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平成 年 月 日
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保護者 様
Dear Parents,
市立 小学校 校長
Municipal
Elementary School
Principal
就学時健康診断のお知らせ
School Entry Health Checkup
就学時健康診断を下記のとおり実施いたします。入学予定のお子様とご一緒にお越しください。
やむを得ず欠席する場合は、学校へ連絡してください。
The health checkup for children starting school is scheduled as follows.
Please come to the place indicated below with your child.
If you cannot come due to unavoidable circumstances, be sure to contact our school.
Fig. 1.
Portion of a multilingual school document
facet, and will be presented immediately with Japanese titles of documents with
translation in Spanish. Further selection of ”Pre-event health checkup” from the
topic facet eliminates options in unspecified facets. The file-type facet in this
situation only presents file types available under the current conditions, namely,
the ones for Spanish parallel documents classified in the selected topic.
In the course of facet-value selection, the user can see a list of documents that
meet the specified conditions. If the user further selects “PDF” from the file-
type facet, the portal shows titles of documents available in PDF format, whose
topic is “Pre-event health checkup” (Figure 3). Note here that the retrieved
documents are links collected from different institutions across the country. The
area-of-owning-institution facet in the lower left of Figure 3 indicates that the
currently listed ten documents come from the three prefectures. In this way,
the faceted navigation allows the users to elaborate the facet-value selection
progressively, making sure the effect of choice in a facet on the available options
in the other facets. Furthermore, dynamically updating the number of available
items for each facet value, faceted navigation avoids coming up with empty list
or dead ends resulting from unsatisfiable combination of facet values [6].
3 Dynamic Term Suggestion
Since most Web users are accustomed to keyword search, it is helpful to seam-
lessly integrate the category-based faceted search with keyword search in the
same interface [13]. In this school document portal, faceted and keyword search
functions are provided in the same interface, and users can make use of them
in an arbitrary order to specify requirements for desired documents. Although
