JPH03142558A - Kana/kanji converting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily select homonym by providing a word explanation dictionary to store meaning / usage information corresponding to the Chinese character (KANJI) of a KANA (Japanese syllabary)/KANJI conversion dictionary even in the case a user does not well know the KANJI or idioms when the homonym is selected. CONSTITUTION:When a KANA character string is received from an edition control part 2, a KANA/KANJI conversion part 4 executes grammar analysis while referring a KANA/KANJI conversion dictionary, generates the candidate train of a sentence mixing KANJI and KANA and transfers a result to the control part 2. In the control part 2, the first candidate string is transferred to a display part 3 and displayed. When there are other second and third candidate strings, namely, when there are the homonyms, these candidate strings and the information of positions, where those strings appear in the sentence, are dispatched to a homonym selection part 6 and in the selection part 6, these information are held until the selection of the homonym is requested. When the user requests the selection of the homonym through an input part 1, the selection part 6 is driven by the control part 2. The selection part 6 refers the word explanation dictionary, presents the meaning and usage of each candidate and dispatches the selected candidate to the control part 2 as the first candidate.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Object of the Invention] (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a kana-kanji conversion device that inputs a kana character string and outputs a character string containing kanji and kana.

(Prior Art) In the conventional kana-kanji conversion device, as shown in FIG. 8, the human power section manually reads kanji information, and this reading is sent to the kana-kanji conversion section via the editing control section. Here, the kana-kanji conversion dictionary is referred to, and if there is a kanji corresponding to the reading, it is sent from the kana-kanji conversion section to the display section via the editing control section in place of the reading, and is displayed as a kanji-kana mixed sentence. Further, there may be cases where a plurality of kanji information with homophones exist for one kana character. For example, for the human power of "Let's try", "use", "specification", "utilization", "cotyledon", "trial", "branches", "feeding", etc. are output, but here the user can Create sentences by selecting appropriate words from the candidates.

However, such a homophone selection method is effective only if the user has the ability to select an appropriate homophone from a candidate list of homophones. For this reason, as the number of users increases and there is a large difference in the ability of users to select homophones, it will be extremely difficult for those who are not familiar with kanji and idioms to select homophones appropriately, making it difficult to write sentences efficiently. There was a problem that it could not be created.

Especially when used by foreigners, they will be dealing with Japanese that is different from the user's native language. As a result, it is often impossible to recognize the different meanings and usages of each homophone and use them properly, resulting in the problem of not being able to efficiently create sentences.

(Problem to be solved by the invention) In this way, in the conventional kana-kanji conversion device, whether or not homophones can be appropriately selected depends on the user's proficiency with kanji and compound words. For those who are not familiar with idioms, it becomes extremely difficult to select homophones, and there is a problem in that they are unable to efficiently create sentences.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a kana-kanji conversion device that can easily and accurately select homophones, regardless of the user's proficiency with kanji and compound words.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problem) In order to achieve the above object, the present invention includes an interpretation dictionary that records meaning/usage information corresponding to the kanji in the kana-kanji conversion dictionary. is used when selecting homophones.

For example, if the user is a foreigner and is not familiar with Japanese kanji or idioms, the meaning/usage information stored in the above-mentioned word interpretation dictionary will be stored in a way that the foreigner can understand so that the user can efficiently create sentences. It is written in a language and stored.

The meaning/usage information stored in the word interpretation dictionary is selected from the following points: the word interpretation dictionary is used when selecting homophones, and the storage capacity of Japanese input information processing devices such as Japanese word processors is saved. Limited to those corresponding to homophones.

(Function) When a user creates a sentence with the Kana-Kanji conversion device configured as above, it will correspond to the kanji in the Kana-Kanji conversion dictionary even if the user is not familiar with the kanji or compound words when selecting a homophone. Since it is equipped with a dictionary of word interpretations that stores meaning and usage information, homophones can be easily and accurately selected.

Furthermore, by limiting the meaning/usage information stored in the word interpretation dictionary to only those corresponding to homophones, the storage capacity required for using the word interpretation dictionary can be saved.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The embodiment device includes an input section 1, an editing control section 2, a display section 3, a kana-kanji conversion section 4, a kana-kanji conversion dictionary 5, a homophone selection section 6, and a word interpretation dictionary 7. The input unit 1 receives and receives user input signals from input devices such as a keyboard and a mouse, and passes them to the editing control unit 2. Edit control section 2
interprets the user's input signal, drives the kana-kanji conversion unit 4 or the homophone selection unit 6 in accordance with the input signal, receives the output results, and sends them to the display unit 3. The display section 3 displays the results received from the editing control section 2 on a display device such as a CRT display device or a liquid crystal display device.

When the kana-kanji conversion unit 4 receives the hiragana character string from the editing control unit 2, it performs grammatical analysis while referring to the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 5, and generates a candidate string of sentences containing kanji and kana.
The results are transferred to the editing control section 2. The editing control section 2 transfers the first candidate column to the display section 3 and displays it, and if there is another second candidate column. If there is a third candidate string, that is, a homophone, the Uke passes these candidate strings and the position information where they appear in the sentence to the homophone selection unit 6, and the homophone selection unit 6 , this information is held until a request to select a homophone is made.

The homophone selection unit 6 is driven by the editing control unit 2 when the user requests selection of a homophone via the input unit 1 . The homophone selection unit 6 refers to the word interpretation dictionary 7, presents the meaning and usage of each candidate to the user, and passes the candidate selected by the user to the editing control unit 2 as the first candidate. . The homophone selection unit 6 operates according to the flowchart shown in FIG.

Hereinafter, the operation of the homophone selection unit 6 will be explained in more detail with reference to a flowchart, taking as an example a case in which the user attempts to convert ``Syo wo Sadame'' into kana-kanji. First, this hiragana character string is converted into kana-kanji and displayed as ``determine use'' as shown in FIG. At this time, there are other homophone candidates for ``sho'', so we wanted to inform the user of this.
"Used" is displayed in high brightness. Furthermore, as described above, the editing control unit 2 issues a request to the homophone selection unit 6 to retain the homophone, so
is the appearance position of "use" and other candidates ("specification", "private use", etc.)) and its dictionary number (identification number added to each entry in the Kana-Kanji Conversion Dictionary 5). The homophone selection unit 6 additionally registers it in the built-in homophone buffer (S1, S2, S3).

Next, when the user points to "use" on the screen with a mouse or the like and makes a request to select a homophone, the editing control unit 2 gives the position information of "use" pointed by the user and selects a homophone. The synonym selection unit 6 is driven. The homophone selection unit 6 is
Search the built-in homophone buffer from the given location information and obtain the dictionary number of the conversion candidate for "sho" (S 1.
S4). Then, using this dictionary number, the word interpretation dictionary 7 is searched (S5). As shown in FIG. 3, the word interpretation dictionary 7 is
It is realized as a correspondence table between heading information 71 and meaning/usage information 72, and is stored in an IC card, a read-only memory (ROM), a magnetic disk device, or the like. In FIG. 3, the heading information 71 is shown as kanji character string type data, but in this embodiment, from the viewpoint of saving storage capacity, it is stored as numerical type data (dictionary number). ing. Also, for the same reason, we have not prepared a correspondence table for kanji/idioms that are not homophones. Furthermore, the meaning/usage information 72 is written in English in the device of this embodiment.

I searched the Interpretation Dictionary 7. As a result, the meaning and usage of each homophone are extracted, and the results are presented to the user and the user's selection is awaited (S6).

This semantic usage information is shown, for example, in the form of a pull-down menu as shown in Figure 5, and the current first candidate is "
"Use" is highlighted. The user looks at the meanings and usage of other candidate words and selects the most suitable candidate word ``specification'' using the mouse or keyboard. Based on this selected information, the homophone selection section 6 sends "Specification" as a new first candidate to the editing control section 2 (S7), and as a result, "Specification" is sent to the editing control section 2 as shown in FIG. "Determine specifications" is changed to "Determine specifications."

Furthermore, although FIG. 6 corresponds to FIG. 5 in the above-mentioned embodiment, the present embodiment shows a case where "Warau" is to be converted into kana-kanji characters as an example. The configuration of the device of this embodiment is the same as that of the above embodiment, and the meaning and meaning of the word interpretation dictionary 7 is the same as that of the above embodiment.
Write only usage information in Japanese. By doing this, a Japanese user can select a word or phrase that matches the meaning and usage from homonyms when creating a document, and can create a sentence without using incorrect words or phrases.

From the above examples, we can further understand that not only English and Japanese, but also
It is easy to infer that the contents of a dictionary of word interpretations can be described in other languages such as German and French. If the storage capacity of the dictionary is sufficient, use German.

It is also possible to configure the system to write meaning/usage information in multiple languages such as French, and in this case, it is also possible to allow the user to select in the initial settings which language the meaning/usage information will be displayed in. be. Furthermore, some users may not need a word interpretation dictionary. In this case, the user may initially select whether to use the word interpretation dictionary or not.

On the other hand, if the storage capacity of the dictionary is not sufficient and storage capacity must be saved, for example, if a small and lightweight device is to be provided, the description of the meaning/terminology information 72 may be simply changed to the word 1 corresponding to Japanese. As shown in FIG. 7, an external storage device 8 such as a floppy disk is connected to the editing control unit 2, and a dictionary of word interpretations written in each language is provided in units of storage media such as floppy disks. It can also be easily inferred that

In addition to this, it is easily inferred that in the above embodiment, the word interpretation dictionary is not separated from the kana-kanji dictionary, but the meaning/usage information is embedded in the kana-kanji conversion dictionary in parallel with part-of-speech information, etc.

Regarding the screen display, in the above embodiment, the user interface for selecting a homophone is explained using a pull-down menu that is clicked with a mouse. Create a key, and each time you press this key,
A method of sequentially displaying the contents on the screen, a method of displaying the contents of FIG. 5 by scrolling the lower part of the screen, etc. are easily analogous, and all of these embodiments are within the scope of the present invention.

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, a kana-kanji conversion device is provided that allows the user to easily and accurately select homophones even if the user is not familiar with kanji or compound words. The user base of the device can be further expanded.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of the ephemeral kanji conversion device, Fig. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the homophone selection unit 6 shown in Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a conceptual diagram of the word interpretation dictionary 7 in the embodiment, Fig. 4 , Fig. 5 is an example of a screen display in the embodiment, Fig. 6 is an example of a screen display in the embodiment, Fig. 7 is a configuration diagram of the kana-kanji conversion device in the embodiment, and Fig. 8 is a configuration of a conventional kana-kanji conversion device. It is a diagram. l... - human power department, 2... editing control section, 3... display section, 4... kana-kanji conversion section, 5... kana-kanji conversion dictionary, 6... homophone selection section, 7.・Dictionary of word interpretations

Claims (4)

[Claims] (1) An input section for inputting kana characters, a kana-kanji conversion dictionary that stores kana and kanji in correspondence, a kana-kanji conversion section that converts input kana characters into kanji by referring to this kana-kanji conversion dictionary; a display section for displaying the conversion result from the kana-kanji conversion section; a homonym selection section for selecting a homophone of the conversion result; and a word interpretation that stores meaning/usage information corresponding to the kanji in the kana-kanji conversion dictionary. a dictionary, wherein the homophone selection unit displays corresponding meaning/usage information on the display unit when the conversion result includes a homophone. (2) The kana-kanji conversion device according to claim 1, wherein the word interpretation dictionary stores only meaning/usage information corresponding to homonyms. (3) The kana-kanji conversion device according to claim 1, wherein the meaning/usage information is written in a language other than Japanese. (4) The kana-kanji conversion device according to claim 1, wherein the meaning/usage information is displayed in association with its homonym.