JPH0264859A - Text processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To efficiently rewrite a text by presenting synonymous expression too for idiomatic expressing when a text constituting element is used as a part of the idiomatic expression in addition to a function to present a synonym. CONSTITUTION:The device is provided with an idiomatic expression dictionary 7 in which the idiomatic expression composed of plural text constituting elements is described, and an idiomatic expression investigating means 8 to investigate whether a partial constituting element exists as the constituting element of the idiomatic expression in the idiomatic expression dictionary 7 or not, and simultaneously, the investigate whether the different text constituting element to compose the idiomatic expression exists in a sentence text together with the partial constituting element or not. Besides, it is provided with a synonymous expression dictionary 9 and a synonymous expression retrieving means 10 for retrieving the synonymous expression dictionary 9. Then, for some text constituting element, not only the synonym of the different text constituting element is presented, but the synonymous expression for the idiomatic expression too is presented when said text constituting element is used as a part of the idiomatic expression. Thus, the generation of Japanese text can be made efficient.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a text processing device such as a Japanese word processor, and more specifically, when rewriting a part of a text into a different expression, This invention relates to a synonymous expression presentation function for presenting synonymous expressions.

(Prior Art) With the improvement of text processing technology using computers, text processing devices such as Japanese word processors have come into general use. Users of text processing devices can efficiently create texts by using various functions.

One of the sentence 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. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a conventional text processing device equipped with a conventional synonym presentation function. 1 is an input means for inputting the text; 2 is an editing control means for editing the text and controlling the overall operation; and 3 is a storage means for storing the input text. and
4 is a display means, 5 is a thesaurus dictionary that describes the correspondence between a certain sentence expression and its synonymous expression, and 6 is an Sn for searching the thesaurus dictionary 5 based on the partial constituent elements of the sentence text l-. 7 Human power means 1, which is a dictionary search means, uses a secondary memory reading device, character recognition device, etc. in the case of batch input of existing text, and uses a keyboard, voice recognition device, etc. to input text sequentially. For example, in a Japanese word processor, the editing control means 2, which corresponds to a floppy disk device or a keyboard (and a kana-kanji conversion mechanism), executes various editing functions while controlling the overall operation. In Japanese word processors, this corresponds to the editing module and operating system.

The storage means 3 is for storing a-concentrated sentence text, and in Japanese word processors, it is usually 1
The 0 display means 4 in which the writing and pupil portions are used is for displaying the status of text editing, messages to the user, etc., and a CRT display device is a typical implementation example thereof. Here, the user changes the text "correction of text" to "correction of text".
An example of rewriting the following will be explained. 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 synonym dictionary search means 6 searches the type R word dictionary 5 for the partial component "modification". Figure 3 shows a specific example of the thesaurus dictionary 5. Figure 3 shows that "correction" and "proofreading" are registered as synonyms for "revise", and "small" is registered as a synonym for "low". ing. The synonym dictionary search means 6 extracts a group of similar m words such as "correction" and "proofreading j" based on "correction", and displays them in the display means 4 via the editing control means 2.
to be presented. Through this series of processing, a group of similar synonyms can be presented, and the user can rewrite the sentence by selecting a desired one from the presented synonyms.

In this way, when the user wants to change a certain sentence expression, the apparatus presents candidates for alternative sentence expressions, thereby improving the user's writing efficiency. In addition, as the above-mentioned conventional technology, Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 5
9-197923 “Text creation device j” etc.

(Problems 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 sentence creation. However, the key sentence expression for searching the synonym dictionary 5 is limited to only one. Therefore, for example, if "small" is registered as a synonym for "low" in the class RMδ dictionary 5, then "small" is registered as a synonym for "low" by the above-mentioned procedure.
"I'm short" can be rewritten as "I'm short." However, when a single idiomatic expression is made up of multiple sentence expressions, such as "low waist", it becomes "low waist" and the original meaning is completely lost. In order to deal with this, the thesaurus 5 can register not only words but also idiomatic expressions grouped together, such as ``low back''. However, even in this case, if another sentence expression is included between the idiomatic expressions, such as ``My hips are very low,'' it is not possible to extract similar expressions. There were issues that needed to be solved with the information processing device. The present invention solves the problems in the conventional device.

(Means for Solving the Problems) The present invention overcomes the drawbacks of the prior art described above, and in addition to the function of presenting synonyms that are other sentence constituents corresponding to a certain sentence constituent. To provide a text processing device capable of also presenting synonymous expressions for a common expression when a sentence constituent element is used as a part of the common expression.

According to the present invention, in a text processing device having a means for inputting a text, a means for storing the text, a means for editing the text, and a display means,
One sentence component and another one corresponding to the sentence component
a thesaurus dictionary that describes the relationship between one or more sentence constituent elements; a thesaurus dictionary search means that searches the thesaurus dictionary based on the partial constituent elements in the sentence text and extracts a group of corresponding synonyms; A dictionary of idiomatic expressions that describes idiomatic expressions constituted by sentence constituent elements, and checking whether the partial constituent element exists as a constituent element of an idiomatic expression in the idiomatic expression dictionary and another an idiomatic expression inspection means for checking whether a sentence component exists in the sentence text; a synonymous expression dictionary containing one or more synonymous expressions corresponding to the idiomatic expression; a synonymous expression dictionary search means for searching the synonymous expression dictionary based on the synonymous expression dictionary, and an extraction result storage for storing the synonymous word group and the similar synonymous expression group searched by the said synonymous word dictionary searching means and the said synonymous expression dictionary searching means, respectively. means and
It is possible to obtain a text processing device characterized by comprising: presentation control means for controlling presentation of the contents of the extraction result storage means to the display means.

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 0, the components from the input means 1 to thesaurus dictionary search means 6 have the same structure as in FIG. Further, 7 is an idiomatic expression dictionary that describes idiomatic expressions constituted by a plurality of sentence constituent elements, and 8 is an idiomatic expression dictionary in which partial constituent elements passed from the editing control means 2 are used as constituent elements of idiomatic expressions in the idiomatic expression dictionary 7. It is an idiomatic expression testing means that checks whether a sentence exists or not, and if it exists, checks whether another sentence component that constitutes an idiomatic expression together with a given partial component exists in the sentence text. 9 is a synonym expression dictionary containing one or more synonym expressions corresponding to the idiomatic expression, 10 is a synonym expression search means for searching the synonym expression dictionary 9, and 11 is a synonym expression dictionary for searching the synonym expression dictionary 9. Extraction result storage means for temporarily storing the synonym group and synonym expression group searched by the synonym dictionary search means 6 and synonym expression dictionary search means 10; 12 is a display of the contents of extraction result storage means 11; This is presentation control means for controlling presentation to means 4. Further, FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of synonym/synonym expression presentation processing in the embodiment of FIG. 1, and (401)
~(406) are numbers given for convenience of explanation. The following is an example of a case where the sentence "He is short" exists in the text in the storage means 3, and the user specifies "low" and then instructs the presentation of synonyms and synonymous expressions. This example will be explained below.

First, when the user specifies "low" using the input means 1 and presents a synonymous expression, "low" is passed from the editing control means 2 to the synonym dictionary search means 6, and the synonym dictionary 5 is searched. The similar synonym group dictionary search procedure (401) is the same as the conventional similar synonym presentation procedure described using FIG. 2, and therefore detailed explanation will be omitted. The extracted synonym group ("small" in this explanation) is stored in the extraction result storage means 11 (402). At this time, the search key "low" and the extraction result "small J" are associated and extracted. The results may be stored in the result storage means 9.

Next, the idiomatic expression dictionary 7 is searched by the idiomatic expression checking means 8 (403). FIG.
05) is a number given for convenience of explanation. An example of the idiomatic expression dictionary 7 is shown in FIG. 6. In FIG. This indicates that the idiomatic expression checking means 8 receives the subcomponent "low" from the editing control means 2 (50
1) Search the idiomatic expression dictionary 7 and check whether there is an idiomatic expression containing a partial component (502), where:
As shown in FIG. (504). Here, as in the example of the present invention, if "Koshiga" exists in the vicinity (immediately) of "Kai", the idiomatic expression "Koshiga" is present (504). ” is passed to the synonym expression dictionary search means 10 <505).

Next, the similar expression dictionary search means 10 searches the idiomatic expression dictionary
Based on the idiomatic expressions passed from 9.8, synonym expression dictionary 9
An example of the similar meaning expression dictionary 7 for searching (404) is shown in FIG. Figure 7 shows that ``touch the scales,'' ``Nenbutsu in the horse's ears,'' and ``low-backed'' are registered as synonymous expressions for ``to be furious,'' ``the east wind in the horse's ears,'' and ``to be humble,'' respectively. There is.

Processing method III of the synonym expression dictionary search means 10 is the same as the synonym dictionary search means 6 except for the difference between the synonym group @5 and the synonym expression dictionary 9. The similar expression search means 8 extracts "humble" which corresponds to "low-tempered" and stores it in the extraction result storage means 11 and the extraction result storage means 9 (406).
At this time, "low-tempered" and "humble" may be associated and stored in the extraction result storage means 11.

Through the above procedure, at least one of the extracted synonymous word group or the extracted synonymous expression group is stored in the extraction result storage means 11.Next, the presentation control means 12 edits the contents of the extraction result storage means 11. Display means 4 via control means 2
FIG. 8 shows examples of synonyms and synonym expressions displayed on the display screen of the display means 4. In FIG. 8, the obtained synonym presentation referent "low" and its synonym "small" are displayed in association with each other, and "
Since "low" is used as a part of the idiomatic expression, the idiomatic expression "low waist" and its synonym "humble" are displayed in association.

Through these series of steps, it is possible to present to the user "small", which is a synonym for "low", and "slow", which is a synonym expression. In the embodiment of the present invention, only expressions generally called idiomatic expressions are registered in the idiomatic expression dictionary 7 and synonymous expression dictionary 9, but if it is a combination of multiple sentence expression elements, processing targets may be limited. In addition, the synonym dictionary 5 in Figure 3, the idiomatic expression dictionary 7 in Figure 6, and the synonym expression dictionary 9 in Figure 7 only describe the correspondence of notation with kanji and kana mixed in, but the reading・Part of speech・Semantic classification・
It is also possible to register information such as, and use this information during processing by the synonym dictionary search means 6, idiomatic expression check means 8, and synonym expression dictionary search means 10, respectively. Further, in the embodiment of the present invention, the synonym dictionary 5, the idiomatic expression dictionary 7, and the synonym expression dictionary 9 are configured as separate devices, but it is also possible to combine them into one or two dictionaries. In addition, when the idiomatic expression inspection means 8 examines the inside of the storage means 3, the range to be examined may be, for example, ``range J of the sentence that includes the extracted partial component,'' or ``a distance range separately determined from the position of the extracted partial component.'' By limiting the detection to the vicinity of the extracted subcomponent, such as "within", it is possible to prevent false detections caused by the presence of a component of the idiomatic expression in a completely different position.

(Effect of the invention) By using the present invention, not only can synonyms that are another sentence component be presented for a certain sentence component, but also the sentence component can be used as part of an idiomatic expression. In some cases, synonymous expressions for the idiomatic expression can also be presented. 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 sentence meaning processing device equipped with a synonym presentation function, and FIG. 3 is a specific example of a synonym dictionary 5. Conceptual diagram, Figure 4 is a flowchart showing an example of the overall flow of the synonym and synonymous expression presentation process, Figure 5 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of the synonymous expression presentation process, and Figure 6 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of the synonymous expression presentation process. FIG. 7 is a conceptual diagram showing a specific example of the seven-synonym expression dictionary 9; FIG. 8 is a conceptual diagram showing a specific example of the seven-synonym expression dictionary 9; FIG. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen to be displayed. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Input means, 2... Edit control means, 3... Storage means, 4... Display means, 5... Similar n word dictionary, 6.
... thesaurus dictionary search means, 7... = IGl expression dictionary, 8... idiomatic expression inspection means, 9... synonym expression dictionary,
10...Similar expression dictionary search means, 11...Extraction result storage means, 12...Presentation control means.

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a text processing device having a means for inputting a text, a means for storing the text, a means for editing the text, and a display means, one text constituent element and another text constituent element corresponding to the text constituent element are provided. a thesaurus dictionary that describes the relationship between one or more sentence constituent elements, and a thesaurus dictionary search means for searching the thesaurus dictionary and extracting a corresponding group of synonyms based on the partial constituent elements in the text text;
An idiomatic expression dictionary that describes an idiomatic expression constituted by a plurality of sentence components, and checking whether the partial component exists as a component of an idiomatic expression in the idiomatic expression dictionary and constructing the idiomatic expression. an idiomatic expression inspection means for checking whether another sentence component exists in the sentence text; a synonymous expression dictionary containing one or more synonymous expressions corresponding to the idiomatic expression; a synonymous expression dictionary search means for searching the synonymous expression dictionary based on expressions; and an extraction for storing synonymous word groups and synonymous expression groups searched by the synonymous dictionary searching means and the synonymous expression dictionary searching means, respectively. A text processing device comprising: a result storage means; and a presentation control means for controlling presentation of the contents of the extraction result storage means to the display means.