JP2007193849A - Kana (japanese syllabary)/kanji (chinese character) conversion system and method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reconvert chinese characters into different homophonic chinese characters of a plurality of pronunciations when the chinese characters have a plurality of pronunciations. <P>SOLUTION: In the Kana (Japanese syllabary)/Kanji (Chinse character) conversion system, a cursor is placed on a clause "seigi" to be reconverted and a reconversion key (this may be the same as a conversion key) is pressed. The cursor may be placed just proceeding the clause to be reconverted. Then, the target clause 20 is reconverted and resulted homophonic conversion candidates are displayed as a list 22. However, in the case of clause "seigi", as the probability of a pronunciation "seigi" is high, conversion candidates for the pronunciation "seigi" are displayed as a pronunciation 24 and "masayoshi" which is an actual target is not included in the list of conversion candidates. In such a case, if an inverse triangle is displayed, a list 26 including all pronunciations for a clause "seigiwa" can be displayed by clicking right or left of the pronunciation 24. When a pronunciation is selected, conversion candidates for the pronunciation are displayed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to kana-kanji conversion technology used for inputting Japanese into a computer system, and more particularly to re-conversion after kana-kanji conversion.

  In conventional Kana-Kanji conversion, when inputting Kana characters, the keyed characters are transferred from the application program to the Kana-Kanji, converted to Kanji, converted, and confirmed (after exiting from Kana-Kanji conversion). The conversion can only be “definite undo”.

  This final undo will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 11A shows an example in which a kana character (“Kan-no-Kanehaha”) is input. An application program such as a word processor passes the input key input to Kana-Kanji conversion and performs Kana-Kanji conversion by pressing the conversion key when characters that are converted in Roman characters are input. An example of the conversion is shown in FIG.

  FIG. 11B shows an example in which “return process is returned”. “Return” is the focus of attention. The underlined portion has not yet been determined, indicating that it is possible to change the conversion candidate homophone word or phrase break. When the confirm key is pressed in this state, the underline disappears as shown in FIG. 11C, indicating that the character string is confirmed. At this time, when the cursor movement or character input has not been performed yet, a final undo key operation (for example, an operation of pressing the backspace key while pressing the control key) is performed as shown in FIG. As in (d), the state before return similar to FIG. 11 (b) is restored.

  Here, when the conversion key is pressed again for the attention phrase (“returned”), the next candidate of the phrase is displayed. This state is shown in FIG. If this is the desired Chinese character, the desired character can be input as shown in FIG. 11 (f) by pressing the enter key again.

  As described above, since the final undo is performed when the cursor is not moved or a character is not input, it is not possible to freely correct the erroneously converted character.

  It is an object of the present invention to be able to reconvert freely. In addition, when re-converting kanji, if there are multiple ways of reading kanji, it is desirable that conversion is possible for the same-tone different characters for the multiple readings. This is one of the objects of the present invention.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention of claim 1 has a display means and a designation means, and designates the first character string after confirmation displayed on the display screen of the display means by the designation means. In the kana-kanji conversion system for converting to another second character string and displaying it on the display screen,
As a candidate for the second character string, a third character string is displayed in the first display area on the display screen, and a graphic indicating that there is a reading of the confirmed character string and another reading First display control means for displaying in the first display area;
When the figure in the previous SL first display area is specified, the second display control means for displaying a plurality of readings for the first character string in the second display area on the display screen When,
When a reading in the second display area is designated by the designation means, a fourth character string is used as a candidate for reconversion corresponding to the designated reading, instead of the third character string. 3rd display control means to display on,
Confirmation instruction means for instructing confirmation of reconversion for the character string designated by the designation means;
When one of the third character strings displayed in the first display area is designated by the designation means and confirmation is instructed by the confirmation instruction means, the designated third character string Is displayed instead of the first character string, one of the fourth character strings displayed in the first display area is designated by the designation means, and confirmation is instructed by the confirmation instruction means. In such a case, a fourth display control means for displaying the designated fourth character string instead of the first character string is provided.

  The invention of claim 2 is characterized in that the character string designated by the designation means is highlighted.

  The invention of claim 3 is characterized in that the first display area and the second display area are close to each other.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided display means and designation means, the first character string after confirmation displayed on the display screen of the display means is designated by the designation means, and another second character is designated. In the method of the kana-kanji conversion system for converting into columns and displaying on the display screen, the kana-kanji conversion system includes first display control means, second display control means, third display control means, and fourth display control means And a confirmation instruction means,
The first display control means displays a third character string as a candidate for the second character string in the first display area on the display screen, reads the character string after the confirmation, and other A first display control step for displaying a graphic indicating that a reading exists in the first display area;
When the figure in the previous SL first display area is specified, a plurality of readings for the first character string in the second display area of the display on the screen by the second display control means A second display control step for displaying;
When a reading in the second display area is designated by the designation means, a fourth character string is used as a candidate for reconversion corresponding to the designated reading, instead of the third character string. A third display control step of displaying by the third display control means;
A confirmation instruction step for instructing confirmation of reconversion for the character string designated by the designation means by the confirmation instruction means;
When one of the third character strings displayed in the first display area is designated by the designation means and confirmation is instructed by the confirmation instruction means, the designated third character string Is displayed by the fourth display control means instead of the first character string, one of the fourth character strings displayed in the first display area is designated by the designation means, and A fourth display control step of displaying the designated fourth character string by the fourth display control means instead of the first character string when confirmation is instructed by the confirmation instruction means; It is provided with.

  The invention according to claim 5 is characterized in that the character string designated by the designation means is highlighted.

  The invention according to claim 6 is characterized in that the first display area and the second display area are close to each other.

In the present invention, the first display control means displays a third character string as a candidate for the second character string in the first display area on the display screen, and the character string after the confirmation is displayed. A graphic indicating that readings and other readings are present is displayed in the first display area, and when the graphic in the first display area is designated, a plurality of the first character strings are displayed. Is displayed in the second display area on the display screen by the second display control means, and when the reading in the second display area is designated by the designation means, the designated reading is displayed. The fourth character string is displayed by the third display control means instead of the third character string as a candidate for re-conversion corresponding to the third character string displayed in the first display area. One of the strings is specified by the specifying means and the When the confirmation is instructed by the fixed instruction means, the designated third character string is displayed by the fourth display control means instead of the first character string, and the first display area When one of the fourth character strings displayed on the screen is designated by the designation means and confirmation is instructed by the confirmation instruction means, the designated fourth character string is changed to the first character string. Kana-Kanji conversion using the first display area for displaying conversion candidates and the graphic and the second display area for displaying readings for display by the fourth display control means instead of the character string After performing the determination, re-conversion can be performed at any time to obtain other conversion candidate characters, which facilitates correction of erroneous conversion. In addition, even if there are a plurality of readings, conversion for each reading can be performed, so that erroneous conversion can be reliably corrected.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  1 to 8 show examples of screen display as a user interface when reconversion of the present invention is performed.

  FIG. 1 shows a state after inputting and confirming a sentence “Such justice is a person with a strong sense of justice”. Here, I realized that "justice" was a person's name, and in fact, "masayoshi" should have been entered. Therefore, “justice” should be changed to “political justice”. However, since it was noticed after moving the cursor or the like, the above-mentioned final undo cannot be performed. If it is normal, the cursor is moved back to “Justice” and “Justice” is deleted. Then, it is necessary to input "Masayoshi" again to convert.

  FIG. 2 shows a case where re-conversion is performed using the present invention. This is a case where the re-conversion key (which may be the same as the conversion key) is pressed in accordance with the phrase “justice” to be re-converted. The cursor position may be immediately before the phrase that you want to reconvert.

  In FIG. 2, reconversion is performed on the target phrase 20, and the conversion candidates for the homophones that are the result are shown as a list 22. However, in “justice”, since the probability (likelihood) of the reading “seigi” is high, as shown in the reading 24, conversion candidates for the reading “seigi” are shown. For this reason, there is no target “policy” in the list of conversion candidates. At this time, if an inverted triangle is displayed, clicking on the side of the reading 24 can display a list 26 of all readings for the phrase “Justice” as shown in FIG.

  The reading of the displayed phrase can be selected, and FIG. 4 shows a case where “Masayoshi” 28 is selected. When a click or the like is performed on this selection, a conversion candidate list 30 for “Masayoshi” can be displayed. This is illustrated in FIG. The conversion candidates displayed in the list 30 are for the reading “Masayoshi” as shown in the reading 32.

  Since there is “Government” in the conversion candidate list 30, FIG. 6 shows that this is selected (36). Then, as shown in FIG. 7, the target “Government” can be input. FIG. 8 shows what was confirmed after that.

  The flowcharts shown in FIGS. 9 and 10 explain how such reconversion is realized.

  Now, in FIG. 1 described above, when a re-conversion key (which may be the same as the conversion key) is pressed, a flowchart as shown in FIG. 9 starts (S102). In the program on the application side, the character string before and after the cursor is read (S104), and passed to the kana-kanji conversion program as a character to be reconverted (S106). Since the characters to be read are likely to be segment breaks before the cursor, such as the next character after the punctuation mark, the start of kanji or the start of katakana, etc. You can do it to the point where it is certain. Moreover, you may restrict | limit with the number of characters read.

  The kana-kanji program passed the character string performs morpheme analysis such as that used for kana-kanji conversion on the character string and punctuates the sentence (S108). The analysis dictionary used at this time is the same as the dictionary used for kana-kanji, and uses a new index added from kanji so that it can be accessed from kanji. The analysis dictionary also stores readings for kanji and the like.

  When the kanji is included in the noticeable phrase (the phrase at the cursor position or the phrase immediately after the cursor), the most likely (maximum likelihood) reading is taken out (S112). Then, normal kana-kanji conversion is performed on this reading (S114). And the reading which performed the kana-kanji, the conversion candidate character which is the result of performing the kana-kanji conversion, and the inverted triangle indicating that there is a reading when there are a plurality of readings are displayed (S116). FIG. 2 shows this display.

  If the target phrase is kana (kana, hiragana), normal kana-kanji conversion for that kana is performed (S118), and conversion candidate characters are displayed (S120).

  In the flowchart of FIG. 9, the kana-kanji program is in an event waiting state. Here, when an event for displaying a reading occurs, the processing shown in the flowchart of FIG. 10 is performed.

  In FIG. 10, when a reading is clicked (S122), the reading is displayed (S124). Here, one of the readings is selected (S126). The display of this reading is shown in FIG. Using this reading, kana-kanji conversion is performed again (S114 in FIG. 9). The result is displayed (S116). This is the state shown in FIG. Since the processing after the selection of the conversion candidate is the same as the normal Kana-Kanji conversion, the description is omitted here. When the conversion is confirmed, the transition from the kana-kanji conversion program to the application program is performed.

  In the above-described embodiment, the character string to be reconverted to be transferred to the kana-kanji conversion program is read on the application side. For example, the user can select the character string to be reconverted. In this way, there is no need to make a selection on the application program side, so this reconversion can be used in a wide range of application programs.

  In the above-described user interface, selection of reading is described as using a pointing device such as a mouse. However, reading may be selected by key operation.

  In addition, what kind of algorithm may be used about the above-mentioned certainty (likelihood: likelihood). In kana-kanji conversion, conversion candidates for input kana characters include hiragana characters, katakana characters, combinations thereof, alphabets, symbols, etc., and are not necessarily converted into kanji notation.

  The present invention may be applied not only to a stand-alone computer system but also to, for example, a client / server system constituted by a plurality of systems.

  The present invention can be realized by reading and executing the program from the storage medium storing the program of the present invention by the system. Examples of the recording medium include a floppy (registered trademark) disk, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, and a ROM cassette.

It is a figure which shows the state after the kana-kanji conversion after conversion. It is a figure which shows that reconversion was performed. It is a figure which shows the display of a some reading. It is a figure which shows having selected another reading. It is a figure which shows the display of the conversion candidate of another reading. It is the figure which selected the conversion candidate of other reading. It is the figure after selecting and inserting. It is a figure which shows after re-conversion and confirmation. It is a flowchart explaining the process of reconversion. It is a flowchart explaining a reading display process. It is a figure explaining the conventional undo of determination.

Claims (6)

A display means and a designation means, wherein the first character string after confirmation displayed on the display screen of the display means is designated by the designation means, converted into another second character string, and the display screen In the Kana-Kanji conversion system displayed above,
As a candidate for the second character string, a third character string is displayed in the first display area on the display screen, and a graphic indicating that there is a reading of the confirmed character string and another reading First display control means for displaying in the first display area;
When the figure in the previous SL first display area is specified, the second display control means for displaying a plurality of readings for the first character string in the second display area on the display screen When,
When a reading in the second display area is designated by the designation means, a fourth character string is used as a candidate for reconversion corresponding to the designated reading, instead of the third character string. 3rd display control means to display on,
Confirmation instruction means for instructing confirmation of reconversion for the character string designated by the designation means;
When one of the third character strings displayed in the first display area is designated by the designation means and confirmation is instructed by the confirmation instruction means, the designated third character string Is displayed instead of the first character string, one of the fourth character strings displayed in the first display area is designated by the designation means, and confirmation is instructed by the confirmation instruction means. A kana-kanji conversion system comprising: a fourth display control means for displaying the designated fourth character string instead of the first character string.   The kana-kanji conversion system according to claim 1, wherein the character string designated by the designation means is highlighted.   The kana-kanji conversion system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the first display area and the second display area are close to each other. A display means and a designation means, wherein the first character string after confirmation displayed on the display screen of the display means is designated by the designation means, converted into another second character string, and the display screen In the kana-kanji conversion system method to be displayed above, the kana-kanji conversion system further includes first display control means, second display control means, third display control means, fourth display control means, and confirmation instruction means. And
The first display control means displays a third character string as a candidate for the second character string in the first display area on the display screen, reads the character string after the confirmation, and other A first display control step for displaying a graphic indicating that a reading exists in the first display area;
When the figure in the previous SL first display area is specified, a plurality of readings for the first character string in the second display area of the display on the screen by the second display control means A second display control step for displaying;
When a reading in the second display area is designated by the designation means, a fourth character string is used as a candidate for reconversion corresponding to the designated reading, instead of the third character string. A third display control step of displaying by the third display control means;
A confirmation instruction step for instructing confirmation of reconversion for the character string designated by the designation means by the confirmation instruction means;
When one of the third character strings displayed in the first display area is designated by the designation means and confirmation is instructed by the confirmation instruction means, the designated third character string Is displayed by the fourth display control means instead of the first character string, one of the fourth character strings displayed in the first display area is designated by the designation means, and A fourth display control step of displaying the designated fourth character string by the fourth display control means instead of the first character string when confirmation is instructed by the confirmation instruction means; A method characterized by comprising:   5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the character string designated by the designation means is highlighted.   6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the first display area and the second display area are close to each other.

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