A proposal on support for reading of novels using question answering technology

In recent years, readings on text files become popular. We can use full-text search while we read text-files. However, full-text search has some weak points for supporting readings. We propose to introduce question-answering to readings of novels on text-files to avoid these problems and make a comfortable support system for readings of novels. We also propose several additional functions such as “Who? Function” and “Spoiler preventer”. We checked the act of our system with various examples to confirm that our system works correctly in actual reading scenes. We also examined the computational complexity of the system theoretically and experimentally, and found our proposed method does not take a long time so that the user will not feel unpleasant.