JPH0497271A - Learning support device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve learning efficiency by translating and displaying a denizen which is included in a learned object sentence into another word which can be understood by a learner. CONSTITUTION:The word expressed in an original language corresponding to the denizen is prepared in a dictionary part A. In the case that the inputted learned object sentence in which the denizen expressed by KATAKANA(square Japanese syllabary) corresponding to an English word is included is displayed as the sentence which is translated into the one expressed in a Roman character, etc., the word is extracted by an extraction means B and the corresponding word expressed in the original language is read out from the dictionary part A by a readout means C. A sentence producing means D produces a sentence including the word which is read out and obtained by translating the learned object sentence into the one expressed in another language or character, and the produced sentence is displayed on a display means E. Thus, the learned object sentence is easily understood.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention is suitable for learning Japanese when, for example, replacing a sentence containing kanji and kana with a target character sentence written in Roman letters. Regarding support equipment.

More specifically, when the input learning target sentence is displayed with other characters or languages, the foreign words included in the learning target sentence are displayed in a language that the learner can easily understand. This makes it easier to understand sentences to be learned that include foreign words, and improves the efficiency of learning.

``Prior art'' Recently, for example, when foreigners are learning Japanese, which is relatively difficult to understand, so-called sentences that are composed of ideograms and phonograms and are mixed with kanji and kana, they are using phonograms. Learning support devices such as computers are being used to support learning by replacing the words with Roman characters.

In this case, when the Japanese learning target sentence contains a katakana loanword that corresponds to a word in English, etc., in a sentence mixed with kanji and kana, an image of the sentence in which the katakana word has been replaced with the Roman alphabet is displayed to the learner. What we offer is boat fishing.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In the learning support device of the above-mentioned prior art, foreign words in a sentence containing kanji and kana, which is a sentence to be learned, are displayed in Roman letters in which kana characters are replaced. For this reason, foreign words that can be easily understood in the learner's own language are shown in the text in Roman letters that represent the Japanese sounds by replacing the Japanese kana characters, forcing the learner to study in a way that is difficult to understand. As a result, learning efficiency decreases.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and its purpose is to display the foreign words contained in the sentence to be learned in a sentence that has been replaced with another language that can be understood by the learner, thereby making it easier to read the sentence to be learned. The objective is to provide an excellent learning support device that can be understood by students and improve their learning efficiency.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the learning support device of the present invention, as shown in the claim correspondence diagram of FIG. Contains the corresponding native language representation of the word.

The extraction means (B) extracts foreign words contained in the input learning target sentence.

The reading means (C) reads words in the original language notation corresponding to the words extracted by the extracting means (B) from the dictionary section (A).

The sentence creation means (D) creates a sentence that includes the words read out by the reading means (C) and replaces the learning target sentence with other languages or characters.

The display means (E) is characterized by displaying sentences created by the sentence creation means.

[Operation] In the learning support device of the present invention configured as described above, an input learning target sentence, for example, a learning target sentence containing a katakana loanword corresponding to an English word, etc., is added to a Japanese sentence containing kanji and kana. Sentences are displayed in Roman characters or other languages. At this time, the foreign words included in the sentence to be learned are displayed in words in a language that the learner can easily understand. This makes it easier to understand sentences to be learned that include foreign words.

[Example] Next, an example of the learning support device according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the configuration of a word dictionary in the auxiliary storage device, FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of functional means used to explain the operation, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart related to the control operation program. be.

First, the configuration will be explained. In FIG. 2, IO is a learning support device using a computer system, etc., and this learning support device 10 includes a keyboard, a character recognition device (OCR), etc.
An input unit 12 is provided, from which characters are input and various operation instructions are given.

Furthermore, it has a display section 14 such as a CRT for displaying text and the like, and a printing section 16 consisting of a scanning printer or the like. The display unit 14 displays the character string input from the input unit 12, the replaced learning target sentence containing kanji and kana, and the target character sentence in which foreign words included in the learning target sentence are replaced with words written in the original language. is displayed. The printing section 16 outputs a note copy according to instructions from the input section 12. Further, there is provided an auxiliary storage device 18 such as a floppy disk or ROM in which a dictionary necessary for translating a sentence to be learned into Roman alphabet is stored.

A microprocessor (MPU) 20 is provided to which the input section 12, display section 14, printing section 16, and auxiliary storage device 18 are connected, respectively, and for performing overall control processing here.

This MPU 20 includes a CPU 20a, a ROM 20b in which the control processing program is stored, a working RAM 20c, and an input signal from the input section 12.
1102, which processes signals that can be processed in 0a, or performs signal processing that can be displayed on the display unit 14;
It is equipped with 0d, 20e, 2Of, 20g, and a cross line 2■.

In this MPU 20, the character string inputted from the input unit 12 is used as a learning target sentence, is divided into words, and foreign words contained therein are extracted, and when creating a target character sentence, only the foreign word part is expressed in the original language. Control processing to display is performed.

The auxiliary storage device 18 is provided with a word dictionary shown in FIG. 3 and a hiragana character storage section.

Furthermore, a conversion table for converting hiragana characters to romaji is stored.

The word dictionary contains katakana for foreign words, kanji and kana for original Japanese words, and a Japanese notation section where words are sequentially memorized, and hiragana where hiragana corresponding to the Japanese notation here are sequentially memorized. The heading section, its part-of-speech information section, and the English notation section in which the English notation corresponding to the katakana notation of the foreign word are sequentially stored. A language flag section for storing ON status of a variable is stored.

The hiragana character storage section stores hiragana name sentences in which morphological analysis is performed, that is, classification into words, and hiragana headings corresponding to each word are sequentially stored, with reference to the Japanese notation section and grammatical information of the word dictionary.

In the conversion table, the Roman letters corresponding to the hiragana characters arranged in alphabetical order, for example, ``a'' for ``a''.
is memorized.

These word dictionaries, hiragana character storage units, and conversion tables are used to control the CPU 20a when generating target character sentences in other languages in which foreign words included in the learning target sentences are replaced with languages that can be easily understood by the learner. Functional means centered on motion, ie, morphological analysis means 30, hiragana notation generation means 32, and romanization notation generation means 44 shown in FIG. 4 are configured.

The basic operation in such a configuration will be explained.

Here, a sentence mixed with kanji and kana, which is a sentence to be learned, is input from a keyboard or an input unit 12 of OCR.

For input using the keyboard, for example, enter hiragana characters,
It may also be converted into a sentence containing kanji and kana and provided to Gakushusha as a Japanese learning target sentence.

First, the morphological analysis means 30 performs morphological analysis with reference to a dictionary and classifies the words into words. Next, the hiragana notation generating means 32 replaces the morphologically analyzed characters (words) with hiragana. Here, the Japanese notation corresponding to the Japanese notation of the foreign word is identified, and a marker is given when the flag variable is ON. Thereafter, the Roman character notation generation means 44 refers to the conversion table and replaces the sentence with the Roman character notation. In this case, a marker is attached to the Japanese notation corresponding to the foreign word, and a target character sentence in Roman alphabet is generated into which the English word read from the word dictionary is inserted.

Next, referring to the flowchart of FIG. 5, the operation for replacing a sentence containing kanji and kana with a target character sentence written in Roman letters will be explained by giving an example.

First, after the entire operation, the program stored in the ROM 20b in the MPU 20 starts and steps (hereinafter referred to as
Indicated by S only) 100, the input learning target sentence "I went to Greece", a sentence mixed with kanji and kana, is input to the input section 12.
The information is input from the OCR and displayed on the display unit 14. Originally, this action was not performed by the learner, but by the teacher. In addition, after inputting in hiragana, the learning target sentence "
I went to Greece. ”. Next, 5
At the IOI, an execution key is pressed on the keyboard of the input unit 12 to instruct replacement with a sentence written in Roman letters.

Furthermore, in 5102, the CPU 20a determines whether the execution key has been turned on.

In the case of No, the process returns to 5100 to execute the subsequent processing procedure (program), that is, to wait for the input of the sentence to be learned again. If Yes, proceed to the next step 8103. This 51
In 03, the morphological analysis means 30 refers to the word dictionary to write [Greece/to/went/. ”.

Next, in 5104, the Japanese notation "Greece" in the morphological analysis is a foreign word, and the flag (F) variable is O.
N is identified under the control of the CPU 20a of the MPU 20. Furthermore, in step 5105, the CPU 20a executes control to refer to the hiragana heading, replace it with hiragana, and store it in the RAM 20c. In other words, it becomes the flat name sentence ``Girishiya/ni/it/.''.

In addition, at 5106, the hiragana notation generating means 32 generates a flag variable for the hiragana notation "Girishiya" based on the ON state.
Marking is performed under the control of the CPU 20a.

Furthermore, in 5I07, this flat name sentence is displayed on the display section 14.
is displayed.

Subsequently, in 310B, it is determined under the control of the CPU 20a whether or not the flat name sentence includes an English loan word. That is, it is determined whether or not a marker is attached. Here, if Yes, proceed to 5I09. That is, the process proceeds to a process of generating a target character sentence in which only the katakana notation [Greek] of the foreign word included in the learning target sentence is replaced with English that can be easily understood by the learner, and the other parts are written in Roman letters. Further, in the case of No, the process advances to 5111. In other words, the process proceeds to a processing procedure for generating a target character sentence in which the entire character is written in Roman letters.

Then, in step 5109, the word "Greece" in English corresponding to the hiragana "Girisha j" to which the marker has been added is read out from the word dictionary in the auxiliary storage device 18 and written in the CP.
It is stored in the RAM 20c under the control of U20a.

In the sequel <5IIO, the name sentence [Girisha/ni/it/] stored in the RAM 20c is written.

” in hiragana [Read Girishaj and store it in RAM2
It is replaced with the word "rGreece" in English stored in 0c. That is, rGreece/ went to/. J
becomes.

Furthermore, in 5ill, the sentence rG generated in 5IIO
reece/to/went/. Refer to the conversion table and replace J with the target character sentence written in Roman letters. In this case, the target character sentence rGreece nj 1ttaJ is generated by inserting the English word rGreeceJ into the hiragana notation "Girisha" corresponding to the foreign word. Next, proceed to 5II2. In this 5l12, the target character sentence rGreece n1itta' is displayed in display section 1.
4 is displayed.

Furthermore, in Sl 13, the target character sentence rGreece
It is determined whether a hard copy of ni 1ttaJ is necessary. In other words, the execution key for the print instruction is input part 1.
2, it is determined whether or not the button has been pressed under the control of the CPU 20a. If Yes, proceed to the next step 3114.

If no, proceed to end.

At 5l14, a hard copy is output from the scanning printer of the printing unit 16 and goes to the end, where it is sent to the RO of the MPU 20.
One step of the processing procedure related to the program stored in M20b is completed, and the process returns to the next processing step, that is, the start.

In this way, the learning target sentence [I went to Greece] is input. ” is displayed in place of a sentence written in Roman letters, the katakana notation of the foreign word included in the sentence to be learned is “Greek”.
English notation rGreeceJ that can be easily understood by learners
Since the sentences are displayed using the following words, it becomes possible to understand the sentence to be learned easily and quickly.

In the above embodiment, a case has been described in which a Japanese sentence containing kanji and kana is adopted as a learning target sentence, and the included foreign word is replaced with an English target sentence written in Roman letters, but the present invention is not limited to this. The present invention also includes the ability to obtain the same effects as described above by replacing words with other languages, such as Chinese.

[Effects of the Invention] As can be understood from the above explanation, according to the learning support device of the present invention, when the input learning target sentence is replaced with a sentence in another language and displayed, the learning target sentence Since the foreign words included in the text are displayed in a language that the learner can easily understand, the learner can easily understand the sentence to be learned, which has the effect of improving the efficiency of learning.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a claim correspondence diagram of the learning support device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the learning support device of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a diagram of the auxiliary storage device shown in the embodiment of FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the configuration of a word dictionary; FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of functional means used to explain the operation of the embodiment of FIG. 1; FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the control operation program of the embodiment of FIG. 1. . 12... Input section, 14... Display section, 16.
...Printing section, 18...Auxiliary storage device, 20.
・・MPU20. 30... Morphological analysis means, 32... Hiragana notation generation means, 44... Romaji notation generation means. 10 Learning support device Figure 2 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) a dictionary section that includes words written in the original language that correspond to foreign words; an extraction means that extracts words of the foreign words contained in the input learning target sentence; and a dictionary that corresponds to the words extracted by the extraction means. reading means for reading words in the original language notation from the dictionary; and sentence creation means for creating a sentence containing the words read out by the reading means and replacing the learning target sentence with another language or character. A learning support device comprising: a display means for displaying a sentence created by the sentence creation means.