JPH0512257A - Document preparation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily convert a word whose partial reading is not known into accurate KANJI(Chinese character) at the time of KANA(Japanese syllabary)- KANJI conversion. CONSTITUTION:In this document generation device provided with a dictionary 14 where plural words are previously set, the word including a special character (wild card) meaning an arbitrary character string in a part is inputted through a keyboard 11. Thus, the coincident word is retrieved except for the special character of the word which is inputted from the dictionary 14 and the word is displayed in a display part 16 as a conversion candidate.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document preparation device having a wild card function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a document creation apparatus is provided with a kana-kanji conversion dictionary in which words corresponding to reading are registered. At the time of kana-kanji conversion, the kanji corresponding to reading is referred to by referring to this dictionary. It is outputting.

By the way, in the method of converting kana-kanji by referring to such a dictionary, it is necessary to know in advance the reading of the word which is the conversion result. However, in the case of a word that is not frequently used, such as a person's name or a place name, it is often partially unreadable. In such a case, each character forming the word must be created for each character. For example, if you only know the reading of "Large" at the beginning and "Toge" at the end in the word "Obosatsu Pass",
Each character, that is, "Large", "Bodhi", "Sasatsu", "Toge" must be created for each character by using the single kanji function.

[0004]

As described above, conventionally, it was not possible to convert a partially unreadable word into a correct kanji character. For this reason, it is very troublesome to create each character that constitutes the word for each character.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a document creating apparatus which can easily convert a partially unreadable word into a correct Kanji.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, in a document creating apparatus provided with a dictionary in which a plurality of preset words are registered, a word including a special character partially meaning an arbitrary character string is input. By doing so, a matching word is searched from the dictionary except the special characters of the input word, and the word is displayed as a conversion candidate.

Further, according to the present invention, in a document creating apparatus provided with a dictionary in which words corresponding to reading are registered in advance, by inputting a word including a special character that means an arbitrary character string, The dictionary is searched for a word corresponding to the matching reading except the special character of the reading input by the input means, and the word is displayed as a conversion candidate.

[0008]

According to the above construction, the special character is displayed after being replaced with an appropriate character string. Therefore, by using the special character in a portion where the pronunciation is unknown, the word can be easily converted into the correct kanji. be able to.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration.
In FIG. 1, a keyboard 11 is for inputting various kinds of information necessary for creating a document. This keyboard 11 has "letter" key, "numerical value" key, "cursor"
In addition to the keys, etc., in addition to the "Convert / Next candidate" key for instructing Kana-Kanji conversion and homophone selection, the "Select / Execution" key for instructing the word confirmation, etc., the place name display is instructed here. Various function keys including a "place name display instruction" key 11a for performing the operation are provided. The input control unit 12 controls input of information input by the keyboard 11.

The kana-kanji conversion control unit 13 performs kana-kanji conversion, and has a wild card function for performing kana-kanji conversion of a word that is partially unreadable. The place name dictionary 14 is a kana-kanji conversion dictionary in which the readings of place names and words (kanji) corresponding to the readings are set in advance as shown in FIG. The storage table 15 stores the words extracted from the place name dictionary 14. The display unit 16 is composed of, for example, a liquid crystal display device, and displays a kana-kanji conversion result and the like.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to the flow charts shown in FIGS. Here, a case will be described in which a word that is partially unknown to a place name is converted into a correct kanji character.

The user inputs a reading of a word or a Chinese character through the keyboard 11. At that time, instead of a character string that is not converted to the desired Kanji character or a Kanji character that you do not understand when you enter the reading, for example, "*" is used as a special character (hereinafter referred to as a wild card) that means any character string. Input (step S1).

When the user moves the cursor to the first character of the word and presses the "place name display instruction" key 11a (step S2), the kana-kanji conversion control unit 13 causes the display unit 16 to display the word to be converted. A message for designating the range is displayed (step S3). The user
In accordance with this message, move the cursor to the last character of the word and press the "Select / Execute" key to specify the range (step S4). As a result, the Kana-Kanji conversion control unit 1
3 first initializes the storage table 15 (step S5), and then determines whether or not there is a wild card at the beginning of the designated word (step S6).

If there is no wild card at the beginning, the kana-kanji conversion control unit 13 judges whether it is a reading input or a kanji input (step S7), and searches the reading character string or kanji character string of the place name dictionary 14 according to the input method. A word (reading character string or kanji character string) having characters from the first character of the word to the wildcard is taken out of the words and stored in the storage table 15 (steps S8 to S11). In this case, in the place name dictionary 14, a plurality of words are registered in advance in the normal order based on the read character string. That is, as shown in FIG. 2, kanji character strings are registered corresponding to the phonetic character strings registered in the Japanese syllabary order, and the characters are arranged in the normal order, that is, from left to right. Therefore, in the case of Kanji input,
In order to facilitate the search of the kanji character string, the kana-kanji conversion control unit 13 sorts each word of the place name dictionary 14 in the normal order based on the kanji character string (step S9), and after the search, uses the reading character string as a key. A process of re-sorting in a normal order is performed (step S11).

On the other hand, if there is a wild card at the beginning,
It is better to search from the end of the word. Therefore, the kana-kanji conversion control unit 13 responds to reading input or kanji input by
After sorting each word in the place name dictionary 14 in reverse order based on the reading character string or the kanji character string, a word (reading character string or kanji character string) having characters from the character at the end of the word to the wildcard is sorted from the words. Take out and store table 15
(Steps S12 to S16). After the search, the kana-kanji conversion control unit 13 re-sorts the words in the place name dictionary 14 in the normal order based on the reading character string (step S1).
7).

If there is no wild card at the beginning or at the end, that is, if there is a wild card between characters (step S17), the kana-kanji conversion control unit 13 stores the word obtained in step S9, that is, the storage table 15. The sorted words are sorted in reverse order, and then the words other than the words having the characters from the last character to the wild card are removed from the storage table 15 (steps S18 to S21). After the search, the kana-kanji conversion control unit 13 re-sorts the words stored in the storage table 15 in the normal order (step S22).

In this way, the storage table 15 has
The word (Yomi character string or Kanji character string) in which the wildcard is replaced with an appropriate character string is stored. When the word stored in the storage table 15 is a reading character string (step S22), the kana-kanji conversion control unit 13 extracts the kanji character string corresponding to the reading character string from the place name dictionary 14 (step S23) and converts it. It is output to the display unit 16 as a candidate (step S25). On the other hand, if the word stored in the storage table 15 is a Kanji character string, the Kana-Kanji conversion control unit 13 extracts the Kanji character string from the storage table 15 and outputs it to the display unit 16 as a conversion candidate (step S24, S25).

In this manner, the wild card is replaced with an appropriate character string and displayed according to the place name dictionary 14. Therefore, the user can convert the word (reading character string or kanji character string) input using the wildcard into the correct word (kanji character string) by selecting the desired word from this display. .

The above operation will be specifically described with reference to FIGS. 6 to 11. Here, for example, the case of not knowing the readings of “Bodhisattva” and “Sasatsu” in the word “Odaisatsusatsu Pass” will be described.

(1) The user inputs "large * pass" (or "dai * toge"), moves the cursor to "large" (or "da"), and presses the "place name display instruction" key 11a. Press and move the cursor to specify the range of words to search (see FIG. 6).

(2) The kana-kanji conversion control unit 13 searches the kanji character string of the place name dictionary 14 for a word "large ..." (or searches the reading character string of the place name dictionary 14 for a word "dai ..."). Then, it is stored in the storage table 15 (see FIG. 7). (3) The kana-kanji conversion control unit 13 sorts the characters of the words stored in the storage table 15 in reverse order (see FIG. 8). (4) The kana-kanji conversion control unit 13 searches the storage table 15 for a word that becomes "pass ..." (or "Geuto ...") and leaves only the corresponding word (see FIG. 9).

(5) When inputting kanji, the kana-kanji conversion control unit 13 corrects the words in the storage table 15 in a normal order and outputs them to the display unit 16 (see FIG. 10). In the case of reading input, the kana-kanji conversion control unit 13 searches the kanji character string in the place name dictionary 14 and outputs the corresponding word to the display unit 16. (6) The user puts the cursor on the desired word and presses the "select / execute" key. (7) A word using a wildcard is converted into a correct word (see FIG. 11).

The present invention can be applied not only to a dictionary in which only proper nouns are registered such as a place name dictionary or a person name dictionary, but also to a case where a general kana-kanji conversion dictionary is searched. In this case, not only the dictionary can be searched, but also the corresponding word can be detected in consideration of syntactic analysis and co-occurrence.

[0025]

As described above, according to the present invention, the wild card is replaced with an appropriate character string and displayed. Therefore, by using a wild card in the part where the reading is unclear, the word can be easily converted into the correct kanji. This eliminates the troublesome work of creating each character that makes up a word,
Document production efficiency is greatly improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a structure of a place name dictionary of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a view showing an input screen for words including wildcards according to the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the contents of a storage table of the same embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the contents of a storage table of the embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing word selection candidates of the embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a view showing a word selection screen of the embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a conversion result output screen of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 ... Keyboard, 11a ... "Cursor" key, 12 ...
Input control unit, 13 ... Kana-Kanji conversion control unit, 14 ... Place name dictionary, 15 ... Storage table, 16 ... Display unit.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A dictionary in which a plurality of preset words are registered, an input unit for inputting a word including a special character that partially means an arbitrary character string, and one of the dictionary by the input unit. A document creating apparatus comprising: a search unit that searches for a word that matches the input word except for the special characters, and a display unit that displays the word obtained by the search unit as a conversion candidate. 2. A dictionary in which a word corresponding to reading is registered in advance, an input means for inputting a reading of a word partially including special characters meaning an arbitrary character string, and the input means from the dictionary. And a display unit for displaying the word obtained by this search unit as a conversion candidate. Document creation device.