METHOD FOR GENERATING AUXILIARY DATA FOR CLAIM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the time and labor required for generating auxiliary data which reduces the burden of a reader when the reader understands described contents in a claim collectly by a computer. SOLUTION: In this auxiliary data generating method, by which a sentence, in which a reference number is written in the claim such as application forms constituted of electric data, is defined as an object to be processed, a summary sentence and qualified words and phrases are separately generated by computer processing from the sentences in the claim, the summary sentence is displayed in a first column, and the qualified words and phrases are displayed in a second column so as to clarify their corresponding relation with primary words, any portion other than the claim in the application forms is retrieved with codes as the target of retrieval, and the word data corresponding to the codes are collected, and word recognition in the sentences in the claims is carried out by collating the word data with character strings in the sentences in the claim, and computer processing is carried out by qualifying the primary words while referring to the word recognition. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI