JPH035875A - Electronic dictionary dealing with regular description and different description - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To realize the reduction of the capacity and the facilitation of the update and the expansion of the contents of an electronic dictionary by registering beforehand regular description link information and different description link information as coordinating them with a keyword number, and executing direct two-way reference between regular description and different description in the same language. CONSTITUTION:A keyword (regular description, different description, etc.) 3, the regular description link information 6 and the different description link information 7, etc., are registered beforehand in the electronic dictionary 1 as coordinating them with the keyword number 2. Then, the corresponding regular description or the corresponding different description is referred to in the same language by using the keyword number stored as these regular description link information 6 or different description link information 7. Thus, the capacity of the electronic dictionary 1 can be reduced, and simultaneously, the update and the expansion of the contents can be easily executed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention (Required Ia) In an electronic dictionary for natural language processing, for a headword that has a regular notation and a different notation, the regular notation link information and the different notation link information are set and the relationship between the two is established in a data structure. I'm trying to relate it above.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to an electronic dictionary compatible with regular notations and different notations, which associates regular notations with different notations.

One word is not necessarily written in one way, and there is a ``yure'' character.For example, languages such as Japanese, which are written in many types of characters such as hiragana, katakana, and kanji, use this ``yure'' character. ” is particularly common. Therefore, when parsing a sentence, there is a ``sway''.
There is a need to be able to deal with this flexibly and to provide enough information to select a generally "standard" orthographic notation at the time of generation.

[Prior art and problems to be solved by the invention] In recent years, with the development of natural language processing technology, many types of application software have been developed. Here, the core of the software is a program that processes data and a dictionary that is the basis of the data, that is, an electronic dictionary. As the range of natural languages covered by software expands, a larger amount of dictionary information is required. However, the larger the scale, the more difficult it becomes to improve the parables of the entire book, and the more difficult it becomes to maintain it as it changes and expands.

In order to meet the target quality and quantity, the amount of descriptions in the dictionary had to be expanded, but in order to make maintenance easier, the information had to be organized. .

For example, the regular notation ``club'' and the variant ``club'', which have very different word forms on the surface, do not have exactly the same meaning, and there are many concepts in which ``club'' has a larger meaning (for example, ``golf''). ), therefore, conventionally,
The two were included in the dictionary as completely different headwords, and the information was also described separately.

According to the present invention, regular notation link information and variant notation link information are registered in advance in association with headword numbers, and by using these, regular notation and variant notation are bidirectionally associated and referred to each other, and the notation is changed during sentence analysis. The purpose of this method is to flexibly deal with fluctuations, select a generally ``standard'' orthography when generating sentences, reduce the amount of static description, and make it easier to update and expand content.

[Means to solve problems]

Means for solving the problem will be explained with reference to FIG.

In FIG. 1, an electronic dictionary 1 is a dictionary in which headwords (regular notation, alternate notation, etc.) 3, regular notation link information 6, different notation link information 7, etc. are registered in advance in association with headword number 2. It is.

[Effect]

As shown in FIG. 1, the present invention stores headwords (regular notation, different notation, etc.) 3, regular notation link information 6, different notation link information 7, etc. in an electronic dictionary 1 in association with headword number 2. The headword numbers stored as the regular notation link information 6 or the different notation link information 7 can be used to refer to the corresponding regular notation or different notation within the same language.

Therefore, by registering the regular notation link information 6 and the variant notation link information 7 in advance in association with the headword number 2, it becomes possible to directly refer to the regular notation and the variant notation within the same language. In addition, by omitting the dictionary descriptions that both the regular notation and the different notation have in common by using different notation, etc., it is possible to reduce the capacity of the electronic dictionary 1, and it is possible to easily update and expand the contents. It becomes possible.

〔Example〕

Next, the configuration and operation of one embodiment of the present invention will be explained in detail using FIGS. 1 and 2.

In FIG. 1, the electronic dictionary 1 includes a headword (regular notation, different notation, etc.) 3, grammar information 4, conceptual information 5, regular notation link information 6, different notation link information, in association with a headword number 2. t[! This is a dictionary in which words such as 7 are registered in advance.

Headword number 2 is a number assigned to each headword 3 without duplication.

Headwords are expressions of Japanese, English, etc. words, phrases, sentences, etc. using characters (kanji, kana, affabendos, numbers, etc.).

The grammatical information 4 expresses the behavior of the headword 3 in a sentence such as Japanese using parts of speech and other codes.

Concept-side information 5 describes the information necessary to clearly understand the distinction between concepts regarding headword 3.0
For example, for the headword "club," this is a description to understand the concept of "group,""golfequipment," and "card mark."

The regular notation link information 6 describes the entry word number of the regular notation when the headword 3 is a different notation and the corresponding regular notation exists in the same dictionary.

Variant spelling link information 7, if the headword 3 is a regular spelling and a corresponding variant spelling exists in the same dictionary, describes the headword number of the variant spelling. In this variant notation link information 7, it is possible to describe a plurality of headword numbers in different notations.

Here, a bidirectional link relationship is maintained between the regular notation and the different notation by the headword numbers written in the regular notation link information l1i6 and the different notation link information 7. In addition, regarding the information that both the regular notation and the variant notation have in common regarding grammatical information fla 4 and conceptual side information 5, only the information that differs from the regular notation is written in the headword of the variant notation, and the description of other information is omitted. . As a result, it is possible to significantly reduce the number of entries in the dictionary information for headwords with different notations, and to reduce the overall number of entries in the electronic dictionary 1, thereby making it more compact.

The omitted dictionary information is referred to by following the regular notation link information 6.

Next, the operation of the configuration shown in FIG. 1 will be specifically explained.

fl) When referring to the electronic dictionary 1 in Figure 1 for the entry word "club" with entry word number JO120, the different spelling link information 7 is "0° (zero)," indicating that the entry word is in a different spelling. Information revealed and further corrected! 11
The headword number "J0020" is extracted as G. When this headword number "JOO20" is referred to, the regular notation of the headword "club" is obtained. From the concept information 5, it is revealed that the regular notation "club" has different notations such as "group,""golfequipment," and "card mark." Of these, it turns out that "group" corresponds to the headword "club."

(2) On the other hand, when referring to the electronic dictionary 1 in Figure 1 for the headword "club" with headword number JOO20, the regular notation link information 6 is "0" (zero), and the headword is in the right notation. It turns out that. Referring to the concept side information 5, it is found that the headword "club" in this regular notation has three concepts, and one of them, the concept "group", has a different notation in the headword number Jot20. . It turns out that this headword number JO120 has a different spelling of the headword "club."

As described above, by following the regular notation link information 6 or the different notation link information 7 of the headword, it is possible to directly refer to the regular notation or the different notation of the headword in both directions.

FIG. 2 shows an example of the data structure of the electronic dictionary according to the present invention. As stated in the figure, headword number 2 in Figure 1
, headword 3, grammatical information r44, concept side information 5, regular notation link information 6, variant notation link information 7, etc. are registered in advance in one record as shown in the figure. A large number of these records are successively and one-dimensionally developed on a memory to constitute the electronic dictionary 1 in FIG.

Here, for each item, the data length is registered at the beginning, and the actual data is registered in the area following this.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, headword number 2
Since we have adopted a configuration in which regular notation link information 6 and variant notation link information 7 are registered in advance in association with can be done. In addition, it is possible to reduce the capacity of electronic dictionary engineers by omitting the common dictionary descriptions of the headword 3 in the regular notation and the headword 3 in the different notation by using the different notation. Maintenance and management can be easily performed.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 shows a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 shows an example of the data structure of an electronic dictionary of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is an electronic dictionary, 2 is a headword number, 3 is a headword, 4 is grammatical information, 5 is conceptual side information, 6 is regular notation link information, and 7 is different notation link information.

Claims (1)

[Claims] In an electronic dictionary that associates a regular notation and a different notation, a headword (regular notation, different notation, etc.) (3) and a right notation link information (6) are provided in association with a headword number (2). ), and the different spelling link information (7) are registered in advance, and the corresponding normal spelling or variant spelling within the same language is determined by the headword number stored as the regular spelling link information (6) or the variant spelling link information (7). An electronic dictionary compatible with regular notation and variant notation, characterized in that it is configured to be able to refer to.