JPH05151194A - Document preparation supporting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a document preparation supporting device capable of obtaining a desired foreign language by inputting the reading of pronounciation of a foreign language when the spelling of the foreign language to obtain infor mation with respect to the meaning, the part of speech, the conjugation, and the derivative, etc., of the foreign language is unknown. CONSTITUTION:When the reading of the pronounciation of the foreign language whose spelling is unknown is inputted, phonetic symbol information in accordance with a reading character is retrieved from a reading KANA (Japanese syllabary)-phonetic symbol correspondence dictionary 141 in a dictionary 14, and the foreign language in accordance with a phonetic symbol string generated by the combination of the phonetic symbol information is retrieved in a phonetic symbol header dictionary 142, and simultaneously, an information dictionary in the dictionary 14 is retrieved. Thereby, it is possible to obtain the correct spelling of the foreign language whose spelling is unknown and the information of the meaning, the part of speech, the conjugation, and the derivative of the foreign language, etc., based on the phonetic symbol string only by inputting the reading of the pronounciation of the foreign language whose spelling is unknown.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

 [Object of the Invention]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creation support apparatus for obtaining information of a foreign language by inputting the pronunciation of the foreign language whose spelling is unknown.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a document preparation device, a reading input by inputting Roman characters is converted into kana reading, and the kanji corresponding to this kana reading is converted into a kana kanji mixed sentence using a kana kanji conversion dictionary. Romaji input method was proposed. When you want to get a foreign word that should be written in katakana with this document creation device, you need to enter the spelling of the original word of the foreign word to display the katakana notation of the desired foreign word. Kaisho 63-254561
Japanese Patent Laid-Open Nos. 1-102676 and 2-8956 have already been proposed. Also, in a translator that translates a foreign language into Japanese, for example, enter the spelling of an English word, search the corresponding English word dictionary from the dictionary that uses that English word as a headword, and determine the meaning, part of speech, and inflectional form. , There was a function that can obtain information such as derivative words. However, when entering a foreign language for which you want to obtain information such as meaning and usage, you often forget to spell the foreign language. Also, although I have forgotten the spelling of English words, I may remember reading the pronunciation. Therefore, if you want to obtain information in a foreign language that you can understand the pronunciation of but cannot understand the spelling, you need to develop a document creation support device that has the function of obtaining the information in the foreign language that matches the pronunciation when you enter the pronunciation of the pronunciation. It was rare.

[0003]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The present invention eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art, and the desired foreign language can be obtained by inputting the pronunciation of the pronunciation of the foreign language which is not spelled out. It provides a document creation support device that can obtain information such as the meaning, part of speech, inflection, and derivative words. [Constitution of Invention]

[0004]

Means for Solving the Problems A character string is input by a key operation from an input device, the character string is converted into a kana-kanji mixed sentence, and input in a document creating device for display / printing on a display device and a printer. Determining means for determining whether the read character string is a pronunciation of a foreign language, a phonetic kana-phonetic symbol correspondence dictionary storing phonetic symbol information corresponding to the phonetic pronunciation, and the phonetic kana-phonetic symbol correspondence A phonetic symbol conversion means for converting the pronunciation of the pronunciation into a phonetic symbol by referring to a dictionary, a phonetic symbol heading dictionary storing information of a foreign language corresponding to the phonetic symbol as a phonetic symbol, and the phonetic pronunciation. It is a document creation support apparatus comprising foreign language conversion means for converting a phonetic symbol string into foreign language information by referring to a symbol heading dictionary.

[0005]

In the above-described structure of the present invention, when the pronunciation of a foreign language whose spelling is unknown is input, the phonetic symbol information corresponding to the phonetic character is searched in the phonetic kana-phonetic symbol correspondence dictionary and searched. The foreign language corresponding to the phonetic symbol string formed by the combination of the phonetic symbol information is searched in the phonetic symbol heading dictionary. Thus, by inputting the pronunciation of the pronunciation of a foreign language whose spelling is unknown, information such as the meaning, part-of-speech, inflection, and derivative of this foreign language can be obtained at the same time.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings and taking as an example the case of obtaining information of English words. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the document creation support apparatus of this embodiment.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 11 denotes an input device for causing the control unit 13 to output character information in response to key depression and instruction information such as conversion processing. The key 111, a pronunciation conversion key 112 for instructing a mode conversion to a pronunciation conversion process in which a pronunciation reading is input and an English word corresponding to the pronunciation is obtained from a mode in which information is obtained from English characters An "information" key 113 for instructing to obtain information such as meaning, part of speech, inflection, etc., by searching the information dictionary 143 regarding the English word input by the key 111, and the corresponding English word from the input pronunciation reading character. To select and select the desired English character from the converted English character candidates.
The "OK" key 114 and the "End" key 1 for ending the conversion process when the pronunciation of the input pronunciation is incorrect or the desired English word is not included in the converted English word candidates
I have some 15 keys.

Reference numeral 12 is a display device such as a CRT or LCD for displaying readings of English characters and pronunciations input from the input unit 11 in accordance with instructions from the display control unit 133 in the control unit 13.
A character display unit 121 and a candidate display unit 122 are provided. The character display section 121 is a section for displaying readings of English characters and pronunciations input from the input section 11, and is a candidate display section 1.
Reference numeral 22 displays the English character candidates when there are a plurality of English word candidates corresponding to the reading of the input pronunciation by the conversion process.

Reference numeral 13 denotes a control unit for controlling the entire document conversion support apparatus, which holds a conversion control unit 131, a conversion unit 132, and a display control unit 133. The conversion control unit 131 uses a phonetic symbol-phonetic symbol correspondence dictionary 141 to convert the pronunciation reading input from the input unit 11 into phonetic symbols, and a phonetic symbol heading for the phonetic symbol string obtained by the process. The dictionary 141 is used to control processing for conversion into English characters, and the conversion unit 132 performs conversion in accordance with an instruction from the conversion control unit 131. Further, the display control unit 133
The display unit 12 controls the reading of the English characters input from the input unit 11 and pronunciations obtained by the conversion process, and the display of the converted English character candidates.

Reference numeral 14 is a phonetic alphabet-phonetic symbol correspondence dictionary 14.
1, phonetic symbol heading dictionary 142, and information dictionary 143
And other information dictionaries. The phonetic-phonetic symbol correspondence table 141, as shown in FIG.
The kana character information corresponding to the input reading and the phonetic symbols corresponding to the kana character information form a table structure. With the phonetic symbol-phonetic symbol correspondence dictionary 141, the pronunciation reading input from the input unit 11 is converted into phonetic symbols character by character. The phonetic symbol heading dictionary 142 is shown in FIG.
As shown in, the dictionary has a phonetic symbol string as a heading and holds English words corresponding to the phonetic symbol string. The phonetic symbol-phonetic symbol correspondence dictionary 141 converts each phonetic symbol into a phonetic symbol, and a phonetic symbol string made up of several phonetic symbol combinations is necessary when converting into a English word. The information dictionary 143 is a dictionary that holds the English characters input from the input unit 11, the semantic information corresponding to the English characters converted by the conversion process, the part-of-speech information, the inflectional form information, and the like.

Reference numeral 15 denotes a storage means for temporarily storing the English characters input in the document creation support apparatus in this embodiment and the phonetic symbols converted corresponding to the pronunciation reading. , Pronunciation reading storage area 152, pronunciation symbol storage area 153, and pronunciation symbol string storage area 154
And an English character candidate storage area 155 and other work storage areas. The English character storage area 151 is the input unit 1
The pronunciation reading storage area 1 is an area for storing and holding the English characters input by pressing the "character" key 111 of 1.
Reference numeral 52 is an area for storing and holding a pronunciation reading of an English word whose spelling is unknown, which is input by the "character" key. The pronunciation symbol storage area 153 is an area for obtaining and storing the pronunciation symbol corresponding to the pronunciation reading stored and held in the pronunciation reading storage area 152 by searching the reading kana-phonetic symbol correspondence dictionary 141 of the dictionary 14. The phonetic symbol string storage area 154 is an area for storing and holding all phonetic symbol strings corresponding to the reading of the input pronunciation by combining phonetic symbols stored and held in the phonetic symbol storage area 154. The English character storage area 155 is an area for storing and storing the phonetic symbol strings stored in the phonetic symbol string storage area 154 and the English characters obtained by searching the phonetic symbol index dictionary 142. next,
The operation of the embodiment will be described with reference to the flowcharts shown in FIGS. 5 to 8 and the schematic diagrams shown in FIGS.

When a key provided on the input device 11 is operated, the key input information is sent to the control unit 13. The control unit 13 determines whether or not the key input information is the "English character" key (step 1: in the present specification, step is abbreviated as S hereinafter). When the control device 11 determines that the key input information is the "English character" key, the English character input by the key is stored in the storage area 15
Characters are stored in the English character storage area 151 at a fixed address interval one by one (S2). At the same time as the English character is stored in the storage area 15, the display control unit 133 of the control unit 13 displays it on the character display unit 121 of the display device 12 (S3). After that, when the control unit 13 receives an input of the "information" key 113 from the input unit 11 (S4), the information dictionary 143 of the dictionary 14 is searched (S5), and the semantic information, the part-of-speech information, the utilization information about the input English words, etc. Is displayed on the character display unit 121 of the display device 12 (S6), and the process is terminated. The user can obtain the information regarding the desired English word through the display device 12 as described above. However, when the user forgets to spell the meaning information of the desired English word, the present invention can obtain information about the desired English word by performing the pronunciation conversion process.

Next, the pronunciation conversion processing of this embodiment will be described. When the "pronunciation conversion" key 112 is pressed (S7),
Mode conversion is performed from the previous English character input mode to the pronunciation conversion mode, and the pronunciation reading storage area 152 of the storage area 15 is
Phonetic symbol storage area 153, phonetic symbol string storage area 154,
The contents of the English character candidate storage area 155 are cleared and the storage area 15 is initialized (S8). Next, when the pronunciation reading of the desired English word is input by the "kana" key (not shown) of the input unit 11 (S9), the pronunciation reading memory of the storage area 15 is stored by the control unit 13. Area 152
Is stored character by character at fixed address intervals (S1
0). The input pronunciation reading is stored in the storage area 15 and, at the same time, is displayed on the character display unit 121 of the display device 12 by the display control unit 133 of the control unit 13 (S
11). For example, a pronunciation conversion process when the user wants to obtain derivative word information of the English word "control" but forgets the spelling will be described. When the pronunciation is entered by pressing the "pronunciation conversion" key 112, the above-mentioned S8 to S1 are entered.
After step 1, the character display section 121 of the display section 11 displays "kontoruru". If the "pronunciation conversion" key 112 is not pressed in S7, the process returns to the character input state of S1 and waits for the input of characters.

After the user confirms the input pronunciation reading through the display device 12, the user presses the "select / execute" key 114 of the input unit 11 (S12) to store it in the pronunciation reading storage area 152. The reading character is 1 from the beginning
It is read out character by character (S15). For the phonetic symbols corresponding to the read phonetic characters, some phonetic symbols are obtained by searching the phonetic symbol-phonetic symbol corresponding dictionary 141 of the dictionary 14 shown in FIG. 2 (S16). The obtained phonetic symbols are stored in the phonetic symbol storage area 153 of the storage unit 15 as shown in FIG.
7). Since the phonetic symbols stored in the phonetic symbol storage area 153 have several phonetic symbols for one input character, combinations of all phonetic symbols corresponding to pronunciation readings are generated, and phonetic symbol strings are generated. It is formed. The formed phonetic symbol string is stored in the phonetic symbol string storage area 154 of the storage area 15.
(S18). For example, the phonetic symbol corresponding to the above-mentioned "Contour" is the "conversion execution / decision" key 1
An example obtained by pressing 14 will be described with reference to FIG. For the character "ko" that is input first, the phonetic symbol shown in A1 of FIG. 4 is obtained by searching the phonetic-phonetic symbol correspondence dictionary 141, and the phonetic symbol shown in A2 of FIG. 4 is obtained for "n". Similarly, the phonetic symbol corresponding to "to" is A3 in FIG.
The phonetic symbol corresponding to “ro” is A4 in FIG.
The phonetic symbol corresponding to is searched for A5 in FIG. 4 and stored in the phonetic symbol storage area 153. Then, B1 in FIG.
To B10, phonetic symbol strings formed by combinations of all phonetic symbols are phonetic symbol string storage area 15
Stored in 5.

In step S12, the "execute selection / determine" key 11
If No. 4 is not pressed, it is determined whether the "end" key 115 is pressed (S13). If the “end” key 115 is pressed, the pronunciation reading storage area 15 of the storage area 15
2, phonetic symbol storage area 153, phonetic symbol string storage area 15
4. The contents of the English character candidate storage area 155 are cleared,
The storage area 15 is initialized and the process ends (S1).
4). If the "end" key 115 is not pressed in step 13, the process returns to S8 and the pronunciation input kana input is repeated.

After the pronunciation reading input is converted into a phonetic symbol string as described above, the process proceeds to a process of obtaining an English word corresponding to the phonetic symbol string. One word of the phonetic symbol string stored in the phonetic symbol string storage area 154 is extracted (S1).
9), the pronunciation symbol heading dictionary 142 of the dictionary 14 is searched to see if there is an English word corresponding to the pronunciation symbol string (S20, S21). The phonetic symbol heading dictionary 142
If there is a corresponding English word in the
It is stored in the English character candidate storage area 155 of the storage area 15 (S22), the English words corresponding to all the phonetic symbol strings in the phonetic symbol string storage area 154 are searched (S25), and the corresponding English words are phonetic symbols. If the headline dictionary 142 exists, it is stored in the English character candidate storage area 155 at any time (S19).
~ The process of S22 is repeated. However, the process proceeds from S21 to S22).

If the corresponding English word does not exist, it is judged whether all the phonetic symbol strings stored in the phonetic symbol string storage area 154 have been searched (S23), and all phonetic symbols in the phonetic symbol string storage area 154 are searched. The English word corresponding to the column is searched (the processes of S19 to S23 are repeated, but the process proceeds from S21 to S22). Phonetic symbol string storage area 15
When all the phonetic symbol strings in 4 are searched and it is determined that there is no corresponding English word, the candidate display unit 122 of the display unit 12 displays “There are no English words pronounced in this way. Please enter pronunciation again. A message with no English word candidates such as “” is displayed, and a new pronunciation reading input state is entered.

In the case of the "contour", B1 of FIG. 4 stored in the phonetic symbol string storage area 154 shown in FIG.
To B10 and other phonetic symbol strings are searched word by word in the phonetic symbol heading dictionary 142, and the English word "control" corresponding to the correct phonetic symbol string shown in FIG. 4 and B9 is obtained. In this case, there is only one English word corresponding to the phonetic symbol string, B4 in FIG. 4, but it is expected that there are different phonetic symbols and differently spelled English words with the same pronunciation reading. All the selected English words are stored in the English character candidate storage area 155.

As described above, after the phonetic symbol string is converted into English words, the entire contents of the English character candidate storage area 155 are all English word candidates for pronunciation reading input to the candidate display section 122 of the display device 12. Is displayed (S26). The user selects a desired English word from the English word candidates displayed on the display device 12 by moving the cursor or using a light pen or the like, and the “select / execute” key 11 of the input device 11 is selected.
It is determined by pressing 4 (S27). When the desired English word does not exist in the English word candidates displayed on the display device 12, the "end" key 115 is pressed to end the series of conversion processes. The English word selected by the "select / execute" key 115 in S27 is S2.
Returning to the processing, the characters are stored in the English character storage area 151 of the storage area 15 one by one at a constant address interval (S2).
At the same time, by the display control unit 133 of the control unit 13,
It is displayed as an input English word on the character display section 121 of the display device 12 (S3). After that, input the information key
When it is received by the control unit 13 from 1 (S4), the information dictionary 143 of the dictionary 14 is searched (S5), and the semantic information, the part-of-speech information, the utilization information and the like regarding the input English word are displayed on the character display unit of the display device (S6). ) End the process.

Although the above embodiment has been described with reference to unspelled English words, other foreign languages, such as French, Russian, Chinese, etc., can be changed by changing the pronunciation conversion index dictionary 142. In addition to foreign languages, if you do not know the spelling of phrases such as fixed phrases, you can respond by changing the above dictionary. Further, in the present embodiment, when a phonetic symbol string is obtained from the phonetic symbols stored in the phonetic symbol storage area 153 of the storage area 15 obtained in response to the input phonetic reading, the phonetic symbol storage area 153 stores The phonetic symbols are obtained by combining them in a brute force formula, but it goes without saying that the combination time can be shortened by giving some rules to the combination. Further, the display of candidates may be displayed as a list.

[0021]

As described above, according to the present invention, when it is desired to obtain information on a foreign language whose spelling is unknown, by inputting the pronunciation of the pronunciation of the foreign language, the phonetic symbol information corresponding to this can be read. It is obtained by searching the pronunciation symbol corresponding dictionary, and the foreign language corresponding to the pronunciation symbol information is obtained by searching the pronunciation symbol heading dictionary. This makes it possible to easily search for information such as the meaning, part-of-speech, inflectional form, and derivative words of a foreign language by not only spelling the foreign language but also reading the pronunciation.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the structure of a reading kana-phonetic symbol correspondence dictionary in the dictionary in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing a structure of a phonetic symbol heading dictionary in the dictionary in the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing a state of a phonetic symbol storage area of a storage unit in which phonetic symbols obtained corresponding to input reading are stored and a state of a phonetic symbol string storage area.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining a series of operations of phonetic symbol conversion in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining a series of operations of phonetic symbol conversion in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining a series of operations of phonetic symbol conversion in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a flow chart for explaining a series of operations of phonetic symbol conversion in the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 input section 12 display section 13 control section 14 dictionary 15 storage area 111 "character" key 112 "pronunciation conversion" key 113 "information" key 114 "conversion execution / decision" key 115 "end" key 121 character display section 122 candidate display Part 131 Conversion control part 132 Conversion part 133 Display control part 141 Yomikana-phonetic symbol correspondence dictionary 142 Phonetic symbol heading dictionary 143 Information dictionary 151 English character storage area 152 Pronunciation reading storage area 153 Phonetic symbol storage area 154 Phonetic symbol string storage area 155 English character candidate storage area 156 work storage area

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A character string input in a document creation device for inputting a character string by operating a key from an input device, converting the character string into a kana-kanji mixed sentence, and displaying / printing on a display device and a printing device. With reference to the phonetic symbol-phonetic symbol correspondence dictionary that stores phonetic symbol information corresponding to the pronunciation, and the phonetic symbol-phonetic symbol correspondence dictionary. A phonetic symbol conversion means for converting the pronunciation of the pronunciation into phonetic symbols, a phonetic symbol heading dictionary storing information of a foreign language corresponding to the phonetic symbols as phonetic symbols, and the phonetic symbol heading dictionary. A document creation support device comprising a foreign language conversion means for referencing and converting a phonetic symbol string into foreign language information.