JP2002049561A - Electronic bulletin board system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To publish a document by dividing the document into words and converting the words into proper words and phrases so as to solve the problem that an electronic bulletin board system sometimes has improper expressions or is hard for a browsing person to read a message on an electronic bulletin board since a writer's document is posted without inspecting whether the message is proper for publication so far. SOLUTION: The electronic bulletin board system divides a message to be posted which is sent from a user computer C into words by using a Japanese dictionary 50, detects the respective words from a conversion object vocabulary 30 in the form of an arbitrary database according to past data, etc., and converts them into proper words by using a conversion correspondence vocabulary 40 in the form of an arbitrary database so that they are published. A system which makes it possible to easily raise an objection if the message is improperly converted is provided in each message bulletin field.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system for writing text such as an electronic bulletin board system operated on a network or the like, and to an information processing technique for automatically converting a defect in the content of a message to be written.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Many electronic bulletin board systems are used in the world of the Internet. The electronic bulletin board system is operated by a server computer managed by a business operator. The server computer stores and manages messages sent through the network in a database, and provides the contents of the database to connecting user computers. . In addition, regarding the posted messages, finding an inappropriate message often requires actually looking at it with human eyes, which required considerable effort.

[0003]

At present, messages posted on an electronic bulletin board are managed by a system in which an administrator actually looks at them or searches for a specific word and deletes each message. The problem to be solved by the present invention is to reduce the effort of managing messages to be posted by automatically converting inappropriate words into appropriate words.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, an inapplicable word which has been incorrectly used by a writer is automatically converted into an appropriate word, so that a viewer can easily understand the word, and It provides an electronic bulletin board system that makes it easy for users to manage messages. Also, the system is provided with a system that can easily report a complaint to the manager in the event that the creator or the reader determines that the message is inappropriately converted.

[0005]

According to the present invention, there is provided an electronic bulletin board system in which a sentence of a message to be posted is divided into words using a Japanese language dictionary 50, and each word is arbitrarily converted into a database. A system (automatic word conversion system) that performs a check against the glossary 30 and converts words corresponding to the conversion target glossary 30 into appropriate words from a conversion-compatible glossary 40 arbitrarily made into a database;
The system has a system for notifying the administrator of the electronic bulletin board system of the message and word converted by the automatic word conversion system on the electronic bulletin board for management. An electronic bulletin board system comprising a system for easily reporting a claim to a bulletin board system administrator.
In order to achieve this object, an electronic bulletin board system according to the present invention includes the following requirements (1) to (9). (1) A server computer that communicates with a user computer via a network, and mediates information exchange between the user computers by an electronic bulletin board function. (2) Transmit a message registration screen in response to a request from the user computer. (3) The information written on the message registration screen by the publication applicant is acquired from the user computer. (4) For the message desired to be posted on the electronic bulletin board out of the information entered on the message registration screen, the sentence is divided into words using a Japanese language dictionary, and is inspected against the glossary for conversion. (5) In the glossary for conversion, terms that have been selected in advance as being inappropriate to be posted on an electronic bulletin board are registered. (6) If the message desired to be published does not include a term of conversion target term concentration, the message is registered on the electronic bulletin board. (7) When the message to be published includes a term that is concentrated on the conversion target term, an appropriate word corresponding to the word is detected from the conversion corresponding glossary, and the message is automatically converted. (8) In the glossary for conversion, terms corresponding to the respective terms to be converted are registered in advance. (9) In response to the posted message, the viewer can easily report a complaint to the administrator of the electronic bulletin board system.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS <Explanation of Structure and Terms of Electronic Bulletin Board System> FIG. 1 shows the structure of an electronic bulletin board system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of Terms> [Server Computer S]: A computer that supervises and manages the entire electronic bulletin board system. It connects to the Internet and functions as a WWW server 10 and an e-mail server. [User computer C]: Computers scattered all over the wide area operated by the user and connected to the Internet. The user registers and browses the message using the user computer. [Administrator computer M] Server computer S
It is a computer that performs maintenance of the software running on it. [Electronic bulletin board 20]... This is a database managed by the database management system DBMS on the server computer S, and stores messages sent from users.

[Conversion terminology list 30] is a database managed by the database management system DBMS on the server computer S, and terms previously selected by the operation manager as inappropriate to be posted on an electronic bulletin board Is registered.

[Glossary for Conversion 40] A database managed by the database management system DBMS on the server computer S, and terms corresponding to the respective terms of the Glossary 30 for conversion selected by the operation manager in advance are stored. It is registered.

[Japanese dictionary 50] A database managed by a DBMS, which is used when dividing the text of a message to be published into words, and when maintaining the glossary 30 to be changed and the glossary 40 for conversion.

[Thesaurus 60] A database managed by a DBMS, which is used when maintaining the conversion target glossary 30 and the conversion corresponding glossary 40.

[Posting desired message]: A message that the user desires to post on the electronic bulletin board. The message you want to publish here includes the message body, title,
All information published on the electronic bulletin board such as a handle name (pen name) is included.

[Electronic bulletin board for administrator] ... An electronic bulletin board to which only an administrator has been given operation authority so that the administrator of the electronic bulletin board can smoothly manage messages and various information. Synchronized with the normal electronic bulletin board system, enabling real-time work.

=== Registration Processing of Posting Desired Message ==
= FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the flow of a message registration process for posting a message on an electronic bulletin board. Hereinafter, description will be made according to this flowchart.

<Sending a Message> A user who wants to post a message on an electronic bulletin board first connects the user's computer to the Internet, and enters a URL (Uniform Resource Lo) on a posting desired message registration screen.
cat.). When both are connected, the server computer S sends a posting request message registration screen to the user computer C. On this screen, three entry fields of “handle name”, “title”, and “body” are prepared as entry entry message entry fields.
Also, below the entry fields, “Write” and “Reset”
There are two buttons. When predetermined items are entered in these entry fields and a "write" button is clicked, the screen information after the entry request message is returned to the server computer S side.

<Term Check by Matching Conversion Target Glossary> The server computer S extracts a message desired by the user from the returned screen information and inserts the sentence into words using the Japanese dictionary 50. Divided into
A check is made to determine whether the message desired to be posted includes a term registered in the conversion target glossary 30. As a result of the investigation, when a term in the conversion target glossary 30 is included, a term corresponding to the term is detected from the conversion corresponding glossary 40, and the posted message is converted and posted on the electronic bulletin board.

=== Maintenance of Glossary === Maintenance of the glossary 30 for conversion and the glossary 40 for conversion are performed by the administrator computer M. Hereinafter, the maintenance of the conversion target glossary 30 and the conversion corresponding glossary 40 will be described.

<Registration of terms> Management computer M
Glossary maintenance software is running. The maintenance software displays a menu screen on the display of the administrator computer M and waits for an operation instruction from the administrator.

When the manager clicks the "term registration" button on the menu screen, a term registration screen is provided which has a column for entering a term to be registered. After the administrator inputs the conversion target term to be registered in this term entry field and then clicks the “register” button provided on this screen, the maintenance software registers this term in the conversion target glossary 30 already. Find out if it is.
If there is no registration in the conversion target glossary 30, the maintenance software displays a registration screen of the conversion corresponding glossary 40. On the other hand, if this term has already been registered in the conversion target glossary 30, a message "already registered" is displayed on the display.

On the registration screen of the conversion-capable glossary 40 displayed by the maintenance software, first enter the conversion-compatible term corresponding to the conversion target term in the entry field, and then click the “Registration” button provided on this screen. When clicked, it is registered in the conversion corresponding glossary 40.

Next, the maintenance software displays a synonym list screen in which words similar to the term are picked up from the synonym dictionary 60 and summarized in a list format. Next to each synonym arranged on the screen, a “register” button is prepared for each synonym.
When the administrator selects a synonym to be registered from the synonym list screen and clicks a “register” button corresponding to the synonym, the synonym is registered in the conversion target glossary 30. However, as the conversion corresponding term corresponding to the term, the conversion corresponding term of the original term is registered. At this time, it is checked whether or not the same term as the synonym has already been registered in the conversion target glossary 30 as in the case of the above-described registration of the term. Is newly registered in the glossary 30 for conversion. If the same term as this synonym has already been registered in the conversion target glossary 30, a message "already registered" is displayed on the display.

<Delete Term> Clicking the "Delete Term" button on the menu screen displays a term deletion screen. On this screen, a list of terms currently registered in the conversion target glossary 30 is arranged and displayed in alphabetical order.
At this time, when the user operates a scroll bar provided at the end of the screen, the screen scrolls, so that a part that cannot be displayed on the screen can be referred to. When an appropriate search keyword is entered in a search term entry field on this screen, a term list in which terms corresponding to the keyword are rearranged in alphabetical order at the top is displayed. Here, a “delete” button corresponding to each term is provided next to each term. When the administrator clicks a “delete” button corresponding to a term to be deleted, the term is deleted from the conversion target glossary 30. Further, the conversion corresponding term corresponding to the term is also deleted from the conversion corresponding glossary 40.

=== Browsing of Messages Posted on Electronic Bulletin Board === A user who wants to browse the electronic bulletin board connects the user computer C to the Internet and sends out the URL of the electronic bulletin board browsing screen. When both are connected, the electronic bulletin board browsing screen is sent from the server computer S.
The user can use the "title list" provided on this screen
When the button is clicked, a command for requesting the title list screen from the user computer C to the server computer S is transmitted. The server computer S receives this command, refers to the electronic bulletin board 20, and returns a title list screen on which a list of message titles arranged in order from the newest one is posted to the user computer C. When the user clicks on a certain title in the transmitted title list screen, a command for requesting the message body screen from the user computer C to the server computer S is transmitted. In response to this command, the server computer S returns a message body screen in which a message corresponding to the title is described to the user computer C.

At the top of the message body screen, two buttons, "previous article" and "next article" are provided.
By clicking these buttons, the user can browse the messages registered in the electronic bulletin board 20 in a chronological order of registration. At the bottom of the message body screen, a "Reply" button, a "Delete" button and a "Dispute" button are provided. When the user clicks the "reply" button, the server computer S sends a screen for registering a reply message to this message. The user can register a reply message on this screen in the same manner as when registering the publication request message described above.

On the other hand, when the user clicks the "delete" button, a password authentication screen for confirming the identity of the user who registered the message is displayed on the server computer S.
Sent from. The user enters a formal password notified in advance and sends this screen to the server computer S. When the password authentication screen is sent from the user computer C, the server computer S verifies whether the password is legitimate. If you confirm that your password is legitimate,
The message is deleted from the electronic bulletin board 20.

When the user clicks the "objection" button, the server computer S sends a screen for registering a reply message to this message. The user can register the objection message on this screen in the same manner as when registering the publication request message described above. However, this message is posted only on the electronic bulletin board for the administrator.

=== Other Applications === <Database Configuration> Databases such as the electronic bulletin board 20, the glossary for conversion 30, the glossary for conversion 40, the Japanese dictionary 50, and the thesaurus 60 operate independently. The database management system may be configured to be managed by a single database management system, or all the databases may be managed by one database management system as in the above-described embodiment.

<Configuration of Server Computer S and Administrator Computer M> The server computer S and the administrator computer M do not need to be independent single computers, but are composed of a plurality of computers connected by a LAN or the like. May be performed. In this case, the database and the database management system are preferably arranged in an optimal state in consideration of the performance and cost of the entire system.

<Network Form Other than Internet> The electronic bulletin board system described above operates on the Internet, but the present invention is also applied to an electronic bulletin board system operating in another network form such as personal computer communication. be able to. Applicability of the present invention does not depend on the type of network configuration.

<How to Use Synonym Dictionary> As in the above-described embodiment, instead of searching for a synonym at the time of registering a term and registering a synonym in the conversion-target glossary 30 or the conversion-compatible glossary 40, it is desired to publish it. When examining the contents of the message, synonyms of terms registered in the conversion target glossary 30 or the conversion corresponding glossary 40 may be checked. In this way, there is no need to register synonyms in the glossary, and the storage area of the database for the conversion-target glossary 30 and the conversion-compatible glossary 40 is also saved.

[0031]

According to the electronic bulletin board system of the present invention, it is automatically checked whether a word that is inappropriate to be included is included in a message desiring to be inserted and is changed.
It is possible to operate the electronic bulletin board without giving the viewer any discomfort. In addition, when the automatically converted message is not appropriate for the writer or the viewer, the objection can be easily notified to the administrator. By accumulating these data, the automatic word conversion system is updated to a more accurate system.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of an electronic bulletin board system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of a registration process of a publication request message according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 S server computer C user computer M administrator computer DBMS database management system 10 WWW server 20 electronic bulletin board 30 glossary to be changed 40 glossary for change 50 Japanese dictionary 60 Thesaurus

Claims (3)

[Claims] In an electronic bulletin board system, a sentence of a message to be posted is divided into words using a Japanese language dictionary 50, and each word is checked against a conversion target glossary 30 arbitrarily made into a database. Glossary of terms for conversion 30
An electronic bulletin board system provided with a system (automatic word conversion system) for converting words corresponding to the above into an appropriate word from a conversion corresponding glossary 40 arbitrarily made into a database. 2. An electronic system comprising: a system for notifying an administrator of an electronic bulletin board system that a message and a word converted by the automatic word conversion system according to claim 1 have been converted by an electronic bulletin board for management. Bulletin board system. 3. An electronic bulletin board system having a system in which a reader can easily report a complaint to a manager of the electronic bulletin board system for a posted message.