JPH05101094A - Dictionary retrieval control method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To efficiently extract the translation of words in the objective sentence of translation by deciding the part of speech for the words by analyzing the syntax of the input sentence, and displaying the representative translation for each part of speech. CONSTITUTION:The input sentence to be the object of dictionary retrieval is read by using an input device 110 and stored in a word table 151. Next, the input sentence is analyzed by using a syntax analysis dictionary 171. At such a time, since the part of speech for each word is decided, the result is stored in an attribute table 152. Next, a dictionary retrieval method instructing picture is displayed at an output device 130, and a numerical value inputted by a user is read and stored in a retrieval method instruction table 160. Afterwards, when the retrieved result is obtained from symbols in the part of speech column of a dictionary-retrieved attribute table 152 according to the numerical value stored in this table 160, the retrieved result is stored in a retrieved result storage table 190. Then, the representative translation is displayed at the output device 130 while referring to this retrieved result storage table 190.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a dictionary search control method effective for automatically searching for words in text.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a technique for automatically retrieving a word in a text of this kind, for example, 1 of "Automatic translation of English-Japanese / Japanese-English by personal computer" by Goo Ohba (Nihon Gijutsu Shuppan, 1989)
The techniques described on pages 22 to 141 can be mentioned. This technique is based on automatically searching for all words in the text, but it is also possible to exclude words with a length equal to or less than the number of characters designated by the user from the search target.

[0003]

However, the above-mentioned prior art is intended for a dictionary search on a word-by-word basis, and considers the part-of-speech of a word in a sentence and shows the corresponding translation. Was not considered. In addition, the method of selecting a word according to the learning level of the user and performing a dictionary search is not considered, and further, a method of selecting a main word that constitutes a sentence such as a subject, a predicate, and an object and performing a dictionary search. Was not mentioned. Less than,
This will be described in more detail. (1) When an individual looks up a dictionary to read a foreign language, he or she usually looks up the word that he does not know and asks for the translation. Then write the translation below the word in the text.
What is important here is to find the translation of the word in the current target sentence. There are not many cases in which a translation of only words is requested. (2) By the way, the number of words to be looked up in the dictionary depends on the number of words in the dictionary. Generally, a person who has a lot of vocabulary has a small number of dictionary lookups, and a person who has a small vocabulary such as a learning beginner has a large number of dictionary lookups. Since it is a laborious task to look up a dictionary, it is desirable to automatically search a dictionary using a computer in order to reduce the work of looking up a dictionary by a human. Here, in the automatic dictionary search, it is not always desirable to search for all words, but rather to search only for words that the user does not know. (3) In the present age, there is a large amount of information, and it takes a lot of time to select the information that you want. Moreover, it takes a lot of time to select the necessary information from the text written in a foreign language. For this reason, it is desirable to "diagonally read" foreign language texts. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and a first object thereof is to provide a dictionary search method capable of efficiently obtaining a translation of a word in a sentence to be translated. The second object of the present invention is to set the learning level of the user to the middle school level,
It is to provide a method of selecting a word that is not learned at the user level and performing a dictionary search by dividing it into high school level, university level, and the like. A third object of the present invention is to provide a method for selecting a main word constituting a sentence and performing a dictionary search for reading the sentence obliquely.

[0004]

A first object of the present invention described above is to provide a dictionary in which a representative translation and a detailed translation are described for each word part of speech, and to provide a representative translation for each word part of speech of an input sentence. In the automatic dictionary search device for displaying, a dictionary used for syntax analysis is provided, the syntax of the input sentence is analyzed to determine the part of speech of a word, and a representative translation is displayed for each part of speech. Achieved by A second object of the present invention is to previously provide a dictionary used for parsing and a dictionary in which a learning level is described for each word and a representative translation and a detailed translation are described for each part of speech of a word, Enter, and determine the part of speech of the word by analyzing the syntax of the sentence, the user inputs the level that you want to search the dictionary, when the learning level input by the user and the learning level of the word match, This is achieved by a dictionary search control method characterized by displaying a representative translation of a part of speech. A third object of the present invention is, in addition to the means for achieving the second object, to analyze the syntax of the sentence to determine a main word constituting the sentence, select the main word, and perform a dictionary search. , A representative translation of a determined part of speech of the main word is displayed.

[0005]

In the dictionary search control method according to the present invention, the dictionary is automatically searched for the words in the read input sentence, and the processing is performed based on the syntactic analysis result. That is, based on the result of the syntactic analysis, only the translation as the relevant part of speech is displayed. The range of words to be searched is set by the user. For example, at the beginning of learning a foreign language, it may be necessary to perform a dictionary search for all words in text written in a foreign language. In such a case, the user may specify "all word search". Further, when learning has advanced to some extent, it may not be necessary to perform a dictionary search for already learned words. In such a case, the user may specify “learning level-specific dictionary search” and further specify a learning level such as middle school, high school, or university. Also, instead of the idea of searching for unknown words, it is also possible to select the main words of the sentence such as the subject, predicate, object, etc. to make a dictionary search in order to understand the sentence as "oblique reading". .. In such a case, “dictionary search for main word of sentence” may be designated. When "all-word dictionary search" is specified, a word-by-word dictionary search is performed from the first word of the input sentence, and a representative translation (translation most frequently used) is displayed.
When the "learning level-specific dictionary search" is designated, the learning level of each word is referred to determine whether or not to retrieve the representative translation. When “search for a main word of a sentence” is designated, a process of extracting a main word of a sentence is performed, and then a main word is searched for in a dictionary and a representative translation is displayed.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A first embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. In the following embodiments, English text will be described as an example of input text. Figure 2
It is a figure which shows the structure of the information processing apparatus which is one Example of this invention. In the figure, 110 is an input device, 120 is a CPU that performs overall processing, and 130 is an output device such as a CRT.
Reference numeral 140 denotes a storage device, and the storage device 14
Within 0, an input sentence table 150 for storing input sentences, a search method designation table 160 described later, a dictionary 170, a dictionary search program 180, a search result table 190, and a work area 195 are provided. FIG. 3 shows a configuration example of the input sentence table 150. 6 and 7
, The word table 151 in the input sentence table 150,
A specific example of the attribute table 152 is shown. Further, FIG. 4 shows a configuration example of the dictionary 170, and FIG. 5 shows a configuration example of the search result table 190. The functions of the tables and the like will be sequentially described in the operation description.

FIG. 1 is a flow chart of processing in an embodiment of the present invention. In step 10, the input sentence to be searched for in the dictionary is read using the input device 110 shown in FIG. The input sentence is stored in the word table 151 of FIG. In step 20, the input sentence is analyzed using the syntax analysis dictionary 171 of FIG. Here, the syntax analysis technique is a well-known technique, and the details thereof are described in, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 58-40684, and therefore the description thereof is omitted here. However, the syntactic analysis here is used in a broad sense including morphological analysis and multi-part-of-speech elimination. When the word of the input sentence changes, its original form can be obtained by syntactic analysis. The original form of the obtained word is the word table 1
It is also stored in step 51 in step 20. Similarly, step 20 also stores the part-of-speech of each word determined by the syntactic analysis, the word having a grammatical role, and the five-sentence constituent words of the sentence in the attribute table 152. As an example, assume that the following sentence is input. Recent studies have disclosed the fac
t thatmost mothers cradle their infants in their le
ft arms.

By executing step 20, the words "studies, disclosed, mothers, infants" in the above sentence are analyzed as words with inflections, so that the original form is stored in the word table 151 (see FIG. 6). In addition, since the part of speech of each word is determined by syntactic analysis such that studies is a noun rather than a verb, the result is stored in the word table 152 (see FIG. 7). In FIG. 7, ADJ is an adjective, N is a noun, HAV is an auxiliary verb have, V is a verb, ART is an article, THT is the word that, POS is a pronoun possessive case, and PRE is a preposition. ing. Of the input sentences, have is a word that has a grammatical role as an auxiliary verb that currently forms the perfect form. For such words, the part of speech symbol is enclosed in () to indicate that the word has a grammatical role. FIG. 7 shows that (HAV) and (THT) are words having the above-mentioned grammatical role. In this embodiment, for such a word, the dictionary search is not performed to indicate the translated word, and the grammatical role word table 173 is searched to display the grammatical role, as described later. ing. That is, (currently completed) is displayed for (HAV) and (section) is displayed for (THT).

[0009] Further, studies in the input sentence are the subject, discl
Since osed is parsed as a predicate and fact is parsed as an object, S ₁ , V ₁ , O ₁ are respectively placed at the corresponding positions in the attribute table 152.
To store. Similarly, S ₂ , V ₂ and O ₂ are stored for mothers, cradle and infants (see FIG. 7). Step 30
Then, on the output device 130 of FIG.
00 is displayed, the numerical value input by the user from the input device 110 is read through the dictionary search method specification screen 200, and the numerical value is read in the search method specification table 16 in the storage device 140.
Store in 0. Here, an example of the dictionary search method designation screen 200 is shown in FIG. In FIG. 8, three types of search methods are displayed as a search method: a full word search, a learning level-based search, and a sentence main word search. Further, for each search method, areas 201 to 207 in which the user numerically inputs whether or not to execute the search are fixedly provided. When performing an all-word search, the numerical value “1” may be input in the area 201. Areas 202 to 2 are used when searching by learning level
Of 06, the numerical value “1” or “2” may be input in the area corresponding to the learning level.

The numerical value "1" means executing the word search of the corresponding learning level, and the numerical value "2" means executing the word search of the corresponding learning level and the higher learning level. When searching for the main word of a sentence, the number “1” may be input in the area 207. Area 201-2
The numerical value entered in 07 is the search method specification table 160
Are stored in the corresponding positions of the areas 201 'to 207' (see FIG. 9). In step 40, according to the numerical value stored in the above-mentioned search method designation table 160, the step to be executed next is skipped. For example, when "1" is stored in the area 201 'of the search method specification table 160 and when "1" is stored in the area 202' (equivalent to a word search of junior high school level or higher, that is, all word search). ), Jump to step 50. In other cases, areas 202'-206 '
If "1" or "2" is stored in, step 60
Fly to. If "1" is stored in the area 207 ', the process jumps to step 70. If area 202'-20
If the value of 6'is a value that jumps to step 60 and the value of the area 207 'is a value that jumps to step 70, step 60 is executed and then step 70 is executed.

The above steps will be described in detail below. First, the process of step 50 will be described with reference to FIG. In step 51, the first word of the word table 151 is
It is read into the work area 195 (see FIG. 2) in the storage device 140. In step 52, the dictionary stored in the work area 195 is searched. In step 53, the dictionary search result is stored in the corresponding portion of the search result table 190 (see FIG. 5), as described later. In step 54, it is determined whether or not the dictionary search for all words has been completed. If all words have been completed, the processing in step 50 is completed, and if not, the routine proceeds to step 55. In step 55, the word table 15
The word next to 1 is read into the work area 195, and the process jumps to step 52. After that, the processes of steps 52 to 55 are repeatedly executed, and when the dictionary search for all the words is completed, the process is completed in step 54. Hereinafter, step 52 and step 53 will be described in more detail using examples. In step 52, the word to be searched for in the dictionary is found in the translated word display dictionary 172 shown in FIG. FIG. 12 shows a configuration example of the translated word display dictionary 172.

The translated word display dictionary 172 shown in FIG. 12 is provided with a search index 17201 for searching a word. The search index 17201 is composed of a headword, a learning level to which the headword belongs, and a pointer to an address in which information of the headword is stored. now,
Take cradle, which is the tenth word in the input sentence. cr
It can be seen from the attribute table 152 that adle has a part of speech of V (verb) (see FIG. 7). In step 52, cradle is found in the entry words of the search index 17201, and the pointer is jumped to the part-of-speech area 17202 according to the pointer.
Since the part of speech area 17202 stores N (noun) instead of V, it jumps to the next part of speech area 17203. Since the desired part-of-speech V is stored in the part-of-speech area 17203, the representative translation area 17208 is jumped to according to the pointer. The content of the representative translation area 17208 is a search result obtained by “shaking and relaxing”. After obtaining the search result, the process proceeds to step 53.

If the word to be searched for in the dictionary is found to have a grammatical role from the symbol in the part-of-speech column of the attribute table 152 (see FIG. 7), the translated word display dictionary 17
No search for 2 is performed. Instead, the grammatical role word of the grammatical role word table 173 is collated with the symbol in the part-of-speech column, and the grammatical role word when the collation is successful is used as the search result. The literary role word table 173 is shown in FIG. In any case, when the search result is obtained, the search result is stored in the search result storage table 190 in step 53. The search result storage table 190 includes a display position calculation table 191 for calculating the display positions of the representative translation and the grammatical role word, and a representative translation storage table 192 for storing the representative translation and the grammatical role word in the order of input words (FIG. 5). Display position calculation table 1
An example of 91 is shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 14, the display position calculation table 191 comprises word numbers, word positions, word character numbers, representative translated character numbers, representative translated display lines and representative translated addresses. The word number stores the number when the words of the input sentence are counted in order from the first word. In the word position, the first character of each word stores the character position when counting sequentially from the first character of the word at the beginning of the sentence (the space separating words is also counted). The word character count stores the character count of each word. For the number of representative translation characters, write a number that is twice the number of representative translation characters (Japanese). This is because one Japanese character requires a display area that is twice as large as a half-width English character. The representative translation shall begin one line below the beginning of the English word.
When the representative translations are displayed in an overlapping manner, one of the representative translations is further lowered by one line. The representative translation display row stores a row for displaying the representative translation. The representative translation address stores the address of the representative translation stored in the representative translation storage table 192. The display position calculation table 191 described above
The process of storing the representative translation display line (step 53) will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

In step 531, when the representative translations are displayed on the same line, it is determined whether or not adjacent representative translations overlap each other. The following procedure is used to determine the overlap. First, in the display position calculation table 191, the word position, the number of word characters, the number of representative translated characters, and the representative translated address are entered for each word number. These are the word table 151 and the representative translation storage table 1.
It can be created by referring to 92. For example, the word position of the word number n can be calculated from the formula [word position of word number (n-1) + word character number] (n ≧ 2). The space between words is one half-width alphabetic character. Next, for each word number, it is checked whether or not [the number of representative translated characters ≧ (the number of word characters + 1)] holds. When the equal sign is satisfied, it means that the representative translations are continuously displayed without a space, but in this case as well, it is determined that an overlap has occurred.
If no overlap occurs, the display lines of the adjacent representative translations are made the same in step 532. If an overlap occurs, in step 532, the representative translation display lines are shifted by one line so that the overlap does not occur.

Now, assume that the representations of the representative translations of the word number n and (n + 1) overlap. At this time, the representative translation display line of the word number (n + 1) is shifted by one line. In this case, there is a case where it is lowered by one line and a case where it is raised by one line. The representative translation display line of word number n is the same as the representative translation display line of word number (n-1) or 1
When it is on the line, the representative translation display line of word number (n + 1) is moved down by one line from the representative translation display line of word number n. On the other hand, when the representative translation display line for word number n is one line below the representative translation display line for word number (n-1), the representative translation display line for word number (n + 1) is displayed for the representative translation display for word number n. Go up one line. This makes it possible to prevent the display of adjacent representative translations from overlapping.
Also, in order to prevent the display of representative translations that are not adjacent to each other from overlapping, do the following. In step 534, a position where the same display line is sandwiched by at least one other display line is found in the representative translation display line column of the display position calculation table 191. In the example of FIG. 14, the representative translation display line of word numbers 3 and 5 is 2,
Since the representative translation display line for word number 4 is 3, word numbers 3 and 5
Can be found. It is assumed that the word positions on the same display line at the found position are n and (n + m) (m ≧ 2). At this time,
[(n word position) + (number of representative translated characters of n)] ≧ [(n + m)
Of the word position n], the representative translation of the word number n and the representative translation of the word number (n + m) overlap each other. In this way, the representative translation can be displayed without overlapping.

In step 60, the search method instruction table 1
Numerical values stored in 60 areas 202 'to 206' (see FIG.
According to the reference), the translated word display dictionary 172 is searched. The area 202 ′ of the search method instruction table 160
~ 206 'correspond to learning level 1 (junior high school level), learning level 2 (high school level), learning level 3 (university examination level), learning level 4 (university level), learning level 5 (more levels) is doing. Figure 1 shows the details of step 60
This will be described using 6. In step 51 ′, the first word of the word table 151 is read into the work area 195. In step 62, the words stored in the work area 195 are
It is found in the words in the entry word column of the search index 17201. In step 63, it is determined whether or not the learning level of this entry word satisfies the specified learning level condition. The determination method is as follows.

Area 20 of the search method instruction table 160
When the numerical value "1" is stored in 2'-206 ', the learning level of the entry word found in the search index 17201 is the area 202'-206' in which the numerical value "1" stands.
If it matches the learning level of, it is determined that the specified learning level is satisfied. Search method instruction table 1
When the numerical value “2” is stored in the 60 areas 202 ′ to 206 ′, the learning level of the entry word found in the search index 17201 is the area 202 ′ to 206 ′ where the numerical value “2” is standing. When it is equal to or higher than the learning level, it is determined that the condition of the designated learning level is satisfied. If the determination in step 63 is YES, the process proceeds to step 64, and the translated word display dictionary 17
Search 2 to find a representative translation. In step 53 ′, this result is stored in the search result table 190. On the other hand, if the determination in step 63 is NO, the process proceeds to step 54 'without searching for a representative translation. In step 54 ', when the dictionary search for all the words is completed, the processing in step 60 is terminated,
Otherwise, proceed to step 55 '. Step 55 '
Then, the next word in the word table 151 is set to work area 1
Read to 95 and jump to step 62. After that, step 62
~ When the process of step 55 'is repeated and all the words have been processed, the process ends in step 54'.

In step 70, a dictionary is searched by selecting a word that is a five-sentence element of a sentence. Details of step 70
This will be described with reference to FIG. In step 51 ″, the head word of the word table 151 is read into the work area 195.
In step 71, the main word column of the attribute table 152 is referred to, and it is determined whether or not the read word is analyzed as the main word. When the determination of the main word is YES, the process proceeds to step 52 '. In step 52 ', work area 195
Performs a dictionary search for the words stored in. In step 53 ', the dictionary search result is stored in the relevant part of the search result table 190. The details of step 52 'and step 53' are the same as those of step 52 and step 53, and thus the description thereof is omitted here. In step 80, the representative translation is displayed on the output device 130 with reference to the search result storage table 190. FIG. 18 shows an example of the display screen 800.

The display screen 800 is a screen operation area 80.
1, representative translation display area 802, detailed search operation area 80
3, a detailed translation display area 804. The screen operation area 801 includes a sentence start display command, a sentence end display command, an up scroll command, and a down scroll command. When these commands are designated with the input device 110 such as a mouse, the display of the representative translation display area 802 can be controlled. Further, there is a detailed search command in the screen operation area 801, and when this is instructed, control of the screen operation can be transferred to the detailed search operation area 803. When a full text print command or a screen print command is instructed, the full text in the representative translation display area 802 or the screens 801 to 804 can be output to the output device 130. Although step 80 performs the above processing, this processing can be easily realized, and therefore detailed description thereof is omitted here.

In step 90, a detailed search for the word designated by the user is performed. When the detailed search command in the screen operation area 801 is instructed by the input device 110 such as a mouse, the control is moved to the detailed search operation area 803. The detailed search operation area 803 includes a search word input area, an up scroll command, a down scroll command, a part-of-speech scroll command, and a number scroll command. In the search word input area, the user inputs a word to be searched. The up scroll command and the down scroll command are commands for scrolling the display contents of the detailed translation display area 804. The part-of-speech scroll command is for displaying the detailed translation of the part-of-speech described next to the currently displayed part-of-speech in the first line of the detailed translation display area 804. The number scroll command displays the detailed translation of the number next to the detailed classification number in the part of speech currently displayed in the detailed translation display area 80.
It is for displaying in the first line of No. 4. The detailed search performs the following processing. The part of speech of the word determined by the syntactic analysis is read from the attribute table 152, the pointer of the translation display dictionary 172 is traced, and the detailed translation of the corresponding part of speech is stored in the work area 195.

In step 100, the detailed translation stored in the work area 195 is displayed in the detailed translation display area 804. In the translated word display dictionary 172, a pointer is set for each part of speech and each detailed classification number within the part of speech (FIG. 1).
2). By holding the information indicating which part of speech or which detailed translation of which detailed classification number is currently displayed, the next detailed translation pointed to by the pointer can be displayed in the first line of the detailed translation display area 804. Is possible. The display screen has been described above by taking the all-word search as an example, but the same applies to the level-by-learning search and the search for the main word of the sentence. FIG. 19 shows an example of the display screen 810 for the level-by-learning search, and FIG. 20 shows an example of the display screen 820 for the search for the main word of the sentence. First, FIG. 19 shows a search result example when the user has a junior high school level vocabulary number and therefore selects the high school level or higher as the learning level for dictionary lookup. On the display screen 810, the searched words are closed, cradle, and infants.
If you don't understand the meaning of these words, you can't understand the content of English clearly. Therefore, according to the present invention, it can be understood that an English sentence that could not be understood unless one originally drew the dictionary can be understood without the need to look up the dictionary.

FIG. 20 shows an example of search results when a sentence is read diagonally. On the display screen 820, when the representative translations searched for in the dictionary are picked up, they are (study, clarify, fact), (mother, shake and ease, infant). You can figure it out. The double line below the word in the representative translation display area 802 represents the subject, the solid line represents the verb, and the broken line represents the object. According to the above-described embodiment, the automatic dictionary search according to the learner level of the user becomes possible, which is particularly effective for foreign language learning. Also, since the main word of the sentence can be selected and searched in the dictionary, it is effective in reading the sentence diagonally. It is needless to say that the above-mentioned embodiment shows an example of the present invention, and the present invention should not be limited to this.

[0024]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, it is possible to realize a dictionary search control method capable of efficiently obtaining a translation of a word in a sentence to be translated. In addition, an automatic dictionary search according to the learner level of the user becomes possible, which is particularly effective for learning a foreign language. Further, since the dictionary can be searched by selecting the main word of the sentence, it is effective for reading the sentence diagonally.

[0025]

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flow chart showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a hardware configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing details of an input sentence table according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing details of a dictionary according to an embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing details of a search result table according to the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a specific example of contents of a word table according to the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a specific example of the contents of an attribute table according to the embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a dictionary search method designation screen according to the embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a search method specification table according to the embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing details of all-word search processing according to the embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing details of a process of storing search results in the search result table according to the embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a detailed configuration of a translated word display dictionary according to the embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a detailed configuration of a grammatical role word table according to the embodiment.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a display position calculation table according to the embodiment.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a representative translation storage table according to the embodiment.

FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing details of search processing for each learning level according to the embodiment.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart showing details of main word search processing for a sentence according to the embodiment.

FIG. 18 is an example of a display screen showing the results of the all-word dictionary search process of the embodiment.

FIG. 19 is a display screen example of a dictionary search processing result by learning level according to the embodiment.

FIG. 20 is an example of a display screen of a main word search processing result of a sentence according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

10: Input sentence read processing, 20: Input sentence syntax analysis processing, 30: Dictionary search method reading, 50: All word dictionary search processing, 60: Learning level dictionary search processing, 70: Sentence main word search processing , 110: input device, 120: CPU,
130: output device, 140: storage device, 172: translated word display dictionary.

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Zenjiro Kawasaki 1099, Ozenji, Aso-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa Hitachi, Ltd. System Development Laboratory Hitachi, Ltd. System Development Laboratory (72) Inventor Shunichi Ito 2-15-12 Nishishimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo Hitachi Ltd. AV Equipment Division (72) Inventor Junya Monma Nishishimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 2-15-12 Stock Company Hitachi, Ltd. AV Equipment Division (72) Inventor Eiji Yamazaki 6-81 Onoe-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa Hitachi Software Engineering Stock Company In-house

Claims (10)

[Claims] 1. An automatic dictionary search device comprising a dictionary in which a representative translation and a detailed translation are described for each part of speech of a word and displaying a representative translation for each part of speech of a word in an input sentence. A dictionary search control method, which is provided, wherein the syntax of the input sentence is analyzed to determine a part of speech of a word, and a representative translation is displayed for each part of speech. 2. The dictionary search control according to claim 1, wherein the input sentence is displayed, and a representative translation is displayed in a line different from the displayed sentence by at least one line in alignment with the first character of the word. Method. 3. With respect to the display of the representative translations, it is determined whether or not the displays of the representative translations overlap each other, and if the displays overlap, the display position of one of the representative translations is shifted.
The dictionary search control method described. 4. The dictionary search control method according to claim 2, wherein a detailed translation of the word designated by the user is displayed. 5. Instead of sequentially scrolling the detailed translation,
The dictionary search control method according to claim 4, wherein the detailed translation is called and displayed in units of parts of speech. 6. The dictionary search control method according to claim 5, wherein detailed translations subdivided in the part of speech are called and displayed in units of subdivided numbers. 7. A dictionary used for syntactic analysis and a dictionary in which a learning level is described for each word and a representative translation and a detailed translation are described for each part of speech of the word are provided in advance, and a sentence is input,
The sentence part of speech is analyzed to determine the part of speech of the word, the user inputs the level to be searched in the dictionary, and when the learning level input by the user matches the learning level of the word, a representative translation of the part of speech of the word A method for controlling a dictionary search characterized by displaying. 8. The representative translation of the part of speech of the word is displayed when the learning level input by the user or a further advanced learning level matches the learning level of the word. Dictionary search control method. 9. The sentence is analyzed to determine a main word constituting the sentence, the main word is selected and a dictionary search is performed, and a representative translation of a determined part of speech of the main word is displayed. The dictionary search control method according to claim 7. 10. The dictionary search control method according to claim 7, wherein a search method can be selected from a search of all words, a search according to a learning level, and a search of a main word of a sentence.