JPH11203326A5

JPH11203326A5 -

Info

Publication number: JPH11203326A5
Application number: JP1998020308A
Authority: JP
Filing date: 1998-01-16
Publication date: 2004-09-02
Anticipated expiration: 2018-01-16

Claims

An electronic discussion support device connected to a network having one or more electronic document storage means, for a plurality of users to hold discussions by exchanging and viewing electronic documents, comprising:
The opinions in the discussion are made into electronic documents associated with at least attribute information of the opinions and related information to other opinions, and discussion management data including at least attribute information of the discussion and the substance or reference of the electronic document expressing the opinions related to the discussion is managed for each discussion;
and an electronic document extraction function unit that performs a search process on the electronic document and the discussion management data in accordance with a search expression.
The electronic document extraction function unit searches for multiple electronic document entities or references that match the search formula, divides these search results into groups based on the discussion management data, extracts them, generates search result management data that includes at least the logical location information of the discussion management data from which the extracted electronic document entities or references were extracted and the multiple extracted electronic document entities or references, and uses these multiple search result management data as the search results based on the search formula.

2. The electronic discussion support device according to claim 1,
An electronic discussion support device characterized by comprising a user interface means for accepting input of the search formula by a user and passing the search formula to the electronic document extraction function unit, and for receiving the search results extracted by the electronic document extraction function unit and displaying the search results.

3. The electronic discussion support device according to claim 2,
the user interface means is provided in a client device operated by a user;
The electronic discussion support device is characterized in that the electronic document extraction function unit is provided in a server device connected to the client device via a network.

4. The electronic discussion support device according to claim 2 or 3,
a plurality of electronic document extraction function units are provided, each of which is provided with a search linking means for exchanging the search formula with other electronic document extraction function units;
The electronic discussion support device is characterized in that the user interface means displays the search results received from a plurality of electronic document extraction function sections.

4. The electronic discussion support device according to claim 2 or 3,
a search formula storage means for storing the search formula,
the electronic document extraction function unit repeatedly extracts the search results based on the search formula stored in the search formula storage means;
The electronic discussion support device is characterized in that the user interface means repeatedly updates the display every time a search result is extracted by the electronic document extraction function section.

4. The electronic discussion support device according to claim 2 or 3,
The user interface means receives input of an evaluation function for evaluating search results by a user, and evaluates and displays the search results received from the electronic document extraction function unit using the input evaluation function.

4. The electronic discussion support device according to claim 2 or 3,
a discussion association generating means for extracting sets of discussion management data having a high degree of similarity among the discussion management data included in the search results for a plurality of users, and when such sets of discussion management data having a high degree of similarity are commonly extracted from the search results for a large number of users, determining the sets of discussion management data having the high degree of similarity as a judgment result and notifying the judgment result to a user interface means;
The electronic discussion support device is characterized in that the user interface means displays the relevance based on the judgment result notified by the discussion relevance generating means.

7. The electronic discussion support device according to claim 6,
The electronic discussion support device is characterized in that the user interface means displays character strings or graphics representing each of the plurality of search result management data that make up the search results in order of the values of the evaluation function.

7. The electronic discussion support device according to claim 6,
The user interface means displays the search results by positioning character strings or figures representing each of the plurality of search result management data constituting the search results in a graph of any dimension with the value of the evaluation function as the axis.

10. The electronic discussion support device according to claim 8 or claim 9,
The user interface means displays a character string or a graphic representing the search result management data, and receives a user instruction to operate the display, and displays a character string or a graphic representing the entity of the electronic document or the referenced electronic document held by the search result management data corresponding to the instructed display.

10. The electronic discussion support device according to claim 8 or claim 9,
The user interface means comprises:
displaying a character string or a graphic representing the search result management data, and receiving an operation instruction for the display from a user, displaying a character string or a graphic representing the entity of the electronic document or the electronic document referenced by the search result management data corresponding to the display instruction, together with related information between the electronic documents;
In this display, an electronic discussion support device is characterized in that character strings or figures corresponding to the entity of the electronic document or the referenced electronic document held in the search result management data are displayed in a form different from character strings or figures that do not correspond to the entity of the electronic document or the referenced electronic document.

12. The electronic discussion support device according to claim 10 or 11,
The electronic discussion support device is characterized in that the user interface means displays the contents of the electronic document corresponding to the character string or the graphic representing the entity of the electronic document or the reference electronic document.

A method for supporting electronic discussions by a support device, in which electronic documents associated with at least attribute information of opinions and related information to other opinions are used as opinions in the discussion, and a plurality of users hold discussions by exchanging and viewing electronic documents, comprising:
At a minimum, the entity or reference of the electronic document expressing the opinion of the discussion and the attribute information of the discussion. Multiple discussion management data including references are managed for each discussion,
An electronic discussion support method characterized in that an electronic document extraction function unit of a support device that performs search processing according to a search formula for the electronic documents and the discussion management data searches for entities or references of multiple electronic documents that match the search formula, divides these search results into groups of the discussion management data and extracts them, generates search result management data that includes at least the logical location information of the discussion management data from which the extracted entities or references of the electronic documents were extracted and the entities or references of the multiple extracted electronic documents, and provides these multiple search result management data as search results based on the search formula.

A method for supporting electronic discussions in which a plurality of users discuss by exchanging and viewing electronic documents, using electronic documents associated with at least attribute information of opinions and related information to other opinions as opinions in the discussion, comprising:
managing a plurality of pieces of discussion management data for each discussion, the data including at least attribute information of the discussion and the entity or reference of an electronic document expressing an opinion related to the discussion;
searching for entities or references of the electronic documents that match a search query for the electronic documents and the discussion management data, and extracting the search results by dividing them into groups of the discussion management data;
An electronic discussion support method characterized by generating search result management data that includes at least the logical location information of the discussion management data from which the extracted electronic document entities or references were extracted and the entities or references of the extracted multiple electronic documents, and providing this multiple search result management data as search results based on the search query.