JPH03212762A - 'kana'/'kanji' converting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To efficiently execute 'KANJI' (Chinese character) conversion processing by reading out the reference notation of a word read out from a word dictionary, different notation and notation deciding information and individually executing corre sponding 'KANJI' conversion processing in each notation. CONSTITUTION:A 'KATAKANA' (square form of Japanese syllabary) character string inputted from an input part 1 is stored in an input character string storage part 2, and in accordance with the stored contents, the reference notation of a word read out from the word dictionary, different notation having a different declensional 'KANA' (Japanese syllabary) ending, a homonym group number for deciding the reference or different notation, and a reference/different notation discriminating code system are read out. The 'KANJI' reference notation of homonym words is selected by a homonym selection control part 6 and the reference candidates of homonym 'KANJI' words are stored in a homonym data storage part 7 and displayed on a display part 11. Similarly, the different notation of homonym 'KANJI' words having declensional 'KANA' endings are stored in a different notation data storage part 9 by different processing. Since different notation processing is executed only at the time of requiring it in the above constitution, 'KANJI' conversion processing can be efficiently executed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a kana-kanji conversion device that converts a kana character string representing the pronunciation of a word into a character string containing kanji and kana.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION In recent years, kana-kanji conversion devices have been widely used in various Japanese language processing devices such as Japanese word brosse and sosa, as devices used to input Japanese.

The conventional technology will be explained below.

FIG. 9 is a functional block diagram of a conventional kana-kanji conversion device, in which 31 is an input section for inputting ephemeral character strings, conversion commands, etc.;
2 is an input character string storage unit that stores the character string inputted from the input unit 31; 33 is a conversion control unit that controls execution of the kanji conversion; The input character data 11 = kana character string stored in the self-memory part 32 is converted into a character string with a kanji level of 1. The kana-kanji conversion control part 35 converts the reading of the word and the notation for the reading of the word. A word dictionary 36 stores the word data of the conversion control unit 33, and a spelling selection control unit 36 generates spelling candidates for the pronunciations of words according to the commands of the conversion control unit 33, and controls the operation of selecting a designated spelling from among the spelling candidates. Part, 3
7 is a notation candidate storage unit that stores notation candidates; 38 is an output character string storage unit that stores kanji-kana mixed character strings sent from the ephemeral kana-kanji conversion control unit 34 and notation selection control unit 36;
is a display section that displays input Kana character strings and Kanji-Kana character strings generated by Kana-Kanji conversion.

The operation of the conventional kana-kanji conversion device configured as described above will be explained below.

First, when a kana character string representing the pronunciation of a word is inputted from the input section 31, the kana character string is stored in the input character string storage section 32. Next, when a conversion command is input from the input unit 31, the conversion control unit 33 causes the kana-kanji conversion control unit 34 to perform kana-kanji conversion on the kana character string stored in the input character string storage unit 32. issue an order to The kana-kanji conversion control unit 34 converts the kana character string stored in the input character string storage unit 32 into a character string containing kanji and kana while referring to the word dictionary 35, and outputs the result as a kana-kanji conversion candidate. It is stored in the storage unit 38. Further, the conversion control unit 33 outputs the kana-kanji conversion candidates stored in the output character string storage unit 38 to the display unit 39. Next, when a conversion command is input from the input unit 31, the notation selection control unit 3
6 is a word dictionary 3 according to a command from the conversion control unit 33.
5 and extracts the notation with the same reading as the kana-kanji conversion candidate stored in the output character string storage section 38 and stores it in the notation candidate storage section 37. Then, the conversion control unit 33 outputs the notation stored in the notation candidate storage unit 37 to the display unit 39 as a notation candidate. Next, when the correct kanji/kana mixed notation is selected from the spelling candidates output to the display section 39, the notation selection control section 36 outputs the selected kanji/kana mixed notation according to a command from the conversion control section 33 and stores it in a character string memory. The conversion control unit 33 outputs the kanji/kana mixed notation to the display unit 31 .

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, in the conventional configuration described above, the word dictionary includes both the standard notation and another notation that is the same as the standard notation but has a different sending kana pattern. For example, the 10th
“Borrowing” and “borrowing” for “borrowing” shown in the figure,
In addition, there are more different spellings than necessary among the spelling candidates, such as ``harvest'' and ``harvest'' for ``harvest'', making it tedious to select the desired spelling from among the spelling candidates. It has some problems.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides the pronunciation of a word, a standard notation for the pronunciation of a word, a different notation with a different kana pattern from the standard notation, and a standard notation. and discrimination information for discriminating between the standard notation and the alternative notation, and the standard notation for the reading of the input word.
The first word is read from the word dictionary using the discrimination information.
a first conversion candidate generation means for generating conversion candidates;
a first converting means for outputting a selected standard notation from conversion candidates; reading an alternative notation for the standard notation selected by the first converting means from the word dictionary using the discrimination information;
It has a second conversion candidate generation means for generating a second conversion candidate, and a second conversion means for outputting a selected alternative notation from the second conversion candidates.

Effects of the present invention With the above-described configuration, when a conversion command is input following a kana character string representing the pronunciation of a word, the first conversion candidate generation means refers to the word dictionary and selects the notation for the input pronunciation from among the notations for the input pronunciation. Read the standard notation using the discrimination information,
Output as a kana-kanji conversion candidate. When a necessary standard notation is specified from the outputted kana-kanji conversion candidates, the first conversion means reads out the specified standard notation from among the kana-kanji conversion candidates and outputs it. Subsequently, when a different notation for the selected and output standard notation is required, when a conversion command is further input, the second conversion candidate generation means uses the discrimination information to create a different notation for the selected and outputted standard notation. Reads words from the dictionary and outputs them as kana-kanji conversion candidates. When a necessary alternative notation is selected from the outputted kana-kanji conversion candidates, the variation of the selected notation is read out from the kana-kanji conversion candidates by the second conversion means and output.

Embodiment FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a kana-kanji conversion device in an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, 1 is an input section into which ephemeral character strings and instructions for converting the input kana character strings are input, and 2 is an input string storage section which stores the kana character strings input from the input section 1. , 3 is a conversion control unit that controls execution of ephemeral-kanji conversion, and 4 is a kana-kanji conversion unit that converts the kana character string stored in the input character string storage unit 2 into a character string containing kanji and kana in accordance with instructions from the conversion control unit 3. The control unit 5 is a kana character string as shown in Figure 3, the notation for that kana character string, the part of speech of that notation, the homophone group number attached to that notation to distinguish between homophones, and that character string. a word dictionary that stores word data having standard notation information indicating whether or not the notation is a standard notation in binary form; a homophone selection control unit that controls an operation of selecting a designated homophone from the homophone data;
Reference numeral 7 denotes a homophone data storage unit for storing homophone data, and 8 generates alternative notation data for selecting the notation method of sending kana according to instructions from the conversion control unit 3, and generates alternative notation data from the alternative notation data. An alternative notation selection control unit that controls the operation of selecting the notation method of sentakana; 9 an alternative notation data storage unit that stores alternative notation data; 10 a fleeting Kanji conversion control unit 4; a homonym selection control unit 6; An output character string storage section stores the kanji-kana mixed character string sent from the notation selection control section 8, and 11 is a display section that displays the input kana character string and the kanji-kana mixed character string generated by kana-kanji conversion. be.

The operation of the kana-kanji conversion apparatus of the present invention configured as described above will be explained below with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

In FIG. 2, first, in step 21, a kana character string input from the input unit 1 is stored in the input character string storage unit 2.

Next, in step 22, when a conversion command is input from the input unit 1, the conversion control unit 3 performs kana-kanji conversion on the kana character string stored in the input character string storage unit 2. A command is issued to the conversion control unit 4. The kana-kanji conversion control unit 4 converts the kana character string stored in the input character string storage unit 2 into a character string that corresponds to the kana character string among the word data stored in the word dictionary 5 and whose homophone group number is 1. , and the standard notation information is 1, which is converted into a kanji-kana mixed notation, and the result is stored in the output character string storage unit 10 as a kana-kanji conversion candidate.

Further, the conversion control unit 3 outputs the kana-kanji conversion candidates stored in the output character string storage unit 1° to the display unit 11.

For example, the kana character string ``Kariire'' is converted into the character string ``Kariire'' mixed with kanji and kana characters, and is output to the display unit 11 as shown in FIG. 4. Next, step 2
In step 3, if the kana-kanji conversion result in step 22 is incorrect, the process is transferred to step 24 by a conversion command from the input unit 1, and if the kana-kanji conversion result is correct, a confirmation command from the input unit 1 or the next new Upon input of a simple character string, the process shifts to step 21 again.

In step 24, the homophone selection control section 6
In response to a command from the conversion control unit 3, the word dictionary 5 is searched to determine whether the word data has the same kana character string as the kana-kanji conversion candidate word data stored in the output character string storage unit 10, and whose standard notation information is 1. The word data is extracted and stored in the homophone data storage section 7. Then, the conversion control unit 3 outputs the kanji-kana mixed notation of the word data stored in the homonym data storage unit 7 to the display unit 11 as a homonym candidate. Next, in step 25, when the correct kanji/kana mixed notation is selected from the homonym candidates output on the display unit 11, the homonym/synonym selection control unit 6 selects the kanji/kana character selected by the command from the conversion control unit 3. The kana-mixed notation is stored in the output character string i-memory section 10, and the conversion control section 3 outputs the kanji or 1°-mixed notation to the display section 11. For example, for ``inari-ire'', ``borrow'' and ``harvest'' are shown as homonym candidates as shown in Figure ε, and when 2 is selected, ``me1'' is shown as shown in Figure 6. "Insert" is displayed. Subsequently, in step 26, if a notation other than the standard notation is required, the process is moved to step 28 by an instruction from the input section, and if the standard notation is determined, a confirmation instruction from the input section is issued. Alternatively, in step 28 where the next new kana character string is input and the process returns to step 21, the alternative notation selection control unit 8 controls the conversion! According to the command from part 1 3, the word dictionary 5 is searched to find the word data that has the same kana character string and homophone group number as the kana-kanji conversion candidate word data stored in the output character string storage unit 10, and has the same standard notation. Word data whose information is 0 is extracted and stored in the separate notation data storage section 9.

Then, the conversion control unit 3 outputs the kanji-kana mixed notation of the word data stored in the alternative notation data storage unit 9 to the display unit 11 as an alternative notation candidate. Next, in step 29, when the necessary kanji/kana mixed notation is selected from the alternative notation candidates output to the display section 11, the alternative notation selection control 88 selects the selected kanji/kana/kana mixed notation based on a command from the conversion control section 3. The notation is stored in the output character string storage section 10, and the conversion control section 3 outputs the notation mixed with kanji and kana to the display section 11. For example, for "harvest", alternative notation candidates include:
As shown in FIG. 7, "Harvest", "Harvest", and "Harvest" are displayed, and when 2 is selected from among them, "Harvest" is displayed as shown in FIG. 8.

As described above, according to this embodiment, since the standard notation for the pronunciation of a word and the alternative notation for the standard notation can be selected separately, the user can select the standard notation for the homonym when selecting kana-kanji conversion candidates. You can select the necessary notation from the Kana-Kanji conversion candidates consisting only of notations, and select a different notation for the selected standard notation only when necessary, making the Kana-Kanji conversion work efficient. be able to.

Effects of the Invention The present invention stores the pronunciation of a word, a standard notation for the pronunciation of a word, an alternative notation in which the standard notation has a different sending kana pattern, and discrimination information for determining the standard notation and another notation for the standard notation. When selecting kana-kanji conversion candidates, the user has a word dictionary and a means for separately processing the standard notation and its alternative pronunciation for the reading of a word. The necessary notation can be selected from among the selected kana-kanji conversion candidates, and a different notation for the selected notation can be selected only when necessary, so that the kana-kanji conversion work can be performed efficiently.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a functional block diagram of a kana-kanji conversion device in an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the kana-kanji conversion device, and Fig. 3 is word data stored in the word dictionary of the kana-kanji conversion device. 4 to 8 are diagrams showing the display contents of the display unit during the operation process of the same Kana-Kanji conversion device. FIG. 9 is a functional block diagram of the conventional Kana-Kanji conversion device. The figure shows an example of notation candidates in the operation process of a conventional kana-kanji conversion device. 1... Input section 2... Input character string storage section 3
...Conversion control unit 4...Kana-Kanji conversion control unit 5.
・・Word dictionary 6 ・Homophone selection control unit 7 ・・
・Homophone data storage unit 8... Different notation selection control unit 9... Different notation data storage unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] A pronunciation of a word, a standard notation for the pronunciation of a word, an alternative notation with a different kanji pattern from the standard notation, and discrimination information for distinguishing between the standard notation and another notation with respect to the standard notation. a word dictionary to be stored; a first conversion candidate generating means for reading a standard notation for the reading of an input word from the word dictionary using the discrimination information and generating a first conversion candidate; and the first conversion candidate. a first converting means for outputting the selected standard notation from the first converting means; reading an alternative notation for the standard notation selected by the first converting means from the word dictionary using the discrimination information;
A kana-kanji conversion device comprising: second conversion candidate generation means for generating a second conversion candidate; and second conversion means for outputting a selected alternative notation from the second conversion candidates.