JP2010231731A - Conference management system, conference management method and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To further efficiently form minutes in a conference by automatically selecting or constructing an appropriate dictionary according to the properties of the conference such as topics of the conference or participants thereto. <P>SOLUTION: The conference management system includes a conference management database 101 storing a reserved conference and properties thereof; a dictionary repository 102 storing one or two or more dictionaries; a conference selection unit 103 for selecting a conference in reference to the conference management database; a dictionary selection unit 104 for selecting a dictionary from the dictionary repository according to the properties of the selected conference; and a minutes formation unit 105 for supporting minutes formation by use of the selected dictionary. A kana-kanji conversion dictionary matched to the properties of the conference for which the minutes are to be formed is automatically selected and set to be used for input to the minutes. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a conference management system and method, and more particularly to a conference management system and method having a function for supporting creation of minutes.

  An example of an apparatus having a function for supporting the creation of minutes is disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2006-268800 (see Patent Document 1). This prior art device enables the creation of minutes taking into account the intentions of the minutes creator without imposing a burden on the participants, and as shown in FIG. 7 attached to the present application, A conference video holding unit 4 for holding the conference video shot by the means in association with the date / time information, a memo editing unit 2 for associating the information input from the predetermined input means with the date / time information, and a state in which the date / time information is held The minutes editing section 3 for editing information input from the input means and the minutes display section 5 are provided.

  According to this conventional conference management system, the creator of the minutes inputs a character string (text) from a predetermined input means, and records the minutes while maintaining the association of the progress of the conference with the conference video. It is possible to create and link between the contents of the minutes and the conference video. As a result, it is possible to easily confirm later which scene of the conference the input character string corresponds to.

JP 2006-268800 A JP 2006-267934 A JP 2008-152526 A JP 2008-225191 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 08-129547

  The conventional conference management system has a problem that it takes a lot of labor and time to input a character string from the keyboard itself. Specifically, when taking notes during a meeting, fast and accurate input is important, but for non-alphabetic languages such as Japanese, Kana-Kanji conversion or IME (Input Method Editor) is used. It requires processing to convert keystrokes to character strings.

  Here, the process of converting the above keystrokes into character strings is generally a one-to-many conversion, and the conversion accuracy is not necessarily 100%. For this reason, an interactive correction operation is indispensable in the process of inputting a character string, which is a cause of impairing the high speed and accuracy of character string input. In particular, technical terms related to conference topics and proper names such as participants' names are often not registered in Kana-Kanji conversion or IME general dictionaries, further reducing the accuracy and speed of input. It was a big factor.

  Of course, technical problems related to the topic of the conference and various proper nouns can be manually created as a dictionary in advance, and the dictionary can be used when creating the minutes. However, it takes a lot of time and labor to prepare a dictionary manually for each meeting and set it up for the minutes. In practice, it is difficult to perform such a work at each meeting. there were.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and its purpose is to automatically generate an appropriate dictionary according to conference properties such as conference topics and participants in order to solve the above-described problems of the prior art. An object of the present invention is to provide a conference management system and method capable of improving the efficiency of creation of minutes, minutes, etc.

  In order to solve the above problems, the conference management system of the present invention refers to a conference management database that stores properties of reserved conferences, a dictionary repository that stores one or more dictionaries, and the conference management database. A meeting selection unit that selects a meeting for which minutes are to be created and acquires properties of the selected meeting; a dictionary selection unit that selects a dictionary from the dictionary repository according to the acquired meeting properties; And a minutes creation unit that supports the creation of minutes by using the selected dictionary.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the conference management method of the present invention includes the steps of storing reserved conference properties in a conference management database, storing one or more dictionaries in a dictionary repository, and the conference management database. And selecting a meeting for which minutes are to be created and obtaining properties of the selected meeting; selecting a dictionary from the dictionary repository according to the obtained meeting properties; and And supporting the creation of the minutes by using the selected dictionary.

According to the present invention, it is possible to set a dictionary according to a meeting property as a dictionary to be referred to when creating minutes, thereby improving conversion accuracy when converting keystrokes to character strings. can do.
Therefore, for example, when creating minutes, a dictionary that is appropriately selected and constructed according to the properties of the target conference, attendees, etc., especially the Kana-Kanji conversion / IME dictionary, can be used. Can create a character string at high speed and accurately, thus making it possible to improve the efficiency of document creation.

It is a functional block diagram which shows the structure of the conference management system by the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the property of the meeting stored in the meeting management database 101 in the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the dictionary repository 102 in the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of operation | movement (conference management method) of the conference management system by the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a functional block diagram which shows the structure of the conference management system by the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the conference management system which concerns on the Example of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the minutes preparation support apparatus of a prior art.

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
(First embodiment)
FIG. 1 shows functional blocks of the conference management system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 1, the conference management system refers to a conference management database 101 that stores information for managing conference reservations, a dictionary repository 102 that stores one or more dictionaries, and a conference management database 101. A conference selection unit 103 that selects a conference for which minutes are to be created, a dictionary selection unit 104 that selects an appropriate user dictionary from the dictionary repository 102 according to the properties of the selected conference, and a kana-kanji conversion unit 105 and a character string input unit 106, a system dictionary 107 for kana-kanji conversion, and a user dictionary 108 constructed by a user dictionary selected from the dictionary repository. The

  FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of conference properties stored in the conference management database 101 as information for managing conference reservations. In the properties of each conference, “conference name”, “date and time” are items. ”,“ Location ”,“ Attendees ”,“ Memo ”. Here, FIG. 2A shows the properties of the conference whose conference name is “development progress conference”, FIG. 2B shows the properties of the conference whose conference name is “shipment determination”, and FIG. c) shows the properties of the conference whose conference name is “International Conference Presentation Practice”.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of the internal configuration of the dictionary repository 102. Referring to FIG. 3, the user dictionary repository 102 stores a user dictionary 1022, a user dictionary 1023, a user dictionary 1024, and a user dictionary 1025, each of which is associated with an index 1021. The index 1021 stores the type of dictionary associated with the dictionary, the field of the dictionary, and the keyword. Keywords are written in regular expression format and are used to match various meeting properties.

  In the present embodiment, the user dictionary 1022 is, for example, a technical term dictionary that stores technical terms used in software development, and such technical term dictionary is “technical terms” in the column of the type of dictionary. It is expressed by “software development” in the field of the field. In the keyword column, “progress”, “specification”, and “review” are described in the form of a regular expression in which a vertical bar “|” representing a disjunction is delimited and arranged. This is a user dictionary 1022. This is a description of the selection conditions.

  The user dictionary 1023 is, for example, a user dictionary of first and last names consisting of only one word “Imakyure → Im Salary”. In the dictionary type column, there is a description of “person name”. In the example of this embodiment, since “Im Salary” is a member of the quality G, as a condition for selecting this user dictionary, two terms “quality G” and “shipping determination” are included in the keyword section. Are written side by side in the form of logical sum (OR).

  The user dictionary 1024 is a foreign language user dictionary that enables, for example, conversion to correct spelling as it is when an English word is entered with the original alphabet spelling in the Kana character input mode. It is an academic term related to applied physics in the field.

  This user dictionary 1024 can input English words without switching Kana-Kanji conversion mode (Roman Kana input mode and Alphabet input mode) in a situation where English words appear mixed with Japanese. Help to do. Here, the following two words are stored. One is an entry for converting “rewrit b e” to “rewritable”, and the other is an entry for converting “perform bunch” to “performance”. With these entries, even if you forget to switch the mode and input the English words “rewritable” and “performance” in the Roman kana input mode, you can get the correct alphabet spelling with a single conversion.

The user dictionary 1025 is a technical term dictionary for academic terms related to optical recording media.
Note that each of the above-described user dictionaries is not limited to the above-described examples, and the user can arbitrarily create the minutes according to the content of the meeting to be created and store them in the dictionary repository 102. .

Next, the operation (conference management method) of the conference management system will be described with reference to FIG.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation flow of the conference management system.
First, the user refers to the conference management database 101 via the conference selection unit 103 in FIG. 1, and selects a conference for which the minutes are to be created from the reserved conferences (step S101). When a conference is selected, the conference selection unit 103 refers to the conference management database 101 and acquires a conference property that is detailed information of the selected conference (step S102).

  Subsequently, the dictionary selection unit 104 receives the conference properties acquired by the conference selection unit 103, refers to the user dictionary repository 102, and selects the user dictionary stored in the user dictionary repository 102 from the conference selection unit 103. A user dictionary that best matches the received meeting properties is selected and acquired (step S103). The user dictionary acquired by the dictionary selection unit 104 stores technical terms that match the topic of the selected conference, proper nouns such as the names of conference attendees, and the like.

  Subsequently, the dictionary selection unit 104 sets the user dictionary acquired by the dictionary selection unit 104 as the user dictionary 108 used in the kana-kanji conversion process performed by the kana-kanji conversion unit 105 (S104). It can be used from the kana-kanji conversion unit 105 of the creation unit 110.

  Subsequently, when the user dictionary 108 is set by the dictionary selection unit 104, the minutes creation unit 110 uses the user dictionary 108 to assist the user in creating the minutes. In the process of supporting the creation of the minutes, the kana-kanji conversion unit 105 performs kana-kanji conversion processing with reference to the system dictionary 107 and the user dictionary 108 suitable for the selected conference. At this time, the kana-kanji conversion unit 105 refers to the user dictionary 108 suitable for the conference selected as the subject of the minutes creation, so that the conversion accuracy in the kana-kanji conversion process is increased. For this reason, the character string input in the minutes creation unit 110 can be performed at high speed and accurately.

Here, with reference to the example shown in FIG. 2, the operation (S103, S104) of the dictionary selection unit 104 will be specifically supplemented.
The conference selection unit 103 selects the conference shown in FIG. 2A in step S101 of the flowchart shown in FIG. 4, and the conference properties shown in FIG. 2A are stored in the conference management database 101 in step S102. It is assumed that it has been acquired.

When the meeting property is acquired, in step S103, a user dictionary corresponding to (adapting to) the acquired property is selected from the dictionary repository 102. This selection process proceeds as follows.
First, matching is performed between the character string in each column of the meeting name, attendee, and memo of the property in FIG. 2A and the keyword stored in each of the indexes 1021 of the dictionary repository 102.

  In this example, since the meeting name “Development Progress” and the keyword “Progress” with index number 1 can be matched, “Development Progress”, “Yamada”, “Tanaka”, “Aoki”, “Now Salary”, Matching between the character string in the property such as “Weekly Progress Report” and the keyword in the index is obtained. As a result, the dictionary selection unit 104 selects the dictionary with index number 1 and acquires the user dictionary 1022 from the dictionary repository 102 (step S103). Then, the dictionary selection unit 104 sets the acquired user dictionary 1022 as the user dictionary 108 of the kana-kanji conversion unit 105 (step S104).

  Thereafter, the user takes notes during the software development progress meeting or creates minutes during the software development progress meeting using the minutes creation unit 110. In this case, the kana-kanji conversion unit 105 is used to Make input. At this time, since the user dictionary 1022 storing the technical terms matching the topic of the meeting is set as the user dictionary 108, the minutes creation unit 110 can perform kana-kanji conversion with high accuracy. On the other hand, if an appropriate dictionary is not set in the user dictionary 108, the user takes time to convert kana-kanji to technical terms that appear during the meeting, and as a result, the speed and accuracy of input are greatly reduced. I want.

  Further, when the conference (conference name: shipment determination) shown in FIG. 2B is selected by the conference selection unit 103 in step S101 described above, the user dictionary 1023 is selected through the same steps. . In this case, the character string “Quality G” of the attendee name in the attendee column of the meeting property matches the keyword “Quality G” in the index number 2. The user dictionary 1023 corresponding to this index number stores the contents for performing the personal name conversion of “Imakyu” → “Im Salary”. This is based on the assumption that the quality G has a member whose last name is “Now Salary”.

  The user dictionary 1023 is set as the user dictionary 108 referred to by the kana-kanji conversion unit 105. As a result, when the minutes creation unit 110 creates the minutes and minutes, the surname “Im Salary” of the attendee can be accurately obtained by Kana-Kanji conversion. In meetings where quality G members are attendees, it is highly likely that Mr. Imabayashi, a member of the group, will attend, and when recording the speaker, "Imakyu" → "Now Salary" Although conversion is frequently required, the minutes creation unit 110 can perform such input at high speed and accuracy by referring to the user dictionary 1023.

  Further, in the above-described step S101, when the conference (conference name: conference presentation practice) shown in FIG. 2C is selected by the conference selection unit 103, it is linked to the index number 3 through a similar matching process. The selected user dictionary 1024 and the user dictionary 1025 linked to the index number 4 are selected. The former is selected based on the result of matching the keyword of index number 3 with the character string “English” in the memo, and the latter is the character string of “society” in the conference name. It is selected according to the matching result. The user dictionary 1024 has an entry for converting English words mistakenly input in the Japanese input mode into a correct alphabet string, and the user dictionary 1025 is a dictionary that stores technical terms of the field (optical recording medium). It is.

  When a plurality of user dictionaries are selected by the dictionary selection unit 104, all of them are set as the user dictionary 108 of the kana-kanji conversion unit 105. The user may use a function of setting a plurality of user dictionaries selected from the dictionary repository 102 as the user dictionary 108, or may merge a plurality of user dictionaries selected from the dictionary repository 102 into one dictionary. The user dictionary 108 may be set.

  The conference in FIG. 2C is a conference presentation practice in the field of optical recording media, but it is assumed that the presentation is conducted in English. During the meeting, questions and answers including technical terms in the field will be held in both Japanese and English. Since the user dictionary 1024 is set, even if English is input with the Japanese input mode turned on, correct minutes can be obtained by the normal conversion operation in the minutes generation unit 110, and the question and answer in English The input about becomes easy. In addition, since the user dictionary 1025 which is a technical term dictionary in the field is set, there is an advantage that the technical term creation unit 110 can input technical terms at high speed and with high accuracy.

(Second Embodiment)
Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a configuration of a conference management system according to the second embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the conference management system according to the second embodiment is further modified by processing the dictionary selected by the dictionary selection unit 104 in the configuration shown in FIG. It has a dictionary construction unit 109 for constructing the dictionary 108, and the point of having this dictionary construction unit 109 is a structural difference from the first embodiment. Other configurations are the same as those in the first embodiment described above, and thus the description thereof is omitted.

  Here, the dictionary construction unit 109 receives one or more user dictionaries from the dictionary selection unit 104, processes them, and sets them as the user dictionary 108. The contents of the process include, for example, merging a plurality of user dictionaries, extracting entries belonging to a specific field from the user dictionaries, and the like. When extracting an entry belonging to a specific field, the field information given to the entry in the dictionary may be used. The field to be extracted is specified as field information included in the property information of the conference acquired by the conference selection unit 103 with reference to the conference management database 101.

  As described above, the dictionary construction unit 109 not only sets the user dictionary in the dictionary repository 102 as the user dictionary 108 as it is, but also extracts necessary entries from them, or merges the entries extracted from a plurality of user dictionaries. As a result, a new user dictionary is constructed and set as the user dictionary 108.

  According to the second embodiment of the present invention, for example, only one large vocabulary technical term dictionary is stored in the dictionary repository 102, and it appears that the appearance frequency is high among them depending on the topic of the meeting. It is also easy to create a technical term dictionary with a small vocabulary number and extract it and set it as the user dictionary 108. Alternatively, only one large vocabulary personal name dictionary is prepared in the dictionary repository 102, names of persons expected to appear such as attendees of a meeting are extracted from the dictionary, and a personal name dictionary with a small vocabulary number is created. It is also easy to implement so as to be set as the user dictionary 108.

  In these cases, the created technical term dictionary or personal name dictionary may be temporarily used, and for example, deleted after use. If you use a dictionary with a large vocabulary as it is, it contains many unnecessary ambiguities such as homonymous words, so high conversion accuracy is not necessarily obtained, but depending on the topic topic and the properties of participants in this way By narrowing down the vocabulary and configuring the user dictionary 108, a user dictionary having a necessary and sufficient vocabulary can be configured, and high conversion accuracy can be obtained in the conversion process in the kana-kanji conversion unit 105.

  In the above-described embodiment, as a user dictionary to be stored in the dictionary repository 102, a personal user dictionary created and managed by a conference management system user in his / her own environment is collected and stored. May be. That is, in general, the kana-kanji conversion dictionary is often created and managed by each user individually for their own use. Such a personal Kana-Kanji conversion user dictionary may be stored in the dictionary repository 102 by, for example, automatically copying it at regular intervals.

  As an index, an index for identifying an individual who is a creator / manager of the user dictionary may be assigned. For example, the first name or last name may be stored as a keyword, or the user ID managed by the system may be used as an index. In the latter case, the index 1021 is provided with a term “user ID” as a term at the same level as the “dictionary type”, “field”, and “keyword”, and the value of that term is the value of the user corresponding to the dictionary. What is necessary is just to store the numerical value of user ID.

  In step S103, the dictionary selection unit 104 may refer to the property of the selected conference and select a user dictionary corresponding to all participants of the conference. In general, a plurality of user dictionaries are selected corresponding to a plurality of participants. Each of these is set as a user dictionary of the kana-kanji conversion unit. Alternatively, a plurality of user dictionaries merged into a single dictionary may be set as the user dictionary of the kana-kanji conversion unit. The vocabulary used in the conference is ultimately the vocabulary used by any attendee.

  Each attendee can expect that the vocabulary used by himself / herself at the meeting is registered in the user dictionary for kana-kanji conversion created and managed by himself / herself for use in daily work. Therefore, by setting all of the vocabulary registered in the user dictionary created and managed by the attendee as the user dictionary 108 of the kana-kanji conversion unit, most of the vocabulary appearing at the meeting is the user. Expect to be covered by a dictionary. Such an implementation and its effect are effective in the kana-kanji conversion dictionary that each user can expect to create and manage a personal user dictionary. Please note that it was utilized.

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FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. This example corresponds to the first embodiment of the invention.
As shown in FIG. 6, the conference management system according to the embodiment of the present invention includes an input device A1, a central processing unit (CPU) A2 that operates under program control, a random access memory (RAM) A3, a hard disk A4, An output device A5 is included.

  The hard disk A4 stores a dictionary repository A41 that stores a user dictionary for Kana-Kanji conversion, a conference management database A42 that stores reserved conference information, and a program file A43 that stores an execution format. Here, the dictionary repository A41 corresponds to the dictionary repository 102 of FIG. 1, and the conference management database A42 corresponds to the conference management database 101 of FIG.

  The program file A43 is read into the random access memory A3 and controls the operation of the central processing unit A2. The program file A43 realizes the functions of the conference selection unit 103, the dictionary selection unit 104, and the minutes creation unit 110 in FIG. 1 as functions of the central processing unit A2. The input device A1 is an input device such as a keyboard, and the output device A5 is an output device such as a display terminal.

The operation of this example basically corresponds to the operation of the first embodiment shown in FIG.
First, the program file A43 is read from the hard disk into the random access memory A3 and developed into the area A37 in the memory. In this area A37, as shown in the figure, a conference selection program A31, a dictionary selection program A32, a conference database management program A33, a kana-kanji conversion program A34, a minutes creation support program A35, and an overall control program A36 are expanded. Is done.

  Next, the central processing unit A2 starts operating under the control of the overall control program A36. First, processing corresponding to step S101 of the first embodiment of FIG. 2 is advanced. The conference selection program A31 is configured as a subprogram called from the overall control program A36, and the central processing unit A2 enters the control of the conference selection program A31 under the control of the overall control program A36.

  Under the control of the conference selection program A31, the central processing unit A2 calls the conference database management program A33 as a subprogram and instructs acquisition of a conference list. Then, the control of the central processing unit A2 is under the control of the called conference database management program A33. Under the control of the conference database management program A33, the central processing unit A2 refers to the conference management database A42 storing the conference schedule, extracts a list of reserved conferences, and stores it in the random access memory A3.

  Next, under the control of the conference database management program A33, the central processing unit A2 returns to the caller. Thereby, the control of the central processing unit A2 returns from the conference database management program A33 to the conference selection program A31. Subsequently, under the control of the conference selection program A31, the central processing unit A2 takes out a list of reserved conferences from the random access memory A3 and presents it to the user using the output device A5.

  Further, the central processing unit A2 controls the input device A1 under the control of the conference selection program A31, receives information indicating which of the conferences the user has selected, and stores the information in the random access memory A3. The program is stored inside and returns to the overall control program A36. The above is the process corresponding to step S101 of the process of the first embodiment.

  Next, the central processing unit A2 advances the process corresponding to step S102 in FIG. 2 under the control of the overall control program A36. Specifically, the selected conference information stored in the random access memory A3 is read out, and the conference database management program A33 is called as a subprogram to instruct acquisition of the properties of the selected conference.

  By the call as a subprogram, the control of the central processing unit A2 is transferred under the conference database management program A33. Under the control of the conference DB management program A33, the central processing unit A2 refers to the conference management database A42 stored in the hard disk A4, acquires the property information of the selected conference, and stores it in the random access memory A3. Store temporarily. Thereafter, the conference database management program A33 returns to the caller. By this control, the central processing unit A2 reenters the control of the overall control program A36 that is the caller. The above is the process corresponding to step S102.

  Next, the central processing unit A2 advances the process corresponding to step S103 in FIG. 2 under the control of the overall control program A36. Specifically, the central processing unit A2 refers to the property information of the selected conference previously stored in the random access memory A3, calls the dictionary selection program A32 as a subprogram, and the user dictionary corresponding to the property information Instructing the selection of By calling as a subprogram, the central processing unit A2 enters the control of the dictionary selection program A32.

  Under the control of the dictionary selection program A32, the central processing unit A2 matches the given property information with the user dictionary in the dictionary repository recorded in the hard disk A4. The central processing unit A2 finds the best matching user dictionary and temporarily stores it in the random access memory A3. The matching method is, for example, as described in the first embodiment. Under the control of the dictionary selection program A32, the central processing unit A2 temporarily stores information on which dictionary is matched in the random access memory A2, and returns control to the caller overall control program A31. . The above is the process corresponding to step S103 in FIG.

  Next, under the control of the central processing unit A2 and the overall control program A36, the processing corresponding to step S104 in FIG. Specifically, the central processing unit A2 refers to the dictionary information previously stored in the random access memory A3 and accesses the corresponding user dictionary from the dictionary repository A41. Then, this user dictionary is duplicated as a kana-kanji conversion user dictionary A45. The above is the process corresponding to step S104 in FIG.

  Thereafter, under the control of the overall control program A36, the central processing unit A2 calls the minutes creation support program A35 as a subprogram. By the call as a subprogram, the control of the central processing unit A2 shifts to the control of the minutes creation support program A35. Under the control of the minutes creation support program A35, the central processing unit A2 supports the user to input the minutes and the minutes in the meeting from the keyboard. Specifically, when the user's key input is identified on the input device A1, the kana-kanji conversion program A34 is appropriately called as a subprogram to proceed with kana-kanji conversion processing.

  Under the control of the Kana-Kanji conversion program A34, the central processing unit A2 refers to the Kana-Kanji conversion system dictionary A34 and the Kana-Kanji conversion user dictionary A35 to convert the user input key sequence into Japanese. Go. Since the Kana-Kanji change system dictionary A34 is configured to have appropriate contents corresponding to the topic and attendees of the conference, the conversion accuracy is improved, and as a result, the speed and accuracy of text input are greatly improved. The advantages are as described above. The embodiments of the present invention have been described above.

  In the above-described embodiments and examples, the present invention is expressed as a conference management system. However, the present invention is expressed as a program for causing a computer to execute each stage of the operation (conference management method) of the above-described conference management system. It can also be expressed as a program for causing a computer to function as each component of the conference management system described above.

Although the embodiments and examples of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.
For example, in the above-described embodiments and examples, the kana-kanji conversion has been specifically described as an example. However, the application range of the present invention is not limited to kana-kanji conversion but an input system that performs some conversion on key input. Applicable to. For example, the present invention can be applied to the conversion from Pinyin to a Chinese character string in Chinese input or the conversion from an alphabet to a Korean character string in Korean. Even in such a case, using an appropriate user dictionary for conversion corresponding to the topic and attendees of the conference is extremely effective in improving input efficiency.

  In addition, the present invention can be generally configured and implemented so as to target various dictionaries used in the minutes creation support system. In addition to input conversion dictionaries such as kana-kanji conversion and pinyin kanji conversion, it is easy to implement the present invention for a spell check dictionary, for example. Specifically, the dictionary repository stores spell check dictionaries according to various specialized fields, selects an appropriate dictionary according to the properties of the target meeting, and spells the minutes in the minutes creation support system. It can be set as a dictionary used by the check function.

  In this case, in the configuration of FIG. 6, a spell check program may be used instead of the kana-kanji conversion program A34. The kana-kanji conversion system dictionaries A44 and A45 may be configured as a spell check system dictionary and a spell check user dictionary, respectively. In the above description of the operation, all the kana-kanji conversion program may be read as the spell check program.

Of course, it is easy to use both a kana-kanji conversion dictionary and a spell check dictionary. In that case, the kana-kanji conversion program A34 may be configured and operated with both the kana-kanji conversion function and the spell check function.
Thus, the present invention can be implemented with various modifications.

  The present invention can be widely applied to a system having a minutes creation support function for referring to a user dictionary.

101; Conference management database 102; Dictionary repository 103; Conference selection unit 104; Dictionary selection unit 105; Kana-Kanji conversion unit 106; Character string input unit 107; System dictionary 108; User dictionary 109; Dictionary construction unit 110; A1; input device A2; central processing unit (CPU)
A3: Random access memory (RAM)
A4; Hard disk A5; Output device

Claims (7)

A conference management database that stores the properties of reserved conferences;
A dictionary repository that stores one or more dictionaries;
A conference selection unit that refers to the conference management database, selects a conference for which the minutes are to be created, and acquires properties of the selected conference;
A dictionary selection unit that selects a dictionary from the dictionary repository according to the acquired meeting properties;
A conference management system comprising: a minutes creation unit that supports creation of the minutes using the selected dictionary. The dictionary stored in the dictionary repository is a dictionary for kana-kanji conversion,
The conference management system according to claim 1, wherein the minutes creation unit uses the selected dictionary for kana-kanji conversion processing.   The conference management system according to claim 1, further comprising a dictionary construction unit that constructs a dictionary used in the minutes creation unit by processing the dictionary selected in the dictionary selection unit. . Storing the properties of the reserved meeting in the meeting management database;
Storing one or more dictionaries in a dictionary repository;
Referring to the conference management database, selecting a conference for which minutes are to be created, and obtaining properties of the selected conference;
Selecting a dictionary from the dictionary repository according to the acquired meeting properties;
Supporting the creation of the minutes by using the selected dictionary. The dictionary stored in the dictionary repository is a dictionary for kana-kanji conversion,
The conference management method according to claim 4, wherein the selected dictionary is used for Kana-Kanji conversion processing.   6. The conference management method according to claim 4, further comprising the step of constructing a dictionary used in the minutes creation by processing the selected dictionary.   The program for making a computer perform each step of the meeting management method in any one of Claim 4 thru | or 6.

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