Development of an "association" support system using document data

Abstract

We have created a system that provides support for association by visualizing in a tree structure (word tree) information filtered based on a request for information specified by the user from information stored in documents and, further, based on user operation, changes this information interactively. Through the visualization of document information in the form of a tree structure and the operation of changing the visualized document information, we have tried to reflect the knowledge and rules learned through experience obtained through the research of our predecessors into the human mental model. It is expected that, by presenting information through actions that follow a mental model of human information recognition, that there will be useful benefits for association support.