JPWO2013124949A1 - Information display device, program - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided is an information display device capable of easily searching and acquiring desired information and information highly relevant to the desired information even when the number of search words to be searched is small. The information display device, based on an arbitrary acquisition request, stores an information acquisition unit that acquires arbitrary economic event information as statistical information, and article information including newspaper articles, magazine articles, and Internet news articles, and the article information is regularly An article information acquisition unit that acquires article information from an article database that is sequentially updated at a target or arbitrary timing, and the information acquisition unit acquires economic event information related to the article information acquired by the article information acquisition unit.

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for displaying statistical information on a screen.

  Information used for analysis using aggregated results of various data, such as statistical information represented by economic statistical information on finance, securities, industry, commerce, industry, etc. should be displayed in graphs or tables when performing analysis. There are many occasions where is necessary. 2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a technique for creating a graph or a table based on data forming such information and displaying the screen on a computer is known. A configuration is known in which arbitrary data is acquired from a database based on a search condition (such as a search word) input by a computer user, and a graph or a table based on the data is automatically created (for example, patents). Reference 1).

Special table 2007-524163

  However, for example, when the information to be searched is a statistical time series, the text information that can be a search word is often only the name of each piece of information (time series data constituting the information). In addition, this name is a technical term unique to statistics, and it is not so much for those who are not experts (such as government experts) who create and publish statistics on economic events (hereinafter simply referred to as “experts”; the same applies in this specification). The term is often unfamiliar. Therefore, in the invention described in Patent Document 1, when the number of search words is small or the term is unfamiliar to those who are not experts, the user of the database searches for desired information. There is a problem that it is difficult to obtain.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described object. Even when the number of search words of information to be searched is small or a term that is generally unfamiliar, the desired information or the desired information is obtained. It is an object of the present invention to provide an information display device and a program that can easily search and acquire highly relevant information.

  In order to achieve such an object, an information display device according to the present invention is an information display device that acquires arbitrary statistical information from a database in response to a request and displays the acquired statistical information. Information acquisition means for acquiring arbitrary statistical information based on the above, article information including newspaper articles, magazine articles or Internet news articles is accumulated, and the article database is updated regularly or at arbitrary timing Article information acquisition means for acquiring the article information from the information, the information acquisition means acquiring the statistical information related to the article information acquired by the article information acquisition means.

  In the information display device of the present invention, the article information acquisition means includes a removal information group as a set of removal information that is information not used for acquisition of the statistical information, and the article information acquisition means includes the article information acquisition means from the article database. The acquired article information is preferably removed from the article information that matches the removal information, and the information acquisition means acquires the statistical information related to the article information from which the removal information has been removed.

  The information display device of the present invention includes a dedicated database in which the statistical information is stored, and the information acquisition unit searches the dedicated database when there is a request for acquisition of the statistical information, and the article information acquisition unit If the corresponding statistical information does not exist in the dedicated database, it is preferable to search the article database.

  In the information display device of the present invention, it is preferable that the information display device further includes an information display unit that graphs or tabulates the statistical information acquired by the information acquisition unit and displays the statistical information on the display unit.

  In the information display device of the present invention, the information acquisition means includes economic event information, which is information that has arbitrary one or a plurality of time-series data and has a specified display form as a graph or a table, as the statistical information. It is desirable that the information display means display all or part of the time-series data as a graph or a table based on the definition of the display mode.

  In the information display device of the present invention, it is preferable that the statistical information is economic statistical information.

  A program according to the present invention causes a computer to function as the information display device of the present invention.

  According to the information display device of the present invention, the information acquisition unit acquires statistical information related to the article information acquired by the article information acquisition unit. Statistical information related to article information containing many commonly used terms can be acquired. Therefore, it is possible to search and acquire statistical information using commonly used terms. When the user of the apparatus makes an arbitrary acquisition request, even if the text information used does not completely match the search word of the statistical information, the article information is acquired by the acquisition request, and the article information By searching for statistical information based on the above, it is possible to acquire statistical information that meets the acquisition request. This makes it easy to search for desired information or information that is highly relevant to the desired information even when the number of search words for the information to be searched is small or when the term is generally unfamiliar. And get it.

  In the information display device of the present invention, the article information acquisition means removes the article information acquired from the article database that matches the removal information, and the information acquisition means relates to the article information from which the removal information has been removed. By acquiring statistical information, it is possible to accurately acquire desired statistical information or statistical information close to desired statistical information based on article information containing a lot of unnecessary information.

  In the information display device of the present invention, the information acquisition means includes a dedicated database in which statistical information is stored, so that the dedicated database provided for the purpose of acquiring statistical information and the article database are used in combination. In addition, it is possible to provide statistical information that takes advantage of both databases. In addition, when there is a request for acquisition of statistical information, the information acquisition means first searches the dedicated database, and if the corresponding statistical information does not exist in the dedicated database, first, by searching the article database, The type of information that is provided for the purpose of accumulating statistical information, and when there is no corresponding statistical information in the dedicated database after searching a dedicated database that allows quick and easy retrieval of statistical information Searching article databases that have a large amount of data and a large amount of statistical information that contains many commonly used terms increases the possibility of acquiring statistical information requested for acquisition. be able to. As a result, in response to a statistical information acquisition request, it is possible to more easily acquire and provide statistical information that covers a variety of information types and data amounts and covers the latest information.

  According to the information display apparatus of the present invention, the information display means can display each information on a screen in a manner that makes it easy to see the acquired information by graphing or tabulating the information according to a specified display mode, Information can be presented in an easy-to-understand manner.

  According to the present invention, the information acquisition means acquires, as statistical information, economic event information that is information having arbitrary one or a plurality of time-series data and having a display form as a graph or a table. Any time-series data or time-series data group desired by the user can be easily acquired as economic event information, and the time-series data or time-series data group can be easily displayed in a predefined display mode. it can. As a result, data regarding statistical information that is explicitly or potentially desired by the user can be easily acquired and displayed as a graph or table that allows easy viewing of the data. Further, the information display means displays all or part of the time series data as a graph or a table based on the definition of the display mode, so that only representative time series data indicating economic event information is graphed or displayed. The economic event information can be displayed in a form that is easy to see and visually easy to grasp the summary.

  In the information display device of the present invention, when the statistical information is economic statistical information, the economic statistical information is often the case when the number of search words of the information to be searched is small or the term is generally unfamiliar. Therefore, it is possible to easily search and obtain desired information and information highly relevant to the desired information.

  According to the program of the present invention, the information display apparatus according to the present invention can be realized on various hardware.

It is the network block diagram and functional block diagram of the information display apparatus of this embodiment. It is a 1st figure which shows typically the concept of the economic event information which concerns on the embodiment. It is a 2nd figure which shows typically the concept of the economic event information which concerns on the embodiment. It is a figure which shows typically an example of the search table for acquiring the economic event information which concerns on the embodiment. It is a figure which shows typically the table group which forms the economic event information which concerns on the embodiment. It is a figure which shows typically the visualization definition information group which concerns on the same embodiment. It is a figure which shows typically the operation | movement principle of the information acquisition part which concerns on the same embodiment. It is a figure which shows typically the operation principle of the article information acquisition part which concerns on the same embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the operation | movement procedure of the information display system which concerns on the embodiment. It is an image figure of the search screen concerning the embodiment. It is an image figure of the basic display screen concerning the embodiment.

<System configuration>
1 to 11 show an embodiment of the present invention.

First, the configuration will be described. An information display system 1A according to this embodiment shown in FIG. 1 includes an information display apparatus 1 according to this embodiment and n (n ≧ 1) client terminals 2 ₁ ,. 2 _n and the article database 16 are provided so as to be able to communicate with each other via the Internet 3.

  The information display device 1 is a server system, which is a server computer managed and operated by a trader such as economic statistical information. The information display device 1 has a Web server function and a database function for storing a large amount of data. The information display device 1 may be formed by one server computer or may be formed by a plurality of network computer systems.

The client terminals 2 ₁ ,..., 2 _n are communication terminals having a data communication function that are owned and used by individuals or corporations (that is, users of the information display system 1A) who use economic statistical information, This applies to personal computers, mobile phone terminals, and the like. The client terminals 2 ₁ ,..., 2 _n are composed of operation units 21 ₁ ,..., 21 _n used for inputting various instructions such as a mouse and a keyboard, an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), and the like. _1, ..., a display unit ₂₂ 1 for displaying various instructions and the like or various image input from 21 _n, ..., and a 22 _n. In this embodiment, Web browsers 23 ₁ , 23 ₂ ,..., 23 _n are displayed on the display units 22 ₁ ,..., 22 _n , and an information display device is used using HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) or the like. Get data from 1.

Incidentally, the client terminal ₂ 1, ..., _{2 n,} the operation unit ₂₁ 1, ..., 21 _n, the display unit ₂₂ 1, _..., 22 n, Web browser _{23 1,} 23 2, ..., Since 23 _n has the same configuration, the client terminal 2, the operation unit 21, the display unit 22, and the Web browser 23 are hereinafter referred to unless otherwise distinguished.

  Although not shown in FIG. 1, the information display device 1 records at least one CPU (Central Processing Unit), a RAM (Random Access Memory) functioning as a work area of the CPU, a boot program for startup, and the like. A ROM (Read Only Memory), an auxiliary storage device such as a hard disk in which various programs and data are recorded, a communication interface used for data transmission / reception, and the like are provided. The auxiliary storage device stores an OS (Operating System) program, various application programs, data recorded in a database, and the like. These programs and data realize various functions in cooperation with hardware resources through arithmetic processing of the CPU.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the information display device 1 includes a web application unit 10, an information acquisition unit 11 as an “information acquisition unit”, “article” as functional units realized based on the various programs and hardware resources described above. It has an article information acquisition unit 12 as an “information acquisition unit”, an information display unit 13 as an “information display unit”, a dedicated database 14, and an article database 16.

  The web application unit 10 supplies various contents 15 based on a request from the client terminal 2. The web application unit 10 receives a request from the client terminal 2 and transmits the acquired economic statistical information graphed or tabulated as the content 15 to the client terminal 2.

  The information acquisition unit 11 is a search engine, and acquires economic statistical information as arbitrary “statistical information” in the form of “economic event information” based on an arbitrary acquisition request from the client terminal 2. A specific mode of acquiring economic event information will be described later.

  The article information acquisition unit 12 acquires article information from an article database 16 described later. The article information acquisition unit 12 includes a removal information group 173 as a collection of removal information that is information that is not used for acquiring economic statistical information. The article information acquisition unit 12 removes the article information from the article information acquired from the article database 16. Remove what matches the information. The information acquisition unit 11 acquires economic statistical information related to the article information from which the removal information has been removed (details will be described later).

  The web application unit 10 illustrated in FIG. 1 includes an information display unit 13. The information display unit 13 has a graph creation function and a table creation function, and graphs the economic statistical information acquired by the information acquisition unit 11 and displays the graph on the display unit.

  The dedicated database 14 is a database in which information specialized in accumulation and supply of economic statistical information is mainly recorded, and various data forming economic statistical information and economic statistical information are recorded.

  The information display system 1 </ b> A has an article database 16. The article database 16 is a database possessed or used by a newspaper company, a communication company, a broadcasting station, etc., and article information including newspaper articles, magazine articles, and Internet news articles is accumulated as text information. The data stored in the article database 16 is news article information of various genres including economic statistical information. The article information recorded in the article database 16 is updated regularly or sequentially at an arbitrary timing by a newspaper company, a communication company, a broadcasting station or the like that owns or uses the article database 16. Each piece of article information recorded in the article database 16 may be added with text information such as an article keyword as index information as attribute information.

<Economic event information>
The “economic event information” in this embodiment is an arbitrary one of time series data or an aggregate of a plurality of arbitrary time series data whose display mode is defined. “Time-series data” here means that one parameter is time information, which is represented by data of economic statistics such as finance, securities, industry, commerce, industry, etc., and the value can fluctuate in time series. Say data.

  Economic event information is often used in concepts that many users who use the economic event information display device 1 using the client terminal 2 recall, such as business information and investment information (the concept formed by experts is not necessarily Can be formed based on the concept of

  Each economic event information has search keyword information. This search keyword information is attribute information of each economic event information, and is used for searching each economic event information. The search keyword information may be, for example, a name, common name, common name representing economic event information itself, or a term, name, common name, abbreviation, etc. indicating individual time series data included in the economic event information. As will be described later, economic event information is input by the user of the client terminal 2 using the operation unit 21.

<Concept of economic event information (1)>
FIG. 2 is a first diagram schematically showing the concept of economic event information in this embodiment. As shown in the figure, the economic event information 100A is formed as a collection of one or more time-series data or a graph configured based on other time-series data. Here, “graph etc.” refers to specific display modes such as time series data and graphs and tables set for each time series data. In FIG. 2, the economic event information 100A is composed of p (p ≧ 1) graphs 901 ₁ , 901 ₂ ,... 901 _p .

Each graph etc. 901 ₁ , 901 ₂ ,... 901 _p has a unique display priority. In FIG. 2, the display priority order 902 is schematically indicated by an arrow line, and the tip of the arrow line (the uppermost part in FIG. 2) has the highest display priority order 902, and the base end (lower left part in FIG. 2). This display priority 902 is the lowest.

All graphs 901 ₁ , 901 ₂ ,... 901 _p are set to be superior or inferior according to the display priority order 902. When there are a plurality of candidates for the graphs 901 ₁ , 901 ₂ ,... 901 _p to be displayed in response to a request from the client terminal 2, the one with the highest display priority 902 is displayed on the display unit 22 of the client terminal 2. Let

A “restricted range” is set in the graphs 901 ₁ , 901 ₂ ,... 901 _p constituting the economic event information 100A. This “restricted range” is a set of graphs 901 ₁ , 901 ₂ ,... 901 _p that can be displayed on the client terminal 2 based on an arbitrary condition. In FIG. 2, a first limit range 903 ₁ and a second limit range 903 ₂ are set as q limit ranges 903 (q ≧ 1, q = 2 in FIG. 2).

Of the respective time series data forming the graphs 901 ₁ , 901 ₂ ,... 901 _p , the one with the higher display priority 902 may be a “representative series”. The “representative series” is one or a plurality of time series selected from a plurality of time series data included in one restriction range 903. In this embodiment, for the “representative series”, a graph or the like having the highest display priority 902 in each restriction range 903 is selected. For example, in FIG. 2, the representative series in the first restriction range 903 ₁ is time series data forming the graph 901 _1, and the representative series in the second restriction range 903 ₂ is time series data forming the graph 901 _4. It is.

Furthermore, "representative mark" is in the same limits 903, display priority lower graph like _{901 1,} 901 2, time-series data to form a · · · 901 _p (these "representative sequence" A graph or a table formed by quoting The “representative mark” functions as arbitrary information for visually indicating economic event information. Reference numeral 904 in FIG. 2 indicates the relationship between the “representative series” and the “representative mark”.

<Concept of economic event information (2)>
FIG. 3 is a second diagram schematically showing the concept of economic event information according to this embodiment. As shown in the figure, the information group forming the economic event information 100A includes one upper economic event information 100a and r pieces (r ≧ 1, here r = 4) of lower economic event information 100b ₁ , 100b ₂ , has a · · · 100b _r, s number (s ≧ 1, where s = 32) time-series data _{200 1,} 200 2, and · · · 200 _s.

  The upper economic event information 100a is located in the highest hierarchy in the information group forming the economic event information 100A. That is, the display priority order 902 (see FIG. 2) is the highest.

Lower economic events information 100b _1, 100b ₂ ··· 100b _r is located in the lower than the higher-level economic event information 100a. That is, the display priority order 902 (see FIG. 2) is the second or lower. Lower economic event information 100b has a graph information _{110 1, 110 2, ··· 110} r of the r displaying graphs any time-series data (r ≧ 1).

Time-series data _{200 1, 200 2, ··· 200} s is located in the lower than the lower economic event information _{100b 1, 100b 2 ··· 100b r} . Each of the time series data 200 ₁ , 200 ₂ ,... 200 _s is simply a state of numerical data (although it is described in the form of a graph for convenience in FIG. 3), and is defined individually in advance. Does not have a display mode

The citation relationship 904 in FIG. 3 is the same as the citation relationship 904 in FIG. In other words, the time-series data _{200 1,} 200 2, is part of the ··· 200 _s, cited higher economic events information 100a and lower economic event information 100b _1, 100b ₂ ··· 100b _r as "representative series" _Then, a “representative mark” of the cited upper economic event information 100a and lower economic event information 100b ₁ , 100b ₂ ... 100br is formed.

Each of the time series data 200 ₁ , 200 ₂ ,... 200 _s is included in one or more of u (u ≧ 1) time series data groups 201 ₁ , 201 _{2 ,.} . Top economic event information 100a or the lower economic event information 100b _1, 100b ₂ in FIG. 3, and · · · 100b _r, series data ₂₀₀ 1 when associated with _it, 200 2, and the set of · · · 200 _s, FIG. 2 corresponds to the graphs 901 ₁ , 901 ₂ ,... 901 _p in the limit range 903 shown in FIG. Reference numeral 905 shown in FIG. 3, the upper economic event information 100a or the lower economic event information 100b _1, 100b _2, and · · · 100b _r, time-series data group _{201 1,} 201 2, and · · · 201 _u Indicates a dependency relationship.

Higher economic events information 100a, lower economic event information _{100b 1, 100b 2, ··· 100b} r , respectively, information for defining information for defining the belong to any level, whether belong to which limit range 903, which time-series data _{200 1,} 200 2, time-series data ₂₀₀ 1 its associated (with the information corresponding to the citation 904) in · · · 200 _s, 200 2, any type of display mode and · · · 200 _s (for example, line graph Information indicating whether the data is displayed in the form of a bar graph or a table) as attribute information. Further, when the respective series data _{200 1,} 200 2, · · · 200 _s, how the time-series data group _{201 1,} 201 2, information defining belonging to whether the · · · 201 _u, has as attribute information ing.

A plurality of economic event information 100A in this embodiment is formed. That is, m pieces of economic event information 100A ₁ , 100A ₂ ,... 100A _m (m ≧ 1) are formed. However, these economic event information 100A ₁ , 100A ₂ ,... 100A _m all have the same structure as the economic event information 100A shown in FIG. Is described as economic event information 100A.

The lower economic event information _{100b 1, 100b 2 ··· 100b r} , graph information _{110 1, 110 2, ··· 110} r, the time-series data _{200 1, 200 2, ··· 200} s, the time series data group 201 _{1, 201} 2, since taking the same configuration both · · · 201 _s, especially except where necessary to distinguish the following, the lower economic event information 100b, graph information 110, time-series data 200, time series This is described as a data group 201.

<Configuration for information acquisition>
FIG. 4 is a diagram schematically showing an example of a search table for acquiring economic event information according to this embodiment. In this embodiment, the first search table 300 shown in FIG. 4A and the second search table 400 shown in FIG. 4B are formed in the information acquisition unit 11.

  The search table 300 shown in FIG. 4A is formed based on a dictionary or specialized book that handles economic statistical information, and is an economic event name that is the name of the upper economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b. 301, ID 302 given to each economic event name 301, comment 303 annotating the economic event name 301, additional keyword 304 for search, which is a word used for searching the higher economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b, higher economy Table of contents information 305 which is the name of the economic event included in the event information 100a and the name of the lower economic event information 100b, a series name 306 which is the name of the economic event related to the economic event indicated by the economic event name 301, and the economy Items such as the source name 307, which is the name of the document that cites the event name, and the unit name 308, which is the monetary unit of the economic event information To.

  The information acquisition unit 11 classifies the information recorded in the economic event name 301, the comment 303, the table of contents information 305, the series name 306, and the source name 307 of the first search table 300 into words, and each word is classified. The unit is merged to form the second search table 400 shown in FIG. The second search table 400 includes a keyword 401 as “search keyword information” merged for each word, and an ID 302 given to the row of the first search table 300 to which each word belonged before being merged. It has a certain target economic event 402.

  When there is an inquiry about a search keyword from the client terminal 2, the information acquisition unit 11 collates the search keyword with the inquiry with the search keyword in the keyword 401 of the second search table 400. If any of the keywords 401 matches the search keyword, the information acquisition unit 11 returns the target economic event 402 corresponding to the matching keyword 401 to the information display unit 13.

<Configuration for displaying information>
FIG. 5 is a diagram schematically showing an economic event display table group that is a table group for displaying the upper economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b according to this embodiment. The economic event display table group 500 is recorded in the information display unit 13.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the economic event display table group 500 includes an economic event table 501, a series / table of contents definition table 502, a series definition table 503, a source table 504, a unit table 505, and a statistical value table 506. The table 501 is formed in a recursive structure.

  The economic event table 501 is an information group that defines main information of the upper economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b. The economic event table 501 has a parent table of contents ID 5010 indicating the economic event ID 302 of the parent table at the time of recursion. The parent index ID 5010 defines which hierarchy (see FIG. 3) each higher economic event information 100a and lower economic event information 100b belongs to. In this embodiment, there is no value in the parent index ID 5010 of the economic event table 501 of the upper economic event information 100a which is the highest hierarchy (because there is no higher economic event table), and the hierarchy is the highest. The parent index ID 5010 of the economic event table 501 of the lower economic event information 100b other than the upper level is set to the same value as the economic event ID 302 of the economic event table 501 of the immediately higher hierarchy.

  Further, the economic event table 501 has visualization definition information 5011 that defines information for visualizing the respective higher economic event information 100a and lower economic event information 100b.

  The series definition table 503 is an information group that defines individual time series data forming the upper economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b.

  The series / table-of-contents correspondence definition table 502 has information for associating the economic event table 501 with the series / table-of-contents correspondence definition table 502. The source table 504 includes information such as the source name of the upper economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b. The unit table 505 includes information that defines the units of the upper economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b. The statistical value table 506 has records of various statistical values of the upper economic event information 100a, the lower economic event information 100b, and time series data.

  Economic event name 301 in economic event table 501, economic event (table of contents) ID 302, comment 303, additional keyword 304 for search, economic event (table of contents) ID 305 in sequence / table of contents correspondence definition table 502, series name 306 in series definition table 503, The source name 307 of the source table 504 and the unit name 308 of the unit table 505 are the economic event name 301, economic event ID 302, comment 303, additional keyword 304 for search, table of contents information 305 of the first search table 300 shown in FIG. It consists of the same data as the series name 306, source name 307, and unit name 308.

  The economic event table 501 has visualization definition information 5011. FIG. 6 is a diagram schematically showing a visualization definition information group 5011A as a collection of visualization definition information 5011.

As shown in FIG. 6, the visualization definition information group 5011A is visualization of k (k ≧ 1) definition information 5011 _1, 5011 _2, a collection of · · · 5011 _k. Visualization definition information 5011 ₁ , 5011 ₂ ,... 5011 _k defines a display mode for each of the upper economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b. The information display unit 13 graphs the upper economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b by using the visualization definition information 5011 ₁ , 5011 ₂ ,... 5011 _k as a model.

Each visualization definition information 5011 _1, 5011 _2, · · · 5011 _k was uniquely assigned, k pieces (k ≧ 1) of economic events ID information 5012 _1, 5012 _2, have a · · · 5012 _k Then, any one upper economic event information 100a and lower economic event information 100b are displayed in a graph in one display mode (for example, a line graph).

Each of the visualization definition information 5011 ₁ , 5011 ₂ ,... 5011 _k shown in FIG. 6 has a plurality of display definition information 5013 ₁₁ , 5013 ₂₁ , 5013 ₂₂ ,... 5013 _k1 , 5013 _k2 . These display specification information _{5013 11, 5013 21, 5013 22} , ··· 5013 k1, 5013 k2 are each visualization definition information 5011 _1, 5011 _2, for each type of time-series data contained in the · · · 5011 _k Series ID information 5014 ₁₁ , 5014 ₂₁ , 5014 ₂₂ ,... 5014 _k1 , 5014 _k2 indicating the assigned IDs, and the types of graphs (for example, line graphs, Display regulation information 5015 ₁₁ , 5015 ₂₁ , 5015 ₂₂ ,..., 5015 _k1 , 5015 _k2 .

The information display unit 13 forms default display regulation information in addition to the visualization definition information 5011 ₁ , 5011 ₂ ,... 5011 _k shown in FIG. This default display definition information (not shown) includes data for which display definition information 5013 ₁₁ ,... 5013 _k1 , 5013 _k2 is not specified (for example, individual items specified only by the sequence definition table 503 shown in FIG. 5). This is used when the time-series data 200) must be displayed on the display unit 22 of the client terminal 2.

  Although not shown, each of the upper economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b has, as attribute information, information defining which restriction range 903 belongs in addition to the information shown in FIGS. doing. Although not shown, each time-series data 200 has information that defines which time-series data group 201 belongs to as attribute information.

<Operational principle of information acquisition unit>
FIG. 7 is a diagram schematically showing the operation principle of the information acquisition unit 11 of this embodiment.

  In this embodiment, the information acquisition unit 11 includes the time series data group 201 (see FIG. 3) belonging to the same restriction range 903 (see FIG. 2) for each of the upper economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b. The “representative series” is displayed as a “representative mark” that is graphed or tabulated.

For example, as shown in FIG. 7, consider a case where there is a request for acquisition of “new car registration” from the client terminal 2 to the information display apparatus 1. Here, as shown in FIG. 4, in the information acquisition unit 11, the upper economic event information 100 a of “new car registration” is a total of s types (s ≧ 1, here, s = 17) of time series data 200 ₁ , 200 _{2. -It} shall be formed by 200 _s .

Information acquisition unit 11, the upper economic events time-series data _{200 1,} 200 2 information 100a constituting, · · · 200 _s usage count information 5032 _1, 5032 ₂ in, · · · 5032 _s (see Fig. 5) From the dedicated database 14 as the “representative series” of the upper economic event information 100a.

  Although the procedure shown in FIG. 7 is shown for the upper economic event information 100a, the lower economic event information 100b is processed in the same procedure.

<Operational principle of article information acquisition unit>
FIG. 8 is a diagram schematically showing the operation principle of the article information acquisition unit 12 of the information display system 1A of this embodiment. As shown in the figure, the article information acquisition unit 12 acquires article information from the article database 16.

For example, as illustrated in FIG. 8, when “OxΔ (company name)” is input as keyword information from the client terminal 2, the article information acquisition unit 12 searches the article database 16 and includes “OxΔ”. Get past article information. Here, it is assumed that "○ × △" 1000, including article information _{171 1,} 171 2, article information group 170 ... _{171 1000} is made from has been acquired. When index information is added as attribute information to each piece of article information, the article information acquisition unit 12 may acquire article information including “◯ × Δ” in the index information.

The article information acquisition unit 12 decomposes the title and sentence of the acquired article information into words, and outputs analysis result information regarding how many words are included in all article information. In FIG. 5, as analysis result information 172, among 1000 pieces of article information 171 ₁ , 171 ₂ ,... 171 ₁₀₀₀ , the word “sales” is 4000, the word “explanation” is 3500, ”Includes 3200 words,“ semiconductor ”includes 3000 words, and“ test apparatus ”includes 2500 words.

  The article information acquisition unit 12 compares the analysis result information 172 with the removal information, and removes the analysis result information 172 that matches the removal information. As shown in FIG. 8, the removal information group 173, which is a collection of removal information, includes a word list, and is mainly word information that appears frequently in articles of various genres other than economic event information. The words included in the removal information group 173 include words that frequently appear in activities other than economic activities such as “sales”, “explanation”, and “announcement”. Further, as the removal information group 173, instructions such as “that” and “that”, words that are generally used to indicate states such as “very”, “significant”, “rise”, “fall”, etc. Particles may be included such as “” and “no” (in this case, the article information acquisition unit 12 has a part-of-speech analysis function, and parts of speech unnecessary for acquisition of economic event information such as “adjectives” and “particles”) It is desirable to have a function of extracting the unnecessary part-of-speech words as the removal information group 173). In FIG. 5, since “sales”, “explanation”, and “announcement” in the analysis result information 172 match the information in the removal information group 173, the article information acquisition unit 12 removes these words from the analysis result information 172. .

  The article information acquisition unit 12 obtains removal result information obtained by removing words that are subject to the removal information group 173 from the analysis result information 172. In FIG. 8, the removal result information 174 includes two pieces of word information: word information 1741 of “semiconductor” and word information 1742 of “manufacturing apparatus”. The article information acquisition unit 12 sends the removal result information 174 to the information acquisition unit 11. The information acquisition unit 11 accesses the dedicated database 14 again, searches the removal result information 174 sent from the article information acquisition unit 12 for economic event information including “semiconductor” based on the word information 1741 with a large number of words, get. The information acquisition unit 11 searches for and acquires economic event information including “semiconductor” and economic event information including “manufacturing equipment” based on all the word information 1741 and 1742 included in the removal result information 174. The structure to do may be sufficient.

<Operation procedure of information display system>
FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure of the information display system 1A of this embodiment. The operation procedure will be described below based on the flowchart.

<Operation procedure 1. Processing using article information>
Steps S1 to S5 and S8 in FIG. 9 are flowcharts showing an operation procedure when performing display in the information display system 1A of this embodiment. The operation procedure will be described below based on the flowchart.

[Keyword input, economic event information display command (step S1)]
First, a user of the information display system 1 </ b> A accesses the information display device 1 from the client terminal 2. A search screen 30 whose image diagram is shown in FIG. 10 is displayed on the display unit 22 of the client terminal 2. The search screen 30 is provided with a keyword input field 31 and a keyword selection button group 32A. The keyword input field 31 is a text input field, and a keyword is input using the operation unit 21 (keyboard).

The keyword selection button group 32A includes h (h ≧ 1) keyword selection buttons 32 ₁ , 32 ₂ ,... 32 _h for acquiring economic event information.

  When the user inputs an arbitrary keyword as text in the keyword input field 31, an economic event information display command is sent from the client terminal 2 to the information display device 1 (step S1). In other words, the keyword input as text is transmitted to the information display device 1.

[Confirmation of existence of relevant economic event information (steps S2, S3)]
The information acquisition unit 11 of the information display device 1 collates the received search keyword with the search keyword in the keyword 401 of the second search table 400 (step S2). If there is search keyword information that matches the received keyword (including both complete match and partial match) (“Yes” in step S3), the process proceeds to step S9 described later. If there is no search keyword information (“No” in step S3), the article information acquisition unit 12 acquires article information from the article database 16 as shown in FIG.

[Acquisition of article information, removal of removal information (steps S4, S5)]
When there is no search keyword information (“No” in step S3), the article information acquisition unit 12 accesses and inquires the article database 16 (step S4) as described above in <Operation Principle of Article Information Acquisition Unit>. The article information including the keyword received from the client terminal 2 is searched, and the analysis result information 172 as shown in FIG. 8 is acquired. The article information acquisition unit 12 collates the acquired analysis result information 172 with the words included in the recorded removal information group 173, and matches the words included in the removal information group 173 from the analysis result information 172. The word is removed (step S5), and removal result information 174 is obtained.

[Verification of word information, confirmation of presence / absence of relevant economic event, no relevant information (steps S6 to S8, step S11)]
The article information acquisition unit 12 sends one or more pieces of word information to the information acquisition unit 11 as the removal result information 174. In the removal result information 174 that has been sent, the information acquisition unit 11 starts from the word information with the largest number of words (for example, in the example shown in FIG. 8, in order from the word information “semiconductor”). The search keyword is collated with the keyword 401 of the second search table 400 (step S6). If one or more of the keywords 401 matches the search keyword (“Yes” in step S7), the process proceeds to step S9 described later. The information acquisition unit 11 collates all the word information constituting the removal result information 174 (“No” in steps S6 to S7, “No” in step S8). If all the word information constituting the removal result information 174 does not match the search keyword (“Yes” in step S8), the display unit 22 of the client terminal displays “no corresponding information” (step S11).

[Display relevant economic events (step S9)]
When one word information constituting the removal result information 174 matches the search keyword (“Yes” in step S8), the information display unit 13 displays the economic event information corresponding to the matched search keyword (step S9). Specifically, the following procedure is performed.

  First, the information acquisition unit 11 acquires information related to the target economic event 402 corresponding to the keyword 401 matching the word information from the dedicated database 14 in step S8.

For example, if the word information of "semiconductor" was confirmed to agree with keywords 401 of "semiconductor" on the line 12 400 ₁₂ of the second lookup table 400 in step S6, the information acquisition unit 11, the second Based on the ID 302 “1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 10” in the 12th row 400 ₁₂ of the search table 400, the ID 302 is “1” “2” “3” “5” “8” from the dedicated database 14. In total, the top six economic event information 100a that are “10” are acquired.

Then, the information acquisition unit 11 sends each acquired economic event information to the information display unit 13. The information display unit 13 confirms whether or not each acquired economic event name is included in the economic event name 301 of the higher-level economic event information 100a. When each acquired economic event name is included in the economic event name 301 of the upper economic event information 100a (“Yes” in step S10), the information display unit 13 visualizes the definition information 5011 of the upper economic event information 100a. ₁ , 5011 ₂ ,..., 5011 _k , the “representative mark” of the higher economic event information 100a is displayed in a graph (step S9).

<Repeating Process (Step S10)>
The processes in steps S6 to S9 are sequentially performed on the words acquired in step S5 while those not collated with the economic event information are present (“No” in step S10). For example, in FIG. 8, after the processing of steps S6 to S9 with the word “semiconductor” based on the word information 1741 is completed, the processing of steps S7 to S9 is performed again based on the word “manufacturing apparatus” based on the word information 1742. The economic event information 100 acquired based on the word information 1772 is graphed or tabulated similarly to the economic event information 100 acquired based on the previous word information 1741 and displayed on the client terminal 2.

  When all the processes in steps S6 to S9 are completed by the word information 1741 and 1742 included in the removal result information 174 acquired in step S5 (“Yes” in step S10), the process is completed.

FIG. 11 is an image diagram of the basic display screen of this embodiment. As shown in the figure, g (g ≧ 1) graphs 41 ₁ , 41 ₂ ,... 41 _g are displayed on the basic display screen 40. That is, g upper economic event information 100a is acquired by the command of step S1, and g graphs 41 ₁ , 41 ₂ ,... 41 _g are formed based on the upper economic event information 100a. is there.

Since each graph 41 ₁ , 41 ₂ ,... 41 _g shown in FIG. 11 is obtained based on the word information 1741, the time series data 200 for the economic event information “semiconductor” is graphed. It has become. In addition, the respective graphs 41 ₁ , 41 ₂ ,... 41 _g show the “representative series” of the time series data 200 described above as “representative marks” of the respective economic event information.

That is, the basic display screen 40 includes g pieces (g) formed based on time-series data 200 having keyword information “semiconductor” and “manufacturing equipment” that are closely related to the company name “OxΔ”. Graphs 41 ₁ , 41 ₂ ,... 41 _g as “representative marks” of ≧ 1) are shown.

Moreover, the limited range 903 among the time-series data 200 belonging to (see FIG. 2), "representative sequence" as when the part-series data 200 only graph _{41 1, 41 2, ··· 41} g turned into, the client terminal 2 To display only the representative time-series data 200 indicating the economic event information into graphs 41 ₁ , 41 ₂ ,... 41 _g , and grasp the economic event information 100 in an easy-to-read visual overview. Can be displayed in an easy manner.

The graph _{41 1,} 41 2, clicking one of the · · · 41 _g, the display unit graph ₄₁ 1 clicked to _22, 41 2, (not shown) enlarged view of · · · 41 _g Is displayed.

Further, as shown in FIG. 11, the basic display screen 40 displays a new keyword selection button group 34A including f (f ≧ 1) keyword selection buttons 34 ₁ , 34 ₂ ,... 34 _f. . These keyword selection buttons 34 ₁ , 34 ₂ ,... 34 _f are information acquired based on the processing results of steps S 4, S 5, S 6, S 7, and here, the name of the semiconductor manufacturer is displayed. Yes. When any _{one of} these keyword selection buttons 34 ₁ , 34 ₂ ,... 34 _f is clicked, the information display unit 13 displays a new graph (not shown) specialized only for the selected semiconductor manufacturer. Are displayed on the client terminal 2.

<Operation procedure 2. Processing without article information>
Although not shown, in the operation procedure 1, when no keyword is input in the keyword input field 31, or when higher economic event information 100 a or lower economic event information 100 b based on the keyword input in the keyword input field 31 exists. The information acquisition unit 11 forms a graph based on the keyword selection button 32 clicked in the keyword selection button group 32 </ b> A or the keyword input in the keyword input field 31 and displays the graph on the client terminal 2. The operation procedure is the same as “Yes”, S9, and S10 in steps S1, S2, and S3.

  As described above, in this embodiment, the information acquisition unit 11 acquires the higher economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b as statistical information information related to the article information acquired by the article information acquisition unit 12. It is possible to acquire upper economic event information 100a and lower economic event information 100b related to article information that has abundant types of information and data, and includes many commonly used terms. Therefore, it is possible to search and acquire the upper economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b using commonly used terms. When the user of the apparatus makes an arbitrary acquisition request, even if the text information used does not completely match the search words of the upper economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b, By acquiring article information and searching the upper economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b based on the article information, the upper economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b in accordance with the acquisition request may be acquired. It becomes possible. This makes it easy to search for desired information or information that is highly relevant to the desired information even when the number of search words for the information to be searched is small or when the term is generally unfamiliar. And get it.

  In this embodiment, the article information acquired from the article database 16 is removed from the article information that matches the removal information, and the information acquisition unit 11 includes the upper economic event information 100a related to the article information from which the removal information has been removed. By acquiring the lower-level economic event information 100b, the necessary higher-level economic event information 100a and the lower-level economic event information 100b can be accurately acquired based on article information that includes a lot of unnecessary information.

  In this embodiment, the information acquisition unit 11 is provided for the purpose of acquiring the upper economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b owned by the information acquiring unit 11 by providing the dedicated database 14 in which economic statistical information is accumulated. By using the dedicated database 14 and the article database 16 together, it is possible to provide the higher-level economic event information 100a and the lower-level economic event information 100b utilizing the advantages of both databases. In addition, when there is a request for acquisition of the upper economic event information 100a or the lower economic event information 100b, the information acquisition unit 11 first searches the dedicated database 14, and the upper economic event information 100a or the lower economic information corresponding to the dedicated database 14 is searched. When the event information 100b does not exist, by searching the article database 16, first, the main economic event information 100a and the lower economy are provided mainly for the accumulation of the upper economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b. After the search of the dedicated database 14 that can quickly and easily search the event information 100b, if there is no higher economic event information 100a or lower economic event information 100b corresponding to the dedicated database 14, the type of information And high-level economic event information 100a with abundant data volume and the latest information By searching the article database 16 the lower economic event information 100b is stored, it is possible to increase the possibility of obtaining a higher economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b for which the acquisition request. As a result, in response to an acquisition request for the upper economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b, the upper economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b, which have abundant types of information and data, and cover the latest information, are further increased. Can be acquired and provided easily.

  In the information display system 1A of this embodiment, the present invention is used for a system that handles economic statistical information. However, statistical information using time-series data 200 other than economic statistical information, The present invention can also be applied to statistical information using various data. In this case, the data structure (table group as shown in FIG. 5) similar to the upper economic event information 100a and the lower economic event information 100b is formed based on the data forming these statistical information, and the information acquisition unit 11 and the information It can be considered that the display unit 13 processes the statistical information having such a data structure to realize the present invention.

  Moreover, in this embodiment, the information acquisition part 11 and the information display part 13 implement | achieve this invention by processing the statistical information which does not form the same data structure as the high-order economic event information 100a and the low-order economic event information 100b. It is possible to make it.

  In the information display system 1A of this embodiment, the economic event information is graphed and displayed on the display unit 22 of the client terminal 2. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the economic event information is tabulated and displayed on the client terminal 2. It is good also as a structure to display.

  In each of the above embodiments, the present invention is realized in the information display system 1A of the client / server system. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a configuration in which the present invention is realized in a stand-alone computer may be used.

  It is needless to say that each of the above embodiments is an exemplification of the present invention and does not mean that the present invention is limited to each of the above embodiments.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Information display apparatus 2, 2 ₁ , 2 ₂ ,... 2 _n Client terminal 11 Information acquisition unit (information acquisition means)
12 Article information acquisition unit (article information acquisition means)
13 Information display section (information display means)
14 dedicated database 16 articles database _{41 1, 41 2, ··· 41} g, 52 1, 52 2, ··· 52 f graph 173 removed information group _{200,200 1, 200 2, ··· 200} j time-series data

Claims (7)

An information display device that acquires arbitrary statistical information from a database in response to a request and displays the acquired statistical information,
Information acquisition means for acquiring arbitrary statistical information based on an arbitrary acquisition request;
Article information acquisition means for acquiring article information from an article database in which article information including newspaper articles, magazine articles or Internet news articles is accumulated, and the article information is updated regularly or at an arbitrary timing;
The information display device is characterized in that the information acquisition means acquires the statistical information related to the article information acquired by the article information acquisition means. The article information acquisition means includes a removal information group as a set of removal information that is information not used for acquisition of the statistical information,
The article information acquisition means removes the article information acquired from the article database that matches the removal information,
The information display device according to claim 1, wherein the information acquisition unit acquires the statistical information related to the article information from which the removal information is removed. A dedicated database in which the statistical information is stored;
The information acquisition means searches the dedicated database when there is a request for acquisition of the statistical information,
The information display device according to claim 1, wherein the article information acquisition unit searches the article database when the corresponding statistical information does not exist in the dedicated database.   The information display device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising an information display unit configured to display the statistical information acquired by the information acquisition unit in a graph or a table and display on the display unit. . The information acquisition means acquires, as the statistical information, economic event information which is information having arbitrary one or a plurality of time-series data and a display form as a graph or a table is defined,
The information display device according to claim 4, wherein the information display unit displays all or part of the time-series data as a graph or a table based on the definition of the display mode.   6. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein the statistical information is economic statistical information.   A program causing a computer to function as the information display device according to any one of claims 1 to 6.