JPH0385670A - Two-stage display type document processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate necessity for a wide display area by displaying homonyms respectively selected from the word groups of respective homophonous and synonymy word when there are the plural homonyms, and afterwards, displaying the homophonous and synonymy word. CONSTITUTION:When there are plural words read out from a dictionary means 101 corresponding to reading information inputted from an input means 102 and the words with various semantics are mixed, the words with the same semantics are defined as one group by a discriminating means 105. At first, one word is selected out of the words in one group by a first control means 106 and the selected words are respectively displayed in a display means 104. Afterwards, the group of the words with the same semantics is displayed in the display means 104. Thus, since the homonyms are displayed at first and the in various descriptions homophonous and synonymy word are displayed next in Japanese syllabary / Chinese character conversion, the display area of a conversion candidate is reduced and operability is improved for selecting the conversion candidate.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (A) Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a document processing device, such as a Japanese word processor, which converts an input kana character string into a kanji/kana mixture and stores the converted text.

(b) Conventional technology In general, there are many homonyms among Japanese words.

For this reason, in conventional document processing devices, such as Japanese word processors, when performing so-called kana-kanji conversion, which converts an input kana character string into a sentence with kanji and kana, when multiple homophones exist, , display them one by one by pressing a specified key, or
Alternatively, a plurality of words may be displayed simultaneously on one screen, and one word may be selected from among the homonyms.

In general, in Japanese, for example, "omekaki" is written as "memorandum", "memorandum", "memorandum", etc.
There are multiple types of okurikana for one word (
Hereinafter, the existence of multiple types of okurigana for one word will be referred to as ``Yuragi'' in 2 notation or ``Yuragi'' in okurigana)
, Even in such cases, the desired notation can be selected, as in the case of homophones.

Figure 7 shows an example of the display screen of a Japanese word processor that displays multiple words simultaneously on the screen and selects the desired candidate from among them during kana-kanji conversion. In Japanese word processors that display and select multiple words on one screen, for example, for one reading information such as "uchinuku", "
Homophones such as ``punch through'' and ``shoot through'' and homophones with different spellings (okurigana) such as ``through'', ``through'', and ``through'', or ``shoot through'', ``shoot through'', and ``shoot through''. Synonyms are displayed simultaneously on one screen, and one candidate is selected from among them.

(c) Problems to be solved by the invention However, in the case of words that have homonyms and have "fluctuations" in spelling, displaying all candidates at once requires a large amount of display area. In order to do this, in devices with only a small display area, it is necessary to temporarily erase the display of the text being created and display all candidates.
Since it takes time to switch the display, there is a problem that it becomes impossible to smoothly create sentences.

Furthermore, even if the device has a wide display area, if the device displays conversion candidates in an area where text is not displayed, the user's viewpoint may have to move significantly on the display area. Therefore, there is a problem in that it places a burden on the user.

This invention was made taking these circumstances into consideration, so when displaying multiple conversion candidates for one reading information, it is divided into two stages, first displaying the homophones, then displaying the homonyms. By displaying homonyms with different okigana,
- To provide a two-stage display type document processing device that reduces the number of conversion candidates displayed at a time, does not require a large display area, and allows a desired conversion candidate to be smoothly selected.

− (d) Means to solve the problem FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the present invention.

As shown in the figure, the present invention includes a dictionary means 101 which stores a large number of words including kanji together with their reading information, and one or more words corresponding to the reading information inputted from the input means 102 from the dictionary means 101. The reading means 103 that reads out the words, the display means 104 that displays the words read out by the reading means 1O73, and the display means 104 that displays the words read out by the reading means 1O73, and the same word when there are a plurality of words that are successively read out by the succession means 103 and words with different meanings are mixed. a first control means 106 that selects one word from among the words of each group discriminated by the discrimination means 105 and displays it on the display means 104; The second control means 107 causes the display means 104 to display a group of words having the same meaning discriminated by the discrimination means 10.5 after each word is displayed on the display means 104 by the first control means +06. This is a two-stage display type document processing device.

Note that the dictionary means 101 in this invention stores a large number of words including kanji along with their pronunciation information, and stores multiple words such as homophones and homophones with different spellings for one pronunciation information. It only needs to be something that can be read out.As for the homophone synonyms of each word, you can memorize them along with each word, or you can memorize them separately, or you can memorize only the okurigana pattern. It may have any dictionary structure.

This dictionary means 101 usually includes a core memory,
An internal memory such as an IC memory and an external storage device such as a floppy disk device or a magnetic disk device are used.

The input means 102 may be any device that can input word pronunciation information, such as a keyboard device, a tablet device, an OCR device, a magnetic tape device, or the like.

Further, the display means 104 may be any device capable of displaying various words, such as a CRT display, LC (liquid crystal) display, or EL display.

As the reading means +03, the determining means 105, the first controlling means 106, and the second controlling means 107, it is generally convenient to use a microcomputer consisting of a CPU, ROM, RAM, and I10 board.

(e) Effect As shown in FIG. 1, according to the present invention, the input means 10
One or more words corresponding to the reading information input from 2 are read out from the dictionary means 101 and displayed on the display means 104, but in this case, the read out words are plural and have different meanings. When words are mixed, the discrimination means +05 groups words with the same meaning into one group, and the first control means 106 selects one word from among the words in each group and displays them on the display means 1.
Displayed on 04.

Thereafter, the second control means 107 displays a group of words having the same meaning on the display means 104.

Therefore, during kana-kanji conversion, first homophones and then homophones with different spellings are displayed, so the display area for conversion candidates can be reduced, and the operability of selecting conversion candidates is improved.

(F) Embodiment The present invention will now be described in detail based on embodiments shown in the drawings. Note that this invention is not limited to this.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a Japanese word processor.

In this figure, l is a keyboard equipped with a kana key and a conversion key for converting kana character strings into kanji.
The reading information of the word in kana is input to the control unit 2.

The control unit 2 is composed of a microcomputer, and the RO
According to the control program written in the program memory 3 consisting of M, various data processing to be described later is performed.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a kana-kanji conversion dictionary consisting of a floppy disk device for converting kana character strings inputted from the keyboard 1 into kanji, and stores a large number of words including kanji along with their reading information.

5 is a display device consisting of an LC (liquid crystal) display.

6 is a RAM'M, which internally includes an input buffer memory 7 for storing kana character strings input from the keyboard 1, a read data memory 8 for temporarily storing words successively retrieved from the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 4, and , a text data memory 9 for storing text data after kana-kanji conversion is set.

FIGS. 3 to 5 are explanatory diagrams showing an example of the input screen of the display device 5 when kana-kanji conversion is performed.

The control unit 2 stores the kana character string input from the keyboard l in the input buffer memory 7, reads l or a plurality of words corresponding to the kana character string from the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 4, and reads out the read words. It is temporarily stored in the data memory 8 and displayed on the screen of the display device 5.

At this time, if there are multiple words read from the Kana-Kanji conversion dictionary 4 and words with different meanings, that is, homophones, are mixed, words with the same meaning are collected into one group, and each group One word is selected from among the words and displayed on the screen of the display device 5.

FIG. 3 shows the screen display row of the display device 5 when "Uchinuku" is input. ”, “Uchinuki”, “Uchinuku”, “Shooting”, “Shooting”, and “Shooting” are read from the Kana-Kanji conversion dictionary 4.

Therefore, since these words include homophones, the control unit 2 collects words with the same meaning and groups them into one group. In other words, "punching", "punching"
, the first word group of "Uchinuku" and "shoot through",
Divide into the second word group of ``shoot through'' and ``shoot through''.

Then, one word is selected from among the words in each group and displayed. That is, "punching" is selected from the first word group, and "shooting" is selected and displayed from the second word group.

This selection is set in advance, such as the one with the largest number of kanji characters or the one located at the beginning of the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 4.

Figure 4 shows the cursor IO on "punching" shown in Figure 3.
This is an example of a screen display when a character is moved and a spelling conversion is instructed.As shown in the figure, when a spelling conversion is instructed, words with the same meaning stored in the read data memory 8 are displayed. The groups are sequentially displayed on the screen of the display device 5.

In other words, from among conversion candidates such as "punching", "punching", and "punching" that have the same meaning but different notations (origana), "punching" is displayed, which is the next candidate for the currently displayed "punching". do.

Moreover, FIG. 5 is an example of a screen display when the cursor 10 is moved to "punching" shown in FIG. 3, and the simultaneous display of homophones with different notations (origana) is instructed.
As shown in the figure, when an instruction is given to display homophones and synonyms at once, word groups having the same meaning stored in the read data memory 8 are displayed at once on the screen of the display device 5.

That is, all conversion candidates such as "punching", "punching", and "punching" having the same meaning but different notations (features) are displayed.

In this way, the control unit 2 normally displays homophones in the first step and homophones with different spellings (okurigana) in the second step, but if there are no homophones,
In the second step, homophones with different notations as shown in FIG. 5 are directly displayed.

When one word is selected from the candidates displayed in this way, the word is stored in the text data memory 9.

In addition, in the above, homophone synonyms with different notations were explained as homophone synonyms with different sending gana, but as homophone synonyms with different notations, for example, "handling",
One-sided words like ``Toriarakai'' and ``Toriatsukai''.
It may be written in hiragana or variant characters (characters with different fonts).

Next, the contents of the processing operation of the control section 2 will be explained according to the flowchart shown in FIG. 6.

First, when a character string is input (step ll), the control section 2 stores it in the input buffer memory 7. When the conversion key on the keyboard I is pressed, kana-kanji conversion is executed (step 12), and the word corresponding to the input kana character string is read from the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 4.
The successive words are read out and stored in the data memory 8.

Next, it is checked whether or not there are homophones among the words stored in the read data memory 8 (step 13), and if there are homophones, the homophones are displayed (step 14), and the displayed candidates are One word is selected from among them (step 15). Also, in step 13, if there are no homophones, steps 14.15 are not executed.

After that, it is checked whether or not there is a homophone synonym with a different writing (origination) (step 16), and if there is, the homophone synonym is displayed (step 17), and the displayed 13 - one word is selected from the candidates (step 18);
. Further, in step 16, if there is no homophone synonym with different notation, steps 17 and 18 are not executed.

Then, it is determined whether the input is continued (step 19), and if the input is continued, the process returns to step 11, and if the input is not continued, the process is terminated.

In this way, when there are multiple homonyms, the first step is to display only the homonyms so that the candidate with the desired meaning can be selected, and then the second step is to display only the homonyms so that the candidate with the desired meaning can be selected. By displaying homophone synonyms with different notations (okurigana) and selecting the desired notation candidate, the desired conversion can be performed without requiring a large display area or without moving the viewpoint significantly. Candidates can be selected smoothly.

(G) Effects of the Invention According to this invention, when a plurality of words are read out from the dictionary means at the time of kana-kanji conversion, and words with different meanings are mixed, first, each homophone synonym word group is By displaying the selected homophone and then displaying the homophone synonym, it is possible to reduce the number of conversion candidates displayed each time, and the desired conversion can be performed without requiring a large display area. It becomes possible to effectively select candidates.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of this invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment in which this invention is applied to a Japanese word processor, and FIGS. 3 to 5 are "Uchinuku"
FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment, and FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a conventional conversion display example of "Uchinuku". G...Keyboard, 2...Control unit, 3.
...Program memory, 4...Kana-Kanji conversion dictionary, 5...Display device, 6...RAM, 7...Input buffer memory, 8...・Reading data memory, 9...Text data memory. Funeral diagram 5

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Dictionary means storing a large number of words including kanji together with their reading information; reading means for reading one or more words corresponding to the reading information input from the input means from the dictionary; and reading by the reading means. a display means for displaying a word read out by the reading means, a discriminating means for discriminating words having the same meaning as one group when a plurality of words are read out by the reading means and words with different meanings are mixed; a first control means for selecting one word from among the words of each group discriminated by the first control means and displaying the selected word on the display means; and a first control means for displaying each word on the display means by the first control means; A two-stage display type document processing device comprising a second control means for displaying word groups having the same meaning determined by the above method on a display means.