An information inquiry support apparatus including means for creating a
profile, that is, an evaluation table about each one of plural key words
expressing the information content, relating to the user's concern, on the
basis of the evaluation about plural pieces of information by the user
evaluating presence or absence of concern about presented plural pieces of
information, means for entering the specific information for inquiry,
information evaluation means for calculating the need signal
quantitatively expressing the degree of concern about the specific
information for each user by using the profile, and means for
quantitatively evaluating the fitness for inquiry, by the magnitude of the
value of the need signal, and issuing each name of the plural individual
and/or group users.
