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A document retrieval assistance method has a user interface with an interactive guidance function. In response to a search query, search results including a title list of retrieved documents is displayed alongside a separate display of topic words extracted from the retrieved documents which reflect

A document retrieval assistance method has a user interface with an interactive guidance function. In response to a search query, search results including a title list of retrieved documents is displayed alongside a separate display of topic words extracted from the retrieved documents which reflect the search results. In particular, a topic-word graph is displayed alongside a list of titles of the retrieved documents and the interface enables browsing of the documents using the topic words. Further, the interface permits emphasized display of the list of titles of the documents through direct selection of the titles displayed in the list or through selection of the topic words. Further, an associative search can be executed using a selected document to refine the original search results and develop updated displays of the search results and topic words contained in the documents.

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1. An assisting execution program comprising a program for arranging and displaying a display area of search results in a list of a set of retrieved documents including information from which an agent identifies the retrieved documents, an area for displaying topic words reflecting the search result

1. An assisting execution program comprising a program for arranging and displaying a display area of search results in a list of a set of retrieved documents including information from which an agent identifies the retrieved documents, an area for displaying topic words reflecting the search results in one of a list and a graph reflecting a degree of relevance between the topic words extracted from the set of retrieved documents, wherein said areas are displayed proximate one another, and a communication program, wherein the service comprises sending a retrieval assisting execution program on an agent computer that executes a query from the agent and making the program operable on the agent computer,wherein said retrieval operation comprises: a step of adding or deleting a word display as a topic word to or from search words; a step of designating a selection/no selection state of each word displayed as a topic word; a step of emphasizing each document containing one or more selected topic words with an intensity depending on how many selected topic words are contained; a step of rearranging and displaying the search results in decreasing order of intensity for emphasis; a step of designating a selection/no selection state of each document from the search results; a step of emphasizing topic words contained in the selected documents; a step of carrying out an associative search by using one or more selected documents as a search key; and a prune step of leaving only selected documents and gathering information about topic words only from the selected documents.