JPH0531784B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (Technical Field) The present invention determines the tense of an input sentence when creating a sentence, automatically generates and stores tenses that have not been input, and stores the stored sentence as necessary. The present invention relates to a character processing device that allows the user to freely select the tense of the text.

(Prior art) Conventionally, when reusing a sentence that has already been created in a character processing device, for example, if you want to change a sentence created in the present tense to the past tense and use it, the sentence must be saved from the memory. It is finally possible to change the tense by calling it up on the display, specifying the correction point, and then inputting the corrected sentence.
In order to change the tense in this way, it was necessary to rewrite the text using a correction function, which required a lot of effort and time to create the text.

(Objective) The object of the present invention was made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and by automatically generating and storing a sentence in a tense different from the tense input when inputting a sentence, When it is necessary to change the tense when reusing the input sentence, the already created sentence in the desired tense is immediately called up on the display and made available, making it troublesome to change the tense. It is an object of the present invention to provide a character processing device that does not require easy operation and a large amount of time.

In order to achieve this purpose, the present invention uses a method of converting kana-kanji for each segment as a text input method, determines whether the clause is at the end of the segment, and then makes a determination regarding tense. If so, generate and memorize a phrase in a different tense.

(Example) Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the overall appearance of a character processing device that is an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a keyboard section, which has a group of keys for inputting characters and instructing various functions in writing sentences. 2 is a main body, 21 is a display section, 22 is a power switch, and 23 is an attached external storage device. 3 is a printer unit for printing the created text.

FIG. 2 shows the front panel of the keyboard section 1. As shown in FIG.
Here, 11 is a group of keys for format designation and text input when creating text. 12 and 13
are the sentence input start key and sentence input end key that instruct kana-kanji conversion in units of phrases, and are key group 1.
This is for converting sentences inputted in kana by 1 into sentences mixed with kanji as necessary. Reference numeral 14 denotes a group of keys such as cursor movement keys for moving a cursor on the display screen of the display unit 21. Numeral 15 is a group of keys for selecting one of the menus displayed on the display screen at the start of work, or for selecting one of the homophones output on the display screen at the time of kana-kanji conversion. 16 and 17 are a whole sentence tense conversion key and a single sentence tense conversion key for converting the tense of a sentence. The whole sentence tense conversion key 16 is a key for instructing tense conversion for all sentences being created, and the one sentence tense conversion key 17 is a key for instructing tense conversion for all sentences being created.
This key instructs tense conversion for sentences only.

FIG. 3 shows the overall configuration of the control circuit in this embodiment. Here, 4 is the central processing unit (CPU)
and controls the operation of the entire device.
5 is a program storage unit that stores various processing procedures performed in the CPU 4, such as the fourth
It stores a control program that executes the processing procedure shown in FIGS. Reference numeral 6 denotes a dictionary storage section, which stores data referred to during kana-kanji conversion. 7 is a conjugated form storage unit which stores conjugated forms of verbs, etc. The CPU 4 executes a clause processing program, performs kana-kanji conversion, decomposes the part of speech of the clause, and then stores the final part of speech. It is used to refer to the conjugated form of . 8 is a temporary storage section;
Memorizes sentences etc. that are being created. Reference numeral 9 denotes a storage medium, in which sentences created under the control of the CPU 4 and the like are stored, and becomes a file of many sentences. Reading and writing data to and from the storage medium 9 is performed by the CPU.
This is executed by the external storage device 23 which operates according to the instruction of No. 4. Further, the CPU 4 sends the text created in the temporary storage section 8 to the printer section 3, and the text is printed.

Next, the operation of this embodiment configured as described above will be explained.

Figure 4 shows ``My sister is 3 years old. The operation of this embodiment will be explained by taking as an example the case of creating a sentence such as ``.''.

In the figure, after the power switch 21 is turned on and driving power is applied to the entire device, step S1 is started.
When the operator presses the clause input start key 12, a command is issued to the CPU 4 to treat subsequent data input as a clause. In step S2,
When the operator inputs the data "a", "ne", and "ha" in sequence, the input data is displayed on the display screen and also stored in the temporary storage section 8.
In step S3, when the phrase input end key 13 is pressed by the operator, the input data is broken down into parts of speech and kana-kanji conversion is executed. In this example, the dictionary storage unit 6 is searched for the kanji corresponding to the input data “aneha” stored in the temporary storage unit 8, and the characters “ane” (noun) and “ha” (particle) are searched from the dictionary storage unit 6.
The data is decomposed and converted into kanji characters, and then stored in the temporary storage unit 8 again. Furthermore, "My sister" is displayed on the display screen. In step S4...
The key is pressed and the display screen "," is displayed.
At this time, it is determined that this "," is not the end of the sentence, and the previously input data "nee wa" is
nothing is fixed.

Subsequently, in step S5, when the phrase input start key 12 is pressed, the same as described above is executed.
Subsequent input data is treated as a clause. At step S6, data "3", "sa", "i",
When "de" and "su" are input in sequence, the input data is stored in the temporary storage section 8 and displayed on the display screen of the display section 21. In step S7, when the phrase input end key 13 is pressed,
The input data is broken down into parts of speech and converted into kana-kanji. As a result, the input data stored in the temporary storage unit 8 as "I am 3 years old" is changed to "I am 3 years old".
This data is then stored in the temporary storage unit 8 again. Furthermore, "I am 3 years old" is displayed on the display screen. In step S8... When the key is pressed, "." is displayed on the display screen. At this time, by inputting ".", it is determined that the input phrase is the end of a sentence, and sentence end processing, that is, tense conversion processing can be performed.

In sentence-end processing, the last part of speech decomposed in the clause is extracted, in this example "desu" is extracted, and the conjugation type storage unit 7 is searched.
The tense of the match is determined.
If this tense is the present tense, data representing the present tense is added to the clause data that is being processed at the end of the sentence and is stored in the storage unit 8. Next, the past tense for "desu" (present tense) from the inflection storage unit 7 is retrieved. In this case, "Deshita" is called, so a new clause is synthesized under the control of CPU4,
It is stored in the temporary storage section 8. In this example, one piece of data "I was 3 years old" is synthesized. In this manner, when creating a sentence, for a clause that comes at the end of a sentence, a clause that has a tense different from that of the displayed clause is arranged as the next block in the memory area.

FIG. 5 shows phrase data obtained in the storage unit 8 by sequentially executing the above steps.

In addition, in this embodiment, when the end of a sentence does not become an auxiliary verb as described above, but becomes a part of speech without an action or conjugation, it is handled as follows. In other words, if there is no conjugated form, it is determined that the tense is not particularly relevant, and no new phrase is generated. Furthermore, even if the part of speech has a conjugated form, if it matches with the conjugated form storage unit 7 and the end of the sentence is an imperative form, a new phrase is generated because it is not related to the tense. will not be performed. In this way, it is possible to determine whether the phrase is tense-related or not by decomposing the parts of speech through phrase processing and comparing it with the conjugated form storage unit, and to deal with the phrase.

Next, in step S9 of FIG. 4, if the text creation continues, the process returns to step S1, and if it is finished, the text creation ends. Normally, the created text is then printed by the printing unit 3 or stored in the storage medium 9 by the external storage unit 23.

Next, we will explain the operation of creating a new sentence by converting the tense of a completed sentence as necessary.

FIG. 6 shows the operational procedure for such a tense change.
It is now assumed that text data is stored in the temporary storage unit 8 as shown in FIG. 7, and the text is displayed on the display screen as shown in FIG.

First, in step S10 of FIG. 6, the operator determines whether to change the tense throughout the entire sentence or to change it one sentence at a time. If it is one sentence at a time, the process advances to step S11, where the cursor is moved to the beginning of the phrase to be changed. In step S12, when the one-sentence tense change key 17 is pressed, the phrase data on the temporary storage section 8 is replaced, and the phrase data located at the beginning of the phrase is newly displayed. That is, since the sentence "My sister is 3 years old" is currently being pointed to by the cursor, the contents of the storage unit 8 shown in FIG. 7 are changed as shown in FIG. 9, and the display screen is changed to the one shown in FIG. 10. become that way. Next, in step S13, if there are still sentences to be changed, the process returns to step S11, and if there is no change, the process ends.

If the tense of the entire sentence is to be changed in step S10, the whole sentence tense change key 16 is pressed in step S14, and as a result, the arrangement of all phrases with tenses among the sentence data in the temporary storage section 8 is changed. The storage order is changed, and the display on the display screen changes accordingly.

(Effects) As explained above, according to the present invention, phrase data with different tenses is generated and stored when a sentence is created, so once a sentence is created, the tense can be changed by a simple operation. There is no need to perform complicated operations when changing the tense, and the process can be performed quickly.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is an external view showing one embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is an external view showing one embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 3 is a diagram showing the panel of the keyboard section, Figure 3 is a block diagram showing the control system of the device shown in Figure 1, Figure 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of writing text, and Figure 5 is a diagram showing the control system of the device shown in Figure 1.
Figures 7 and 9 are diagrams showing the storage arrangement of created sentences in the storage unit, Figure 6 is a flowchart showing the operation when tense conversion is performed on created sentences, and Figures 8 and 9 are diagrams showing the storage arrangement of created sentences in the storage unit. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of text displayed on the display screen. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Keyboard section, 2... Main body section, 3... Printer section, 4... CPU, 5... Program storage section, 6... Dictionary storage section, 7... Conjugation storage section, 8
...Temporary storage unit, 9...Storage medium, 11...Sentence input key group, 12...Sentence input start key, 13
...Bunsetsu input end key, 14...Key group for cursor movement, 15...Key group, 16...Sentence tense conversion key, 17...Full text tense conversion key, 21...Display section, 22...Power switch, 23...External storage device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. an input means for inputting text information; a determining means for determining the tense of the input text information; a text information generating means for generating text information corresponding to the input text information in a tense different from the determined tense; A character processing device comprising: a storage means for storing input text information and the generated text information; and a means for reading text information in a predetermined tense from the storage means.