JPH0573610A - Treatment expression processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a treatment expression processor where the distinction of modesty and respect or the propriety of the use of a polite word is tempered and treatment expression is decided. CONSTITUTION:A treatment expression processor having a treatment expression dictionary 9, a word dictionary 8, a sentence input means 1, the morpheme analysis means 2, a treatment expression decision means 5 and a morpheme adjustment means 6 is provided with a treatment expression type rule table 10 related to the verb of an input sentence, a polite word propriety table 11, related to a position where the verb is positioned, a treatment expression decision means 3 deciding the treatment expression type of the respective verbs by referring to the treatment expression type rule table 10 and a polite word propriety decision means 4 deciding whether the respective verbs can take the polite word or not by referring to the polite word propriety table 11.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a treatment expression processing apparatus for determining a treatment expression that a sentence can take by analyzing a sentence, and in particular, it is appropriate to use humility, respect, or polite language. The present invention relates to a treatment expression processing device that determines a treatment expression in consideration of the above.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In message communication such as telegrams and New Year's cards, depending on the vertical relationship between the sender and the receiver and the relationship,
Use polite expressions or familiar expressions. As a message communication service like this, depending on the user's request, conversion of the treatment expression of the communication text,
It is conceivable to present rewriting candidates. Conventionally, regarding a device for automatically converting a treatment expression or presenting a candidate for rewriting, for example, Japanese Patent Application No. 1-340382, “A treatment expression storage device and a treatment expression generating device”, Japanese Patent Application No. 2-15734.
There is a device proposed in No. 4 "Automatic treatment expression generation device".
All of the above technologies are targeted at the treatment expressions of correspondences stored in the database, and the possible treatments for words whose representations change in the correspondences due to the hierarchical relationship between the sender and the receiver and the relationships. The expression is described in the dictionary in advance.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to further improve the above-described technology, and its purpose is to take into consideration modesty, respect, or the appropriateness of using polite words. And to provide a treatment expression processing device that determines the treatment expression.

[0004]

The above objects of the present invention are as follows:
A treatment expression pattern number, a treatment expression dictionary that describes treatment expression patterns that are a combination of treatment expressions and inflections, a word dictionary that describes word expressions, treatment expression types, and treatment expression pattern numbers, and sentence input By referring to the word dictionary and the treatment expression dictionary, the means, the morpheme analysis means for performing the morpheme analysis of the input sentence, and the possible treatment expressions of each verb and noun in the input sentence analyzed by the morpheme analysis means In the treatment expression processing device having a treatment expression determination means to be determined and a morpheme adjustment means for performing a morpheme adjustment of the treatment expression determined by the treatment expression determination means, the relationship between the surface expression attached to the verb and the treatment expression type is described. A treatment expression type rule table, a polite word availability table that describes the relationship between the position of a verb and whether or not a polite word can be taken, From the surface expression attached to each verb in the input sentence analyzed by the morpheme analysis means, the treatment expression type determining means for determining the treatment expression type of each verb by referring to the treatment expression type rule table, A polite word propriety determining means for determining whether or not a verb can take a polite word is provided by referring to the polite word propriety table, and the processing results of the treatment expression type determining means and the polite word propriety determining means are also used. And a treatment expression processing device characterized by determining a treatment expression that each verb can take.

[0005]

In the treatment expression analysis apparatus according to the present invention, first, a sentence to be analyzed is input and the morphological analysis of the sentence is performed. From the surface expression attached to each verb in the morphological analysis result, the treatment expression type determination table is determined by referring to the treatment expression type determination table, and each polite word is determined by referring to the polite word availability table. Decide whether to take. Regarding verbs, the word dictionary and the treatment expression dictionary are referred to from the notation of the word and the treatment expression type, and the treatment expression that each verb can take is determined by also using the information on whether or not to take a polite word. For nouns, the word expression and the treatment expression dictionary are referred to from the word notation to determine the treatment expression that each verb can take. Adjust the morpheme of each treatment expression. Display possible treatment expression candidates for the input sentence.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a treatment expression analysis device showing an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a sentence input means, 2 is a morpheme analysis means, 3 is a treatment expression type determination means, 4 is a polite word availability determination means, 5 is a treatment expression determination means,
6 is a morpheme adjusting means, 7 is a treatment expression display means, 8 is a word dictionary, 9 is a treatment expression dictionary, 10 is a treatment expression type determination rule table, and 11 is a polite word availability rule table. The sentence input means 1 inputs a sentence to be analyzed.
The morphological analysis unit 2 performs morphological analysis of the sentence input by the sentence input unit 1. Treatment expression type determination rule table 1
In 0, the relation between the surface expression attached to the verb and the treatment expression type is described. The treatment expression type determination means 3 refers to the treatment expression type determination rule table 10 described above from the surface information attached to each verb for all verbs in the morpheme analysis result obtained by the morpheme analysis means 2,
Determine the treatment expression type for each verb. The polite word availability rule table 11 describes the relationship between the position of a verb and whether or not a polite word can be taken. The polite word propriety determination means 4 refers to the polite word propriety rule table 11 from the position where each verb is placed for all verbs in the morpheme analysis result obtained by the morpheme analysis means 2 to determine each verb. Decide if you can take polite language.

The word dictionary 8, the notation of words, the treatment expression type, and the treatment expression pattern number are described. The treatment expression dictionary 9 describes a treatment expression pattern number, and a treatment expression pattern which is a set of treatment expressions and inflections. In the treatment expression determination means 5, the treatment expression pattern number is obtained by referring to the word dictionary 8 from the notation of each verb and the treatment expression type determined by the treatment expression type determination means 3, and the treatment expression pattern number is used to obtain the treatment expression pattern number. 9, further, the treatment expression which each verb can take is determined by using the information obtained by the polite word propriety determining means 4 as to whether or not the polite word can be taken. For each noun, the treatment expression pattern number is obtained by referring to the word dictionary 8 from the word notation, and the treatment expression dictionary 9 is referred to by the treatment expression pattern number to determine the treatment expression that each noun can take. The morpheme adjustment unit 6 adjusts the morpheme of each treatment expression determined by the treatment expression determination unit 5. The treatment expression display means 7 displays candidates for treatment expressions that the sentence input by the sentence input means 1 can take according to the result of the morpheme adjustment means 6.

A specific example will be described below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 2 shows an example of the contents of the word dictionary 8. Word dictionary 8
Describes a word notation, a treatment expression type (only when the word is a verb, either "respect" or "humility"), and a treatment expression pattern number. FIG. 3 shows an example of contents of the treatment expression dictionary 9. The treatment expression dictionary 9 describes a treatment expression pattern number and a treatment expression pattern including a set of treatment expressions and inflections. FIG. 4 shows an example of the contents of the treatment expression type determination rule table 10. The treatment expression type determination rule table 10 describes what kind of surface expression the verb is attached to, which gives the treatment expression type “respect” or “modesty”. FIG. 5 shows an example of the contents of the polite word availability rule table 11. The polite word availability rule table 11 describes where the verb is placed and whether or not the polite word can be attached.

Here, consider the case where the following sentence is input by the sentence input means 1. In the treatment expression type determination means 3, for all the verbs (“celebrate”, “pray”, “build”) in the morphological analysis results obtained by the morphological analysis means 2, the treatment expression type is determined from the surface information attached to each verb. The treatment expression type is determined with reference to the determination table 10. "Celebrate" ・ ・ Kenkyu ("I will tell you" is attached.) "Pray" ・ ・ Kenkei ("Oitai" is attached.) "Build"・ ・ ・ Respect ("~ te please" is attached.)

In the polite word propriety determining means 4, all verbs in the morphological analysis results obtained by the morphological analysis means 2
For (“celebrate”, “pray”, and “build”), it is determined whether or not each verb can take a polite word by referring to the polite word propriety rule table 11 from the position where each verb is placed. The verb "used at the end of a sentence" means that only the morpheme "itasu", "masu", etc. relating to the treatment expression is attached after the verb. "Celebrate" --- polite word "No" (used in the discontinuation clause) "Pray" --- Polite word "OK" (used at the end of sentence) "Build・ ・ ・ Polite word "No" (used before "~ te please".) In the treatment expression determination means 5, first, each verb ("celebrate", "pray", "build") ) And the treatment expression type determined by the treatment expression type determining means 3, the treatment expression pattern number is obtained by referring to the word dictionary 8. "Celebrate" ・ ・ ・ ・ Humility ・ ・ ・ ・ Treatment expression pattern number "10""Pray" ・ ・ ・ ・ Humility ・ ・ ・ ・ Treatment expression pattern number "10""Build" ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Respect ・ ・ ・ ・Treatment expression pattern number "11"

Next, by referring to the treatment expression pattern number 9 from the treatment expression pattern number, a possible treatment expression is obtained (here, when each treatment expression is generated, "treatment expression in the treatment expression dictionary 9 is generated. Insert the conjugation verb in each of the expressions in the "Patient" section. "Celebrate ..." Celebrate, celebrate, congratulate, congratulate "Pray" ... pray, pray, pray, pray "build" ... build, build, build Furthermore, since "praying" can take a polite word based on the information obtained by the polite word propriety determining means 4 as to whether or not the polite word can be taken, it is as follows. "Pray" ... pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray. Also, each noun ("two people", "marriage", "happy", For "family", refer to the word dictionary 8 from the word notation, "two people" ... Treatment expression pattern number "1""Marriage" ... Treatment expression pattern number "2"" Good luck ... None "Home" ... Obtains a treatment expression pattern number "2" and refers to the treatment expression pattern number 9 to obtain a possible treatment expression.

"Two people" ... two people, two people "Marriage" ... Marriage, marriage "Happiness" ... The adjusting unit 6 adjusts the morpheme of the treatment expression of each verb determined by the treatment expression determining unit 5 to be the same as the inflectional form of each verb of the input sentence. Note that nouns are not used because they are not used. “Celebrate” ・ ・ ・ celebrate, congratulate, congratulate, congratulate “Pray” ・ ・ ・ · pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray. "Build" ... builds, is built, and is built (The "prayer" part is the final form, so it does not change.) In the treatment expression display means 7, according to the processing result of the morpheme adjustment means 6, the sentence input means The possible treatment expression candidates of the sentence input in 1 are displayed as shown in FIG.

According to the above embodiment, it is possible to analyze the treatment expression in the message, and the message thought by the user can be analyzed.
With respect to (arbitrarily entered message), it becomes possible to convert the treatment expression of the message and present rewriting. It is needless to say that the above embodiment is an example of the present invention and the present invention should not be limited to this. For example, the configuration method of each dictionary can be modified in various ways.

[0014]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, a treatment expression is determined more finely than in the prior art, in consideration of humility, respect, or suitability of using polite language. Thus, it is possible to realize the treatment expression processing device.

[0015]

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional configuration diagram of a treatment expression analysis device showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of contents of a word dictionary according to an embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of contents of a treatment expression dictionary according to an embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of contents of a treatment expression type determination rule table of the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of contents of a polite word availability rule table 11 according to the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of an output result of a treatment expression analysis process according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1: sentence input means, 2: morpheme analysis means, 3: treatment expression type determination means, 4: polite word availability determination means, 5: treatment expression determination means, 6: morpheme adjustment means, 7: treatment expression display means,
8: word dictionary, 9: treatment expression dictionary, 10: treatment expression type determination rule table, 11: polite word availability rule table.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A treatment expression dictionary that describes a treatment expression pattern number, a treatment expression pattern that is a set of treatment expressions and inflections, a word dictionary that describes a word notation, a treatment expression type, and a treatment expression pattern number, and a sentence. Sentence input means for inputting, a morpheme analysis means for performing a morpheme analysis of the input sentence, and a treatment expression that can be taken by each verb and noun in the input sentence analyzed by the morpheme analysis means, the word dictionary and the treatment expression dictionary. A treatment expression determining means that is determined by referring to
And, in the treatment expression processing device having a morpheme adjusting means for performing morpheme adjustment of the treatment expression determined by the treatment expression determining means, a treatment expression type rule table describing a relationship between the surface expression attached to the verb and the treatment expression type, The polite word propriety table describing the relationship between the position where the verb is placed and whether or not the polite word can be taken, and the surface expression attached to each verb in the input sentence analyzed by the morphological analysis means, The treatment expression type determining means for determining the treatment expression type of the above by referring to the treatment expression type rule table, and whether or not each verb can take a polite word, by referring to the polite word availability table A polite word propriety determining means for deciding is provided, and a treatment expression that each verb can take is also obtained by using the processing results of the treatment expression type determining means and the polite word propriety determining means. Determining politeness processing apparatus, characterized by.