JPH05257925A - Reader level adaptive type electronic newspaper editing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To deliver news information with a level optimum to each reader by editing the characters of newspaper account information correspondingly to a reader's level consisting of the age, knowledge level, etc., of an individual reader. CONSTITUTION:The character edition of newspaper account information stored in a data base device (D/B) 2 is executed by a character editor 1 correspondingly to a reader's knowledge level or the like. In the editor 1, a reader's level registering processing part 5 classifies respective readers into reader's levels optionally determined based upon the reading ability, expertise, or the like of respective readers and registers the classified readers. A level-sorted character editing processing part 6 executes the character edition of newspaper account information obtained from the D/B 2 correspondingly to each reader's level. A level-sorted news storing processing part 7 stores the newspaper account information in each reader's level and a delivering processing part 8 outputs the newspaper account information of a reader's level corresponding to each reader based on a reader's output request.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a newspaper article information editing system using a computer, and in particular, it is suitable for reader level adaptation to provide optimum newspaper article information to readers of various knowledge levels. Type electronic newspaper editing system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Currently, the input and editing of collected newspaper article information is electronically processed, and the electronically processed newspaper article information is further processed using a terminal such as a facsimile.
The reader has a system to provide electronically. Below, Figure 1
These conventional newspaper editions will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram of a conventional newspaper editing system by printing. The newspaper article information 141 is processed by the newspaper editing process 142 and the printing process 143, and then the readers 144, 1
45. At this time, the reader-acquired newspaper article information uses paper (newspaper) as a medium, and is uniform information depending on the editorial policy of the newspaper provider, regardless of the level of each reader. ..

FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram of a conventional electronic newspaper editing system. In the electronic newspaper editing system shown in the figure, the reader can access the center via the terminal. That is, the text communication processing device 154 is connected to the database device 153 by immediate connection, and the terminal 1
56 and 157 are connected to the text communication processing device 154. Also, newspaper article information 151 is edited in the database editing device 152 and stored in the database device 153. Then, the reader can obtain the newspaper article information stored in the database device 153 via the text communication processing device 154 using the terminals 156 and 157, for example, on the electronic bulletin board 155. However, the newspaper article information acquired by the reader is not edited according to the level of each reader, but is uniform information edited by the provider.

FIG. 16 is an explanatory diagram of a conventional automatic delivery type electronic newspaper editing system. In the automatic delivery type electronic newspaper editing system shown in this figure, the reader is in the delivery form desired by the reader.
You can get newspaper article information. That is, in this automatic delivery type electronic newspaper editing system, the terminal 16
6 and the facsimile terminals 164 and 165 are respectively connected to the database device 163 through a line, and newspaper article information 161 is edited and stored in the database device 163 by the newspaper editing device 162. Then, the reader registers, for example, "all information for one day (morning publication)" or "matching information for keywords" as the delivery condition, and only the necessary information that meets such conditions is automatically Facsimiles 164 and 165
Can be obtained periodically. Alternatively, the terminal 166 can directly access the database device 163 to acquire necessary information. But,
Also in this system, the newspaper article information acquired by the reader is not edited according to the level of each reader, but is uniform information edited by the provider in the newspaper editing device 162.

As described above, in the electronic newspaper editing system described above, editing for each reader adapted to an arbitrary reader bell is not performed. As a system that provides newspaper article information with different contents for each reader, according to the reader's designated priority information for each field such as politics and economy, it is possible to selectively use article information in fields with high priority As described in the specification and drawings of Japanese Patent Application No. 4-23452 by the inventors of the present invention, the above-mentioned newspaper information for each field designated by the reader is further added to the season designated by the reader. For example, there is one that is selectively edited based on schedule information such as each schedule or each day of the week. According to these electronic newspaper editing systems, the reader can obtain newspaper information for an arbitrary period in a desired field.

[0007] However, the above-mentioned conventional electronic newspaper editing system changes the content itself of the newspaper article information, and the newspaper articles having the same content are adjusted to the level of each reader who is different in age, generation and occupation. Is not provided. So, for example, non-specialist readers may not be able to fully understand newspaper articles, or readers with low eyesight may
There were problems such as small letters being difficult to see because of aging. Thus, with conventional technology, the age of individual readers,
The level of understanding of the acquired newspaper article information, such as the level of acquisition of term knowledge of individual readers, the level of acquisition of old and new characters, and the degree of required character size, such as the generation and interests of specialties (interests). There was a problem that readability was very different.

[0008]

The problems to be solved by the prior art are that, in the conventional technology, the level of learning of terminology of individual readers according to age, generation, interest, and specialization, and the level of learning new and old characters Further, since the differences in the required character size are not taken into consideration, the individual readers cannot read the newspaper article information comfortably and comfortably, and cannot easily understand it. The object of the present invention is to solve these problems of the prior art, edit the characters of newspaper article information in accordance with the reader level such as the age and knowledge level of each reader, and adjust the level to the optimum level for each reader. It is to provide a reader-level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system that enables delivery of newspaper article information.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, the reader-level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system of the present invention is: (1) Electronic newspaper editing in which newspaper article information is edited and output using a computer. The system is characterized in that a character editing section for editing and outputting characters of newspaper article information is provided corresponding to at least the level of the reader including the knowledge level. (2) In the reader level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system described in (1) above, the character editing unit classifies and registers each reader according to an arbitrarily determined reader level including at least the reading ability and knowledge level. The reader level registration processing unit, and the level-specific character editing processing unit that performs character editing of newspaper article information corresponding to each reader level used in this reader-level registration processing unit, and the character editing by this level-specific character editing processing unit Based on the level-specific newspaper article storage processing unit that stores the newspaper article information for each reader level, and the reader-level newspaper article information storage processing unit that responds to the reader who requests the output And a delivery processing unit for outputting reader-level newspaper article information. (3) In the reader-level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system described in (2) above,
The reader level registration processing unit is characterized by including a reader information level conversion processing unit that determines the reader level of the reader based on at least the reader information including the age, educational background, and occupation of the reader. (4) In the reader-level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system described in either (2) or (3) above, the level-specific character editing processing unit is set to each reader level used in the reader-level registration processing unit. Correspondingly, it is provided with at least a knowledge conversion processing unit for giving furigana and commentary of newspaper article information, and a character conversion processing unit for selecting old and new notation and character size of newspaper article information. .. (5) Newspaper article information selected by each reader including at least a facsimile, an electronic mail box, and an electronic bulletin board in the reader-level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system according to any one of (2) to (4) above. It is characterized in that it is provided with a reader information registration unit for pre-registering the delivery destination of, and the delivery processing unit outputs the newspaper article information to the delivery destination registered in the reader information registration unit.

[0010]

In the present invention, the characters of the newspaper article information are edited according to the reader's level such as the age and knowledge level of each reader. For example, if the reader inputs the date of birth or the degree of specialization by field as reader information, the reading level registration processing unit or the like will identify the reader as a general knowledge level based on the date of birth or the degree of specialty by field. Classified and registered at the reader level, which consists of the level of expertise, the level of learning new and old characters, and the size of characters. In addition, electronically processed and input newspaper article information is converted by the level-based character editing processing unit into knowledge that the reader has in term knowledge units, and furigana and commentary are assigned, depending on the reader level. Furthermore, the characters are converted into old and new characters learned by the reader, and characters are converted into a character size suitable for the reader, and the characters are edited into newspaper article information suitable for the reader level. Then, the newspaper article information edited for each reader level by the level-specific character editing processing unit is stored for each reader level by the level-specific newspaper article storage processing unit.
Further, the delivery processing unit provides newspaper article information suitable for the reader level in an output form designated by the reader, such as a facsimile terminal of the reader. In this way, it is possible to edit a newspaper article adapted to the reader level, and each reader can obtain the newspaper article information at the optimum level.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a configuration according to the present invention of a reader level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system according to the present invention. The reader-level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system of this embodiment stores a newspaper article electronic edit processing device 3 for electronically editing newspaper article information 4 and newspaper article information edited by the newspaper article electronic edit processing device 3. A database device (indicated as D / B in the figure) 2 and a character editing device 1 according to the present invention for editing the newspaper article information stored in the database device 2 according to the knowledge level of the reader. It is composed by. Further, in the reader-level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system of the present embodiment, a scheduling editing device 9 and a specified field corresponding editing device 10 which are conventional techniques are provided, and the character editing device 1 is provided.
Can also perform text editing on the newspaper article information edited by the scheduling editing device 9 and the specified field correspondence editing device 10.

Then, the character editing apparatus 1 classifies and registers each reader by the reader level arbitrarily determined based on the reading ability and the level of expertise, and the like.
A level-specific character edit processing unit 6 for performing character editing of newspaper article information from the database device 2 and newspaper article information character-edited by the level-specific character edit processing unit 6 for each reader level. Based on the level-based newspaper article storage processing unit 7 that stores the information according to the reader level, and the level-based newspaper article information storage processing unit 7 based on the reader's request to output newspaper article information
The delivery processing unit 8 outputs the reader-level newspaper article information corresponding to the reader. 2 to 4 below
The details of each processing unit constituting the character editing device 1 will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the construction of the reader level registration processing section in the character editing apparatus of FIG. The reader level registration processing unit 5 of this embodiment includes a text communication reader information input processing unit 24 for inputting reader information from a terminal, a reader information registration unit 28 for registering input reader information, and an input reader. Based on the information, the reader information conversion processing information registration section 25 is used to input the reader information level conversion processing section 23 for specifying the reader at an arbitrarily determined level (reader level) and the reader level of each reader. The reader level registration control unit 26 that performs registration processing in the reader information registration unit 28 in association with other reader information such as delivery destination conditions.
It is composed by. Further, the reader information level conversion processing unit 23 captures the reader information input by the text communication reader information input processing unit 24.
And the reader information acquired by the reader information input processing unit 20,
With reference to the reader information conversion processing information registration unit 25, the reader information conversion processing unit 21 for converting to the reader level and the reader level converted by the reader information conversion processing unit 21 are sent to the reader level registration control unit 26. And a level output processing unit 22.

With such a configuration, the reader level registration processing section 5 registers individual readers by classifying them according to the reader level such as age and knowledge level. That is, the reader information input processing unit 24 for text communication inputs reader identification information, delivery conditions of newspaper articles, and reader information such as the date of birth and specialty of the reader from the reader via the terminal. Then, the identification information of the reader and the delivery condition of the newspaper article are sent to the reader information registration unit 28, and the birth date of the reader and the specialty degree of each field are sent to the reader information level conversion processing unit 23. In the reader information level conversion processing unit 23, the reader information input processing unit 20 inputs the reader information from the text communication reader information input processing unit 24 and passes it to the reader information conversion processing unit 21. The reader information conversion processing unit 21 refers to the reader information conversion processing information registration unit 25, converts the reader information to the reader level, and registers the converted reader level via the reader level output processing unit 22. Control unit 2
Send to 6. The reader level registration control unit 26 registers the received reader level in the reader level registration unit 27 of the reader information registration unit 28 in association with the identification information of the reader and the delivery condition of the newspaper article information. In this way, the reader information registered in the reader information registration unit 28 is stored in the delivery processing unit 8 of FIG.
In, it is used for determining the delivery destination of newspaper article information.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the configuration of the level-specific character edit processing unit in the character edit apparatus of FIG. The character editing processing unit 6 for each level of this embodiment is shown in FIG.
Newspaper article collecting and input processing unit 31 for inputting newspaper article information from the database device 2 and the like, and newspaper article reader level input processing for inputting the input newspaper article information in association with the reader level that defines the character conversion level. Part 3
2 and newspaper article information, knowledge conversion information registration unit 3
4 and the dictionary registration unit 35, the knowledge conversion processing unit 33 for converting the characters corresponding to the reader level, especially the knowledge level.
And a character conversion processing unit 36 for converting the characters corresponding to the reader level, especially age, etc., to the newspaper article information using the character conversion information registration unit 37, and the character conversion (character editing) newspaper article. It is composed of a reader level adaptive newspaper article output processing unit 38 which outputs information.

With such a configuration, the level-based character editing processing unit 6 edits the newspaper article information according to the reader level. That is, the newspaper article reader level input processing unit 32
When the electronically processed newspaper article information is received via the newspaper article collection / input processing unit 31, the knowledge conversion is performed in association with each reader level used for registration in the reading information registration unit 28 in FIG. It is sent to the processing unit 33. The knowledge conversion processing unit 33 refers to the knowledge conversion information registration unit 34 and the dictionary registration unit 35 with respect to the received newspaper article information, and applies furigana and commentary to each reader level, particularly the knowledge level. The characters are converted, and the resulting newspaper article information is sent to the character conversion processing unit 36. Character conversion processing unit 3
The reference numeral 6 refers to the character conversion information registration unit 37 for the received newspaper article information, and performs character conversion such as increasing the character size in accordance with the reader level, particularly age. Then, the reader-level adaptive newspaper article output processing unit 38
Sends the resulting newspaper article information to the level-based newspaper article storage processing unit 7 shown in FIG. 1 and the next FIG.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a configuration relating to a level-specific newspaper article storage processing unit and a delivery processing unit in the character editing apparatus of FIG. In this embodiment,
The level-based newspaper article storage processing unit 7 stores, for each reader level, newspaper article information that is character-edited for each reader level by the level-based character editing processing unit 6 in FIG. Then, the delivery processing unit 8 refers to the reader information registration unit 28 shown in FIG. 2 for the newspaper article information stored in the level-based newspaper article storage processing unit 7, and according to the delivery conditions, the reader's mailbox 41, Alternatively, it is delivered to the facsimile terminal 44. In addition, the reader uses the terminals 43a and 43b to access the electronic bulletin board 42 managed in advance for each reader level,
Newspaper article information (electronic bulletin board information) suitable for the reader's level can be acquired when needed.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an embodiment of the storage state of newspaper articles in the level-based newspaper article storage processing section in the character editing apparatus of FIG. Level 7 newspaper article storage processor 7
Then, the newspaper article storage unit 53 for the reader level (1, 1, ..., 1) and the reader level (i, k1, ..., Kj ,.
., Kl, s, t) newspaper article storage unit 52, reader level (m, m1, ..., Nj, ..., Nl, s, t) newspaper article storage unit 54, etc., for each reader level. , Newspaper article information is stored. The definition of such reader levels (i, k1, ..., Kj, .., kl, s, t) will be described later with reference to FIG. In the figure, a reader-level newspaper article 51 sent from the reader-level adaptive newspaper article output processing unit 38 is stored in the level-based newspaper article storage processing unit 7 in a reader level corresponding to the reader level ( i, k1, ..., kj, ..., k
l, s, t) newspaper article storage unit 52, newspaper article 51a
Is stored as.

Next, a description will be given of the processing operation of the reader level registration processing section 5 of FIG. 2 according to FIG. 6 and the processing operation of the level-based character edit processing section 6 of FIG. 3 and the delivery processing section 8 of FIG. The processing operation according to the present invention of the character editing device 1 in FIG. 1 will be described by the description. FIG. 6 is a flow chart showing an embodiment of the processing operation according to the present invention of the reader level registration processing section in FIG. First, when the date of birth of a reader and specialty information by field are input to the reader information input processing unit 24 for text communication in FIG. 2 as reader information (step 601), this reader information is changed to the reader of FIG. Through the information input processing unit 20, the reader information level conversion processing unit 23
(Step 602). Then, the reader information conversion processing unit 21 of FIG. 2 converts the reader information into a reader level (step 603), and the reader level registration control unit 26 of FIG. 2 is transferred via the reader level output processing unit 22 of FIG. Output (step 604). The reader level registration control unit 26 of FIG. 2 registers the reader level in the reader level registration unit 27 of FIG. 2 (step 605). In this way, the reader level registration processing unit 5 in FIG. 2 registers the readers by dividing them into reader levels based on the input reader information.

FIG. 7 is a flow chart showing an embodiment of the processing operation according to the present invention of the level-specific character edit processing section and the delivery processing section in FIGS. 3 and 4. First, when the newspaper article information to be edited is input to the newspaper article collection / input processing unit 31 of FIG. 3 (step 701), the newspaper article reader level input processing unit 32 associates the reader level with the newspaper article information. Is input (step 702), and the newspaper article information conversion processing is performed by the knowledge conversion processing unit 33 in FIG. 3 (step 703). For example, the input newspaper article information is divided into parts of speech by morphological analysis processing or the like, and the terms to be subjected to the knowledge conversion processing are specified (step 7).
04). In addition, conversion processing is performed based on general knowledge or specialized knowledge, and conversion is performed for each term in accordance with the reader level, particularly the knowledge level (step 705).

The newspaper article information converted by the knowledge conversion processing unit 33 of FIG. 3 is further converted by the character conversion processing unit 36 of FIG. 3 (step 706). For example, the notation conversion of old and new characters is performed according to the age of the reader level (step 707), and the character size is converted according to the age of the reader level (step 708). Then, the reader level adaptive newspaper article output processing unit 38 of FIG. 3 outputs the output (step 709), and the processing is terminated. The newspaper article information converted in this way is as shown in FIG.
The newspaper article storage processing unit 7 for each level in FIG. 4 stores it for each reader level, and the delivery processing unit 8 delivers it to each reader.

Next, referring to FIG. 8 and FIG. 9, FIG.
The operation of the reader level registration processing section 5 will be described in detail. FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of registered contents of the reader information conversion processing information registration section in FIG.
The reader information conversion processing information registration section 25 in FIG.
In order to manage the correspondence between the reader information and the reader level, the field-specific expertise 81 indicating the degree of expertise (no knowledge, beginner, intermediate, advanced, expert, etc.) of each reader in each field, and the degree of expertise and specialty Field j used for associating with knowledge level j Specialized knowledge level management table 81a, general knowledge level management table 82 used for associating reader's age with general knowledge level, and mastering level of new and old character notation different in generation The old and new character notation level management table 83 used for associating with each other, the character size level management table 84 indicating the matching level of the character size corresponding to age, etc. are registered.

The degree of specialty 81 by field is the date of birth x = YYY
The reader information is input together with YMMDD (YYYY: AD, MM: attached, DD: date) and the like, and is necessary for conversion to the reader level. The field-specific specialty 81 is a field Pj (1 ≦ j ≦ 1) corresponding to a field number j (1 ≦ j ≦ l).
It is information about the reader's expertise Xj that is defined in advance for l), and the expertise level is determined according to the reader's input expertise Xj. The field j expertise level management table 81a shows the correspondence between the level classification Ckj (C1j ≦ Ckj ≦ Cnj) of the field number j shown in the field-specific expertise 81 and the corresponding expertise level kj. For example, C1
j: no knowledge, C2j: beginner, C3j: intermediate, C4j:
Advanced, C5j: Expert. The general knowledge level management table 82 shows the correspondence between the level type Gi of the age of the reader such as 22 to 25 years old and the general knowledge level i.
The old and new character notation level management table 83 is, for example, the year 191.
The correspondence between the level classification Ks of generations 0 to 1919 and the old and new character writing levels s is shown. Character size level management table 84
Is a level type St such as age and a character size level t
Shows the correspondence of. It should be noted that the method of defining each level type is not uniform, and, for example, the level type may be one that satisfies both conditions by considering age and generation.

Next, the definitions of the reader level and the knowledge level will be described. The reader level is information composed of a knowledge level composed of a general knowledge level i and a specialized knowledge level kj, and a character level composed of a learning level s of old and new character notation and a matching level t of character size.
, kj, ..., k1, s, t). Note that 1 ≦ i ≦ m, 1 ≦ kj ≦ nj (1 ≦ j ≦
l) 1 ≦ s ≦ p and 1 ≦ t ≦ q. In addition, the knowledge level is (i, k1, k2, ..., kj, ..., K
1), L = (i, k1, k2, ..., kj, ...
.., k1), especially Le = (m, n1, ...
,, nj, ..., Nl). Furthermore, the order of knowledge levels is (i ', k1', k2 ', ..., kj',
..., k1 ') ≤ (i, k1, k2, ..., kj,
,, k1) <=> i ', kj'(1≤j'≤l'),i'≤
i, kj'≤kj (1≤j'≤l ', 1≤j≤l) Further, L = (i, k1, k2, ..., kj, ...,
k1), in particular kj = nj for i = m, 1 ≦ j ≦ l
In this case, L = Le.

Based on the management tables registered in the reader information conversion processing information registration section 25 in FIG. 2 and the definitions of the reader level and the knowledge level, the operation of the reader information conversion processing section 21 in FIG. Will be explained. Figure 9
3 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the reader information conversion processing section in FIG. 2 according to the present invention. First, the reader's age y
Is calculated (step 901). Here, the age y is the birth date x of the reader from the current time “YYYYMMDD”.
Is subtracted. Then, based on the general knowledge level management table 82 of FIG. 8, the general knowledge level i = 1 (step 902), and it is determined whether or not the age y is included in the level type Gi (step 903). If not included,
The same operation is repeated by setting i ++ (i = i + 1) (step 904). If included, i is extracted as the general knowledge level (step 905).

Next, the field-specific specialty 81 of FIG. 8 and
Based on the field j specialized knowledge level management table 81a, the field number j = 1 (step 906), the specialized knowledge level k = 1 (step 907), and it is determined whether the specialty Xj = the level type Ckj. (Step 90
8). If the specialty Xj is not the level type Ckj, k ++ (k = k + 1) is set (step 909), and the same operation is repeated. If the specialty Xj = level type Ckj, the expertise level kj is extracted (step 91).
0), it is determined whether the field number j = 1 (step 911). j ++ if not j = 1 (j = j + 1)
Then, the same operation is repeated from the level type k = 1. If the field number j = 1, the next process is performed.

Next, the old and new character notation level management table 8 in FIG.
Based on 3, the old and new character writing level s is set to 1 (step 913), and it is determined whether or not the date of birth x of the reader is included in the level type Ks (step 914). If the birth date x is not included in the level type Ks, s ++
With (s = s + 1) (step 915), similar processing is repeated. When the date of birth x is included in the level type Ks, the old and new character writing level s is extracted (step 9).
16).

Then, the character size level management table 8 of FIG.
4, the character size level t = 1 (step 9
17) Then, it is determined whether or not the age y of the reader is included in the level type St (step 918). Age y is
If not included in the level type St, t ++ (t = t +
As 1) (step 919), similar processing is repeated. If the age y is included in the level type St, the character size level t is extracted (step 92
0), the reader information conversion process ends.

In this way, the reader information conversion processing unit 21 of FIG. 2 corresponds to the reader information input by the reader using each management table registered in the reader information conversion processing information registration unit 25 of FIG. It is possible to identify and extract the reader level to be used. Then, the reader levels (i, k1, k2, ..., Kj, ..., K1, s.
2) is output from the reader level output processing unit 22 of FIG. 2 to the reader level registration control unit 26 and registered in the reader level registration unit 27 of the reader information registration unit 28.

Next, referring to FIGS. 10 and 11,
Regarding the operation of the level-specific character edit processing unit in FIG.
The details will be described. FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of registered contents of the knowledge conversion information registration unit and the dictionary registration unit in FIG. Knowledge conversion information registration unit 34 in FIG.
Is a general knowledge level-compatible term group management table 101 and field j
The specialized knowledge level corresponding term group management table 103 is also shown in FIG.
The general knowledge dictionary 102, the field j specialized knowledge dictionary 104, and the like are registered in the dictionary registration unit 35 in FIG. 3 as information necessary for knowledge conversion by the knowledge conversion processing unit 33 in FIG. The general knowledge level corresponding term group management table 101 includes a term corresponding to the general knowledge level 101a and a corresponding term group 101b (synonyms, convertible synonyms) to which the term can be converted.
Indicates. Further, the general knowledge dictionary 102 has a general term 102.
The correspondence between furigana 102b and term explanation 102c for a is shown. Further, the term j management table 103 corresponding to the specialized knowledge level of the field j indicates that the specialized knowledge level 103a of the field j is
And the corresponding term group 103b corresponding to the knowledge level. Then, the field j specialized knowledge dictionary 104 has a furigana 104b for the technical term 104a of the field j, and
The correspondence of the term explanation 104c is shown. The operation of the knowledge conversion processing unit 33 of FIG. 3 based on such a management table and dictionary is
This will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 11 is a flow chart showing the processing operation of the knowledge conversion processing section in FIG. 3 according to the present invention.
First, referring to the general knowledge level corresponding term group management table 101 and the field j specialized knowledge level corresponding term group management table 103 of FIG. 10 for the term to be processed extracted by the morphological analysis, this term is below the level L. It is judged whether or not it is included in the term (step 111). Here, the term of level L or lower refers to the term corresponding to the reader level of reader level L or lower. If the term to be processed is level L
If it is included in the following terms, it is determined whether or not the processing has been completed for all the terms extracted by the morphological analysis (step 113). If the term to be processed is not included in terms at or below the level L, the level Le
It is determined whether or not it is included in the following terms (step 112). If the term to be processed is not included in the terms below the level Le, the term conversion /
Without performing terminology explanation and furigana processing, step 113
And step 114 if included.
Then, the following processing is performed.

First, referring to the general knowledge level corresponding term group management table 101 and the field j specialized knowledge level corresponding term group management table 103 in FIG. 10, the terms that can be converted (synonyms, convertible synonyms) , Is determined to be a term of level L or lower (step 114). If it can be converted into terms of level L or lower, level L
A term conversion process for converting into the following terms is performed (step 115), and the process proceeds to step 113. If the term cannot be converted to a level L or lower, it is judged whether or not the term exists in the general knowledge dictionary 102 and the field j specialized knowledge dictionary 104 in FIG. 10 (step 11).
6) In some cases, processing such as giving furigana to the term and giving a description of the term is performed (step 1).
17). Further, the term is the general knowledge dictionary 1 in FIG.
02, and if it is not in the field j specialized knowledge dictionary 104, the process proceeds to step 113 without performing the process of assigning the pronunciation of the term or the explanation. In this step 113, it is judged whether or not the above-mentioned processing is completed for all the terms extracted by the morphological analysis. If not completed, the same processing is repeated for the remaining terms, and the processing is completed. If so, the knowledge conversion process ends. In this way, FIG.
The knowledge conversion processing unit 33 converts the newspaper article according to the general or specialized knowledge of the reader.

Next, referring to FIGS. 12 and 13,
The operation of the character conversion processing unit 36 in FIG. 3 will be described in detail. FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of registered contents of the character conversion information registration unit in FIG. Information necessary for character conversion by the character conversion processing unit 36 in FIG. 3, such as the old and new character correspondence group management table 121 and the character size level corresponding character size management table 122, is registered in the character conversion information registration unit 37 in FIG. ing. The old and new character correspondence group management table 121 is composed of an old and new character notation level 121a and an old and new character correspondence group 121b, and shows the learning level of the old and new character notation and the correspondence between the new character and the old character corresponding to the learning level. That is, if there is a new and old character other than the character corresponding to a certain old and new character notation level, the correspondence between the new and old character and that character is shown. For example, when a character transitions from an old character to a new character as in A → B → C, and when a character corresponding to a certain old / old character notation level is B,
The character conversion processing unit 36 of FIG.
By 21, the characters are converted into new and old notation in association with each other, such as A → B or C → B. In addition, when the character corresponding to a certain old and new character notation level is C, A → C, B
→ Respond like C. Further, the character size management table 122 corresponding to the character size level is composed of a character size level 122a and a corresponding character size 122b, and shows the correspondence between each level and the character size. The operation of the character conversion processing unit 36 of FIG. 3 based on the old and new character correspondence group management table 121 will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 13 is a flow chart showing the processing operation of the character conversion processing section in FIG. 3 according to the present invention.
First, referring to the old and new character correspondence group management table 121 of FIG. 12, for the character of the newspaper article information to be processed, this character is
It is judged whether or not the character is included in the old and new character writing level s (step 131), and if it is included, it is converted into a corresponding character (step 132). For example, if the character to be processed is A and the old and new character writing level s is A → C, it is converted to C. Then, it is judged whether or not the processing for all the characters of the article to be processed is completed (step 1).
33). If not finished, the same process is repeated for the remaining characters, and if finished, the process of converting the old and new characters is finished. In this way, the knowledge conversion processing unit 33 in FIG. 3 converts the characters of the newspaper article information according to the age of the reader.

The knowledge conversion processing unit 33 in FIG. 3 further refers to the character size management table 122 corresponding to the character size level to perform the character size conversion process. For example, when the character size level is t, all characters are converted to the corresponding character size. As described above, the newspaper article information character-converted by the knowledge conversion processing unit 33 of FIG. 3 is processed by the reader level adaptive newspaper article output processing unit 38 of FIG.
It is sent to the newspaper article storage processing unit 7 for each level in FIG. 4 and stored for each reader level. That is, as shown in FIG. 5, the reader level (i, k1, k2, ..., kj,
..., kl, s, t), and newspaper articles 51a are stored.

As described above with reference to FIGS. 1 to 13, in the reader-level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system of this embodiment, the reader level corresponding to the age and knowledge level of each reader, Edits characters in newspaper article information, such as furigana and commentary, new / old notation of characters, and conversion of character size. This allows each reader to obtain the optimum level of newspaper article information.
The present invention is not limited to the embodiment described with reference to FIGS.

[0037]

According to the present invention, it is possible to edit a newspaper article adapted to the age and knowledge level of an individual reader, so that each reader can easily read and understand the newspaper article at the optimum level. It is possible to provide information.

[0038]

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a configuration according to the present invention of a reader level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a configuration of a reader level registration processing section in the character editing apparatus of FIG.

3 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a configuration of a level-based character edit processing unit in the character edit apparatus of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a configuration relating to a level-based newspaper article storage processing unit and a delivery processing unit in the character editing apparatus of FIG.

5 is an explanatory diagram showing an embodiment of a newspaper article storage state of a level-based newspaper article storage processing unit in the character editing apparatus of FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an embodiment of the processing operation of the reader level registration processing section in FIG. 2 according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing an embodiment of the processing operation according to the present invention of the level-specific character edit processing unit and the delivery processing unit in FIGS. 3 and 4.

8 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of registration contents of a reader information conversion processing information registration unit in FIG. 2. FIG.

9 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the reader information conversion processing section in FIG. 2 according to the present invention.

10 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of registered contents of a knowledge conversion information registration unit and a dictionary registration unit in FIG.

11 is a flowchart showing a processing operation according to the present invention of the knowledge conversion processing unit in FIG.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of registration contents of a character conversion information registration unit of FIG.

13 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the character conversion processing unit in FIG. 3 according to the present invention.

FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram of a conventional newspaper editing system by printing.

FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram of a conventional electronic newspaper editing system.

FIG. 16 is an explanatory diagram of a conventional automatic delivery type electronic newspaper editing system.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Character Editing Device 2 Database Device 3 Newspaper Article Electronic Editing Processing Device 4 Newspaper Article Information 5 Reader Level Registration Processing Unit 6 Level-Specific Character Editing Processing Unit 7 Level-Specific Newspaper Article Storage Processing Unit 8 Delivery Processing Unit 9 Scheduling Editing Device 10 Specified Field Corresponding editing device 20 Reader information input processing unit 21 Reader information conversion processing unit 22 Reader level output processing unit 23 Reader information level conversion processing unit 24 Reader information input processing unit for text communication 25 Reader information conversion processing information registration unit 26 Reader level registration Control unit 27 Reader level registration unit 28 Reader information registration unit 31 Newspaper article collection input processing unit 32 Newspaper article reader level input processing unit 33 Knowledge conversion processing unit 34 Knowledge conversion information registration unit 35 Dictionary registration unit 36 Character conversion processing unit 37 characters Conversion information registration unit 38 Reader-level adaptive newspaper article output processing unit 4 Mail box 42 electronic bulletin board 43a~43b terminal 44 facsimile terminal 51,51a newspaper article 52 readers level (i, k1, ··, kj, ··, k
l, s, t) newspaper article storage unit 53 reader level (1, 1, ..., 1) newspaper article storage unit 54 reader level (m, m1, ..., Nj, ..., N)
l, s, t) Newspaper article storage 81 Field specialization 81a Field specific j Expertise level management table 82 General knowledge level management table 83 Old and new letter notation learning level management table 84 Character size conformance level management table 101 General knowledge level Corresponding term group management table 101a General knowledge level 101b Corresponding term group 102 General knowledge dictionary 102a Term 102b Furigana 102c Explanation 103 Field j specialized knowledge level Corresponding term group management table 103a Expert knowledge level 103b Corresponding term group 104 Field j specialized dictionary 104a Term 104b Furigana 104c Commentary 121 Old and new character correspondence group management table 121a Old and new character notation level 121b Old and new character correspondence group 122 Character size level corresponding character size management table 122a Character size level 122b Corresponding character size 141 Newspaper article information 142 Newspaper Condensing step 143 the printing step 144 the reader 151 newspaper article information 152 newspaper editing apparatus 153 database device 154 text communication processor 155 bulletin board 156, 157 terminal 161 newspaper article information 162 newspaper editing apparatus 163 database apparatus 164, 165 facsimile terminal 166 terminal

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An electronic newspaper editing system that edits and outputs newspaper article information using a computer, performs character editing of the newspaper article information according to a reader level including at least a knowledge level, and outputs it. A reader-level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system characterized by the provision of means for editing characters. 2. The reader level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system according to claim 1, wherein the character editing means classifies and registers each reader according to an arbitrarily determined reader level including at least a reading ability and a knowledge level. Reader level registration processing means, a level-based character editing processing means for editing characters of the newspaper article information corresponding to each reader level used in the reader-level registration processing means, and a character by the level-based character editing processing means. Based on the level-based newspaper article information storage processing means that stores the edited newspaper article information for each reader level, and the output by the level-based newspaper article information storage processing means based on the reader's request to output the newspaper article information. Reader-level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system, comprising: delivery processing means for outputting reader-level newspaper article information corresponding to the selected reader. 3. The reader level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system according to claim 2, wherein the reader level registration processing means is based on the reader information including at least the age and educational background of the reader, and a job category of the reader. A reader level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system comprising a reader information level conversion processing means for determining the reader level. 4. The reader-level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system according to claim 2 or claim 3, wherein the level-based character editing processing means is used by the reader-level registration processing means. Corresponding to the above, at least a knowledge conversion processing means for giving furigana and commentary of the newspaper article information and a character conversion processing means for selecting the old and new notation of the newspaper article information and the character size are provided. Characteristic reader-level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system. 5. The reader-level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system according to any one of claims 2 to 4, wherein at least a facsimile and an electronic mail box, and
The reader information registration means for pre-registering the delivery destination of the newspaper article information selected by each reader including the electronic bulletin board is provided,
The reader-level adaptive electronic newspaper editing system, wherein the delivery processing means outputs the newspaper article information to the delivery destination registered in the reader information registration means.