JP5096850B2 - Search result display method, search result display program, and search result display device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a search result display method, a search result display program, and a search result display device.

Information retrieval method and apparatus for displaying relation between information by connecting mutually related information with lines, or displaying irrelevant information in reverse, and a computer program for information retrieval are presented. (For example, refer to Patent Document 1).
In addition, a plurality of labels for narrowing search results are extracted on the screen, and these are displayed in a predetermined area on the screen. By specifying this label, an information search system and information search for further narrowing the search results A program is presented (see, for example, Patent Document 2).
JP 2004-192355 A Japanese Patent No. 3864235

  However, in the techniques described in Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2, the related display between information is performed only in the same display category. Therefore, with the techniques described in Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2, it is difficult to grasp the relevance of search results between different display categories. Here, the display classification means that the type of information can be identified. For example, displaying information for each display area obtained by dividing the screen into a predetermined number, or displaying the type of information on the displayed information at the same time.

  In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to be able to easily grasp the relevance of search results between different display categories.

In order to solve the above-described problem, the present invention provides a set of search target information having a plurality of items, each of which includes search target information in which at least one element is described, each of which is identified by an identifier and registered. The set is searched using a search term, and the search result based on the search term is displayed on a display unit for each of a plurality of display areas corresponding to the types of items included in the search target information. The result display device, for each of the elements included in the search target information, the relevance level that identifies the relevance level indicating the relevance between the search target information including the element and the element by the identifier of the search target information. the relevance information for each element having at least one pair of pairs of identifiers, the has a plurality stored in the storage unit for each item, one of the display area, at least one, via the input unit, the Classification information for classifying the search target information is input for a search target information item, and the search target information corresponding to the search word is extracted from the set of search target information by searching by the search term. When displaying each element described in each extracted search target information in the display area, it generates total output information in which the identifiers of the search information related to the classification information are collected, and the storage unit stored in the classification elements of the search target information based on the classification information, and displays a different display area from the display area to the classification information is input via the input unit, it is displayed When an arbitrary element is selected from among the elements, by referring to the output information in the storage unit, another element related to the selected element is stored in the memory via the identifier. Part Get, the obtained element, by displaying qualified, qualified displays different elements from different ones of the is the displayed on the display area selection element, displaying the elements in the display area And determining the display position of the element based on the relevance of the relevance information, displaying the element for each display area in which the element is displayed according to the determined display position, Is displayed in a plurality of display areas, it is displayed in another display area among the elements displayed in the plurality of display areas. The determined elements are displayed at the same position in each of the display areas .
Other means will be described in an embodiment described later.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to easily grasp the relationship of search results between different display categories.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a search result display device according to the present embodiment.
As shown in FIG. 1, the search result display device 1 includes a processing unit 2, a storage unit 3, a record DB (Date Base) 4, a display unit 5, and an input unit 6.
The processing unit 2 has a function of processing information, and includes a search processing unit 22 that performs information search on a record stored in the record DB 4 and a display processing unit 21 that displays information search results on a display unit. And have. Further, the display processing unit 21 further includes a logical operation processing unit 211 and a highlight display processing unit 212. As will be described later, the logical operation processing unit 211 has a function of performing logical operation processing such as AND processing and OR processing on the acquired record number. As will be described later, the highlighting processing unit 212 has a function of performing processing such as highlighting the selected feature word label and the feature word label related to the feature word label.
The record DB 4 holds each record that is search source data. The record will be described later with reference to FIG.
The various index information 31 (relevance information) is data that is output as a result of applying the technique described in Patent Document 1, for example, based on the record DB 4. For each record item, a feature word (element) and And the degree of relevance to the record. The various types of index information 31 is a set of index information, and the included index information differs depending on the type of record. For example, if the record to be searched is a failure report of a notebook PC, the various index information 31 includes product name index information, title index information, status index information, cause index information, countermeasure index information, occurrence date index information, and Occurrence date data index information, etc. A specific description of the various types of index information 31 will be described later with reference to FIG.
The record index information 32 will be described later with reference to FIG.

  The display unit 5 includes a display or the like and has a function of displaying information. The input unit 6 includes a keyboard and a mouse and has a function of inputting information to the search result display device 1.

The processing unit 2 and the units 21, 22, 211, and 212 in the processing unit 2 include a ROM (Read Only Memory) (not shown) and a RAM (Random Access Memory) (not shown) stored in an HD (Hard Disk). And is implemented by being executed by a CPU (Central Processing Unit) (not shown).
In this embodiment, the record DB 4 and the storage unit 3 are provided in the search result display device 1. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and various index information stored in the record DB 4 and the storage unit 3. 31 or at least one of the record index information 32 may be a device different from the search result display device 1 and may be a storage device that can communicate with the search result display device 1.
The display unit 5 and the input unit 6 may be at least one PC that can communicate with the search result device 1 and is different from the search result device 1. By doing so, it becomes possible to input a query input and feature word selection described later from a remote PC and display the results on the remote PC.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a record.
FIG. 2 shows, as an example of a record, a notebook PC failure report record that is created each time a notebook PC (Personal Computer) defect occurs.
In the record 1000, data is entered for each item of product name 1001, title 1002, status 1003, cause 1004, countermeasure 1005, date of occurrence 1006, date of occurrence data 1007. Each record 1000 is assigned a record number 1008 as an identifier of the record 1000.
The situation 1003 is data relating to a situation where a failure of the notebook PC has occurred. The cause 1004 is data relating to the cause of the defect in the notebook PC. The countermeasure 1005 is data relating to the countermeasure taken for the defect.
The record DB 4 in FIG. 1 holds a large number of such records for each defect of the notebook PC.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of index information.
The index information illustrated in FIG. 3 is, for example, information output by the technique (search process) described in Patent Document 1, (a) is status index information as an example of various types of index information, and (b) Is an example of record index information.
The situation index information shown in FIG. 3A describes the relationship between the feature word that is each word in the situation 1003 and the record in which the feature word occurs in the situation 1003 in FIG. is there.

The situation index information includes a plurality of pieces of information 2001, 2002,..., Each of which includes a feature word ID 2011, a feature word name 2012, a part-of-speech number 2013, (record number 2014 (FIG. 2 No. 1008), a relevance degree 2015) to the record n times, and a delimiter 2016 (-1). Here, “n” is the number of records in which the target feature word appears. That is, information 2001, 2002,... Is information that corresponds to one feature word and describes the relationship between the feature word and each record. Information 2001, 2002,... Is delimited by a delimiter symbol 2016 (-1).
The feature word ID 2011 is an ID uniquely assigned to the extracted feature word in the search process, and the feature word name 2012 is the name of the feature word.
The part of speech number 2013 is a number assigned to each part of speech. For example, “2” in the part-of-speech number 2013 in FIG. 2A indicates that the corresponding feature word is “noun”.
The record number 2014 is a number uniquely assigned to the record 1000 described in FIG.
The degree of association 2015 with the record is a value indicating the degree of association between the feature word and the record (document). For example, from the information 2001, the feature word “display” is related to the record numbers “12”, “14”... “112”, and the degree of association between each record and the feature word is described by reference numeral 2015. (The feature word “display” appears in the record with this record number). Further, from the information 2002, the feature word “liquid crystal” is related to the record numbers “12”, “14”... “112”, and the relevance between each record and the feature word is described with reference numeral 2015. (The characteristic word “liquid crystal” appears in the record with this record number). The relevance degree 2015 indicates the frequency at which the feature word described in the feature word name 2012 appears in the record having the record number 2014. For example, the tf-idf (term frequency-inverted document frequency) method is used. It is done.

  The record index shown in FIG. 3B is information indicating the degree of association between records. The record index information 32 (see FIG. 1) includes information 2003, 2004..., And each information 2003, 2004,... Has a record number 2021, (record number 2022, degree of association 2023 with the record). Repeated n times and has a separator 2024 (-1). Here, “n” is the number of records extracted as a result of information retrieval according to a predetermined query. That is, the record index is information that sequentially describes the degree of association between the target record and other records.

The record number 2021 is a number uniquely assigned to the record 1000 described in FIG. The record number 2022 is a record number of a record different from the record having the record number 2021.
The degree of association 2023 indicates the degree of association between the record 1000 having the record number 2021 and the record 1000 having the record number 2022. The relation between the two records 1000 means that the same feature word appears between the two records 1000. High relevance 2023 means that there are many feature words that appear in common between the two records 1000, and low relevance 2023 means that there are few feature words that appear in common between the two records 1000. That is. The degree of association 2023 is calculated by performing a search process using the technique described in Patent Document 1.
For example, referring to the information 2003, the record number 2021 “0” targeted by the information 2003 is the record 1000 having the record numbers “1”, “2”... “133” (see the record number 2022). Reference numeral 2023 describes the degree of association with each record.
Further, referring to the information 2004, the record number 2021 “1” targeted by the information 2004 is the record 1000 having the record numbers “0”, “4”... “133” (see the record number 2022). Reference numeral 2023 describes the degree of association with each record.
The record index information 32 is information used for feature word mapping and clustering in FIGS. 17 and 18.

(Map display)
A case where the search result is displayed in a map format will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 to 6 (refer to Patent Document 2 for a specific map display method).
4 to 6 are diagrams showing examples of search result screens according to the present embodiment.
4 to 6, for example, information search is performed on the set of records 1000 shown in FIG. 2 by the technique (search process) described in Patent Document 1, and as a result, the extracted feature words are features with high relevance. This is an example in which words are arranged close to each other and feature words having low relevance are arranged far away.
The search result display screen 3000 in FIGS. 4 to 6 is divided into display areas corresponding to at least some of the items 1001 to 1007 in FIG. In the example shown in FIGS. 4 to 6, each display area has a first display area 3001, a second display area 3002, a third display area 3003, a record identification display area 3004, and a query input area 3005. Which of the items 1001 to 1007 in FIG. 2 is displayed in correspondence with each of these display areas 3001 to 3003 can be easily switched by specifying an item name in the pull-down menu 3006. In the screen examples shown in FIGS. 4 to 6, the screen is divided into four areas of display areas 3001 to 3004. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and is divided into any number of areas within the range of the number of items in the record 1000. May be.

In the record identification display area 3004, the title of the record hit as a result of the search according to the information input in the query input area 3005 (title 1002 of the record 1000 in FIG. 2) is displayed. Note that the content displayed in the record identification display area 3004 is not limited to the title of the record, and may be information that can identify the record, such as a record number.
4 to 6, feature words extracted from the cause 1004 (see FIG. 2) in the record 1000 (see FIG. 2) are displayed in the first display area 3001 in the form of feature word labels 3010. Has been. Similarly, in the second display area 3002, feature words extracted from the countermeasure 1005 (see FIG. 2) in the record 1000 (see FIG. 2) are displayed in the form of feature word labels 3010. The third display area In 3003, feature words extracted from the situation 1003 (see FIG. 2) in the record 1000 (see FIG. 2) are displayed in the form of feature word labels 3010.
In the first display area 3001 to the third display area 3003, feature word labels 3010 having high relevance are arranged close to each other, and feature word labels 3010 having low relevance are arranged far away. The process of determining the arrangement (display position) of the feature word label 3010 is the method described in Patent Document 2, and the arrangement of the display screen-like layout of the related record 1000 (see FIG. 2) is determined (however, the record 1000 is not displayed in the display area), and feature words related to this record are arranged in the vicinity of the record based on the degree of association calculated in advance. By this processing, feature words that belong to items of different records but are related to each other are displayed at the same position even if the display areas are different. For example, in FIG. 4, the feature word label 3010 “connector (3)” displayed in the first display area 3001 and the feature word label 3010 “reddish (3)” displayed in the third display area 3003. Is displayed at the lower right of each display area. This means that the record in which the characteristic word “connector” appears is similar to the record in which the characteristic word “reddish” appears. However, on the contrary, even with similar feature words, feature words that are not related to each other are displayed at different positions in the respective display areas. For example, the feature word label 3010 “display (9)” displayed in the first display area 3001, the feature word label 3010 “display (1)” displayed in the second display area 3002, and the third display area The feature word label 3010 “display (10)” displayed in 3003 is “display”. However, there is no common point regarding the position in each display area. This indicates that the commonality of records in which “display” appears for each corresponding item is low.
The number in parentheses in each feature word label 3010 is the number of feature words displayed in the feature word label 3010 in the corresponding items in all records displayed in the record identification display area 3004.

FIG. 5 shows an example in which one of the feature word labels 3010 displayed in the screen example of FIG. 4 is selected.
The search result display screen 3000 in FIG. 5 is a result of selecting the feature word label 3010 “flicker (3)” in the third display area 3003 in FIG.
In FIG. 5, the selected feature word label is highlighted (reference numeral 3010a).
Then, a feature word label (related feature word label) related to the selected feature word is highlighted by a method different from the reference symbol 3010a (reference 3010b). Here, the related feature word is a feature word that appears in a record common to the record in which the selected feature word appears. Such related information between feature words is acquired by referring to various index information 31 (see FIG. 1). Details will be described later with reference to FIG.
Also, feature words that are not related to the selected feature word (that is, do not occur with the selected feature word in the same record) are not highlighted (reference numeral 3010c).
Here, the related feature word label 3010b for the selected feature word label is highlighted across areas.
The procedure for generating the screen of FIG. 5 will be described later with reference to FIG.

When a predetermined feature word label 3010 (see FIGS. 4 and 8) is selected, the record identification display area 3004 in FIG. 4 is divided into a selected record display area 3004a and a non-selected record display area 3004b.
In the selected record display area 3004a, the title of the record in which the selected feature word “flicker” appears is displayed. That is, records linked to feature words are acquired by various index information 31 (see FIG. 1) such as the situation index information shown in FIG. 3A, and the acquired records are displayed in the selected record display area 3004a. The In the non-selected record display area 3004b, the titles of records other than the records displayed in the selected record display area 3004a among the records displayed in the record identification display area 3004 in FIG. 4 are displayed.
The numbers in parentheses in the feature word labels 3010a to 3010c also change from the numbers in parentheses in the feature word labels 3010 in FIG. The numbers in parentheses in the feature word labels 3010a to 3010c in FIG. 5 are records in which the feature word displayed in the feature word labels 3010a to 3010c appears in the corresponding item of the record displayed in the selected record display area 3004a. Indicates a number. For example, “cable” in the first display area 3001 in FIG. 5 indicates that it appears in two records among the records displayed in the selected record display area 3004a.

As described above, the related feature word label 3010b corresponding to the selected feature word label is highlighted beyond the display areas, so that the relationship of the feature words between the display areas can be understood, and the feature words between the items can be grasped. Becomes easy.
For example, in the screen example of FIG. 5, when a situation of “flickering” occurs, “display”, “cable”, “connector”, etc. are related as causes from the first display area 3001, and the second display area From 3002, it can be seen at a glance that “exchange”, “new”, etc. are related as countermeasures.
Furthermore, it becomes easy to search for a record in which the feature word “flicker” appears from the selected record display area 3004a.

FIG. 6 shows an example in which a feature word label different from that in FIG. 5 is selected.
FIG. 6 shows the result of selecting the feature word label 3010a for the countermeasure “to obtain”.
The other contents are the same as in FIG.

The search result display in the present embodiment is not limited to the failure report of the notebook PC as shown in FIGS. 2 to 6, for example, device information, part information, failure information, etc. in the construction equipment as shown in FIGS. 7 to 10. It is also possible to apply to.
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of failure / damage information that is a record when the present embodiment is applied to construction equipment information including equipment information, part information, and failure information in construction equipment.
As shown in FIGS. 7A and 7B, the record 1100 has information (construction equipment information) such as the status 1101, the model 1102, the part 1103, the person in charge 1104, and the date of occurrence 1105. Described for each piece of damage information. Each record 1100 is assigned a record number 1106 that is an identifier of the record 1100.
The situation 1101 is information describing the situation such as failure or damage of the corresponding construction equipment, and the model 1102 indicates the model of the construction equipment that has failed or is damaged. The part 1103 is a part in which a failure or damage has occurred. The person in charge 1104 is the name of the person who registered the failure / damage information, and the occurrence date 1105 is the date on which the failure / breakage occurred.

8-10 is a figure which shows the example of a search result screen at the time of applying this embodiment to construction equipment information.
8 to 10, elements similar to those in FIGS. 4 to 6 are denoted by the same reference numerals and description thereof is omitted.
In the screen examples of FIGS. 8 to 10, in the record identification display area 3004, the title of the record hit as a result of the search according to the information input in the query input area 3005 (here, the situation 1101 in FIG. 7) is displayed. Is displayed.
In the screen examples shown in FIGS. 8 to 10, the feature words of the model 1102 (see FIG. 7) in the record 1100 (see FIG. 7) are displayed in the first display area 3001 in the form of feature word labels. Yes. Similarly, in the second display area 3002, the feature words of the part 1103 (see FIG. 7) in the record 1100 (see FIG. 7) are displayed in the form of feature word labels. In the third display area 3003, All the contents in the record 1100 (see FIG. 7), that is, all the feature words in the situation 1101, the model 1102, the part 1103, the person in charge 1104, and the occurrence date 1105 in FIG. 7 are displayed in the form of feature word labels 3010a to 3010c. ing.

Similar to FIGS. 4 to 6, in the first display area 3001 to the third display area 3003, feature word labels 3010a to 3010c having a high degree of association are arranged close to each other and feature word labels 3010a having a low degree of association are provided. ˜3010c are arranged far away.
Note that the numbers in parentheses in the feature word labels 3010a to 3010c are the same as those in FIGS.

The search result display screen 3000 in the example of FIG. 8 is a result of selecting the feature word label 3010a “Hose (3)” in the second display area 3002.
Similar to FIGS. 5 and 6, in the screen example of FIG. 8, the selected feature word label is highlighted (reference numeral 3010a), and the related feature word label for “hose” is different from the reference numeral 3010a. It is highlighted (symbol 3010b). In addition, feature words that are not related to the selected feature word “hose” (that is, that do not occur together with the selected feature word in the same record) are not highlighted (reference numeral 3010c). As shown in FIG. 8, the related feature word label 3010b corresponding to the selected feature word label is highlighted across the areas.
Further, as in FIGS. 4 to 6, the record identification display area 3004 is divided into a selected record display area 3004a and a non-selected record display area 3004b.

  From the example of FIG. 8, the failure relating to “hose” is related to “dump” and “excavator” as models from the first display area 3001, and “moving” and “power” from the third display area 3003. It can be seen that these are also related.

9 and 10 show an example in which a plurality of feature word labels are selected on the search result display screen 3000 shown in FIG.
FIG. 9 shows an example in which the feature word label 3010a of “excavator (2)” in the first display area 3001 and the feature word label 3010a of “hose (2)” in the second display area 3002 are selected. FIG. 10 shows an example in which the feature word label 3010a of “dump (1)” in the first display area 3001 and the feature word label 3010a of “hose (2)” in the second display area 3002 are selected.
Thus, when a plurality of feature word labels 3010a are selected, the related feature word label 3010b is displayed as a result of AND processing of the related feature word label 3010b for each selected feature word label 3010a as the related feature word label 3010b. Is done.

Next, the search result display processing according to the present embodiment will be described along FIG. 11 with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.
FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing the flow of search result display processing according to the present embodiment.
The search processing unit 22 searches the record DB 4 that is an aggregate of the records 1000 shown in FIG. 2 according to the input query and narrows down the records 1000 using the technique described in Patent Document 1.
The various index information 31 and record index information 32 may be created in advance by the processing unit 2 for the records in the record DB 4 at a rate of once a week, for example. The search processing unit 22 may create each time.
The display processing unit 21 displays a search result display screen as shown in FIG. 4 based on the information search result, the degree of relevance described in the various index information 31 generated, the record index information 32, and the like. Screen display processing to be displayed on the unit 5 is performed (S101).
Next, a feature word is selected by clicking a feature word label via the input unit 6 (S102).
Then, the logical operation processing unit 211 refers to the various index information 31 in the storage unit 3, searches the corresponding index information for the selected feature word, and acquires all the record numbers associated with the feature word. (S103). At this time, when a plurality of feature word labels are selected in the same display area, logical operation processing such as AND processing or OR processing is performed on the record numbers acquired from those feature words.
When a feature word label is selected between a plurality of display areas or within the same display area, the processing unit 2 acquires a corresponding record number from index information corresponding to each display area item. Then, the logical operation processing unit 211 performs logical operation processing such as AND processing or OR processing on the acquired record number (S104).
Next, the highlighting processing unit 212 displays information for identifying the record such as the title of the record corresponding to the record number output as a result of the processing in step S103 or step S104, for example, the selected record display in FIG. 5 or FIG. A record highlighting process for highlighting as in the area 3004a is performed (S105).
Then, when the processing unit 2 acquires a feature word including the record number acquired in step S103 or step S104 by referring to the various types of index information 31, the highlight processing unit 212 corresponds to the acquired feature word. A feature word modification display process for emphasizing and displaying the word label as a related feature word label is performed (S106).

(Facet)
12-16 is a figure which shows the example of the facet display format which is another example of this embodiment.
In the facet display format, the elements of the search target information extracted as a result of the information search are further classified for each specific item, the results of this classification are displayed, and the relevance of the search results between different display categories is shown. The purpose is to grasp easily.

FIG. 12 is an example of a record using patent specification information.
12 to 14, a record 4000 includes information such as a specification title 4001, an application number 4002, an applicant 4003, an F-term 4004, and a summary 4005 (problem and solution). The record 4000 is information stored in the record DB 4 in FIG. Each record 4000 is assigned a record number 4006 that is an identifier of the record 4000.

13 and 14 are diagrams showing examples of screens when information search is performed by facet classification for the record of FIG.
Display conditions of the records having information input in the query input area 5008 are further narrowed down by information input in the facet selection area 5001. As a result, for example, the search process described in Patent Document 1 is performed, and a search result display screen 5000 shown in FIG. 13 is displayed on the display unit 5 (see FIG. 1).

The example shown in FIGS. 13 and 14 shows an example in which “applicant” is selected in the first facet input window 5002 and “F-term” is selected in the second facet input window 5003. The third facet input window 5004 is not used.
In the first display area 5005, information searched according to the information input in the query input area 5008 is displayed for each information selected in the first facet input window 5002. In the example of FIG. 13, records including both the words “liquid crystal” and “element” input in the query input area 5008 are displayed in the first display area 5005 for each “applicant”. The number in parentheses displayed on the right side of the applicant is the number of records (the number of applicant records) in which the applicant 4003 of the record 4000 is the name of the applicant displayed. As shown in FIG. 13, the ratio of the number of applicant records to the number of records searched according to the query may be displayed in the form of a bar graph under the applicant's display in the first display area 5005. That is, search results are classified according to items (first facet, second facet, etc.), and search results, feature words, etc. (elements) are displayed for each category.

  In the second display area 5006, information whose display conditions are narrowed down by the information input in the second facet input window 5003 is further displayed on the information displayed in the first display area 5005. In the screen example shown in FIG. 13, the result of narrowing the display condition by F-term is displayed in the second display area 5006 for each applicant. For example, as shown in FIG. 13, the title and application number of a record in which the applicant is “A Corporation” and the F term is “2H091” are displayed. Next, the title and application number of the record in which the applicant is “A Corporation” and the F term is “2H091-FA23Z” are displayed. Although not shown, when “A Corporation” ends, the same display is performed for “B Corporation”. Hereinafter, the same display is performed for “C Corporation”, “D Corporation”, and so on.

The third display area 5007 displays feature words of a specific item among records searched for information based on information input to the facet input area. In the example of FIG. 13, feature words appearing in the summary 4005 are displayed as the feature word label 5010 in the record 4000 shown in FIG. In the record 4000 shown in FIG. 12, which item the feature word is displayed can be easily switched by specifying the item in the pull-down menu 5009. That is, in each of the display areas 5005 to 5007, the screen (display area) is divided in a format corresponding to the record item.
The number in parentheses in the feature word label 5010 is the number of corresponding feature words that appear in the summary of all hit records as a result of information retrieval according to the query. For example, in the displayed feature word label 5010, “reflection” indicates that it appears 36 times in the hit record.

In the present embodiment, the number of facets that can be input is up to three. However, the number of facets is not limited to this, and may be two or four or more.
In FIG. 13, since the third facet is not used, there are two screens for displaying information narrowed down by facets, but an area for displaying information further narrowed down by the third facet is displayed. Of course it is good.

FIG. 14 shows a screen example when a predetermined feature word label is selected in the third display area of FIG.
FIG. 14 shows an example in which feature word labels 5010 of “film” and “electrode” are selected in the third display area 5007 of FIG.
The selected feature word label is displayed with the highest emphasis (reference numeral 5010a).
Then, a feature word label (related feature word label) related to the selected feature word is emphasized by a different enhancement method from the selected feature word label (reference numeral 5010b).
Also, feature word labels that are not related to the selected feature word are not emphasized (reference numeral 5010c).
Further, the title and application number of the record that includes the selected feature word in the second display area 5006 in the summary are highlighted (represented by an underline).

Next, referring to FIG. 1, along FIG. 15 and FIG. 16, the display procedure of the second display area 5006 in FIG. 13 and FIG. 14 (ie, the result of narrowing down by the first facet and further narrowing down by the second facet) Will be described.
Various index information 31 generated from the record 4000 shown in FIG. 12 includes summary index information describing the relationship between the feature word appearing in the summary and the record, and a title index describing similar information for the title. Information.

The search result display device 1 performs the processing of FIGS. 15 and 16 as a subroutine of step S101 or step S105. Other processing is the same as the processing shown in FIG.
15 and 16 are flowcharts showing an example of record enhancement processing in the facet display format.
First, facet information such as the first facet is input via the input unit 6 (not shown).
Then, the display processing unit 21 performs output information creation processing described later with reference to FIG. 16 (S201). At this time, the display processing unit 21 creates output information by using the first facet information (“applicant” in the example of FIG. 13) and a list of record numbers extracted as a result of the information search process described above as a record list. Passed as an argument to the process.
Then, using the output information returned as a return value as a result of the output information creation process, the display processing unit 21 performs a display process for displaying the content of the output information on the display unit 5 (S202). The contents of the output information will be described with reference to FIG.

Next, the output information creation process (S201) in FIG. 16 will be described.
When the display processing unit 21 secures an area for total output information on a memory (not shown), the display processing unit 21 sets the secured total output information to “Null” (S301). As will be described later in step S308, the output information creation process shown in FIG. 16 is a routine that is called recursively. However, the area on the memory for the total output information is different for each routine. Secured.
Then, the display processing unit 21 uses the facet information (for example, “applicant”) passed in the step S201 as a key, and various types of index information 31 (here, the facet index generated during the information search process). Information) is referred to, and a feature word list related to the corresponding facet is generated (S302).

Subsequently, the display processing unit 21 determines whether or not there is a feature word in the feature word list (S303).
If there is a feature word in step S303 (S303 → Yes), the display processing unit 21 acquires the feature word described at the beginning of the feature word list. Then, the display processing unit 21 refers to the various types of index information 31 and acquires all record numbers of records related to the acquired feature word to generate a related record list (S304).
Then, the logical operation processing unit 211 performs an AND process on the record number in the record list given in step S201 and the record number in the related record list generated in step S304 (S305). As a result, the extracted record number is an AND record.

Next, the display processing unit 21 determines whether there is an AND record (S306). That is, it is determined whether or not the AND record is “Null”.
If the result of step S306 is that there is no AND record (S306 → No), the display processing unit 21 deletes the feature word that is the subject of the current process from the feature word list, and returns to the process of step S303 to return to the next step. The process of step S303 is performed on the feature word.
As a result of step S306, when there is an AND record (S306 → Yes), the display processing unit 21 determines whether or not the facet currently being processed is a terminal facet (S307). The end facet is the lowest facet of the set facets (the second facet is the end facet in the examples of FIGS. 13 and 14).
As a result of step S307, when the facet is not a terminal facet (S307 → No), the display processing unit 21 includes information on the next facet (for example, the second facet when the facet currently being processed is the first facet), The output information creation process is recursively executed with an AND record as an argument as a new record list (S308), and the record information returned as a return value is used as output information.
As a result of step S307, when it is a terminal facet (S307 → Yes), the display processing unit 21 uses an AND record as output information (S309).

After the process of step S308 or step S309, the display processing unit 21 performs a total output information description process in which the feature word to be processed and the output information are described as a pair of information in the total output information. (S310) The display processing unit 21 deletes the feature word that is the subject of the current process from the feature word list, and returns to the process of step S303. When the process shown in FIG. 16 is the subroutine of step S105 in FIG. 11, a marker for highlighting is added to the record number associated with the selected feature word. For example, when any one of the feature word labels 5010 in the third display area 5007 shown in FIG. 13 is selected, the related record number is obtained by referring to the various index information 31, and the corresponding information in the total output information Add a marker to the record number.
The total output information is information displayed in the first display area 5005 and the second display area 5006 in FIG. 13 and is generated for each facet. That is, total output information for the first facet is generated, and total output information for the second facet is created. When the third facet or the fourth facet is input, total output information corresponding to each facet is generated. In the total output information, facet information and record numbers belonging to this facet are stored in association with each other.

For example, when information (arbitrary title and application number) in the second display area 5006 in FIG. 13 is selected, the display processing unit 21 first attaches a marker to the record number corresponding to this information. Then, the display processing unit 21 refers to various index information 31 (see FIG. 1), searches for a feature word having a record number with a marker, and obtains a feature word label corresponding to the detected feature word. Highlight.
Furthermore, the display processing unit 21 refers to the total output information regarding facets other than the facet to which the selected information belongs, and searches for the record number corresponding to the selected information, and the facet to which this record number belongs (for example, In the example of FIG. 13, the applicant name in the first display area 5005 is highlighted. In this way, when information on the lower facet (here, the F-term of the second facet) is selected, the information on the associated higher facet (here, the applicant of the first facet) is highlighted. The Here, the selected information and the related information are emphasized by different emphasis methods. Here, the upper facet is a facet having a small value of “n” of the nth facet, and information is narrowed down under a small number of conditions. The lower facet is a facet having a large value of “n”, and information is narrowed down under a large number of conditions.

  For example, when information (applicant name) in the first display area 5005 of FIG. 13 is selected, the display processing unit 21 first acquires all record numbers related to the facet from the total output information related to the facet. Then, the display processing unit 21 refers to the total output information related to the facet (here, the second facet) other than the facet to which the selected information belongs, and adds a marker to the acquired record number. The display processing unit 21 highlights the information displayed in the second display area 5006 corresponding to the record number with the marker. In this way, when information on the upper facet (here, the applicant of the first facet) is selected, the information on the related lower facet (here, the F-term of the second facet) is highlighted. The Here, the selected information, the related information, and the information not related to the selected information are emphasized by different emphasis methods.

  In other words, the facet display format has a plurality of items, and each item includes search target information in which at least one element is described. A set is searched using a search term, and a search result based on the search term is displayed on a display unit for each of a plurality of display categories corresponding to the type of item included in the search target information. For each of the included elements, an element having at least one pair of association degree and identifier, in which the association degree indicating the association between the retrieval object information including the element and the element is identified by the identifier of the retrieval object information A plurality of relevance information for each item is stored in the storage unit, and at least one of the display categories is targeted for the item of the search target information via the input unit, The classification information for classifying the search target information is input, the search target information corresponding to the search word is extracted from the set of search target information by the search by the search term, and described in each of the extracted search target information When displaying each element in the display section, the element of the search target information classified based on the classification information is displayed for each display section corresponding to the classification information, and via the input unit When an arbitrary element is selected from among the elements displayed on the display unit, the selected element is referred to via the identifier by referring to relevance information for each of the elements in the storage unit. The selected element displayed in the different display category is obtained by acquiring another element related to the storage unit from the storage unit and displaying the acquired element on the display unit in a modified manner. Different Characterized by modifying Show that element to the display unit.

  In addition, at least one of the other display sections of the facet display format described above is obtained by extracting search target information corresponding to a search word from the set of search target information by performing a search using the search word, and extracting the search target information. When displaying each element described in each search target information in the display section, the display position of the element is determined based on the relevance of the relevance information, and the element is determined according to the determined display position. The display unit may display each corresponding display category.

  The procedure for highlighting the related feature word label of the selected feature word label 5010 (see FIG. 13) is the same as the procedure described in FIG.

  In step S303, when there is no feature word in the feature word list (S303 → No), the display processing unit 21 returns the total output information as a return value (S311), and the process in step S308 in the previous routine or in FIG. Return to step S201.

For records that are not related to any feature word among the items of facets (each category), that is, records that do not have items that correspond to facets, feature words different from information search results such as “Others” are prepared. Then, the index information is generated by regarding the record as a record related to the characteristic word “others”.
This makes it possible to display records that do not have the attributes of the facet selected item. It should be noted that the user may select whether or not to display a record related to the feature word “others” at the time of display.

  FIG. 14 shows an example in which the feature word label 5010a displayed in the third display area 5007 is selected, but the applicant displayed in the first display area 5005 and the second display area 5006 The displayed title and application number may be selected.

By applying the search result display method of the present embodiment to the facet display format in this way, the information search result, the information search result, and the elements of the extracted search target information are further classified for each specific item, After displaying the result of this classification, it is possible to easily grasp the relevance of the search result between different display categories. That is, it is possible to easily grasp the relationship between information in facet display.
For example, in the specification of a patent, a description using a characteristic word such as “electrode” or “membrane” in the summary provides information on what F-term is used and what applicant is applicable. Can be displayed visually and clearly.

  12-16, the example which applied the record regarding the patent specification shown in FIG. 12 as a record was shown, However, It is not restricted to this, For example, you may apply the record of construction equipment information shown in FIG. Is natural.

(Cluster display)
Next, a cluster display format, which is another example of the present embodiment, will be described with reference to FIGS.
17 and 18 are examples of cluster display screens in the present embodiment.
In FIG. 17 and FIG. 18, the record used is the same record as the record 1000 referred to in FIG.
FIG. 17 shows an example of a screen when the information search result is shown in clustered cluster display.
Cluster display is a display method in which a group of highly related elements is surrounded by a frame, and more highly related elements are surrounded by a frame. The cluster display screen display processing will be described later with reference to FIG. Note that the screen examples shown in FIGS. 17 and 18 show an example in which the record 1000 shown in FIG. 2 is used as the record.
In the record identification display area 6001 on the search result display screen 6000, as a result of information search of the record DB 4 according to the query input in the query input area 6005, the detected result (record) is the relevance between records (between records). This is a display area in which clusters are displayed according to distance.

Regarding the degree of association between records, records in which the same feature word frequently appears have a high degree of association, and records in which the same feature word appears in a small number have a low degree of association.
In the screen examples shown in FIGS. 17 and 18, the first display area 6002 is a display area that shows the feature words that appear in the cause 1004 (see FIG. 2) in the record 1000 and the frequency (numbers in parentheses).
In the screen examples shown in FIGS. 17 and 18, the second display area 6003 is a display area indicating the product name 1001 (see FIG. 2) of the record hit in the record 1000 and its frequency (number in parentheses). is there.
In the screen examples shown in FIGS. 17 and 18, feature words are displayed as clustering 6100 for each feature word label 6010 in the third display area 6004 (cluster display).

  The numbers attached to the frames in the record identification display area 6001 and the third display area 6004 indicate the level of relevance in clustering. In the screen examples of FIGS. 17 and 18, feature words and records surrounded by a large number frame have high relevance, and feature words and records surrounded by small numbers have low relevance. The clustering procedure will be described later with reference to FIG. The degree of association, which is the degree of association between records, is stored in the record index 32 (see FIG. 1) generated by the processing unit 2 (see FIG. 1) at a rate of once a week, for example.

FIG. 18 is a screen example showing a result of selecting “Product B” in the second display area 6003.
In the example of FIG. 18, information related to “product B” is highlighted across items. For example, the record identification display area 6001 is displayed as an underline, and the third display area 6004 is a related feature word label 6010b highlighted as a feature word related to “product B” and a feature word label 6010c not highlighted. Is displayed.
The method of extracting information related to the product B is based on the procedure described with reference to FIG.
When any of the feature word labels 6010 (see FIG. 17) in the third display area 6004 is selected, the selected feature word label is displayed with an emphasis method different from that of the related feature word label 6010b. It becomes.

  For map display formats such as FIGS. 4 to 6 and FIGS. 8 to 10, facet display formats such as FIGS. 13 and 14, and cluster display formats such as FIGS. 17 and 18, click each display format designation button. Etc., it becomes possible to switch easily.

The clustering procedure will be described with reference to FIG.
FIG. 19 is a flowchart showing the flow of clustering processing.
First, the display processing unit 21 calculates all the distances between the elements (S401). Here, an element is an element to be clustered such as a feature word or a record. As for the distance calculation method, when the target is a record, the display processing unit 21 calculates a vector whose element is the importance of the feature word included in the record (for example, calculated by the tf-idf method or the like). Then, the display processing unit 21 calculates the COS angle (that is, the inner product of the normalized vectors) of this vector, and uses the value of this COS angle as the distance.
When the target is a feature word, the display processing unit 21 calculates a vector whose element is the importance of the record included in the record (for example, calculated by the tf-idf method). Then, the display processing unit 21 calculates the COS angle (that is, the inner product of the normalized vectors) of this vector, and uses the value of this COS angle as the distance.

Next, the display processing unit 21 performs cluster generation processing (S402). Specifically, a cluster is generated by the following procedure.
First, based on the distance calculated in step S401, the display processing unit 21 creates a pair with the elements having the closest distance for each element, and sets these as one group (cluster) (for example, FIG. 17 and FIG. 17). In the third display area 6004 in FIG. 18, an element surrounded by a frame “6”). Then, a cluster is formed with elements having the next closest distance. At this time, when the elements having the next closest distance already form a cluster with another element (when the elements are included in different clusters), the clusters are combined to form a cluster. (For example, in the third display area 6004 in FIGS. 17 and 18, an element surrounded by a frame of “5”). Thereafter, the above process is repeated in the same manner until a cluster containing all elements is created.

  Then, the display processing unit 21 performs cluster display processing for displaying the cluster generated in step S402 on the display unit 5 (S403).

  It is the same as the processing described in FIG. 11 except that the cluster display is performed, and the feature word label 6010 displayed in the third display area 6004 in FIG. 17 and the second display area 6003 are displayed. When the product name label 6020 is selected via the input unit 6, the display processing unit 21 generates various index information 31 (for example, when the feature word label 6010 of FIG. When the related record number is acquired with reference to the status index information), the record having the corresponding record number (for example, the record displayed in the record identification display area 6001) is highlighted.

In the present embodiment, the distance (relevance) between records is calculated by the processing unit 2 for each predetermined period, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the search result display screen 6000 is not limited thereto. It may be calculated by the processing unit 2 when (see FIGS. 17 and 18) is displayed.
In this embodiment, it is assumed that the distance between the records is calculated regardless of the item. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the distance is calculated using a specific item as a distance calculation target. Also good. In this case, for example, a distance calculation item (not shown) that designates which item is the target of distance calculation in the first display area 6001 and the third display area 6004 in FIGS. 17 and 18 in a form such as a pull-down menu. The processing unit 2 may calculate the distance between the records when the specified area is provided and the search result display screen 6000 is displayed with the item specified in the distance calculation item specifying area as a distance calculation target. . In this case, the record index information 32 is not necessarily calculated.
Further, for example, the processing unit 2 may calculate the distance between the records for every item in a cycle such as once a week. In this case, the record index information 32 is generated for each item.

  By performing cluster display in this way, the level of relevance between elements can be visually shown.

  17 to 19 show examples in which the failure report record of the notebook PC shown in FIG. 2 is applied as the record. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and for example, the construction equipment information record shown in FIG. It is natural to be good.

(Facet + clustering)
Next, FIGS. 20 and 21 are diagrams illustrating another example of the search result display screen.
20 and 21, elements similar to those in FIGS. 13, 14, 17, and 18 are denoted by the same reference numerals and description thereof is omitted.
20 and FIG. 21, the record to be applied is the record shown in FIG.
The search result display screen 5000 ′ shown in FIGS. 20 and 21 is an example in which the third display area 5007 of the search result display screen 5000 in FIGS. 13 and 14 is replaced with the third display area 6004 shown in FIGS. It is.
FIGS. 20 and 21 show an example in which “model” is input in the first facet input window 5002 and “parts” is selected in the second facet input window 5003.

  Further, the information searched according to the information input in the query input area 5008 is displayed for each information selected in the first facet input window 5002. In the example of FIG. 20, records including “oil leak” input in the query input area 5008 are displayed in the first display area 5005 for each “model”. The numbers in parentheses in the first display area 5005 are the number of records hit as a result of information search based on the query input in the query input area 3005.

  In the second display area 5006, the information displayed in the first display area 5005 is displayed with the display conditions narrowed down by the information input in the second facet input window 5003. In the screen example shown in FIG. 20, the result of narrowing the display condition by “parts” is displayed in the second display area 5006 for each “model”. In the example of FIG. 20, the status 1101 (see FIG. 7) of the record 1100 (see FIG. 7) in which the model is “excavator” and the part is “hose” is displayed. Then, the status 1101 of the record 1100 in which the model is “excavator” and the part is “cylinder” is displayed. When the “excavator” is finished, the same display is performed for “crane”. Hereinafter, the same display is performed for “dump”. The third facet is not selected (see third facet input window 5004).

  In the third display area 6004 in FIGS. 20 and 21, feature word labels 6010 of feature words acquired from all items in the record 1100 are displayed as the clustering 6100. The specific processing of clustering is as described above with reference to FIG.

  In the example shown in FIG. 21, “oil leakage (3)” in the third display area 6004 is selected and highlighted (feature word label 6010a). Then, the feature word related to the selected “oil leak (3)” is displayed in a different emphasis method than the feature word label 6010a (feature word label 6010b), and the relationship with “oil leak (3)”. The feature word label of the feature word having no sex is not emphasized (feature word label 6010c).

Further, in the second display area 5006, a record including the selected feature word “oil leakage” (the situation 1101 in FIGS. 7A and 7B) is highlighted (represented by an underline in the second display area 5006). ).
In the first display area 5005, a model having a record including the selected feature word “oil leak” and the number of hits (number in parentheses) are displayed, and a model not including “oil leak” (for example, FIG. 20 “crane”) is not displayed.

  In this way, by combining the facet display format and the cluster display format, it is possible to visually display the level of relevance between the elements, and by layering the information by facets, which information has the selected element It can be visually displayed whether it exists under such conditions (that is, facets).

(Multiple items displayed simultaneously)
Next, an example in which information of a plurality of items is displayed in the same display area will be described with reference to FIGS.

(Map display)
22 to 24 are examples of screens in which feature words of a plurality of items are displayed as a map in the same display area.
The examples shown in FIGS. 22 to 24 are examples in which the failure report record of the notebook PC shown in FIG. 2 is applied as the record.
The search result display screen 7000 shown in FIGS. 22 to 24 includes a first display area 7001, a second display area 7002, a third display area 7003, a selected record display area 7004a, a non-selected record display area 7004b, and a query input area 7005. Have.
The selected record display area 7004a, non-selected record display area 7004b and query input area 7005 are the same as the selected record display area 3004a, non-selected record display area 3004b and query input area 3005 in FIGS. To do.
The first display area 7001, the second display area 7002, and the third display area 7003 have display item designation areas 7021, 7022, and 7023.

22 is selected (represented by an underline) in the display item designation area 7021 of the search result display screen 7000 shown in FIG. 22, the characteristic words in the situation 1003 of the record 1000 in FIG. Are displayed as feature word labels 3010a to 3010c.
Further, in the second display area 7002, “Cause” is selected (represented by an underline) in the display item designation area 7022, whereby the characteristic words in the cause 1004 of the record 1000 in FIG. 2 are displayed in a list format. Similarly, in the third display area 7003, by selecting “measure” in the display item designation area 7023 (represented by an underline), feature words in the measure 1005 of the record 1000 in FIG. 2 are displayed in a list format. . Note that the numbers in parentheses attached to the feature words displayed in the first display area 7001 and the feature words displayed in the second display area 7002 and the third display area 7003 are: Since it is the same as the number in the parenthesis in the feature word labels 3010a to 3010c shown in FIG. 5 and FIG. Note that the feature words displayed in the display areas 7001 to 7003 are feature words in records detected as a result of searching based on the query input to the query input area 7005.

The feature word label 3010a is highlighted by selecting the feature word label 3010a displaying “flicker (3)” in the first display area 7001.
In the first display area, the feature word label related to “flicker” is highlighted as a related feature word label 3010b by a method different from that of the feature word label 3010a. The feature word label 3010c that is not related to “flicker” is not highlighted.
Further, among the feature words displayed in the second display area 7002 and the third display area 7003, the feature word related to “flicker” is highlighted (represented by an underline).

Then, as shown in FIG. 23, in the display item designation area 7021, “product name” is selected (represented by an underline) in addition to “situation”, so that the record 1000 of FIG. 2 is displayed in the first display area 7001. In addition to the feature words in the situation 1003, feature words in the product name 1001 are also displayed as feature word labels 7011a to 7011c.
In the feature word labels 7011a to 7011c, information is displayed in the order of "feature word / item name (number of corresponding records)" for the purpose of clarifying which item the displayed feature word corresponds to in the record 1000 of FIG. It is displayed. That is, the feature word is displayed with the information of the record item in the feature word.

  Further, in FIG. 24, in the display item designation area 7021, in addition to “situation” and “product name”, “cause” is also selected (represented by an underline), so that the first display area 7001 is displayed in FIG. In addition to the feature words in the status 1003 and product name 1001 of the record 1000, feature words in the cause 1004 are also displayed as feature word labels 7011a to 7011c.

Similarly to FIG. 22, the feature word label 7011a is highlighted by selecting the feature word label 7011a on which “flicker / situation (3)” is displayed.
In the first display area, the feature word label related to “flicker” is highlighted as a related feature word label 7011b by a method different from the feature word label 7011a. The feature word label 7011c that is not related to “flicker” is not highlighted.
The contents displayed in the second display area 7002 and the third display area 7003 in FIGS. 23 and 24 are the same as the contents displayed in the second display area 7002 and the third display area 7003 in FIG. Since there is, explanation is omitted.

  The processing in the screen examples shown in FIGS. 22 to 24 is the same as the processing shown in FIG.

(Cluster display)
FIGS. 25 to 27 are screen examples in which feature words of a plurality of items are displayed in a cluster in the same display area.
Note that the examples shown in FIGS. 25 to 27 are examples in which the failure report record of the notebook PC shown in FIG. 2 is applied as the record.
The search result display screen 8000 shown in FIGS. 25, 26A and 27 has a first display area 8001, a second display area 8002, a third display area 8003, a record identification display area 8004, and a query input area 8005. Do it.
The record identification display area 8004 and the query input area 8005 in FIG. 25, FIG. 26A and FIG. 27 are the same as the record identification display area 6001 and the query input area 6005 in FIG. 17 and FIG. .
Further, the contents displayed in the second display area 8002 and the third display area 8003 are the same as those in the second display area 7002 and the third display area 7003 in FIGS.

  When “situation” is selected (represented by an underline) in the display item designation area 8021 of the search result display screen 8000 shown in FIG. 25, the first display area 8001 is similar to the third display area 6004 of FIG. 2, the feature words in the situation 1003 of the record 1000 in FIG. 2 are displayed as clusters in the clustering 8010 as feature word labels 8020.

Here, as shown in FIG. 26B, in the display item designation area 8021, in addition to “situation”, “cause” and “product name” are also selected (represented by an underline), thereby FIG. 2, in the first display area 8001, in addition to the feature words in the status 1003 of the record 1000 in FIG. 2, the feature words in the cause 1004 are cluster-displayed as feature word labels 8022.
The feature word label 8022 displays information in the order of “feature word / item name (number of corresponding records)” for the purpose of clarifying which item in the record 1000 in FIG. 2 corresponds to the displayed feature word. ing. Note that the first display area 8001 in FIG. 26A is hidden because it is scrolled, but the information of the first display area 8001 includes display item designation shown in FIG. An area 8021 is displayed.

As shown in FIG. 27, the feature word label 8022a is highlighted by selecting the feature word label 8022a on which “flicker / situation (3)” is displayed in the first display area 8001.
Further, the feature word label related to “flicker” is highlighted as a related feature word label 8022b in a different manner from the feature word label 8022a. The feature word label 8022c that is not related to “flicker” is not highlighted.
Further, among the feature words displayed in the second display area 8002 and the third display area 8003, the feature word related to “flicker” is highlighted (represented by an underline).

In this way, by displaying a plurality of items in a record together in one screen, the screen can be used efficiently.
Further, the search result display screens 7000 and 8000 in FIGS. 23, 24, and 26 are combined with a facet selection area 5001, a first display area 5005, a second display area 5006, and the like as shown in FIGS. May be displayed.

22 to 27 show an example in which the failure report record of the notebook PC shown in FIG. 2 is applied as the record. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and for example, the construction equipment information record shown in FIG. It is natural to be good.
When the application is terminated, the screen state (highlighted state, etc.) is stored in the storage unit, and when the application is started next time, the screen state at the previous termination is displayed on the display unit. Also good.

It is a figure which shows the structural example of the search result display apparatus which concerns on this embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of a record. It is a figure which shows the example of index information. It is a figure which shows the example of a search result screen which concerns on this embodiment (the 1). It is a figure which shows the example of a search result screen which concerns on this embodiment (the 2). It is a figure which shows the example of a search result screen which concerns on this embodiment (the 3). It is a figure which shows an example of the failure / damage information which is a record at the time of applying this embodiment to the construction equipment information containing the equipment information in a construction equipment, component information, and failure information. It is a figure which shows the example of a search result screen at the time of applying this embodiment to construction equipment information (the 1). It is a figure which shows the example of a search result screen at the time of applying this embodiment to construction equipment information (the 2). It is a figure which shows the example of a search result screen at the time of applying this embodiment to construction equipment information (the 3). It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the search result display process which concerns on this embodiment. It is an example of the record using patent specification information. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen at the time of performing the information search by facet classification with respect to the record of FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen at the time of performing the information search by facet classification with respect to the record of FIG. 12 (the 2). It is a flowchart which shows the example of the record emphasis process in a facet display format (the 1). It is a flowchart which shows the example of the record emphasis process in a facet display format (the 2). It is a screen example of the cluster display in this embodiment (the 1). It is a screen example of the cluster display in this embodiment (the 2). It is a flowchart which shows the flow of a clustering process. It is a figure which shows the other example of a search result display screen (the 1). It is a figure which shows the other example of a search result display screen (the 2). It is the example of a screen which displayed the feature word of several items in the same display area (the 1). It is the example of a screen which displayed the feature word of several items in the same display area (the 2). It is the example of a screen which displayed the feature word of several items in the same display area (the 3). This is a screen example in which feature words of a plurality of items are displayed in a cluster in the same display area (No. 1). This is a screen example in which feature words of a plurality of items are displayed in a cluster in the same display area (No. 2). This is a screen example in which feature words of a plurality of items are displayed in a cluster in the same display area (No. 3).

Explanation of symbols

1 Search result display device 2 Processing unit 3 Storage unit 4 Record DB
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 5 Display part 6 Input part 21 Display process part 22 Search process part 31 Various index information 32 Record index information 211 Logical operation process part 212 Highlight display process part 1000,1100,4000 record 1008,1106,2014,2021,2022,4006 record Number 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Information 2011 Feature word ID
2012 Feature word name 2013 Part of speech number 2015, 2023 Relevance degree 2016, 2024 Separator 3000, 5000, 5000'6000, 7000, 8000 Search result display screen 3001,5005,6002,7001,8001 First display area 3002,5006,6003 , 7002, 8002 Second display area 3003, 5007, 6004, 7003, 8003 Third display area 3004, 6001, 8004 Record identification display area 3004a Selected record display area 3004b, 7004a Unselected record display 3004b, 7004b Unselected record display area 3005 Query input area 3006 Pull-down menu 3010, 3010a, 3010c, 5010, 5010a, 5010c, 6010, 601 a, 6010c, 7011a, 7011c, 8020, 8021, 8022a, 8022c Feature word label 3010b, 5010b, 6010b, 7011b, 8022b Related feature word label 5001 Facet selection area 5002 First facet input window 5003 Second facet input window 5004 Third Facet input window 5008, 6005, 7005, 8005 Query input area 5009 Pull-down menu 6020 Product name label 7021, 7021, 7023 Display item designation area 8010 Clustering 8020 Feature word label 8021 Display item designation area

Claims (10)

The search target information having a plurality of items, each of which has at least one element described therein is identified by an identifier, and a plurality of registered search target information is used. A search result display method in a search result display device for displaying a search result based on the search term on a display unit for each of a plurality of display areas corresponding to a type of item included in the search target information,
The search result display device includes:
For each element included in the search target information, a pair of relevance and identifier, in which the relevance indicating the relevance between the search target information including the element and the element is identified by the identifier of the search target information, A plurality of relevance information for each element having at least one pair is stored in the storage unit for each item,
Among the display area, at least one, via the input section, intended for entry of the search target information, classification information for classifying the search target information is input,
When extracting the search target information corresponding to the search term from the set of search target information by the search by the search term, and displaying each element described in the extracted search target information in the display area , generates the search the total output information identifier is a set of information associated with the classification information, stored in the storage unit, an element of the search target information classified based on the classification information, the Display in a display area different from the display area where classification information is entered ,
Through the input unit, among the elements shown before Symbol Table, when an arbitrary element is selected,
By referring to the output information in the storage unit, another element related to the selected element via the identifier is acquired from the storage unit,
The obtained element, Osamu by decorating display, qualified displays different elements from different ones of the display the selected is displayed on the area element,
When displaying each element in the display area, the display position of the element is determined based on the relevance of the relevance information, and the element is displayed according to the determined display position. Display for each display area,
When the element is displayed in a plurality of display areas, it is displayed in another display area among the elements displayed in the plurality of display areas. Based on this, the determined element is displayed at the same position in each of the display areas.
The search result display method characterized by this. The search result display device includes:
Through the input unit, among the elements that are displayed, if any element is selected,
By referring to the relevance information for each element of the storage unit, another element related to the selected element is acquired from the storage unit via the identifier,
The obtained element, by displaying qualified, search results according to claim 1, characterized in that the different elements qualified display different said is the displayed on the display area selection element Display method.   The search result display method according to claim 1, wherein the display position of the element is to determine a distance on the display screen between the elements based on the degree of association. And a display position of said element, a plurality of the elements shown in Table, depending on the relevance between the elements, the search result display according to claim 1, characterized in that the cluster display grouping Method. The search result display device includes:
Of the elements that are displayed on each of the display area, and the selected element, the element is relevant from said selected element, wherein the selected element relative to the irrelevant elements, The search result display method according to claim 1, wherein different modification displays are performed.   The search result display method according to claim 1, wherein the search target information is construction equipment information including equipment information, part information, and failure information in construction equipment.   The search result display device includes:
  In the vicinity of each element, the number of occurrences that is the number of search target information including the element is displayed for each element,
  When an arbitrary element is selected from among the displayed elements via the input unit,
  The number of appearances in the displayed element is changed to the number of search target information including each element among the search target information including the selected element.
  The search result display method according to claim 1, wherein:   The search result display device includes:
  In a predetermined area of the plurality of display areas, information on search target information hit as a result of the search is displayed,
  When an arbitrary element is selected from among the displayed elements via the input unit,
  Information related to the hit search target information is divided into information related to search target information including the selected element and information related to search target information not including the selected element.
  The search result display method according to claim 1, wherein: Results display program, characterized in that to execute the search result display method according to the computer of claims 1 to claim 8. The search target information having a plurality of items, each of which has at least one element described therein is identified by an identifier, and a plurality of registered search target information is used. A search result display device that displays a search result based on the search term on a display unit for each of a plurality of display areas corresponding to a type of an item included in the search target information,
For each element included in the search target information, a pair of relevance and identifier, in which the relevance indicating the relevance between the search target information including the element and the element is identified by the identifier of the search target information, A plurality of relevance information for each element having at least one pair is stored in the storage unit for each item , and at least one of the display areas is targeted for the item of the search target information via the input unit Classification information for classifying the search target information is input, search target information corresponding to the search word is extracted from the set of search target information by searching by the search word, and each of the extracted search target information when displaying the elements described in the display area, generating the search the total output information identifier is a set of information associated with the classification information, stored in the storage unit, An element of the search target information classified on the basis of the serial classification information, the display on the different display areas and classification information display area input via the input section is shown before Symbol Table Each When an arbitrary element is selected from among the elements, another element related to the selected element via the identifier is referred to by referring to the output information in the storage unit. obtained from, displays the acquired element, by displaying qualified, different said different from the selected element is displayed in the display area element displays qualified, each element in the display area When determining the display position of the element based on the relevance of the relevance information, the element is displayed for each display area in which the element is displayed according to the determined display position, Multiple elements When displayed in the display area, it is displayed in another display area among the elements displayed in the plurality of display areas, but if there is a relationship, it is determined based on the relevance information. A search result display device comprising: a display processing unit for displaying the elements at the same position in each of the display areas .

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