JP2006139441A - Rule definition apparatus for document conversion - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a document conversion apparatus for supporting conversion to the structured document of an XBRL from the text document of financial information, converting to text document of financial information from the structured document of the XBRL, and converting to the structured document of another XBRL from the structured document of the XBRL. <P>SOLUTION: The document conversion apparatus for supporting the conversion includes an input device which reads the document A before conversion and document B after conversion, a user interface device which displays items of the document A, and items of the document B, and performs mapping of them, and a conversion execution device which reads information of associated each item and converts information on the document A to information on the document B and outputs it. The document A is a text document and the document B is a structured document, or the document A is a structured document and the document B is a text document, or the document A is a structured document and the document B is a structured document. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for handling a structured document, and more particularly, to a technique for handling a structured document using XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) in financial relations.

The world standard specification XBRL for creating, distributing and using various financial reports is becoming widespread.
To convert an existing financial report account into an instance document, which is a financial report written in XBRL format, associate the existing account with an instance document item either manually or using a simple tool. Need to be processed. (Hereafter, prior art 1)
In Patent Document 1 below, a financial report is automatically converted into an instance document according to the rules of the search DB. (Hereafter, Prior Art 2)

As prior art documents related to the invention of the present application, there are the following.
JP 2003-316765 A

The prior art 1 has a problem that a financial report cannot be converted into an instance document in a short time in a large amount.
Further, in the above-described conventional technique 2, in the correspondence between the account item and the instance document item, the coincidence is determined by a synonym registered in advance, and depending on the synonym registration method, erroneous recognition may occur in the correspondence. There is a problem of having sex.
Further, in the related art 2, the correspondence between the account item and the item of the instance document is registered in the search DB, but there is a problem that it is difficult to register a large amount of data.
The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems of the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to convert a financial information text document into an XBRL structured document, and from an XBRL structured document to financial information. It is an object of the present invention to provide a document conversion apparatus for supporting the conversion from a XBRL structured document to another XBRL structured document.
The above and other objects and novel features of the present invention will become apparent from the description of this specification and the accompanying drawings.

Of the inventions disclosed in this application, the outline of typical ones will be briefly described as follows.
In order to solve the above-described problem, the present invention provides a document conversion apparatus that converts information of a document A before conversion into information of a document B after conversion, an input device that reads the document A and the document B, A user interface device that displays each item of the document A and each item of the document B and operates the association, reads information of each associated item, and uses the information of the document A as the information of the document B And a conversion execution device for converting and outputting.
That is, in the document conversion apparatus of the present invention, correspondence between items to be converted is performed in advance using a graphical user interface, and conversion processing is executed based on the correspondence to generate a converted document. The above-described graphical user interface includes a method for reducing the association work by using a method such as selecting an initial association of the same name or a past association history for association between items to be converted.
By the above means, the account item and the instance document items can be easily associated with each other, and a large amount of documents can be accurately converted in a short time.

The effects obtained by the representative ones of the inventions disclosed in the present application will be briefly described as follows.
According to the present invention, conversion from a text document of financial information to an XBRL structured document, conversion from an XBRL structured document to a text document of financial information, and from an XBRL structured document to another XBRL structured document. It is possible to perform a large amount of conversion in a short time.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
In all the drawings for explaining the embodiments, parts having the same functions are given the same reference numerals, and repeated explanation thereof is omitted.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a rule defining apparatus for structured document conversion according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 101 is financial information, 102 is a taxonomy, 103 is a conversion rule file, 104 Is a correspondence history file, 105 is a structured document, 106 is a rule defining device, and 107 is a conversion execution device.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a system configuration when converting a text document of financial information into an XBRL structured document, and this system can be realized by an ordinary computer.
The financial information 101 is a text document input via an input device. This document includes an item name, and some items have a value and others do not have a value.
A specific example is shown in FIG. In FIG. 2, “assets”, “current assets” and the like are item names, and “87724” for “current assets” is a value.

The taxonomy 102 is a document having a hierarchy and attributes, and defines the structure and attributes of the structured document to be output.
A specific example is shown in FIG. In the example shown in FIG. 3, it is described in the XBRL format, the name “current asset” and the data type “currency type” are defined in the preceding stage, and “current asset” is in the child hierarchy of “assets” in the subsequent stage. Defined.
The conversion rule file 103 is a text file having a correspondence relationship between the conversion source and the conversion destination, and includes information on the conversion source item, the conversion destination item, and the magnification. A specific example is shown in FIG.
The association history file 104 is a text file that holds conversion destination items previously assigned to conversion source items. A specific example is shown in FIG.
The structured document 105 is a structured document output via an output device, and is a document obtained as a result of converting the financial information 101. It is described in the XBRL format as shown in FIG.
The rule defining device 106 performs processing for inputting the financial information 101 and the taxonomy 102 and outputting the conversion rule file 103.
The conversion execution device 107 refers to the conversion rule file 103 and performs processing for converting the financial information 101 into the structured document 105.

Next, the operation of the rule defining apparatus 106 of this embodiment will be described.
The rule defining device 106 has a graphical user interface, and displays the input items of the financial information 101 and the items of the taxonomy 102 in comparison. An attribute such as a value indicating the data type of the value is displayed together with the taxonomy 102 item.
As a specific example, as shown in FIG. 7, financial information items are displayed on the left side, taxonomy items and data types are displayed on the right side.
If the entered financial information 101 item and taxonomy 102 item have the same name, the rule defining device 106 displays the corresponding information in advance.
As a specific example, as shown in FIG. 8, “assets”, “current assets”, and “accounts receivable” are displayed in association with each other in advance because they have the same item names in the financial information 101 and the taxonomy 102.
The rule defining device 106 refers to the association history file 104, and if there is a history associated with the same name item of the conversion source in the past, the content is displayed in a list and the user can easily select it. be able to.

As a specific example, when assigning a conversion destination item for “cash”, two items of conversion destination items “cash” and “cash and deposit” in which the conversion source item of the association history file shown in FIG. A list is displayed.
The user can associate, change, and cancel the correspondence between items on the screen of the rule definition device 106. Further, the user can change the correspondence of each item on the screen of the rule definition device 106. When the data type is a numeric item, a magnification value can be set. As a specific example, the magnification is set on the screen as shown in FIG.
The correspondence between each item can be one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many. As a specific example, as shown in FIG. 9, “assets”, “current assets”, “notes received” and “receivables” are one-to-one correspondences, and “cash” and “deposits” are many-to-one correspondences.
The rule defining device 106 can output the result edited on the graphical user interface to the conversion rule file 103. As a specific example, what is set on the screen as shown in FIG. 9 is output to the conversion rule file 103 and has the contents shown in FIG.
The rule defining device 106 can also input the conversion rule file 103 and continue editing.

Next, the conversion execution apparatus in this embodiment will be described.
The conversion execution device 107 reads the conversion rule file 103 and sequentially sets the value of the item of financial information as the value of the item of the corresponding structured document 105.
As a specific example, “87724” is set in “current assets” and “860” is set in “notes received” as the structured document shown in FIG.
In the above-described processing, if a magnification value is set for the corresponding item in the conversion rule file 103, a value obtained by multiplying the value by the magnification value is set as the value of the structured document 105. As a specific example, “58531” obtained by multiplying the original value “58531000” by a magnification of 0.001 is set for “Accounts receivable” of the structured document shown in FIG.
In the above-described processing, when there are a plurality of conversion source items for the conversion destination item, if the data type is a numeric type, a value obtained by adding the respective values is set as the value of the structured document 105. It is an error if it is not a numeric type. As a specific example, “12415” obtained by adding “3215” of “cash” as a conversion source and “9200” of “deposit” is set as the structured document shown in FIG.
When there are a plurality of conversion destination items for the conversion source item, the same value is set for each of the plurality of conversion destination items.

In the above description, the case where the text document of the financial information 101 is converted to the XBRL structured document 105 has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the present invention is shown in FIG. As described above, the present invention can also be applied to the case where the XBRL structured document 105 is converted into the text document of the financial information 101B. In FIG. 10, 101A and 101B are financial information.
Further, as shown in FIG. 11, the present invention is also applicable to a case where an XBRL structured document A (105A) is converted into another XBRL structured document B (105B). In FIG. 11, 102A and 102B are taxonomies, and 105A and 105B are structured documents.
As mentioned above, the invention made by the present inventor has been specifically described based on the above embodiments. However, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. Of course.

It is a block diagram which shows schematic structure of the rule definition apparatus for structured document conversion of the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the specific example of an example of the financial information shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the specific example of an example of a taxonomy shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the specific example of an example of the conversion rule file shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the specific example of an example of the matching log | history file shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the specific example of an example of the structured document shown in FIG. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display example in which the input financial information item and the taxonomy item are displayed in comparison in the rule defining device shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display example in which the same name is associated and displayed in an input financial information item and a taxonomy item in the rule defining device shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display example in which a magnification value of each associated item is set in the rule defining device shown in FIG. 1. It is a block diagram which shows schematic structure of the modification of the rule definition apparatus for the structured document conversion of the Example of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows schematic structure of the modification of the rule definition apparatus for the structured document conversion of the Example of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

101, 101A, 101B Financial information 102, 102A, 102B Taxonomy 103 Conversion rule file 104 Association history file 105, 105A, 105B Structured document 106 Rule definition device 107 Conversion execution device

Claims (7)

In a document conversion apparatus for converting information of document A before conversion into information of document B after conversion,
An input device for reading the document A and the document B;
A user interface device for displaying each item of the document A and each item of the document B and operating the association;
A document conversion apparatus comprising: a conversion execution device that reads information of each associated item, converts the information of the document A into information of the document B, and outputs the converted information.   The document A is a text document, the document B is a structured document, or the document A is a structured document, the document B is a text document, or the document A is a structured document, and the document B is a structured document. The document conversion apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the document conversion apparatus is provided.   The user interface device displays each item of the document A in comparison with each item of the document B, and the user associates them with an input device such as a mouse or a keyboard, changes the correspondence, The document conversion apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the attachment can be canceled.   3. The user interface device automatically associates each item of the document A with each item of the document B if there is an identical name. Document conversion device described in 1.   The user interface device stores a history of association between each item of the document A and each item of the document B, and if there is an identical item to be associated with the history item, the history is obtained from the history. The document conversion apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the association item list is displayed and selected. Each item of the document A and each item of the document B can be associated one to one, one to many, many to one, many to many,
When there are a plurality of items of the document B associated with the item of the document A, the conversion execution apparatus outputs the same value to each of the items of the document A associated with the item of the document B. 6. The document conversion apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when there are a plurality of items, the respective values are added and output only in the numerical value item. The user interface device can set a magnification only for numerical items when associating each item of the document A with each item of the document B,
The document conversion apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the conversion execution apparatus multiplies a magnification set for the item and outputs the result.

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