JPH0444171A - Information file system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To shorten the total time of processing of registration, deletion, retrieval, etc., by providing plural Japanese KANA (Japanese syllabary)-KANJI (Chinese character) dictionaries and selecting one of plural dictionaries in accordance with dictionary designating information at the time of using a recording medium. CONSTITUTION:Plural Japanese KANA-KANJI conversion dictionaries 10 are provided for Japanese language input of a keyword or the like by which an information file is retrieved, and dictionary designating information to designate one of plural dictionaries 10 is provided on a recording medium 7. When the use of the recording medium 7 is started, one of plural dictionaries is selected in accordance with dictionary designating information read out from the recording medium 7. Consequently, the Japanese KANA-KANJI conversion dictionary preliminarily designated for the recording medium 7 is automatically selected at the time of starting the use of the recording medium 7. Thus, dictionaries 10 are properly used in accordance with departments or work types of users or information fields, and expansion of dictionaries due to registration of unnecessary words or careless deletion of required words is prevented, and the total time of registration, deletion, and retrieval processings is shortened.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information file system that performs processing such as registration, deletion, and search of files of image information and code information on recording media such as optical disks and magneto-optical disks.

2 ・＼−7 Conventional technology In general, this type of information file system requires Japanese input for specifying keywords for searching information files and for creating documents, and for this purpose, it is necessary to have a Japanese kana-kanji conversion system. However, the dictionary used by this Japanese-Kana-Kanji conversion system still allows words to be added and deleted.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, there has been a problem in that when users belong to various departments or when the fields of information handled are diverse, the efficiency of inputting Japanese words such as keywords deteriorates. The cause of this problem is as follows.

In order to improve the efficiency of inputting frequently used words (new words, coined words), users register additional words in the dictionary as needed, but frequently used words vary depending on the department to which the user belongs and the information field they handle. .

However, in conventional information file systems, only one dictionary for Japanese kana-kanji conversion is provided, so
Users are not allowed to carelessly delete words from the dictionary even if they do not need them. As a result, the number of words with the same pronunciation gradually increases in the dictionary, and the dictionary becomes enlarged.As a result, when inputting Japanese words such as keywords, many word candidates with the same pronunciation appear, and it takes a long time to acquire the desired word. This resulted in an increase in time.

On the other hand, since it is necessary to reduce the number of words with the same pronunciation in the dictionary, it is easy to cause problems in which words that one user has registered in the dictionary are inadvertently deleted by another user, and in this case, inputting the word becomes very time-consuming. Not only that, but the words had to be re-registered.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to improve the efficiency of keyword specification during registration, deletion, and search processing in an information file system, and to shorten the total processing time.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides an information file system that performs processing such as registering, deleting, and searching information files on a recording medium. In addition to distributing a plurality of Japanese kana-kanji conversion dictionaries for Japanese input, dictionary specification information for specifying one dictionary among the plurality of dictionaries is provided on a recording medium, and the use of the recording medium is started. According to the dictionary designation information read from the recording medium at a time, the device has a configuration that includes means for selecting one dictionary from a plurality of dictionaries.

According to the above-described structure, the present invention automatically selects a dictionary for Japanese kana-kanji conversion specified in advance for the recording medium when the recording medium starts to be used. It is possible to use different dictionaries for different fields. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the dictionary from becoming too large due to the registration of unnecessary words and from inadvertently deleting necessary words, improve the efficiency of Japanese input when specifying keywords, and shorten the total time for registration, deletion, and search processing. I can do it.

Embodiment FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an information file 5 system according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which 1 is a central processing unit (CPU), 2 and 3 are a display and a keyboard, and 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a system. interface, auxiliary storage device such as 5u hard disk, 6 is its interface, 7
is an optical disk or magneto-optical disk (
A disk drive 8 (hereinafter referred to as a disk) performs recording and reproduction; 9 is a controller for the disk drive 7;

The auxiliary storage device 5 stores software such as system software, application software, Japanese kana-kanji exchange software, and multiple (for example, industry-specific and departmental) Japanese-kana-kanji conversion dictionaries 10, as well as other items for system management. It stores various files such as information.

As shown in FIG. 2, the disc 8 is provided with a recording area 11 for disc management information, in which information A such as volume information and search information for disc management as in the past is stored.
In addition to this, dictionary specification information B is recorded as disc management information.

In FIG. 1, cPUl is the system control means 6 base.
7 Based on air, human output control of data, management of disk 8, management of files on disk 8 and various files in auxiliary storage device 5, execution control of applications, each dictionary 1
A system control means 12 for updating 0 and dictionary selection for each disk 8 is realized, and a Japanese kana-kanji conversion means j3 for inputting Japanese is realized based on Japanese kana-kanji conversion software, and it is still based on application software. A processing execution means for executing application processing such as registration, deletion, and search of files on the disk 8.

Next, the operation of this information file system when performing processing such as registration, deletion, and search of information files on any disk 8 will be explained. FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the process.

By opening any desired disk 8 (ST1), the disk management information of the disk 8 is downloaded to the system control means 12. The system control stage 12 is
This disk management information indicates that the disk 8 is virgin (
(ST2).

In the case of a virgin disc, the system control means 14 causes the display 2 to display a dictionary specification screen by the user. The user 2 selects a desired dictionary from among the plurality of dictionaries 10 and specifies it using the keyboard 3 (Sr3). The system control means 12 writes dictionary specification information B indicating the specified dictionary to the disk management information area 11 of the disk 8 along with information for disk management such as volume information (Sr4), and then writes the dictionary specification information B indicating the specified dictionary to the disk management information area 11 of the disk 8 (Sr4) The dictionary is set as the dictionary to be used for inputting Japanese words such as keywords (Sr1).

On the other hand, if the opened disk 8 is a virgin disk, the system control means 14 checks whether the dictionary specified by the dictionary specification information B in the downloaded disk management information matches the dictionary currently set as the dictionary in use (Sr
1) If there is a mismatch, the dictionary specified by dictionary specification information B is reset as the dictionary to be used (ST7).

After that, register the information file for the disk 8.
Application processing such as deletion and search playback is executed by the processing execution means 14 (Sr1,...), but when inputting Japanese words such as keywords at this time, the Japanese kana-kanji conversion means 13 uses the set dictionary. Use this to perform Japanese kana-kanji conversion. Also, the user can add or delete words at will during the process, but the system control means]
2 performs additional registration and deletion processing only for the currently set dictionary.

Finish the necessary processing and close the disk 8 (S
r1) and other disks 8 can be used.

In this way, by selecting the dictionary to be used for each disc in advance and setting the dictionary designation information, the designated dictionary is automatically set as the dictionary to be used by the system when the disc starts to be used. That is, each dictionary is used only when processing a specific disk, so it is possible to avoid registering unrelated words in the corresponding disk.

Therefore, it is possible to prevent the dictionary from becoming enlarged due to unnecessary word registration, and to shorten the time it takes to obtain a desired word when inputting Japanese, such as when setting a keyword.

In addition, since the dictionary can be prevented from becoming too large, the need to delete registered words is reduced, and since the number of users is limited to each disk, troubles such as necessary words being inadvertently deleted from the dictionary can be prevented. .

Effects of the Invention As is clear from the above description, the present invention includes a plurality of Japanese kana-kanji conversion dictionaries for inputting Japanese search keywords, etc., and stores one of the plurality of dictionaries on a recording medium. It has dictionary specification information for specifying the dictionary, and also has means for selecting one dictionary from a plurality of dictionaries according to the dictionary specification information when using the recording medium. As a result, it is possible to use the dictionaries properly, preventing the expansion of each dictionary and inadvertently deleting necessary words, increasing the efficiency of Japanese input when specifying keywords, etc. This has the effect of shortening the total processing time.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an information file system according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is a configuration diagram of disk management information on a disk, and Figure 3 is a flow of processing from disk open to disk close. It is a flowchart which shows. ■...Central processing unit (CPU), 2...Display, 3...Keyboard, 5...Auxiliary storage device, 7...Disk drive, 8...Disk, 9...
- Controller, 10... Dictionary for Japanese kana-kanji conversion, 11... Disk management information recording area, 12... System control means, 13... Japanese kana-kanji conversion means. Name of agent: Patent attorney Shigetaka Awano and one other person

Claims (1)

[Claims] It is an information file system that performs processing such as registering, deleting, and searching information files on a recording medium, and has multiple Japanese kana-kanji conversion dictionaries for inputting Japanese words such as keywords for searching information files. , has dictionary designation information for designating one of the plurality of dictionaries on the recording medium, and further includes dictionary designation information for designating one of the plurality of dictionaries on the recording medium, and the dictionary designation information for designating one of the plurality of dictionaries is read out from the recording medium when the recording medium starts to be used. An information file system characterized by having means for selecting one dictionary from the dictionaries.