Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Tadanobu Miyauchi

Toshiharu Yokoyama

Shigehisa Kawabe

Yoshifumi Matsunaga

Juhei Nakagaki

Yusuke Kawano

Rei Yamada

Shinji Shimamura

An information processing apparatus includes a processor, the processor extracting, from at least a part of a document, a feature of the part, extracting related elements which are elements related to the feature from a question and an answer about a first target object stored in a storage unit using the extracted feature, and combining the extracted related elements and the feature to generate a question about a second target object specified in the document.

Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable recording medium recording information processing program that generate questions about target object specified in document

A facsimile received data management apparatus includes: a receiving part that receives facsimile received data; a first registration part that registers the facsimile received data in a storage place associated with a facsimile sender of the facsimile received data in a case where the storage place associated with the facsimile sender is prepared in advance; and a second registration part that registers the facsimile received data in a storage place for unclassified data in a case where the storage place associated with the facsimile sender is not prepared in advance.

Facsimile received data management apparatus, facsimile received data management system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for automatically sorting received documents in facsimile communications

Document retrieval system and method are disclosed which can diminish a gap between the user's retrieval intention in information retrieval and the configuration of a query as well as document representations in database and which permits easy retrieval reflecting the user's retrieval intention. The user enumerates a group of words which the user hits upon, as a primary query. Upon receipt of the primary query, the system estimates relational representations which the words (group) of the primary query can possess, and then makes expansion of the query through a partial coincidence of the relational representations and sample spaces extracted from document data to prepare a query candidate representation group. The expanded query candidate representation group is presented to the user. The user then simply chooses a relational representation candidate in accordance with his or her intention. A retrieval execution query is constituted by the thus-selected representation.

Apparatus and method for document retrieval

Thesauruses meeting users' purposes are generated by various operations as required. A plurality of external thesauruses,each storing a thesaurus to be retrieved are connected to a thesaurus retrieval and synthesis device,through a network,wherein the thesaurus retrieval and synthesis device,on receiving a request to define the thesauruses to be synthesized from an input unit,retrieves partial thesauruses corresponding to the request from the external thesauruses,in a retrieval unit,A synthesis unit,forms a new thesaurus from a plurality of retrieved partial thesauruses by subjecting them to product, addition, and other operations corresponding to the request.

Thesaurus retrieval and synthesis system

A data management system in which a plurality of data each data comprising a set of three elements: a data name, a data body and a data retrieving keyword group whose content is not so described that the system is able to handle hierarchically and logically differentiating it and display areas of a data retrieval/display window or an editing window are arranged to manage data based on the above three sets. A data name can be automatically set as a retrieval key at the time of data editing. The system can handle a title or an index attached to each data of a data base, a character string corresponding to the title or index or a retrieval keyword as same with other data or an independent accessible manner. Further, the system creates another display area different in size from a display area for display of the retrieved data to display the same data as displayed on the display area for the retrieved data. The system comprises a new data retriever creating unit for integrating more than one data displayed on one or more display areas to create a new data retriever to allow easy creation of such a new data source as the data retriever on the basis of data extracted from a data retriever.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tadanobu Miyauchi