JPH02136970A - English word retrieving device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To quickly retrieve the English words by writing a special symbol after an English word so as to decide whether the first letter should be shown in a capital or not when a retrieved English word is displayed after all English words are rewritten into small letters. CONSTITUTION:When a dictionary producing original 5 is produced by a word processor, etc., the English words consisting of small letters except the first capitals and the English words consisting of all small letters are mixed in a group of English words to be retrieved. Then a special symbol is written after an English word by a capital/small letter discriminating symbol writing means B. Thus it is possible to decide whether the first letter should be shown in a capital or not when a retrieved English word is displayed after all English words are rewritten into the small letters by a character type integrating means A. Thus it is possible to retrieve the English words quickly.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] The present invention relates to speeding up searches in an English word search device.

[Summary of the Invention 1 The present invention is designed to search for an English word in which the first letter is capitalized and the rest in lowercase, and an English word in which all letters are lowercase. When mixed in f, all English words are written in lower case to speed up the search, and when displaying the English words obtained by the search, the first letter is displayed in upper case. Decide whether or not
By writing a special symbol after the English word to search, it was possible to speed up the search.

[Conventional technique] In the conventional technique, the English word to be searched is
When there is a group of English words containing a mixture of English words that are expressed in uppercase letters and the rest in lowercase letters, and English words that are all expressed in lowercase letters, it is not possible to search simply from the context of the ASCII code, and therefore the alphabet is used. It took a long time to search because the text was case-sensitive.

[Problem to be solved by the invention 1 When a search is performed using 11 alphabetical contexts, for example, ma
If id, mail, and main are lined up and you want to search for mail from among them, use ma1! l is mai
It is found because it is after d in d and before n in main. However, if a word containing uppercase letters is included in a word consisting of lowercase letters, the lowercase ASCII
Even though the I code and the uppercase ASCII code are the same alphabet, they differ by 2OH, so t is determined by simple context.
This is something that cannot be done with i-search. In such cases, English words containing uppercase letters should be converted to lowercase letters before comparison, but this would take a considerable amount of time to search. If all words are written in lowercase letters, the search time will be shortened, but English words that should normally be written with the first letter in capital letters will also be displayed in lowercase letters, making it difficult to read.

The present invention was made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and the present invention searches English words containing a mixture of words whose first letter is capitalized and the rest of the letters are lowercase, and single letters whose first letter is all lowercase. When converting to English words in the format required by the program, convert all words containing uppercase letters to lowercase letters, write a predetermined special symbol after this word, and when actually searching, use lowercase letters. The purpose of this invention is to find a target English word from its context in a group of English words consisting only of alphabets, and display the uppercase letter depending on the presence or absence of a special symbol at the time of one display.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The English word search device of the present invention can be used on a floppy disk or an RO.
In order to conserve the English word data stored in the memory device such as M, by inputting the English word as the item to be searched using a human-powered device such as a keyboard or scanner, the search is executed by the built-in CPU. In an English word search device.

EI) Speed up English word searches when English words whose first letter is capitalized and the rest are lowercase and English words whose first letter is all lowercase are mixed in the group of English words you are trying to search. A way to unify character types by rewriting all English words to lowercase letters.

lJ) Features an uppercase/lowercase distinguishing mark entry means for writing a special symbol after the English word in order to determine whether or not to display the first letter in uppercase when displaying the English word obtained by the search. shall be.

[Example] Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Note that this embodiment takes as an example an English-Japanese dictionary that displays the meaning of an input English word.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a search device according to the present invention. 1 is a search item input unit such as a keyboard or a scanner. 2
is the CPU of the main body of the search device.

3 is a search result output unit such as a CRT or liquid crystal display. 4 is a search program ROM for searching. 5 is a manuscript for dictionary creation.

Created using a word processor, etc. At this point, the English word group includes a mixture of English words in which the first letter is capitalized and the rest in lowercase, and English words consisting only of lowercase letters. At this point, there are a mixture of English words in which the first letter is capitalized and the rest in lowercase, and English words in which all letters are lowercase. 6 is a dictionary database conversion program that converts the dictionary creation manuscript created in 5 into the format required by the search program 4. 7 is a group of English words after being converted by the dictionary database conversion program of 6. 8 is an English-Japanese dictionary that contains the meanings of English words as data. A is a character type unification means for converting all uppercase letters to lowercase letters in an English word group consisting of English words in which only the first letter is capitalized and the rest are lowercase letters, and English words in which all letters are expressed in lowercase letters.

B is a case-sensitive symbol that adds a special symbol after the English word converted by A to distinguish between English words where only the first letter is uppercase and the rest are lowercase, and English words where all letters are lowercase. Entry method.

Table 1 is a diagram showing an example of a group of English words after a dictionary creation manuscript is converted by a dictionary database conversion program, a character type unification means, and a case distinction mark entry means. In the dictionary creation manuscript, only the first letter is capitalized and the rest are lowercase.

It contains a mixture of English words that are all written in lower case. In the example of Table 1, jaket, jam, and jaw are all lowercase words.

, 1apan, the first character is capitalized.

Table 1 shows an example of the English word group for search after estimating this using the dictionary database conversion program, the character type unification means, and the case-distinguishing symbol entry means. Here, Japan is converted to japan$. In other words, the word is converted to lower case and the special symbol $ is added after it.

j a c k e t / n / jacket j a m
/n /Shirt, Japan /n/Japanja w/n /Manuscript for creating a chin dictionary acket am japan$ aW English word group table for search 1 Figure 2 is a diagram showing a flowchart of the search program of the present invention. be. In FIG. 2, J-WORD is an English word of the English word group for search, and T-WORD is the English single letter inputted for search. 9 is the initialization of J-WORD, in which the first word of the index is replaced to start the search.

IO is J-WO=RD To I-WORD comparison table, the context of the alphabet can be checked.

If J-WORD precedes I-WORD in context, the next English word on the index is replaced with J-WORD by resetting J-WORD in step 11, and the process returns to step 10. In IO processing, J-WORD becomes I-WOR
If it is not before D, 1. J-W ORD and T-WO
It is assumed that the RDs match, and the process moves to step 12. 12, it is checked whether there is a special symbol $ after the word indicated by J-WORD. 1 if there is $
After executing the process of converting the first character of J-WORD 3 into an uppercase letter, the process moves to display process 14. If there is no $ sign, the system moves to display processing in 14 with lowercase letters [Effect of the invention 1] As described above, the present invention can display English words in which only the first letter is capitalized and the rest are lowercase letters, and all letters in lowercase letters. When English words represented by In order to determine whether to display the first letter in uppercase or not, a special symbol is written after the English word, thereby speeding up the search.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a search device according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a flowchart of the search program of the present invention.

Claims (1)

[Claims] In order to search for English word data stored in a storage device such as a floppy disk or ROM, by inputting an English word as a search item from an input device such as a keyboard or scanner, the built-in In an English word search device in which a search is executed by a CPU, a) English words whose first letter is capitalized and the rest are lowercase, and English words whose first letter is all lowercase are the group of English words to be searched. b) A method to unify the character type by rewriting all English words to lowercase letters in order to speed up the search for English words when they are mixed in An English word search device characterized by a case-sensitive symbol entry means for writing a special symbol after an English word in order to determine whether to display it or not.