JPH0528193A - Treatise database system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simplify and speed up the retrieval of the treatise data by easily displaying the contents of the chars and tables related to the text on a screen for reference while referring to the text of the treatise on the screen. CONSTITUTION:The treatise database system retrieves text data, chart.table data and the treatise data while referring to a display screen 14. In the case a word representing the chart.table is in the text displayed on the display screen 14, the information on the chart.table is displayed by an icon. An information input part 16 selects an icon, window-displaying the chart.table corresponding to the selected icon on the display screen 14.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an academic paper database system, and more particularly to an academic paper database for performing desired search of academic paper data including text data and figure / table data while referring to a display screen. Regarding the system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Academic papers are extremely valuable as the latest information on science and technology. Researchers use these academic papers as materials to know the current state of science and technology.
Or, there are many opportunities to refer to it as basic data for research.

In order to refer to an academic paper, the academic paper is searched in a library or the like which stores and browses the academic paper, or there is some kind of related scientific or technical field from the library or the like. It is necessary to obtain and search data for academic papers. As a method of providing this academic paper data, it has conventionally been distributed in the form of printed matter.

[0004] Today, it is common to search for academic paper data by displaying the title or abstract of the target paper on the screen for searching. If such an online search is not possible, academic papers will be searched. When you want to get the data, please use the CD
The providing method using an electronic information recording medium such as (compact disc) is changing.

On the other hand, the number of scientific paper data has become enormous with the progress and development of today's science and technology, and all scientific papers in the relevant scientific and technical fields are referred to throughout the entire text. Is time consuming, time consuming and extremely difficult.

Therefore, in the past, the science
I searched for academic papers mainly from academic papers issued by universities and research institutes that are considered to have advanced research in the technical field. However, in this case, academic papers published from other universities may not be referenced, and high-quality research results may be buried, which is extremely problematic in terms of progress and improvement of science and technology.

On the other hand, a database of academic papers is being developed so that the search for academic papers can be performed quickly and easily so that target papers can be searched over a wide range. This database makes it easy to search by searching for keywords or author names in the subject of academic papers.

[0008]

However, in order to judge whether or not the academic paper searched by the keyword etc. is necessary, it is necessary to grasp the content of the paper. Reference must be made to the full text of the article. Therefore, there is a demand for a technology that makes the search quicker and easier, but conventionally, in such a paper search, the full text of a paper is displayed sequentially on the screen, or the full text of a paper is printed out on paper. There is a problem in that there is no technology that can fully answer the above-mentioned request by referring to the content of the paper.

In the conventional database of academic papers, when a figure / table exists in the main text, the easy data of the figure / table is only displayed at the corresponding position where the figure / table exists in the main text. However, when referring to the text, if there is a word pointing to a figure / table on a page or the like that is far from the relevant section, and it is desired to refer to this figure / table image data, conventionally, the corresponding section is I had to go back and scroll to the page, and it took me some time to understand the contents of the paper.
This is a problem that becomes a major obstacle to the quick and easy search.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems. When referring to the text on the screen,
An object of the present invention is to provide an academic paper database system that enables quick and easy retrieval of academic paper data by making it possible to easily display and refer to the contents of figures and tables related to the text.

[0011]

According to the present invention, an academic paper database system for performing a desired search for academic paper data including text data and figure / table data while referring to the display screen is displayed on the screen. When there is a word pointing to a figure or table in the text, the means for displaying the information of the figure or table by an icon, the means for selecting the displayed icon, and the selected icon The problem is solved by providing means for displaying the contents of the corresponding figures / tables on the display screen as a window.

[0012]

The function of the inventor has been variously examined in order to make the search of the academic paper database quick and easy. In this case, if you can grasp the contents of the academic paper you are searching for early,
It is possible to extend the speed and ease of the search.

When displaying academic papers on the screen and searching, it is mostly that the reference to the figures / tables in the main text of the academic papers is for the words of the figures / tables (for example, "Fig. 1"). )) Exists. Therefore, the figure /
If the image data of the table can be displayed on the screen, the contents of the academic paper can be easily grasped, and the paper search can be carried out quickly and easily.

Therefore, when there is a word pointing to a figure / table in the text displayed on the screen, the inventor displays the information of the figure / table by an icon, and by selecting this icon, the figure / table is displayed. The present invention was devised with the idea of displaying the contents of the table in a window.

According to the present invention, when referring to the main text of a paper on the screen, the contents of figures and tables related to the main text can be easily displayed on the screen for reference, so that the search for academic papers can be performed quickly,
And it can be made easy. For this reason, it becomes possible to search for academic papers of universities, research institutes, etc. over a nationwide range, which was difficult in the past. Therefore, it becomes easier for researchers to obtain high-quality materials. In addition, the quality of academic papers has a strong influence on the number of times an academic paper is referred to, and thus can be a stimulant for researchers to carry out high-quality research. Therefore, the present invention can make many contributions to the progress and development of the department and technology.

[0016]

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

This embodiment has a structure as shown in FIG.
This is an academic paper database system for searching for a desired academic paper from a plurality of academic papers in a database (searching for a paper) and searching for desired information on a searched academic paper (searching within a paper).

The database system of the embodiment has a figure / table list display and search function, a text editing display function, and a figure / table information icon display function.

The figure / table list display and function allow the figure / table list included in the academic paper to be referred to to be displayed on the screen in the search in the article, and the figure / table can be selected. It is a function to display data on the screen.

The text edit display function is a function for freely editing the text of the article and displaying it on the screen.

Further, the figure / table information icon display function automatically displays the figure / table as an icon when the body text is displayed when a language indicating the figure / table exists in the displayed text. , It is a function to display the contents of figures and tables on the screen by selecting icons.

As shown in FIG. 1, this database system includes an electronically recorded information medium 10 and a central processing unit 12.
The display screen 14, the information input unit 16, the output printer 18, and the output electronic information recording medium 20 are provided.

The electronic information recording medium 10 has a plurality of academic papers including a text file containing all text (character) data of academic papers and an image file containing all figure / table data of the academic papers. It is stored. Detailed contents of the paper text file and the image file will be described later. A CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read Only Memory) can be used as the electronic information recording medium 10.

The central processing unit 12 includes an information input unit 16
According to the information for searching the article or the information for searching the article input from, the text file, the figure / table data in the electronic information recording medium 10 are searched, edited and output. Details of the article search information, the article search information, and the contents of the figure / table data search, edit, and output will be described later. A personal computer can be used as the central processing unit 12.

The display screen 14 displays information necessary for article search and in-article search on the screen, and also displays various information of search results output from the central processing unit 12 on the screen. is there. A color CRT (cathode ray tube) can be used as the display means of the display screen 14.

The information input section 16 is used by the user to input the article search information or the article search information to the central processing unit 12 based on the display information on the display screen 14 and the like. For the input unit 16, for example, a keyboard or a mouse can be used.

The output printer 18 displays the display screen 1
The information displayed on the screen 4 or the information related to the displayed information is printed out on a paper surface if desired.

The output electronic information recording medium 20 is an electronic information recording medium such as a magnetic disk for storing information displayed on the display screen 14 or information related to the display information, if desired, and the text data A layout file showing the editing conditions of and the search display software are stored.

The text files and image files of academic papers stored in the electronic information recording medium 10 and the layout files stored in the output electronic information recording medium 20 will be described.

The text file of the paper has an identifier for each paper, and each paper has a tag indicating the content (text) of the paper and the structure of the paper (text, figure, table, footnote, paragraph, etc.). Composed of. An example of tags and text in such a text file is shown in FIG.

In FIG. 2, <TITLE> to </ TITLE>
LE> is the title of the paper, <SUBTI> ~ </ SU
BTI> is the subtitle, <NAME> ~ </ NAM
E> Name of author, <YOUTAI> ~ </ YOOUTA
I> is the title of the abstract, <YOUSI>-</ YOU
SI> is the content of the abstract, <SECTI> ~ </ SECT
I> is a section title, <SECTION> ~ </ SECIO
N> indicates the content of each section. The content of the text is entered in the "-" part.

In the case where the tag indicates a figure / table, in order to link the figure / table data in the image file, for example, as shown in FIG. , Figure / table tags, figure / table numbers, link information to image files, and figure / table information consisting of titles of figures / tables. Thereby, as shown in FIG. 4, the paper text file and the image file are linked by the link information. That is, for “figure”, for example, the figure number is “1”
Then, if the link information is "0001" and the title of the figure is "corporate growth pattern", the tag and the figure information are configured as shown in FIG. 3B. For the "table", for example, the table number is "3-2" and the link information is "0011".
If the title of the table is "relationship between management target and business performance", the tag and the table information are also constructed as shown in FIG. 3B.

The layout file is composed of the editing conditions of the text data indicated by the tag and the others. The text is edited according to the editing conditions of the layout file and displayed on the display screen 14. Here, the editing conditions of the data indicated by the tag include the output position COM (center-aligned CENTER, left-aligned LEFT, right-aligned RIG).
HT, normal nonal, character size SIZ (double-byte character size, dot unit), typeface SYO (typeface number), inter-character length BTC (spacing with previous character, dot unit),
Line spacing BTL (spacing from previous line, dot unit), top margin TOP (line spacing from previous tag data, dot unit), left margin LFT (dot unit), display area length B
OX (maximum number of characters in the same line), character string H added to the beginning
There are parameters (editing parameters) such as ED and a character string TAL added to the end. In addition to the above-mentioned editing conditions, there are ways of setting (vertical writing, horizontal writing) and display of tags themselves (display tags; <figure>, <table>, etc.).

FIG. 5 shows an example in which the file format thus configured is displayed on the display screen 14.

In the file format of FIG. 5,
Tags are indicated by reference numerals 100 and 101, and a tag <NAME>
Indicates the author, and the tag <YOUTAI> indicates the title of the abstract. Further, 103 and 104 are the contents of the format.

In the 103 format, the output position COM is right-justified, the inter-character length BTC is 0 dot, and the inter-line length B is
TL is 16 dots, top margin TOP is 32 dots, left margin LFT is 16 dots, display area length BOX
Is 608 dots, the head addition character string HED is "XX", and the tail addition character string TAL is none.

In the 104 format, the output position COM is normal, the inter-character length BTC is 16 dots,
Line length BTL is 0 dots, top margin TOP is 0 dots, left margin LFT is 32 dots, display area length BO
X is 480 dots, a leading additional character "<", and a trailing additional character ">".

The image file stores image data of figures / tables in the paper, and the link information is added to each tag corresponding to the tags of the figures / tables of the text data to store the image data. There is.

In the database system of this embodiment, the central processing unit 12 performs the processing using the data in each of the files to display the figure / table list and search function, the text editing function, and the figure / table list. The table information icon display function is configured as follows.

Since the text / image file is associated with the link information as shown in FIG. 3, the above-mentioned figure / table list display and search function has a function of displaying figures / tables in the text file of the article. From the information, the figure and table data in the image file are searched.

That is, the figure / table information is extracted from the text file of the paper in advance, and the figure / table file made up of the extracted information is created. This figure / table file contains
Each table tag consists of figure / table tag, figure / table number, link information to image file, and figure / table title.

For example, the figure / table information in the text of FIG. 3 (A) is extracted to form the figure / table file information as shown in FIG. 3 (C). For example, if the figure / table information is that shown in FIG. 3 (B), the figure / table file information is configured as shown in FIG. 3 (D), for example.

The diagram / table file constructed as described above is edited to create data for the diagram / table list screen, and the display screen 1
4 Display on top. By selecting a figure / table in the display list screen, the contents of the figure / table are displayed on the screen. Therefore, since the table of contents of the figure / table can be searched, the inspection is easy and quick.

FIG. 6 shows an example of the display screen. In FIG.
Figure / Table Shows the title, copyright, and journals in the table of contents,
In each item, a figure number, such as "000", a figure number, a table number, and a table of contents item including a description of the figure / table (title of the figure / table, etc.) are displayed. By selecting this index item, the contents of the drawing are displayed together with the index of the selected drawing as shown in FIG. 7, for example. As a result, the general contents of the figure / table can be known from the description of the figure / table, the figure / table can be freely read, and the contents of the paper can be grasped quickly and easily.

Note that icons of various functions can be displayed simultaneously with the display of the display list screen. In FIG. 6, icons indicated by reference numerals 6A and 6B are those for selecting a figure / table item up and down, and icons 6C and 6D are for saving and printing the contents of the selected diagram / table, and icons 6E and 6F. Is to save and print the displayed screen.

Further, in FIG. 7, the icons 7A and 7B are the ones for displaying the figure of the previous number and the figure of the subsequent number, 7C,
The icon 7D is for saving and printing the screen contents, and the icon 7E is for displaying the chart list screen again.

Next, the contents of the text editing function will be described.

As shown in FIG. 8, the central processing unit 12 reads the text file data and the layout data, edits the data in the text file according to the layout file data, and creates a paper edit file.
This editing is performed on a tag-by-tag basis, and, for example, as shown in FIG. 9, an edit file in which one line of display is a record is created.
When the data is displayed on the display screen 12, the data of the number of lines that can be included in one screen is displayed as one unit. When outputting to a printer, the data for one line is sequentially output.

Since the system of the embodiment realizes the text editing function, the data in the layout file can be rewritten. Specifically, the editing condition for each tag in the layout file, for example, the file format shown in FIG. 5 can be rewritten. FIG. 10 shows an example in which the data in the text file shown in FIG. 2 is edited with layout file data in which the file format is rewritten variously.
It shows in FIG. The screen layouts in FIGS. 10 and 11 are very different and give different impressions.

Next, the figure / table information icon display function will be described.

In the text file, for example, as shown in FIG. 3 (B), the tag of the chart is preliminarily set at the place where the chart exists and at the place where the words indicating the chart (title of the figure / table, etc.) exist. And the figure number, the link information of the image file, and the title of the figure.

Therefore, in order to realize the icon display function, the body text is output and edited from the paper text file and layout file to create a paper edit file (1
If a figure / table tag exists in that line at the point of time (line by line), tag information is added line by line in the article edit file. The tag information to add is a character string to be displayed on the icon,
Use as the link information of the image file.

When displaying the text on the display image 14, when a line to which tag information is added is about to be output, an icon is automatically displayed, and when the icon is selected, the link information is displayed from the link information. Search the image file and display the image data of the figure / table corresponding to the icon in the window.

In this way, the text and icons are displayed on the display screen 14.
An example displayed on the screen is shown in FIG. In FIG. 12, the words “FIG. 1” and “footnote” to be displayed as icons are present in the text, and the words “FIG. 1” and “footnote” indicated by reference numerals 12A and 12B are displayed. When "FIG. 1" is selected from these "FIG. 1" and "footnote" icons, the content of "FIG. 1" is displayed in the window area 13A, for example, as shown in FIG. 12 and 1
In FIG. 3, the symbol TE is the text display area, 12C, 12D.
Is an icon for selecting the previous page or the subsequent page of the text, 12E is an icon for returning to the index screen, and 12F, 12G are icons for saving and printing the screen contents. Also, 13
B is an icon for closing the window area and displaying the text.

Next, details of the target article search in the academic article database system of the embodiment will be described in detail.

First, in the search of this system, bibliographic information search and keyword search can be performed. The bibliographic information search is a search for the target article using the bibliographic information as a key, and the keyword search is a search for the target article using the keyword as a key. The bibliographic information search key includes a journal title, a title (subtitle), an author name, an institution such as a university, a publisher (publisher), and a publication year. The keyword search key includes the article title (subtitle) and the keyword in the abstract.

Both the bibliographic information search and the keyword search are performed by inputting a key on a menu screen as shown in FIG. 14, for example.

When searching in the system, a menu screen for selecting the bibliographic information search key, for example, as shown in FIG. 14, and a title list screen for displaying a list of titles of articles obtained by the search are displayed. ,
The bibliographic information screen of the article you want to refer to is displayed, and
The abstract recording screen on which the abstract of the article you want to refer to is displayed, the list of figures and tables of the article you want to refer to, such as the figure list screen shown in Fig. 6, and the item selected in the figure table of contents on the figure list screen. Display screens of figures and tables as desired. For example, in the chart display screen as shown in FIG.
The table of contents of the article you want to refer to is displayed, and you can search while referring to the table of contents screen. Each of these screens
It is displayed by editing the data content indicated by the tags of the text file and image file.

In the menu screen of FIG. 14, the symbol SB
Is a help screen. Also, in F1 to F6, the journal title, title, author name, institution (university, faculty, department, etc.),
Input items for miscellaneous information keys such as publisher and year of publication.
Also, keywords are input to KW1 to KW3. K1 is a display of the number of retrieved papers, and K2 is
Is a clear of the entered items, K3 is a clear all input items, K4 is a help screen search to be described later, K5 is a search according to the input items, K6 is an article title display of the search result K7 is an icon of the search end Is.

When the key information, such as the author's name or the like, is not completely known, the help screen SB obtains the key information constituent portion, for example, even if only the person knows the key information. It is for. Details of the search using this help screen will be described later.

Next, the operation of the academic paper database system of the embodiment will be described.

FIG. 15 shows the overall flow of the search for the target article in this database system, and the content of the search will be described in detail according to the flow of this figure.

First, the article search will be described. When searching for articles, a menu search screen as shown in FIG. 14 is displayed on the display screen 14 (step 1).

When searching with bibliographic information, six items are used as indicated by reference numerals F1 to F6 in FIG. 14, and the searcher inputs a key only to a necessary item. Further, in the case of performing a search with a keyword, the keyword is input in the keyword items indicated by KW1 to KW3 in FIG. The key to enter these is 1
Give in words. This one word means one connection in Japanese and one word in English. Further, it is possible to give a plurality of each item and keyword of the bibliographic information within the item. It is possible to search with and, or, or not between keywords. For example, when extracting a paper in which the "natural" key exists in the paper title and the "AI" key does not exist, it is possible to search by inputting the natural and not AI key.

When the searcher inputs a key, a help screen can be displayed to obtain key information (step 2). An example of the help screen is displayed as shown by BS in FIG.

That is, when displaying the help screen, it is possible to give a subkey for obtaining key information and display only key information that partially matches (forward match or backward match) with this subkey. In the case of FIG. 14, a subkey “Takahashi” can be given, and key information (in this case, author's name) partially matching the subkey can be displayed. Also, the total number of key information items to be displayed is displayed on the help screen. If you select multiple keys at the same time on the help screen, those keys are connected by and. After completing the search on this help screen, you can return to the menu screen and start searching.

When the article search is completed, reference numeral K1 in FIG.
As shown in, the total number of retrieved articles is displayed on the search screen. Also, all the keys given for the search are saved on the screen, and after the key is corrected or added, the logical search can be performed again.

By selecting "Clear item" of the icon indicated by K2, the key of the related item can be deleted, and by selecting "Clear all" of the icon indicated by K3. , You can delete all the keys on the menu screen.

After the retrieval is completed, the title list of all retrieved articles is displayed on the display screen 14 by selecting "Title list" of the icon indicated by K4 (step 3).

Next, by selecting the title of the article to be referred from the title list of the articles obtained by the search, it is possible to perform an intra-article search in the subsequent steps.
If the content of the article is unnecessary, the procedure can be returned to step 1 and the article search on the menu screen can be repeated.

After selecting the title of the paper, which of the bibliographic information, the abstract, the list of figures and the like of the paper is desired to be viewed is selected. For example, if the bibliographic information is selected,
Bibliographic information of the selected paper is displayed on the screen (Step 4
A). When the abstract is selected, the abstract of the article to be referred to is displayed (step 4B). When the drawing list is selected, a list of figures and tables of the article to be referred to is displayed, for example, as shown in FIG. 6 (step 4C).

Desired figure from the table of contents of this figure / table
By selecting a table, the image data of the selected diagram / table, for example, the display screen 14 as shown in FIG.
Displayed above (step 5A). In this case, 7A, 7
By selecting the previous figure / table and the next figure / table with the icon B, the image data of the figure / table in the table of contents before and after the displayed chart can be displayed. Also, this image data can be printed out or saved.

When the article table of contents is selected, the contents of the article from the table of contents can be edited and displayed on the display screen 14 by selecting the item of the table of contents (step 5B). In this display, the text editing function allows the text to be freely edited and displayed on the screen.

When the article title is selected, the article is displayed from the beginning. The content of the displayed article is, for example, FIG.
As shown in FIG.

When a sentence referring to a figure, table, etc. is displayed on the screen, the information is displayed as an icon. At this time, it is possible to search by the figure / table information icon display function. That is, by selecting this icon
It can be displayed on the window 13A of the screen as shown in FIG.

By selecting the search as the desired word T, all the words in the paper are searched with the search word, and the content of the paper where the search word was present is displayed on the screen.

[0077]

As described above, according to the present invention, when referring to the text of a paper on a screen, the contents of figures and tables related to the text can be easily displayed on the screen for reference. Therefore, it is possible to easily and quickly search for academic papers. This makes it possible to search for academic papers from universities, research institutes, etc. over a nationwide range, which was difficult in the past. Therefore, it becomes easier for researchers to obtain high-quality materials. Further, since the quality of academic papers strongly influences the number of times the academic papers are referred to, it can be a stimulating agent for researchers to conduct high quality research. Therefore,
The excellent effect that many contributions can be made to the progress of science and technology can be obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of an academic paper database system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of tags and text information in a text file of the system.

FIG. 3 is also a diagram showing an example of figure / table information.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing an example in which article text files and image files are also linked by link information.

FIG. 5 is a diagram similarly showing an example of a layout file.

FIG. 6 is likewise a plan view showing an example of a figure / table list screen.

FIG. 7 is likewise a plan view showing an example of a diagram / table display screen.

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram showing a flow of creating an article edit file from an article text file and a layout file.

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a data structure in a paper display file.

FIG. 10 is also a plan view showing an example of a paper display screen after editing.

FIG. 11 is a plan view showing another example of the edited article display screen, similarly.

FIG. 12 is a plan view showing an example of a paper content display screen when the figure / table information icon display function is also performed.

FIG. 13 is a plan view showing an example in which a figure / table is displayed in a window when the figure / table is selected from the paper screen.

FIG. 14 is a plan view showing an example of a menu screen in the case of similarly searching for articles.

FIG. 15 is a flowchart showing the flow of the entire search procedure of the academic paper database system of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Electronic information recording medium, 12 ... Central processing unit, 14 ... Display screen, 16 ... Information input part, 18 ... Output printer, 20 ... Output electronic information recording medium.

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Claims (1)

[Claims] [Claim 1] A scientific paper database system that enables a desired search for academic paper data including text data, figure / table data, etc. while referring to the display screen is displayed on the screen. When there is a word pointing to a figure / table in the text, the means for displaying the information of the figure / table by an icon, the means for selecting the displayed icon, and the selected icon An academic paper database system characterized by having means for displaying the contents of corresponding figures and tables on a display screen as a window.