JP2010055561A - Electronic dictionary, retrieval method in electronic dictionary and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic dictionary, a retrieval method in the electronic dictionary and a program, for detecting a phenomenon not capable of being retrieved, and providing a selection candidate for dissolving the phenomenon not capable of being retrieved, when an illustrative sentence cannot be retrieved in the illustrative sentence retrieval wherein the illustrative sentence including all input retrieval words is retrieved. <P>SOLUTION: A control part 11 displays a misspelled retrieval word in distinction from other words, so that the misspelled retrieval word is specified, and reason that an illustrative sentence retrieval result cannot be obtained can be provided to a user. When the misspelling is found, a spell correction part 11b retrieves an approximate misspelling candidate, and can correct the misspelled retrieval word to a word selected by the user. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention mainly relates to an English-Japanese, Japanese-English, Japanese, English-English dictionary represented by a translation corresponding to an input word and a phrase, a search method in the electronic dictionary, and an electronic dictionary. The present invention relates to a display method and a program.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is an electronic dictionary that inputs a plurality of words, searches for example sentences including these words, and displays search results (Patent Document 1). This electronic dictionary can increase the search speed by holding data obtained by extracting only example sentence data separately from the dictionary data.
Conventionally, there has been proposed a technique for displaying, as a search result, an example sentence, a phrase, and an idiom corresponding to a word that approximates the wrong word when the spelling of the input word is incorrect (Patent Document 2).
JP 2001-134567 A JP 2005-70873 A

  Further, a conventional example will be described in detail with reference to FIG. As shown in a screen 701 in FIG. 7, when a plurality of search words are input to an example sentence search word input unit 71 that displays words that are examples of sentence search, and there is an example sentence that includes all of the search words, the electronic dictionary The result display unit 72 displays an example sentence corresponding to the search word and a translation of the example sentence.

  However, as shown in the screen 702 of FIG. 7, when a combination of misspelled words, extra words, or words not registered as example sentences is input to the example sentence search word input unit 71, the electronic dictionary Cannot be searched, and the search result display unit 72 displays that there is no corresponding candidate. For this reason, there is a problem that the user has to specify an incorrect search word, correct it, and search again.

In addition, in an electronic dictionary such as Patent Document 1, a plurality of words are input for example sentence search and adult word search, and even if one of these input words has a spelling error, the example sentence is not searched, In addition to the conventional problem of having to input correctly spelled words, there were the following problems. In other words, when an excess word other than a combination of words registered as example sentence data is included as a plurality of input words, the example sentence is not searched and it is necessary to delete the excess word.
In this case, in the conventional electronic dictionary, the user does not know which of the plurality of misspelled words is input or which is the extra input, and the operability is not improved. There was a problem of being bad. Further, in such an electronic dictionary, there is a problem that the search result of the example sentence is not provided to the user unless the spelling error is corrected or an extra word is deleted.

On the other hand, in an electronic dictionary such as Patent Document 2, when there is a spelling error in an input word, an example sentence corresponding to a word candidate to be approximated is searched. However, when there are a plurality of approximate word candidates, the number of example sentences to be searched is enormous, and the user's confidence must search for an example sentence as a correct word from among these enormous search results, which is a heavy burden on the user There was a problem.
In addition, when the input word includes an extra word, there is a problem that the example sentence is not searched as in the electronic dictionary of Patent Document 1.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances and has been made to solve the above-described problem. The purpose of the present invention is to search for an example sentence including all of a plurality of input search words. An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic dictionary, a search method in an electronic dictionary, and a program for detecting a phenomenon that cannot be searched when it cannot be searched and providing a selection candidate for eliminating the event that cannot be searched.

  In order to solve the above problem, the present invention has an output unit that displays characters on a display screen, and an input unit that receives data input from a user, and includes an example sentence including a search word input via the input unit In an electronic dictionary that searches for words, a spelling that includes dictionary body data that includes data corresponding to words, example sentence search data that includes data corresponding to example sentences consisting of at least one word, and data that represents an association between words that are approximated A storage unit for storing correction candidate data; an example sentence data search unit for detecting whether or not there is an example sentence including all of the input search words in the example sentence search data; and the example sentence data search When the corresponding example sentence is not detected by the section, the information corresponding to the spelling of the character string among the input search words is a word that is not in the dictionary body data. When the misspelling word is detected by the misspelling word detection unit and the misspelling word detection unit, at least one spelling correction word word that approximates the spelling error search word is obtained based on the spelling correction word data. When an instruction to specify a predetermined spelling correction candidate word is input via the input unit, the spelling correction unit corrects the search word by replacing the designated spelling correction candidate word with the misspelled search word If the corresponding example sentence is not detected by the example sentence data search unit, and the spelling miss search word is not detected by the spelling error detection unit, a combination of words of example sentences including at least one search word The example sentence including all the combined words is registered in the example sentence search data. An electronic dictionary comprising: the example sentence word combination unit which generates the search word combinations being, a.

  In the electronic dictionary described above, the present invention is characterized in that the output unit displays the misspelled search word detected by the spelling miss detection unit by a display method different from other search words.

  In the electronic dictionary described above, the present invention provides the example sentence word combination unit when the output unit corrects the spell correction candidate word read by the spell correction unit and the search word by the spell correction unit. The modified search word combination created by the above is displayed on the same screen.

  In addition, the present invention has an output unit that displays characters on a display screen and an input unit that receives data input from a user, and stores an example sentence including a search word input via the input unit in a storage unit In the search method in the electronic dictionary for searching based on the dictionary main body data including the data corresponding to the word and the example sentence searching data including the data corresponding to the example sentence including at least one word, the example sentence data search unit Detects whether or not there is an example sentence including all of the input search words in the example sentence search data, and the spelling error detection unit detects the corresponding example sentence by the example sentence data search unit. If not, a misspelled search word that does not have information corresponding to the spelling of the character string in the dictionary body data is detected from the input search words, and the spelling correction is performed. When the spelling miss search word is detected by the spelling miss detection unit, at least one spell correction candidate that approximates the spelling miss search word based on spelling correction candidate data that includes data representing an association between words to be approximated When an instruction to read a word and specify a predetermined spelling correction candidate word is input via the input unit, the specified spelling correction candidate word is replaced with the spelling miss search word to correct the search word, When the search word is corrected by the spell correction unit, the example sentence data search unit detects whether or not there is an example sentence including all of the corrected search words in the example sentence search data. The word combination unit does not detect the spelling miss search word by the spelling miss detection unit, and the example sentence data search unit When the corresponding example sentence is not detected, the search is a combination of example sentence words including at least one search word, and the example sentence including all the combined words is registered in the example sentence search data. A search method in an electronic dictionary characterized by creating a combination of words.

  In addition, the present invention has an output unit that displays characters on a display screen and an input unit that receives data input from a user, and stores an example sentence including a search word input via the input unit in a storage unit The example sentence data search unit in the computer for searching based on the dictionary main body data including the data corresponding to the word and the example sentence search data including the data corresponding to the example sentence composed of at least one word includes: A function for detecting whether or not there is an example sentence including all of the input search words in the search data, and the spelling error detection unit detects that the corresponding example sentence is not detected by the example sentence data search unit A function for detecting a misspelled search word whose information corresponding to the spelling of a character string is not included in the dictionary body data among the input search words; When the misspelling search word is detected by the spelling error detection unit, at least one spelling correction candidate word that approximates the spelling miss search word is read based on spelling correction candidate data that includes data representing an association between similar words. When an instruction for designating a predetermined spelling correction candidate word is input through the input unit, the designated spelling correction candidate word is replaced with the spelling miss search word to correct the search word, the example sentence A function for detecting whether or not there is an example sentence including all of the corrected search words in the example sentence search data when the search word is corrected by the spelling correction part; The combination unit does not detect the misspelled search word by the misspelling detection unit and detects the example sentence data. When the corresponding example sentence is not detected by the unit, the example sentence combination includes at least one search word including at least one search word, and the example sentence including all the combined words is registered in the example sentence search data. This is a program for realizing a function of creating a combination of search words.

  As described above, the electronic dictionary according to the present invention includes an example sentence data search unit that detects whether or not there is an example sentence including all of the input search words in the example sentence search data, and the example sentence data search unit, When a corresponding example sentence is not detected, a spelling error detection unit that detects a spelling error search word that is a word that does not have information corresponding to the spelling of a character string in the dictionary body data, and a spelling error detection unit. When a misspelled search word is detected, at least one spelling correction candidate word that approximates the misspelled search word is read based on the spelling correction candidate data, and an instruction for designating a predetermined spelling correction candidate word is made via the input unit. When entered, a spelling correction unit that corrects the search word by replacing the designated spelling correction candidate word with a misspelled search word and When the corresponding example sentence is not detected by the example sentence data search unit and the misspelling search word is not detected by the spelling error detection unit, a combination of words of the example sentence including at least one search word, and the combined word And an input word selection unit for creating a combination of search words registered in the example sentence search data.

  With this configuration, the electronic dictionary according to the present invention has hitherto had to check the correct spelling of the misspelled word and input the correct spelling character string via the keyboard when the user has found a spelling error. If the electronic dictionary performs these processes that have not been performed, the burden on the user can be reduced. In addition, with such a configuration, the user can search from candidates automatically provided by the electronic dictionary without having accurate knowledge about the spelling of words and combinations of example sentences. Therefore, the present invention improves the user operability and automates the processing that has been a burden on the user so far, thereby making it possible to reduce the search time and the burden on the user.

In the electronic dictionary according to the present invention, the output unit displays the misspelled search word detected by the spelling miss detecting unit by a display method different from that of other search words.
With this configuration, conventionally, when there was a spelling error, the user was only informed of the result that the example sentence was not searched. However, the electronic dictionary detects that the cause is a spelling error and that the misspelled word is found. By doing so, the burden on the user can be reduced.

Further, in the electronic dictionary according to the present invention, when the output unit corrects the spelling correction candidate word read by the spelling correction unit and the search word is corrected by the spelling correction unit, the correction is created by the input word selection unit. The search word combinations that have been selected are displayed on the same screen.
With this configuration, user operability can be further improved, search time can be shortened, and user burden can be further reduced.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of the electronic dictionary 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing an example of the appearance of the electronic dictionary 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 1, the electronic dictionary 1 includes a control unit 11, an input unit 12, an output unit 13, a dictionary data storage unit 14, and a RAM 15.

The control unit 11 is connected to the input unit 12, the output unit 13, the dictionary data storage unit 14, and the RAM 15, and comprehensively controls these connected units.
The control unit 11 includes a spelling error detection unit 11a, a spelling correction unit 11b, an input word selection unit 11c, and an example sentence data search unit 11d.

  The spelling error detection unit 11a registers each input search word in the dictionary body data 14a when the example sentence data search unit 11d does not detect translation data of an example sentence including all of the input search words. Detect whether it is a word. In other words, the spelling error detection unit 11a detects a spelling error search word that is a word whose information corresponding to the spelling of the character string is not in the dictionary body data 14a among the input search words. When the spelling miss search word is detected by the spelling miss detection unit 11a, the control unit 11 distinguishes this spelling miss search word from other words and displays it on the display screen 26 by a different display method.

  When a spelling miss search word is detected by the spelling miss detection unit 11a, the spelling correction unit 11b, based on the spelling correction candidate data 14c, searches the spelling correction candidate that approximates the spelling miss search word from the dictionary body data 14a of the dictionary data storage unit 14. Is read. When a predetermined spelling correction candidate is selected by the user, the spell correction unit 11b corrects the search word by replacing the selected spelling correction candidate with a misspelled search word.

  The input word selection unit (example sentence word combination unit) 11c has at least one search word when the corresponding translation data is not detected by the example sentence data search unit 11d and the misspelling search word is not detected by the spelling error detection unit 11a. A combination of search words in which example sentences including all the combined words are registered in the translated sentence data of the example sentence is created.

  The example sentence data search unit 11d detects whether or not there is an example sentence including all of the input search words in the translated sentence data of the example sentence.

  The input unit 12 has a function of accepting data input from a user. In this embodiment, the input unit 12 includes, for example, a keyboard 12a. As shown in FIG. 2, the keyboard 12 a includes a power button 21, a character key 22, an example sentence search key 23, a movement key 24, and an enter key 25.

  The output unit 13 is a liquid crystal display device, for example, and has a display screen 26 shown in FIG. 2 and displays an operation screen and search results for searching for example sentences.

The dictionary data storage unit 14 stores dictionary body data 14a, example sentence search data 14b, and spelling correction candidate data 14c.
The dictionary body data 14a stores the contents of the dictionary, and includes information such as a headline (word) used as a key for word search and a translation, a phrase, an idiom, and a commentary associated with the headline.
The example sentence search data 14b includes a combination of words included in an example sentence that is a key for example sentence search, and information such as a translation and a commentary associated with the combination.
The spelling correction candidate data 14c includes data representing correspondence between words that are close to each other in order to search for correction candidates of misspelled search words. The spelling correction candidate data 14c includes words that are considered to be approximate, for example, alphabets included in the misspelling detection word, and words that are stored as headings in the dictionary body data 14a. The misspelling detection unit 11a regards the associated words as an approximate range.

  The RAM 15 has a character data temporary storage unit 15a. The character data temporary storage unit 15 a temporarily stores a search word input via the input unit 12.

Next, processing of the electronic dictionary 1 of the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining an example of the processing flow of the electronic dictionary 1. 4 and 5 are schematic diagrams illustrating an example of a display screen of the electronic dictionary 1.

As shown in FIG. 3, when the user selects the example sentence search key 23 with the power turned on via the power switch 21 (step S <b> 1), the control unit 11 reads the example sentence from the dictionary data storage unit 14. The search data 14b is read (step S2).
When the example sentence search data 14b is read out by the control unit 11, the display screen 26 displays a screen on which words to be searched for example sentences can be input.

  Here, the screen 261 shown in the upper part of FIG. 4 will be described as an example. The display screen 26 includes an example sentence search word input unit 31 that displays a word that is an example sentence search target and a search result display unit 32 in the example sentence search mode. Is displayed.

When the user inputs a plurality of words separated by “&” through the keyboard 12a (step S3), the display screen 26 displays an example sentence search character input unit 31 as shown in the screen 261. , Display multiple input words. When the determination key 25 is pressed by the user, the control unit 11 receives a plurality of search words displayed on the example sentence search character input unit 31 when the determination key 25 is pressed (step S4). The example sentence data search unit 11d reads the example sentence search data 14b, and detects whether or not the example sentence including all of the plurality of search words is in the example sentence search data 14b (step S5).
Here, a case where there are a plurality of search words will be described as an example, but a single search word may be used.
When the example sentence including all of the plurality of search words is detected (step S5-YES), the control unit 11 displays a list of detected example sentences on the search result display unit 32 (step S6).

  Here, when there is no addition of a search word by the user (step S7-NO) and the user inputs an instruction to specify a predetermined example sentence from the example sentence list via the enter key 25 (step S8), a search result display is performed. The unit 32 displays the translation of the specified example sentence (step S9).

  When there is no input or correction of the search word by the user via the input unit 12 (step S10—NO), the control unit 11 ends the example sentence search mode, and when the search word is input or corrected (step S10). -YES), it returns to step S3 and repeats example sentence search processing.

On the other hand, when no example sentence including all of the plurality of search words is detected in step S5 (step S5-NO), the control unit 11 executes a spell check function (step S11). That is, the spelling error detection unit 11a detects whether or not each input search word is a word registered in the dictionary body data 14a.
When the misspelling detection unit 11a detects a non-registered word (a misspelled search word) (step S12-YES), the spelling correction unit 11b uses the spelling correction candidate data 14c to create a dictionary. The spelling correction candidate that approximates the misspelled search word is read from the dictionary main body data 14a of the data storage unit 14.

  When the spelling correction candidate is read by the spelling correction unit 11b, the control unit 11 displays a screen 261 as shown in FIG. 4 on the display screen 26, identifies the misspelled search word, and searches for the misspelled search word. Display correction candidates. That is, the control unit 11 displays the misspelled search word “liter” among the search words “it & take & care & of & liter” displayed on the example sentence search character input unit 31 separately from other words. The display screen 26 displays, for example, other words as usual with a dark character portion and a light background color, and reverses the spelling of the misspelled search word so that the character portion is a light color and the background color is dark. indicate. Further, the control unit 11 displays “no corresponding candidate” indicating that the example sentence corresponding to the search word could not be searched in the search result display unit 32, and displays a list of read spelling correction candidates. Displayed (step S13).

When the user inputs an instruction for designating a predetermined spelling correction candidate “liter” via the selection key 24 and the decision key 25 (step S14), the spelling correction unit 11b causes the designated spelling correction candidate “b”. Replace the “liter” with the misspelled search word “liter” to correct the search word. When the search word is corrected, as shown in the screen 262 in FIG. 4, the control unit 11 sends the replaced search word “liter” to the example sentence search character input unit 31 in the same normal color scheme as other words. indicate.
When there are a plurality of search words, the control unit 11 further checks whether there is another search word misspelled (step S15). If there is a search word misspelled (step S15-NO). ) Returning to step S11, the spelling check process for the corresponding search word is executed.

When there is no other misspelled search word (YES in step S15), the example sentence data search unit 11d detects whether or not an example sentence including all of the plurality of search words is in the example sentence search data 14b (step S15). S16). When there is no example sentence including all of the plurality of search words in the example sentence search data 14b (step S16-NO), the control unit 11 executes the word combination selection function. In other words, the input word selection unit 11c is a combination including at least one search word as a “word combination candidate” that is a plurality of combinations using a plurality of search words, and an example sentence including the combined words is an example sentence search. A combination registered in the business data 14b is created (step S17).
When the word combination candidate is created by the input word selection unit 11c, the control unit 11 indicates that the example sentence corresponding to the search word cannot be searched as shown in the screen 262 of FIG. "And the word combination candidates are displayed on the search result display unit 32 (step S18).

  As shown in the screen 263 of FIG. 5, when the user inputs an instruction for designating a predetermined word combination “take & care & of & little” from the word combination candidates via the input unit 12 (step S19). The process proceeds to S6, and the example sentence data search unit 11d reads the example sentence of the combination of the specified search words from the example sentence search data 14b. As shown in the screen 264 of FIG. 5, the control unit 11 changes the search word displayed on the example sentence search word input unit 31 to the candidate designated by the user in step S <b> 19, and The combined example sentence list is displayed on the search result display unit 32 (step S6).

Thus, in the electronic dictionary 1 according to the present invention, the control unit 11 displays the misspelled search word separately from other words, thereby identifying the misspelled search word, The reason why the example sentence search result cannot be obtained can be provided. Thus, conventionally, when there was a spelling error, the user was only informed of the result that the example sentence was not searched. However, the electronic dictionary 1 detects that the cause is a spelling error or finds a misspelled word. By doing so, the burden on the user can be reduced.
Further, according to the electronic dictionary 1 of the present invention, when a spelling error is found, the spelling correction unit 11b searches for a spelling error candidate that is close and corrects the misspelled search word to a word specified by the user. Can do. Thus, in the past, when the user found a spelling error, the user had to check the correct spelling of the misspelled word and input the correct spelling character string via the keyboard 12a. The dictionary 1 can reduce the burden on the user.
Also, according to the electronic dictionary 1 of the present invention, when there is no spelling mistake but an example sentence including all the search words is not registered in the example sentence search data 14b, it is registered in the example sentence search data 14b, and at least A combination of example sentence words including one search word is searched. Thus, conventionally, if even one extra word is included in the search word, the example sentence is not searched, and the user himself / herself has to check the correct combination and input the correction of the search word. However, the electronic dictionary 1 performs these processes, and the reason why the search is not performed and the example sentence candidates are provided to the user, thereby reducing the burden on the user.
With such a configuration, the user can search from the candidates provided by the electronic dictionary 1 even if the user does not have accurate knowledge about word spellings and example sentence combinations. Therefore, the present invention improves the operability for the user and automates the processing that has been a burden on the user so far, thereby reducing the search time and the burden on the user.

  In the description of step S13, the control unit 11 has described the example in which the misspelled search word is displayed on the example sentence search character input unit 13 of the display screen 26 by inverting the color. However, the configuration may be specified by, for example, underlining or bolding.

Further, the electronic dictionary 1 according to the present invention simultaneously displays a spelling correction candidate detected by the spelling correction unit 11b and a search word combination candidate created by the input word selection unit 11c, as in a screen 265 shown in FIG. It may be configured to display on the same screen.
In this case, as shown in FIG. 6, the control unit 11 displays search word combination candidates corresponding to a predetermined search word designated as a spelling correction candidate on the display screen 26, and responds to the designated spelling correction candidate. To change the display of search word combination candidates. For example, as shown in FIG. 6, when “little” is designated from the spelling correction candidates, the input word sorting unit 11 c corresponds to the word combination “take & care & of & liter” when “liter” is corrected to “liter”. Word combination candidates are created and displayed on the screen 26. Although not illustrated, when “liter” is designated from the spelling correction candidates, the word combination corresponding to the word combination “take & care & of & liter” when the input word sorting unit 11c is corrected to “liter” is “liter”. A candidate is created, but if there is no corresponding word combination candidate, the fact that there is no corresponding candidate is displayed, or no candidate is displayed.
With such a configuration, user operability can be further improved, search time can be shortened, and user burden can be further reduced.

  In the present embodiment, the electronic dictionary 1 has been described by taking an example of searching for example sentences based on the dictionary contents of the English-Japanese / English-Japanese dictionary, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the electronic dictionary 1 uses dictionary contents in languages other than English. It may be based.

Further, the operation process of the electronic dictionary 1 described with reference to FIG. 3 can be used as a program to be executed by a computer or a computer-readable recording medium as the program, and read and executed by a computer system. Thus, the above processing is performed. The “computer system” here includes a CPU, various memories, an OS, and hardware such as peripheral devices.
Further, the “computer system” includes a homepage providing environment (or display environment) if a WWW system is used.
The “computer-readable recording medium” means a flexible disk, a magneto-optical disk, a ROM, a writable nonvolatile memory such as a flash memory, a portable medium such as a CD-ROM, a hard disk built in a computer system, etc. This is a storage device.

Further, the “computer-readable recording medium” means a volatile memory (for example, DRAM (Dynamic DRAM) in a computer system that becomes a server or a client when a program is transmitted through a network such as the Internet or a communication line such as a telephone line. Random Access Memory)), etc., which hold programs for a certain period of time.
The program may be transmitted from a computer system storing the program in a storage device or the like to another computer system via a transmission medium or by a transmission wave in the transmission medium. Here, the “transmission medium” for transmitting the program refers to a medium having a function of transmitting information, such as a network (communication network) such as the Internet or a communication line (communication line) such as a telephone line.
The program may be for realizing a part of the functions described above. Furthermore, what can implement | achieve the function mentioned above in combination with the program already recorded on the computer system, and what is called a difference file (difference program) may be sufficient.

It is a block diagram which shows an example of the electronic dictionary concerning this Embodiment. It is the schematic which shows an example of the electronic dictionary concerning this Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the processing flow of the electronic dictionary concerning this Embodiment. It is the schematic which shows an example of the display screen of the electronic dictionary concerning this Embodiment. It is the schematic which shows the other example of the display screen of the electronic dictionary concerning this Embodiment. It is the schematic which shows the other example of the display screen of the electronic dictionary concerning this Embodiment. It is the schematic for demonstrating a prior art example.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Electronic dictionary 11 Control part 11a Spell mistake detection part 11b Spell correction part 11c Input word selection part 11d Example sentence data search part 12 Input part 12a Keyboard 13 Output part 14 Dictionary data storage part 14a Dictionary main body data 14b Example sentence search data 14c Spell correction candidate Data 15 RAM
15a Character data temporary storage unit 21 Power switch 21
22 Character key 23 Example sentence search key 24 Move key 25 Enter key 26 Display screen 31 Example sentence search word input part 32 Search result display part

Claims (5)

In an electronic dictionary that has an output unit that displays characters on a display screen and an input unit that accepts data input from a user, and that searches for example sentences including a search word input through the input unit,
Stores dictionary main body data including data corresponding to words, example sentence search data including data corresponding to example sentences composed of at least one word, and spelling correction candidate data including data representing association between similar words. A storage unit
An example sentence data search unit for detecting whether or not there is an example sentence including all of the input search words in the example sentence search data;
If the corresponding example sentence is not detected by the example sentence data search unit, a misspelled search word that is a word that does not have information corresponding to the spelling of a character string in the dictionary body data among the input search words is detected. A spelling error detector to
When the spelling miss search word is detected by the spelling miss detection unit, at least one spell correction candidate word that approximates the spelling miss search word is read based on the spelling correction candidate data, and a predetermined spelling is read via the input unit. When an instruction to specify a correction candidate word is input, the spelling correction unit that corrects the search word by replacing the specified spell correction candidate word with the misspelled search word,
When the corresponding example sentence is not detected by the example sentence data search unit and the spelling miss search word is not detected by the spelling error detection unit, a combination of words of the example sentence including at least one search word, An example sentence word combination unit for creating a combination of the search words in which the example sentence including all the combined words is registered in the example sentence search data;
An electronic dictionary characterized by comprising: The output unit is
The electronic dictionary according to claim 1, wherein the spelling miss search word detected by the spelling miss detection unit is displayed by a display method different from other search words. The output unit is
A spelling correction candidate word read by the spelling correction unit;
3. The combination of the corrected search words created by the example sentence word combination unit is displayed on the same screen when the search word is corrected by the spell correction unit. Electronic dictionary. An example includes an output unit that displays characters on the display screen and an input unit that receives data input from a user, and an example sentence including a search word input via the input unit is stored in a storage unit. In a search method in an electronic dictionary for searching based on dictionary body data including corresponding data and example sentence search data including data corresponding to an example sentence composed of at least one word,
The example sentence data search section
Detecting whether or not there is an example sentence including all of the inputted search words in the example sentence search data;
The spelling error detector
If the corresponding example sentence is not detected by the example sentence data search unit, a misspelled search word that is a word that does not have information corresponding to the spelling of a character string in the dictionary body data among the input search words is detected. And
The spelling correction section
When the misspelling search word is detected by the spelling error detection unit, at least one spelling correction candidate word that approximates the spelling miss search word is read based on spelling correction candidate data that includes data representing an association between similar words. When an instruction to specify a predetermined spelling correction candidate word is input via the input unit, the specified spelling correction candidate word is replaced with the spelling miss search word to correct the search word,
The example sentence data search unit
When the search word is corrected by the spell correction unit, it is detected whether there is an example sentence including all of the corrected search word in the example sentence search data,
The example word combination part
When the misspelling detection word is not detected by the spelling error detection unit and the corresponding example sentence is not detected by the example sentence data search unit, a combination of words of an example sentence including at least one search word, A search method in an electronic dictionary, wherein a combination of search words in which example sentences including all the combined words are registered in the example sentence search data is created. An example includes an output unit that displays characters on the display screen and an input unit that receives data input from a user, and an example sentence including a search word input via the input unit is stored in a storage unit. Based on dictionary body data including corresponding data and example sentence search data including data corresponding to example sentences composed of at least one word,
The example sentence data search section
A function of detecting whether or not there is an example sentence including all of the input search words in the example sentence search data;
The spelling error detector
If the corresponding example sentence is not detected by the example sentence data search unit, a misspelled search word that is a word that does not have information corresponding to the spelling of a character string in the dictionary body data among the input search words is detected. Function to
The spelling correction part
When the misspelling search word is detected by the spelling error detection unit, at least one spelling correction candidate word that approximates the spelling miss search word is read based on spelling correction candidate data that includes data representing an association between similar words. A function for correcting a search word by replacing the specified spell correction candidate word with the misspelled search word when an instruction to specify a predetermined spell correction candidate word is input via the input unit;
The example sentence data search unit
A function for detecting whether or not there is an example sentence including all of the corrected search words in the example sentence search data when a search word is corrected by the spell correction unit;
Example sentence word combination part,
When the misspelling detection word is not detected by the spelling error detection unit and the corresponding example sentence is not detected by the example sentence data search unit, a combination of words of an example sentence including at least one search word, A function for creating a combination of the search words in which example sentences including all the combined words are registered in the example sentence search data;
A program to realize

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