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information to students who are keen to enroll. When any student choose a university, they will have access to much
reference data. So we put the data into this database. Only administrator of this WWW database can access personal
information. The aggregated data provide anonymous information of the contributors. With this method the database
has been built.
5. Various documentation
We have handed out four kinds manuscripts to the students in the extra class for future course counseling. They are
more than forty pages. Though we are willing to print and bind them every year. If the documents are on the WWW, we
just need revise them. So we put the documents on the WWW.
6. Structure of Database
Figure 4 shows the structure of this system. A CGI generates SQL instruction set in order to execute user request, and
SQL instruction set goes to relational database. Results influence to WWW browser, user's screen. We have built the
database using BUTLER and TANGO which are commercialized by Everywhere Co., Canada.
7. User Interface
Navigation is via some icons on the Home Page, e.g.. Home page of "counseling for getting a job", Home Page of
"counseling on the choice of University", Home Page of "various documentation for thinking your future", etc.,. Name
of Home Page are displayed with Japanese-Kanji. Click on desired icon to go to desired Home Page. For example, If
you want to search the companies which are located at Kumamoto, you type KUMAMOTO(in this case kanji-Japanese)
into the dialogue box. Then CGI to do this command is executed, so CGI issues SQL instruction set to relational
database. Results are displayed on the Home Page through Web server. See Figure 5. If displayed companies open their
information on the Internet, clicking its name will allow user into the Home Page. When you search the university, same
applies.
8. Conclusion
In this paper we propose a scheme of Web site for counseling on students' future courses. Our proposed scheme is
designed on basis of our counseling experience using e-mail and counseling with traditional printed matter and face to
face meeting. This Web site was built up not only as an example but aims to be of practical use. Further we believe we
could more effectively counsel the students with e-mail and this Web site in next academic year. Net-search and news
filtering keywords search are used for judgment without natural language processing. We are afraid that wrong Web
pages and news get mixed up with right ones. We will develop effective methods of net-search and news filtering as a
news project on natural language processing. User interface, page design is continuously being improved by results and
feedback through practical usage.
Another possible extension to future project is to cater for employers and organization with appropriate information on
student's career choice, personality and aptitude assessment to realized are more harmonic match.