JPH0291762A - Kana/kanji converter - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain a desired KANJI (Chinese character)/KANA (Japanese syllabary) mixed character-string without executing a correction processing from the next time by registering automatically an unregistered word, when the desired KANJI and KANA mixed character-string is obtained by operations such as a correction and a delimiting designation, etc., of an input KANA character-string. CONSTITUTION:A character-string storage means 6 stores temporarily a KANJI (Chinese character)/KANA (Japanese syllabary) mixed character-string obtained by a KANA/KANJI converting means 5. Subsequently, at the time of generating the KANJI/ KANA mixed character-string by the KANA/KANJI converting means 5, when it is decided that it is corrected by a deciding means 8 for deciding whether a delimitation of a KANA character-string and a correction of a character itself are executed or not, a work registering means 9 registers a word in a KANA character-string in a KANA character-string storage means 3 is reading and the KANJI/KANA mixed character-string in the KANJI/KANA character-string storage means 6 is a notation. In such a way, even when an input KANA character-string is corrected, a combination of the original KANA character-string and the obtained KANJI/KANA mixed character-string can be registered automatically in a word dictionary.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a kana-kanji conversion device, and more specifically,
This invention relates to a kana-kanji conversion device that can effectively input words not registered in a dictionary when converting kana-kanji.

[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. As an input function of this type of Japanese processing device, Kana-Kanji conversion is a method that inputs a desired character string containing kanji and kana using its pronunciation information, and then converts it into a character string containing kanji and kana using word dictionary searches and grammar test processing. be. Kana-kanji conversion is widely used because it allows character strings containing many types of kanji and kana to be input in the form of kana and romaji using standard high-speed character input means such as keyboards.

However, kana-kanji conversion has the drawback that conversion cannot be performed unless the word is registered in the dictionary. Therefore, in order to be able to perform kana-kanji conversion for words that are not registered in the dictionary, the user must manually register the unregistered words in the dictionary, which is a big burden for the user. It had become.

As a conventional technique to overcome this problem, JP-A-63
-25766 r Japanese Input Device" has been proposed.

This allows the user to input a kana character string, select word delimiters, and select homophones without being aware of whether the word is registered or not. Based on this, unregistered words are identified and registered in the word dictionary.

For example, assume that the word "Keidanren" is not registered. The user first inputs ``Keidaren'' and attempts to convert it into kana-kanji. However, the conversion fails because "Keidanren" is not registered.

Therefore, the user enters the input kana character string as "kei".
By dividing the words into ``dan'' and ``ren'' and then converting them into kana-kanji, the three words ``kei'', ``dan'', and ``ren'' (
``Keidanren'' is obtained by combining these words. At the same time, the above-mentioned "Japanese language processing device" reads a word whose reading is the input kana character string "Keidaren" and whose notation is the final kanji-kana mixed character string "Keidanren". ,
Register in the word dictionary. Therefore, by using the conventional ``Japanese language processing device'', the user can immediately obtain ``Keidanren'' for ``Keidanren'' from Kuchiguchi.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

As described above, in the conventional technology, if a character string containing kanji and kana is obtained without changing the input kana character string, an unregistered word can be automatically registered in the dictionary.

However, it is not always possible to obtain a character string containing kanji and kana from all unregistered words without modifying the kana character string. For example, the word ``Roppongi'' is pronounced ``Rohongi.''
Assume that you want to register a word. The reading for each kanji is
These are ``roku'', ``han'', and ``gi'', respectively, but these are all pronunciations that result from the phonetic changes of ``roku'', ``han'', and ``ki''. In reality, it is not possible to register words including coined Chinese words in a word dictionary for all possible phonetic changes.

Therefore, in order to obtain "Roppongi", users must read "Roppongi".
After modifying ``Rohongi'' to ``Rokuhonki'' and then separating the kana character strings, converting them to kana-kanji, and recombining them, we obtain ``Roppongi'' as in the case of ``Keidaren'' described above. be able to. However, in this case, since the originally input kana character string has been modified to make it into a kanji kana character string, in the conventional technology, "Roppongi" corresponding to "rotsuhongi" is added to the word dictionary. cannot be registered.

[Means to solve the problem]

The present invention overcomes the drawbacks seen in the prior art described above, and even when the input kana character string is modified, the combination of the original kana character string and the obtained kanji-kana mixed character 1j is automatically registered in the word dictionary. To provide a Kana-Kanji conversion device that can convert Kana to Kanji.

According to the present invention, an input means for inputting a kana character string to be subjected to kana-kanji conversion, a kana character string storage means for temporarily storing the kana character string, and a word dictionary provided with at least the pronunciation and notation of words. a kana-kanji conversion means for generating a character string containing kanji and kana based on the kana character string by referring to the word dictionary or selecting homophones, and a delimiter for specifying a delimiter position of the kana character string; A kana-kanji conversion device comprising a kanji-kana-mixed character string storage means for temporarily storing the kanji-kana-mixed character string, and an output means for outputting the kanji-kana-mixed character string, the apparatus corrects the kanji-kana character string. a character string modification means; a determination means for determining whether or not the delimiter or kana character string modification means was used when generating a character string containing kanji and kana; To provide a kana-kanji conversion device, comprising a word registration means for registering a word in which the kana character string in the kana character string storage means is a reading and the character string mixed with kanji and kana is a notation. be able to.

〔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, 1 is a control unit that controls the overall operation, and 2 is a control unit that controls the overall operation.
Inputs the kana character string used for ephemeral kanji conversion, and provides instructions necessary for generating a character string containing kanji and kana, such as selecting homophones, specifying break positions, modifying the kana character string, etc. 3 is a kana character string storage means for temporarily storing the kana character string inputted by the input means 2; 4 is a word dictionary having at least pronunciations and spellings of words; 5 is a kana-kanji conversion means that generates a kanji-kana mixed υ character string by referring to the word dictionary 4 or selecting homophones, and 6 temporarily stores the kanji-kana mixed character string obtained by the ephemeral kanji conversion means 5. Kanji/kana character string storage means 6; 7 is an output means for outputting the contents of the kanji/kana character string storage means 6;
When the ephemeral kanji conversion means 5 generates a character string containing kanji and kana, the determination means determines whether or not the kana character string is separated or the characters themselves are modified. sb, 9 is determined to have been modified by the determination means 8. This word registration means registers a word in which the kana character string in the kana character string storage means 3 is the reading and the kanji-kana mixed character string in the kanji-kana character string storage means 6 is the notation. The present embodiment will be described below by taking as an example a case where "Roppongi" is converted into kana-kanji to obtain "Ropponsui" and at the same time, this is registered as a word. In addition, the second
The figure is a flowchart showing the flow of processing in this embodiment. Further, (201) to (210) in the figure are identification numbers given for the convenience of the following explanation.

Also, in the word dictionary 4, ``roku'', ``hon'', and ``ki'' are registered, which correspond to ``roku'', ``han'', and ``ki''.
It is assumed that ``Ropponsui'' corresponding to ``Rohongi'' is not registered.

First, the user inputs the kana character string "Rohongi" from the input means 2 (201). The input kana character string is temporarily stored in the kana character string storage means 3 (202), and then passed to the kana-kanji conversion means 5 according to instructions from the control section 1. The kana-kanji conversion means 5 converts the kana character string into a character string containing kanji and kana by referring to the word dictionary 4 and performing a grammar test (203). Here, since "Ropponsui" is not registered in the word dictionary 4, the desired character string containing kanji and kana cannot be obtained (204). Therefore, in order to obtain the desired kanji/kana mixed character string 11, the user uses the input means 2 to divide the kana character string ``rotsubongi'' into ``ro'', ``bon'', ``gi'', and the sound. Change to "Roku", "Han", and "Ki", which are the kana character strings before the change of character (
205). At this time, the control unit 1 notifies the determination unit 8 that the user has specified a delimiter during modification of the input kana character string using the input unit 2 (206). The determining means 8 can be easily realized, for example, as a flag indicating whether or not it has been modified and a reading device thereof. The kana character strings "roku", "han", and "ki" with delimiters specified and the pronunciation changed are changed to "roku", "hon", and "ki" by the kana-kanji conversion means 5, respectively.
(203). Since the kanji-kana character string obtained by combining these is the desired one (204), the kanji-kana character string "Rokubonsui" is stored in the kanji-kana character string storage means 6 (207). It is assumed that the kana character string "Rohongi" in the kana character string storage means 3 is stored without being changed even during the above conversion/correction process.

The kanji-kana mixed character string in the kanji-kana character string storage means 6
The "Ropponsui" is read out by the control unit 1 to the output means 7 (208) and used for screen display, printing, editing processing in a word processor, etc. At this time, the control unit 1
The determining means 8 checks whether correction processing has been performed during the kana-kanji conversion (209). In this example, since the determination means 8 indicates that the modification has been made, the registration means 9 is activated. The registration means 9 registers in the word dictionary 4 the word whose reading is the kana character string "Rorihongi" in the kana character string storage means 3 and the notation is "Roppongi" in the kanji kana character string storage means 6 ( 210). Through these series of steps, the word "Roppongi" whose pronunciation is the initially input kana character string "Rorihongi" can be registered in the word dictionary 4.

In addition, input means 2, kana character string storage means 3, word dictionary 4
, the kana-kanji conversion means 5, the kanji-kana character string storage means 6, and the output means 7 are those realized in conventional Japanese word processors. Except for being provided by the character string storage means 3 and the Kanji/Kana character string storage means 6, this has been realized in conventional Japanese word processors and the like, so a detailed explanation will be omitted. Furthermore, during kana-kanji conversion, operations such as selecting homophones and confirming kanji conversion candidates are normally performed by instructions from the input means 2, which is the same process as that performed by conventional Japanese word processors. Therefore, the explanation will be omitted.

〔Effect of the invention〕

By using the present invention, if the first kana character string input by the user cannot be converted to kana-kanji because the word is not registered, the desired kanji can be converted by editing the input kana character string by specifying a middle delimiter. When a character string containing kana characters is obtained, unregistered words are automatically registered, so that the desired character string containing kanji and kana characters can be obtained from the next time without any correction processing.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flowchart excluding an example of the flow of processing in the embodiment of FIG. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Control part, 2... Input means, 3... Gana character string storage means, 4... Word dictionary, 5... Kana-Kanji conversion means, 6... Kanji-Kana character string storage means , 7... Output means, 8... Judgment means, 9... Registration means. Agent Patent Attorney Shinsuke Honjo Figure 2 Figure 1

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] An input means for inputting a kana character string to be subjected to kana-kanji conversion, a kana character string storage means for temporarily storing the kana character string, and a word dictionary that includes at least the pronunciation and notation of words. a kana-kanji conversion means for generating a character string containing kanji and kana based on the kana character string by means such as referring to the word dictionary or selecting homophones; and a delimiter for specifying a delimiting position of the kana character string; In a kana-kanji conversion device comprising a kanji-kana-mixed character string storage means for temporarily storing a kanji-kana-mixed character string, and an output means for outputting the kanji-kana-mixed character string, the kana character string is corrected. means, determining means for determining whether or not the delimiter or the kana character string correcting means was used when generating a character string containing kanji and kana, and when it is determined by the determining means that the use was made, A kana-kanji conversion device comprising: word registration means for registering a word in which the kana character string in the kana character string storage means is a reading and the kanji-kana mixed character string is a notation.