Future technology projection supporting apparatus, method, program and method for providing a future technology projection supporting service

A future technology projection supporting program in a computer readable medium, the program being executed in an information processing apparatus capable of accessing a plurality of technical documents written in a markup language, the technical documents each having a problem describing section in which a problem to be solved is described, and an effect describing section in which an effect to be achieved by proposed solving means is described, and which is for supporting the projection of a future technology trend by analyzing the plurality of technical documents through processing of the information processing apparatus, the computer program allowing the information processing apparatus to execute the steps of:

• extracting the problem describing section and the effect describing section from each of the plurality of technical documents according to tag information having the names of the describing sections as element names;
• extracting a technical phrase from each of the problem describing section and the effect describing section by referring to a first list having listed keywords for extracting technical phrases each indicating a matter to be achieved by a technology described in each of the plurality of technical documents;
• giving a first attribute indicating a matter to be achieved in a near future, to the technical phrase extracted from the problem describing section;
• giving a second attribute indicating a matter to be achieved in a far future, to the technical phrase extracted from the effect describing section;
• generating a technology map having a temporal axis indicating time to be required to implement technology, by arranging each of the plurality of technical phrases on the technology map according to any one of the first and second attributes;
• and
• outputting the generated technology map.

A method for supporting the provision of a future technological trend by analyzing a plurality of technical documents written in a markup language, the technical documents each having a problem describing section in which a problem to be solved is described, and an effect describing section in which an effect to be achieved by proposed solving means is described, the method comprising the steps of:

• extracting the problem describing section and the effect describing section from each of the plurality of technical documents according to tag information having the names of the describing sections as element names;
• extracting a technical phrase from each of the problem describing section and the effect describing section by referring to a first list having listed keywords for extracting technical phrases each indicating a matter to be achieved by a technology described in each of the plurality of technical documents;
• giving a first attribute indicating a matter to be achieved in a near future, to the technical phrase extracted from the problem describing section;
• giving a second attribute indicating a matter to be achieved in a far-future, to the technical phrase extracted from the effect describing section;
• generating a technology map having a temporal axis indicating time to be required to implement technology, by arranging each of the plurality of technical phrases on the technology map according to any one of the first and second attributes;
• and
• outputting the generated technology map.

A future technology projection supporting service providing method for providing a future technology projection supporting service by analyzing, through computer processing, a plurality of technical documents written in a markup language, the technical documents each having a problem describing section in which a problem to be solved is described, and an effect describing section in which an effect to be achieved by proposed solving means is described, the method comprising the steps of:

• extracting the problem describing section and the effect describing section from each of the plurality of technical documents belonging to a designated technical field, according to tag information having the names of the describing sections as element names;
• extracting a technical phrase from each of the problem describing section and the effect describing section by referring to a first list having listed keywords for extracting technical phrases each indicating a matter to be achieved by a technology described in each of the plurality of technical documents;
• giving a first attribute indicating a matter to be achieved in a near future, to the technical phrase extracted from the problem describing section, and giving a second attribute indicating a matter to be achieved in a far-future, to the technical phrase extracted from the effect describing section;
• by referring to a plurality of words each having a low correlation value in the technical documents in the designated technical field, giving a third attribute indicating a high business impact, to a technical phrase including at least one of the plurality of words, and giving a fourth attribute indicating a low business impact, to a technical phrase including none of the plurality of words;
• arranging each of the plurality of technical phrases, according to the first to fourth attributes, on a two-dimensional technology map having a temporal axis indicating time to be required to implement technology and an impact axis indicating business impact;
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• outputting the two-dimensional technology map.