METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RETRIEVING INFORMATION AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION RETRIEVAL PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently collect information through the use of information sets for respective purposes by selecting the most similar evaluation list from the evaluation lists managed by individual retrieval purposes at the time of retrieving information and generating/supplying the information sets for the respective retrieval purposes with the selected evaluation list. SOLUTION: When a retriever is to give a recommendation request during retrieval, he sends an evaluation list in the middle of generation to an information recommendation means 33. The information recommendation means 33 functions as an information set generation means, selects the most similar evaluation list among the evaluation lists accumulated in a list storage means 31 and sends the information set generated from the selected evaluation list to an information reference means 15. The information reference means 15 is a browser for referring to and retrieving information by the retriever. The browser has a function for referring to recommended information by existed retrieval service and a function receiving recommended information from the information recommendation means 33 and showing it to the retriever.