JPH0264847A - Document preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To facilitate correction work accompanied by error detection due to the improvement of a sentence by automatically generating an accurate substitution candidate character string with respect to an error part so as to display it. CONSTITUTION:A morpheme analysis part 5 obtains morpheme data by referring to an analysis dictionary 9 through a dictionary retrieval part 8, develops a sentence into the morphemes so as to analyze them. An error detection part 6 improves the sentence and the error on the sentence is detected. A morpheme generation part 7 generates the substitution candidate character string equivalent to the error part 4 and the obtained substitution candidate character string is displayed in the display of an output part 3 and the like as a substitution candidate in the error part of the sentence. Subsequently, an MMI part 2 substitutes the error part on the sentence with the candidate character string and displays it in the output part 3 by an instruction from an input part 1. Thus, the preparation of the sentence is facilitated since the error part is corrected only by the substitution instruction.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Object of the Invention] (Field of Industrial Application) This invention is applicable to word processors, workstations,
Regarding document creation devices such as computers, in particular, it analyzes and refines sentences, detects erroneous parts of sentences such as stylistic errors and spelling errors, and generates replacement candidate character strings for the detected erroneous parts of sentences. The present invention relates to a document creation device capable of generating and replacing erroneous portions of the text.

(Prior art) A document creation device such as a word processor, workstation, or computer that is equipped with a text editing function that analyzes text and detects and warns of grammatical errors, ambiguous expressions, misspelled characters, etc. There is.

In a document creation device equipped with this type of text editing function, when an error in writing style or notation is detected, a corresponding part of the detected error is displayed on the screen of a display device such as a display that displayed the text, for example. The user was notified of the location by highlighting it with attributions such as black and white inversion or blinking.

Then, the user sees the attribution displayed portion and recognizes that there was an error, and uses, for example, an editing function to correct the portion that caused the error and make the sentence correct.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) However, with such conventional document creation devices, the user can judge the cause of the error from the attribution displayed part, and find the correct one that should be replaced in this place. You must come up with a string that seems to be correct and re-enter or modify it.

Therefore, even after an error or the like in a sentence is pointed out by the sentence editing function, it is a heavy burden to finish creating a correct sentence.

This invention was made in view of such conventional circumstances, and it not only informs the user of the location of the error etc. through attribution display, but also recommends that the location should be replaced (replacement candidate). ) It is an object of the present invention to provide a document creation device capable of displaying a character string and automatically replacing the recommended character string with a corresponding portion according to a user's instruction.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problem) In order to achieve such an object, a document creation device according to the present invention includes an error detection means for detecting errors in sentences;
a character string generation means for generating a replacement candidate character string for the error portion of the sentence detected by the error detection means, and a replacement candidate character string generated by the character string generation means for the error in the sentence detected by the detection means; The present invention includes a replacement instructing means for instructing to replace a portion of the sentence, and a replacing means for replacing the candidate character string with an erroneous part of the sentence in response to an instruction by the replacement instructing means.

(Function) With a document creation device having such a configuration, when an error, etc. in a sentence is detected by the error detection means, a replacement candidate character string for the detected error part of the sentence is generated by the character string generation means. Generated by

Then, the operator of the document creation device determines whether or not to use the replacement candidate character string generated by the character string generation means as is, and uses the replacement instruction means to send this replacement candidate character string to the detection means. It can be instructed to replace the detected error part of the sentence. If there is an instruction from the replacement instruction means, the replacement means will replace the candidate character string with the erroneous portion of the sentence in response to this instruction.

Therefore, when an error, etc. is detected in the text by elaboration using an error detection means, the user must infer the cause of the error, devise a sentence that seems to be correct, and perform rework or corrections. Errors can be corrected simply by instructing to replace them with candidate character strings, without having to go through the troublesome operating procedures described above, making it extremely easy to create sentences using this type of document creation device.

(Embodiment) FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the main parts of a document creation device according to an embodiment to which the present invention is applied.

an input unit 1 equipped with input devices such as a keyboard and a mouse;
There is an output section 3 consisting of a display device such as a display. Then, while controlling the input/output devices included in the input section 1 and the output section 3, it controls the editing of the text and, for example, corrects incorrect parts of the text in response to the user's replacement instructions using input devices such as a keyboard and mouse. A man-machine interface section (hereinafter abbreviated as MM1 section) 2 is provided for controlling operations such as replacing the text with a replacement candidate character string and displaying it on the output section 3.

Also, an analysis control unit 4 that controls text analysis and text elaboration.
There is. Below this analysis control unit 4, there is a morphological analysis unit 5 that analyzes each sentence by decomposing it into morphemes such as nouns, verb stems, conjugations, and particles, and based on the data decomposed into morphemes and analyzed. , an error detection unit 6 that refines the text and detects any errors, and a morpheme generation unit 7 that generates a replacement candidate character string to replace the corresponding error portion from the morpheme data and detected error information, etc. etc. are provided.

Also, below the morpheme analysis section 5 is a dictionary search section 8 that searches an analysis dictionary 9 that stores analysis information corresponding to the morpheme.
is installed.

Next, the operation of the document creation apparatus of this embodiment will be explained based on the drawings of FIGS. 1 to 7.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the document creation device of this embodiment. Further, FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a process in which an error is detected by morphological analysis of a sentence, and FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a process in which a replacement candidate character string is generated.

5 to 7 are diagrams showing examples of display of the output section 3 on a display device such as a display. FIG. 5 shows an example of a sentence to be revised. Figure 6 shows
Figure 7 shows an example of highlighting an erroneous part detected by text editing and displaying a generated replacement candidate character string, and Figure 7 shows an example of the erroneous part being replaced with a candidate character string according to the operator's instructions. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of time. Sentences and the like are displayed on the display device of the output section 3 in the form shown in FIGS. 5 to 7.

In FIG. 1, when the user instructs to start elaborating the text displayed on a display device such as a display of the output unit 3 using the mouse or keyboard of the input unit 1, the MMI unit 2 Receive instructions and start controlling text elaboration.

First, the input section 1 specifies the starting position at which to start elaborating the text.
This is done using a mouse, etc. The MM1 section 2 sequentially extracts - sentences one by one from this first position and transfers them to the analysis control section 4.

In FIG. 5, for example, if the position of ``shi'' in the upper left of the figure is specified as the beginning of the text to be refined, the - sentence ``I have created a specification.'' is extracted first by the MMI unit 2. , is transferred to the analysis control unit 4 (step 1o1 in FIG. 2).

The analysis control unit 4 passes this sentence to the morpheme analysis unit 5, which decomposes the sentence into the level of individual morphemes that make up the sentence. The morphological analysis section 5 obtains morphological data through the dictionary search section 8 while referring to the analysis dictionary 9, and develops and analyzes this sentence into morphemes (step 103 in FIG. 2).

Furthermore, based on this morpheme data, etc., the error detection section 6 refines the sentence and detects errors in the sentence.

In Figure 3, example sentence a, ``The specifications were created.''
is decomposed into individual morpheme words like b, and these words are further grouped into several segments like C.

Then, various error detection check rules such as d are applied to these segments, and errors such as e are detected.

f is the analysis result of the error part. ``The segment created J has the stem ``create'' and is a ``noun with a declension of sa line,'' and its conjugated ending is ``final form.''
The information that "the tense is past" and the number of characters is "4" is extracted. Based on this information, for example, if the writing style is "Sumasu style" and the sentence "created/ta" is written in "desu style",
This part will be caught by the check rule mentioned above (
Steps 105 to 107).

Information such as errors in sentences detected by the error detection section 6 in this manner is sent to the MM 1 section 2 via the analysis control section 4. M
The MI unit 2 adds attribution to this error portion so that it is easy for the user to understand, and displays it on the display screen of the output unit 3. An example of such an attribution display is shown in n of FIG. 6 (step 109).

Next, the analysis control unit 4 causes the morpheme generation unit 7 to generate a replacement candidate character string that corresponds to this error portion. The morpheme generation unit 7 obtains the candidate character string by applying a generation rule for replacement candidate character strings to the information of the analysis result of the error part. FIG. 4 shows the process of generating replacement candidate character strings. The ``final form'' of the ``sa line declension conjugation'' of the word stem ``creation''
The production rule is applied to the ``noun'' with ``past tense'' and ``Mazu'' and ``Ta'' are added. Furthermore, conjugation rules are applied, and the stem word ``sakure'' and the above-mentioned addition ``mazu'' are converted into conjunctive forms, resulting in ``sakureshi'' and ``mashi'', respectively. Also, for the similarly added ``ta'', the same form ``ta'' is selected as the final form. In this way, a series of replacement candidate character strings such as "created", "mashi", and "ta" are generated (step 111).
).

The replacement candidate character string obtained in this way is displayed as a "replacement candidate" on a separate screen provided by the MM 1 section 2 near the erroneous part of the sentence displayed on the display of the output section 3. FIG. 6 shows an example of displaying such replacement candidates (step 113).

In addition, the MM 1 part 2 displays the replacement candidates and at the same time presses, for example, a specific key on the keyboard of the input part 1, or similarly manually, in order to allow the user to select whether or not to replace the erroneous part with the replacement candidate character string. Icons and the like to be specified using a mouse or the like in Part 1 are provided to show how to perform a replacement operation.

Then, when the user instructs to replace the above candidate character string using the equipment of the human resources department 1, the MM1 department 2 replaces the incorrect part of the sentence with the above candidate character string in response to this replacement instruction. and displayed on the output unit 3 (steps 115 to 119). FIG. 7 shows an example of the display when the replacement is performed in this way.

In this way, each sentence is sequentially extracted from the position specified as the target part of the sentence revision, and the sentence revision is executed.If there is an error in the sentence, that part is highlighted and at the same time , candidate character strings for replacement are generated and displayed, and can be replaced as is according to instructions.

Note that the application of the present invention is not limited to the one embodiment described above, but can be implemented in other embodiments as well. For example, instead of generating and displaying replacement candidate character strings for each error location one by one, it may be possible to display them for all locations where a warning has been displayed, or alternatively, if you wish to display replacement candidate character strings, Of course, it is also possible to create and display this only for the location where it was found.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above in detail, the text editing mechanism of the document creation device according to the present invention can detect correct replacement candidates for the error portion when a warning of an error is issued due to text editing. A string will be automatically generated and displayed. Further, the generated and displayed replacement candidate character string can be immediately replaced with a simple operation.

Therefore, compared to conventional document creation devices of this type, the correction work associated with detecting errors by revising the text becomes easier.
It also shortens the working time and improves work efficiency. In this way, the man-machine interface becomes more friendly and the usability becomes much easier.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

1 to 7 are diagrams relating to a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which FIG. 1 is a block diagram thereof, FIG. 2 is an operation flowchart, and FIG. 3 is an error caused by morphological analysis of sentences. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the process of generating replacement candidate character strings. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of how a sentence is displayed. FIG. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a display of a replacement candidate character string. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a display when an error portion is replaced with a candidate character string.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) An error detection means for detecting an error in a sentence, a character string generation means for generating a replacement candidate character string for the erroneous part of the sentence detected by the error detection means, and a replacement generated by the character string generation means. Replacement instructing means for instructing to replace the candidate character string with the erroneous part of the sentence detected by the detection means, and replacement means for replacing the candidate character string with the erroneous part of the sentence in response to the instruction by the replacement instructing means. A document creation device comprising: