JP2002014953A - Web document customizing server partially converting kanji (chinese character) in web document designated by client in to kana (japanese syllable) corresponding to desire of client and delivering it to computer of client - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To partially convert KANJI in Web document designated by a client to KANA corresponding to his desire to provide it to the client. SOLUTION: This server is provided with a KANJI table contrasting a group of KANJIs which have to be converted to KANA and the reading of the KANJIs by each KANJI reading ability level, a retrieving means for investigating whether or not a KANJI selected as a converting object from this KANJI table is included in the Web document, a reading estimation means for estimating the reading of the KANJI from the front/rear relation of a sentence including the KANJI when the converting-object KANJI is included in the Web document, a KANJI/KANA conversion means for converting the KANJI in the Web document in to KANA in accordance with the reading of the KANJI estimated by this means. Then, data for the personal identification of the client and data on the KANJI reading ability level are obtained and the Web document designated by the client is obtained to process KANA/KANJI conversion to transmit it to the client.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a Web document customization server for partially converting Chinese characters in a Web document specified by a client to hiragana according to the request of the client and sending the converted characters to a client computer. The present invention also relates to a server that manages individual information transmitted by each client in a database, and partially converts Chinese characters included in a Web document to hiragana for each client individually based on the information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A typical form of use of the Internet is a variety of Web servers exhibited by many Web servers.
This means visualizing and viewing an eb document by a browser of a user computer (client). Web documents are mainly text-based HTML data, and hyperlinks (links) to various data such as images and sounds are set and described in the documents. When the HTML data is sent from the Web server, the browser visualizes the text data in the document and inserts various data obtained from a predetermined data storage location into the document according to the link to visualize the entire Web document.

[0003]

[0005] There are a wide variety of Internet users regardless of age or gender. Recently, the Internet has begun to be used in educational sites such as schools, and there are many opportunities for young children to browse Web documents. However, focusing on the Japanese text, which is the subject of the Web document, it can be understood that the Web document other than the Web document published for children is not suitable for browsing by children. That is, the text that is the subject of the Web document is usually a mixture of common-sense kana kanji, and therefore contains many kanji that cannot be read depending on the age of the viewer. For this reason, the use of Web documents as educational materials naturally imposes age restrictions, and the Internet cannot be fully utilized for education.

Certainly, there is software that converts kanji into hiragana by judging the Japanese context or syllabary. And it would be possible to incorporate that software into the client's browser. However, the software is sophisticated and large, and it is not reasonable to install it on individual clients. Also, even if such advanced software is installed on the client,
The more sophisticated it is, the more difficult it becomes to use. Assuming that the user is young, the high functionality will be rarely used in practice.

Accordingly, the present invention is intended for a person who does not have any technical knowledge about the description mechanism of a Web document in a markup language, and converts the kanji in the Web document designated by the client to the client. W to partially convert to hiragana and deliver to client computer as desired
It aims to provide an eb document customization server.

[0006]

The first invention for achieving the above object satisfies the following specified items (1) to (5). (1) A computer that is connected to the Internet and appropriately performs HTTP communication with a client computer equipped with a Web server or a Web browser displaying a Web document, and is capable of transmitting kanji in the Web document specified by the client. This is a Web document customization server that partially converts it to hiragana according to the request of the client and delivers it to the client computer. (2) A kanji table listing the kanji to be converted for each kanji reading level, and a kanji selected from the kanji table as a conversion target is a Web page to be customized.
Searching means for checking whether or not the kanji is included in the document, and reading estimation for estimating the reading of the kanji from the context of the sentence including the kanji when a certain kanji to be converted is included in the Web document Means, and kanji-kana conversion means for converting the kanji of the Web document into hiragana according to the reading of the kanji estimated by the means. (3) Communicate with the accessing client computer,
Acquire the client's personal authentication data and the client's kanji reading comprehension data and manage them as a client information database. (4) Communicate with the accessing client computer,
The location of the Web document to receive the customization service is received, and the Web document corresponding to the location is communicated to acquire the specified Web document. (5) When a Web document a designated by a certain client A is obtained, the Web document a is obtained from the Chinese character table based on the data on the Chinese character reading comprehension level associated with the client A in the client information database. A kanji to be converted is selected, and the search unit, the reading estimation unit, and the kanji kana conversion unit perform Web conversion.
The document a is processed, and the processed Web document is delivered to the client A's computer.

[0007] A second aspect of the present invention relates to the first aspect of the present invention.
An eb document customization server, wherein the kanji table has the kanji reading level set for each school year, and obtains the client's grade as data relating to the client's kanji reading level and obtains the data. It was decided to manage it as a client information database.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS === Configuration of Web Document Customizing Server === A Web document customizing server (hereinafter referred to as a customizing server) of the present invention uses a computer of a user (client) registered as a service receiver. The specified Web
A document customizing service is provided in which kanji in a document is partially converted to hiragana according to the request of the client and delivered to the client computer. FIG. 1 shows a network configuration diagram including a customization server according to an embodiment of the present invention. Various computers such as a customization server 1, a client computer 10, and a WWW server 20 are connected to the Internet.

<Database> In this embodiment, the customization server 1 includes a computer main body 2, various databases 3 to 5, a router 6, and the like, and basically functions as a WWW server. That is, various data provided for the WWW server function in the content database 3, an HTML document constituting a Web page, image data and audio data inserted into the document, and CG
A Web page is sent to a browser of a computer (client) of a user who accesses the computer by designating a URL, or launching a program such as a CGI designated by the URL and processing results. Is returned to the browser in a Web page format.

[0010] Furthermore, a kanji kana for converting the kanji in the document into hiragana by estimating the reading of the kanji in the sentence from the context before and after is provided with two databases, a kanji table 4 and a client information database 5. The conversion software is installed, and the database and the software work together with the WWW server function to provide a document customization service.

FIGS. 2A and 2B show a schematic configuration of a kanji table and a client information database in this embodiment, respectively. The kanji table is data for associating a predetermined kanji group with a predetermined kanji reading level.
A plurality of levels are set as the kanji reading level, and kanji to be converted into hiragana is listed for each level. In addition, all readings are attached to each kanji. The client information database stores personal authentication data for each client and data on kanji reading comprehension level (reading comprehension-related data) in association with each other. In this embodiment, each grade of the school is set as the kanji reading level, and the kanji table associates each grade with the kanji to be converted to Hiragana. Of course, each school year may be associated with a kanji that is not converted to hiragana, and a table configuration may be made in which other kanji are converted.

=== Flow of Document Customization Service =
== FIG. 3 shows the flow of the document customization service in this embodiment. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the document customizing service is a member-based service, the client is registered in advance as a member, and authentication data using a member ID and a password is provided. The membership registration procedure is the same as that of a general membership-based website. The registration procedure is as follows: a web page for the membership registration page is obtained through an HTTP request / response, and required items are filled in and returned. Is performed.
Of course, it is also possible to make it possible to register as a member at the same time as applying for the service.

<Service Application Procedure> The browser of the client computer 10 specifies a predetermined URL and obtains a service application form from the customization server 1 (s1, s2). This form is provided with an entry column for authentication data (member ID and password) and an entry column for the grade of the client. When the requester computer returns a form in which required items are entered in predetermined fields (s3), the customization server 1 receives the form, associates the authentication data with the grade, and stores it in the requester information database. (S4).

<Designation of Web Page> According to a request from the client computer, a Web document of the service window is sent (s5, s6). This page includes an input field for authentication data (member ID and password) and a URL input field for a Web document that the client wishes to view. The customization server 1 fills in the authentication data and the URL on the client computer and, when this window page is returned, receives it (s7).

<Kanji-Kana conversion process> Searches the client information database to obtain the client's grade associated with the authentication data entered on the contact page (s
8) Access a predetermined WWW server 20 according to the entered URL and obtain a predetermined Web document (s9, s10). Next, the client's grade and the text data of the document are provided to the kanji kana conversion software. This software identifies the kanji associated with the grade from the given text data by referring to the kanji table, and estimates the reading of the kanji based on the context before and after the corresponding kanji and the sentence. Then, the corresponding kanji is converted into its reading hiragana. Thereby, a Web document in which the kanji in the obtained Web document is partially converted into Hiragana is created (s11). And
The created Web document is sent to the client computer 10 (s12).

=== Other Embodiments === In the above embodiment, the grade is specified as a parameter as the kanji reading comprehension level, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the ratio of kanji to all characters in the document may be specified. Then, the order of each kanji is set based on the order of learning kanji at school, etc., and among the kanji included in the document, the kanji with the highest rank is converted to hiragana so that the desired ratio is obtained. Adjust it. Of course, unreadable kanji may be directly specified.

In the above embodiment, even if another Web document is obtained by following the link in the Web document obtained via the customization server, it is easy to convert the kanji in the document to Hiragana. That is, the customization server may replace the link setting location in the document with the URL of the link destination, and use the URL as an argument to activate a program for executing the Kanji-Kana conversion process. As a result, even when another document is ordered by a link, the document in which a part of the kanji is converted into hiragana is delivered to the client computer.

[0018]

According to the document customizing server of the present invention, kanji is partially converted to hiragana in accordance with the client's kanji reading comprehension of the Web document, and the converted document is delivered to the client computer. Can be. for that reason,
It is possible to easily read more Web documents without depending on age and language skills, and it can be expected to have an effect of, for example, promoting the use of the Internet in educational settings.

Moreover, since no sophisticated Kanji-Kana conversion software is installed on the client computer, a person who is not familiar with the operation of the computer can customize the document.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 shows a network configuration diagram including a document customization server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 shows a schematic configuration diagram of a database attached to the embodiment. (A) shows the structure of the kanji table.
(B) shows the configuration of the client information database.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing a flow of a document customizing service provided in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Customization server 4 Kanji table 5 Client information database 10 Client computer 20 WWW server

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. The invention specified by the following items (1) to (5). (1) A computer that is connected to the Internet and appropriately performs HTTP communication with a client computer equipped with a Web server or a Web browser displaying a Web document, and is capable of transmitting kanji in the Web document specified by the client. This is a Web document customization server that partially converts it to hiragana according to the request of the client and delivers it to the client computer. (2) A kanji table listing the kanji to be converted for each kanji reading level, and a kanji selected from the kanji table as a conversion target is a Web page to be customized.
Searching means for checking whether or not the kanji is included in the document, and reading estimation for estimating the reading of the kanji from the context of the sentence including the kanji when a certain kanji to be converted is included in the Web document Means, and kanji-kana conversion means for converting the kanji of the Web document into hiragana according to the reading of the kanji estimated by the means. (3) Communicate with the accessing client computer,
Acquire the client's personal authentication data and the client's kanji reading comprehension data and manage them as a client information database. (4) Communicate with the accessing client computer,
The location of the Web document to receive the customization service is received, and the Web document corresponding to the location is communicated to acquire the specified Web document. (5) When a Web document a designated by a certain client A is obtained, the Web document a is obtained from the Chinese character table based on the data on the Chinese character reading comprehension level associated with the client A in the client information database. A kanji to be converted is selected, and the search unit, the reading estimation unit, and the kanji kana conversion unit perform Web conversion.
The document a is processed, and the processed Web document is delivered to the client A's computer. 2. The Web document customization server according to claim 1, wherein the kanji table has the kanji reading skill level set for each school year, and the client's grade is set to the client's kanji. It is characterized in that it is obtained as data relating to a reading comprehension level and is managed as a client information database.