METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH INFORMATION RETRIEVAL PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide information retrieving method and device capable of accurately and also efficiently retrieving information to be object from a mass of information increased on WWW(World Wide Web) and to provide a recording medium on which an information retrieval program is recorded.;SOLUTION: The reference history of a user to hyperlink information is recorded on an access history database 5 through a history recording part 4, an information dividing part 6 divides information referred to by the user into a plurality of parts based on the semantic content of the information, information which shows each part of the divided information and is also associated as a hyperlink is searched, a character string extracting part 7 extracts a character string showing the information from information detected by searching, character strings showing each part to each part obtained by dividing the information are put together and stored in a contents database 9, and a retrieving part 2 retrieves a character string from the database 9 in response to a retrieval request from the user.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2000,JPO