JPH0575144B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a character formatting device, and particularly to a character processing device that can support text creation processing, for example, text creation in Japanese. Regarding equipment.

[Conventional technology]

For example, in a Japanese text processing device, in determining the difficulty level of a text, it is necessary to rely on the Japanese language ability of each person reading the created text.

[Problem to be solved by the invention] However, when trying to create an easy-to-read text with the above method, even if the text is easy to read for the person who creates it, the person reading the text may have a level of Japanese language proficiency. There is also a possibility that the text may not be easy to read due to the difference. On the other hand, when creating a high-level Japanese language text such as an essay, if the person creating the Japanese language ability is at a low level, there is a possibility that the user may not be able to create the intended text. The purpose of the present invention is to assist a character processing device in absorbing such differences in individual Japanese language levels and providing a general Japanese language level.

[Means (and actions) for solving problems]

In order to solve the above problems, according to the present invention, a character processing device includes an input means for inputting sentences in kana characters, and a dictionary that stores the notation of words corresponding to the reading kana and the difficulty level of the words. means, a conversion means for converting a kana character string inputted from the input means into a word notation by referring to the dictionary means, and a conversion means for converting the kana character string inputted from the input means into a word notation, and the words converted by the conversion means are stored in the dictionary means. A difficulty level storage means for storing a difficulty level, and a difficulty level stored in the difficulty level storage means by sequentially converting the words in the sentence inputted from the input means by the conversion means, By comprising a calculation means for calculating the difficulty level and a difficulty display means for displaying the difficulty level of the sentence calculated by the calculation means,
The difficulty level of the text is calculated and displayed.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 shows an example of the configuration of the character processing device of the present invention. Here, the CPU is a central processing unit in the form of a microprocessor, and manages various calculations and control of each section according to the processing procedure described later with reference to FIG. ROM is read-on memory, and the central processing unit CPU follows the control procedure shown in Figure 5.
A program memory that stores execution programs, etc., and display information regarding the area (window) on the display screen for displaying messages of the difficulty level of the text, such as the display position and message equivalent to the difficulty level. It has a memorized window display information area. BL is a bus line that connects other parts such as memory and transmits signals.
KB is a keyboard, which will be described later in FIG. 3, and serves as an input means. The RAM is a random access memory, and has a storage area (document memory) for documents, etc. input using the keyboard KB, and a work area used for work in the process of control by the central processing unit CPU.

DISP is a display device that serves as a display means, and displays character strings input from the keyboard KB, contents of the document memory, messages, other cursors, etc., for example, as shown in FIGS. 6 to 8.
DCT is a display controller and controls the display Disp.

Dic1 is a term dictionary memory described in detail with reference to FIG. 4, which stores the difficulty level of terms, grammatical information, etc.
It has an area used as an index and a term dictionary section. Dic 2 is another dictionary memory, and stores radicals, number of strokes, single kanji reading dictionary, synonym dictionary, etc.

CG is a font generation unit, and stores a character font group and a radical font group for display corresponding to character codes.

Figure 3 shows the keyboard in the configuration shown in Figure 2.
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing details of a KB. Among these, character and symbol key group KB1 are hiragana and period,
Control key group KB in which multiple character keys such as commas, alphabet keys, numbers, and other symbol keys are arranged.
2 is a cursor movement control key on the display unit Disp,
In addition to command keys for kana-kanji conversion, difficulty level judgment keys
It has a KB22 and a text creation end key KB21.

FIG. 4 shows an example of the structure of the terminology dictionary Dic1 in FIG. 2. In this way, the term dictionary is a conventional kana-kanji conversion dictionary with the difficulty level of the term added.

FIG. 5 shows an example of the character processing procedure according to this embodiment, and FIGS. 6 to 8 show the display state of a sentence difficulty level check created by kana-kanji conversion according to the procedure of FIG. The case of checking the difficulty level of one line of text in FIG. 8 is illustrated.

First, in step S1 of FIG. 5, a key input is awaited, and if a key input is received, the input key is determined. Here, if the key is valid for Japanese input, kana-kanji conversion is performed using the longest match method. Once a term has been drawn from the dictionary, only the first term candidate is displayed on the text screen. In S15, other candidates for the term are saved in the internal memory, so if the user wants to select another candidate, the candidates are displayed in S17. When the corresponding candidate is selected in S19, the term on the text screen is replaced with the corresponding term. At the same time, the difficulty level of the term is also replaced by the difficulty level of the corresponding term. S23: If the input sentence is not finalized, candidates for terms are also held in memory, but once the text is finalized, they are deleted from memory. Therefore, the difficulty level should be calculated before deletion. S29: In this calculation method, the difficulty level is a sequential number such as 1 to 10, so the average of each term is taken as the difficulty level of the sentence. Therefore, if a lot of level 3 terms are used, the text will be close to level 3 difficulty. Furthermore, if a term with a difficulty level of level 7 is used in the text, the standard deviation of that term will be quite high. Therefore, terms whose standard deviations vary considerably are stored in the memory RAM.

When the difficulty level determination key is input, S35 in Figure 5
The text level check will be displayed in a window as shown in FIG. In FIG. 8, "Return to work", which has a standard deviation difference from the average difficulty level of 3 stored in the memory, is displayed as a message at difficulty level 7.

[Other Examples]

In the explanation of the present invention, the difficulty level is checked after the completion of writing a sentence, but it can also be used while writing a sentence.

For example, before creating a sentence, select term difficulty levels 3 to 7. Thereafter, if a term outside the specified level is used while creating a sentence, a warning message or sound is emitted to notify the creator of the sentence.

Further, although the above explanation is an example of dealing with Japanese, the present invention can also be applied to foreign languages such as English as long as the difficulty level is stored for each word.

Furthermore, if a synonym dictionary is installed in the document character processing device, it is easy to replace the term with another term when a warning is issued. If the synonym dictionary has difficulty level information,
Only synonyms that match the level of the text being created are displayed as candidates, making it easy to select synonyms that follow the flow of the text.

〔Effect of the invention〕

1 Originally, the difficulty level of sentences varied depending on the Japanese language ability of each person, but by using the character processing device adopting the present invention, it is possible to standardize the level locally. becomes.

2 Displaying the difficulty level of a sentence can serve as a warning to people who tend to create difficult sentences to create easier sentences, and conversely, it can be a warning to people who can only create easy sentences. provides criteria for determining whether writing ability has improved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the character processing device of the present invention. Third
The figure is a schematic diagram showing an example of the structure of the keyboard in the embodiment of FIG. 2. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram for explaining the structure of the term dictionary in the embodiment of FIG. 2. FIGS. 5a and 5b are flowcharts showing an example of a character input processing procedure according to this embodiment. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a display example according to the present invention. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a display example according to the present invention. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a display example according to the present invention. CPU...Central processing unit, ROM...Read-on memory, RAM...Random access memory,
Dic1...Main dictionary (term dictionary), Dic2...Dictionary memory, KB...Keyboard, KB1...Character/symbol keys, KB2...Control keys, KB21...
...End key, KB22...Difficulty level determination key.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Input means for inputting sentences in kana characters;
a dictionary means for storing the word notation corresponding to the pronunciation and the difficulty level of the word; and a conversion means for converting the kana character string inputted from the input means into the word notation by referring to the dictionary means. , difficulty storage means for storing the difficulty level stored in the dictionary means for the words converted by the conversion means; and sequentially converting words in a sentence input by the input means by the conversion means. calculation means for calculating the difficulty level of the sentence based on the difficulty levels sequentially stored in the difficulty level storage means; and difficulty level display means for displaying the difficulty level of the sentence calculated by the calculation means. A character processing device characterized by: