JPH01195576A - Dictionary editor device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent the retrieval and registration for a dictionary with the presence of spelling mistakes by informing words which are not registered in a dictionary for translation to an operator via a display device when a dictionary is edited with entry of phrases. CONSTITUTION:The entries are held in a dictionary buffer 8 when a dictionary 5 for translation is retrieved by a retrieving device 7. The contents of said entries are compared with the contents of the entries carried out by the operator input and held in an input register 2 by a comparator 9. If no coincidence is obtained between both contents, the entries are checked to specify those words having the possibility for spelling mistakes. Then a display part is shown with inversion on the screen of a display device for information to the operator. Thus, it is possible to decide the spelling mistakes or the unregistered words in case an optional phrase is registered in the dictionary 5. Then the registration with spelling mistakes can be avoided to a dictionary.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Technical Field The present invention relates to a dictionary editor device for, for example, machine translation.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION In general, in a translation dictionary editor used in a machine translation system such as an English-Japanese translation device, an operator inputs a collocation to be edited on a keyboard, and uses this as a key to search within the translation dictionary. , or register it in that dictionary.

However, such conventional dictionary editors do not have a function to check the spelling of input entry contents. For this reason, when an entry entered using the keyboard is not found in the dictionary, it is not possible to tell whether the entered collocation is an unregistered word in the translation dictionary, or whether it is an unregistered word due to a manual spelling error. . It is particularly troublesome to require the operator to spell check words with a large number of characters, such as collocations, and in reality, the collocations are often registered in dictionaries with misspellings, making it impossible to provide correct translation. Sometimes it seems like there isn't.

Purpose The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems.It is an object of the present invention to automatically check and detect a spelling error in the entry contents of a collocation when editing a dictionary using a collocation as an entry, and to notify the operator of the spelling error. The purpose of this invention is to obtain a dictionary editor device that can perform the following functions.

Structure In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a translation dictionary, an input device, an input register for holding entry contents inputted from the input device, and a dictionary registration device that performs a registration operation for the translation dictionary. a display device that displays various information; a dictionary search device that searches the translation dictionary; a dictionary buffer that holds entry contents when looking up the dictionary; and a display device that displays various information; It is characterized by comprising a comparator that compares and determines whether or not they match.

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described based on the drawings. FIG. 1 shows the block configuration of the dictionary editor device of this embodiment. First, an input device 1 consisting of a keyboard or the like is provided. An input register 2 for holding the entry contents is connected to this human-powered device 1, and a display device 4 such as a CRT (see FIG. 2) serving as a display means is also connected via a display buffer 3. In addition, multiple dictionaries A and B
.

A translation dictionary 5 consisting of C2... is provided.

Here, the plurality of dictionaries A, B, C, . . . are prioritized in this order. That is, dictionary A is set to have a priority of 1, dictionary B is set to have a priority of NO, 2, and so on.

For such a translation dictionary 5, a dictionary registration device 6 that performs a registration operation and a dictionary search device 7 that performs a search operation are provided.
are connected. Furthermore, these dictionary registration devices 6
A dictionary buffer 8 is connected to the dictionary search device 7 for holding the entry contents when looking up the dictionary. and,
A comparator 9 is connected between these dictionary buffers 8 and the input register 2 to compare and determine whether the contents of each are equal. The output of this comparator 9 is the display buffer 3.
, and is configured to be able to control the display based on the comparison and determination results.

With this configuration, in this embodiment, when editing a dictionary using a collocation as an entry, the individual words or collocations constituting the collocation are looked up in the dictionary, and if there is a word that is not registered in the translation dictionary 5, By notifying the operator of this fact through the display 4, it is possible to assist in finding spelling mistakes manually.

In such a configuration, collocations already registered in the translation dictionary 5, such as r atomosphereso
lar 5pectral distribution
When an operator attempts to edit J and inputs this entry from input device 1, the rspec in the collocation is
tral J misspelled r 5pektral
Consider the case where you enter J. FIG. 2 shows the display state of the display 4 in response to such an erroneous input. Here, it is assumed that registered contents related to such collocations, for example words as shown in FIG. 3 for dictionary A and FIG. 4 for dictionary B, are registered.

The entry check in this case is performed according to the flowchart shown in FIG. First, the dictionary search device 7 executes a search operation in the translation dictionary 5 using the entry input by the operator as a key, and if an entry exists in the translation dictionary 5, the entry check process is immediately terminated. Such a search operation, that is, a dictionary lookup operation, causes the dictionary buffer 8 to hold the entry when the dictionary search device 7 looks up the translation dictionary 5, and its contents are input by the operator held in the input register 2. The content of the entry is compared with the comparator 9, and if they are equal, it means that the entry exists in the translation dictionary 5.

If the comparison results are not equal, it means that at least the relevant combination does not exist in the translation dictionary 5, regardless of whether it is unregistered or misspelled. Therefore, in order to call attention to the possibility that there may have been a spelling error, move on to the entry check below to identify the word that may have been misspelled.

That is, when the entry does not exist in the translation dictionary 5, the following entry check operation is executed. First, let le the number of characters in the entry, in this example, 4 characters.
Set to ngth. In addition, the variable st (start),
Set ed (end) and 5ved.

Then, the magnitudes of length)ed and length)st are compared. Here, ratomosphere
” Contains ga, rat, omosphere 5ol
ar 5pectral distributionJ
The longer part of , which exists in the translation dictionary 5, is obtained. In this example, ratomospheres
It becomes olarJ. That is, the plurality of dictionaries A, B, . . . , making up the translation dictionary 5 are prioritized.
1. A dictionary search is performed in order of priority A, B, . . . . At this time, even if the dictionary has a low priority, the one with the longest part will be given priority. In this example, first, whether rat and omosphereJ are successfully searched using dictionary A shown in FIG.
"phere 5olar" is found in dictionary B shown in Figure 4, so ratomosphere 5ol
This means that arJ exists in the translation dictionary 5. In the flowchart, "Up the ed one by one from the character at the ed position of the entry backwards until it becomes a delimiter"
This is the process shown in ``Looking up a dictionary using the character string from st to just before the ed position of the entry as a key.''

Through this process, it can be seen that both "ratomosphere" and "rsolar" are words that exist in the translation dictionary 5, so next, similar processing is performed to
l Do this for J. In this case, r 5pektra
l” also rspektral distributio
Since nJ is also not in the translation dictionary 5, the displayed portion of ``rspektral'' is highlighted on the screen of the display 4 to inform the operator that it is a word that may be misspelled. Frame 10 in Figure 2 is r 5p within this frame 10.
This shows that ektral J is highlighted. Furthermore, a similar check operation is performed for rdistributionJ, but in this example it is found that it is a word registered in dictionary A of translation dictionary 5.

Therefore, the operator only has to check the spelling of the highlighted word as shown in FIG. and,
If it's a spelling mistake, just correct it. In this example, r
"k" in spectralJ will be corrected to rcJ. This enables dictionary searches. In addition, there are cases where there is no spelling error in the highlighted word, but in this case, the operator can determine that the collocation is an unregistered word in the translation dictionary 5, and it is sufficient to be able to make this determination. .

As a result, if an arbitrary collocation is to be registered in the translation dictionary 5, it can be displayed in reverse video.

It can be determined that the word is either a misspelling or an unregistered word. In other words, it is possible to prevent spelling errors from being registered in the dictionary.

Effects Since the present invention is configured as described above and has a spell check function for entry input, even if there is a spelling error in the entry content of a collocation when editing a dictionary using a collocation as an entry, it can automatically correct the spelling error. Check detects
This can be notified to the operator through the display device, and it is therefore possible to prevent dictionary searches and dictionary registrations with misspelled words.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 1 is a block diagram, FIG. 2 is a front view showing an example of display on a display, FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of dictionary A, and FIG. 4 is a diagram of dictionary B. Explanatory diagram, 5th
The figure is a flowchart. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Human power device, 2... Input register, 3... Display buffer, 4... Display device, 5... Dictionary for translation,
6...Dictionary registration device, 7...Dictionary search device, 8...
・Dictionary buffer, 9... Comparator J J Figure

Claims (1)

[Claims] a translation dictionary, an input device, an input register that holds entry contents input from the input device, a dictionary registration device that performs a registration operation on the translation dictionary, a display device that displays various information, and the A dictionary search device that searches a translation dictionary, a dictionary buffer that holds entry contents when looking up the dictionary, and a comparator that compares and determines whether the contents of the input register match the contents of this dictionary buffer. A dictionary editor device comprising: