INFORMATION SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND INFORMATION SEARCH PROGRAM

To assist an innovator in creating an innovation by effectively presenting a solution concept to the innovator.SOLUTION: An information search system comprises: mining means for extracting a character string from basic information; and search means which refers to association levels of three or more stages between respective previously acquired character strings for reference and respective solution concepts classified into two or more kinds, and searches for one or more solution concepts upon the basis of the association levels of three or more stages between a character string for reference corresponding to the character string extracted by the mining means and the solution concepts.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3 【課題】イノベーターに対して解決コンセプトを効果的に提示することでイノベーションの創造支援を実現する。【解決手段】基本情報から文字列を抽出するマイニング手段と、予め取得した各参照用文字列と２種以上に分類された各解決コンセプトとの３段階以上の連関度を参照し、上記マイニング手段により抽出された文字列に応じた参照用文字列と解決コンセプトとの３段階以上の連関度に基づき、１以上の解決コンセプトを探索する探索手段とを備える。【選択図】図３