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An information filtering apparatus for receiving articles, such as texts or images, from information sources to select predetermined articles from the supplied articles to a user has a storage portion, an article retrieving portion, a determining portion and a presentation portion. The storage porti

An information filtering apparatus for receiving articles, such as texts or images, from information sources to select predetermined articles from the supplied articles to a user has a storage portion, an article retrieving portion, a determining portion and a presentation portion. The storage portion stores retrieving conditions previously specified for each user. The article retrieving portion retrieves the supplied articles to select articles which satisfy the retrieving conditions for each user. The determining portion calculates similarities among the articles selected by the article retrieving portion or the selected articles and other articles to determine relevant articles for each article in accordance with the similarities. The presentation portion adds information of the determined relevant articles to the selected articles to present the articles and information to the user.

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[ What is claimed is:] [1.] An information filtering apparatus comprising:means for receiving articles from information sources;means for storing retrieval conditions previously specified for a user;means for storing retrieval conditions previously specified for a user;article retrieving means for r

[ What is claimed is:] [1.] An information filtering apparatus comprising:means for receiving articles from information sources;means for storing retrieval conditions previously specified for a user;means for storing retrieval conditions previously specified for a user;article retrieving means for retrieving the articles received by said receiving means to select articles which match the retrieval conditions stored in said storing means for the user;determining means for determining relevant articles for each article selected by said article retrieving means by calculating similarities among the articles selected by said article retrieving means or calculating similarities among the selected articles and other articles received by said receiving means;output means for outputting the selected articles with information of the determined relevant articles; andmeans for outputting the selected articles by retrieval conditions specified in a single language by another language calculating similarities among the retrieval conditions replaced into the another language and the articles retrieved by said article retrieving means and written in a different language to select articles in accordance with the similarities.