JP5335572B2 - Electronic text creation device and electronic text creation method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an electronic text creation apparatus and an electronic text creation method for creating an electronic text sentence.

  2. Description of the Related Art E-mail services that transmit and receive electronic text using information equipment terminals such as mobile phones and personal computers are widely known. In recent years, in addition to text information, there is an electronic mail service decorated with images and animation.

  In a device having a small screen or keyboard such as a mobile phone, the user may feel burdened by creating long sentences and various decorations.

  Patent Document 1 discloses a method of generating a long sentence by quoting from a sentence template stored in advance and keyword substitution processing by inputting only the field of the sentence and a keyword.

JP-A-10-320388

  However, the electronic text creation device described in Patent Document 1 has the following problems. That is, in the environment where various phrases (dialogue and wording) and decoration are required depending on the characteristics of the sender and receiver as in the above-mentioned e-mail service, it is suitable for the user from among various template candidates. There is a problem that the burden on the user operation increases to select a template.

  Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve such a technical problem, and an electronic text creation device capable of reducing the burden of the user's operation when creating an electronic text appropriate for the user, and An object is to provide an electronic text creation method.

That is, the electronic text creation device according to the present invention is an electronic text creation device that creates an electronic text to be sent to a destination person based on an input of the creator, and includes at least the identifier of the creator and the destination person. On the basis of the user information of the creator and the addressee, or user information management means for outputting the user information of the creator or the addressee, and based on an input keyword input by the creator Sentence category determination means for determining a sentence category, word category determination means for determining a word category based on the input keyword, user information output by the user information management means, and determination by the sentence category determination means The category of the sentence and the category of the word determined by the word category determining means. Based on Li, said the sentence model determining means for said text stationery candidate electronic text to multiple outputs, to the sentences template determined by the sentence template determining unit, by substituting the input keyword the electronic text A plurality of sentence substitution means for outputting a plurality of sentences, presenting a plurality of sentences of the electronic text output by the keyword substitution means to the creator, receiving selection information of the creator, and based on the selection information Text presentation means for outputting the text of the electronic text, the user information management means reflects the creator's selection information in the user information, and the sentence template determination means is included in the user information that determine the text of the model of the electronic text taking into account the selection information of the author.

In the electronic text creation device according to the present invention, the user information management means stores the user information of the creator and the destination person or the user information of the creator or the destination person based on at least one of the identifier of the creator and the destination person. The sentence category determining means determines the sentence category based on the input keyword input by the creator, the word category determining means determines the word category based on the input keyword, and the sentence template determining means , Based on the user information output by the user information management means, the sentence category determined by the sentence category determination means, and the word category determined by the word category determination means, the sentence model of the electronic text is determined, An input keyword for a template of a sentence determined by keyword substitution means Sentence of the assignment has been electronic text is output. As described above, since the user information of the creator or the recipient can be used when determining the template of the sentence, it is possible to determine an appropriate sentence model for the creator, and the burden of the user operation regarding the creation of the electronic text. Can be suppressed. Furthermore, since the electronic text creating apparatus according to the present invention can record information selected by the creator as a history, it can be reflected in the determination process of the text template from the next time. In this way, since the creator's tendency and characteristics can be used for the determination of the text template, it is possible to create an electronic text that more accurately reflects the content intended by the creator.

  Here, the user information management means includes, as the user information, gender, age, address, birthplace, dialect, occupation, hobby, and attributes of the relationship between the creator and the addressee as the creator or the addressee. Alternatively, at least one piece of information of closeness between the creator and the destination may be used.

  By configuring in this way, items that affect the style and decoration can be included in the user information, so that it is possible to create an electronic text that more accurately reflects the creator's intention.

  Moreover, it is preferable that at least one of the sentence category determining unit and the word category determining unit determines a category based on the user information and the input keyword.

  With this configuration, it is possible to determine at least one of the sentence category and the word category using the user information, and thus it is possible to determine a category in accordance with the intention of the creator. Therefore, it is possible to create an electronic text that more accurately reflects the intention of the creator.

  Furthermore, it is preferable to provide voice input means for converting the creator's voice into text by voice recognition and inputting the text as the input keyword.

  With this configuration, the creator can input a keyword by voice without operating the keyboard. Therefore, it is possible to further reduce the burden for the creator who is not good at keyboard operation.

Further, the electronic text creation method according to the present invention according to the present invention is an electronic text creation method in which the electronic text creation device creates an electronic text to be sent to a destination based on an input of the creator, User information management step for outputting user information of the creator and the destination person or the user information of the creator or the destination person based on at least one of the identifier of the creator and the destination person, and the creation A sentence category determining step for determining a sentence category based on an input keyword input by a user, a word category determining step for determining a word category based on the input keyword, and the user information management step outputting the word category User information, category of the sentence determined by the sentence category determining step, and previous Based on the word category the word category determined by the determination step, said the sentence template determination step of outputting a plurality of said sentences template candidate electronic text, the model of the sentence determined by the sentence model determining step against, and a keyword assignment step of substituting the input keyword outputting a plurality of sentences of the electronic text, and presenting a plurality of sentences of the electronic text output by the keyword substitution step to the author, the author A text presentation step of receiving the selection information of the user and outputting the sentence of the electronic text based on the selection information, wherein the user information management step reflects the selection information of the creator in the user information, and the sentence template The determination step takes into account the selection information of the creator included in the user information. To determine the sentence of a model of said electronic text.

  Here, the user information management step includes, as the user information, gender, age, address, birthplace, dialect, occupation, hobby, and relationship between the creator and the destination person as the user information. Alternatively, it is preferable to use at least one piece of information of familiarity between the creator and the destination.

  Further, it is preferable that at least one of the sentence category determination step and the word category determination step determines a category based on the user information and the input keyword.

  Furthermore, it is preferable that a voice input step of converting the creator's voice into text by voice recognition and inputting it as the input keyword before the sentence category determination step and the word category determination step is preferable.

  The above-described electronic text creation method has the same effect as the above-described electronic text creation device.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, when creating an electronic text suitable for a user, the burden of a user's operation can be reduced.

It is a functional lineblock diagram of the electronic text creation device concerning a 1st embodiment. It is a hardware block diagram of the electronic text creation apparatus which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the electronic text production apparatus which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is an example of a text candidate. It is a functional block diagram of the electronic text preparation apparatus which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a functional block diagram of the electronic text creation apparatus which concerns on 3rd Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the electronic text preparation apparatus which concerns on 3rd Embodiment.

  Hereinafter, an electronic text creation device and an electronic text creation method according to embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the description of the drawings, the same elements are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description is omitted.

(First embodiment)
The electronic text creation apparatus and the electronic text creation method according to the present embodiment are preferably employed when creating e-mails or the like, for example. The electronic text is an electronic document and includes a sentence described by characters and decorations.

  First, an outline of the configuration of the electronic text creation device 1 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of an electronic text creation device 1 according to the first embodiment.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the electronic text creating apparatus 1 includes, as functional components, a user information management unit 11, a sentence category determination unit 12, a word category determination unit 13A to X, a sentence template determination unit 14, and a keyword substitution unit 15. It has.

  This electronic text creating apparatus 1 is realized by the hardware shown in FIG. FIG. 2 is a hardware configuration diagram of the electronic text creation device 1. For example, it is assumed that the electronic text creating apparatus 1 is provided in a mobile phone or the like. As shown in FIG. 2, the electronic text creation device 1 physically includes a CPU 101, a RAM 102 and a ROM 103 that are main storage devices, an operation unit 104 such as a keyboard and a voice microphone that are input devices, a display 105, and a wireless device. The apparatus includes a wireless communication unit 106 that is a communication module. Each function described with reference to FIG. 1 includes an operation unit 104, a display 105, and a wireless communication unit under the control of the CPU 101 by reading predetermined software on hardware such as the CPU 101 and the RAM 102 illustrated in FIG. This is realized by operating 106 and reading and writing data in the RAM 102 or the like. Note that a database to be described later is stored in, for example, the RAM 102 or the ROM 103 which is a main storage device.

  Returning to FIG. 1, each functional block of the electronic text creation apparatus 1 will be described. The user information management unit 11 has a function of determining user information for determining a text template based on at least one of an identifier of a creator of an electronic text (sender identifier) and an identifier of a recipient (receiver identifier). have. The user information management unit 11 has a function of outputting user information to the text template determination unit 14. That is, the user information management unit 11 has a function of outputting user information so that the text template determination unit 14 can narrow down candidates that match the user characteristics from among various text templates.

  The user information management unit 11 is configured to be able to refer to a user information database (not shown) in which user information of at least one of a sender (creator) and a receiver (destination person) is stored in association with an identifier, for example. ing. The user information database is configured to be referable from the user information management unit 11, and stores user information associated with the sender identifier and the receiver identifier.

  The sender identifier and the receiver identifier are index information that designates a user (creator) who transmits an electronic text and a user (addressee) who receives the electronic text. For this reason, when the transmission user utilized about one apparatus is limited like a mobile phone, the user information management part 11 does not require an explicit input about a sender identifier. However, when a plurality of modes such as private use and work use are switched on one mobile phone, the user information management unit 11 may input the mode information as a sender identifier. On the other hand, the receiver identifier may be associated with, for example, index information in the address book of the transmitting user. The sender identifier and the receiver identifier may be unique indexes. For example, a telephone number, a mail address, a MAC address, or the like may be used in addition to an index arbitrarily created for the apparatus. This is effective when part or all of the functions of the electronic text creating apparatus 1 are implemented in an information processing apparatus (server) on a network.

  As user information corresponding to each identifier, information that affects the style and decoration of the text is used. For example, if you are a user who speaks Osaka dialect, you can use the style of Osaka dialect, if you are a man, use masculine language, if you are in your twenties youth words and pop decoration, if you like cats, use a cat illustration. Liked. On the other hand, if the recipient is a man in his 40's who seems to be superior to the sender, or if he is in a position like a “boss” as a relationship, it will be a style that uses the wording carefully. Sentence text that avoids excessive decoration is preferred. Even in the relationship of “boss”, the wording of the mail may be changed depending on the intimacy.

  For this reason, as the user information, for example, the gender, age, address, hometown, dialect, occupation, hobby, or attribute or closeness of the relationship between the sender and the receiver is used. Here, examples of the attribute of the relationship include “friend”, “parent”, “child”, “lover”, “boss”, “subordinate”, and the like. Intimacy is a numerical index of intimacy and is used to use different styles step by step. The user information management unit 11 outputs the user information to the text template determination unit 14 so that the text template determination unit 14 can predict the style and decoration intended by the sender. However, the method of using user information is not limited to this. The user information is not limited to these, and may be information indicating the linguistic characteristics of the sender or the receiver or information indicating the relationship between the sender and the receiver.

  The sentence category determining unit 12 has a function of determining a category of a sentence to be created based on at least one of the input keywords input by the sender. The sentence category determining unit 12 has a function of outputting the category of the sentence to be created to the sentence template determining unit 14. In other words, the sentence category determination unit 12 has a function of outputting a sentence category so that the sentence template determination unit 14 can narrow down candidates suitable for the user's requirement from among various sentence templates. Yes.

  The input keyword is input via the operation unit 104 by the sender. For example, in addition to being directly input as a character by a keyboard operation, it may be input as a character by recognizing a user's voice with a microphone. The keywords do not need to be individually input as words, and may be input by extracting words from the input sentences by natural language processing.

  The sentence category determining unit 12 is configured to be able to refer to, for example, a sentence category database (not shown) in which a sentence category of an electronic text is stored in association with a keyword. The sentence category database is configured so that it can be referred to from the sentence category determination unit 12, and the category of the sentence of the electronic text associated with the keyword is stored as a correspondence table, for example. The sentence category is a classification that indicates a sentence requirement such as “OK”, “Reject”, “Gathering”, “Request”, “Question”.

  The sentence category determination unit 12 has a function of referring to the sentence category database described above and outputting a sentence category corresponding to the keyword input by the sender. In addition, when one of the input keywords explicitly includes a sentence category, the sentence category determination unit 12 may replace the input keyword as a sentence category as it is. For example, when the keyword “OK” is input by the sender, the sentence category determination unit 12 may determine that the category of the sentence is “OK”. In addition, the sentence category determination unit 12 has a function of estimating a sentence category from a plurality of keywords when a sentence category is not explicitly given by one input keyword. For example, when the keywords “tomorrow 9 o'clock” and “Shibuya station” are input, the sentence category determination unit 12 “gather” category “I want to come to Shibuya station at 9 o'clock tomorrow” or “Shibuya at 9 o'clock tomorrow” Estimate the “report” category “go to station”. As a method of this estimation, there is a method of selecting a sentence category having a high likelihood because a prototype of the keywords “9:00 tomorrow” and “Shibuya Station” or a word category such as “date and time” and “location” is designated. The likelihood information may be based on an electronic text created by the user in the past.

  The word category determination units 13A to 13X have a function of determining a word category based on a keyword input by a sender. The word category determination units 13 </ b> A to 13 </ b> X have a function of outputting the determined word category to the sentence template determination unit 14. That is, the word category determination units 13A to 13X can narrow down the word categories so that the sentence template determination unit 14 can narrow down the sentence templates to which more keywords as the main points of the electronic text can be substituted from among various sentence templates. It has a function to output.

  The word category determination units 13A to 13X are configured to be able to refer to a word category database (not shown) in which word categories are stored in association with keywords, for example. The word category database is configured to be referable from the word category determination units 13A to 13X, and word categories associated with the keywords are stored as a correspondence table, for example. The word category is a classification of words such as “date and time”, “location”, “food”, “sports”, and “amount”. However, it is also possible to reduce the scale of the correspondence table by registering only units such as “hour” and “minute” for time and “yen” for money. There is also a case where a plurality of word categories correspond to one keyword. For example, a place name and a person name correspond to the word category “Shibuya”. At this time, as to whether to output the place name or the person name, a method based on the past history, a method of selecting a word category having a high probability of co-occurrence with other input keywords, and the like can be considered.

  The word category determination units 13A to 13X have a function of referring to the above-described word category database and outputting a word category corresponding to the keyword input by the sender.

  A specific search method for correspondence between sentence categories and word categories is not limited. As a method for determining these sentence categories or word categories, a method that does not use a correspondence table is naturally good.

  The text template determination unit 14 is based on the user information output from the user information management unit 11, the text category information determined by the text category determination unit 12, and the word category information determined by the word category determination units 13A to X. It has a function of determining at least one template of a sentence of an electronic text adapted according to conditions from a sentence template database (not shown) prepared in advance. The sentence template database is configured to be referable from the sentence template determining unit 14 and stores, for example, sentence templates associated with user information, sentence categories, and word categories.

  The text template determination unit 14 has a function of presenting a plurality of text template candidates and rearranging the presentation order according to the degree of matching with each input. At this time, a weight may be given to the degree of adaptation of each input. That is, for example, if you want to convey the e-mail requirements without fail and want to convey the keywords as much as possible, but it is acceptable even if the wording is somewhat unnatural, the order of sentence categories, word categories, and user information It is conceivable to perform weighting.

  The keyword substitution unit 15 has a function of substituting a keyword into a blank space corresponding to a word category for one or more text templates output from the text template determination unit 14. However, the keyword substitution unit 15 does not need to substitute all input keywords, and may substitute only some input keywords.

  Next, the operation of the electronic text creation device 1 according to this embodiment will be described. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the electronic text creation apparatus 1 according to this embodiment. The control process shown in FIG. 3 is repeatedly executed at a predetermined interval from the timing when the electronic text creating apparatus 1 is turned on, for example.

  First, the electronic text creation device 1 starts from an input keyword confirmation process (S10). The process of S10 is a process of determining whether or not a keyword has been input via the operation unit 104 by the user. If it is determined in step S10 that there is no input keyword, the control process shown in FIG. 3 is terminated. On the other hand, in the process of S10, when it is determined that there is an input keyword, the process proceeds to the user information determination process (S12).

  The process of S12 is a process which the user information management part 11 performs, and determines user information using at least one of a sender identifier and a receiver identifier. For example, assume that a 28-year-old man from Osaka has entered the keywords “gather”, “9:00 tomorrow”, and “Shibuya Station” in the process of S10. In this case, the user information management unit 11 refers to the user information database and outputs “male”, “20s”, and “Osaka dialect” as user information based on the sender identifier. Further, the user information management unit 11 outputs information about the receiver and attributes or closeness of the relationship between the sender and the receiver based on the receiver identifier. When the process of S12 ends, the process proceeds to a sentence category determination process (S14).

  The process of S14 is a process of determining the category of the sentence based on the keyword determined by the sentence category determination unit 12 and input in the process of S10. For example, the sentence category determination unit 12 refers to the sentence category database, and determines the sentence category as “collection” based on the input keyword “gather”. When the process of S14 ends, the process proceeds to a word category determination process (S16).

  The process of S16 is a process of determining a word category based on the keyword determined by the word category determination units 13A to 13X and input in the process of S10. For example, the word category determination units 13A to 13X refer to the word category database and determine the word category as “date and time” and “location” based on the input keywords “9:00 tomorrow” and “Shibuya Station”. When the process of S16 ends, the process proceeds to a sentence template determination process (S18).

  The process of S18 is executed by the sentence template determination unit 14, and based on the user information output in the process of S12, the sentence category determined in the process of S14, and the word category determined in the process of S16, the sentence template is determined. It is a process to decide. Here, it is assumed that the text template shown in FIG. 4 is stored in the text template database. The sentence template shown in FIG. 4 is associated with user information, a sentence category, and a word category. As shown in FIG. 4, the sender gender, the sender age, the sender dialect, the user information such as the relationship with the receiver and the intimacy with the receiver, and the sentence category and the sentence template are stored in association with each other. . In addition, the sentence template includes word categories such as time, date and place.

  The sentence template determination unit 14 selects a sentence template satisfying a condition from the sentence templates shown in FIG. For example, when “male”, “20s”, and “Osaka dialect” are output as the user information of the sender in the process of S12, the sentence template determination unit 14 determines the No. in FIG. Sentence templates shown at 1, 3, n1, n2, and n3 are selected as candidates. Further, if the user information of the transmission partner (recipient) of the mail output in the processing of S12 is “friend”, No. in FIG. Sentence templates shown in 1, 2, and 3 are selected as candidates. On the other hand, if the user information of the recipient is “boss”, No. Sentence templates shown in n1, n2, and n3 are selected as candidates. If the closeness output in the process of S12 is 3, No. 4 in FIG. Sentence templates shown in 1, 2, and 3 are selected as candidates. If the sentence category determined in the process of S14 is “set”, No. 4 in FIG. Sentence templates shown in 3, n1, n2, and n3 are selected as candidates. If the word category determined in the process of S16 is “date and time” and “location”, No. 1 in FIG. The text templates shown in 3, n1, and n2 are selected as candidates. That is, “male” “20s” “Osaka dialect” as user information of the sender, “friend” “intimacy 3”, user category “sentence”, word category “date” “place” as user information of the receiver. If there is, the sentence template determination unit 14 is a No. that satisfies all the above conditions. The sentence template shown in 3 is determined. When the process of S18 ends, the process proceeds to a sentence creation process (S20).

  The process of S20 is a process that is executed by the keyword substitution unit 15 and substitutes the keyword input in the process of S10 into the corresponding blank portion of the word category with respect to the sentence template determined in the process of S18. For example, the input keywords “9:00 tomorrow” and “Shibuya station” are determined in the process of S10, and No. is determined in the process of S18. When the sentence template shown in FIG. 3 is selected, the keyword substitution unit 15 creates a sentence “Tomorrow at 9 o'clock, Shibuya set! Nice to meet you m (__) m”. It is not necessary to substitute all input keywords. Thus, an electronic text is output. When the process of S20 ends, the control process shown in FIG. 3 ends.

  Thus, the control process shown in FIG. 3 is finished. By executing the control process shown in FIG. 3, it is possible to determine a template of a sentence using user information, so that a sentence suitable for the user's intention can be created. For this reason, the burden of the user operation regarding electronic text creation can be suppressed.

  As described above, according to the electronic text creation device 1 and the electronic text creation method according to the first embodiment, the user information management unit 11 (user information management step) is based on at least one of the identifier of the sender and the receiver. The user information of the sender and the receiver, or the user information of the sender or the receiver is output, and the sentence category determination unit 12 (sentence category determination step) outputs a sentence based on the input keyword input by the sender. Categories are determined, word categories are determined by the word category determination units 13A to 13X (word category determination steps) based on the input keywords, and the user information management unit is determined by the sentence template determination unit 14 (sentence template determination step). 11, the user information output by the user 11 and the sentence category determined by the sentence category determination unit 12. And a template of the sentence of the electronic text is determined based on the category of the word determined by the word category determination units 13A to 13X, and the template of the sentence determined by the keyword substitution unit 15 (keyword substitution step). The input keyword is substituted and an electronic text sentence is output. As described above, since the user information of the sender or the receiver can be used when determining the template of the sentence, it is possible to determine an appropriate sentence model for the sender, and the burden of the user operation regarding the creation of the electronic text. Can be suppressed.

  Further, according to the electronic text creation device 1 and the electronic text creation method according to the first embodiment, items that affect the style and decoration can be included in the user information, so that the intention of the sender is reflected more accurately. It is possible to create an electronic text.

  Furthermore, according to the electronic text creation device 1 and the electronic text creation method according to the first embodiment, the user can input a keyword by voice without operating the keyboard. Therefore, it is possible to further reduce the burden on the user who is not good at keyboard operation.

(Second Embodiment)
Next, an electronic text creation device and an electronic text creation method according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described.

  The electronic text creation device and the electronic text creation method according to the second embodiment are configured in substantially the same manner as the electronic text creation device 1 according to the first embodiment shown in FIG. At least one of the word category determination methods is different. Therefore, the same components as those of the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals as those of the first embodiment, description thereof is omitted, and differences will be mainly described.

  FIG. 5 is a functional configuration diagram of the electronic text creation device 2 according to the present embodiment. As illustrated in FIG. 5, in the electronic text creation device 2, the user information management unit 21 uses a sentence category determination unit 22 and word category determination units 23 </ b> A to X as compared with the electronic text creation device 1 according to the first embodiment. The difference is that information is output.

  At least one of the sentence category determination unit 22 and the word category determination units 23A to 23X has a function of determining category information based on the input keyword and at least one of user information of the sender and the receiver. doing. For example, “Shibuya” is a word in both the place name and the person name, and the output text differs depending on which one is judged. Therefore, for example, if the sender A lives in the vicinity of Shibuya Ward, it is judged as a place name, and the sender B lives in Osaka, and if a surname named Shibuya is registered in the address book, it is judged as a person name. , Etc. can be considered. In addition, it is possible to reflect the user information of the receiver instead of the user information of the sender, or to switch the judgment by co-occurrence of the sender and the receiver. In addition to registration information such as addresses and address books, it is also conceivable to obtain the likelihood from the analysis result of electronic text created in the past.

  Other configurations and functions are the same as those of the electronic text creating apparatus 1 according to the first embodiment. The operation of the electronic text creation device 2 according to the second embodiment is substantially the same as the operation of the electronic text creation device 1 according to the first embodiment, and the category is determined in the process of S14 or S16 of FIG. This is the same except that user information is used. By operating in this way, when determining a sentence or word category from an input keyword, an appropriate category for the user can be selected, and an electronic text reflecting a more accurate intention can be created.

  As described above, according to the electronic text creation device 2 and the electronic text creation method according to the second embodiment, the same effect as that of the electronic text creation device 1 according to the first embodiment can be obtained. Since at least one of the word category and the word category can be determined, it is possible to determine a category according to the intention of the sender. Therefore, it is possible to create an electronic text that more accurately reflects the intention of the sender.

(Third embodiment)
Next, an electronic text creation device and an electronic text creation method according to a third embodiment of the present invention will be described.

  The electronic text creation device and electronic text creation method according to the third embodiment are configured in substantially the same manner as the electronic text creation device 1 according to the first embodiment shown in FIG. Are different in that the selected history is reflected in the user information. Therefore, the same components as those of the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals as those of the first embodiment, description thereof is omitted, and differences will be mainly described.

  FIG. 6 is a functional configuration diagram of the electronic text creation device 3 according to the present embodiment. As illustrated in FIG. 6, the electronic text creation device 3 includes a text presentation unit 16 as compared with the electronic text creation device 1 according to the first embodiment, and the user information management unit 31 includes a past text presentation unit 16. The difference is that it is configured to input output information.

  The text presentation unit 16 has a function of presenting a plurality of candidate electronic texts output from the keyword substitution unit 15 to the user. As the presenting means, for example, displaying on the display 105 in FIG. 2 is conceivable. In addition to receiving selection information from the user through the operation unit 104 in FIG. 2 and outputting the selected electronic text as the final electronic text, the user selection information is output to the user information management unit 31. ing.

  The user information management unit 31 has a function of updating user information based on user selection information (selection result) input from the text presentation unit 16 in the past. Various types of user information are assumed, and considering the settings for each correspondence between the sender and the receiver, if all of them are registered in advance, the burden on the user increases. Therefore, it is possible to reflect the characteristics of the user information more by setting roughly in the initial state and actually repeating the transmission of mail.

  Other configurations and functions are the same as those of the electronic text creating apparatus 1 according to the first embodiment.

  Next, the operation of the electronic text creation device 3 according to the third embodiment will be described. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the operation of the electronic text creation device 3 according to the third embodiment. The control process shown in FIG. 7 is repeatedly executed at a predetermined interval from the timing when the electronic text creating apparatus 3 is turned on, for example. Note that the processing from S30 to S40 in FIG. 7 is the same as the operation of the electronic text creation device 1 according to the first embodiment (the processing from S10 to S20 in FIG. 3), and thus the description thereof is omitted. Here, a case will be described in which a plurality of sentence templates are selected in the process of S38, and a plurality of sentences are created in the process of S40.

  The process of S42 is a process that is executed by the text presentation unit 16 and presents a plurality of candidate electronic texts generated by the process of S40 to the user. For example, the text presentation unit 16 displays a plurality of candidate electronic texts on the display 105 of FIG. When the processing of S42 ends, the process proceeds to input acceptance processing (S44).

  The process of S44 is a process executed by the text presentation unit 16 and accepting a user input. The text presentation unit 16 receives selection information from the user through the operation unit 104 of FIG. 2, and outputs the selected electronic text as a final electronic text. When the process of S44 ends, the process proceeds to a user information update process (S46).

  The process of S46 is a process executed by the text presentation unit 16 and the user information management unit 31 to update user information. The text presentation unit 16 outputs information related to the text template selected by the sender to the user information management unit 31. For example, the user information management unit 31 updates the user information database based on the information related to the text template selected by the sender. For example, the same settings are registered as user information for all members registered as “friends” in the address book. At this time, if the sender of the Osaka dialect writes the text “late”, the sentence template determiner 14 of the electronic text creation apparatus 1 according to the first embodiment will receive the Osaka dialect text template for a friend. It is determined that the optimum value is obtained. 1 is selected. However, there is a case where there is a friend C who speaks the standard language instead of the Osaka dialect. For this reason, the text presentation unit 16 performs No. 3 in FIG. If a keyword is substituted into the text templates shown in 1 and 2 and the sender is presented to the sender, and the sender selects a candidate for the standard word (No. 2 in FIG. 4), the next time will be sent to a friend C. Reflects the setting to use the standard language. In addition to always reflecting the selection result from the next time, it is also possible to gradually reflect the selection result depending on the probability and the cumulative number.

  Although it may be registered in advance in the user information database that the friend C speaks in a standard language, the user information can be updated based on the selection result by the above processing, so that the sender can It is possible to update to optimum user information without setting.

  Further, the age and intimacy as user information may vary depending on the period. For example, the addressee is a boss, and initially No. 1 in FIG. Even when a sentence is created using the sentence template shown in n2, as No. 2 becomes familiar, The possibility of changing to the sentence template shown in n1 is conceivable. For this reason, when selecting a sentence template candidate, it is conceivable to output the candidate within a range of ± 1 of the current familiarity.

  When the process of S46 ends, the control process shown in FIG. 7 ends. By executing the control process shown in FIG. 7, it is possible to reflect what kind of sentence template should be presented from the next time on, based on information selected by the user. Therefore, user attribute information can be reflected more accurately, and electronic text reflecting more accurate intention can be created.

  As described above, according to the electronic text creation device 3 and the electronic text creation method according to the third embodiment, the same effect as the electronic text creation device 1 according to the first embodiment can be obtained, and the user information management unit 31 and the text presentation unit. 16, the information selected by the sender can be recorded as a history, which can be reflected in the determination process of the text template from the next time. For this reason, since the tendency and characteristics of the sender can be used for the determination process of the text template, it is possible to create an electronic text that more accurately reflects the contents intended by the sender.

  The embodiment described above shows an example of an electronic text creation device and an electronic text creation method according to the present invention. The electronic text creation device and the electronic text creation method according to the present invention are not limited to the electronic text creation device and the electronic text creation method according to each embodiment, and within the scope not changing the gist described in each claim. The electronic text creation device and the electronic text creation method according to the embodiment may be modified or applied to others.

  For example, in the above-described embodiment, an example in which processing is performed using the sentence template shown in FIG. 3 has been described. However, with respect to a method for storing a sentence template, the template corresponds to user information, a sentence category, and a word category. The method is not limited to the method shown in FIG. In addition to the text format shown in FIG. 3, the text template can also be stored in HTML or Flash format.

  In the embodiment described above, the input keyword determination process (S10, S30), the user information determination process (S12, S32), the sentence category determination process (S14, S34), the word category determination process (S16, S36), the sentence template. Although the example processed in the order of determination processing (S18, S38) was demonstrated, it is not restricted to this order. For example, in the first embodiment, the processing sequence of the input keyword determination process, the user information determination process, the sentence category determination process, and the word category determination process is at least a sentence category determination process and a word category determination process after the input keyword determination process. As long as it is executed. In the second embodiment, the processing order of the input keyword determination process, the user information determination process, the sentence category determination process, and the word category determination process is at least a sentence category determination process after the input keyword determination process and the user information determination process. And the word category determination process may be executed. In the embodiment described above, the input keyword determination process, the user information determination process, the sentence category determination process, and the word category determination process need only be executed before the sentence template determination process.

1, 2, 3... Electronic text creation device, 11, 21, 31... User information management unit (user information management means), 12, 22... Text category determination unit (sentence category determination means), 13A to X, 23A to X ... Word category determination unit (word category determination means), 14 ... Sentence template determination part (sentence template determination means), 15 ... Keyword substitution part (keyword substitution means), 16 ... Text presentation part (text presentation means).

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An electronic text creation device that creates an electronic text to be sent to a destination based on an input of a creator,
User information management means for outputting the user information of the creator and the destination person or the user information of the creator or the destination person based on at least one of the identifier of the creator and the destination person;
Sentence category determining means for determining a sentence category based on an input keyword input by the creator;
Word category determining means for determining a word category based on the input keyword;
Based on the user information output by the user information management means, the category of the sentence determined by the sentence category determination means, and the category of the word determined by the word category determination means, the electronic text A sentence template determining means for outputting a plurality of sentence template candidates ;
Keyword substitution means for substituting the input keyword and outputting a plurality of sentences of the electronic text to the sentence template determined by the sentence template determination means;
Equipped with a,
Text presenting means for presenting a plurality of sentences of the electronic text output by the keyword substitution means to the creator, receiving selection information of the creator, and outputting the sentences of the electronic text based on the selection information; Prepared,
The user information management means reflects the creator's selection information in the user information,
The sentence model determining means, electronic text creation device in consideration of the creator of the selection information included in the user information, characterized that you determine the sentence model of the electronic text.   The user information management means includes, as the user information, gender, age, address, birthplace, dialect, occupation, hobby, relationship between the creator and the addressee as the user information or the addressee, or The electronic text creation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least one piece of information of closeness between the creator and the destination is used.   The electronic text creation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the sentence category determination unit and the word category determination unit determines a category based on the user information and the input keyword. The electronic text creation device according to any one of claims 1 to 3 , further comprising speech input means for converting the creator's voice into text by speech recognition and inputting the text as the input keyword. An electronic text creation method in which an electronic text creation device creates an electronic text to be sent to a destination based on an input of a creator,
A user information management step of outputting user information of the creator and the destination person or the user information of the creator or the destination person based on at least one of the identifier of the creator and the destination person;
A sentence category determining step for determining a sentence category based on an input keyword input by the creator;
A word category determining step for determining a word category based on the input keyword;
Based on the user information output by the user information management step, the category of the sentence determined by the sentence category determination step, and the category of the word determined by the word category determination step, the electronic text A sentence template determination step for outputting a plurality of sentence template candidates ;
A keyword substitution step for substituting the input keyword and outputting a plurality of sentences of the electronic text for the sentence template determined by the sentence template determination step;
Equipped with a,
Presenting a plurality of sentences of the electronic text output by the keyword substitution step to the creator, accepting selection information of the creator, and outputting a sentence of the electronic text based on the selection information; Prepared,
The user information management step reflects the creator's selection information in the user information,
The sentence model determination step, electronic text creation method characterized that you determine the electronic text sentence in template in consideration of the creator of the selection information included in the user information. The user information management step includes, as the user information, gender, age, address, birthplace, dialect, occupation, hobby, attribute of the relationship between the creator and the addressee as the user information, or the The electronic text creation method according to claim 5 , wherein at least one piece of information of the closeness between the creator and the destination is used. The electronic text creation method according to claim 5 or 6 , wherein at least one of the sentence category determination step and the word category determination step determines a category based on the user information and the input keyword. Before the sentence category determining step and said word category determination step, according to claim 5-7, characterized in that it comprises a speech input step of inputting voice of the creator as the input keyword is converted into text by speech recognition An electronic text creation method according to any one of the above.

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