a great deal of time and effort to find out the law that needs revision from the above-mentioned law collection that is not up to date, and it will take errors and oversights. Occurs. The existing law collection search system does not directly update management data from new or revised legal documents created in the revision work, but rather uses publications created by legal document publishers as promulgated documents or their electronic data. To update management data.
Similar problems arise because management data is updated several days to several months after the date of enforcement of the revised law.

[0004] This is because the search system mainly stores legal documents and provides them for searching, and also because figures and styles are excluded from management targets. The new statute document and the revised statute document are obtained by copying the current statute document from the search system, and editing and creating each by a word processor or the like. These created legal documents are used as materials for consensus building with the superior and related departments and as manuscripts for promulgation documents, and are not centralized with data used for updating management data.

Next, in order to refer to the contents of the previous revision and the revisions of other similar cases, a precedent survey was conducted, for example, by tracing the history of the revision in order and searching for the basis of the revision at that time. After making a solid policy, copy and cut a copy of the old and new laws and regulations, which compare the differences between the current laws and the new laws, and make several revisions in order to form a consensus with the supervisor and related departments. Is newly created. In preparing the revised text, the person in charge of the revision needs a revision technique, such as a guideline, rules based on precedents, and layout rules, separately from the legislation technique. In addition, legal documents require the approval of the chief of their promulgation, and the format and format of legislative documents, legislation techniques, and revision techniques are examined and approved. In the process of consensus building and examination, every time a new or old comparison table or revised law is revised, it is necessary to cut and paste and read the results of the revision using a word processor. In the case of promulgation after the approval of the director, if it is necessary to prepare a new copy of the promulgation,
Subsequent reading is required. Also, with paper management, it is difficult to grasp the status of examinations, approved and promulgable laws and regulations, and immediately determine when to promulgate. In the case of urgent matters, it is required that the process from the investigation of the amendment to the enforcement be performed in a short period of time.

[0006] In the initial input of management data, punch input using a puncher requires a cost and a period, and is a complicated operation such as correction by revision during the input period.

[0007] As a well-known technique for processing legal documents,
A document revision support system (JP-A-4-162175) is known. This is a system that creates a new and old comparison table and a new law document from a revised current document file in which the current law is marked with the current revision and a revised content file in which the revision is entered using a keyboard or the like. It is.

[0008]

As described above, it is impossible to refer to the latest laws and regulations in the addition-and-deletion laws and regulations, and even if a user makes corrections by himself / herself,
Errors and omissions occur. In addition, in order to identify laws and regulations that need to be revised, it is necessary to cover all citation and reference relationships without fail, and it is necessary to read all laws and regulations or rely on the experience of workers. Consumes time.

[0009] In the search system and the document revision support system for patents, when revising laws and regulations, in order to refer to previous revisions and revisions of other similar cases, the history of revisions up to now is traced in order. It is necessary to conduct precedent investigations, such as searching for the basis for the revision, but these documents are managed by individuals and are missing due to a transfer of the person in charge and it takes time to search. There is a problem that the final fix is not always made and it is not up to date.

Further, if a revision of the laws and regulations based on the current state is performed without knowing that the laws and regulations obtained as a result of the revision are being revised, there is a possibility that a deviation may occur, and the consistency as a law is maintained. Lost.

When a policy on how to revise is decided, a new / old comparison table comparing the differences between the current law and the new law is created by a word processor or by copying and cutting and pasting. To make consensus with the superior and related departments, several corrections are required repeatedly, and each time a work such as correction, cut-and-paste, and reading by a word processor is required, which increases costs due to paper resources and complicated work. Next, in preparing revised laws and regulations, it is necessary to comply with the rules in the guidebook and precedents, the layout rules, etc., and it takes time and effort to analyze those surveys. In addition, these techniques are know-how based on personal experience, and a certain period of time is required for newly appointed workers to become skilled.

[0012] The prepared legal documents are examined by the department in charge of law for legal form, legislation technology, and revised techniques.
Approval and consensus building with related departments are performed. Examination / approval involves physical movement of people and paper, such as carrying paper documents such as copies to various departments or holding meetings, which takes time. In addition, each time a correction work such as copying or cutting and pasting is performed, the reading is required.

Approved laws and regulations are published in the gazettes and promulgated, but in order to determine which law is to be promulgated and when, it is necessary to determine whether or not the approval has been approved and to promulgate at the same time as other laws and regulations. It is necessary to consider the nature and the order of promulgation, and management by paper is a complicated operation.

[0014] In the case of an urgent matter, it is required that the process from the survey of the object to be revised to the enforcement be performed in a short time.

[0015] The known document revision support system supports the creation of a new statute document and the creation of a new / old comparison table, but requires the user to mark the location of revision, and the revised statute needs to be prepared separately. There are problems such as the inability to investigate the history of revisions and precedents, the need to be aware of the rules and layout of guidance, the unification of examination and approval, and the necessity of creating a separate promulgated document.

In the existing law collection search system, figures and forms are excluded from the management target, and new law documents and revised law documents are copied and extracted from the current law document from the search system, and word processors are processed. Since these are edited and created individually, there is a problem similar to the case where the addition and subtraction law collection is used. Updating the management data requires a few days to several months from the date of enforcement of the revised law, because the update is performed using the publication created by the legal document publisher as a document for promulgation or its electronic data.

In the initial input of the management data, the punch input by the puncher requires a cost and a period, and is a complicated operation such as correction by revision during the input period.

The present invention is mainly concerned with the establishment of revised laws and regulations, which is the basis of the revision of legal documents, and the automation of the creation of a new and old comparison table, from input to the system, accumulation, search, revision, examination approval and promulgation, and data updating. Work in a unified way,
The present invention aims to shorten the time required for the revision work and to reduce labor costs associated with complicated and simple tasks such as cutting and pasting of paper and reading at the time of fair copy using a word processor.

Another object of the present invention is to allow a user to quickly search and refer to the latest laws and regulations, including other laws and regulations cited therein.

[0020]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, there is provided a search means for searching a storage means for storing a plurality of legal documents based on a specified search condition and extracting a matched legal document; A law document having a difference extracting means for extracting a difference by comparing with a law document and creating a difference table, and a revised law generating means for generating a revised law from a current law document, a new law document, a difference table and a revision rule. It features a search revision system.

[0021]

[Function] Since a legal document defines a logical structure such as a title, an article, and a paragraph, a layout position, and a character string that appears, the input legal document corresponds to an identifier (hereinafter, referred to as a tag) representing the logical structure. After being converted into a structured document given to a character string, it is stored in a storage device, and used for searching for a legal document and generating a revised law.

Based on such a structured document, when the search term is replaced by another character string, the search means extracts the abbreviation or the description rule of the replacement and replaces it with any character string. It is determined whether or not the reference has been made, the replacement word is searched again as a search word, and the result is reflected in the search result, whereby the reference relation is completely searched.

By the search means, the user can quickly perform various searches, and can reduce the time, cost, omission of search and errors in specifying laws and regulations to be revised and investigating related laws and regulations.

After the new law is created, the current law and the new law are compared, and the corrected part is used as difference information.
Extract the revision position of each new or existing law and the revision type of change or deletion, apply the revision rules corresponding to the revision location and revision type, and add the date of promulgation, enforcement date, title, etc. Thereby, the revised law can be automatically generated.

[0025]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the system configuration of this embodiment. 101 is a terminal device such as a keyboard and display; 102 is a CPU; 103 is an input device such as a scanner and a character recognition device; 104 is a work storage device (work memory); 105 is a printer device;
Is a magnetic disk device that stores a law collection table for managing law documents and law-related documents.
A magnetic disk device 108 stores related information such as memos and comments, a magnetic disk device 108 stores a law dictionary and rules, and a memory 109 stores various programs.

First, details will be described in accordance with a procedure for structuring and inputting a legal document.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram of the structured input means.
A paper law document 201 is read via an image scanner 202 and stored as image data 206. The character recognition device 203 that stores the character recognition program reads the image data 206 and converts it into text data 207 that is character-recognized and coded, and the position from the left and top edges of the page is defined as a distance with the origin at the top left corner of the page The data is converted into data position information 208 indicating the start position of the data, and stored in document units and page units. The character recognition device 203 includes a law name, an organization name,
Dictionary 21 of proper nouns such as facility names, especially hiragana
1, it is effective to extract words from the text data and divide the text data into text data.

The extraction of the logical structure is based on the text data 20
7. Data position information 208 and layout pattern 212
Is performed by pattern matching.

A logical structure is extracted by the structure recognizing program 204, a structure identifier (hereinafter, referred to as a “tag”) representing the logical structure is embedded in a character string, and the structured
And the table / style data 210 is created.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing correspondence between a paper legal document and a logical structure. In the legal document, a logical structure and a physical structure are strictly defined, and a correspondence between a pattern 301 of a physical layout structure and a logical structure 302 is created as a layout pattern 303. Here <promulgation text>, </
The promulgation sentence> is a tag.

The case of the article will be described as an example. The following data is prepared as the layout pattern 309.

"-"-{Article number}-"article"-""-{article} "-"-"article number"-"article"-{branch number}-""-{article} The arrangement of words is shown by separating them with "-". “{}” Indicates a category of a word. “″” Indicates the character face of a word. A text that matches this pattern and has a starting character position at the first character from the left margin can be recognized as the start of a line.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of the logical structuring process. Work memory 1 stores image data 206 and text data 207 in document units and page units.
04 in sequence (401, 402). Legal documents are:
Since the promulgation statement 304, the promulgation date 305, the promulgator name 306, the law number 307, the law name 308, and the main rule appear in this order, pattern matching is performed in order, and the corresponding tag is embedded (40).
3). When the start of the article is recognized (405), a tag "<article>" representing the article is generated at the head (406). Start of the next article 4
07 is recognized as one item, and a tag “</ article>” indicating the end of the item and a tag “<article>” indicating the start of the item are generated immediately before (408) and repeated.

If there is a ruled line in the strip, it is recognized as a table (410), and the image in the area surrounded by the ruled line is cut out as a table and text is extracted and stored as a document part file and its text file. (41
1). At the corresponding position in the table in the structured law file, a tag representing a part and pointer information indicating which part is generated are generated (412). Parts that cannot be recognized as characters and ruled lines are also cut out as figures.

If the start of the style is 413 in the separate table, a tag "</ article>" indicating the end of the style is generated, and the repetitive processing is ended (409). Attachments and styles match the next pattern at the end of the article, so cut out the text just before the start of the next pattern or until the end of the document as one style and extract the text in the same way, as a part file of the document It is stored (414).

When the "first"-{number}-"number"-"form"-"""separatetable"-"first"-{number} file is completed (404), the structured legal sentence is stored (415). .

The above is the procedure for automatically extracting the logical structure.

Next, the layout program 2 shown in FIG.
13, as shown in FIG. 5, the structured structured sentence 501 is compared with the layout pattern 303, the indentation and the font type corresponding to the tag are changed, the figures and tables are inserted, and the layout of the legal document is performed. A layout file 215 corresponding to the rules and structure information 214 in which the tag name and the start position and end position of the tag are associated with the number of bytes from the head of the document are created.

Next, the document registration program 205 shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 6, the structured law sentence 501 is searched to extract a character string surrounded by tags related to the date of promulgation 602, law number 603, and law name 604, and is automatically stored in the law collection table 605 as document information. register.

In the case where the document information is insufficient, the reading is not performed well, and an exceptional legal document that cannot be structured is input using a conventional editor or the like.

The above is the procedure for automatically converting a paper legal document into logically structured electronic data.

FIG. 7 is a conceptual diagram of a table structure of the law document input by the input means. The document information of each law document is managed as a record of the law collection table 605, and the law document is managed as a record of the law table 709. The records of the law table 709 include a structured law statement 710, a layout file 711, and structure information 71.
2. It manages a pointer that points to an entity file 714 of a part 713 such as a figure or a style. In the record of the law collection table 605, an area 702 indicating the state of the law document is secured.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a state transition of a legal sentence.
The value 802 of the current state represents a value 803 to which the current state value 802 changes according to the user's operation 801 on the law document. If the operation of the revision registration is performed in the normal state, the state transits to the state of being revised (80).
4) In addition, by automatically changing the state according to the operation, such as automatically returning to the normal state on the enforcement date (805), the user can immediately determine what state the reference rule is in. Can be determined.

When a law document is related to another law document, the link between the law text and the law text is managed as a link in a link table. FIG. 9 is a conceptual diagram showing the structure of the link table. The link table 901 includes, as related information, a link identifier 902 for uniquely identifying all links, and a character string related to a document 1 pointer indicating a storage location of one related legal document from the beginning of the document. It manages information 903 of the document 1 including the position in the document 1 and the link type indicating the number of the character and the number of the character, and information 904 of the document 2 indicating the storage position of the other legal document. The link identifier 902 is embedded between link tags 906 representing links. Link types include citations, notes, comments,
This area stores the type of association.

When displaying a document, a link tag 905 in the document is searched to obtain a link identifier 902 in the general link tag.

The type of link corresponding to the link identifier 902 as a key is determined from the link table, and the link identifier 902 surrounded by the link tag 906 with an emphasis attribute corresponding thereto.
Is displayed. When the highlighted portion is designated, the document information 904 of the linked document 2 is obtained, and the related portion is displayed, so that the related document can be referred to immediately. Next, a procedure for automatically associating a certain law with another law will be described.

When a certain law refers to another law, the name of the law and its law number must be specified in the first citation. For example, when citing the Natural Environment Conservation Ordinance, the “Nature Environment Conservation Ordinance (Kanagawa Prefectural Ordinance No. 52 of 1972)
No.) ”as a direct quotation. If the same statute is cited again in an article,
"Hereafter, it is referred to as" the ordinance. ""And other words by using abbreviated expressions such as"",and" Nature Environment Ordinance Article 3 "is referred to as" Ordinance Article 3 ".

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the procedure of processing for analyzing these and automatically associating them. First,
The target structured law sentence is read into the work memory 104, the name of the law in the document is searched, and the name of the law and the appearance position are directly registered in the citation table as a direct citation expression (10
01). The found direct citation expression is checked for abbreviation by the following method (1002). The following data is prepared in advance as an abbreviation pattern.

{Law name}-"("-{law number}-"."
"-" And "-", "-"""-＠A-"""-" and "-". The symbol "-") is the same as the pattern of the structure extraction.
Is a variable to which the abbreviation part applies. "Natural Environment Conservation Ordinance (Kanagawa Prefecture Ordinance No. 52 of 1972.
"Ordinance". )) As an example, by directly matching the citation expression with the above pattern, the "natural environment preservation ordinance"-"("-Kanagawa Prefectural Ordinance No. 52-"."-"Below"- ″, ″ − ″ “″
-"Ordinance"-"""-" and "-""-". ″
-")". As a result, it is recognized that the abbreviation of the "natural environment preservation ordinance" is the "ordinance" that matches the part of the variable $ A. Thereafter, the word "regulation" is searched for in addition to the law name, and the identifier of the directly quoted expression corresponding to the occurrence position is registered in the abbreviation table. FIG. 11 shows a direct citation table,
FIG. 12 is a diagram showing the structure of the abbreviation table. Next, the expression of the citation is analyzed (1003). The following data is prepared as a citation expression pattern.

"1st"-{number}-"section"; type 1 "1st"-{number}-"section"; type 1 "previous"-"section"; type 2 "next"-"section"; type 3 "same"-"rule"; type 4 "same"-"rule"; type 4 "same"-"rule"; type 4 The right of ";" indicates the type of search method of the citation destination for each pattern. By matching the pattern with the law text file, it is assumed that “Article 5, Paragraph 2”, “Paragraph 3”, “Previous Article”, and “Article 3, Article 3” are recognized as quoted expressions.
FIG. 13 shows the contents of the citation table at this time. These quoted expressions are analyzed directly or through a conjunctive part. For details of this analysis, see "Kaji and Yamano," Japanese-English / English-Japanese Machine Translation System HICATS "b
it separate volume Machine translation, Nomura, Tanaka edition, Kyoritsu Publishing, pp.
191-197, September 1988 ". "Section 3" of "Article 5 Paragraphs 2 and 3"
Is found to be "Article 5, Paragraph 3", and "Article 3, Article 3" is understood to be "Article 3, Article 3".

Next, the citation destination is acquired as follows according to the type of citation destination search of the pattern (1004-1 to 1004).
008).

Type 1 Search by the number in the quoted expression Type 2 Search for the immediately preceding clause Type 3 Search for the immediately following clause Type 4 Search for the immediately preceding quoted expression, search for the quoted destination of the quoted expression As a result of the search, The position becomes clear, and the citation table has the contents shown in FIG. The pointer and the position of the document and the pointer and the position of the cited document are registered in the link table (1009), and the link identifier is surrounded by link tags and embedded in each text (1010). The above is the procedure for automatically associating legal documents. FIG.
FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram of a configuration of a search unit. When a search condition is input from a terminal device (1501), a synonym expansion program 1502 searches a dictionary (not shown), expands a synonym of a search character string, and a full-text search program 1503 constructs a concentration of laws and regulations. The law text 1508 is searched, and the identifier of the law document including the search character string is registered in the search result table 1507. The replacement search program 1504 analyzes whether or not the search character string has been replaced with another character, and if it has been replaced, performs the search 1505 again using the replacement word as a search character string. If the structure designation search is designated, the structure designation search program 1506 is started and the search result table 1507 is updated. The search results are displayed by the result display program 1509.

Next, the details of the search procedure will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, a given search condition is input and registered in the search result table 1507 (1601). In the search by document information, given the attribute name and attribute value, the attribute value of the attribute is sequentially called from the law collection table, compared with the search attribute value, and the law collection pointer of the true record is retrieved. The information is registered in the table 1507 (1602).

If an instruction to expand a synonym or a mnemonic word is given in the full-text search, the dictionary is searched, and the synonym or the mnemonic word is also searched for in addition to the search character string (1603).

In the full-text search, a structured law sentence is searched, and a law collection pointer of a document that matches a given search character string, and a matched character string and its position are registered in a search result table 1507 (1604).

When an instruction to take the logical product of the search result with the document information search is issued, the search is performed on the structured law sentence of the law collection pointer registered in the search result table as the search result of the document information.

If the instruction to expand the replacement word is given, it is analyzed whether the matched character string is a word replaced with another word or a word replacing another word (160).
5) Other words are also used as search character strings. Analysis of the replacement is performed in the following procedure. The replacement is performed in the same pattern as the abbreviation expression. A plurality of pieces of the following data are registered in advance in the storage device as a replacement pattern.

＠ A- "("-"and following"-","-"""
-{B-"""-" and "-"-"-". "-") "First, the value of ＠A in the search word and the replacement pattern (character string)
And pattern matching. If there is a matching character string, it is recognized that the search word has been replaced with a character string that matches the variable $ B (1605), and the value (character string) of the variable $ B is registered as a search word and re-registered. Search (160
6). Next, pattern matching is performed between the search word and the value of 列 B (character string) in the replacement pattern. If there is a matching character string, the search term is recognized as replacing the character string that matches the part of the variable $ A (1605), and the character string of the variable $ A is registered as a search term and searched again ( 16
06). It should be noted that the read-out pattern may be a table format in which a plurality of strings are listed in comparison with the character string of ＠A and the corresponding character string of ＠B instead of the sentence form as described above.

When a search target tag is specified as the range of the search target structure, the tag name corresponding to the matched character position is obtained from the structure information file. If the tag name does not match the search target tag, the search result table is displayed. The law collection pointer is deleted from 1507 (1607).

With the above search, the search result table 15
The document information of the record pointed to by the law collection pointer registered in 07 is called and displayed as a search result (1608).
When a certain law document is specified from the search result, the layout file 711 indicated by the pointer in the law table 709 indicated by the law collection pointer is read, and the character string length area is emphasized from the character position of the matched character in the search result table. Display as attributes. If the status 702 in the document information is not normal but is being revised, a warning is indicated.

Further, the link tag 9
In the case where the document ID 05 is present, the related document can be displayed based on the link identifier 902 regardless of this search method. The above is the description of the search for the legal document.

Next, the processing procedure of the revision work will be described with reference to FIG.

When a law to be amended is determined by a search and an instruction for amendment registration is issued, the state 170 of the law table 1701 is displayed.
2 is changed to “under revision”, the record of the revision law table 1704 is registered, and the revision plan table 1707 is generated. The current law pointer 1703 is copied to the old law pointer 1709 of the revision plan table so that the current law pointer 1703 points to the entry 1711 of the current law in the law table. At this time, the following data is prepared as a character string to be added to the name of the law corresponding to the amendment method in advance, and the amendment method of partial amendment, full amendment, or abolition is selected.

Partial Revision “Partial Revision of $ A” Abolished “Repealed ΔA” Full Revision “” The character string enclosed by “” is a character string added to the law name, and the variable Indicates the type of law, and indicates an ordinance if it is an ordinance, and a rule if it is a rule.

When the “natural environment preservation ordinance” is partially amended in this way, a “law ordinance for partially revising the natural environment preservation ordinance” and a law name are generated, and the document information of the record in the revised law table 1704 is added to the document information. Register (1705).

The revised law table is set to 1704, an attribute that cannot be referred to by a general searcher and another person in charge of revision, entries in the table can be written only by the person in charge of revision, and the person in charge of law review is: Set to a referenceable attribute. In addition, the planned promulgation date and enforcement date are input as document information (1706).

When a law to be revised is specified from the revised law table 1704, a copy 1713 of the law table indicated by the current law pointer is generated. Amendment proposal table 170
The pointer of the copy is registered in the new law pointer 1708. At this time, the pointers of the structured laws and sentences and figures and tables point to the same entity 1712 as the current laws and regulations.
FIG. 18 is a schematic diagram for extracting a difference between new and old laws and creating a new and old comparison table. When a revision instruction is given to the current law 1801, a revised law record in which the current law is copied is registered (1802). A new text 1808 is created by the structured document editing program. The elaboration program 1809 checks the created legal text against a dictionary and rules 1812. The difference between the new law 1808 and the current law 1801 is created as a difference table 1810 by the difference extraction program 1804, and this is extracted as detailed difference information by the analysis program 1805 of the revised part. A new / old comparison table 1811 is generated.

Edit the structured legal sentence with an editor (18)
03), and prepares a document 1809 of the revised law.
At this time, the person in charge of revision only needs to be aware of the logical structure without being aware of the physical layout rules of the text. When the structured law sentence, figure / table, or the like is changed, it is stored as another entity file 1715, and the pointer information 1717 of the applicable law table is changed to a value indicating the new entity file 1715. It is effective to perform these editing operations by displaying the new laws and regulations and the current laws to be revised on the editor side-by-side.

Next, the elaboration procedure will be described. The new legal document is checked against inappropriate terms, legal terms, and rules 1807. If inappropriate, a warning and a countermeasure are displayed, and elaboration is performed as to whether the document is appropriate as a legal document. If there is a word "Revision", change it to "Revision" to unify. If there is a word "Preparation", it is easy to skip "Adjustment", so change it to "Create". ”To the user, and at the direction of the user,
Perform character replacement.

Further, the procedure (1) for automating the association
001 to 1008), the reference destination referred to in the new law document is extracted, and the document information 110 of the other law document referred to is extracted.
6 is acquired, and if the state is being revised, the user is warned. The reference destination 9 of the entry of the link table 901
If the 04 and the reference destination of the link extracted this time do not match, the link information and the document information of the reference destination are displayed, and a message to the effect that correction is made is displayed. The above is the elaboration procedure.

Next, a procedure for extracting a difference between a new law and a current law and displaying the difference as a pre-process for automating the revision will be described. The structured law sentence of the law record pointed to by the new law pointer 1708 and the structured law sentence of the law record pointed to by the old law pointer 1709 are read. Divide each structured statute into words. For the details of the word segmentation, a known technique of the above-mentioned document is used. Acquisition of differences between word-segmented documents can be performed using "Kakuta," Difference checking method between files ",
Information Processing, Vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 514-5
20, 1983 "and the Hecke method.
The difference table 1810 is obtained by a known technique such as the l method.
Create

FIG. 19 shows the structure of the difference table. The difference information includes the number of characters 1905 from the beginning of the document at the start position of the change portion, a character string length 1906, and a change type 1903 such as addition, change, or deletion. To display on the display device.

If the display result is not as intended by the amendment person, the range of the highlighting and the type of the highlighting attribute are changed, and the entry in the difference table is changed as shown in FIG. 20 according to the change information.

For example, when "meaning to do" is changed to "meaning to do", it is assumed that "things" and "things" are displayed in reverse video by the difference extraction method. By changing the reverse display to “to be performed” and “to be performed”, the number of characters at the start position of the changed portion of the entry of the difference table is converted to half-width characters by -4 (200
4, 2006), and the character string length is +4 (2005,
2007).

In the figures and tables, the presence / absence of a tag representing a part and pointer information are compared, and if they are different, they are registered in the difference table as a revised part. Revision location and difference type
Generate a new and old comparison table when it is correctly changed.

When an instruction to generate a new / old comparison table is received, a new / old comparison table file is generated, entries are sequentially called from the difference table 1901, and a tag before the start position of the changed part and a subsequent end tag are searched for. Tag name 20
02 is registered as a revised tag name. If this tag is a section, issue, or table tag included in a section, search before and after, write the range between the start and end tags of the section as a difference to the old and new comparison file, and highlight the changed part And Also, the number of the clause to which the changed part belongs is registered. If the tag is an article, title, or table of contents other than the above, the tag name is registered as a changed part (2003). If there is a number immediately after the start tag, the number is registered. Is written to the old and new comparison table file.

The pointer information of the new / old comparison table file is registered in the entry of the revision plan table 1707. The above is the procedure of difference extraction.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing the concept of generating a revised law. The revised statute generation program 2101 reads the current statute document 2102, the new statute document 2103, and their difference table 2104, compares them with the revision rule 2105, and generates a revised statute document 2106 for changing the current statute into a new legislation.

Next, a procedure for generating a revised law will be described with reference to FIG. A revision rule table is prepared in advance for a revision sentence corresponding to the tag name of the revision location, the change type, and the continuity of the revision location. The process first reads the difference table 2104 (2201). Next, the revision tag 2 of the record
A corresponding revision rule is generated from 002 and change type 1903 (2202). The next record is read, and the changed part 2203 is the same and the change type 1903 is the same (220
If it is 4), a revision rule corresponding to the revision tag and the change type is generated as the revision (2205). If the change type is different, the revision tag 2202 and the change type 19
03 is generated (2206). If the article number is different, or if the article is other than amendment, an amendment rule is generated as end (2107).

In the following, "Article 1 of the ABC Rules shall be 1,000 yen. Article 2 means ..." shall be performed within one month.・ ・ ・ ・ 2 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Article 3 ・ ・ ・ 」is changed to“ ¥ 1,200 for ABD Rule Article 1…. .. Within 3 months .. FIG. 20 shows the configuration of the difference table 2104 when it is revised to Article 3.
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FIG. 23 shows the contents of the revision rule 2105. The revision rule is composed of variables $ A, $ B, $ C and a fixed phrase. The variable $ A (2304) is
3 is applied. The variable $ B is applied to the changed part of the current law 2102 entered in the difference table, and the $ C is applied to the changed part of the new law 2103.

First, the law name in the difference sentence table 2104 is called (2201). According to the amendment rule 2105, the amendment of the law name is entirely replaced (2303), so that the law name of the new law 2103 is acquired and the next amendment rule is generated (2202).

"<Shift> Title is changed as follows. <Replacement law name> ABD rule <Replacement law name></ Shift >>" The second record of the difference table 2104 is read and revised. According to the rule 2105, since the rule is changed 2304, "the first rule" is applied to the variable $ A. The third record of the difference table 2104 is read, and the
Since it is an article, it is determined that the article change is completed 2305, and the next amended rule is generated (2207).

In the <Sections> Article 1, "1,000 yen" is changed to "1,2
00 yen ". Here, the second record of the difference table 2104 is referred to, and in the revision rule 2105, the changed portion of the current law is applied to ＠B, and the changed portion of the new law 2103 is applied to ＠C. . The fourth record of the difference table 2104 is read, and since the changed part 2003 is the same Article 2, Paragraph 1, and is a change, it is determined to be the same amendment 2306 of the article change, and the next amendment rule is generated (2205). .

"<Sections> In Article 2, Paragraph 1," What to do "
The fifth record of the difference table 2104 is read, and the same Article 2 is deleted (the number of laws and ordinances is-). Is generated (2206).

"Revise" within one month "to" within three months. "Since the difference record is the last, it is determined that the deletion of the entire article is completed 2308, and the next revision rule is generated (220).
7).

[Section 2 of the same article is deleted.] By extracting the law name and the scheduled date of promulgation from the document information 1704 (2208), the following revised law is generated.
It is stored (2209).

[<Promulgation Date> April 1, 1994 </ Promulgation Date><Law of Law> Rules Revision of Part of ABC Rules </ Law of Law><Postscript> The title will be changed as follows. Replacement Law> ABD Rules </ Replacement Law></Story><Story> In Article 1, "1,000 yen" is changed to "1,200 yen". </ Storyline><Storyline> In Article 2, Paragraph 1, "what to do" is "to do"
In addition, the term “within one month” is changed to “within three months” and paragraph 2 of the same article is deleted. The above is the procedure for generating the revised law.

When preparing explanatory materials for consensus building with the superior and other departments, the record 170 of the revision plan table is used.
Specify 7 and give an instruction. The pointer to the explanatory material is registered in the revision plan record. When the law type is an ordinance, “summary” 1718 is indispensable. When an examination request is instructed, the pointer is checked, and if NULL, a warning is prompted and rejected.

Next, the procedure of examination and decision will be described.

After the editing of the revised law has been completed, an instruction for an examination request is issued for the finalized revised plan.

The state 2402 of the revised law record is changed to “waiting for examination”, and the attribute of the person in charge of the amendment that cannot be changed is given to the person in charge of change and registered in the law table 2401 to be examined.

The examination is performed by referring to the revised law text 2403 and the old / new comparison table 2404 from the law table to be examined. When the corresponding entry is accessed from the law table to be examined, the state 2402 of the revised law record is changed to “under examination”. If any of the revision techniques or terms are inappropriate, specify the range of the revised laws and regulations to be revised, and when receiving a comment generation instruction, start the editor, freely create a comment, and register it. As in the case of the association, the document pointer of the revised statute and the position in the file and the document pointer of the comment document are stored in the link table. Entries in the link table can be changed or deleted only by the examiner.

To circulate to a user such as a superior or a related department, a pointer to a revised law record is registered in the circulation document table of the circulating person, and the attribute is set to permit reference and comment generation.

When approval is not obtained in the examination and circulation, and a return is instructed, the state 2402 of the revised law record is returned to "being revised". The amendment staff performs the amendment work again,
Request a review. If it passes, the status 2402 of the amended law record and the law collection record is set to "waiting for promulgation" according to the approval instruction, and the attribute cannot be changed.

Next, the procedure for issuing a gazette will be described.

A record 2502 whose status 2504 is “waiting for promulgation registration” is extracted from the examination table,
It is displayed in order of check and enforcement date. When a record of the law to be promulgated is designated, a promulgation registration is instructed, and a periodical publication or an extra issue is selected, a publication table 2501 is generated, a publication number and an issue date are generated, and a pointer to the record of the law to be promulgated. 2503 is registered, the scheduled date of promulgation is changed to the date of publication, a law number is generated in the order of check, and a table of contents is created. Upon receiving an instruction to create a promulgated manuscript, the revised law layout indicated by the pointer to the law record is printed in order of check. However, if the law type 2506 is the ordinance, the ordinance summary 2507 is printed before printing the layout. When the promulgation date 2603 of the revised law record matches the date of the system, the revised law record is added to the end of the revision history table, and the general searcher is given a reference permission attribute, and the state 2605 is displayed.
Is “waiting for enforcement”.

When the enforcement date 2604 matches the system date, the current law pointer 260
6 is changed to the value 2607 of the law record pointed to by the new law pointer of the revised law record, the state 2608 is changed to normal, and the state 2603 of the revision history record is “enforced”
And delete the record from the revised law table. The above is the procedure of the revision work.

Next, a procedure for systematizing a legal document will be described.

An example will be described in which a legal document is created as a part or chapter of a legal collection, a supervising organization name, and a hierarchical classification system of legal types. FIG. 27 is a configuration diagram of the classification table.

As the records of the classification table, the word identifier 2702 of the classification word record, the classification word content 270
3. It manages a word identifier 2704 indicating a high-order word, a word identifier 2705 indicating a plurality of low-order words, and a pointer 2706 of a record of the law collection table related to the classification word.

This will be described in detail using the classification system shown in FIG. 28 as an example.

A record at the top of the classification table is generated, the classification name is set to “classification”, and the identifier is set to [0]. Here, the identifier is a hexadecimal number. In a state where the record of “classification” is designated, a record generation instruction is performed, the classification name is “law collection” (2801), the identifier is [10], and [0] is registered as the identifier of the upper word. [10] is registered as a lower word of the record of “classification”. Hereinafter, “general rules” (2802) [110] and “personnel” (2803) [210] will be used as lower terms of “laws and regulations”. In addition, “organization” (2804) [20] as a lower word of “classification”
Its lower terms are “General Affairs Department” (2805) [120],
A system is created as described in “Environment Department” (2806) [130].

In a certain classification record, a pointer to a law collection record related to the classification word is registered (270).
7).

FIG. 29 shows the procedure of a classification search. For example, “Organization” [20]> “General Affairs Department” [120] and “Law and Regulations” [10]> “HR” [210]> “Remuneration, salary, etc.”
The user is instructed to display a list of laws related to [4210] (2
901), the classification table 2904 is searched, a classification record whose logical product with the identifier [120] of the “general affairs department” is 120 is extracted, and a pointer to a law collection record of this record is registered in the work area. The identifier of the lower record can be searched and specified at high speed by taking the logical product with the identifier. Also, “Rewards, salaries, etc.” [4210]
Is processed in the same manner for the classification record whose logical product is 4210, and the pointers of the legal documents related to the two classification words extracted in the work area are matched, and the record pointer of the matched legal document is retrieved from the search result table. 2
903 is registered. The document information is acquired from the entry of the search result table 2903 with reference to the law collection table 2905 and displayed as a document list (2906).

[0107]

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, inputting, storing, searching, revising, approving, promulgating, promulgating, and promulgating data to the system, mainly for establishing revised laws and regulations and automating the creation of a new and old comparison table, which are the basis of the revision of legal documents It is possible to centralize the work up to the update in a unified manner, reduce the work time of the revision work, and reduce labor costs related to complicated and simple work such as cutting and pasting of paper and reading at the time of fair copy by a word processor or the like.

Further, it is possible for a user to quickly search and refer to the latest laws and regulations including other laws and regulations cited therein.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an embodiment of a print document input unit and a structuring unit.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram showing the correspondence between a legal document and a logical document.

FIG. 4 is a PAD diagram showing a processing procedure of logical structuring.

FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram showing a correspondence between a structured statute sentence and a layout.

FIG. 6 is a conceptual diagram showing the correspondence between structured statute sentences and document information.

FIG. 7 is a conceptual diagram showing a table configuration of a legal document.

FIG. 8 is a transition diagram of a state flag.

FIG. 9 is a conceptual diagram showing the structure of a link table.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a procedure for automatically associating a legal document with a legal document.
It is an AD diagram.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing the contents of a direct citation table.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing the contents of an abbreviation table.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing contents of a citation table before obtaining a citation destination.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing the contents of a citation table after obtaining a citation destination.

FIG. 15 is a conceptual diagram showing an embodiment of a search unit.

FIG. 16 is a PAD diagram showing a search procedure.

FIG. 17 is a conceptual diagram showing a table configuration of a revised law document.

FIG. 18 is a conceptual diagram showing an embodiment of a structured document editing unit.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing the contents of a difference table.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing the contents of a difference table specifying a changed part.

FIG. 21 is a conceptual diagram showing a configuration of automatic generation of a revised law.

FIG. 22 is a PAD showing a processing procedure for generating a revised law.

FIG. 23 is a conceptual diagram showing the contents of a revision rule table.

FIG. 24 is a conceptual diagram showing a table configuration related to examination and circulation of legal documents.

FIG. 25 is a conceptual diagram showing a table configuration relating to creation of a promulgation document of a legal document.

FIG. 26 is a conceptual diagram showing a table configuration related to automatic updating of a law table.

FIG. 27 is a conceptual diagram showing a configuration of a classification table.

FIG. 28 is a conceptual diagram showing an example of a classification system.

FIG. 29 is a conceptual diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of a classification search.

[Explanation of symbols]

101: Terminal device such as keyboard, display, etc. 102: CPU, 103: Input device such as scanner, character recognition device, 104: Work memory, 105: Printer device, 106: A magnetic disk device that stores a law collection table that manages legal documents and law-related documents, 107: A magnetic disk device that stores related information such as memos and comments between law documents, 108: Stores a law dictionary and rules ... A memory storing a program

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Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] A search means for searching a storage means for storing a plurality of law documents based on a designated search condition and extracting a matched law document; and comparing a difference between a current law document and a new law document. A law document comprising: a difference extracting means for extracting a current law document, a new law document, the difference table, and a revised rule from the current law document, the new law document, and the revised rule. Search revision system. 2. A storage means for storing a plurality of legal documents, a means for listing and storing a plurality of second character strings read as a first character string, and inputting a search condition including a search word. Means for searching for the first character string based on the input search word, and searching for the second character string to be replaced if there is a matched character string, and searching for the second character string based on the search word. The first string that is searched for and is matched if there is a matched string
And a means for searching for the legal document with respect to the character string and extracting a matched legal document. 3. A storage means for storing a current legal document, a storage means for storing a new legal document, and a correspondence relationship between a portion to be changed in the current legal document and a changed portion in the new legal document. A difference table means, a storage means for expressing the current statute document and the new statute document with variables, and storing an amendment rule composed of the variables and fixed phrases; and a difference table, the amendment rule, the current Means for generating a revision rule by applying a portion of the current law document to be changed and a changed portion of the new law document to a variable of the revision rule based on the law document and the new law document. Legal document revision system.