JPH0239264A - Sentence processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display not only the synonyms but the similar expressions based on a single sentence component element by using a similar expression dictionary and a retrieving means for said dictionary. CONSTITUTION:A synonym dictionary 5 contains one or plural synonyms for each sentence component element. A synonym dictionary retrieving means 6 retrieves the dictionary 5 based on the partial component elements and extracts the corresponding synonym group. A similar expression dictionary 7 contains one or plural similar expressions against the usage expression containing plural similar expressions constituted of plural sentence component elements. A similar expression dictionary retrieving means 8 retrieves the dictionary 7 based on the partial component elements and extracts the corresponding similar expression group in case the usage expressions are contained. These extracted synonym and similar expression groups are stored once in an extraction result memory 9 and then displayed with control on a display means 4 via a display control means 10.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a document processing device such as a Japanese word processor, and more specifically, when rewriting a part of a sentence into a different expression, This invention relates to a synonymous expression presentation function for presenting synonymous expressions.

[Conventional technology]

With the improvement of document processing technology using computers, document processing devices such as Japanese word processors have come into general use. Users of document processing devices can efficiently create documents by using various functions.

One of the document processing functions is a synonym presentation function.

This means that when changing one sentence expression to another,
This is for the convenience of the user by presenting another text expression from the device side, rather than having the user create another text expression by hand. By selecting the desired candidate from the group of synonyms presented, the user can
You can rewrite sentences efficiently.

Here, an example of synonym presentation processing will be shown. In FIG. 2, 4 is a display means, 5 is a dictionary of a certain sentence expression and its synonyms, and 6 is an editing control means 2. In the case of bulk input of texts, a secondary memory reading device or a character recognition device is shown. etc. are used,
A keyboard, voice recognition device, etc. are used to input text sequentially. For example, in a Japanese word processor, this includes a floppy disk device and a keyboard (and a kana-kanji conversion mechanism). The editing control means 2 is for realizing various editing functions while controlling the overall operation, and corresponds to the editing module and operating system in a Japanese word processor. The storage means 3 is for storing the text being edited, and in Japanese word processors, the main storage section is usually used. The display means 4 is for displaying the status of text editing, messages to the user, etc., and a typical implementation example thereof is a CRT display device. Here, an example will be explained in which the user rewrites the text "correction of text" to "correction of text." It is assumed that editing instruction commands such as synonym presentation are also input from the input means 1.

First, when the user specifies "revise", which is a partial component of the text, and instructs to present a synonym, "revise" is passed from the editing control means 2 to the synonym dictionary search means 6. The thesaurus dictionary search means 6 searches the thesaurus 5 for "correction j." A specific example of thesaurus dictionary 5 is shown in FIG. 3. In FIG. 3, "correction" and "proofreading" are synonyms for "correction." , indicates that "small" is registered as a synonym for "low". The synonym dictionary search means 6 reads “
A group of synonyms such as "correction" and "proofreading" are extracted based on "correction" and are presented on the display means 4 via the editing control means 2. The user can rewrite the text by selecting the desired one from the ones presented.

In this way, when the user wants to change a certain text expression, the device presents candidates for alternative text expressions, thereby improving the user's document creation efficiency. In addition, as the above-mentioned conventional technology, Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 5
9-197923r Document Creation Device".

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

As explained above, by making full use of the synonym presentation function, it is possible to improve the efficiency of Japanese document creation. However, the key sentence expression for searching the synonym dictionary 5 is limited to one at most. For this reason, for example, the synonym for "low" is listed in the synonym dictionary 5 as "low".
If "Short" is registered, "Short" can be rewritten as "Short" using the procedure described above.

However, multiple sentence expressions (lower back/
If ``ga/low'' forms an idiomatic expression, if you rewrite it using a synonym for ``low'', it will become ``small waist'' and lose its original meaning. . As a means of dealing with this problem, it is conceivable to register not only words but also idiomatic expressions that are grouped together in the synonym dictionary 5, such as "R is low", for example. However, even in this case, it is not possible to deal with cases where another sentence expression is included between one idiomatic expression, such as ``My waist is very low.'' Conventional text processing devices have had such problems to be solved.

[Means to solve the problem]

The present invention overcomes the drawbacks seen in the prior art described above, and provides not only synonyms but also synonymous expressions for idiomatic expressions that include the sentence component as another sentence component corresponding to the sentence component. To provide a text processing device that can perform the following tasks.

According to the present invention, there is provided a means for obtaining a written text, a means for storing the written text, a means for receiving and editing the written text from at least one of the input means or the storage means, and a means for editing the written text by the editing means. a synonym dictionary containing one or more synonyms corresponding to one sentence component; and a partial component within the sentence text. a thesaurus dictionary search means for searching the thesaurus and extracting a group of corresponding synonyms based on the synonym dictionary;
Search the synonym expression dictionary containing one or more synonym expressions and the synonym expression dictionary based on the partial constituent elements, and if an idiomatic expression exists, extract a corresponding synonym expression group. a synonymous expression search means; an extraction result storage means for temporarily storing the extracted synonymous word group and the synonymous expression group; and a presentation control means for controlling presentation of the contents of the extraction result storage means on a display means. It is possible to obtain a text processing device characterized by comprising:

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, the constituent elements from the input means 1 to thesaurus dictionary search means 6 are the same as in FIG.

Further, 7 is a synonymous expression dictionary containing idiomatic expressions and their similar expressions constituted by a plurality of sentence constituent elements, and 8 is a synonymous expression dictionary containing idiomatic expressions constituted by a plurality of sentence constituent elements, and 8 is a synonymous expression dictionary that stores idiomatic expressions constituted by a plurality of sentence constituent elements and their similar expressions. 9 is a synonymous expression retrieval means for searching a synonymous expression dictionary and extracting a corresponding synonymous expression group when an idiomatic expression including a given partial component exists; 9 is a synonymous expression retrieval means 6; 10 is an extraction result storage means for temporarily storing the synonym group extracted by the synonym expression search means 8 and the synonym expression group extracted by the synonym expression search means 8; This is a presentation control means for displaying on the display means 4 via the display means 4. Further, FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of the synonym expression presentation process in the embodiment of FIG. In Figure 4, (401
) to (407) are numbers given for convenience of explanation.

In the following, it is assumed that there is a sentence "He is short" in the text stored in the storage means 3, and synonyms and synonymous expressions are presented based on the partial component "low". The present embodiment will be explained by taking the following as an example.

First, when the user specifies "low" through the input means 1 and issues an instruction to present a synonym expression, "low" is passed from the editing control means 2 to the synonym dictionary search means 6 (401).
). The thesaurus dictionary search means 6 searches the thesaurus dictionary 5 for the partial component "low" (402). If a synonym is registered in the synonym dictionary 5, the synonym group is stored in the extraction result storage means 9 (403). When the contents of the synonym dictionary 5 are configured as shown in FIG. 3, the synonym dictionary search means 6 stores "small", which is a synonym of "low", in the extraction result storage means 9. At this time, the search key "low" and the search result "small" may be associated and stored in the extraction result storage means 9.

Next, the partial component "low" used by the 1st kind meaning 6n dictionary search means 6 is passed from the editing control means 2 to the similar meaning expression search means 8 (404). Similar expression search means 8 is "low"
The synonym expression dictionary 7 is searched (405).

A specific example of the similar meaning expression dictionary 7 is shown in FIG. Figure 5 shows that the idiomatic expressions ``Touch the Gyakuscale'', ``Nenbutsu in the Horse's Ear'', and ``Haunted'' have delimiter information for each sentence component (in this example, a word), and the expressions ``Rage'', ``Horse Ear Dongfeng'', and ``Haunted'' respectively. This shows that it has been registered in association with a synonymous expression of "I am humble." The similar meaning expression search means 8 searches for a similar meaning expression group -! based on the partial components passed from the editing control means 2. ! Search for F7, check whether the subcomponent exists as part of an idiomatic expression, and if it exists, extract similar expressions (group) corresponding to the idiomatic expression that includes the subcomponent. The result is passed to the result storage means 9. In the example of this explanation, if the contents of the synonymous expression dictionary 7 are structured as shown in FIG.
Since "low" exists as a part of "low waist",
The word ``humble'' corresponding to ``low-tempered'' and busy is extracted and stored in the extraction result storage means 9 (406). At this time, the idiomatic expression "low-backed" corresponding to the search key "low" and the search result "humble" may be associated and stored in the extraction result storage means 9.

Through the above procedure, at least one of the extracted synonymous word group or synonymous expression group is stored in the extraction result storage means 9. Next, the presentation control means 10 displays the contents of the extraction result storage means 9 on the display means 4 via the editing control means 2 (407).

Examples of the display are shown in FIGS. 6(a), (b), and (C). Figure 6(a) is an example in which the obtained synonyms and synonymous expressions are displayed at the same time, and Figure 6(b) is an example in which the synonyms are displayed and a notification is made that there is a similar expression. ,(
C) displays synonymous expressions and informs that there are synonymous words. Through these series of steps, it is possible to present to the user the synonym of "low", ``small'', and the synonym expression, ``low back''.

In the embodiment of the present invention, only expressions generally called idioms are registered in the synonymous expression dictionary 7, but there is no restriction on the processing target as long as it is a combination of a plurality of sentence expression elements. In addition, the synonym dictionary 5 in Figure 3 and the synonym expression dictionary 7 in Figure 5 only contain information such as correspondence and delimitation of kanji, kana, and mixed notation, but information such as reading, part of speech, and semantic classification are described. It is also possible to register and use it during processing by thesaurus dictionary search means 6 and thesaurus dictionary search means 8. In addition, in this embodiment, the synonym dictionary 5 and the synonym expression dictionary 7
Although they have different device configurations, they can also be combined into one dictionary configuration.

[Effects of the Invention] By using the present invention, not only synonyms but also synonymous expressions can be presented based on one sentence component. Note that in the embodiment, the explanation was given for character strings containing kanji and kana, but the present invention can also be applied to other language systems such as English.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a conventional text processing device that performs synonym presentation processing, and FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram showing a specific example of the synonym dictionary 5. 4 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of the synonym expression presentation process in the embodiment of FIG. 1, and FIG.
Conceptual diagram showing a specific example of FIG. 6 (a) and (b)
, (c) is a conceptual diagram showing a display example of processing results in the embodiment of FIG. 1... Input means, 2... Edit control means, 3... Storage means, 4... Display means,
5... Synonym dictionary, 6... Synonym dictionary search means, 7... Synonym expression dictionary, 8...
・Similar expression search means, 9...extraction result storage means, 10...presentation control means. Agent Patent Attorney Shinsuke Honjo Figure 1 Figure 4 Figure

Claims (1)

[Claims] means for inputting a written text, means for storing the written text, means for receiving and editing the written text from at least one of the input means or the storage means, and at least one of the written text edited by the editing means. a synonym dictionary containing one or more synonyms corresponding to one sentence component; and a synonym dictionary that stores one or more synonyms corresponding to one sentence component; a synonym dictionary search means for searching a dictionary and extracting a group of corresponding synonyms; a synonym dictionary containing one or more synonym expressions corresponding to an idiomatic expression constituted by a plurality of sentence constituent elements; a synonymous expression search means for searching the synonymous expression dictionary based on partial constituent elements and extracting a corresponding synonymous expression group if an idiomatic expression exists; and the extracted synonymous expression group and the similar synonymous expression group. 1. A text processing device comprising: an extraction result storage means for temporarily storing the extraction result storage means; and a presentation control means for controlling presentation of the contents of the extraction result storage means on a display means.