JPH0221623B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION <Technical Field of the Invention> The present invention relates to an improvement of a kana-kanji conversion device, and more specifically, to an apparatus capable of effectively notifying the existence of homophones.

<Technical background of the invention and its problems> Generally, when a sentence input in kana is converted into kanji, homophones are generated in Japanese. Homophones include "revise" and "revise", "readymade" and "readymade",
"Payment" and "Approval", "Resale" and "Reprint", "Collection"
When one of the homophones is displayed, such as ``consolidation'', ``organizer'' and ``presiding'', ``exposure'' and ``bombing'', ``end'' and ``completion'', the existence of other homophones becomes obvious. It can be assumed that there are some words that are difficult to remember, or that the notation is very similar and that it is easy to misread them.

In particular, homophone selection is possible, such as so-called solid input kana-kanji conversion, which does not require additional information such as bunsetsu delimiter marks, and automatically converts and outputs sentences containing kana-kanji if the pronunciation is entered exactly as the pronunciation. If this is done all at once, there is a greater possibility that errors in homophone selection will occur due to the reasons described above.

For this reason, it may be possible to notify the operator that there are homophones other than the displayed word, but for example, the difference is obvious, such as "Dear sir" and "background", "Rise" and "ryusei", etc. If the existence of homophones is notified even for words, the effect of calling attention will be weakened, and if there are many notifications, the displayed conversion result text will be difficult to read. It was hot.

<Object of the Invention> The present invention has been made with the purpose of providing a homophone specification method that eliminates the above-mentioned conventional problems.In order to achieve this objective, the homophone specification method of the present invention In a kana-kanji conversion device that includes a kana-kanji conversion dictionary for matching kana strings and kana headings and converting them into words written in kanji,
Additional information indicating whether or not to notify the existence of other homophones for the kanji notation of the homophone in the above-mentioned kana-kanji conversion dictionary is stored in the above-mentioned dictionary, and the kana-kanji of the input kana string is stored in the above-mentioned dictionary. The conversion result is configured to be displayed together with the above additional information, and with this configuration, the present invention is able to identify words with homophones for which there is a high possibility of forgetting the existence of other homophones, or It becomes possible to display the kana-kanji conversion results by clearly indicating words that are particularly similar in notation to other homophones.

<Embodiments of the Invention> The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a kana-kanji conversion device embodying the present invention.

In FIG. 1, 1 is an input device including a kana input section, 2 is a processing device including a kana-kanji conversion section, and 3 is a processing device including a kana-kanji conversion section.
4 is a table storage device for prefixes, suffixes, etc., 5 is a kana-to-kanji conversion result storage buffer, and 6 is a display device such as a CRT.

The text is input from the input device 1 as a kana character string using, for example, a kana character string. The processing device 2 including the kana-kanji conversion unit searches the input kana character string in the independent word dictionary stored in the independent word dictionary storage device 3 for kana-kanji conversion, and converts the input kana character string into the kanji (independent word) corresponding to the kana character string. The conversion is performed and a sentence containing kanji is output, and the conversion result is stored in the buffer 5. At this time, words, including homophones, are stored in the buffer 5 by number (code number).

In addition, the independent word dictionary storage device 3 for kana-kanji conversion
As shown in Figure 2, word number storage area 3
1. It is composed of a readout storage area 32, a kanji notation storage area 33, and a homophone explicit flag storage area (additional information storage area) 34, and the existence of other homophones is forgotten in the homophone explicit flag storage area 34. The flag "1" is set for words that have a high probability or are particularly similar in spelling to other homophones. For example, in the example shown in Figure 2, among the homophones of "kitei" The homophone explicit flag is set to "1" for "regulations" and "regulations" for which there is a high possibility that the existence of other homophones will be forgotten, or for "regulations" and "regulations" that are particularly similar in writing to other homophones. .

A plurality of conversion candidates for each phrase are stored in the kana-kanji conversion result storage buffer 5, and the first candidate for each phrase among the conversion results stored in the buffer 5 is stored in the storage device 3. Displayed on the display device 6 using the contents of the kanji notation storage area 33,
For example, it is displayed as shown in FIG. 3 A and B.
Further, by operating the input device 1, homophones of a desired phrase are displayed on the display device 6 by a conventionally known method, and a desired candidate from among the displayed homophones is replaced with the first candidate. Rukoto can.

As shown in Figure 3 (a) or (b), the boundaries of phrase candidates are separated and displayed, for example, by the delimiter symbol mark 41 indicated by ◇, and furthermore, among the independent words of the first candidate. , the symbol mark for delimiting the clause boundary before a homophone (independent word) is based on the storage information in the area 34, such as "regulation" where "1" is set in the flag area 34 of the storage device 3. To distinguish it from other marks, for example, the code 42
This is clearly indicated by the 〓 (hollow black mark), and this distinction alerts the operator to the presence of a strange homophone. Even for the same homophone of "kitei", if "base" becomes the first candidate from the context as shown in FIG. ” No warning display is performed based on the memory contents.

As described above, the operator is warned by clearly indicating the homophone only when there is a high risk of overlooking the homophone, thereby preventing the occurrence of errors in homophone selection.

Note that the above-mentioned homonyms may be specified only when the operator instructs them using the input device 1, for example.

In addition, the memory area 34 has a rewritable memory configuration so that additional information can be added to words that operators tend to overlook.
The flag may be set arbitrarily.

Furthermore, the method for indicating homophones is not limited to the above example, and in addition to changing the boundary mark, various changes such as blinking, half-brightness, reverse display, etc. are possible.

In addition, although the above embodiments were explained using Chinese nouns or sa-hen nouns as examples, the present invention is not limited thereto. Homophones may be specified for pairs of homophones such as "take-ru", "measure-ru" and "measure-ru", "figure-ru" and "plot-ru", and the like.

In addition, in the above example, a flag was set in the dictionary storage device to clearly indicate homophones, but for example, kanji 2
In words consisting of letters, the first letter is in the homophone,
Alternatively, words with the same kanji as the second character may be explicitly displayed as homophones.

<Effects of the Invention> As described above, according to the present invention, additional information indicating whether or not to notify the existence of another homophone with respect to the kanji notation of the homophone in the kana-kanji conversion dictionary is provided in the dictionary. Since the kana-kanji conversion result of the input kana string is displayed together with the above additional information, the existence of other homophones is likely to be forgotten, or if there is a particular The existence of strange homophones, such as those with similar spellings, will be clearly shown to the operator, making it possible to prevent homophone selection errors and improving the efficiency of writing. .

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a kana-kanji conversion device implementing the present invention, and FIGS. 2 and 3 A and B are diagrams for explaining the operation of an embodiment of the present invention, respectively. . 1... Input device, 2... Processing device, 3... Independent word dictionary storage device for kana-kanji conversion, 5... Kana-kanji conversion result storage buffer, 6... Display device, 34... Homophone explicit flag (additional information) storage area, 42 …Homophone explicit mark.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A kana-kanji conversion device that includes a kana-kanji conversion dictionary for matching input kana strings with kana headings and converting them into words written in kanji, including homophones in the kana-kanji conversion dictionary. Additional information indicating whether or not to notify the existence of other homophones for the kanji notation is stored in the dictionary, and the kana-kanji conversion result of the input kana string is displayed together with the additional information. A homophone explicit method characterized by the following.