PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for supporting a judgment of novelty of a technique described in an academic document. The present disclosure provides a method for assisting in determining the novelty of a technique described in an academic document, the method of obtaining at least a portion of the text in the academic document (step). S401), searching for a prior document describing a technique that is the same as or similar to the technique described in the academic document based on at least a part of the sentence (step S402), and presenting the existence or nonexistence of the prior document. To do (step S403). [Selection diagram] Fig. 4
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