Hitachi, Ltd.

Hidefumi Kondo

Chiaki Hirai

Hirohide Haga

Rinichi Takashi

Hironori Miyamoto

A method and apparatus is provided for completing a document in accordance with a blank tabularized form document from data automatically retrieved from a database. An image of the blank form document is read into the system as image data from which a format of the blank form document and key information is determined. Supplemental data relating to the key information is automatically retrieved from a database and outputted in accordance with recognized parts of the original blank form document. In a second embodiment, the retrieved data is edited before being outputted. The data automatically retrieved from the database is selectively printed onto the original form document or onto a second form document.

Method and apparatus for completing a partially completed document in

A method for translating knowledge contained within a knowledge system into data records for a data base management system. The method collects the factual knowledge and other correlated auxiliary knowledge within the knowledge base, analyzes the frequency of the use of the knowledge in the knowledge system and proposes a data record structure for the data base to which the knowledge will be transferred. Upon operator approval, the factual and auxiliary knowledge is retrieved from the knowledge base, translated into data records in accordance with the approved data record structures and stored in the data base.

Method of translating data from knowledge base to data base

In knowledge translation of data base in an expert system which draws inference based on knowledge, a table for defining a correspondence relationship between the knowledge and the data base, data base/knowledge translator for reading data necessary for the inference directly from the data base by using the correspondence relation table and translating it to knowledge form, and knowledge/data base translator for translating the knowledge prepared by the inference to data base form by using the correspondence relation table and storing it are provided.

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Yamato, Japan

Hidefumi Kondo