JP2010218228A - Document preparation support device, method therefor, and program therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly extract a word from a document prepared already to prepare a word database of a synonym. <P>SOLUTION: A document preparation support device includes a database registration part 4 for retrieving a word information database 6 with an indicated word candidate from the document by an input part 3, and for registering a proper word and a change-objective word into the word information database 6, a word change part 5 for detecting the change-objective word from the document, while referring to the word information database 6, and for displaying the detected change-objective word on a display device 2 as a change candidate, and a control part 1 for controlling the database registration part 4 and the word change part 5, and the control part 1 determines that the word candidate hit in the retrieval of the word information database 6 is already registered into the word information database 6, and registers the word candidate before changed in association with the change-objective word and one after changed in association with a proper word respectively into the word information database 6, when an instruction of changing the word candidate determined as unregistered one in the determination is input from the input part 3. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a document creation support apparatus that proposes appropriate terms and expressions to a user based on an existing document, a method thereof, and a program thereof.

  In recent software development, due to the shortening of the development period, it becomes difficult for a technical writer with specialized skills to understand the functions of software developed and create a user manual as before. It is coming.

  In addition, in order to improve the efficiency of development work, distributed development in which one development project is distributed and performed at a plurality of bases has become essential. For these reasons, when developing user manuals, software developers at multiple bases often write about the functions of their own parts in charge of development.

  For this reason, it is very difficult to continue to provide a high-quality document that is consistent throughout the schedule. However, if the expressions are not unified, the reader may be misunderstood, and when translating the manual, two terms that mean the same thing may be translated as different terms, which can be confusing.

  Therefore, Patent Literature 1 discloses a proofreading support apparatus that decomposes an input document into words, searches for whether or not a synonym exists with the word, and changes the synonym extracted in the search into a unified word. ing.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 06-176018

  However, the proofreading support apparatus disclosed in Patent Document 1 needs to set in advance a synonym storage device that is a database of synonyms to be referred to in the search. In order to ensure sufficient search accuracy, it is desirable that many synonyms be stored in the synonym storage device. However, it is cumbersome to manually perform this, and there is a problem that an input error is induced. .

  The present invention has been made in view of the above, and a document creation support apparatus and method for creating a synonym term database by appropriately extracting terms from a prepared document as well as synonym information prepared in advance. And to provide the program.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, the document creation support apparatus according to the present invention searches whether or not a synonym exists in the input document, and sets the synonym extracted in the search as a proper term that is a unified word. In a revised document creation support device, a display device for displaying the document, a term information database for registering the appropriate term and a change target term that is the synonym, an input unit for inputting the document and instructions, and the input The term information database is searched with the term candidates specified by the section, the database registration unit for registering the proper term and the change target term in the term information database, and the term information database with reference to the term information database. A term changing unit that detects a change target term and displays the detected change target term on the display device as a change candidate, the display device, and the data The term registration unit and the term change unit are controlled, the term information database is searched with the term candidates, the proper term and the change target term are registered in the term information database, and detected by the term change unit. A control unit that replaces the change target term with the appropriate term, and the control unit determines that the term candidate hit in the search of the term information database is registered in the term information database, and The unregistered term candidate is registered in the term information database as the proper term by an instruction to register from the input unit, and the instruction to change the unregistered term candidate by the determination When the input is performed from the input unit, the term information data is associated with the term candidate before the change as the change target term and the changed term as the proper term. And registers respectively database.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, the document creation support method according to the present invention refers to a term information database in which a proper term and a change target term that is a synonym are registered as to whether or not a synonym exists in an input document. In the document creation support method, the synonym extracted by the search is changed to the proper term that is a unified word, a procedure in which a candidate word to be searched is indicated from the document, and the term A procedure for searching an information database, a procedure for determining that the term candidate hit by the search has been registered in the term information database, and an instruction for registering the term candidate not registered by the determination are input. A procedure for registering the term candidate unregistered in the determination by the instruction to register in the term information database as the proper term, and unregistered in the determination Registered in the terminology information database by associating a procedure for inputting an instruction to change the term candidate, and associating the term candidate before the change as the change target term and the changed term as the proper term. And a procedure for detecting the change target term from the document with reference to the term information database, and a step for replacing the detected change target term with the proper term. .

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the document creation support program according to the present invention refers to the term information database in which the synonym exists in the input document and the proper term and the change target term that is the synonym are registered. In the document creation support program, the synonym extracted by the search is changed to the appropriate term that is a unified word, a process in which a candidate word to be searched is indicated from the document, and the term A process for searching the information database, a process for determining that the term candidate hit in the search has been registered in the term information database, and an instruction for registering the term candidate not registered by the determination are input. A process for registering the term candidate that has not been registered in the judgment as an instruction to register in the term information database as the proper term, The term information is associated with a process in which an instruction to change the term candidate that has been unregistered due to a request is input, and the term candidate before the change is the term to be changed and the changed term is the proper term. A process for registering each in a database, a process for detecting the change target term from the document with reference to the term information database, and a process for replacing the detected change target term with the appropriate term It is made to perform.

  According to the present invention, when an instruction to change a term candidate that has not been registered is given from the input unit, the term information database is associated with the term candidate before change as the change target term and the change as the proper term. Provides a document creation support apparatus, a method thereof, and a program for creating a synonym term database by appropriately extracting terms from already created documents as well as synonym information prepared in advance. can do.

It is a block diagram of the document preparation assistance apparatus which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart of operation | movement of the document preparation assistance apparatus which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the process on the actual document by the document preparation assistance apparatus which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the data stored in the vocabulary information database which registers a synonym in the 1st Embodiment of this invention.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

[Configuration of First Embodiment]
The configuration of the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document creation support apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

  According to FIG. 1, the document creation support apparatus according to the present embodiment searches for whether or not a synonym exists in the input document, and changes the synonym extracted in this search to a proper term that is a unified word. A creation support device, a display device 2 for displaying a document, a terminology information database 6 for registering an appropriate term and a change target term that is the above-mentioned synonym, an input unit 3 for inputting a document and instructions, The term information database 6 is searched for the term candidates designated from the document by the unit 3, the appropriate term and the change target term are registered in the term information database 6, and the term information database 6 is referred to in the document The term change unit 5 that detects the change target term from the display and displays the detected change target term on the display device 2 as a change candidate, and controls the display device 2, the database registration unit 4, and the term change unit 5 A control unit 1 that searches the term information database 6 for term candidates, registers the appropriate terms and change target terms in the term information database 6, and replaces the change target terms detected by the term change unit 5 with appropriate terms. .

  The control unit 1 determines that the term candidate hit in the search of the term information database 6 has been registered in the term information database 6 and instructs the input unit 3 to register the term candidate that has not been registered by this determination. If the input unit 3 is instructed to change the term candidate that has not been registered by this determination, the term candidate before change is set as the change target term. Are registered in the term information database 6 in association with each other as an appropriate term.

  The database registration unit 4 includes a term search unit 41 that searches the term information database 6 and a term registration unit 42 that registers proper terms in the term information database 6. The term change unit 5 includes a change target term detection unit 51 that detects a change target term from the target document, and a change indication unit 52 that displays the change target term detected by the change target term detection unit 51 on the display device 2 as a change candidate. Is included.

[Description of Operation of First Embodiment]
Next, the operation of the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

  First, using FIG. 1 to FIG. 4, a functional part that creates a term information database 6 by interactively extracting terms from a created document will be described.

  FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the operation of the document creation support apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing processing on an actual document by the document creation support apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of data stored in the term information database 6 for registering synonyms in the first embodiment of the present invention.

  In response to an input from the input unit 3, the control unit 1 displays a document on the display device 2. In response to a request from the input unit 3, one term candidate is selected from the displayed document (FIG. 2: step 200, FIG. 3: A).

  The control unit 1 determines whether or not the term candidates have been registered in the term information database 6 using the term search means 41 (FIG. 2: step 201). If registered (step 201: YES), the control unit 1 displays a “registered as a term” message on the display device 2 (FIG. 2: step 202).

  When not registered (FIG. 2: Step 201: NO), the control unit 1 displays a message for confirming whether or not to register as a new proper term on the display device 2 (FIG. 2: Step 203).

  When the user selects to register (FIG. 2: Step 203: YES), the control unit 1 adds the appropriate term to the term information database 6 using the term registration means 42 (FIG. 2: Step 204).

  When the user selects not to register as an appropriate term (FIG. 2: Step 203: NO), the user changes the corresponding term to an appropriate term that is an appropriate term (FIG. 2: Step 205, FIG. 3: B).

  The control unit 1 uses the term registration means 42 and associates the term before change with the term after change as a term in the term information database 6 (FIG. 2: step 206, FIG. 4). As shown in FIG. 4, the “term” on the left side is a column related to a changed term, that is, an appropriate term, and the “change target term” on the right is a term before changing, that is, a column related to a change target term.

  The user selects another term and repeats the procedure from step 200 (FIG. 2: step 207). Through these series of operations, the term information database 6 in which the terms and the terms to be changed are associated is created.

  Next, a function for proposing terms used when a user creates a document based on the created database will be described with reference to FIG.

  The user inputs a document from the input unit 3, selects a part or the whole of the document, and instructs to change the term. The control unit 1 refers to the term information database 6 using the change target term detection means 51 and detects the change target term from the target document. When the change target term is detected, the control unit 1 displays the change candidate on the display device 2 using the change indication unit 52 and displays a message for confirming whether or not to change the term. When the user instructs the change, the control unit 1 replaces the change target term with a correct term, that is, an appropriate term. Terminology can be changed in units of terms or the entire document.

[Second Embodiment]
As a method for creating the term information database 6 by extracting the terms from the already created document, the entire existing document is not used instead of the method of registering the terms in the database one by one in the first embodiment. And the term information database 6 is automatically created.

  The control unit 1 performs syntax analysis of the existing document, lists up the term candidates, and displays them on the display device 2 as a list. The user checks the list, decides whether or not to adopt the term, and updates the list. By registering the update result in the term information database 6, necessary terms can be added to the term information database 6 in a lump without interactively extracting terms.

  The present invention can be implemented not only as an apparatus invention but also as a method and program invention.

  The present invention is suitable for technical document creation in software development, and unification of terms and expressions to be used without making complicated document creation rules conscious for users who do not have specialized skills in document creation. The present invention can be used for a document creation support apparatus, a method thereof, and a program thereof that can create a created document.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Control part 2 Display apparatus 3 Input part 4 Database registration part 5 Term change part 6 Term information database 41 Term search means 42 Term registration means 51 Change object term detection means 52 Change indication means

Claims (7)

In the document creation support device that searches whether or not a synonym exists in the input document and changes the synonym extracted in the search to a proper term that is a unified word,
A display device for displaying the document;
A term information database for registering the appropriate terms and the change target terms that are synonyms;
An input unit for inputting the document and instructions;
A database registration unit that searches the term information database for term candidates specified from the document in the input unit, and registers the appropriate term and the change target term in the term information database;
A term change unit that detects the change target term from the document with reference to the term information database, and displays the detected change target term on the display device as a change candidate;
Controlling the display device, the database registration unit, and the term changing unit, searching the term information database with the term candidates, causing the term information database to register the proper term and the change target term, and the term changing unit A control unit that replaces the change target term detected in step 1 with the appropriate term;
With
The control unit determines that the term candidate hit in the term information database search has been registered in the term information database, and registers the term candidate that has not been registered in the determination from the input unit. If the instruction to change the term candidate that has not been registered in the judgment is given from the input unit, the term candidate before the change is changed. A document creation support apparatus for registering in the terminology information database in association with the target term as the target term and the changed term as the proper term. The database registration unit
A term search means for searching a term information database;
Term registration means for registering the appropriate term in a term information database;
Have
The term changing unit is a change target term detecting means for detecting the change target term from the target sentence,
Change indication means for displaying the change candidates on the display device;
The document creation support apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:   The document creation support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit performs syntax analysis of the document, lists the term candidates, and displays the list as a list on the display device. Whether or not a synonym exists in the input document is searched by referring to the terminology information database in which the appropriate term and the change target term that is the synonym are registered, and the synonym extracted by the search is a word that is unified In the document creation support method to change to appropriate terms,
A procedure for instructing candidate terms to be searched from the document;
Searching the term information database with the term candidates;
A procedure for determining that the term candidate hit in the search is already registered in the term information database;
A procedure for inputting an instruction to register the term candidates not registered in the determination;
A procedure for registering the term candidate that has not been registered in the determination by the instruction to register as the proper term in the term information database;
A procedure for inputting an instruction to change the term candidate unregistered in the determination;
Registering each of the term candidates before the change in the term information database in association with the change target term and the changed term as the appropriate term;
A procedure for detecting the change target term from the document with reference to the term information database;
Replacing the detected change target term with the proper term;
A document creation support method characterized by comprising:   5. The document creation according to claim 4, further comprising a procedure for performing a syntax analysis of the document and listing the term candidates in place of a procedure in which the term candidates to be searched are instructed from the document. Support method. Whether or not a synonym exists in the input document is searched by referring to the terminology information database in which the appropriate term and the change target term that is the synonym are registered, and the synonym extracted by the search is a word that is unified In a document creation support program that changes to appropriate terms,
A process for instructing search-target term candidates from the document;
A process of searching the term information database with the term candidates;
A process of determining that the term candidate hit in the search is registered in the term information database;
A process of inputting an instruction to register the term candidate that has not been registered in the determination;
A process of registering the term candidate unregistered in the determination by the instruction to register as the proper term in the term information database;
A process of inputting an instruction to change the term candidate that has not been registered in the determination;
A process of registering each of the term candidates before the change in the term information database in association with the change target term as the change target term and the changed term as the proper term;
Processing for detecting the change target term from the document with reference to the term information database;
A process of replacing the detected change target term with the proper term;
A document creation support program characterized by causing a computer to execute.   7. The method according to claim 6, further comprising: causing the computer to execute a process of parsing the document and listing the term candidates in place of the process in which the search-target term candidates are instructed from the document. Document creation support program.

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