JP2012003382A - Application document information processor, application document information processing method and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an application document information processor capable of easily creating an application document.SOLUTION: An application document information processor is provided with: an application document information storage unit 101 for storing application document information to be used for a patent application; a word/phrase management information storage unit 102 for storing word/phrase management information having words/phrases relating to the patent application and word/phrase explanation information showing explanations relating to the words/phrases; a designation reception unit 103 for receiving a designation of a character string with respect to the application document information; a detection unit 104 for detecting an independent word included in the character string whose designation has been received by the designation reception unit 103; a word/phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 for acquiring the word/phrase explanation information corresponding to the words/phrases included in the independent word detected by the detection unit 104 from the word/phrase management information storage unit 102; a word/phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 for inserting the word/phrase explanation information acquired by the word/phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 into the application document information; and an output unit 107 for outputting the application document information into which the word/phrase explanation information has been inserted by the word/phrase explanation information insertion unit 106.

Description

  The present invention relates to an apparatus used for creating a document used for a patent application.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, devices that support the creation of patent application documents have been developed (see, for example, Patent Document 1). By using such an apparatus, the user can efficiently create an application document for a patent application.

JP2003-316775A (first page, FIG. 1 etc.)

  However, in the conventional application document information processing apparatus, in the conventional example, a process for automatically generating a necessary document in the application document is performed, for example, by changing the order of the text of the claims inputted by the user. However, a description document related to the invention is not automatically created in the application document of the patent application, and such a document has to be input by the user himself / herself. In particular, it is not possible to automatically insert a document or the like related to a part designated by the user in the application document being created. As a result, there has been a problem that an application document cannot be created easily.

  The application document information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes an application document information storage unit that stores application document information that is information of an application document that is a document used for a patent application, a phrase related to a patent application, and an explanation related to the phrase A phrase management information storage unit for storing phrase management information having phrase description information that is information indicating a specification, a designation receiving unit that receives designation of one or more character strings for application document information, and a designation receiving unit that designates Acquisition of phrase explanation information that acquires from the phrase management information storage section the phrase management information storage section that detects one or more independent words included in the received character string and the phrase description information corresponding to the phrases included in the independent words detected by the detection section The phrase explanation information insertion section for inserting the phrase explanation information acquired by the phrase and phrase explanation information acquisition section into the application document information, and the application document information in which the phrase explanation information insertion section has inserted the phrase explanation information is output. A filed document-processing device that includes a that output section.

  With this configuration, an application document can be easily created. In particular, by using such an application document information processing apparatus, it is possible to realize a method of explaining the configuration, terms, etc. in a legal document.

  Further, the application document information processing apparatus of the present invention is the application document information processing apparatus, wherein the phrase explanation information insertion unit is a self-supporting word at a position in a positional relationship designated in advance with respect to the self-supporting word detected by the detection unit. This is an application information processing apparatus for inserting word explanation information corresponding to.

  With this configuration, the phrase explanation information can be inserted at an appropriate position in the application document information.

  In the application document information processing apparatus of the present invention, in the application document information processing apparatus, the detection unit is designated in advance for a character string designated in advance among the character strings accepted by the designation receiving unit. This is an application information processing apparatus for detecting independent words in a positional relationship.

  With this configuration, for example, it is possible to selectively detect an independent word from which the phrase explanation information is to be acquired, and to insert the phrase explanation information optimal for the application document.

  In the application document information processing apparatus of the present invention, in the application document information processing apparatus, the detection unit is used to explain a constituent element name that is a phrase indicating a name of the constituent element of the application document or a technique of the application document. The application document information processing apparatus detects a term as a phrase from a character string received by a designation receiving unit.

  With this configuration, it is possible to selectively insert word explanation information corresponding to the component name or term.

  Further, in the application document information processing apparatus of the present invention, in the application document information processing apparatus, the phrase explanation information insertion unit includes the phrase explanation information as a sentence next to the last sentence including the character string designated by the designation receiving unit. This is an application information processing apparatus to be inserted.

  With this configuration, the phrase explanation information can be inserted at an appropriate position in the application document information.

  Further, in the application document information processing apparatus of the present invention, in the application document information processing apparatus, the phrase explanation information insertion unit is a phrase explanation corresponding to the independent word as a sentence next to the sentence including the independent word detected by the detection unit. This is an application information processing apparatus for inserting information.

  With this configuration, the phrase explanation information can be inserted at an appropriate position in the application document information.

  In the application document information processing apparatus of the present invention, in the application document information processing apparatus, the phrase management information storage unit is used as at least a part of a component name that is a phrase indicating the name of the component of the application document. The component management information that is the phrase management information including the component element phrase that is a phrase and the component description information that is the phrase description information including information indicating the insertion position of the component name is stored, and the detection unit The component element name is detected from the character string received by the designation receiving unit, and the phrase explanation information acquiring unit manages the component element description information corresponding to the component element phrase included in the component element name detected by the detection unit. The phrase explanation information insertion unit, which is obtained from the information, inserts the component element description information in which the component name detected by the detection unit is inserted into the position indicated by the information indicating the insertion position of the component element in the application document information It is a cancer document-processing device.

  With this configuration, it is possible to insert the component element description information in which the component element name is inserted, and it is possible to improve the efficiency of creating the application document information.

  According to the application document information processing apparatus and the like according to the present invention, an application document can be easily created.

Block diagram of application information processing apparatus 1 in an embodiment of the present invention Flow chart for explaining the operation of the information processing apparatus of the same application Flow chart for explaining the operation of the information processing apparatus of the same application Flow chart for explaining the operation of the information processing apparatus of the same application The figure which shows the application document information for demonstrating operation | movement of the application document information processing apparatus The figure which shows the component management information for demonstrating operation | movement of the same application document information processing apparatus The figure which shows the term management information for demonstrating operation | movement of the same application document information processing apparatus The figure which shows the example of a display of application document information for demonstrating operation | movement of the same application document information processing apparatus The figure which shows the example of a display of application document information for demonstrating operation | movement of the same application document information processing apparatus The figure which shows an example of the external appearance of the computer which implement | achieves the application document information processing apparatus in the embodiment The figure which shows an example of a structure of the computer which implement | achieves the application document information processing apparatus in the embodiment

  Hereinafter, embodiments of an application document information processing apparatus and the like will be described with reference to the drawings. In addition, since the component which attached | subjected the same code | symbol in embodiment performs the same operation | movement, description may be abbreviate | omitted again.

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FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an application document information processing apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment.

  The application document information processing apparatus 1 includes an application document information storage unit 101, a phrase management information storage unit 102, a designation reception unit 103, a detection unit 104, a phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105, a phrase description information insertion unit 106, and an output unit 107. Prepare.

  The application document information storage unit 101 stores application document information that is application document information that is a document used for a patent application. The application document information is, for example, information included in application documents submitted to the Patent Office in a patent application. The application document information is, for example, document information including information related to the invention in the application document. The information related to the invention is information such as the definition of the invention and the description of the invention. For example, the application document information may be considered to exclude a part that does not include technical content of the invention in the document that forms the application document. The application document information is, for example, information of a document that is submitted at the time of filing a patent and whose so-called document name is a description, claims, abstract, or the like. However, since these document names may vary depending on the format of the application, information having document names corresponding to these document names can be considered as application document information. Further, it does not matter whether the application document information is information on a document that is directly used in a patent application or information on a document that is used indirectly. For example, the application document information may be information during creation of the application document as described above, or draft information of the application document. It does not matter whether the application document information is finally submitted to the JPO. The application document information is information including a character string. However, image information may be included. Here, the character string is considered to include one or more characters. Moreover, you may think that a character contains special characters, such as a control symbol. The file format of application document information is not limited.

  The process in which application document information is stored in the application document information storage unit 101 does not matter. For example, application document information input via an input device such as a keyboard may be accumulated in the application document information storage unit 101. Application document information may be stored in the application document information storage unit 101 via a recording medium, and application document information transmitted via a communication line or the like may be stored in the application document information storage unit 101. It may be. The same applies to other storage units.

  The storage here is a concept including temporary storage. For example, a state in which application document information being created by a user or the like is temporarily stored in a storage medium such as a memory may be considered as storage. The application document information storage unit 101 is preferably a non-volatile recording medium, but can also be realized by a volatile recording medium.

  The phrase management information storage unit 102 stores phrase management information. The phrase management information includes one or more phrases related to the patent application and phrase explanation information that is information indicating an explanation about each phrase.

  A phrase is information on a character string. The phrase stored in the phrase management information storage unit 102 is usually an independent word. The phrase related to the patent application is, for example, a phrase used in the application document. The phrase related to the patent application is, for example, a phrase used for explaining the invention of the application document, specifically, for explaining the technology. The word / phrase related to the patent application is, for example, a word / phrase that is used in an application document, and that is considered to require explanation regarding the word / phrase. A phrase related to a patent application is, for example, a phrase that has been used in one or more past patent applications. In the phrase management information storage unit 102, the phrase and the phrase explanation information may be managed with different management information or the like according to type, attribute, usage, or the like.

  The phrase explanation information is character string information. The phrase explanation information may be information that describes the entire corresponding phrase, or information that describes a part of the corresponding phrase. The phrase explanation information may be information explaining the meaning of the phrase or information explaining the definition of the phrase. Moreover, the information which shows the specific illustration etc. about a phrase may be sufficient. Moreover, the information explaining the character string containing a phrase may be sufficient. For example, it may be information indicating a description of a character string including a phrase, a definition of a character string including a phrase, a specific example of a character string including a phrase, and the like.

  The word / phrase stored in the word / phrase management information storage unit 102 may be a component word / phrase that is a word / phrase used for at least a part of a component name that is a word / phrase indicating the name of the component of the application document. The constituent elements are, for example, necessary matters and elements for specifying the invention. The constituent element phrase may be any phrase that can be used as a part of the constituent element name. The constituent element phrases are, for example, patent terms, technical terms, technical terms, and academic terms. As the constituent element phrase, a phrase used as at least part of the constituent element name in various past patent applications and the like may be used. Further, the phrase explanation information corresponding to the constituent element phrase may be information explaining a constituent element that is considered to have a constituent element name including the constituent element phrase. For example, information indicating a component having a component name including a phrase, definition of the component, component realization means, implementation method, component operation, specific example of the component, and the like. May be.

  The phrase management information storage unit 102 uses, for example, a component phrase that is a phrase used for at least a part of a component name that is a phrase indicating the name of the component of the application document, and the component phrase. The component management information that is the phrase management information that associates the component description information that is the phrase description information including information indicating the insertion position of the component name may be stored. The component element description information is information that describes, for example, a component having a component element name including the component element phrase as described above. For example, information about a component having a component name including a component word or phrase, definition of the component, means for realizing the component, realization method, operation of the component, specific example of the component, etc. It is.

  The information indicating the insertion position included in the component element description information may be any information as long as the information can indicate the position where the component element name is inserted. For example, it may be a character string designated in advance arranged at a position where the component name is inserted. Or the information which shows the order etc. which counted the character immediately before or after the position where a component name is inserted from the head or the last character of component description information. Moreover, the information which shows the character string immediately before or after the position where a component name is inserted may be sufficient. In addition, as the component element phrase, a value for designating a component element name that does not include any of the other component element phrases stored in the component element management information may be stored. For example, if “<other>” in a component word / phrase is a value that specifies a component that does not contain any other component, the component name that does not contain any other component word / phrase The phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 detects that the element name includes the element phrase “<other>”. Alternatively, a phrase obtained by regularizing a phrase included in the component name may be included. For example, if “[1-9]” is a regular expression of an arbitrary one-character number from 1 to 9, the constituent element phrase “[1-9]” output unit is It becomes a component word phrase indicating the component name up to 9 output parts

  Further, the phrase management information storage unit 102 includes, for example, a term element phrase that is a phrase used for at least a part of a term that is a phrase used to describe the technology of the application document, and phrase explanation information about the term element phrase The term management information that is the phrase management information that associates the term explanation information with the term management information may be stored. The term may be any term as long as it is a term used to describe the technology of the application document. Terms are, for example, patent terms, technical terms, technical terms, academic terms, and the like. The term explanation information is information indicating the definition of the term, the explanation of the term, the means for realizing the term, the realizing method, the operation of the term, a specific example of the term, and the like. The term explanation information may be the same explanation information about the event indicated by the character string in which the term is used.

  In the present embodiment, a case will be described as an example where the above-described component management information and term management information are stored in the phrase management information storage unit 102 as the phrase management information.

  The phrase management information storage unit 102 is preferably a nonvolatile recording medium, but can also be realized by a volatile recording medium.

  The designation accepting unit 103 accepts designation of a character string of one or more characters for the application document information. Specifically, designation of at least a part of character strings in the character string included in the application document information is accepted. The specification of the character string may be considered as the specification of the selection range of the character string. The designation of the character string may be a character unit, a sentence unit, or a paragraph unit, and the unit of the designated character string is not limited. The character string received by the designation receiving unit 103 is preferably a character string including two or more independent words. The character string for which the designation accepting unit 103 accepts designation is usually a continuous character string, but designation of discrete character strings may be accepted. Receiving the designation of the character string means accepting information for designating the character string, for example.

  For example, if the document indicated by the application document information output on the monitor or the like is dragged from the start point to the end point of the character string that the user wants to specify by operating a pointing device such as a mouse, the dragged character string The designation accepting unit 103 accepts the designation.

  The reception described here is a concept including reception of information input from an input device such as a keyboard, a mouse, and a touch panel. The input means may be anything such as a numeric keypad, keyboard, mouse or menu screen. The designation receiving unit 103 can be realized by a device driver for input means such as a numeric keypad or a keyboard, control software for a menu screen, and the like.

  The detection unit 104 detects one or more independent words included in the character string that the specification receiving unit 103 has received the specification. The detection unit 104 may detect at least one or more independent words included in the character string received by the designation receiving unit 103. In addition, it is preferable that the detection part 104 detects two or more independent words from the character string which the designation | designated reception part 103 received designation | designated. The independent words detected by the detecting unit 104 are, for example, independent words used as acquisition targets of the corresponding phrase explanation information among the independent words included in the character string received by the designation receiving unit 103. An independent word is a character string that has meaning alone. Independent words in the present embodiment are not limited to single-phrase character strings, and may be composed of multi-phrase character strings. The independent words detected by the detection unit 104 are, for example, component names that are the names of the components of the application document described above, and terms that are words used to describe the technology of the application document. Detecting an independent word may be considered as specifying an independent word. The detection unit 104 may acquire the detected independent word, or may acquire information indicating a position where the detected independent word is arranged. Moreover, you may give the information which shows having been detected to the detected independent word.

  Note that the detection unit 104 may detect independent words in units of sentences included in a designated character string that is a character string accepted by the designation receiving unit 103. The sentence in the designated character string may be considered as, for example, a character string delimited by a punctuation mark or a line feed code in the designated character string. Further, the sentence here does not necessarily have to be a sentence in which the head of the sentence or the end of the sentence is included in the designated character string. In this case, the same independent word as that detected in one sentence may not be detected in other sentences.

  The detection unit 104 may detect one or more independent words by any process. For example, the detection unit 104 may detect an independent word using a natural language processing technique such as so-called morphological analysis. Independent words may also be detected using search processing. Moreover, the detection part 104 may detect the independent word in the positional relationship designated beforehand with respect to the character string beforehand designated among the character strings which the designation | designated reception part 103 received. An example is shown below.

1) Example of independent word detection using morphological analysis For example, the search unit 104 performs morphological analysis on a character string that the specification receiving unit 103 has received a specification, and acquires a character string such as a word for each part of speech. Or, among character strings such as words obtained as a result of morphological analysis, a character string excluding a character string of a predetermined part-of-speech that becomes a pre-designated independent word, a character string that is not a pre-designated independent word, etc. Is detected. For example, the search unit 104 is a character string obtained by excluding a predetermined character string to be excluded, such as “Yes”, “Yes”, “Yes”, etc., from the result of the morphological analysis. “Noun”, “verb”, “adjective” or “unknown word” other than word, “number”, “suffix” and “prefix” are acquired. And the character string obtained by the result of these morphological analyzes is acquired as an independent word. Note that a combination of two or more character strings arranged in sequence among character strings of predetermined parts of speech acquired by morphological analysis may be detected as independent words. For example, as a morphological analysis system, for example, “MeCab” (http://mecab.sourceforge.net/) or “ChaSen” (http://chasen-legacy.sourceforge.jp) /) Etc. can be used.

2) Example of detecting independent words using search processing The detection unit 104 searches, for example, a character string that matches one or more independent words prepared in advance with respect to a character string that the specification receiving unit 103 has received specification. To detect independent words. At this time, the search unit 104 may use one or more independent words stored in advance in a storage medium (not shown) as the one or more independent words prepared in advance, or may be stored in the phrase management information storage unit 102 described above. Stored phrases may be used.

3) Independent word detection using positional relationship with a character string designated in advance The detection unit 104 accepts designation of a character string that matches one or more character strings designated in advance, for example. Search for a character string. And the character string which has the positional relationship designated beforehand with respect to the detected character string is detected. The character string in the positional relationship designated in advance is a character string arranged immediately before or after the detected character string, or at a position overlapping with a part or all of the detected character string. Alternatively, it may be a character string arranged at a position that is a predetermined number of characters or clauses apart from the searched character string. The character string in the predetermined positional relationship detected by the detection unit 104 is, for example, a continuously arranged kanji character string in the predetermined positional relationship. A kanji string is one or more kanji characters arranged consecutively. A kanji string is, for example, a string of kanji that is sandwiched between characters other than kanji. Alternatively, when the pre-designated positional relationship indicates the start or end of a character string searched with one or more pre-designated character strings, this start end (or end) and immediately before a character other than Kanji It is a kanji string that ends with (or immediately after) the character. In addition, the character string in the positional relationship designated in advance may be a character string of one or more parts of speech designated in succession arranged in the positional relationship designated in advance. The one or more character strings designated in advance are, for example, clue phrases used for detecting independent words. The clue phrase is stored in advance in a storage unit such as a storage medium (not shown). In addition, information indicating a predetermined positional relationship with respect to a clue phrase may be prepared for each clue phrase and managed in association with the clue phrase, or information indicating a positional relation common to a plurality of clue phrases is not illustrated. It may be stored in a storage unit or the like. The clue phrase is, for example, “system”, “apparatus”, “means”, “part”, “server”, and the like. Also, “do”, “is” or the like may be used. In addition, the clue phrase may be one using a regular expression at least in part. A regular expression is to represent a set of character strings (a character string group) with one character string. For example, if [0-9] of the clue phrase “No. [0-9]” is a regular expression indicating one character from 0 to 9, the clue phrase “No. [0-9]” Is substantially a clue phrase indicating a character string from “first” to “ninth”. In this process, a search using a clue phrase may be narrowed down by combining a plurality of clue phrases. In this case, the clue phrase may include a clue phrase to be excluded.

  Note that the above processing example is an example, and other processing may be used. Further, two or more of the above processes may be performed in combination.

  When the component management information and the term management information are stored in the phrase management information storage unit 102, the detection unit 104 detects the component name that is a phrase indicating the name of the component of the application document, or the technology of the application document. It is preferable to detect a term that is a phrase used in the description of the above from a character string received by the designation receiving unit 103.

  For example, in 3) described above, the detection unit 104 uses the positional relationship with a specific clue phrase, so that the detection unit 104 detects the component name from the character string received by the designation reception unit 103. Can do.

  For example, as a clue phrase, a regular expression cue phrase that designates a numeric string composed of one or more numbers is used, and as the information indicating a pre-specified positional relationship, a continuous noun immediately before a character string that matches the cue phrase The component name can be acquired by using the information indicating the Chinese character string. For example, if the character string in the application document information that “the video output device 344 acquires the video information and is the first” is designated by the designation accepted by the designation accepting unit 103, From the character string, the detection unit 104 detects “344” as a character string that matches the clue phrase, and the character string “up to“, ”(punctuation) other than the kanji character is used as a continuous kanji character string immediately before the character string. Video output device "is detected. In this way, the detection unit 104 detects “video output device” as the component name. However, in this case, since the “first” of the character string “first” in the same designated character string is also acquired as the component name, in order not to detect this character string, the final It is also possible to provide a selection condition such that the character string “No.” of the detected character strings is not acquired as a component name, and a character string that matches this condition may not be acquired. Note that the kanji strings and nouns can be acquired by the morphological analysis described above.

  In addition, “system”, “apparatus”, “part”, “means”, “circuit”, “device”, etc. are used as clue phrases, and the clue phrases coincide with the clue phrases as information indicating the positional relationship designated in advance. The component name can also be obtained by using information that specifies a character string that includes a character string that includes the character string at the end and that includes a string of consecutive nouns or kanji characters that are placed immediately before the character string that matches this clue phrase. It is possible to obtain. For example, if a character string similar to the above is designated by the designation receiving unit 103, “device” is detected from this character string, and “video output” is a continuous kanji character string immediately before the detected character string. ”Is detected, and a character string“ video output device ”obtained by combining the two detected character strings is detected as a component name.

  Moreover, the detection part 104 can detect the term which is an independent word by performing the process of 1) mentioned above, for example. When acquiring a term, in the process of 2), the term element phrase managed by the term management information described above may be used instead of the phrase used for the search.

  Note that an independent word detected by a process other than the process of detecting the component name may be considered as a term.

  The detection unit 104 can be usually realized by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the detection unit 104 is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded in a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  The phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 acquires phrase explanation information corresponding to the phrase included in the independent word detected by the detection unit 104 from the phrase management information storage unit 102. The phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 includes a phrase included in the phrase management information including a phrase that completely matches or is included in the independent word detected by the detection unit 104 among the phrase management information stored in the phrase management information storage unit 102. Get descriptive information. In particular, when the detection unit 104 searches for an independent word that matches the word / phrase in the word / phrase management information in the above-described process 2), the phrase explanation information of the word / phrase management information having the word / phrase used for the search for the independent word is acquired To do.

  When the component management information is stored in the phrase management information storage unit 102 and the detection unit 104 acquires the component name from the character string received by the designation receiving unit 103, the phrase explanation information acquiring unit 105 Preferably, the component element description information corresponding to the component element phrase included in the component element name detected by the detection unit 104 is acquired from the component element management information. For example, the phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 includes a component phrase that completely matches or is included in the component name detected by the detection unit 104 in the component management information stored in the phrase management information storage unit 102. Get component description information of element management information.

  When the term management information is stored in the phrase management information storage unit 102 and the detection unit 104 acquires a term from the character string received by the designation receiving unit 103, the phrase explanation information acquiring unit 105 detects the term. It is preferable to obtain term explanation information corresponding to the term element phrase included in the term detected by the unit 104 from the term management information. For example, the phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 includes the term management information including the term element phrase that completely matches or is included in the term detected by the detection unit 104 among the term management information stored in the phrase management information storage unit 102. Get term explanation information.

  When a plurality of the same independent words are included in the specified range, it is useless to acquire and insert the word explanation information corresponding to the independent words redundantly. Therefore, the word explanation information acquisition unit 105 includes a detection unit. For the independent word detected by 104, unique processing may be performed to acquire only one independent word, or the same independent word as the independent word for which the phrase explanation information has already been acquired is designated the same. When detected within the range, it is preferable that the phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 does not acquire the phrase explanation information again for this independent word. Further, when the detection unit 104 detects independent words in units of sentences included in the designated character string, the phrase management information storage unit 102 may also perform processing for acquiring the phrase explanation information in units of sentences.

  The phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 can be usually realized by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded in a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  The phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 inserts the phrase explanation information acquired by the phrase description information acquisition unit 105 into the application document information. Inserting the phrase explanation information into the application document information may be considered as inserting a character string indicated by the phrase explanation information into a document indicated by the application document information.

  The phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 inserts phrase explanation information corresponding to the independent word at a position in the application document information that has a positional relationship designated in advance with respect to the independent word detected by the detection unit 104, for example. The phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 may insert the phrase explanation information before and after the independent word detected by the detection unit 104.

  In addition, the phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 specifies, for example, as a position having a positional relationship designated in advance with respect to the independent word detected by the detecting unit 104, in particular, the designation receiving unit 103 that is an area including the independent word is designated. The phrase explanation information corresponding to this independent word may be inserted at a position in the application document information that is in a positional relationship designated in advance with respect to the character string that received the word. For example, the phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 may insert the phrase explanation information before and after the character string that the designation accepting unit 103 that is an area including the independent word detected by the detecting unit 104 accepts the designation. For example, the phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 may insert the phrase explanation information as a sentence next to the last sentence including the character string accepted by the designation receiving unit 103. Further, for example, the phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 may insert the phrase explanation information as a sentence next to the last paragraph including the character string accepted by the designation receiving unit 103. The last sentence or paragraph including a character string for which designation is accepted means, for example, the last sentence or paragraph of sentences or paragraphs including at least a part of the character string for which designation is accepted. Inserting as the next sentence does not matter whether a control code such as a line feed code or a space is placed between the inserted sentence and the sentence before the insertion. means. For example, when inserting the phrase explanation information, the phrase explanation information may be inserted after inserting a line feed code and a space for one character. Further, the phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 may insert the phrase explanation information corresponding to the independent word as a sentence next to the sentence including the independent word detected by the detection unit 104. This is the same regardless of whether the word explanation information acquired by the word explanation information acquisition unit 105 is term explanation information or component explanation information. Note that the information indicating the insertion position of the phrase explanation information is accumulated in advance in a storage medium (not shown), for example.

  Here, an example in which the phrase explanation information is inserted into the phrase explanation information will be described.

A) Inserted immediately after the designated character string The phrase explanation information inserting unit 106 is, for example, a phrase acquired by the phrase explanation information acquiring unit 105 immediately after a character string (hereinafter, designated character string) received by the designation receiving unit 104. Insert descriptive information.

B) Inserted as the next sentence of the sentence including the detected phrase The phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 starts from the independent word detected in the character string accepted by the detection unit 104, for example, toward the end of the sentence. The character string is scanned while shifting one character at a time, and the appearing “. (Punctuation mark)”, “line feed code” or “.” And a combination of the line feed code are detected. Then, the acquired word explanation information is inserted after the detected character string.

C) Inserted as the sentence following the last sentence including the designated character string The phrase explanation information inserting unit 106, for example, of the last sentence (the last sentence) of the sentences including at least a part of the designated character string The acquired word explanation information is inserted as the next sentence. For example, it is determined whether or not the last character of the specified character string is either “.” Or a line feed code, and if so, the acquired word explanation information is inserted as the next sentence of the specified character string. To do. If none of them is specified, the character string is scanned while shifting one character at a time toward the end of the sentence, starting from the first character of the specified character string, the last character of the specified character string, or the next character of the specified character string. Then, the appearing “. (Punctuation mark)”, “new line code” or “.” And a combination of the new line code are detected. Then, the acquired word explanation information is inserted after the detected character string.

D) Inserted as the sentence following the last paragraph including the designated character string The phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 includes, for example, the last paragraph (the last paragraph) of the paragraphs including at least a part of the designated character string. The acquired word explanation information is inserted as the next sentence (or next paragraph). First, if a paragraph is considered to be a character string delimited by a line feed code, for example, it is determined whether or not the last character of the specified character string is a line feed code. Insert the acquired word explanation information. If it is not a line feed code, the character string is shifted by one character toward the end of the sentence starting from the first character of the specified character string, the last character of the specified character string, or the next character of the specified character string. Scan to detect new line codes that appear. Then, the acquired word explanation information is inserted after the detected line feed code. In addition, a paragraph is considered to be a character string delimited by a combination of a line feed code and a space, a combination of a line feed code and a black bracket, or a combination of a line feed code, a space and a black bracket. In this case, for example, it is determined whether or not the last character string of the designated character string matches any of these combinations. If they match, the acquired word explanation information is inserted thereafter. If they do not match, the character string is scanned starting from the first character of the specified character string or the last character string of the specified character string while shifting one character at a time toward the end of the sentence. A character string that matches is detected. Then, the acquired word explanation information is inserted after the detected character string.

  The rule used when determining the insertion position as described above may be different depending on whether the word explanation information to be inserted is term explanation information or component element explanation information.

  In addition, when the detection unit 104 detects independent words for each sentence included in the designated character string and the phrase management information storage unit 102 acquires the phrase explanation information for each sentence, the phrase description information is acquired for each sentence. At this point, the phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 may insert the phrase explanation information. Further, in this case, the phrase explanation information may be inserted into the insertion position corresponding to the sentence that is the detection target of the independent word.

  When the phrase explanation information acquired by the phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 is component element description information, the phrase description information insertion unit 106 is detected by the detection unit 104 at the position indicated by the information indicating the insertion position of the component element. The component description information in which the component name is inserted may be inserted into the application document information. Inserting the component element description information into the application document information may be considered as inserting a character string indicated by the component element description information into the document indicated by the application document information. Inserting a component name means that, for example, if a character string that is information indicating the insertion position is placed at a position where the component element name of the component element description information is inserted, this character string It may be arranged by replacing with a name, or a character string indicating the insertion position may be deleted, and a component name may be inserted at the deleted position. In addition, when the information indicating the insertion position is information indicating the position of the character immediately before or after the insertion position, the component name may be inserted at this position and the information indicating the insertion position may be deleted. . When a code, that is, a numeric string is arranged immediately after the component name detected by the detection unit 104, the numeric string is also acquired together with the component name, and the component in the component description information is inserted. It is preferable to insert in The number string can be detected by, for example, a search using a regular expression as described above, morphological analysis, or the like.

  In addition, when the phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 arranges the phrase explanation information, a character string, a line feed code, or the like designated in advance may be arranged before or after the phrase explanation information. This character string is preferably composed of characters such as parentheses and “*” that are not frequently used in application documents. Further, when the phrase explanation information is arranged, the character format information of the phrase explanation information to be arranged may be different from the format information of the insertion destination. Thereby, the position where the word explanation information is inserted in the application document can be clearly indicated.

  The phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 is usually realized by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the word explanation information insertion unit 106 is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded in a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  The output unit 107 outputs the application document information in which the phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 has inserted the phrase explanation information. The output described here means display on a display, projection using a projector, printing on a printer, transmission to an external device, storage on a recording medium, processing result to other processing devices or other programs, etc. It is a concept that includes delivery. A program is an instruction for a procedure of processing (calculation, operation, communication, etc.) performed by a computer.

  The output unit 107 may or may not include an output device such as a display. The output unit 107 can be realized by output device driver software, or output device driver software and an output device.

  FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the application document information processing apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment. Hereinafter, an example of the operation of the application document information processing apparatus 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. Here, the case where the component management information and the term management information are stored as the phrase management information in the phrase management information storage unit 102 will be described as an example.

  (Step S201) The designation receiving unit 103 determines whether or not designation of a character string for the application document information stored in the application document information storage unit 101 has been received. If accepted, the process proceeds to step S202. If not accepted, the process returns to step S201. The designation of the character string may be received after the process of step S202.

  (Step S202) The phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 determines whether or not an instruction to insert phrase explanation information has been received for the part for which designation has been received in step S201. For example, it is determined whether an insertion instruction is received from an input device (not shown) or the like via a reception unit (not shown). If accepted, the process proceeds to step S203. If not accepted, the process returns to step S202.

  (Step S203) The phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 reads the application document information from the phrase management information storage unit 102. For example, the data is read out to a storage medium such as a memory (not shown). Note that the application document information acquired here may be the entire application document information, but is a character string including at least the character string that has been designated in step S202, and it is considered that phrase explanation information is inserted. It may be a character string including a position. For example, when a character string is inserted into the character string that has been designated in step S202, it may be a character string that includes at least the character string that has been designated in step S202, and the character string is designated in step S202. When the character string is inserted in a sentence including at least a part of the accepted character string, immediately after the sentence, or the like, a character string of a sentence having a portion overlapping with the character string accepted in step S202 may be acquired. In addition, when the character string is inserted in a paragraph including at least a part of the character string accepted in step S202, immediately after the paragraph, or the like, the character of the paragraph having a portion overlapping with the character string accepted in step S202 You may get a column. Sentences can be detected using special characters that can serve as sentence separators, such as punctuation marks and line feed codes. The paragraph can be detected using a special character that can be a paragraph break such as a line feed code.

  (Step S204) The application document information processing apparatus 1 performs processing for inserting component element explanation information. Details of this processing will be described later.

  (Step S205) The application document information processing apparatus 1 performs processing for inserting term explanation information. Details of this processing will be described later.

  (Step S206) The output unit 107 determines whether or not the word explanation information (that is, the component element explanation information and the term explanation information) is inserted into the application document information acquired in Step S203 in at least one of Step S04 and Step S205. Judging. If inserted, the process proceeds to step S207. If not inserted, the process returns to step S201.

  (Step S207) The output unit 107 outputs application document information obtained by inserting word explanation information (that is, component element explanation information and term explanation information) into the application document information acquired in Step S203. For example, the application document information read in step S203 of the application document information stored in the application document information storage unit 101 may be replaced with the application document information in which the phrase explanation information is inserted and accumulated. Then, the process returns to step S201.

  In the flowchart of FIG. 2, the process is terminated by powering off or a process termination interrupt.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining details of the process in step S204 of FIG. Hereinafter, details of the processing of the operation of the application document information processing apparatus 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  (Step S301) The detection unit 104 performs a morphological analysis on the character string of which the designation receiving unit 103 has received the designation of the application document information acquired in Step S203. For example, the character string is divided into words, phrases, and the like, and further divided into parts of speech and character types.

  (Step S302) The detection unit 104 substitutes 1 for a counter m.

  (Step S303) The detection unit 104 uses the morpheme analysis result of step S301 from the character string of the application document information acquired in step S203, the specification reception unit 103 receiving the specification, and determines the mth component name. Perform detection processing. For example, the component name is detected using a clue phrase or an array of attributes such as the type of character string indicated by the morphological analysis result. The detection process is performed in order from the beginning of the character string, for example.

  (Step S304) The detection unit 104 determines whether or not the m-th component name has been detected. If detected, the process proceeds to step S305. If not detected, the process returns to the upper process.

  (Step S305) The detection unit 104 substitutes 1 for the counter k.

  (Step S306) The detection unit 104 determines whether or not the k-th component element phrase is included in the component element management information. If there is, the process proceeds to step S307, and if not, the process proceeds to step S313.

  (Step S307) The phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 determines whether or not the m-th constituent element name includes a character string that matches the k-th constituent element phrase. If included, the process proceeds to step S307, and if not included, the process proceeds to step S312.

  (Step S308) The phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 acquires the constituent element description information corresponding to the k-th constituent element phrase from the constituent element management information stored in the phrase management information storage unit 102.

  (Step S309) The phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 inserts the mth constituent element name at the position indicated by the information indicating the insertion position of the constituent element name in the constituent element description information acquired in step S307.

  (Step S310) The phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 uses the information indicating the relationship between the position of the component element name and the insertion position of the component element description information, etc., in step S309 in the application document information acquired in step S203. The position where the component element description information acquired in step 1 is inserted is detected. The information indicating the relationship between the position of the component name and the insertion position may be read from, for example, information stored in advance in a storage medium (not shown).

  (Step S311) The phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 inserts one or more component element explanation information acquired in step S309 at the position detected in step S310 of the application document information acquired in step S203.

  (Step S312) The detection unit 104 increments the value of the counter k by 1. Then, the process returns to step S306.

  (Step S313) The detection unit 104 increments the value of the counter m by 1. Then, the process returns to step S304.

  In the flowchart of FIG. 3, every time the component element description information is acquired in step S308, the component element name inserted into the acquired component element description information is inserted into the application document information. , Temporarily storing all component element description information with the component element name inserted in a storage medium such as a memory (not shown) and temporarily determining that the m-th component element name is absent in step S304. The stored component element description information may be inserted into the application document information.

  Further, the process of acquiring the component element explanation information may be performed for each sentence included in the character string that the designation receiving unit 103 has received the designation. For example, the designation receiving unit 103 performs a process of acquiring the component element description information for one sentence included in the character string received the designation, and temporarily stores the acquired component element description information in a storage medium such as a memory. . Then, when the acquisition of one sentence is completed, the insertion position of the acquired component element description information is detected, and the acquired component element description information is inserted into the detected insertion position. Then, this process may be repeated for all sentences included in the character string for which the designation receiving unit 103 has accepted the designation. In addition, the sentence unit included in the character string that received the specification may be considered as a character string unit that is delimited by the punctuation in the character string that received the specification. For example, from the beginning of the character string that received the specification The phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 can detect each sentence from which the component element description information is acquired by scanning the character string one character at a time and detecting the punctuation marks. The same applies to the following.

  In addition, it is preferable that the order which inserts the component description information inserted in the same position is the acquisition order of component description information.

  In the flowchart of FIG. 3, the process ends when the power is turned off or the process is terminated.

  Note that instead of performing the morphological analysis in step S301, a search using a regular expression capable of realizing an equivalent process may be performed in step S303.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining details of the process in step S204 of FIG. Hereinafter, details of the processing of the operation of the application document information processing apparatus 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  (Step S401) The detection unit 104 substitutes 1 for a counter n.

  (Step S402) The detecting unit 104 determines whether or not the nth term element phrase is stored in the term management information. If stored, the process proceeds to step S403. If not stored, the process returns to the upper process.

  (Step S403) The detection unit 104 searches for a term that is a character string that matches the n-th term element phrase in the character string that the designation receiving unit 103 has received the designation of the application document information acquired in step S203. This search may be performed from the beginning of a sentence, for example, and the search may be terminated when a match is detected.

  (Step S404) The detection unit 104 determines whether or not a character string that matches the n-th term element phrase has been detected. If it can be detected, the process proceeds to step S405. If it cannot be detected, the process proceeds to step S408.

  (Step S405) The phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 acquires term explanation information corresponding to the nth term element phrase from the term management information.

  (Step S406) The phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 uses the information indicating the relationship between the position of the searched term and the insertion position of the term explanation information, etc., in step S405 in the application document information acquired in step S203. The position where the term explanation information acquired in step 1 is inserted is detected. The information indicating the relationship between the term position and the insertion position may be read from, for example, information stored in a storage medium (not shown) in advance.

  (Step S407) The phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 inserts the component element explanation information acquired in Step S405 at the position detected in Step S406 of the application document information acquired in Step S203.

  (Step S408) The detection unit 104 increments the value of the counter n by 1. Then, the process returns to step S402.

  In the flowchart of FIG. 4, every time the term explanation information is obtained in step S405, the obtained term explanation information is inserted into the application document information. However, the term explanation information is temporarily stored in a storage medium such as a memory (not shown). The term explanation information may be temporarily stored while being added, and the temporarily stored term explanation information may be inserted into the application document information when it is determined in step S402 that the nth term explanation phrase is absent.

  Further, the process of acquiring the term explanation information may be performed for each sentence included in the character string that the designation receiving unit 103 has received the designation. For example, the designation receiving unit 103 performs the process of acquiring the term explanation information for one sentence included in the character string received the designation in the same manner as described above, and temporarily adds the acquired term explanation information to a storage medium such as a memory. Remember. Then, when the acquisition of one sentence is completed, the insertion position of the acquired term explanation information is detected, and the acquired component element description information is inserted into the detected insertion position. Then, this process may be repeated for all sentences included in the character string for which the designation receiving unit 103 has accepted the designation. In a specific example described later, an example in which such processing is performed will be described.

  Note that the order in which the term explanation information inserted at the same position is inserted is preferably the order in which the term explanation information is acquired.

  In the flowchart of FIG. 4, the process ends when the power is turned off or the process ends.

  Hereinafter, a specific operation of the application document information processing apparatus 1 in the present embodiment will be described.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram showing application document information stored in the application document information storage unit 101. The application document information is, for example, a specification of a patent application being created by the user. Here, it is assumed that the application document information is a text file.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating the component management information in the phrase management information included in the phrase management information storage unit 102. The component management information includes a “component” that is an item that indicates a component name and a “component description” that is an item that indicates component component description information. The character string “<component>” in the component description information is information indicating the position where the component name is inserted.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating term management information among the phrase management information included in the phrase management information storage unit 102. The use management information includes a “term element” that is an item that indicates a term element phrase, and a “term description” that is an item that indicates term explanation information.

  First, the user displays application document information as shown in FIG. 5 on a monitor or the like (not shown) by the output unit 107 or the like. Then, a desired character string starting from this character is selected by focusing on the position where the character string selection in the displayed application document information is to be started and dragging the cursor by operating a mouse (not shown). And By this operation, the designation receiving unit 103 receives the designation of the selected character string. Here, it is assumed that the character string in the selected publication document information is highlighted and output.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a display example of application document information in which a character string is designated. For example, here, it is assumed that the character string “Image is stored in the image storage unit 11. The image processing unit 12 is a user” is selected.

  Then, it is assumed that the user operates the menu or the like to give the application information processing apparatus 1 an instruction to insert word explanation information related to the designated character string.

  The detection unit 104 acquires the application document information for which the designation of the character string has been received in a memory or the like (not shown).

  Next, the application document information processing apparatus 1 performs a process for acquiring a component name. Here, it is assumed that a rule for acquiring a continuous kanji character string arranged immediately before a number string as a component name is set in advance. The detecting unit 104 acquires a designated character string that is a character string of a portion of the application document information that has been designated by the designation receiving unit 103, and performs morphological analysis. Then, using the result of the morphological analysis, the detection unit 104 first detects the first number string from the top of the specified range. Here, “11” is detected as the first number string. Then, an “image storage unit”, which is a continuous kanji character string arranged at a position immediately before this numeric string, is detected as the first component name, and is read out to a storage medium (not shown).

  The phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 reads the constituent element phrase “acceptance” that is the value of the “constituent element” of the first record (top record) of the constituent element management information shown in FIG. "Is included in the first component name" image storage unit ". Here, since the matching character string is not included, it is determined that the constituent element phrase “reception” is not included.

  Next, the phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 reads the constituent element phrase “store” that is the value of the “constituent element” in the second record of the constituent element management information shown in FIG. 6 and matches this “store”. It is determined whether or not the character string is included in the first component name “image storage unit”. Here, since a matching character string is included, it is determined that the component word phrase “store” is included. Therefore, the phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 reads the constituent element explanation information that is the value of “configuration explanation” corresponding to the “store” that is the constituent element phrase from the constituent element management information illustrated in FIG. 6. Specifically, “storage” that is a component element phrase is the value of “component” of the second record of the component management information shown in FIG. 6, and therefore “configuration description” of the same second record. As the component element description information, “<component element> is preferably a non-volatile recording medium” is acquired.

  Furthermore, the phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 sets the first character string at the position indicated by the character string “<component>” that is the information indicating the insertion position of the component name arranged in the acquired component description information. The “image storage unit” which is the component name is inserted. At this time, here, the numeric string immediately after the component name is also acquired and inserted. Then, the character string “<component>” is deleted. As a result, the component element explanation information that “the image storage unit 11 is preferably a non-volatile recording medium” is obtained. Then, the acquired component element description information is temporarily stored in a storage medium such as a memory (not shown).

  Further, in the same manner as described above, the application document information processing apparatus 1 also applies the first constituent element for the constituent element phrase indicated by the value of the “constituent element” in the third and subsequent records of the constituent element management information shown in FIG. If it is included, the component description information corresponding to the component phrase is acquired, and the component description information acquired in the application document information acquired in the memory or the like is acquired. Insert.

  When the above processing for all the records of the component element management information shown in FIG. 6 is completed, the detection unit 104 uses the result of the morpheme analysis to detect the second number string from the top of the specified range. “12” is detected, and “image processing section”, which is a continuous kanji character string arranged at the position immediately before this number string, is detected as the second component name. Then, it is determined whether or not the component name matches the component name detected before. Since they do not match here, this component name is read out to a storage medium (not shown). If they match, the next component name is detected.

  In the same manner as described above, the component word / phrase included in the second component name is detected. Here, it is assumed that none of the “components” in the component management information illustrated in FIG. 6 matches at least a part of the “image processing unit” that is the second component name. For this reason, the detection unit 104 detects “<other>”, which is a value of a component phrase indicating that none of the other component phrases is included. Then, the phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 is the constituent element explanation information corresponding to “<other>” that is the value of the constituent element phrase “<constituent element> is usually realized by an MPU, a memory, etc.”. The component description information “The image processing unit 12 is usually realized by an MPU, a memory, etc.” is created by inserting the component name. Then, this component element explanation information is temporarily stored in a memory or the like (not shown).

  Next, if the third component name is not detected in the designated character string that is the character string accepted by the designation accepting unit 103, the phrase explanation information inserting unit 106 uses the phrase explanation information in the application document information. The insertion position of the component element description information acquired by the acquisition unit 105 and temporarily stored in a memory or the like is detected. Here, for example, it is assumed that it is set in advance that the acquired component element description information is inserted as the next sentence of the last sentence including the character string received by the designation receiving unit 103. Information indicating this setting is stored in advance in a storage medium (not shown), for example. In this case, first, the word explanation information insertion unit 106 determines that the last character of the character string received by the designation receiving unit 103 is a phrase, or a special symbol such as a phrase and a line feed code or a space (for control purposes). It is determined whether it is a combination with the symbol etc.). If it is either of these, the position next to the last phrase of the designated character string is detected as the insertion position of the component element description information. If it is not a punctuation mark or a combination of a punctuation mark and a special symbol, the character after the character string that received the specification is scanned to detect the first punctuation that appears in the specified character string, and then Is detected as an insertion position. In this case, the component element description information insertion position follows “. (Punctuation mark)” in “The image processing unit 12 processes an image according to a user instruction”.

  Then, the phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 inserts the phrase explanation information acquired by the phrase description information acquisition unit 105 at the insertion position detected in the application document information.

  Next, the detection unit 104 starts detecting terms. In the term detection, here, a character string that matches the “term element” included in the term management information shown in FIG. 7 is detected as a term. Term detection is performed in units of sentences included in the designated character string. Here, the sentence unit included in the designated character string is assumed to be a character string unit delimited by a punctuation mark. Each sentence constituting the designated character string by the designation receiving unit 103 is a character string in a range from the beginning of the designated character string until the next punctuation appears, or a character in a range from the first punctuation to the next punctuation If the next punctuation is not detected between the beginning of the string or the specified string (or one punctuation mark) and the last character of the specified string, the end of the specified string from the beginning (or punctuation mark) is detected. It is a character string up to characters.

  First, the detection unit 104 reads the value of the “term element” from the first record of the term management information in FIG. 7, and the character string that matches this value is included in the application document information read to the storage medium such as a memory. The designation receiving unit 103 determines whether or not it is included in the first sentence included in the character string of the part that has received the designation. First, the detection unit 104 uses a character string within a range from the beginning of the designated character string until the first punctuation appears as the character string of the first sentence among the character strings accepted by the designation accepting unit 103. To get. The acquired character string of the first sentence is “Image is stored in the image storage unit 11”. Then, it is determined whether or not the character string of the first sentence includes a character string that matches the value of the “term element”. Specifically, using the read value as a search key, a search is performed for a matching character string in the acquired character string, and when a match is detected, the matching character string is detected as a term. . If not, the value of “term element” is further read from the second and subsequent records, and the above processing is repeated.

  Here, the “term element” of the first record of the term management information is “image”, and the matching character string matches the first two characters of the designated character string. This character string is detected as the first term.

  Then, the phrase explanation information acquisition unit 105 acquires term explanation information corresponding to “image” that is the “term element” of the first record of the term management information. Specifically, the term explanation information of the first record of term management information is acquired. The acquired term explanation information is temporarily stored in a storage medium such as a memory (not shown).

  Since the character string that matches the “image” that is the “term element” of the first record of the term management information has already been detected, the detection unit 104 uses the “term element” of the second record of the term management information. A certain “output” is read, and a character string matching this is detected for the character string until the first punctuation of the designated character string appears. Here, no matching character string is detected in the designated character string.

  For this reason, the detection unit 104 searches for a character string that matches the “storage” that is the “term element” in the third record of the term management information, until the first punctuation in the specified character string appears. Do for columns. Here, since a matching character string is detected, the matching character string is detected as the second term. Thereafter, as described above, term explanation information is acquired for the second detected term and temporarily stored in a storage medium such as a memory (not shown).

  Further, similar to the above, the same processing as above is repeated for the “term elements” of the fourth and subsequent records of the term management information.

  Then, at the time when the processing for obtaining the term explanation information for the first sentence in the designated character string is completed, the phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 detects the insertion position of the term explanation information temporarily stored in the memory or the like. . Here, the first phrase is detected, and the position immediately after that is determined as the insertion position. Then, the phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 inserts the term explanation information temporarily stored at this position of the application document information.

  Furthermore, the detection unit 104 determines whether there is a second sentence in the designated character string. Here, since the character string continues after the first phrase, it is determined that there is a second sentence. Then, since no new punctuation is detected in the character string after the first punctuation of the designated character string, the character string from the character after the first punctuation to the last character of the designated character string is changed to the second sentence. Get as. Here, “the image processing unit 12 is acquired as a character string included in the second sentence”.

  And the process which acquires term explanation information similar to the above is performed also about the 2nd sentence. At this time, the search is not performed for the character string that matches the “term element” in which the matching phrase has already been detected in the sentence before the second sentence. For example, information such as a flag (not shown) indicating the detection may be added to the “term element” in which a matching word is detected.

  Then, assuming that one or more term explanation information has been acquired at the time when the process of obtaining the term explanation information for the second sentence is completed, the phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 determines the insertion position of the acquired term explanation information. To detect. Specifically, here, since the last character of the second sentence of the designated character string is not a punctuation point, the phrase explanation information insertion unit 106 sets the punctuation point next to the first punctuation point included in the designated character string. Detected in application document information. Then, the acquired term explanation information is inserted at a position next to the detected phrase.

  However, here, since the term explanation information is not acquired from the second sentence of the designated character string, the insertion position of the term explanation information and the insertion of the term explanation information are not performed. In addition, since the last character of the second sentence of the designated character string is not the character immediately before the punctuation mark, it is determined that the third and subsequent sentences are not included in the designated character string, and processing for acquiring term explanation information is performed. finish.

  Then, the output unit 107 outputs the application document information in which the component explanation information and the term explanation information stored in the memory or the like are inserted. For example, the output unit 107 replaces the application document information stored in the application document information storage unit 101 with application document information in which component element explanation information and term explanation information stored in a memory or the like are inserted. Then, the replaced application document information is displayed on a monitor (not shown).

  FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a display example of application document information in which component element explanation information and term explanation information are inserted. In the figure, the underlined portion indicates the phrase explanation information inserted by the phrase explanation information insertion unit 106.

  As described above, according to this embodiment, it is possible to automatically insert a document or the like related to the part specified by the user in the application document information, and to easily create application document information. It becomes.

  In the above specific example, the term is detected by a search using a term element phrase, but in this embodiment, the term is detected by performing a morphological analysis from a designated character string in the application document information. Detects specific types of independent words such as nouns and verbs as terms, and acquires term explanation information from term management information by the same process as when obtaining component explanation information for component names Also good.

  Further, in the above specific example, the component element explanation information is also acquired in units of sentences of the designated character string, and the component element explanation information obtained for each sentence is changed to the next of each sentence as in the term explanation information. Needless to say, it can be inserted as a sentence.

  In each of the above embodiments, each process (each function) may be realized by centralized processing by a single device (system), or by distributed processing by a plurality of devices. May be.

  Further, in each of the above embodiments, it goes without saying that two or more communication means (such as an information transmission unit) existing in one apparatus may be physically realized by one medium.

  In the above embodiment, information related to processing executed by each component, for example, information received, acquired, selected, generated, transmitted, and received by each component. In addition, information such as threshold values, mathematical formulas, addresses, etc. used by each component in processing is retained temporarily or over a long period of time on a recording medium (not shown) even when not explicitly stated in the above description. It may be. Further, the storage of information in the recording medium (not shown) may be performed by each component or a storage unit (not shown). Further, reading of information from the recording medium (not shown) may be performed by each component or a reading unit (not shown).

  In each of the above embodiments, the application document information processing apparatus is described as a stand-alone. However, the application document information processing apparatus may be a stand-alone apparatus or a server apparatus in a server / client system. Also good. In the latter case, the accepting unit and the output unit accept input through a communication line or output a screen.

  In each of the above embodiments, each component may be configured by dedicated hardware, or a component that can be realized by software may be realized by executing a program. For example, each component can be realized by a program execution unit such as a CPU reading and executing a software program recorded on a recording medium such as a hard disk or a semiconductor memory.

  The software that realizes the application document information processing apparatus in each of the above embodiments is the following program. That is, this program is a designation receiving unit that accepts designation of a character string of one or more characters for application document information that is application document information that is a document used for a patent application stored in the application document information storage unit. A detection unit that detects one or more independent words included in the character string received by the designation receiving unit, a phrase related to the patent application stored in the phrase management information storage unit, and an explanation relating to the phrase A phrase explanation information acquisition unit that acquires phrase explanation information corresponding to a phrase included in an independent word detected by the detection unit, and a phrase explanation information acquisition unit, from the phrase management information having phrase description information that is information indicating The phrase explanation information insertion unit for inserting the acquired phrase explanation information into the application document information, and the application document information in which the phrase explanation information insertion unit has inserted the phrase explanation information is output. Is a program for functioning as that output.

  In the program, the functions realized by the program do not include functions that can be realized only by hardware. For example, a function that can be realized only by hardware such as a modem or an interface card in an acquisition unit that acquires information or an output unit that outputs information is not included in the function realized by the program.

  Further, the computer that executes this program may be singular or plural. That is, centralized processing may be performed, or distributed processing may be performed.

  FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram showing an example of the appearance of a computer that executes the program and realizes the application information processing apparatus according to the embodiment. The above-described embodiment can be realized by computer hardware and a computer program executed on the computer hardware.

  10, a computer system 900 includes a computer 901 including a CD-ROM (Compact Disk Read Only Memory) drive 905 and an FD (Floppy (registered trademark) Disk) drive 906, a keyboard 902, a mouse 903, a monitor 904, and the like. Is provided.

  FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an internal configuration of the computer system 900. In FIG. 11, in addition to the CD-ROM drive 905 and the FD drive 906, a computer 901 is connected to an MPU (Micro Processing Unit) 911, a ROM 912 for storing a program such as a bootup program, and the MPU 911. A RAM (Random Access Memory) 913 that temporarily stores program instructions and provides a temporary storage space, a hard disk 914 that stores application programs, system programs, and data, and an MPU 911 and a ROM 912 are interconnected. And a bus 915. The computer 901 may include a network card (not shown) that provides connection to the LAN.

  A program that causes the computer system 900 to execute the functions of the application information processing apparatus according to the above-described embodiment is stored in the CD-ROM 921 or the FD 922, inserted into the CD-ROM drive 905 or the FD drive 906, and the hard disk 914 may be forwarded. Instead, the program may be transmitted to the computer 901 via a network (not shown) and stored in the hard disk 914. The program is loaded into the RAM 913 when executed. The program may be loaded directly from the CD-ROM 921, the FD 922, or the network.

  The program does not necessarily include an operating system (OS) or a third-party program that causes the computer 901 to execute the functions of the application information processing apparatus according to the above-described embodiment. The program may include only a part of an instruction that calls an appropriate function (module) in a controlled manner and obtains a desired result. How the computer system 900 operates is well known and will not be described in detail.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications are possible, and it goes without saying that these are also included in the scope of the present invention.

  As described above, the application document information processing apparatus according to the present invention is suitable as an apparatus used for generating application document information, and is particularly useful as an apparatus that supports the generation of application document information.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Application document information processing apparatus 101 Application document information storage part 102 Phrase management information storage part 103 Designation reception part 104 Search part 105 Phrase explanation information acquisition part 106 Phrase explanation information insertion part 107 Output part

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An application document information storage unit that stores application document information that is application document information that is a document used for a patent application; and
A phrase management information storage unit that stores phrase management information having phrases related to the patent application and phrase explanation information that is information indicating an explanation of the phrase;
A designation receiving unit that accepts designation of a character string of one or more characters for the application document information;
A detection unit for detecting one or more independent words included in the character string received by the designation receiving unit;
A phrase explanation information acquisition unit that acquires phrase explanation information corresponding to a phrase included in an independent word detected by the detection unit from the phrase management information storage unit;
The phrase explanation information insertion unit that inserts the phrase explanation information acquired by the phrase explanation information acquisition unit into the application document information;
An application document information processing apparatus comprising: an output unit that outputs the application document information into which the word explanation information insertion unit has inserted the word explanation information. 2. The application document according to claim 1, wherein the word explanation information insertion unit inserts the word explanation information corresponding to the independent word at a position in a predetermined positional relationship with respect to the independent word detected by the detection unit. Information processing device. The application document information according to claim 1, wherein the detection unit detects an independent word having a positional relationship designated in advance with respect to a character string designated in advance among character strings accepted by the designation receiving unit. Processing equipment. The detection unit detects a component name, which is a word indicating the name of a component of the application document, or a term, which is a word used for explaining the technology of the application document, from the character string received by the designation receiving unit. The application document information processing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2. 3. The application information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the phrase explanation information insertion unit inserts the phrase explanation information as a sentence following the last sentence including the character string designated by the designation receiving unit. The application information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the phrase explanation information insertion unit inserts the phrase explanation information corresponding to the independent word as a sentence next to the sentence including the independent word detected by the detection unit. The phrase management information storage unit includes a component phrase that is a phrase used for at least a part of a component name that is a phrase indicating the name of the component of the application document, and information that indicates a position where the component name is inserted. The component management information that is the phrase management information having the component description information that is the phrase description information is stored,
The detection unit detects a component name from a character string received by the designation receiving unit,
The phrase explanation information acquisition unit acquires, from the component management information, component description information corresponding to the component phrase included in the component name detected by the detection unit,
The word explanation information insertion unit inserts the component element description information in which the component element name detected by the detection unit is inserted into the application document information at a position indicated by information indicating the insertion position of the component element. The application document information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, 5, or 6. An application document information storage unit that stores application document information that is application document information that is a document used for a patent application, a phrase related to a patent application, and phrase explanation information that is information indicating an explanation of the phrase Application document information performed using a phrase management information storage unit, a designation receiving unit, a detection unit, a phrase explanation information acquisition unit, a phrase description information insertion unit, and an output unit, A processing method,
A designation accepting step in which the designation accepting unit accepts designation of a character string of one or more characters for the application document information;
A detecting step in which the detecting unit detects one or more independent words included in the character string received in the designation receiving step;
The phrase explanation information acquisition unit acquires phrase explanation information corresponding to a phrase included in the independent word detected in the detection step from the phrase management information storage unit, and
The phrase explanation information insertion unit inserts the phrase explanation information acquired in the phrase explanation information acquisition step into the application document information,
An application document information processing method comprising: the output unit that outputs the application document information into which the phrase explanation information is inserted in the phrase explanation information insertion step. Computer
A designation receiving unit that accepts designation of a character string of one or more characters with respect to application document information that is application document information that is a document used in a patent application stored in the application document information storage unit;
A detection unit for detecting one or more independent words included in the character string received by the designation receiving unit;
A phrase included in an independent word detected by the detection unit from the phrase management information having the phrase related to the patent application stored in the phrase management information storage unit and the phrase description information which is information indicating the description of the phrase A phrase explanation information acquisition unit that acquires phrase explanation information corresponding to
The phrase explanation information insertion unit that inserts the phrase explanation information acquired by the phrase explanation information acquisition unit into the application document information;
A program for causing the word explanation information insertion unit to function as an output unit that outputs the application document information into which the word explanation information is inserted.

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