JP2010211256A - Formal name determination system and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To determine a formal name corresponding to a recognized abbreviation, in determination of information related to a character recognized with a computer. <P>SOLUTION: An abbreviation acquisition unit 12 acquires an abbreviation of a proper noun from read document data. A candidate name extraction unit 14 extracts, from a proper noun storage unit 13 storing proper nouns, a proper noun including character information constituting the acquired abbreviation as a candidate name. A determination unit 15 detects a position in the candidate name where the character information constituting the abbreviation is used, and determines whether the candidate name is a formal name corresponding to the abbreviation in accordance with the position where the character information is used. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to determination of information related to characters recognized by a computer, and more particularly to a technique for determining a formal name corresponding to a recognized abbreviation.

  In general, when an object having a long official name, such as a school or a company, is indicated, an abbreviation in which the official name is omitted is often used. Abbreviations used at that time may be known only within a specific region, may be known only to people belonging to a specific group such as within a company department, or may be known only to a specific generation of people. There are various abbreviations used depending on the situation. For this reason, for a person who does not understand the relationship between the abbreviation and the formal name, there is often a problem that when the abbreviation is used to point to a certain object, it is impossible to understand what it is.

  As a means to solve the above problem, in the medical field, the character information described in the medical fee remuneration statement is optically read, and the read character information is collated with a pre-registered word (pharmaceutical name). , There is a technique for identifying matching words. In this technique, a means is used in which recognition / collation is possible even for abbreviations of the word by limiting characters to be collated from the constituent characters of the word registered in advance. Thereby, even if the abbreviation is described in the medical fee remuneration statement, the word corresponding to the abbreviation can be specified. (See Patent Document 1)

  Also, in the postal field, the character information described in the delivery is optically read, and the information on the read character is collated with the pre-registered destination information, so that the postal address is selected from a plurality of candidates. There is a technology to specify from. In this technology, a means of enabling more reliable destination specification by adding and setting attribute information such as whether it is a company, an individual, a house, or an apartment house to destination information registered in advance. Is used. As a result, even if there is an error in the address listed in the delivery or the address listed is not read correctly, there is a possibility that it matches the address listed in the registered address information. High destination candidates can be identified. (See Patent Document 2)

Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2005-275510 (pages 4-7 and 2-6) JP 2000-298701 A (pages 5 and 6 and FIGS. 4 and 5)

  In the school education field, when a specific school name is indicated in various documents such as a name list and a correspondence document, the abbreviations commonly used may be indicated. This abbreviation uses the letters used in the official name of the school name, but there are various ways to use the first few letters of the official name, the last few letters, or a combination of both. The production rules are not uniform.

  In the technique of Patent Document 1, when specifying a formal name corresponding to an abbreviation, a character to be collated (character to be collated) is determined based on a predetermined rule from constituent characters of a word registered in advance. It is limited, and it is determined whether or not the limited collation target character matches the abbreviation. However, if the abbreviation is not necessarily based on a certain rule, as in the example of the abbreviation related to the above school name, the method using the predetermined rule for determining the character to be collated must specify the official name corresponding to the abbreviation. There is a problem that can not be.

  In the technique of Patent Document 2, when one of a plurality of candidates (destination candidates) is specified, additional information different from the character information constituting the destination information called attribute information set in the destination information registered in advance is added. Use information to identify one of multiple candidates. For this reason, it is necessary to set additional information for every destination information in advance, which is problematic.

  An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art. Specifically, an object of the present invention is to provide a system that uses character information that constitutes an abbreviation to determine an official name corresponding to an abbreviation created without being based on a certain rule.

  In order to solve the above problems, the formal name determination system of the present invention includes an abbreviation acquisition unit that acquires an abbreviation of a proper noun from document data, a proper noun storage unit that stores information indicating a proper noun, and a proper noun. A formal name corresponding to the abbreviation according to the position of the candidate name extraction unit that extracts the proper noun having the character information constituting the abbreviation from the storage unit as a candidate name and the character information constituting the abbreviation included in the candidate name And a determination unit for determining whether or not.

  By configuring as in the present invention, the determination of the formal name corresponding to the abbreviation can be performed according to which position in the extracted proper noun the character used in the abbreviation is included. . Therefore, there is no need to define additional information in advance for the proper nouns stored, and there is no need to set a uniform decision rule in advance, and only the character information constituting the abbreviation is used as a decision element, and the corresponding formal The name can be determined.

  Document data in the present invention refers to data obtained by converting a series of character information constituting a document.

  The proper noun in the present invention refers to a name used when a specific target is distinguished from others. Specifically, there are facility names such as school names and company names, and place names such as addresses and area names. In addition to these, product codes that identify products and terminal identification information that identifies computer terminals. Is also included. Not limited to this, any information may be used as long as the information indicates a specific target.

  The determination unit in the formal name determination system of the present invention further determines the formal name corresponding to the abbreviation according to the means for dividing the candidate name into words and the position of the character information constituting the abbreviation contained in the word. It is good also as a structure which has a means to do.

  Since it can determine using the general tendency at the time of producing | generating an abbreviation by comprising as mentioned above, the determination accuracy of a formal name can be improved. A general tendency when generating abbreviations is, for example, that "of abbreviations are often generated by preferentially connecting the previous character information among the character information constituting a word". It is done.

The formal name determination system of the present invention further includes a special character information storage unit that stores predetermined character information as special character information, and the determination unit is abbreviated according to the special character information included in the candidate name. It is good also as a structure of determining the formal name corresponding to.

  Since it can determine using the character information often used when producing | generating an abbreviation by comprising as mentioned above, the determination precision of a formal name can be improved.

  The special character information in the present invention refers to character information registered in advance as characters often used when generating abbreviations. Specifically, information that is commonly used to distinguish a specific object from other objects, such as characters indicating directions such as east, west, south, and north, and characters indicating the order of 1, 2, 3, etc. I mean. The present invention is not limited to this, and any character may be used as long as it is used for distinguishing a specific target.

It is also possible to realize the above-described present invention by reading the program of the present invention into a terminal and executing it. That is, a formal name determination program for a formal name determination system including a proper noun storage unit that stores information indicating proper nouns, an abbreviation acquisition function for acquiring a proper noun abbreviation from document data, and proper noun storage A candidate name extraction function for extracting a proper noun having character information constituting the abbreviation from the part as a candidate name, and a formal name corresponding to the abbreviation according to the position of the character information constituting the abbreviation included in the candidate name You may comprise as a formal name determination program which makes a computer implement | achieve the determination function to determine.

  This formal name determination program also has the same operational effects as the above-described formal name determination system, and can also have the various feature configurations described above.

  According to the present invention configured as described above, a candidate name is extracted from the presence or absence of character information constituting an abbreviation, and further, depending on which position in the candidate name the character information constituting the abbreviation is included. The official name corresponding to the abbreviation can be determined. Thereby, even if there is no predetermined abbreviated name generation rule, it is possible to obtain an effect that it is possible to determine the corresponding formal name.

The conceptual diagram which shows an example of the system configuration | structure of this invention. The conceptual diagram which shows an example of the hardware constitutions of the terminal of this invention. The functional block diagram which shows an example of the system configuration | structure in Example 1 of this invention. The flowchart which shows an example of the process in this invention. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a document read by the reading device of the present invention. The figure which shows an example of the information memorize | stored as a proper noun in this invention. The image figure which shows an example of the image displayed with the display apparatus of the terminal of this invention. The image figure which shows an example of the image displayed with the display apparatus of the terminal of this invention. The image figure which shows an example of the processing content in Example 1 of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the point set based on the character position of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the point set based on the character position in the word of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the point set based on the position of the word of this invention. The functional block diagram which shows an example of the system configuration | structure in Example 2 of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the information memorize | stored as special character information in this invention. The functional block diagram which shows an example of the system configuration | structure in Example 3 of this invention. The conceptual diagram which shows an example of the system configuration | structure in Example 4 of this invention. The functional block diagram which shows an example of the system configuration | structure in Example 4 of this invention.

Example 1 Configuration
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 conceptually shows an example of the overall configuration of the formal name determination system of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the present invention is configured such that a computer terminal A (hereinafter referred to as “terminal A”) is connected directly to a reader B or via a network N. The connection format between the terminal A and the reading device B may be either a direct connection or a connection via the network N.

  The reading device B is an input device for reading information. Specifically, there is a scanner that optically reads a photograph or a figure from a document and transfers it as image data to a computer terminal. There are other OCRs that illuminate the characters on the original and read the reflected light. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and any apparatus that converts the read information into data and transfers it to the terminal may be used. .

  Network N is a CSMA / CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access Collision Detection) system equipped with a cable that physically transmits information in a limited facility such as a company or school, and a relay device such as a LAN switch or hub. Although it is configured as an Ethernet (trademark) type LAN, the network N is constructed by an intranet using Internet technology in addition to the Ethernet type LAN, or a WAN (Wide Area Network). It may be constructed by the technology.

  FIG. 2 conceptually shows an example of the hardware configuration of the terminal A.

  The terminal A directly connects the arithmetic device 1 such as a CPU that executes arithmetic processing of a program, the storage device 2 such as a RAM and a hard disk that stores information, and the processing results of the arithmetic device 1 and information stored in the storage device 2. A communication device 3 that transmits and receives data via a network such as the Internet or a LAN, an input device 4 such as a keyboard, a mouse, or a numeric keypad, and a display device 5 such as a display (screen).

  Each function (each means) realized on the terminal A is executed when a means (program, module, etc.) for executing the process is read into the arithmetic unit 1. When using the information stored in the storage device 2 in the processing, each function reads the corresponding information from the storage device 2 and uses the read information in the processing in the arithmetic device 1 as appropriate.

  FIG. 3 shows a functional block diagram of the terminal A and the reading device B constituting the formal name determination system of the present invention. Each component and each means in the present invention are only logically distinguished in function, and may be physically or virtually identical.

  FIG. 3 shows only the minimum equipment, configuration and means necessary for the present invention, and the description of other equipment, configuration and means is omitted.

  The terminal A recognizes a series of character information constituting the document from the acquired data and acquires it as document data. The abbreviation acquisition unit 12 extracts and acquires the abbreviation of the proper noun from the acquired document data. A proper noun storage unit 13 that stores name information of a plurality of proper nouns, a candidate name extraction unit 14 that extracts proper nouns including character information constituting the acquired abbreviations, and abbreviations included in the extracted candidate names A determination unit 15 that determines a formal name according to the position of character information to be performed, and a control unit 16 that performs control according to the determination result.

  The reading apparatus B includes a reading unit 23 that reads information described in a document, a data generation unit 22 that generates data based on the read information, and a communication unit 21 that transmits the generated data to the terminal A.

  The operation of each component will be described below based on the functional block diagram constituting the present invention shown in FIG.

  The reading unit 23 optically reads information such as texts and diagrams written on a manuscript such as paper in accordance with a user operation, and transmits the read information to the data generation unit 22. The data generation unit 22 performs data conversion based on the received information.

  The above-mentioned data refers to data that has been read and converted into a format that can be recognized by a computer terminal. There are various formats such as image data and character data, but any format that can be recognized by a computer terminal is acceptable. .

  The communication unit 21 transmits the data generated by the data generation unit 22 to the connected terminal A.

  The character information recognition unit 11 acquires data from the connected reading device B via the communication device 3. Further, the recognition unit recognizes a series of character information constituting the document from the acquired data, generates document data, and transmits the generated document data to the abbreviation acquisition unit 12.

  In addition to the above, the character information recognition unit 11 does not generate document data for all data acquired via the communication device 3, but the specific data specified by the input device 4 among the acquired data. Only the document data may be generated, and the generated document data may be transmitted to the abbreviation acquisition unit 12. In addition to acquiring document data from the reading device B, it is naturally possible to transmit data that has already become document data to the abbreviation acquisition unit 12.

  The abbreviation acquisition unit 12 analyzes the contents of the document data received from the character information recognition unit 11, extracts and acquires the abbreviations of proper nouns included in the document data, and transmits them to the candidate name extraction unit 14. Various abbreviation extraction methods can be used. For example, (1) a method of extracting all information of a predetermined area as abbreviations, (2) a method of extracting a series of character information including specific character information as abbreviations, and (3) a series of character information that meets a specific condition. Three methods of extracting as abbreviations are conceivable.

[Abbreviation Extraction Method (1)]
A method for extracting all information in a predetermined area of document data as abbreviations will be described. In this method, a predetermined area in the document data is set as an extraction target area in advance, and all the information described in the area is extracted as an abbreviation. For example, a book such as “Contact List” shown in FIG. 5 is read and a book whose format is determined in advance and proper nouns are determined to be listed in a specific location (“School” column) is read. It is preferred to use this method when operating the invention.

[Abbreviation Extraction Method (2)]
A method for analyzing the contents of document data and extracting a series of character information including specific character information as abbreviations will be described. This method divides the received document data into a series of character information, and character information indicating abbreviations registered in advance in each of the divided series of character information (for example, “school”, “company”, This is a method of determining whether or not “line” or the like is included, and extracting a series of included character information as an abbreviation. In particular, it is preferable to use this method when operating the present invention by reading a manuscript including proper names, such as school names and company names, which are frequently abbreviated.

[Abbreviation Extraction Method (3)]
A method of analyzing the contents of document data and extracting a series of character information that meets specific conditions as abbreviations will be described. This method divides the received document data into words, and determines whether or not each divided series of character information satisfies a pre-registered condition (for example, a condition such as “a four-character noun”). In this method, a series of character information satisfying the conditions is extracted as an abbreviation. In particular, this method is preferably used when the present invention is operated by reading a manuscript that cannot predict what abbreviations are included or a manuscript that may contain various proper nouns.

  For the above-described abbreviated extraction methods (1) to (3), an abbreviation extracted by any one method may be acquired, but an abbreviated name extracted by a combination of a plurality of methods may be acquired. For example, by combining the abbreviation extraction methods (1) to (3), a series of character information composed of four kanji characters including the character information “school” is included in a predetermined area of the document data. It can be said that it is extracted as an abbreviation.

  The proper noun storage unit 13 stores a plurality of proper nouns registered in advance. As for the proper nouns, proper nouns related to the field for which the official name is to be determined may be selected and registered, or proper nouns in various fields may be registered widely. For example, when this system is used to determine the official name of a school name, the official name of the school may be registered in advance. In addition, when registering proper nouns in various fields widely, a method of selecting and acquiring proper nouns from various sites on the Internet, storing them in a database, and the like can be considered.

  Based on the abbreviation acquired from the abbreviation acquisition unit 12, the candidate name extraction unit 14 extracts a proper noun including character information (hereinafter referred to as “abbreviated component character information”) constituting the abbreviation from the proper noun storage unit 13. And transmitted to the determination unit 15. When there are a plurality of proper nouns including abbreviation constituent character information, the plurality of proper nouns are transmitted to the determination unit 15 as candidate names.

  About extraction of the above candidate names, for example, when this system is used for official name determination of school names, if the acquired abbreviation is “Meijigaku Elementary”, the abbreviation constituent character information “Small” is included. A method may be considered in which it is determined that the name is an abbreviation for the name of the elementary school, and all the formal names of the elementary school stored in the proper noun storage unit 13 are extracted as candidate names.

  In addition, in the above extraction of candidate names, when an old kanji is used as an abbreviation or proper noun, the old kanji and new kanji indicating the same meaning content are associated in advance as the same character, It is preferable to extract all proper nouns including new kanji corresponding to kanji (or old kanji corresponding to new kanji).

  The determination unit 15 compares the abbreviation received from the abbreviation acquisition unit 12 with the candidate name received from the candidate name extraction unit 14, determines the possibility of a formal name corresponding to the abbreviation, and determines the determination result to the control unit 16. Send to.

  The official name is determined using the position of the abbreviation constituent character information included in the candidate name, and various methods can be used for the determination. For example, (1) a method for determining whether or not there is abbreviation constituent character information at a predetermined position, (2) a method for determining the importance according to the position of the abbreviation constituent character information, and (3) a position of the abbreviation constituent character information in a word There are four methods: a method of determining with importance according to the level, and (4) a method of determining with importance according to the position of the word including the abbreviated character information.

[Formal name determination method (1)]
A method for determining whether or not there is abbreviation constituent character information at a predetermined position in the candidate name will be described. This method determines in which position in the candidate name name the abbreviation constituent character information of the first character in the abbreviation is included, and compares the position with a predetermined position to determine the candidate name. It is a method of determining the possibility that is an official name. For example, if the predetermined position is determined as “first character”, first, the position of the abbreviation constituent character information included in each candidate name is extracted. Then, a candidate name whose position is the “first character” at the predetermined position is specified, and it is determined that the candidate name is highly likely to be an official name.

[Formal name determination method (2)]
A description will be given of a method of determining with importance according to the position of the abbreviation constituent character information in the candidate names. Here, a method of setting a point according to importance as the importance and determining using the set point will be described. In this method, points corresponding to positions are set in advance, the candidate names are compared with the abbreviation constituent character information, and the position of the matching character information is specified. And it is a method of determining the possibility that the candidate name is a formal name according to the total value of the points corresponding to the specified position. For example, if the candidate name is composed of 5 characters, and the first character and the third character match the abbreviation constituent character information, the total of points corresponding to the first character and the third character is calculated and the calculation is performed. The possibility of an official name is determined according to the value obtained.

[Formal name judgment method (3)]
A method of dividing a candidate name into words and determining with importance according to the position of abbreviation constituent character information in the divided words will be described. Here, a method of setting a point according to importance as the importance and determining using the set point will be described. In this method, points corresponding to positions are set in advance, and candidate names are divided into words. Then, the candidate name is compared with the abbreviated character information, and the position of the matching character information in the word is specified. And it is a method of determining the possibility that the candidate name is a formal name according to the total value of the points corresponding to the specified position. For example, when the candidate name is composed of two words and the first character in each word matches the abbreviation constituent character information, the total of points corresponding to the first character of each word is calculated and the calculation is performed. The possibility of an official name is determined according to the value obtained.

[Formal name determination method (4)]
A method of dividing the candidate name into words and determining with importance according to the position of the word including the abbreviated character information will be described. Here, a method of setting a point according to importance as the importance and determining using the set point will be described. In this method, points corresponding to positions are set in advance, and candidate names are divided into words. Then, the candidate name is compared with the abbreviation constituent character information, and the position of the word including the matching character information is specified. And it is a method of determining the possibility that the candidate name is a formal name according to the total value of the points corresponding to the specified position. For example, if the candidate name is composed of two words and the abbreviation is also included in each word, the total value of points corresponding to the position of each word is calculated, and the calculated value is To determine the possibility of an official name.

  Regarding the above-described formal name determination methods (1) to (4), the possibility of a formal name may be determined by any one method, or may be determined by a combination of a plurality of methods.

  The control unit 16 performs various controls based on the determination result received from the determination unit 15 and causes the display device 5 of the terminal A to display the result.

  The above-described control is, for example, identifying the candidate name that is most likely to be the official name in the determination result received from the determination unit 15 as the official name, and displaying the data acquired from the reading device B on the terminal A When displaying on the apparatus 5, the control which converts an abbreviation into the determined formal name and displays it on the display apparatus 5 can be considered.

  In addition, it is possible to control the display device 5 as it is without converting the abbreviations into formal names and displaying the candidate names and the possibility that the candidate names are formal names. For example, a candidate name and a value indicating the possibility that the candidate name is a formal name are received from the determination unit 15, and on the display device 5, an abbreviated name is converted into a candidate for conversion in descending order of possibility of the formal name. Alternatively, the control may be performed such that the candidate names are displayed in ranking.

[Example 1-Treatment process (1)]
Next, an example of a processing process in the formal name determination system of the present invention will be described with reference to the functional block diagram of FIG. 3, the flowchart of FIG. In the following description, a case where an abbreviation of a school name in the school education field and a corresponding official name are determined will be described as an example. The abbreviation extraction method uses (1) a method of extracting all information of a predetermined area as abbreviations, and the official name determination method uses (1) a method of determination based on presence / absence of abbreviation constituent character information at a predetermined position. The case will be described.

  The data generation unit 22 of the reading device B acquires information on the document read by the reading unit 23, generates data, and passes the data to the communication unit 21. The communication unit 21 transmits the received data to the terminal A. An example of a document read by the reading unit 23 is shown in FIG.

  The communication device 3 of the terminal A acquires data from the connected reading device B (S101). Then, the acquired data is transmitted to the character information recognition unit 11 in the terminal A.

  The character information recognizing unit 11 generates a document data by recognizing a series of character information constituting the document “contact list” from the data received from the communication device 3 by the recognizing means (S102). In the present embodiment, the document data is generated by recognizing the character information constituting the document “contact list”. Then, the generated document data is transmitted to the abbreviation acquisition unit 12.

  The abbreviation acquisition unit 12 extracts a series of character information described in a predetermined position (or item, etc.) as predetermined abbreviations from the document data received from the character information recognition unit 11 (S103). In the present embodiment, a series of character information described in a column of a predetermined position “affiliation school” is extracted as abbreviations from document data constituting a manuscript “contact list”. Hereinafter, in the present embodiment, a case where “Meiji elementary school” is extracted as an abbreviation will be described.

  The proper noun storage unit 13 stores a plurality of proper nouns registered in advance. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the official name of the elementary school is stored in advance as a proper noun. An example of information stored in the proper noun storage unit 13 is shown in FIG.

  The candidate name extraction unit 14 extracts a proper noun including the abbreviation abbreviation constituent character information acquired from the abbreviation acquisition unit 12 from the proper noun storage unit 13 as a candidate name (S104). Then, the extracted candidate name is transmitted to the determination unit 15.

  The above processing will be described in the present embodiment. First, the candidate name extraction unit 14 acquires, from the proper noun storage unit 13, proper nouns including two or more abbreviation constituent character information among the abbreviation constituent character information “Akira”, “Study”, and “Small”. Next, when the information stored in the proper noun storage unit 13 is as shown in FIG. 6, the candidate name extraction unit 14 selects the first candidate name “Osaka City Takamyo Higashi Elementary School” and the second candidate name “private Meiji”. Three candidate names, “Gakuen Attached Elementary School” and No. 1 candidate name “Private Kiyoaki University Attached Elementary School” are extracted.

  In addition to the above method for extracting candidate names, a method of extracting all proper nouns having at least one abbreviation constituent character information may be used. For example, it may be determined that an abbreviation including the abbreviation constituent character information “small” at the end of the abbreviation indicates an elementary school, and all proper nouns indicating an official name of the elementary school may be extracted as candidate names. By using this method, it is possible to cope with a case where a proper name other than an elementary school (for example, a junior high school, a high school, or a vocational school) is stored in the proper noun storage unit 13.

  The determination unit 15 determines whether the candidate name received from the candidate name extraction unit 14 includes the abbreviation constituent character information of the first character of the abbreviation received from the abbreviation acquisition unit 12 at a predetermined position. The possibility of being a name is determined (S105). Then, the determined result is transmitted to the control unit 16.

  The above processing will be specifically described. First, the determination unit 15 reads comparison conditions set in advance by the user. Here, it is assumed that the predetermined position is set to “first character” as the comparison condition. Further, in this determination, it is also preferable to perform a determination exclusion setting in which fixed character information such as “Osaka City”, “private”, and “elementary school” is not included in the determination target. In this embodiment, this determination exclusion setting is also performed.

  For the above exclusion character setting, for example, character information such as “private”, “prefectural”, “prefectural”, “city”, “town” is used as exclusion specific character information in advance, and an exclusion specific character information storage unit (not shown) It is preferable that the determination exclusion setting is made so that all character information described before the exclusion specific character information is not included in the determination target. By using this method, it is possible to efficiently exclude character information that is not necessary for the determination, such as “Osaka Prefectural” or “Hyogo Prefectural”.

  In addition, for character information such as “elementary school”, “junior high school”, “high school” and the like that is commonly included in each candidate name, an exclusion specific character information storage unit (see FIG. (Not shown) may be stored. By using this method, the processing speed in the formal name determination system of the present invention can be improved.

Next, in the three candidate names received from the candidate name extraction unit 14, the determination unit 15 determines a position where the abbreviation constituent character information “bright” is included in the determination target. In the case of the first candidate name “Osaka City Takamyo Higashi Elementary School”, the judgment target after the judgment exclusion setting is “Kohmei Higashi”, and the position where the abbreviated character information “Ming” is included is the second letter. judge. Similarly, in the case of the second candidate name “private Meiji Gakuen attached elementary school”, the determination target is “Meiji Gakuen attached”, and the position where the abbreviated character information “Meiji” is included is determined as the first character. Further, in the case of the third candidate name “private Kiyoaki University attached elementary school”, the determination target is “attached to Kiyoake University”, and the position including the abbreviated character information “Ming” is determined as the second character.

Then, the determination unit 15 compares the position where the abbreviation constituent character information is included in the candidate name with a predetermined position determined in advance, and determines that the matching candidate name is highly likely to be an official name. To do. In the case of the present embodiment, since the position (first character) where the abbreviation constituent character information is included in the second candidate name and the predetermined first position “first character” coincide, The name “private Meiji Gakuen Attached Elementary School” is determined to be highly likely to be an official name corresponding to the abbreviation. The determination unit 15 transmits the determination result to the control unit 16.

  The control unit 16 performs control based on the determination result received from the determination unit 15, and displays the result on the display device 5 of the terminal A (S106).

  The above processing will be specifically described. Based on the result of the determination unit 15, the control unit 16 identifies the second candidate name “private Meiji Gakuen Attached Elementary School” that is most likely to be an official name as an official name. Further, the part corresponding to the abbreviation “Meiji Gakuen” in the document data is converted to the official name “Private Meiji Gakuen Elementary School”.

Furthermore, the control unit 16 automatically acquires the acquired document data by acquiring information for other abbreviations processed in the formal name determination system of the present invention and similarly performing the above-described processing for other abbreviations. The image is re-edited and displayed on the display device 5. An example of display on the display device 5 is shown in FIG.

  As a control other than the above, the control unit 16 does not convert the abbreviated name into a formal name, but displays the candidate name as abbreviated conversion candidate in a ranking format based on the possibility that the abbreviated name is determined by the determining unit 15. This control is also conceivable. In this example, the candidate name most likely to be an official name is the second candidate name “private Meiji Gakuen Attached Elementary School”, so it is displayed at the top of the conversion candidates, and the remaining candidate names are displayed in it. It will be displayed in the following form. An example of display on the display device 5 by this control is shown in FIG.

  By adopting the above-described embodiment, it is possible to determine the corresponding formal name even if only the character information constituting the abbreviation is used as the determination element.

  In the above-described embodiment, the case where the predetermined position is set to “first character” as the comparison condition in the determination unit 15 has been described, but other than that, “immediately after predetermined character information” or “ A method of “just before the defined character information” is also conceivable. Further, it is possible to make a determination based on “matching of continuous character information” immediately before and after the predetermined character information, instead of determining only one character immediately before and immediately after the predetermined character information. These processes will be described in detail below.

  For example, in the case of the official name of the school name “Nishioka Elementary School attached to private Aoyama University”, the method of setting the predetermined position “immediately after the predetermined character information” An abbreviation may be generated using character information that immediately follows. In such a case, the predetermined character information is “attached”, and the abbreviated character information is compared with the character information immediately following the official name “attached” to determine whether or not it is an official name. It can be performed and is preferable.

  For example, in the case of the official name “Daito City Oyama Josai Elementary School”, the method of setting the predetermined position “immediately before the predetermined character information” An abbreviation may be generated using the character information. In such a case, by setting the character information “elementary school” to be predetermined, the abbreviated character information is compared with the character information immediately before the official name “elementary school” to determine whether or not the name is an official name. This is preferable.

  In addition, regarding the method of determining by “matching consecutive character information”, for example, if the above-mentioned school name “Nishioka Elementary School attached to private Aoyama University” and the abbreviation “Nishioka Elementary” are determined, a predetermined character is used. It can be determined whether or not the continuous character information following the information “attachment” matches the continuous abbreviation constituent character information constituting the abbreviation. The same processing can be performed even in the case of the above-mentioned school name “Daito City Oyama Josai Elementary School” and the abbreviation “Josei Shoji”. An image of the processing content is shown in FIG.

[Example 1-Treatment process (2)]
Next, with respect to the official name determination method, (2) an example of a processing process in the official name determination system of the present invention in the case of using a method for determining at a point corresponding to the position of the abbreviation constituent character information is shown in FIG. This will be described with reference to the functional block diagram and the flowchart of FIG. In the abbreviation extraction method, (1) a method of extracting all information of a predetermined area as abbreviations is used.

  Since the operations from (S101) to (S104) in the flowchart of FIG. 4 are the same as those in [Example 1-Processing process (1)], the description thereof is omitted.

  The determination unit 15 calculates a point depending on where the abbreviation abbreviation constituent character information received from the abbreviation acquisition unit 12 is included in the candidate name received from the candidate name extraction unit 14, and according to the calculated point The possibility of being an official name is determined (S105). Then, the determined result is transmitted to the control unit 16.

  The above processing will be described in the present embodiment. First, the formal name determination system of the present invention has a character position point table (not shown), and points are determined in advance according to the position of the character to be determined in the candidate name. An example of information stored in the character position point table is shown in FIG.

  Next, a comparison condition in the determination unit 15 is set. Here, as a comparison condition, it is preferable to set a determination exclusion character setting that does not include a fixed character such as “Osaka City”, “private”, or “elementary school” as a determination target. In this embodiment, this determination exclusion character setting is performed.

  And the determination part 15 determines what abbreviation constituent character information is contained in each character with respect to each candidate name received from the candidate name extraction part 14, and the above-mentioned character position point table (not shown). Then, the points corresponding to the determined number of characters are extracted, and the total points are calculated for each candidate name.

  The above processing will be specifically described. First, in the case of the first candidate name “Osaka City Takamyo Higashi Elementary School”, the abbreviated character information “Akira” is included in the second character in the character to be determined, so the point is “35”. Next, in the case of the second candidate name “private Meiji Gakuen attached elementary school”, the abbreviation constituent character information “Akira” is included in the first character in the judgment target characters, and further, the abbreviation constituent character information “Study” is judged. Since it is included in the third character in the target character, the total point is “40 + 30” and becomes “70”. Similarly, in the case of the third candidate name “private Kiyoaki University attached elementary school”, the abbreviated character information “Akira” is the second character in the character to be judged, and the abbreviated character information “Saku” is the fourth character in the character to be judged. The total points are “35 + 25” and “60”.

  As a result of the above processing, the determination unit 15 may most likely be the official name corresponding to the abbreviation, the candidate name being the second candidate name “private Meiji Gakuen Attached Elementary School” of 70 points, and then the official name. The 60-point third candidate name “Private Kiyoaki University Elementary School” is the most likely, and the last official name is the least likely to be the 35-point first candidate name “Osaka City Komyo East Elementary School”. The determination result is derived as. Then, the derived determination result is transmitted to the control unit 16.

  The control unit 16 performs control based on the determination result received from the determination unit 15, and displays the result on the display device 5 of the terminal A (S106). The contents of the control are the same as those in [Example 1-Processing process (1)].

  As a control specific to this embodiment other than the above, the control unit 16 does not convert the abbreviated name into an official name, and based on the possibility that the abbreviated name is determined by the determining unit 15, the candidate name is used as an abbreviated conversion candidate. The control may be performed such that the points are displayed in a ranking format together with the points calculated by the determination unit 15.

  By adopting the above-described embodiment, it is possible to perform a formal name determination without the need to set a comparison condition in advance, and more specifically, each candidate name may be a formal name corresponding to an abbreviation. It becomes possible to grasp.

[Example 1-Treatment process (3)]
Next, with regard to the method for determining the formal name, (3) an example of a processing process in the formal name determination system of the present invention in the case of using a method for determining at a point corresponding to the position of the abbreviation constituent character information in the word, This will be described with reference to the functional block diagram of FIG. 3, the flowchart of FIG. In the abbreviation extraction method, (1) a method of extracting all information of a predetermined area as abbreviations is used.

  The operations from (S101) to (S104) and (S106) in the flowchart of FIG. 4 are the same as [Example 1-Processing Process (1)] and [Example 1-Processing Process (2)]. Description is omitted.

  The determination unit 15 calculates points depending on where the abbreviation constituent character information of the abbreviation received from the abbreviation acquisition unit 12 is included in each word obtained by dividing the candidate name received from the candidate name extraction unit 14 into words. Then, the possibility of an official name is determined according to the calculated point (S105). Then, the determined result is transmitted to the control unit 16.

  The above processing will be described in the present embodiment. First, the formal name determination system of the present invention has a character position point table (not shown), and points are determined in advance according to the position of the character to be determined in the candidate name. An example of information stored in the character position point table is shown in FIG.

  Next, a comparison condition in the determination unit 15 is set. Here, as a comparison condition, it is preferable to set a determination exclusion character setting that does not include a fixed character such as “Osaka City”, “private”, or “elementary school” as a determination target. In this embodiment, this determination exclusion character setting is performed.

  And the determination part 15 divides | segments the character used as the determination object of the candidate name received from the candidate name extraction part 14 into a word. Subsequently, it is determined what character abbreviation constituent character information is included in the divided word, and a point corresponding to the determined number of characters is extracted from the above-described character position point table (not shown). Total points are calculated for each name.

  The above processing will be specifically described. First, in the case of the first candidate name “Osaka City Takamyo Higashi Elementary School”, when the character to be determined is divided into words, it becomes “Kohmei” and “East”. Next, it is determined whether or not each divided word includes abbreviation constituent character information. In this case, since the abbreviation constituent character information “Ming” is included in the second character of the first word, the point is “20”. Next, in the case of the second candidate name “private Meiji Gakuen Attached Elementary School”, when the character to be judged is divided into words, it becomes “Meiji”, “Gakuen”, “Attached”. In this case, since the abbreviation constituent character information “Akira” is included in the first character of the first word and the abbreviation constituent character information “Study” is included in the first character of the second word, the total point is “40 + 40”. To “80”. Similarly, in the case of the third candidate name “private Kiyoaki University attached elementary school”, when the character to be determined is divided into words, it becomes “Kiyoaki”, “University”, and “Attached”. In this case, since the abbreviation constituent character information “Akira” is included in the second character of the first word and the abbreviation constituent character information “Study” is included in the second character of the second word, the total point is “20 + 20”. To “40”.

  As a result of the above processing, the determination unit 15 may most likely be the official name corresponding to the abbreviation. The candidate name that is most likely to be an abbreviated name is an 80-point second candidate name “private Meiji Gakuen Elementary School”, and then the official name. The third candidate name "Private Kiyoaki University Elementary School" with 40 points is the most likely, and the last one with the lowest possibility of being the official name is the 20 point first candidate name "Osaka City Komei East Elementary School" The determination result is derived as. The derived determination result is transmitted to the control unit 16.

  By using the above-described embodiment, a determination is made using a general tendency when abbreviations are generated, such as “the abbreviations are often generated by connecting the first character information constituting words”. It is possible to improve the accuracy of official name determination.

[Example 1-Treatment process (4)]
Next, as an official name determination method, (4) an example of a processing process in the official name determination system of the present invention in the case of using a method of determining at a point corresponding to the position of a word including abbreviation constituent character information. This will be described with reference to the functional block diagram of FIG. 3, the flowchart of FIG. In the abbreviation extraction method, (1) a method of extracting all information of a predetermined area as abbreviations is used.

  The operations from (S101) to (S104) and (S106) in the flowchart of FIG. 4 are the same as [Example 1-Processing Process (1)] and [Example 1-Processing Process (2)]. Description is omitted.

  The determination unit 15 specifies which word the abbreviation constituent character information of the abbreviation received from the abbreviation acquisition unit 12 is included in each word obtained by dividing the candidate name received from the candidate name extraction unit 14 into words. To do. Further, a point is calculated according to the position of the identified word in the candidate name, and the possibility of being an official name is determined according to the calculated point (S105). Then, the determined result is transmitted to the control unit 16.

  The above processing will be described in the present embodiment. First, the formal name determination system of the present invention has a word position point table (not shown), and points are determined in advance according to the positions of words having characters to be determined in candidate names. An example of information stored in the word position point table is shown in FIG.

  Next, a comparison condition in the determination unit 15 is set. Here, as a comparison condition, it is preferable to set a determination exclusion character setting that does not include a fixed character such as “Osaka City”, “private”, or “elementary school” as a determination target. In this embodiment, this determination exclusion character setting is performed.

And the determination part 15 divides | segments the character used as the determination object of the candidate name received from the candidate name extraction part 14 into a word. Subsequently, the word including the abbreviation constituent character information is specified, the number of the word in the determination target is determined, and the determination is made from the above-described word position point table (not shown). Points corresponding to word positions are extracted, and total points are calculated for each name.

  The above processing will be specifically described. First, in the case of the first candidate name “Osaka City Takamyo Higashi Elementary School”, when the character to be determined is divided into words, it becomes “Kohmei” and “East”. Next, the position of the word including the abbreviation constituent character information is determined. In this case, since the abbreviation constituent character information “Ming” is included in the first word, the point is “40”. Next, in the case of the second candidate name “private Meiji Gakuen Attached Elementary School”, when the character to be judged is divided into words, it becomes “Meiji”, “Gakuen”, “Attached”. In this case, since the abbreviation constituent character information “Akira” is included in the first word and the abbreviation constituent character information “Study” is included in the second word, the total point is “40 + 40”, which is “80”. Similarly, in the case of the third candidate name “private Kiyoaki University attached elementary school”, when the character to be determined is divided into words, it becomes “Kiyoaki”, “University”, and “Attached”. In this case, since the abbreviation constituent character information “Akira” is included in the first word and the abbreviation constituent character information “Study” is included in the second word, the total point is “40 + 40”, which is “80”.

  As a result of the above processing, the determination unit 15 determines that the candidate names that are likely to be official names corresponding to the abbreviations are the second candidate name “private Meiji Gakuen Elementary School” of 80 points and the third candidate name “private Kiyoake University The determination result that the possibility that the attached name is “official name” and the official name is low is the 20-point first candidate name “Osaka City Takamyo Higashi Elementary School” is derived. The derived determination result is transmitted to the control unit 16.

  By using the above-described embodiment, a determination is made using a general tendency when generating abbreviations, such as "often extracted abbreviations by extracting character information contained in each word" Can do.

Example 2 Configuration
Next, a second embodiment of the formal name determination system of the present invention will be described using the functional block diagram of FIG. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the same component as Example 1. FIG. Furthermore, when performing the same operation | movement regarding the same structure part, the detailed description is abbreviate | omitted.

  The second embodiment of the official name determination system of the present invention is that the terminal A is provided with a special character information storage unit 17 for storing special character information determined in advance. It is different from the embodiment.

  In the present embodiment, in addition to the determination according to the position of the abbreviation constituent character information included in the candidate name as in the first embodiment, predetermined special character information is included in the candidate name. It is characterized in that the determination is made with the element of whether or not.

  Hereinafter, the operation of each component will be described. Note that detailed description of the same components or operations as those in the first embodiment will be omitted.

  The special character information storage unit 17 stores a plurality of special character information registered in advance. This special character information is character information that is commonly used when generating abbreviations. For example, there are character information indicating directions such as “east”, “west”, “south”, and “north”, and character information indicating numbers such as “one”, “two”, and “three”. Further, the special character information is not necessarily one character, and a series of character information composed of two or more characters may be stored as the special character information.

  The determination unit 15 searches whether the special character information stored in the special character information storage unit 17 is included in the abbreviation received from the abbreviation acquisition unit 12. As a result of the search, when the special character information is detected from the abbreviations, the determination result is corrected so that there is a high possibility that it is the official name of the candidate name including the detected special character information. Then, the determination unit 15 transmits the determination result with this correction added to the control unit 16.

Example 2 Treatment Process
Next, an example of a processing process in the formal name determination system of the present invention will be described with reference to the functional block diagram of FIG. 13, the flowchart of FIG. In the following description, a case where the name of a school name in the education field and the official name corresponding thereto are determined will be described as an example. In the abbreviation extraction method, (1) a method of extracting all information of a predetermined area as abbreviations is used, and in a formal name determination method, (2) a method of determining at a point according to the position of abbreviation constituent character information. The case where it is used will be described.

  Since the operations from (S101) to (S104) in the flowchart of FIG. 4 are the same as those in [Example 1-Processing process (1)], the description thereof is omitted. Hereinafter, in the present embodiment, among the series of character information described in the column of the “affiliation school” at a predetermined position among the document data constituting the manuscript “contact list”, the abbreviation “Science 3 Elementary” A case in which is extracted will be described.

  The candidate name extraction unit 14 extracts a proper noun including the abbreviation abbreviation constituent character information acquired from the abbreviation acquisition unit 12 from the proper noun storage unit 13 as a candidate name (S104). Then, the extracted candidate name is transmitted to the determination unit 15.

  The above processing will be described in the present embodiment. First, the candidate name extraction unit 14 acquires, from the proper noun storage unit 13, proper nouns including two or more abbreviation constituent character information “tea”, “study”, “three”, and “small”. Next, when the information stored in the proper noun storage unit 13 is as shown in FIG. Extract two candidate names of “Private School Student Elementary School”.

  The determination unit 15 calculates a point depending on which position in the candidate name received from the candidate name extraction unit 14 the abbreviated abbreviation constituent character information received from the abbreviation acquisition unit 12. Further, it is searched whether the special character information stored in the special character information storage unit 17 is included in the abbreviation, and when the special character information is detected from the abbreviation, the detected special character information is included. The calculated points are corrected so as to increase the possibility that the candidate names are official names. Then, the possibility of an official name is determined according to the corrected point (S105), and the determination result is transmitted to the control unit 16.

The above processing will be described in the present embodiment. First, the formal name determination system of the present invention has a character position point table (not shown), and points are determined in advance according to the position of the character to be determined in the candidate name. An example of information stored in the character position point table is shown in FIG.

  Next, a comparison condition in the determination unit 15 is set. Here, as a comparison condition, it is preferable to set a determination exclusion character setting that does not include a fixed character such as “Osaka City”, “private”, or “elementary school” as a determination target. In this embodiment, this determination exclusion character setting is performed.

  And the determination part 15 determines what abbreviation constituent character information is contained in each character with respect to each candidate name received from the candidate name extraction part 14, and the above-mentioned character position point table (not shown). Then, the points corresponding to the determined number of characters are extracted, and the total points are calculated for each candidate name.

  The above processing will be specifically described. First, in the case of the first candidate name “Private University of Education attached third elementary school”, the abbreviation constituent character information “Kyo” is included in the first character of the judgment target character, and the abbreviation constituent character information “Study” is subject to judgment. Since the abbreviation constituent character information “three” is included in the eighth character in the determination target character, the total point is “40 + 25 + 5”, which is “70”. Similarly, in the case of the second candidate name “Private Gakuen Gakuen Elementary School”, the abbreviated character information “Kyo” is the first character in the character to be determined, and the abbreviated character information “Gaku” is the third character in the character to be determined. Since it is included, the total point is “40 + 30” and becomes “70”.

  Next, the determination unit 15 searches whether the special character information stored in the special character information storage unit 17 is included in the abbreviation received from the abbreviation acquisition unit 12. An example of information stored in the special character information storage unit 17 is shown in FIG. When the special character information is detected from the abbreviations, the calculated points are corrected so that there is a high possibility that the candidate names include the detected special character information.

  The above processing will be specifically described. First, when a search is made as to whether special character information is included in the abbreviation “Three minors of teaching”, it is detected that special character information “three” is included. Since the special character information “three” is included in the first candidate name “third elementary school attached to private education university”, a correction point is added to the point of the first candidate name. Here, a correction point “30” is added. As a result of this correction, the total number of the first candidate name “third elementary school attached to private university of education” is “40 + 25 + 5 + 30”, which is “100”.

  As a result of the above correction process, the determination unit 15 has a candidate name that is most likely an official name corresponding to the abbreviation. It is possible to obtain a determination result that it is the second candidate name “Private Gakuen Gakuen Elementary School” of 70 points. Then, the derived determination result is transmitted to the control unit 16.

  The control unit 16 performs control based on the determination result received from the determination unit 15, and displays the result on the display device 5 of the terminal A (S106). The contents of the control are the same as those in [Example 1-Processing process (1)].

By adopting the above-described embodiment, more accurate formal name determination can be realized by incorporating character information, which is generally used as an abbreviation, into elements of formal name determination.

  Next, a third embodiment of the formal name determination system of the present invention will be described using the functional block diagram of FIG. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the same component as Example 1. FIG.

  The third embodiment of the formal name determination system of the present invention is different from the first embodiment in that the communication device 3 and the reading device B of the terminal A are not required.

  The present embodiment is characterized in that the data acquired from the content displayed by the display device 5 is used instead of using the data acquired by reading the document by the reading device B as in the first embodiment. Except for processing from data acquisition to document data generation, processing similar to that in the first embodiment is performed.

  Hereinafter, the operation of the character information recognition unit 11 will be described. Since the operation and processing flow relating to the other components are the same as those in the first embodiment, detailed description thereof will be omitted.

  The character information recognition unit 11 acquires information displayed on the display device 5, generates a document data by recognizing a series of character information constituting the document from the acquired information by a recognition unit, and abbreviates the generated document data. The data is transmitted to the acquisition unit 12.

  Various methods can be used as the document data generation method. For example, (1) a method for acquiring all displayed information, (2) a method for acquiring information in a specified range, (3) a method for acquiring information related to a specified object, (4) characters There are four methods, that is, a method of acquiring information to be converted. In addition, with respect to the method of specifying the range / target in the methods (2) and (3) above, a predetermined range / target may be automatically specified, or the user can select any range / target. May be specified.

[Document Data Generation Method (1)]
A method of acquiring all information displayed on the display device 5 and generating document data will be described. In this method, information displayed on the display device 5 is acquired as image data, and a series of character information constituting a document is extracted as document data from the acquired image data. For example, when all the abbreviations are converted into formal names for the character information in the image displayed on the display of the terminal A, it is preferable to use this method.

[Document data generation method (2)]
A description will be given of a method of generating document data by acquiring information in a specified range from information displayed on the display device 5. This method is a method in which a series of character information constituting a document is extracted as document data from a range designated by the user from information displayed on the display device 5. For example, in the information displayed on the display of the terminal A, with respect to character information in an arbitrary range designated by the user using the input device 4 such as a mouse, the abbreviations contained therein are converted into formal names It is preferable to use this method.

[Document data generation method (3)]
A method for generating document data by acquiring information related to a specified target from among information displayed on the display device 5 will be described. This method is a method of searching data indicated by a target designated by the user from information displayed on the display device 5, and extracting a series of character information constituting the document from the information as document data. For example, in the information displayed on the display of the terminal A, regarding an icon indicating a file, a folder, or the like designated by the user using the input device 4 such as a mouse, character information included in data indicated by the icon In the case of converting an abbreviation to an official name, this method is preferably used.

[Document data generation method (4)]
A description will be given of a method of acquiring document data from among information displayed on the display device 5 and generating document data. This method is a method in which a series of character information constituting a document is extracted as document data from a range designated by the user as a conversion candidate from information displayed on the display device 5. For example, when the user directly inputs an abbreviation using the input device 4 such as a keyboard, and the user gives a conversion instruction, the abbreviation is converted into an official name.

  Regarding the document data generation methods (1) to (4) described above, the document data may be generated by any one method, or the document data may be generated by a combination of a plurality of methods.

  By adopting the above-described embodiment, the formal name determination system of the present invention can be executed even when a reading device such as a scanner is not used.

  Next, a fourth embodiment of the formal name determination system of the present invention will be described using FIG. 16 and FIG.

FIG. 16 conceptually shows an example of the overall configuration in the fourth embodiment of the formal name determination system of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 16, the present invention is configured such that the terminal A and the reading device B are directly connected, and the terminal A and the management server C are connected via a network N. The connection format between the terminal A and the reading device B may be either a direct connection or a connection via the network N. The present invention can also be configured in such a server / client system format.

  FIG. 17 shows a functional block diagram of the terminal A, the reading device B, and the management server C that constitute the formal name determination system of the present invention. Each component and each means in the present invention are only logically distinguished in function, and may be physically or virtually identical. Note that the same reference numerals as those in the first embodiment are assigned to components that perform the same processing as in the first embodiment.

  The terminal A recognizes a network I / F 20 that transmits / receives information to / from the management server C through the network N, and recognizes a series of character information constituting the document from the acquired data, acquires it as document data, and transmits it to the management server C. Unit 11 and a control unit 16 that controls the terminal according to the determination result received from the management server C.

  The reading apparatus B includes a reading unit 23 that reads information described in a document, a data generation unit 22 that generates data based on the read information, and a communication unit 21 that transmits the generated data to the terminal A.

  The management server C includes a network I / F 19 that transmits / receives information to / from the terminal A through the network N, an abbreviation acquisition unit 12 that extracts and acquires an abbreviation of a proper noun from document data acquired from the terminal A, and name information of a plurality of proper nouns According to the position of the character information constituting the abbreviated name included in the extracted candidate name, the candidate name extracting unit 14 for extracting the proper noun including the character information constituting the acquired abbreviation, A determination unit 15 that determines the official name and a control instruction unit 16 that transmits information for controlling the terminal A according to the determination result are provided.

  By setting it as the above-mentioned embodiment, it becomes possible to control by the formal name determination system of this invention with respect to the some terminal connected via the network.

A: Terminal B: Reading device C: Management server N: Network 1: Computing device 2: Storage device 3: Communication device 4: Communication device 4: Input device 5: Display device 11: Character information recognition unit 12: Abbreviation acquisition unit 13: Proper noun storage Unit 14: Candidate name extraction unit 15: Determination unit 16: Control unit 17: Special character information storage unit 18: Control instruction unit 20: Network I / F
21: Communication unit 22: Data generation unit 23: Reading unit

Claims (4)

An abbreviation acquisition unit for acquiring an abbreviation of a proper noun from document data;
A proper noun storage unit for storing information indicating proper nouns;
A candidate name extraction unit that extracts, as candidate names, proper nouns having character information constituting the abbreviations from the proper noun storage unit;
A determination unit that determines a formal name corresponding to the abbreviation according to a position of character information constituting the abbreviation included in the candidate name;
A formal name determination system characterized by comprising: The determination unit
Means for dividing the candidate name into words;
Means for determining a formal name corresponding to the abbreviation according to a position of character information constituting the abbreviation contained in the word;
The formal name determination system according to claim 1, comprising: The formal name determination system further includes:
A special character information storage unit for storing predetermined character information as special character information;
The determination unit
The name determination system according to claim 1, wherein an official name corresponding to the abbreviation is determined according to the special character information included in the candidate name. A formal name determination program for a formal name determination system including a proper noun storage unit that stores information indicating proper names,
An abbreviation acquisition function for acquiring an abbreviation of a proper noun from document data;
A candidate name extraction function for extracting, as candidate names, proper nouns having character information constituting the abbreviations from the proper noun storage unit;
A determination function for determining an official name corresponding to the abbreviation according to a position of character information constituting the abbreviation included in the candidate name;
An official name determination program that enables a computer to realize

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