JPH06187370A - Document read assisting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make a batch display of accurate part-of-speech information on words in a document to be read through easy operation. CONSTITUTION:The document read assisting device is equipped with a document memory 11 which stores document data to be read, a document display control part 12 controls display operation for the document and assistance information on the basis of a syntax analytic result, display specification information, etc., a syntax analytic part 13 which takes a syntax analysis of the document, a word dictionary 14 which contains word information used for the syntax analysis, a part-of-speech specification part 15 which specifies the kind of a part of speech to be displayed, a display method specification part 16 which specifies a display method for words different by the kinds of parts of speech, and a document display part 17 which displays the document and assistance information.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to the structure of a document reading comprehension support device for supporting reading comprehension of a document by providing word part-of-speech information when reading a document in another language.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, digitization of document processing has progressed, and documents created in various languages have come to be used in a document processing apparatus or the like. Therefore, for example, when reading a document created in a language other than the native language using a document processing device, it has a function of presenting the part-of-speech information of the word in the document to assist in reading the unfamiliar document. A document reading comprehension support device has been proposed.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a conventional document reading comprehension support device. With reference to FIG. 8, a conventional document reading support apparatus includes a document memory 1 for storing a document, a document display control unit 2 for displaying a document and reading support information, and a word dictionary storing various word information. 4, a dictionary search unit 3 that searches the word dictionary 4 to extract part-of-speech information of a word corresponding to a word in a document, a document display unit 5 that displays a document or support information, and a word that should display support information. And a display instruction input unit 6 for instructing.

Next, the operation of the conventional document reading comprehension support apparatus will be described using the example sentence shown in FIG. A document 7 previously created by a document creating device or the like is stored in the document memory 1. The document 7 read from the document memory 1 is given to the dictionary search unit 3 through the document display control unit 2. The dictionary search unit 3 divides the document 7 into word units for identification, searches the word dictionary 4 for each word, and extracts part-of-speech information of each word.
FIG. 10 shows the part-of-speech information of each word obtained as a result of this search. The part-of-speech information of each word is given to the document display control unit 2.

Information on a word designated by the user is input from the display instruction input unit 6, and word designation information is given to the document display control unit 2. The document display control unit 2 displays the part-of-speech information corresponding to the word on the document display unit 5 together with the document 7 based on the designation information of the word. As a result, the user can proceed with the reading comprehension operation of the document by referring to the part-of-speech information of each word displayed on the document display unit 5.

The user selects the word for which the part-of-speech information is desired to be displayed by the user using the display instruction input unit 6.

[0007]

However, in the conventional document reading comprehension support device, in order to obtain the support information, the user has to successively specify the words desired to be supported. Therefore, if the number of words to be specified is large, it is necessary to frequently repeat the operation for obtaining support information.
There is a problem that the operation becomes complicated.

Further, as shown in FIG. 10, in the part-of-speech information search using only the word dictionary 4, the part-of-speech is selected based on the spelling information of the word and the connection information between adjacent words. Therefore, when a word having the same spelling is specified for some parts of speech, a plurality of parts of speech may be retrieved as the part of speech information of the word and displayed on the document display unit 5. For this reason, the user needs to determine the part of speech corresponding to the usage in the document from among the displayed plural parts of speech, which causes a problem that the part of speech having less value as the reading assistance information is displayed. there were.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems. Based on the accurate part-of-speech information obtained for a word in a document, each word is classified according to the type of part-of-speech. It is an object of the present invention to provide a document reading comprehension support device that can be identified and displayed.

[0010]

According to a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a document reading comprehension assisting apparatus which identifies a document holding unit for holding an input document and an input document for each word, and identifies only a part of speech corresponding to each word. It is provided with a syntax analysis means for obtaining information and a display means for displaying each word of the input document in a different form for each type of part of speech of the word.

The document reading comprehension support apparatus according to the invention of claim 2 further comprises a part-of-speech information designating means for inputting the part-of-speech information of a word to be displayed in a form different from other words. Further, the display means of the document reading comprehension support apparatus according to the invention of claim 3 comprises a display control section having display form information different for each type of part of speech, and a display section for displaying an input document.

Furthermore, the document reading comprehension support apparatus according to the invention of claim 4 further comprises a display form designating means for changing the display form information of the display control section.

[0013]

The syntactic analysis means of the document reading comprehension support apparatus performs syntactic analysis on the target document and extracts accurate part-of-speech information of each word. In this parsing, a single correct part-of-speech information according to the usage of each word in the document is obtained by referring to the grammar rules. Then, the display means displays the words in the document in a different form for each type of part of speech to facilitate the user's identification operation.

Further, the display form designating means makes it possible to externally change the display form of each word different for each type of part of speech.

[0015]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document reading comprehension support apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, this document reading support device displays a document, a support information, and the like based on a document memory 11 that stores document data to be read and a syntactic analysis result and a part-of-speech designation input information to be displayed. A document display control unit 12 that controls the operation, a syntax analysis unit 13 that performs a syntax analysis of the document, a word dictionary 14 that stores word information used for the syntax analysis, and a part of speech for specifying the type of part of speech to be displayed. It includes a designation unit 15, a display method designation unit 16 for designating a different word display method for each part of speech, and a document display unit 17 for displaying a document and support information.

The document memory 11 stores a document as shown in FIG. 4, for example. Also, the document display control unit 12
For example, it has a display form information table that defines types of parts of speech and their display attributes as shown in FIG. The display form information table allows the user to change the data into a desired display form by inputting change data from the display method designating unit 16.

Next, the operation of the document reading comprehension support apparatus will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. The English document shown in FIG. 4 will be described as an example of the document to be read. First, the document data is read from the document memory 11 in a predetermined unit such as a sentence unit, a paragraph unit, or a document unit (step S10). The read document data is given to the document display control unit 12 and the syntax analysis unit 13.

The syntactic analysis unit 13 syntactically analyzes the given document data to extract the part-of-speech information of each word identified in word units (step S20). In the syntactic analysis, a morphological analysis is performed using the word dictionary 14, and the grammatical rule stored in the syntactic analysis unit 13 is applied to the result to analyze the syntactic structure to obtain the part-of-speech information of each word. Therefore, not only the connectivity between words but also the grammatical consistency is judged to determine the unique part of speech of each word. Part-of-speech information obtained as a result of this syntactic analysis is shown in FIG. As can be seen from this part-of-speech information, one correct part-of-speech information is given to each word.

When the syntactic analysis is completed, the user inputs, through the part-of-speech designation unit 15, the information of the part-of-speech to be identified and displayed. The document display control unit 12 receives this part-of-speech information,
A display method of a document is selected from the display form information corresponding to the part-of-speech information extracted from the display form information table shown in FIG. 3 and the word information corresponding to the part-of-speech designated from the syntax analysis result shown in FIG. It is set and displayed on the document display unit 17 (step S30). FIG. 6A shows a case where "verb" is designated as the part-of-speech information, and the verb portion in the document is displayed as "white black without inversion" according to the display form information "1" in FIG. There is. In FIG. 6B, “adjective” is designated as the part-of-speech information, and the adjective part in the document is “red bold character” according to the display form information “2” in FIG.
The case where it is displayed is shown. Furthermore, FIG.
As the part-of-speech information, "verb" and "adjective" are specified, and the verb part in the document is displayed as "white black without inversion" according to the display form information "1" and "2" in FIG. Indicates that "red bold letters" are displayed. In addition to this, by designating another part of speech, another word corresponding to that part of speech can be identified and displayed.

The above operation is repeated for all documents. In this way, when the words of a desired part-of-speech are collectively identified and displayed for each predetermined document unit, the syntax of the document being read can be grasped at a glance, and the reading operation can be performed efficiently and accurately. In the above embodiment, the case of an English document has been described, but the same can be applied to documents of other languages. For example, FIG. 7 shows a display form information table used in the case of a Japanese document. According to the data in this table, it is possible to identify and display each word of the Japanese document for each type of part of speech obtained by the syntactic analysis.

[0021]

As described above, since the document reading comprehension support apparatus according to the present invention is provided with the syntactic analysis means and is configured to obtain the part-of-speech information of each word to be the reading comprehension support information of the document by the syntactic analysis, an accurate By obtaining the part-of-speech information, it is possible to improve the support effect of reading comprehension work.

Further, the display means of the document reading comprehension support device is configured to display a document of a fixed length in a different display form for each type of part of speech of each word.
The display instruction operation can be simplified by collectively displaying the part-of-speech information.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a document reading comprehension support apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure of the document reading comprehension support device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a data diagram showing the contents of a display form information table for English sentences used in the document reading comprehension support device shown in FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example sentence of an English document handled by the document reading comprehension support device of FIG. 1;

5 is a diagram showing a syntactic analysis result of the document reading comprehension support device in FIG. 1;

6 is a diagram showing a display example displayed on a display unit of the document reading comprehension support device in FIG.

7 is a data diagram showing the contents of a display form information table for Japanese sentences used in the document reading support device of FIG.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional document reading comprehension support device.

9 is a diagram showing an example of a document handled by the document reading support device shown in FIG.

10 is a diagram showing an example of part-of-speech information obtained by the conventional document reading support device shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Document Memory 12 Document Display Control Section 13 Syntax Analysis Section 14 Word Dictionary 15 Part-of-Speech Designation Section 16 Display Method Designation Section 17 Document Display Section

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A document reading comprehension support device for supporting reading comprehension work of a document by displaying part-of-speech information of words constituting the document, the document holding unit holding an input document, the input document being a word It is provided with a syntactic analysis unit for identifying information of a unique part of speech corresponding to each word, and a display unit for displaying each word of the input document in a different form for each type of part of speech of the word. A document reading comprehension support device. 2. The document reading comprehension support apparatus further comprises part-of-speech information designating means for inputting part-of-speech information of a word to be displayed in a form different from other words. Document reading support device. 3. The display unit according to claim 2, wherein the display unit includes a display control unit having display form information that differs for each type of part of speech, and a display unit that displays the input document. Document reading support device. 4. The document reading comprehension support apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a display form designating unit for changing the display form information of the display control unit.