INFORMATIONAL SEARCHING METHOD, ITS DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR INFORMATION SEARCH

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve problems wherein narrowing into an effective and appropriate search result and reference to related information in a narrowing process of the search result are desired, when searching documents and database. SOLUTION: Metadata (concept information) are label displayed on a screen, low order metadata and related metadata are displayed in order by selecting the label and visual search is performed by selecting it so as to search the target document. The mutual related information is relatedly displayed, for example, the labels of the metadata names are connected by lines, or non-related information is contradictorily displayed, so that the related information can be easily known. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI