JP2000112948A - Retrieval device and record medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To translate the keyword of foreign language into Japanese, converting in into Roman characters, to contain same readings into the same keyword, to absorb the difference of a notation, to inversely translate the plural Japanese keywords into foreign language, to contain the same words in the similar keyword, to OR-retreive them, to absorb the presence or absence of the swing and the prolonged sound of the Japanese notation and to supply retrieval without a lack. SOLUTION: A means translating the keyword of foreign language into a Japanese keyword, a means converting the plural translated Japanese keywords into a Roman character notation, a means deciding the converted keywords whose Roman character notations are similar as the similar keyword and a means which OR-retrieves an objective document on the Japanese keyword decided to be the similar keyword are installed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a search device and a recording medium for searching a Japanese language by translating a foreign language keyword into a Japanese language keyword.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventional search software translates a keyword (for example, "wine") input in English into a Japanese keyword and performs a Japanese search. Was selected and searched.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional search method, one of a plurality of candidates of a Japanese keyword obtained by translating a keyword input in English is selected to search Japanese. Therefore, there is a problem that a search miss occurs due to a difference in hiragana / katakana notation and a difference in presence or absence of a long sound due to fluctuations in Japanese notation.

[0004] The present invention solves these problems,
Translate foreign keywords into Japanese and convert them to romaji, include the same readings in the same keyword to absorb differences in notation, and reverse translate multiple Japanese keywords into foreign languages and use the same keyword for the same keyword And OR these
The purpose is to realize a search without any omission by absorbing the fluctuation of Japanese notation and the presence or absence of long sounds.

[0005]

Means for solving the problem will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 1, a processing device 1 performs various processes according to a program.
Here, it is configured by a translation means 3, a conversion means 4, a search means 5, and the like.

The translation means 3 translates a foreign language into Japanese and reversely translates Japanese into a foreign language. The conversion means 4 converts the Japanese keyword reading obtained by translating the foreign language keyword into Roman alphabet.

[0007] The search means 5 is a means for collecting synonyms among Japanese keywords and performing an OR search on a document to be searched. Next, the operation will be described.

[0008] The translation means 3 translates the foreign language keywords into Japanese keywords, the conversion means 4 converts a plurality of Japanese readings translated into Romanized notation, and the search means 5 converts the converted keywords. Are determined to be the same keyword if the Romanization is the same, and the target document is set to O for the Japanese keyword determined to be the same keyword.
The result of the R search and the result of the OR search are displayed. .

The translation means 3 translates a foreign language keyword into a Japanese keyword, the conversion means 4 converts the reading of a plurality of Japanese keywords translated into Romanized notation, and the search means 5 converts it. The same Roman keyword is determined as the same keyword. The same keyword is determined by translating and translating multiple Japanese keywords. The same keyword is determined as the same keyword. With respect to, the target document is OR-searched, and the result of the OR search is displayed.

At this time, when there are a plurality of determined Japanese keywords, the retrieval means 5 displays a plurality of candidates for the Japanese keywords and determines the same keyword as the selected Japanese keyword. With respect to the obtained Japanese keyword, the target document is OR-searched, and the result of the OR search is displayed.

Therefore, a foreign language keyword is translated into Japanese and converted to Roman characters, the same reading is included in the same keyword to absorb the difference in notation, and a plurality of Japanese keywords are translated back into a foreign language to obtain the same translation. By including those in the same keyword and performing an OR search and displaying them, it is possible to realize a search that does not leak out the fluctuation of Japanese notation or the presence or absence of long sounds.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, an embodiment and operation of the present invention will be described in detail sequentially with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 shows a system configuration diagram of the present invention.
In FIG. 1, a processing device 1 loads a program read from a recording medium or a hard disk device as an external storage device or a program downloaded from an external storage device of a center via a line or a network to a main storage. And executes various processes described below. In this example, the input unit 2 includes a translation unit 3, a conversion unit 4, and a search unit 5.

The input means 2 is for inputting various data, for example, for importing a file or document (HTML document) to be translated from a network. The translation means (English-Japanese, Japanese-English) 3 translates a keyword in a foreign language (for example, English) into a Japanese keyword or reversely translates a Japanese keyword into a foreign language keyword. .

The conversion means 4 converts Japanese keywords into Roman characters. Search means 5
Is used to determine a Japanese keyword or to perform an OR search on a document to be searched based on the determined Japanese keyword (described later with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3).

The English-Japanese / Japanese-English dictionary 6 is a dictionary for mutually translating foreign languages and Japanese. Here, in order to simplify the explanation, English to Japanese and Japanese to English are used. It is a dictionary to translate.

The display device 7 displays various data. The input device 8 is for inputting various data, and is a keyboard, a mouse, or the like.

Next, the operation of the configuration of FIG. 1 will be described in detail according to the order of the flowchart of FIG. FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the present invention.

In FIG. 2, in step S1, a searcher inputs an English keyword. This is because the searcher presses a key on the keyboard of the input device 8 in FIG.
Input a keyword in English, for example, "wine".

In S2, the application performs an input accepting process of an English keyword. S3 performs English-Japanese translation processing. As a result, the English keyword (for example, "wine") input in S1 is translated into a Japanese keyword.

S4 converts the Japanese reading into Roman characters. For example, the Japanese keyword “grape” is converted into the Roman alphabet “BUDOUSHU”. S5 translates Japanese into English. This translates a plurality of Japanese keywords translated into English and Japanese in S3, respectively.

In step S6, a Japanese keyword that has passed through the notation fluctuation filter is displayed. In this case, for example, the Japanese keywords which are the same as the Japanese keywords obtained by translating the English keywords in S4 and converting the reading into Roman characters are put together. For example, wine, wine, and so on, when their readings are written in Roman characters, "BUDOUS
HU ”, these Japanese keywords“ grape ”and“ wine ”are collectively determined as the same Japanese keyword.Moreover, a plurality of Japanese keywords translated in S5 are translated into English and converted to the original keywords. If the keyword is the same as the English keyword, the keyword is collectively determined as the Japanese keyword.

In step S7, the Japanese keywords compiled in step S6 are displayed. If there are a plurality of keywords, the searcher selects one Japanese keyword from among them. In step S8, a target document is searched based on the Japanese keywords selected in step S7. At this time, if there are Japanese keywords determined to be the same for the selected Japanese keywords, the target document is searched by ORing all of the Japanese keywords determined to be the same, and katakana / Absorb the difference in the notation of Hiragana and absorb the difference in the presence or absence of long sounds as the same keyword using the same Japanese keyword when translating and reverse translating, and eliminate search omissions due to fluctuations in the Japanese notation Becomes possible.

At step S9, the search result at step S8 is displayed. For example, it is displayed as shown in FIG. By the above,
The input English keywords are translated into Japanese and translated into Roman characters. The same ones are determined to be the same Japanese keywords to absorb the difference in Katakana / Hiragana notation, and the Japanese keywords are reverse translated ( English translation) and decides to be a Japanese keyword at the same time, absorbs differences such as long sounds, eliminates omissions in search due to fluctuations in Japanese notation, and makes it possible to search documents containing keywords reliably Become.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a specific example of the present invention. In FIG. 3, S11 inputs an English keyword. For example, as described on the right side, a key word "wine" is input as an English keyword.

In step S12, the English keywords are translated to create Japanese keyword candidates. For example, as described on the right side, the English keyword “wi” input in S11
Ne ”is created as a candidate for a Japanese keyword translated as“ wine, wine, budo, wine, wine ”.

At step S13, the pronunciation of each Japanese keyword candidate is converted into Roman alphabet. For example, as described on the right side, as the Romanized notation of the Japanese keyword candidates translated in S12, the words are converted to: wine WAIN, wine BUDOUSHU, Budoshu BUDOHSHU, wine BUDOUSHU, wine BUDOUSHU.

In step S14, when the part of speech is not a place name / person name of a noun, candidates having the same Romanized notation are combined into one Japanese keyword display candidate. However, for example, as described on the right side, in the case of Nagano NAGANO Nagano NAGANO, the Romanized notation is the same, but since it is a noun place name / person name, it is not summarized as one Japanese keyword.

In step S15, each Japanese keyword candidate is translated into English. For example, as described on the right side, Japanese keywords are translated into English as follows. -Wine wine-Wine wine, vino-Budo wine, vino S16 combines Japanese keyword candidates having the same English translation into one Japanese keyword display candidate. For example, S1
The five Japanese keywords "grape wine" and "budo liquor" are translated into "wine" and "vino" when translated into English. (Decide) with keywords.

In step S17, display candidates for the Japanese keyword are displayed. This is because when the English keyword is translated and converted to Romanized notation in S14, the same keyword is displayed as a Japanese keyword display candidate, and a plurality of translated Japanese keywords are translated into English (reverse translation). When they are equal, they are determined to be Japanese keyword display candidates collectively and displayed.

At S18, a Japanese keyword is selected and input from the plurality of Japanese keywords displayed at S17. For example, as described on the right side, a Japanese keyword “grape” is selected and input.

In step S19, a Japanese keyword is extracted from the Japanese keyword display candidates. For example, when the Japanese keyword display candidate “grape” is selected in S18,
Other Japanese keywords that were decided to be summarized here, for example: ・ "Grape" (summarized in S14) ・ "Budo" (summarized in S16) ・ "Grape" (summarized in S14) ・ " Take out the wine (collected in S14).

In step S20, the search condition of each Japanese keyword is set to OR. In step S21, a target document is searched by matching Japanese keywords with search conditions. S22 is S2
1 is displayed.

As described above, when an English keyword (for example, "wine") is input, a translated Japanese keyword (for example, "wine", "grape", budo), "grape", "grape" )) Is converted to the Romanized notation, and the same is converted to English. Then, the Japanese keywords which are converted back to English and are equal to the original English keyword (“wine”) are collected. Translated Japan by searching for the target document with OR conditions when searching for wine, "Budo", "Vine", and "Vine", and displaying the OR search results. It is possible to eliminate search omissions due to fluctuations in word notation.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a table according to the present invention. This is a table for determining which of the translated Japanese keywords is to be used. In the same display No. column, the number "0"
Is set, it indicates that the Japanese keyword is used as it is, and if the number “other than 0” is set, the Japanese keyword of No equal to the set number is collected as a synonym. To use Japanese keywords for search. For example, if the Japanese keyword obtained by translating the English keyword is “Wine”, there is no other display No. “1”, so that the search is performed using “Wine” as the Japanese keyword. On the other hand, when the Japanese keyword obtained by translating the English keyword is “grape”, the display No. is “2”, and thus “2” is set in the same display No. column. No. 3 “Budo”, no. 4
No. OR search is performed on all of them as synonyms with the "grape" of No. 5 to eliminate search omissions due to fluctuations in Japanese notation and the presence or absence of long sounds.

FIGS. 5 and 6 show display examples of the present invention. FIG. 5A shows an example of inputting an English keyword. Here, when an English keyword "wine" is key-input in the illustrated Keyword field and the Search button is pressed, the screen changes to the screen in FIG. 5B.

FIG. 5B shows an example of a Japanese translation selection screen. This is because the English keyword "wine" input in FIG. 5 (a) and the Japanese keywords obtained by translating the keyword "wine", "wine wine", and "vino" are displayed. , For example, "Grape".

FIG. 5C shows an example of Roman character display. This is an example in which each Japanese keyword shown in FIG. 5B is displayed in Roman alphabet notation as shown below. -WAIN wine-BUDOUSHU wine, vino Although (b) and (c) in FIG. 5 are displayed on the screen for convenience of explanation of the operation, when a user actually uses the present invention, (B) in FIG. The Japanese translation selection screen of FIG. 6D may be displayed directly from the input screen of a).

FIG. 6D shows an example of Japanese translation selection. Here, a state is shown in which, for example, "grape" is selected from among the translated Japanese keyword candidates displayed on the screen. In response to this selection, as described above, those that became the same in Roman alphabet notation and those that were translated into English and became the same as the original English keywords were put together, as described above, ・ wine ・Search for the target document for Budo liquor, wine, and wine using OR conditions. The search result is displayed, for example, as shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 6 (d), an English keyword is inputted from the screen by a key, a Japanese keyword translated into Japanese is written in Roman alphabet, and the same one is put together. (B) of FIG.
Is displayed automatically on the screen as shown below, and when a Japanese keyword is selected from this screen, the target document is searched using the OR condition as an OR condition, and the presence or absence of fluctuations and long sounds in Japanese notation It is possible to perform a search without any loss even if the information is absorbed.

FIG. 7 shows a search example of the present invention. FIG. 7A shows an example of a search command. Here, WWW
As shown in the search command shown on the browser screen,
When the Japanese keyword "wine" translated when the above-mentioned English keyword "wine" is keyed in is selected, and its reading is written in Roman characters, the same is put together, and further translated back And, as a result, as described in the search command: wine + or + budo + or + wine + or +
The search is performed from the target document under the OR condition of wine, and the result is displayed as shown in the lower part of the screen of FIG. 7B.

FIG. 7B shows an example in which search results are displayed on a screen. Here, in the middle of the screen, the searched keyword, the number of hits searched, and the number of displayed items are shown as shown in the figure. ・ Keyword: wine OR budo liquor OR wine OR
Wine ・ Number of hits: 359 ・ Number of displayed: 20 (1-20) The lower row shows the display number of the hit. Display part of 1 and 2.

As described above, when the English keyword "wine" is key-inputted on the screens shown in FIGS. Is the same when
And when the reverse translation is made, the same thing is put together and the keyword “Grape OR Budo Sake OR Wine OR Wine” is created and searched, and the number of hits and the number of displayed cases are displayed, and the English keyword is displayed. It becomes possible to perform a search without any loss even if the fluctuation of the Japanese reading notation and the presence or absence of a long tone when translated into Japanese keywords are absorbed.

[0044]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Translate foreign keywords into Japanese and convert them to romaji, include the same in the same keyword to absorb differences in notation, and reverse translate multiple Japanese keywords into foreign languages and use the same for the same keyword And OR these
Since a search configuration is employed, it is possible to perform a search without any leakage that absorbs fluctuations in Japanese notation and the presence or absence of long sounds when a foreign language keyword is translated into a Japanese keyword.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an example of a table according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a display example (1) of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a display example (2) of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a search example of the present invention.

[Explanation of Signs] 1: Processing unit 2: Input unit 3: Translation unit 4: Conversion unit 5: Search unit 6: Dictionary 7: Display unit 8: Input unit

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A search device for searching Japanese language based on a foreign language keyword, means for translating the foreign language keyword into a Japanese keyword, and converting the translated Japanese keyword into a Roman alphabet. Means for converting, means for determining the same keyword in which the converted keywords have the same Roman alphabet notation as the same keyword, means for performing an OR search for a target document with respect to the Japanese keyword determined as the same keyword A retrieval device comprising: 2. A search device for searching Japanese language based on a foreign language keyword, a means for translating a foreign language keyword into a Japanese keyword, and converting the translated Japanese keyword into Roman characters. Means for converting, means for determining the same keyword in Roman alphabet notation after the conversion as the same keyword, and reverse translation of the plurality of translated Japanese keywords to determine the same as the same keyword And a means for performing an OR search for a target document with respect to the same keyword and the determined Japanese keyword. 3. When there are a plurality of Japanese keywords determined in claim 1 or 2, a plurality of candidates for the Japanese keywords are displayed and the same keyword as the selected Japanese keyword is displayed. A search device characterized by performing an OR search for a target document for the determined Japanese keyword. 4. A means for translating a keyword in a foreign language into a Japanese keyword, a means for converting a plurality of translated Japanese keywords into a Roman notation, and wherein the converted keyword has the same Roman notation And a computer-readable recording medium storing a program for functioning as a means for performing an OR search for a target document with respect to the Japanese keyword determined as the same keyword. 5. A means for translating a foreign language keyword into a Japanese keyword, a means for converting a plurality of translated Japanese keywords into a Roman alphabet notation, and wherein the converted keyword has the same Roman alphabet notation. Means for determining the same keyword as the same keyword; means for reverse translating the plurality of translated Japanese keywords and determining the same as the same keyword; And a computer-readable recording medium storing a program that functions as a means for performing an OR search for a target document.