JPH0652164A - Document preparation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a document preparation device where the elaboration of a nuance on sentence expression becomes facile at the time of preparing a document. CONSTITUTION:A sentence and writings in the document are expressed by conceptual logical relation and they are held in a document file 1 in an expression form obtained by connecting language parts. The conceptual logical relation of the expression of the language parts held in the document file is displayed in a display means 2 with an outerlayer sentence prepared by a sentence preparation means 3. Editing means 5-7 execute an editing operation such as the shift, transfer and exchange of a language parts unit and the alteration of relation so as to prepare the sentence. Furthermore, an explanation sentence preparation means 4 preparing an explanation sentence explaining a difference on language expression, which expression in the language parts have, a language parts dictionary 8 storing the language parts, an interparts relation corresponding table 9 holding relation between the language parts and an evaluation means 10 evaluating the quality of the sentence by a prescribed reference are provided and elaboration is supported.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creating device,
In particular, the present invention relates to a document creation device having a function of facilitating a document creator to revise nuances and the like of a text expression when creating a document.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Heretofore, some document preparation apparatuses having a function of assisting in the preparation of documents have been proposed. As a document creation apparatus having a function of supporting selection based on information on dependency at the sentence level, for example, Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 3-1
A Japanese document revision support device disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 60561 is known. The revision support function of the document creation device used here is a support function that presents candidates for rewriting to inappropriate expressions. Inappropriate expression here specifically means an expression mode of a sentence that is semantically ambiguous or a sentence that is likely to be ambiguous. For example,
The sentence expression "a high-speed program can be started easily" can be taken as a first meaning of "a high-speed processing program can be started easily".
In addition, the second meaning can be taken as a meaning that “a processing program can be started up at high speed and easily”. In this case, it is possible to take any meaning, and the ambiguity remains, so it is determined to be inappropriate. The Japanese document revision support device presents candidates for rewriting with respect to a sentence having such an inappropriate expression.

[0003]

However, in such a conventional Japanese document revision support device, although it is possible to point out the ambiguity of the sentence expression, it is not the ambiguity but the intention of the sentence creator. If it does not exist, no elaborate sentence support function is provided. For example, the sentence "drink coffee" is syntactically correct and unambiguous, but is an inappropriate sentence expression when the speaker needs to pay homage to the listener. Providing a document selection support function that converts the sentence "Drink coffee" into the sentence "Please have coffee" creates a proper document by diversifying the sentence expression. Desired to.

The present invention has been made in order to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to improve, in a syntactical unit, the revision of an inappropriate text expression which is not intended by the creator of the document. It is an object of the present invention to provide a document creation device having a revision support function that supports rewriting and creates an appropriate text expression including nuances more suited to the intention of the text creator.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the first aspect of the present invention is a document creation apparatus that uses a language component expression that expresses a sentence or a sentence in a document by a logical relationship of concepts. A document file (1) to be held and a sentence generation means (3) for generating a sentence or a sentence from the language component expression.
And editing means (5, 6,
7) and a language component dictionary (8) for storing a set of language components that are elements of the language component expression.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the above-mentioned configuration, the document creating apparatus further includes a display means (2) for displaying a sentence or a sentence obtained by the sentence generating means in association with a language component expression. ) Is provided.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the above-mentioned configuration, the document creating apparatus further includes an explanatory sentence generating means for generating an explanatory sentence for explaining a difference in linguistic expression between language component expressions ( 4), and the description is displayed by the display means (2).

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in a document creating apparatus, in addition to the above configuration, the language component dictionary (8) is further provided.
An inter-part relationship correspondence table (9) that holds the relationships between the language parts stored in is stored. In addition, in the document creation apparatus which is the fifth feature of the present invention, in addition to the above configuration, an evaluation means (10) for evaluating the quality of a sentence or a sentence by a predetermined standard is provided.

[0009]

In the document creating apparatus of the present invention, sentences and sentences are not treated as a sequence of characters, but sentences and sentences are treated as a logical connection of concepts expressing words, phrases, or clauses. Therefore, the elements constituting the text portion of the document such as these concepts (words), phrases, sections, and sentences are language parts, and these language parts are connected in a logical relationship. Sentences and sentences in a document are expressed by using a logical relationship between language parts, and document files (1) held by the sentences and sentences in the document in the form of a language part expression expressed by a logical relationship of concepts. ). Also,
As a document edit processing unit for creating a document, sentence generation means (3) for generating sentences and sentences from the language component expressions held in the document file (1), and editing means for changing each language component expression. (5, 6, 7) and a language component dictionary (8) that stores a set of language components that are elements of the language component expression are provided. With these, the document editing process is performed, and an appropriate sentence expression is refined. I do.

As described above, here, the sentence and the sentence are not treated as a simple sequence of characters (text) but are treated as a logical connection of concepts expressing a word, a phrase, or a section, and a sentence is created. To do. Therefore, the elements that make up the text portion of the document, such as predictive words (concepts), phrases, sections, sentences, etc., are the language parts, and the set of language parts that are the elements of the language part expression is the language part dictionary. It is stored in (8). These linguistic parts are connected in a logical relationship to form a linguistic part representation of a sentence. The sentence generation means (3) generates a sentence or a sentence from the language part expression, and the content of the sentence or the sentence generated by the sentence generation means (3), that is, the content of the language part expression is displayed by the display means (2). And is used for writing sentences. Editing means (5, 6,
In 7), the language parts can be changed and rewriting in syntax units is supported.

Further, here, the language component dictionary (8) is further added.
An inter-part relationship correspondence table (9) for holding relationships between linguistic parts stored in the language parts dictionary is provided, and the relationship between linguistic parts stored in the linguistic part dictionary (8) is defined to establish an appropriate logical relationship. Hold. Further, an evaluation means (10) is further provided as a support function for appropriately performing document creation and rewriting in syntax units. The evaluation means (10) evaluates the quality of a sentence or a sentence according to a predetermined criterion so that the prepared sentence maintains a certain level of appropriateness.

As described above, the content of the language component expression is treated as a logical connection of the concepts expressing the words, phrases, or clauses, so that the explanation sentence generating means (4) uses the logical connection of the concepts. , An explanatory sentence for explaining a difference in linguistic expression included in the linguistic component expression is generated. This explanation is displayed by the display means (2) and referred to when the text is refined.

That is, a sentence and a sentence in a document are expressed in a logical relationship of concepts and are held in a document file (1) in the form of a language component expression, and the language component expression retained in the document file (1). Since the logical relation of the concept is displayed on the display means (2) together with the surface sentence obtained by the sentence generating means (3), the content of the sentence and the sentence can be confirmed including the concept. By the editing means (5, 6, 7), editing operations such as moving, transferring, exchanging, and changing relationships of parts are performed to create and refine sentences.

When a sentence or a sentence is changed, the description of the expression effect added to the sentence or the sentence is generated and displayed as an explanatory sentence explaining the effect of the language component expression on the linguistic expression. Since the sentence or sentence that has been changed is also evaluated, this allows the user to repeatedly make changes to the expression of the language component and see the change in the effect on the expression to find the expression that is most suitable for his or her intention. You can make a selection and make a sentence or sentence refinement appropriately.

[0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be specifically described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a main part of a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 1 is a parts representation document file, 2 is a display mechanism, and 3 is a display mechanism.
Is a surface sentence generation mechanism, 4 is a description sentence generation mechanism, 5 is an input mechanism, 6 is a command execution mechanism, 7 is a command table, 8
Is a language parts dictionary, 9 is a relationship table between language parts, 1
0 is an evaluation mechanism.

The part representation document file 1 holds a text part in a document as a language part representation expressing a logical relationship of concepts. The display mechanism 2 displays this language component representation on the display screen in a block diagram of its logical structure, as well as the sentence generated by the surface sentence generation mechanism 3 and the explanatory sentence generated by the explanatory sentence generation mechanism 4, It also displays messages from the command execution mechanism to the user.

The surface sentence generation mechanism 3 generates an actual sentence for human reading from the language component representation in the component representation document file 1. Further, the explanation sentence generation mechanism 4 generates a message for explaining the expression effect or nuance of the sentence or part obtained from the language part expression to the reader. The sentences and messages generated here are displayed by the display mechanism 2.

In the document creation device, an input mechanism 5, a command execution mechanism 6, a command table 7, a language parts dictionary 8, and an inter-part relationship correspondence table 9 are provided as processing mechanisms for creating and editing sentences. Has been. The input mechanism 5 is an input operation unit for a user to input an edit command for a language component to create a sentence, and to respond to an inquiry or a selection request from the command execution mechanism 6. For example, a keyboard for character input, It consists of a pointing device such as a mouse. In this embodiment, the input mechanism 5 is provided with the display mechanism 2 and a graphical user interface (GUI) function for receiving an input command in a menu format. The command table 7 is a table in which a command and a sequence of operation description sentences that define an operation to be executed by the command execution mechanism 6 are described. The command execution mechanism 6 performs an edit operation on the language component expression according to this behavioral description sentence.

The language component dictionary 8 holds a set of language components that can be used in the language component expression document file 1. The language component relationship correspondence table 9 is a language component dictionary 8
It holds relations such as synonyms / synonyms, superordinate / subordinates, antonyms, and opposite relations among the language parts held in. Further, the evaluation mechanism 10 evaluates the quality of each sentence of the language component expression document file 1, generates a message for prompting the elaboration, and passes it to the display mechanism 2.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of an editing screen in the document creating apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 2, 20 is an edit window, 21 is a menu bar, and 22.
Is a document file window, 23 is a file name display bar, and 24 is a surface sentence display area. 25 (25a and 25b) is a language component expression, 26 is an evaluation display area,
Reference numeral 27 is an explanatory text display area. As shown in FIG. 2, when one document file is displayed in the document file window 22, the logical connection of the plurality of language parts 11 in the sentences forming the document is represented by the language part expressions 25a, 25.
With b as a unit, it is displayed together with the logical connection of the language parts 11 of the sentence expressed by each language part expression 25a, and also the logical connection relationship 12 with another language part expression 25b is displayed. As a result, the logical structure of the concept in the sentences forming the document (connection of the language parts 11)
Is explicitly displayed on the display screen. In this case, the sentences or sentences represented by the language component representations 25a and 25b in units of sentences are displayed in the respective surface sentence display areas 24. Further, the evaluation display area 26 displays the evaluation of the corresponding language part expression 25a, and the explanatory note display area 27 displays the explanatory note generated by the explanatory note generation mechanism.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining an operation example in the case of changing a text expression to a respect expression in the document editing by the document creating apparatus. FIG. 3A shows a state in which the menu operation of the sentence conversion command is performed in order to give a command of a process of selecting a language part expression to be operated and changing it to a respect expression, and FIG. ) Indicates the details of the language component expression of the operation target and the state in which the surface sentence obtained through the surface sentence generation mechanism is displayed. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an inter-part relationship of the inter-part relationship correspondence table used for the process of changing to a respect expression, and FIG. 5 is a view showing an example of a part of the language part dictionary used for the process of changing to a respect expression. is there. Further, FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of the language part expression after the text expression is changed to the respect expression.

Here, for example, a sentence "Drink coffee" is held in this document creating device, and a case where this sentence expression is converted into a respect expression "please eat coffee" is shown as an example. 3, the operation will be described with reference to FIGS. 4, 5, and 6. In this case, first, as shown in FIG. 3A, the language component expression 31 to be operated is selected, and the sentence conversion command 32 is displayed by the menu bar.
When you select "" with the mouse cursor, the pull-down menu 33 is displayed.
Select and instruct "honorific expression" from 3 with the mouse cursor.
When "honorific expression" is selected, a submenu 34 is further displayed. Here, by selecting and directing "change to respectful expression" with the mouse cursor, a command for changing to respectful expression is given to the command execution mechanism 6. Will be given.

As a result, as shown in FIG. 3B, each language component (hereinafter simply referred to as a component) 35 of the language component representation (hereinafter simply referred to as component representation) 35 of the reference operation object held in the component representation file 1. ) The detailed information of the logical connection of 36, 37, 38 is read out and displayed on the display screen together with the surface sentence 39 obtained through the surface sentence generation mechanism 3.

That is, the surface sentence generation mechanism 3 transfers the connected surface form to the display mechanism 2 according to the order designated by the attribute information of each component which is an element of the component representation and displays the surface type in the component representation 35. . Component representation 3 shown in FIG.
In 5, the three parts 36 that make up this surface representation,
37, and 38, the surface type "coffee",
The character string connected in the order of “” and “drink” is passed to the display mechanism 2. In the display mechanism 2, the character string "Drink coffee" passed by the surface sentence generation mechanism 3 is displayed as the surface sentence 39 in the surface sentence display area.

Here, the user operates the input mechanism 5 to input the data shown in FIG.
When the menu command “change to respect expression” is selected by the operation as described in (A) and a change instruction command is given, the command execution mechanism 6 operates from the command table 7 corresponding to the change instruction command. The operation specification description of the step is taken out. In this case, the description for "change to respect expression" consists of the following three steps, and by changing the expression in this order, the expression is changed. Step (1): Respecting the main verb, Step (2): Adding the command polite expression “please” and serializing the main verb, Step (3): Adding the verb polite expression “o” or “go”.

First, in the respect expression of the main verb in step (1), as shown in FIG.
By referring to the inter-part relationship 40 in FIG. 1, the respected part “consumed” 42 with respect to the part “drink” 41 is extracted. Next, in step (2), as shown in FIG. 5, in order to add the command polite expression “please” and to form the main verb in a plural form, refer to the dictionary information 43 of the part “to eat” in the language part dictionary 8. And then, "consumer" is converted into a "consumer". Then, in the next step (3), referring to the information of the polite affix of the part "Eat" 43 also stored in the language part dictionary 8,
In this case, "O" is the polite expression for "enjoying".
It is determined that is added, and the polite expression "o" is given.

As a result, as shown in FIG. 6, the component expression "Drink coffee" 35 is changed to the component expression "Please eat coffee" 45. In this case, the part “drink” 38 in the part expression 35 here is changed to the part “enjoy” 46, and the part “down” 47 of the polite expression is added. As a result, the surface sentence 48 for the part representation 45 of the new sentence is generated by the surface sentence generation mechanism 3, and the explanatory sentence 49 for this change processing is generated by the explanatory sentence generation mechanism 4 and displayed on the display mechanism 2. To be done.

FIG. 7 is a view for explaining an operation example of component replacement in the case of selecting an appropriate vocabulary in a text expression in document editing by the document creating apparatus of this embodiment. FIG. 7 shows a state in which a menu operation of a component replacement command is performed to give a command for a process of selecting an operation target component expression and selecting an appropriate vocabulary of a sentence expression, and an operation target component expression before conversion. The detailed part structure, surface text, and evaluation are displayed. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of the components of the language component dictionary used in the process of selecting an appropriate vocabulary in text expression, and FIG. 9 is a diagram of an evaluation mechanism that gives a criterion for selecting an appropriate vocabulary in text expression. It is a figure which shows the example of a meaning lattice. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing explanation sentence data for synonyms used in the process of selecting an appropriate vocabulary in the document expression, and FIG. 11 is a diagram after selecting an appropriate vocabulary in the text expression and exchanging parts. It is a figure which shows the state in which the detailed component structure of a component expression, a surface sentence, and evaluation were displayed.

Here, as an example, a case of changing the part expression "let's drink sake" held by this document creating apparatus to the part expression "let's drink alcohol" is shown in FIGS. 7, 8 and 9. The operation will be described with reference to FIGS. 10 and 11. For the command input operation in this case, select the component expression “Let's drink alcohol” as the operation target and select the component conversion command 51 in the menu bar as shown in the upper part of FIG.
When you select with the mouse cursor, the pull-down menu 52 is displayed.
Select "Synonyms" from and select with the mouse cursor. When "synonyms" is selected, a submenu 53 is further displayed. Here, "synonyms selection" is selected and designated by the mouse cursor. As a result, a command for selecting a synonym is given to the command execution mechanism 6 in order to select an appropriate vocabulary in text expression.

In this case, the state before the command is issued is, as shown in the lower part of FIG. 7, the component "liquor" 5 which constitutes the component representation 54 of the operation target held in the component representation file 1.
5, connection parts 56, parts "drink" 57, parts "masu" 5
8 and the part "U" 59 are read out together with detailed information of the logical connection, and displayed on the display screen together with the surface sentence 60 obtained through the surface sentence generating mechanism 3, and further, the explanation sentence generating mechanism 4 By this, an explanation 61 associated with this part representation is generated and displayed, and further, the evaluation mechanism 10
It is displayed together with the evaluation sentence (evaluation message) 62 by.

That is, as in the case described above, the surface sentence generation mechanism 3 connects the surface layer shapes in the component representation in the order designated by the attribute information of each component which is an element of the component representation, and the display mechanism 2 , The surface sentence 60 is displayed. In the parts representation in FIG. 7, the surface-type character strings “liquor”, “”, “drink”, “massho”, and “u” are read in order, and a polite affix “o” is added to connect them. What is done is passed to the display mechanism 2, and the display mechanism 2 displays the passed character string "Let's drink sake" as the surface sentence 60 in the surface sentence display area. Here, the explanation 61 for the component representation 54 generated by the explanation generating mechanism 4 is displayed, and the evaluation message 62 obtained by the evaluation mechanism 10 is also displayed.

The operation of the explanatory sentence generation in the explanatory sentence generation mechanism 4 will be described here. As an example of the component of the language component dictionary 8 used for the process of selecting an appropriate vocabulary in the sentence expression, FIG. Detailed information is shown in FIG.
As shown in, the dictionary content 63 for the component "drink" 57 of the language component dictionary 8 stores information of each dictionary item. Here, for the nuance item of the dictionary information of "drinking", as a description template, "" Liquid (here [target] is put into the body through the mouth. When the liquid is liquor, "Drink" may be used. The message of the character string “” is registered. The explanation sentence generation mechanism 4 obtains the explanation sentence template indicated by “nuance” of the item information of the dictionary information, and expresses the [target] in the explanation sentence template as a part representation. An explanation sentence is generated by substituting “liquor”, which is the target of “drinking”, as a result, as the explanation sentence 61 of the part representation 54 in which the part “drinking” is used, the explanation sentence “liquid (here Then, "Sake" is put into the body through the mouth. When the target is sake, "Swallow" may be used. "Is displayed by the display mechanism 2 in a predetermined display area.

Next, the operation of generating an evaluation sentence in the evaluation mechanism 10 will be described. FIG. 9 shows an example of the meaning lattice of each part that gives the judgment criterion used by the evaluation mechanism 10, and FIG. 10 shows the explanation sentence data for the synonyms used in the process of selecting an appropriate vocabulary in the document expression. 65
An example is shown. The evaluator 10 uses these semantic lattices 64 to generate an evaluation sentence that gives a criterion for selecting an appropriate vocabulary in the text expression. Further, in order to extract all synonyms and the user selects an appropriate vocabulary in the sentence expression, the explanation sentence data 65 is displayed together with the synonyms.

That is, the evaluation mechanism 10 checks the description of the item information (FIG. 8) of the selection restriction in the dictionary content 63 of the component "drink" in the component dictionary 8 as follows. This part "drink" is a verb, and the verb "drink"
Since the meaning category of "liquor", which is the target of "," is "liquor", first select "liquor" from "target" in the description "((target⊆beverage) &(target¬⊆liquor)"" And the judgment is performed based on the selection restriction after replacement. As a criterion for determination, the evaluation mechanism 10 includes a semantic lattice 64 that defines a semi-order relation of semantic categories, as shown in FIG. 9, and it is determined whether or not the description is satisfied using this semantic lattice 64. to decide. In this example, as a result of replacing the object with sake in the description of selection restriction as described above, the description is not satisfied, and it is evaluated as inappropriate.
In this case, since there are more appropriate parts, the evaluation mechanism 6 displays an evaluation message to the user by the display mechanism 2.
It is shown as 2 (FIG. 7).

Here, when the user selects the command "select synonym" with the input mechanism 5 by the above-described operation (FIG. 7) and gives a command for component selection instruction, the command execution mechanism 6 outputs the command table. From step 7, the action specification description of the operation step corresponding to the change instruction command is taken out and the process is executed. That is, here, the user selects the component "drink" 57 by the input mechanism 5 and issues the command "select synonym", so the command execution mechanism 6 uses the inter-component relationship correspondence table (9; FIG. 4). All the synonyms of the part "drink" are extracted, and as shown in FIG. 10, the explanation sentence data for all the synonyms of "drink" are extracted from the parts dictionary 8 and the display mechanism 2 changes each of the synonyms together. The candidates for are displayed and displayed. Then, the input mechanism 5 receives a selection input of a vocabulary having an appropriate sentence expression by the user.

As a result, the component expression "let's drink alcohol" 54 shown in FIG. 7 is changed to the component expression "let's drink alcohol" 66 as shown in FIG. In the changed parts representation 66, the structure of the logical connection is basically unchanged, but the parts "drink" 57 are changed to the parts "swallow" 67. Then, as a result of changing to the part "swallow" 67, the content displayed as the description 68 in this case is from the description template of the information of the item of the nuance of the dictionary content registered for the part "swallow". Instead of the generated description, the description “insert the object (here,“ liquor ”) into the body without chewing. It may be used as a liquid or in the case of sake. Is displayed (see FIG. 10).

As described above, in the process for selecting an appropriate vocabulary in the text expression, the parts group of the synonyms linked in the inter-part relationship correspondence table are extracted, and the difficulty level of the parts in the text expression, Information such as softness and nuance is presented in contrast to allow the user to select an appropriate word. In addition, by supporting the process of selecting the appropriate vocabulary in the text expression for the user by such a method, it is possible to avoid the use of prohibited words and signs that can only be communicated between experts. Become. Further, by having a parts dictionary for each user and a correspondence table between parts, it becomes possible to unify terms.

Next, in the document editing by the parts representation,
An example of an operation for expressing a part in the case of exchanging a subject and exchanging a passive variant with an opposite relation will be described. 12
FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a state of component representation before subject exchange processing in document editing by component representation, and FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of components of a language component dictionary used for subject exchange processing. FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a state of the component representation after the subject exchange process is similarly performed in the document editing by the component representation. FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an example of an inter-part relationship correspondence table used for subject exchange processing.
FIG. 16 is a diagram showing a state of component representation after subject exchange processing is performed by using opposite relation words in document editing by component representation.

With reference to these FIGS. 12 to 16, an example of the operation for expressing the parts when the subject is exchanged and the passive deformation and the opposite relation are exchanged will be described. In the explanation of this subject exchange process, the sentence "Haruki gave Machiko an open heart." This sentence
As shown in FIG. 12, the surface sentence 70 is "Haruki gave Machiko an open heart." In the component representation 71, five components 71a, 71b, 71c, 71 are shown.
The sentences d and 71e are composed by combining the logical connection information. In this sentence, the form is "Haruki is ...", and it is determined that the subject of this sentence is "Haruki".
In the text being edited, if "Haruki" does not appear in the context up to this sentence, it is unnatural that "Haruki" suddenly appears here and becomes the subject. Therefore, when the evaluation mechanism 10 judges this from the structure of the parts representation 71 and the display mechanism 2 displays the parts representation 71 of this sentence, the evaluation contents are shown as the evaluation sentence 72 in the evaluation display area. .

In this example, it is assumed that "Machiko" is the existing information, the refinement with "Machiko" as the subject is performed, and the subject conversion operation is performed. In this case, one way to make the subject of this sentence Machiko into the format "Machiko is ..." is to passivate the original sentence and write the text "Machiko gives Haruki (from) an open heart." Was given. 』And the method. The other method is to use the word "get", which is the opposite of "gift", and say, "Machiko gave Haruki an open heart. 』And the method.

First, the passive modification of the former method will be described. In the part representation 71 of "Haruki gave Machiko an open heart" in this case, as described above, the parts are logically combined to have a logical structure as shown in FIG. Note that the simplified notation is used in FIG. 12, and the label of the property of each component is not described. Although not shown in particular, in this case as well, the user uses the input mechanism 5 to select from the command menu of the edit window.
The command "exchange subject" is issued, and the component "Machiko" 71b is selected as the component to be the subject. The command execution mechanism 6 changes the component representation 71 according to the description of the command table. First (step 1), "passive transformation (recipient subject)" and "use of opposite relation word" are presented as a method of subject exchange. Here, assuming that the user selects "passive transformation (recipient subject)", the command execution mechanism 6 refers to the dictionary contents 73 of the component "gift" from the component dictionary 8 as shown in FIG. Obtain the case pattern for the recipient subject passive voice. Then, the parts representation 71
The connection of the relevant parts in (3) is changed according to this case pattern (step 2). If there are a plurality of case patterns, each of the case patterns is used as a candidate for changing the case pattern, and the expression form is displayed by these candidates.
To display. Then, the user is made to select from among them by using the input mechanism 5. In the case of this example, either the case particle "ni" or "by" for the actor (treated as a case particle) is selected. Here, for example, if the user selects the case particle "ni", a passive auxiliary verb (in this case, "ru") component is added at the end (step 3).

As a result, the changed parts representation is shown in FIG.
The part expression "Haruki gave Machiko an open heart" 71 (Fig. 12) before conversion becomes a part expression "Machiko gave Haruki an open heart" 74. In the modified parts representation 74, each part 7
Although the contents of 1a to 71e do not change, the logical connection structure of each part is changed from the actor to the recipient, and the passive auxiliary verb part "ru" 75 is added. Becomes As a result, as the surface sentence 76, "Machiko gave Haruki an open heart. Is displayed by the display mechanism 2.

Next, the operation of the conversion process in the case where the user selects "use opposite word" as the method of exchanging the subject will be described. In this case, the command execution mechanism 6
As shown in FIG. 15, in the inter-part relationship correspondence table 9, the inter-part relationship (link relationship) 78 that is the opposite part of the corresponding part “gift” 77 is referred to, and the opposite part word for the corresponding part is referred to. For the part "Receive" 79
A process of changing the part to an opposite relation word is performed. In the case of this example, the opposite relation word is obtained from the component “gift” 71d in the component representation 71 before conversion as shown in FIG. 12 by referring to the inter-component relation correspondence table 9. That is, the part which is the opposite relation word of the corresponding component “give” 77 is the inter-part relation 78 of the opposite relation word in the inter-part relation correspondence table 9.
With reference to the link relation of, it is determined that the part is "receive" 79. Further, in this case, the logical connection relationship includes the instruction information for changing the attribute information of the opposite relationship registered in the inter-part relationship correspondence table 9 with the recipient as the actor and the actor as the grantor. Since it has been given, the recipient of the "gift" is changed to the "acceptor" and the actor of the "gift" is changed to the "acceptor".

As a result, the changed parts representation is shown in FIG.
The part expression “Haruki gave Machiko an open heart” 71 (FIG. 12) before conversion becomes a part expression “Machiko received Haruki an open heart” 80. In the changed parts representation 80, the parts 71a ...
Although the content of each of 71c and 71e does not change, the part "give" 71d is changed to the opposite term part "ask" 81, and further, in the structure of the logical connection of each part, the recipient gives it. Changes are made.
As a result, "Machiko gave Haruki an open heart" as the surface sentence 82. Is displayed by the display mechanism 2.

Next, in the document editing by the parts representation,
An operation example in the case of performing a process of combining and dividing sentences for each sentence represented by parts will be described. The document editing process by combining and dividing sentences is an editing operation performed to clarify the relations and viewpoints of sentences by combining sentences and to make too long sentences easy to read by dividing. As an example of the operation here, "(Sentence 1) Haruki gave Machiko an open heart." And "(Sentence 2) He (Haruki) bought it at Tiffany's". An edit operation that combines two sentences shall be performed.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a part representation of two sentences in the edited document before being combined. Parts expressing a sentence (a part expression composed of a logical relationship of basic parts that cannot be further divided can be handled in the same way as a part, so are simply called parts here) are combined in a certain paragraph with some logical relationship. . Surface sentence 83 and surface sentence 84 here
In the edited document, as shown in FIG. 17, the related information parts called “detailed” are used as the parts representation (sentence 1) 85 and the parts representation (sentence 2) 86 as the respective parts. Combined at 87. Related information parts 87
By the property given to the join relation (detailed) of
It can be seen that the sentence of the part expression (sentence 2) 86 describes the "open heart" in the part expression (sentence 1) 85 in detail. Parts such as the part "he" 86a and the part "it" 86b in the sentence of the part representation (sentence 2) 86 are called reference parts and are parts having a pointer to other parts. In the case of this example, these parts respectively indicate the element parts “Haruki” and “Open heart” of the part expression (sentence 1) 85 of the previous sentence.

When combining these two sentences into one sentence, candidate sentences of the combined sentence are the following (example sentence a) to (example sentence d) depending on the difference in the logical connection of the combinations. Sentence can be a candidate as the combined sentence. In other words, (example sentence a) Haruki gave Machiko the open heart bought at Tiffany. (Example sentence b) Haruki bought the open heart given to Machiko at Tiffany. (Example sentence c) Haruki bought an open heart at Tiffany and gave it to Machiko. (Example sentence d) Haruki bought an open heart at Tiffany to give to Machiko.

By the way, in the case of this example, the connection relation of the two sentences is such that "(sentence 2) refines the component" open heart "in (sentence 1)". Therefore, (example sentence a) is found to be the most appropriate here. Therefore, in this example, although not shown, when the user specifies the (sentence 1) and (sentence 2) and issues the command "combined into one sentence" by the command operation as described above, the parts representation of two sentences is performed. Is combined and converted into a parts representation 88 as shown in FIG.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an example of a part representation of a compound sentence in which simple sentences are combined by the sentence combining process. As shown in FIG. 18, a part representation 8 composed of sentences combined
In FIG. 8, the component 90 of the sentence of the combination of the basic components is a logical connection relationship that modifies the component “open heart” 89, and the component representation is a state in which the component components are combined. In the part representation 88, the part 91 indicated as 0-PRO means a part omitted in the text (one of the reference parts), and is a part having no surface layer type.

In Japanese sentences, proper omissions play an important role in increasing readability. For this reason, in the evaluation mechanism 10, when parts having the same meaning (parts in which one has a pointer to the other) overlap, it is judged to be redundant, and the command execution mechanism 6 is notified. In order to avoid an expression in which the parts having the same meaning are duplicated and redundant, the command execution mechanism 6 uses the part "he" 86 in the statement combining process.
At the same time that a is exchanged for the 0-PRO part 91, φ is given to the case particle property of the connection relationship, to show that there is no particle here. Further, in the part representation 88 here, the part 92 indicated as GAP is also one of the reference parts not shown in the text, and is a part having no surface layer type. The component “GAP” 92 exchanged corresponding to the component “it” 86b before the binding conversion is a component having a pointer to a modified element (here, “open heart”) corresponding to an English antecedent. , The connection case property is φ. The section "Buy at Tiffany" created in this way also becomes a part 90. Here, the part "Open Heart" 89 is modified by a logical connection relationship of "detailing".

By the way, there is a possibility that the sentence (example sentence a) of the part representation 88 obtained in this way is taken by "Machiko ni" to "buy". This is because there is a possibility that "buy" will also have a recipient personality.
Examines the case pattern of the part "buy" 93 to determine that "buy" may also have the recipient's personality. As a result, in this sentence, "to Machiko" can be both "buy" and "gift".
0 further determines that this sentence has ambiguity and notifies the command execution mechanism 6. The command execution mechanism 6 replaces the order of the elements connected to “gift” according to the case pattern obtained from the parts dictionary 8, and the evaluation mechanism 10 selects the order.
All the items that are determined to be suitable for are presented to the user as candidates, and the user is allowed to select them. Such a sentence combining process is performed, and as a result, a parts representation 88 is obtained.
Surface sentence "Haruki gave Machiko the open heart that she bought at Tiffany. ] 94 is displayed. It should be noted that "Haruki ha" may be both "buy" and "gift", but here, the part 91 of 0-PRO, which is the actor's character of "buy" 93, is "Haruki". Therefore, the evaluation mechanism 10 determines that there is no problem even if they appear to hang on both. The evaluation content evaluated by the evaluation mechanism 10 is displayed on the display mechanism 2 as an evaluation sentence 95.

In the above description, the command execution mechanism 6 is activated by the evaluation transmitted from the evaluation mechanism 10,
Although a conversion method is described in which the process of combining conversion of sentences is sequentially progressed, the contents of the evaluation from the evaluation mechanism 10 here are simply presented on the display mechanism 2 and the subsequent processing is performed. The activation of the command may be left to the user who sees the message of the evaluation sentence 92. In FIG. 18, reference numeral 96 indicates a division point when dividing a complex sentence into two sentences, which will be described later in the sentence dividing process, and the division indicated before the sentence dividing operation is performed. It is a point.

Further, in the above description, regarding the two sentences to be combined in the edited document, the relation between the two sentences is given as "detailed" by the preliminary inter-part relation 78 (FIG. 17). ) Has been explained, but if such a relationship between two sentences is not given in advance, the command execution mechanism 6 will
As a pre-process for analyzing the logical connection between the parts of one sentence and performing the combining process, the user is presented with the inter-part relationships that can be combined, and an interface function is provided to select them. In this case, it is the reverse of the case described above. For example, the user uses the input mechanism 5 to select "inter-sentence relationship: refinement", and (Sentence 1) has "Sentence (Open Heart)". ) ”Is specified as
By the conversion process of sentence combination, a component representation 97 as shown in FIG. 19 is obtained.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing another example of a part representation of a compound sentence in which simple sentences are combined by the sentence combining process. In the part representation 97 in which the sentences here are combined, as shown in FIG. 19, (sentence 1) of the part representation 85 is made into a part,
It becomes the part 98 in the section "Gived to Machiko", and the inter-sentence relation modifies the part "Open Heart" 99 by the logical connection relation "refining". As a result, in the part representation 97 in which the sentence combination conversion processing has been performed, the part “open heart” 99 corresponding to the part “it (open heart)” 86b in (sentence 2) is replaced with the basic part according to (sentence 1). The parts 98 of the sentence of the combination are in a state of being connected by a logical connection that becomes a modifying relation, and in the form of the surface sentence 100, "Haruki bought the open heart given to Machiko at Tiffany's" (example sentence b). ). In addition, also in the component representation 97, the component indicated by 0-PRO is a component omitted in the sentence and has no surface layer type.

Further, in the process of converting two sentences into a combined parts expression, as another example of the logical connection relationship in the parts expression, "Haruki bought Open Heart at Tiffany to give to Machiko. ] (Example sentence d) will be described as an operation example. In this case, the inter-sentence relationship between the two sentences before combination is such that (sentence 1) indicates the purpose of (sentence 2). Even when such a process of combining statements is performed, the command execution mechanism 6 performs the same process as described above.
Before the user starts the desired combining process, it analyzes the logical connection relationship of the parts of one sentence and presents the user with the possible inter-part relationships as a pre-process before performing the combining process. "Inter-sentence relationship: purpose" is selected as the logical connection between the parts of the two sentences, and (statement 1) represents (modifies) the purpose of "buying" in (statement 2).
Specify that. As a result, the conversion process of the connection between the two sentences is performed with the "inter-sentence relation: purpose".

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing another example of a multi-sentence part representation in which simple sentences are combined by the sentence combining process.
In the parts representation 101 in which the sentences here are combined, 2
Two sentences are combined with the relationship between the two sentences as the "purpose".
In this case, as shown in FIG. 20, the (sentence 1) of the parts representation 85 is made into a part, and the part 102 called “Give to Machiko” 102
Therefore, the part “buy” 103 is modified by the logical relational relationship that the inter-sentence relation is “purpose”. As a result,
In the part representation 101 in which the sentence combination conversion processing has been performed, the form of the surface sentence 104 is "Haruki bought Open Heart at Tiffany to give to Machiko. ] (Example sentence d)
Becomes That is, in the part representation 101 in a state where two sentences are combined, (sentence 1) becomes (sentence 2) as shown in FIG.
It becomes a state of being connected by a logical connection that is connected by the case relation of "purpose" to "buying".

Next, an example of operation for dividing a plurality of single sentences while reversing a sentence of a multi-part component expression will be described. In this description, FIGS. 17 and 18 described above will be described with reference to the drawings. Here, a sentence is divided from the sentence of the part representation 88 having the logical connection relation of the complex sentence as shown in FIG. 18, and two sentences having the logical connection relation of the complex sentence as shown in FIG. 17 are divided. Parts representation 85 and parts representation 86
The case of dividing into two will be described as an example.

In the sentence division operation, a parts representation 88 as shown in FIG. 18 is given, and the user issues the command "sentence division" using the user interface function as described above. When the cut point 96 for splitting into two sentences is designated, the sentence is split and converted to a parts representation 85 and a parts representation 86 as shown in FIG. In this case, the reference part “0-PRO” 91 that was pointing to “Haruki” is converted to the reference part “he” 8
6a, and the conversion processing of converting the reference component "GAP" 92 that was pointing to "open heart" into the reference component "it" 86b. In this conversion process, it can be known that "Haruki" is a human being and a male by the attribute of each component stored in the language component dictionary 8, and in this case, the reference component "he" is qualified. Determine that there is.

Reference parts having the same meaning as the reference part "he" include "guy" and "fair", and these nuances are different. The command execution mechanism 6
The user is referred to the inter-part relationship correspondence table 9 as shown in FIG. 21, the synonym of the reference part "he" is referred to by the inter-part relationship pointer 105, and the synonym of the reference part "he" is referred to. And extract all
The display mechanism 2 presents and displays the candidates for the change together with each explanation. In this way, the reference parts “she” and the reference part “aitsu”, which are synonymous with each other, are added and shown as the conversion candidates of the reference part “0-PRO” 91 to be selected by the user. In order to allow the user to efficiently select such a candidate for component conversion, as shown in FIG. 21, a preference field 106 is set as one field of the inter-component relationship correspondence table 9, and the component conversion is performed. One of them may always be selected as the default candidate selection. This allows efficient selection of candidates for component conversion.

As described above, according to the document creating apparatus of the present embodiment, the sentence and the sentence in the document are in the form of the language part expression expressed by a plurality of language parts and their logical connection relationships. And is edited. In this case, the language component representation is displayed by the display mechanism together with the surface sentence obtained by the surface sentence generation mechanism, so that the contents of the sentence and the sentence can be confirmed together with the logical structure of the concept. Then, editing operations such as moving, transferring, exchanging, and changing relationships in parts are performed to create sentences or sentences. When a sentence or a sentence is changed, the description of the expression effect added to the sentence or the sentence is generated as an explanatory sentence explaining the effect of the language component expression on the linguistic expression, and displayed to the user.
At the same time, an evaluation for the changed sentence or sentence is obtained. Therefore, the user repeatedly makes changes to the language part expression, sees the change in the effect on the expression, and by referring to the explanation and the evaluation, selects the expression most suitable for his or her intention and Can be efficiently performed.

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As described above, according to the document creating apparatus of the present invention, the user changes the expression of a language part of a sentence to a sentence expression by performing an operation on the part when creating the document. You can see the effect of the change on the text expression. By selecting a text expression, changing the text expression, and repeating a series of operations such as reading back, the user can efficiently perform the elaboration work in the text creation.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a main part of a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention,

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of an edit screen in the document creating apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention,

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining an operation example in the case of changing a text expression to a respect expression in document editing by a document creation device;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an inter-part relationship of an inter-part relationship correspondence table used for a process of changing to a respect expression,

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a component of a language component dictionary used for a process of changing to a respect expression,

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a language part expression after the text expression is changed to a respect expression;

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an operation example of component replacement when selecting an appropriate vocabulary in text expression in document editing by the document creating apparatus according to the present embodiment;

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a component of a language component dictionary used for a process of selecting an appropriate vocabulary in a sentence expression,

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a semantic lattice of an evaluation mechanism that provides a criterion for selecting an appropriate vocabulary in text expression,

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing explanatory note data for synonyms used in a process of selecting an appropriate vocabulary in a document expression,

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a state in which a detailed part structure, a surface sentence, and an evaluation of the part expression after selecting an appropriate vocabulary in the text expression and replacing the part are displayed.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a state of component representation before subject exchange processing in document editing by component representation;

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of components of a language component dictionary used for subject exchange processing;

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a state of component representation after subject exchange processing is similarly performed in document editing by component representation,

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an example of an inter-part relationship correspondence table used for subject exchange processing;

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing a state of component representation after subject exchange processing is performed by using opposite relation words in document editing by component representation;

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a part representation of two sentences in an edited document before combination.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an example of a part expression of a compound sentence in which simple sentences are combined by a sentence combining process;

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing another example of a multi-sentence component representation in which simple sentences are combined by sentence combining processing;

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing another example of a part representation of a compound sentence in which simple sentences are combined by a sentence combining process;

FIG. 21 is a diagram illustrating a modified example of the inter-component relationship correspondence table in which a preference field is provided as one field for inter-part relationship correspondence.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Component expression document file, 2 ... Display mechanism, 3 ... Surface sentence generation mechanism, 4 ... Explanation sentence generation mechanism, 5 ... Input mechanism, 6 ... Command execution mechanism, 7 ... Command table, 8 ... Language component dictionary, 9 ... Language component relation correspondence table, 10 ... Evaluation mechanism, 11 ... Language component, 12 ... Logical connection relation, 2
0 ... edit window, 21 ... menu bar, 22 ... document file window, 23 ... file name display bar, 24
... surface sentence display area, 25 (25a, 25b) ... language component expression, 26 ... evaluation display area, 27 ... explanatory text display area, 3
1 ... language part expression, 32 ... sentence conversion command, 33 ... pull-down menu, 34 ... submenu, 35 ... language part expression (part expression), 36 ... part "coffee", 37 ... connection part, 38 ... part "drink" , 39 ... Surface sentence, 40 ... Relationship between parts, 41, 42 ... Parts, 43 ... Dictionary information, 45 ...
Component expression, 46 ... Component "Eat", 47 ... Component "Down", 48 ... Surface sentence, 49 ... Explanatory text, 51 ... Component conversion command, 52 ... Pulldown menu, 53 ... Submenu, 54 ... Component expression, 55 ... Part "liquor", 56 ... Connection part, 57 ... Part "drink", 58 ... Auxiliary verb part "masu", 59 ... Auxiliary verb part "U", 60 ... Surface sentence, 61 ...
Explanatory text, 62 ... Evaluation text (evaluation message), 63 ... Dictionary content, 64 ... Semantic lattice, 65 ... Explanatory text data, 66
... part representation, 67 ... part "swallow", 68 ... description, 69
... surface sentence, 70 ... surface sentence, 71 ... part representation, 71a ... part "Haruki", 71b ... part "Machiko", 71c ... part "open heart", 71d ... part "gift", 71e ...
Parts "ta", 72 ... Evaluation sentence, 73 ... Dictionary contents, 74 ... Parts expression, 75 ... Parts "re", 76 ... Surface sentence, 77 ... Parts "gift", 78 ... Relationship between parts, 79 ... Parts "get" , 80 ... representation of parts, 81 ... reception of parts, 82 ...
Surface sentence, 83 ... Surface sentence, 84 ... Surface sentence, 85 ... Parts expression, 86 ... Parts expression, 86a ... Reference parts "he", 86b
Reference component “it”, 87 ... Inter-sentence connection information, 88 ... Component expression, 89 ... Component “open heart”, 90 ... Component expression (combined component), 91 ... Reference component “0-PRO”, 92
... Reference component "GAP", 94 ... Surface sentence, 95 ... Evaluation sentence,
96 ... Dividing point, 97 ... Parts representation, 98 ... Combination parts, 9
9 ... Parts "Open Heart", 100 ... Surface sentence, 101
... part representation, 102 ... combined part, 103 ... part "buy", 104 ... surface sentence, 105 ... interpart relation pointer,
106 ... Preference field.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A document file that holds a sentence or a sentence in a document in a language component expression that is expressed by a logical relationship of concepts, a sentence generation unit that generates a sentence or a sentence from the language component expression, and a language component expression. And a language component dictionary that stores a set of language components that are elements of a language component expression. 2. The document creating apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising display means for displaying a sentence or a sentence obtained by the sentence generating means in association with a language component expression. 3. An explanation sentence generating means for generating an explanation sentence for explaining a difference in linguistic expression between language parts expressions, wherein the display means displays the explanation sentence. Document preparation device described in. 4. The document creation device according to claim 2, further comprising an inter-part relationship correspondence table that holds a relationship between language parts stored in the language part dictionary. 5. The document creating apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising an evaluation unit that evaluates the quality of a sentence or a sentence according to a predetermined standard.