JP2008134843A - Language conversion device, language conversion method, and computer program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a language conversion device, a language conversion method and a computer program which enable coping with dialect to be actually used at this time. <P>SOLUTION: This language conversion device 20 having a dialect dictionary is provided with a designated dialect conversion part 32 for converting text information included in content into a designated dialect designated by a user; a dialect text display part for transmitting a dialect text as text information converted into the designated dialect to a user device 10 connected through a network for displaying the dialect text; and a comment accepting part 34 for accepting comments from a plurality of contributors with respect to the dialect text. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a language conversion device, a language conversion method, and a computer program for converting content on the web into a dialect.

Conventionally, various contents are provided on the Web (or the Internet). However, for a user who uses a dialect, even if the content is displayed in Japanese, if it is a standard language, the user may not be familiar, and the entertainment for enjoying the content may be reduced. On the other hand, a technology for converting text information of content into a dialect using a dialect dictionary in which a dialect of a user's location and a standard language is paired has been proposed (Patent Document 1).
JP 2004-69815 A

  However, since the usage of words changes with the passage of the month and day, the definition of the dialect dictionary may deviate from the actual usage of words. For example, in Hokkaido, once a friend parted, the word “Shitake” was used as a dialect of the standard word “goodbye”, but such a dialect is rarely used at present.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a language conversion device, a language conversion method, and a computer program that can correspond to a dialect actually used at the present time.

  (1) A language conversion device having a dialect dictionary, wherein a designated dialect conversion unit that converts text information included in content into a designated dialect designated by a user, and a dialect that is the text information converted into the designated dialect A dialect text display unit that transmits and displays text to a user device connected via a network, and a comment reception unit that receives comments from a plurality of contributors with respect to the dialect text, Language conversion device.

  According to the invention of (1), comments from a plurality of contributors can be received for the displayed dialect text. For this reason, for example, the language conversion device can provide information for updating the language dictionary to the administrator, so that it is possible to correspond to the dialect actually used at the present time. Can do.

  (2) Furthermore, it has a ranking information generation part which receives the vote which shows support to the said comment, counts the number of votes, and produces | generates ranking information, The said dialect text display part is the said ranking text and the said ranking The language conversion device according to (1), which is configured to display information.

  According to the configuration described in (2), for example, the language conversion device can provide not only information for updating the language dictionary but also its ranking information to the administrator. It can be possible to more effectively correspond to the dialect actually used.

(3) The ranking information generation unit further generates update recommendation information for an administrator to update the dialect dictionary based on the comment having a higher ranking shown in the ranking information. The language conversion device according to (2).

  According to the configuration described in (3), the language conversion device can provide update recommendation information to the administrator, so that it is possible to reliably correspond to the dialect actually used at the present time. can do.

  (4) The ranking information generation unit further updates update permission information that allows the contributor who has acquired a predetermined number of votes defined in advance to update a part related to the comment of the contributor in the dialect dictionary. The language conversion apparatus according to (2), characterized in that:

  According to the configuration described in (4), since the language conversion device allows the contributors other than the administrator to update the dialect dictionary under certain conditions, the knowledge of many people can be aggregated. it can. As a result, it is possible to correspond to a dialect that is actually used at the present time with the reliability of the dialect dictionary improved.

  (5) A language conversion method for performing language conversion with reference to a dialect dictionary, in which the language conversion device converts text information included in the content into a specified dialect specified by the user, and the specification A dialect text display step for transmitting and displaying a dialect text that is the text information converted into a dialect to a user device connected via a network, and a comment for receiving comments from a plurality of contributors on the dialect text A language conversion method comprising: a receiving step.

  According to the invention of (5), comments from a plurality of contributors can be received for the displayed dialect text. That is, according to this language conversion method, for example, information for updating the language dictionary can be provided to the administrator, so that it is possible to correspond to the dialect actually used at the present time. can do.

  (6) A computer program for converting a language by referring to a dialect dictionary, wherein the text information included in the content is converted into a specified dialect that is specified by the user, and converted into the specified dialect. Dialect text display step for transmitting and displaying the dialect text that is the text information to a user device connected via a network; and for the dialect text, a comment receiving step for receiving comments from a plurality of contributors; A computer program for causing a computer to execute.

  According to the invention of (6), comments from a plurality of contributors can be received for the displayed dialect text. That is, according to this computer program, for example, information for updating the language dictionary can be provided to the administrator, so that it is possible to correspond to a dialect actually used at the present time. be able to.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the language conversion apparatus, the language conversion method, and computer program which can respond to the dialect actually used at the present time can be provided.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a language conversion device 20 (hereinafter referred to as “device 20”) according to an embodiment of the present invention. The device 20 is communicably connected to a large number of user devices 10 via a communication line network 15. The communication line network 15 may be the Internet, or may be a network configured by a LAN (Local Area Network), a dedicated line, or a combination thereof.

  The user device 10 may be a normal computer or a portable information terminal such as a PDA or a mobile phone.

  The device 20 is an information processing device that transmits content in response to a request from the user device 10. The apparatus 20 includes a communication unit 22, an input unit 24, an output unit 26, a control unit 30, a dialect database (DB) 40, a dialect comment database (DB) 50, and a dialect comment ranking database (DB) 60. Have The dialect DB 40 is a dialect dictionary and stores standard words and dialects in pairs.

  The communication unit 22 is communicably connected to the communication line network 15, and receives a search word as a request received from the user device 10 and transmits a search result page (hereinafter referred to as “content”) to the user device 10. Interface. The content is data including an image and text information displayed on the user device 10.

  The control unit 30 is a central processing unit that controls the apparatus 20, and is a computer system that includes a memory and a CPU (Central Processing Unit). In addition, the control unit 30 may be realized by loading a program for realizing the function of each unit described below into a memory and executing the program, or by using dedicated hardware. It may be a thing. The control unit 30 includes a dialect translation unit 32, a comment reception unit 34, a comment evaluation unit 36, a comment reflection unit 38, and a display unit 39.

  The dialect translation unit 32 performs morphological analysis on the text information included in the content described in the standard language. Each morpheme is a standard word. Then, referring to the dialect DB 40, the dialect corresponding to each morpheme is extracted, and the text information is rewritten into the dialect. As a specific processing method, for example, a method as disclosed in Patent Document 1 may be used.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of the dialect table 42 stored in the dialect DB 40. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of the dialect comment table 52 stored in the dialect comment DB 50. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the original content and a comment on it. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of the dialect comment ranking table 62 stored in the dialect comment ranking DB 60. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of data stored in the Hokkaido table. 7 to 10 are diagrams showing examples of screens displayed on the user device 10. FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of the poster ranking. 12A and 12B are diagrams illustrating an example of update recommendation information and an example of update permission information.

Hereinafter, description will be made with reference to FIGS. 2, 7, 8, and 9.
As shown in FIG. 2, the dialect table 42 is a dialect table in various parts of Japan such as the Hokkaido dialect table, the Iwate dialect table, the Akita dialect table, the Akita dialect table. including. In each dialect table, standard words and dialects are stored in pairs. For example, in the Hokkaido table, the standard word “uncomfortable” and the dialect “Izui” are paired, and the standard word “very” and the dialect “Nara” are paired. The standard word “Manukena” is paired with the dialect “Hankakusai”.

  The dialect translation unit 32 converts the text data of the standard language into text data (hereinafter referred to as “dialectual text”) of a dialect designated by the user device 10 (hereinafter referred to as “designated dialect”). The designated dialect is, for example, the dialect of Hokkaido or the dialect of Osaka. As shown in FIG. 7, the dialect translation unit 32 displays a tab called “dialect” (hereinafter referred to as “dialect tab”) on a part of the toolbar of the display screen of the display device of the user device 10. When the dialect tab is clicked, a dialect designation tab for designating dialects in various places is displayed as shown in FIG.

  Unlike the present embodiment, when a dialect tab is clicked, a map of Japan is displayed, and when a specific region is specified on the map of Japan, a dialect of that region can be specified. Also good.

  When the dialect translation unit 32 obtains the word “uncomfortable” by morphological analysis of the text information, if the dialect of Hokkaido is the designated dialect, the dialect “Izui” is acquired from the Hokkaido table. Then, dialect text is displayed on the screen of the user device 10 as shown in FIG. Specifically, the dialect translation unit 32 transmits dialect text to the user device 10 via the output unit 26, the communication unit 22, and the communication line network 15 to be displayed. Thus, the dialect translation unit 32 has a function as a designated dialect conversion unit and a function as a dialect text display unit.

  The comment receiving unit 34 is configured to receive comments from a plurality of user devices 10 (hereinafter also referred to as “contributors 10”) for dialect text. Specifically, as illustrated in FIG. 9, screen data that allows a user of the user device 10 (hereinafter referred to as “user”) to input a comment is transmitted by the output unit 26 and the communication unit 22. And displayed on the screen of the user device 10. In the example of FIG. 9, a comment tab for the user to input a comment is displayed together with dialect text. When the user clicks the comment tab, a screen (not shown) for inputting a comment is displayed on the user device 10 and a comment can be input. The comment receiving unit 34 stores the comments received from the user device 10 in the dialect comment DB 50.

Hereinafter, description will be made with reference to FIGS. 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, and 12.
As shown in FIG. 3, the dialect comment table 52 includes an original content ID that is an identification number of the original content, an original content URL that is an address of the original content, a comment ID that is an identification number of the comment, a comment posting date, and a comment. A user ID, which is an identification number of the transmitted user (contributor), is stored in association with each other.

  As described above, FIG. 4 shows an example of the original content. Here, the original content is a dialect text translated into a dialect by the dialect translation unit 32. In the example of FIG. 4, it is assumed that the original content is a dialect text of Hokkaido, “Slip your feet, Izui” with only text information. On the other hand, “Izui” is used when there is a sense of incongruity. The comment “Izui” is used when there is a foreign body sensation, although it does not reach “pain” when dust enters the eyes. And a comment “Do not use“ Izui ”for“ foot ”” is transmitted from the user device 10.

  The comment evaluation unit 36 displays the screen shown in FIG. 10, receives a vote indicating support for the comment, and generates ranking information. The comment evaluation unit 36 functions as a comment evaluation unit. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 10, the comment evaluation unit 36 displays a vote tag corresponding to each comment on the screen of the user device 10, and when the vote tag is clicked, the number of clicks (the number of votes). ). A comment with more clicks has a higher ranking. The comment evaluation unit 36 stores data indicating the number of clicks in the dialect comment ranking DB 60.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the dialect comment ranking table 62 stores an original content ID, a comment ID, a user (contributor) ID, and an evaluation point (number of clicks) in association with each other. As shown in FIG. 10, the comment evaluation unit 36 provides ranking information together with dialect text to the user device 10 by the output unit 26 and the communication unit 22. That is, ranking information is displayed on the display screen of the user device 10 together with dialect text.

  The comment evaluation unit 36 also displays the contributor ranking on the display unit 39 of the device 20. Thereby, the apparatus 20 enables the administrator to update the data stored in the dialect DB 40 based on the top ranking comments. For example, as shown in FIG. 11, when the comment with the comment ID “2” has the most evaluation points, the comment is added as a supplementary explanation of a specific word in the Hokkaido table as shown in FIG. In addition, when the dialect text is incorrect, the administrator can rewrite the dialect itself corresponding to a specific word instead of supplementary explanation. This supplementary explanation and rewriting are received by the comment reflection unit 38, and the data stored in the dialect DB 40 is updated. Further, when the evaluation point reaches a certain number, the comment evaluation unit 36 displays the update recommendation information on the display unit 39 of the apparatus 20 as shown in FIG. Thereby, it is possible to reliably cope with a changing dialect.

  Unlike the present embodiment, the comment evaluation unit 36 gives a dialect to a user who has acquired a predetermined number of votes (for example, 10 clicks) as shown in FIG. Update permission information for permitting an update of a part related to the comment in the table 42 may be generated and transmitted to the user. In this case, the comment evaluation unit 36 transmits a password with an expiration date for accessing a specific part of the dialect DB 40 together with the update permission information. This makes it possible to deal with changing dialects based on wide knowledge. By increasing the predetermined number of votes specified in advance, for example, to 1000, for example, it is possible to improve the validity and reliability of the knowledge based on wide knowledge.

  The above is the configuration of the apparatus 20. As described above, the device 20 can accept comments from a plurality of contributors on the displayed dialect text. For this reason, since the apparatus 20 can provide information for updating the language dictionary to the administrator, for example, it is possible to correspond to the dialect actually used at the present time. it can. In addition, the device 20 can provide the contributor ranking to the manager, and thus can more effectively correspond to the dialect actually used at the present time. Furthermore, since the update recommendation information can be provided to the administrator of the device 20, it is possible to reliably correspond to the dialect actually used at the present time.

  Hereinafter, an operation example of the apparatus 20 will be mainly described with reference to FIG. FIG. 13 is a schematic flowchart showing an operation example of the apparatus 20.

  First, the device 20 converts the text information of the content into a designated dialect (step S1 in FIG. 13). Subsequently, the device 20 transmits the text information converted into the designated dialect to the user device 10 and displays it on a display device (not shown) of the user device 10 (step S2). Subsequently, a comment is accepted (step S3). Subsequently, a vote for the comment is accepted (step S4). Subsequently, the comment is evaluated (step S5). Subsequently, update recommendation information for causing the administrator to update the dialect DB 40 is displayed on the display unit 39 (step S6). With the above steps, the device 20 can enable to respond to changing dialects.

[Hardware Configuration of Device 20]
FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating a hardware configuration example of the apparatus 20 (hereinafter, referred to as an information processing apparatus 1000). The information processing apparatus 1000 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 1010 constituting each control unit (a plurality of CPUs such as a CPU 1012 may be added in a multiprocessor configuration), a bus line 1005, a communication I / F 10
40, a main memory 1050, a basic input output system (BIOS) 1060, a USB port 1090, an I / O controller 1070, an input means such as a keyboard and mouse 1100, and a display device 1022.

  Storage means such as a tape drive 1072, a hard disk 1074, an optical disk drive 1076, and a semiconductor memory 1078 can be connected to the I / O controller 1070.

  The BIOS 1060 stores a boot program executed by the CPU 1010 when the information processing apparatus 1000 is activated, a program depending on the hardware of the information processing apparatus 1000, and the like.

  The hard disk 1074 constituting the storage unit stores various programs for the information processing apparatus 1000 to function as a server and programs for executing the functions of the present invention, and can configure various databases as necessary.

  As the optical disc drive 1076, for example, a DVD-ROM drive, a CD-ROM drive, a DVD-RAM drive, or a CD-RAM drive can be used. In this case, the optical disk 1077 corresponding to each drive is used. A program or data may be read from the optical disk 1077 by the optical disk drive 1076 and provided to the main memory 1050 or the hard disk 1074 via the I / O controller 1070. Similarly, the tape medium 1071 corresponding to the tape drive 1072 can be used mainly for backup.

  The program provided to the information processing apparatus 1000 is provided by being stored in a recording medium such as the hard disk 1074, the optical disk 1077, or a memory card. This program may be read from a recording medium via the I / O controller 1070 or downloaded via the communication I / F 1040 to be installed and executed in the information processing apparatus 1000.

  The aforementioned program may be stored in an internal or external storage medium. Here, in addition to the hard disk 1074, the optical disk 1077, or the memory card, a magneto-optical recording medium such as an MD, or a tape medium 1071 can be used as a storage medium constituting the storage unit. Further, a storage device such as a hard disk 1074 or an optical disk library provided in a server system connected to a dedicated communication line or the Internet may be used as a recording medium, and the program may be provided to the information processing apparatus 1000 via the communication line. .

  Here, the display device 1022 displays a screen for accepting data input to the server administrator, or displays a screen of a calculation processing result by the information processing device 1000. The display device 1022 is a cathode ray tube display (CRT), liquid crystal display, or the like. A display device such as a display device (LCD) is included.

  Here, the input means accepts input by the administrator of the information processing apparatus, and may be constituted by a keyboard, a mouse 1100, and the like.

  The communication I / F 1040 is a network adapter for enabling the information processing apparatus 1000 to be connected to a terminal via a dedicated network or a public network. The communication I / F 1040 may include a modem, a cable modem, and an Ethernet (registered trademark) adapter.

In the above example, the information processing apparatus 1000 has been mainly described. However, the functions described above can be realized by installing a program in a computer and causing the computer to operate as the information processing apparatus 1000. Therefore, the functions realized by the information processing apparatus 1000 described as an embodiment in the present invention are performed by executing the above-described method by the computer, or by introducing the above-described program into the computer and executing it. Is also feasible. The keyboard / mouse 1100 described above corresponds to the input unit 24 (see FIG. 1), and the CPU 1012 and the CPU 101 correspond to the control unit 30. The communication I / F 1040 corresponds to the communication unit 22, and the display device 1022 corresponds to the display unit 39. The hard disk 1074 corresponds to the dialect DB 40, the dialect comment DB 50, and the dialect comment ranking DB 60.

  The apparatus 20 (see FIG. 1), which is an embodiment of the present invention, or the method used for controlling this apparatus can also be realized by a program on a computer. The storage medium for storing the program can be an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, semiconductor system (or apparatus or device), or a propagation medium. Examples of this storage medium are semiconductor or solid state storage devices, magnetic tape, removable computer readable media examples include semiconductor or solid state storage devices, magnetic tape, removable floppy (registered). Trademarked disk, random access memory (RAM), read only memory (ROM), rigid magnetic disk and optical disk. Examples of optical disks at the present time include compact disk-read only memory (CD-ROM), compact disk-read / write (CD-R / W) and DVD.

  As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described, it only showed the specific example and does not specifically limit this invention. Further, the effects described in the embodiments of the present invention only list the most preferable effects resulting from the present invention, and the effects of the present invention are not limited to the effects described in the embodiments of the present invention.

It is a block diagram which shows schematic structure of a language converter. It is a figure which shows an example of the dialect table stored in dialect DB. It is a figure which shows an example of the dialect comment table stored in dialect comment DB. It is a figure which shows an example of an original content, and the comment with respect to it. It is a figure which shows an example of the dialect comment ranking table stored in dialect comment ranking DB. It is a figure which shows an example of the data stored in Hokkaido DB. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen displayed on a user apparatus. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen displayed on a user apparatus. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen displayed on a user apparatus. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen displayed on a user apparatus. It is a figure which shows an example of contributor ranking. It is a figure which shows an example of update recommendation information, and an example of update permission information. It is a schematic flowchart which shows the operation example of a language converter. It is a figure which shows the hardware structural example of the server of a language converter.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 User apparatus 20 Language converter 22 Communication part 24 Input part 26 Output part 30 Control part 32 Dialect translation part 34 Comment reception part 36 Comment evaluation part 38 Comment reflection part 39 Display part 40 Dialect DB
42 Dialect table 50 Dialect comment DB
52 Dialect comment table 60 Dialect comment ranking DB
62 Dialect comment table

Claims (6)

A language conversion device having a dialect dictionary,
A designated dialect converter that converts text information included in the content into a designated dialect designated by the user;
A dialect text display section for transmitting and displaying a dialect text that is the text information converted into the designated dialect to a user device connected via a network;
A comment accepting unit that accepts comments from a plurality of contributors to the dialect text;
A language conversion apparatus comprising: Furthermore, it has a ranking information generation unit that receives a vote indicating support for the comment, counts the number of votes and generates ranking information,
The language conversion device according to claim 1, wherein the dialect text display unit is configured to display the ranking information together with the dialect text.   The ranking information generation unit further generates update recommendation information for an administrator to update the dialect dictionary based on the comment having a higher ranking shown in the ranking information. The language converter described in 1.   The ranking information generation unit further generates update permission information for allowing the contributor who has acquired a predetermined number of votes defined in advance to update a part related to the comment of the contributor in the dialect dictionary. The language conversion device according to claim 2. A language conversion method for converting a language by referring to a dialect dictionary,
The language converter
A designated dialect conversion step for converting text information included in the content into a designated dialect designated by the user;
Dialect text display step of transmitting and displaying a dialect text that is the text information converted into the designated dialect to a user device connected via a network;
A comment receiving step for receiving comments from a plurality of contributors on the dialect text;
A language conversion method characterized by comprising: A computer program for language conversion with reference to a dialect dictionary,
A designated dialect conversion step for converting text information included in the content into a designated dialect designated by the user;
Dialect text display step of transmitting and displaying a dialect text that is the text information converted into the designated dialect to a user device connected via a network;
A comment receiving step for receiving comments from a plurality of contributors on the dialect text;
A computer program for causing a computer to execute.

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