JPH0715693B2 - Document editing device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Industrial field of application) The present invention has a high function, which is widely used in the fields of business, research, education, etc. and is characterized by supporting the creation of atypical documents. Regarding word processors.

(Conventional Technology) With the maturation of kana-kanji conversion technology and the rapid spread of word processors, there is an increasing demand for higher-performance text creation support tools. Therefore, recently, syntactic and semantic analysis has been incorporated into the Kana-Kanji conversion technology, and unification and conversion of styles that can be processed at the character string level such as "damasu" and "is" for documents that have been edited. A number of word processors have been commercialized that have functions and further have an outline processor function that reduces the trouble of changing chapters.

(Problems to be solved by the invention) However, even when making full use of these functions, for example, when the affirmative at the end of a sentence is changed to a negation, the paradoxical conjunctive "but" of the sentence is forgotten to be reviewed, It is not possible to prevent editing mistakes such as those caused by forgetting to change the interlocking structure of sentence connections and anaphora. In other words, there is an indispensable but extremely complicated task of editing a document, always paying close attention to changes in the structure of sentence connections and anaphora. It has the disadvantage of not being able to concentrate on thoughts.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a document editing device that can relieve the user from such complicated work.

(Means for Solving the Problem) A document editing apparatus of the present invention for solving the above-mentioned problems is
Each has the following features.

A first aspect of the present invention is a document editing apparatus having a function of creating / editing electronic text, in which morphological analysis processing and syntax structure estimation processing are performed on input document data or a read document file. The document includes an internal representation creating unit that creates an internal representation of the document based on the result, and an internal representation storing unit that stores the internal representation output from the internal representation creating unit and updates the internal representation according to a request from the outside. Connection and anaphoric interlocking relations between each part of (, "If ... If ...", "Never ...", "First ... Second ... Third" A connection that indicates the relationship between sentence elements that appear in pairs in a sentence, such as "..."
An internal connection in the internal expression storage means, which comprises connection connection inference means for inferring anaphoric relationship information based on the information of the connectives / pronouns and function words corresponding to these and storing it in the internal expression in the internal expression storage means. The content before the editing in the internal expression storage means is provided with display editing means for displaying a document corresponding to the expression to the user and updating the internal expression in the internal expression storage means in response to the editing of the display content by the user. By comparing the internal expression saving means for holding the internal expression saving means and the internal expression in the internal expression saving means with the internal expression in the internal expression storing means after editing, the inconsistency information of the document generated by the editing by the user is detected. The inconsistency detecting means for detecting and the inconsistency saving means for storing the output information of the inconsistency detecting means and in what case the information is not stored are provided. By providing the inconsistency information from the inconsistency detecting means or the inconsistency saving means, the display control means for correcting the inconsistency by using the grammar rule and the document format rule, and the resolution result display means for displaying the result of the inconsistency resolution. The feature is to prevent the user from leaving the document being edited with inconsistency regarding connection / anaphora relation information between each part of the document.

In a second aspect based on the first aspect, instead of the resolution result displaying means, the inconsistency information is received from the inconsistency detecting means or the inconsistency saving means and the contents of the grammar rule and the document format rule are used. By providing a solution selection means that displays several methods to correct the inconsistency and prompts the user to select, inconsistencies regarding connection / anaphora relation information between parts of the document can be added to the document being edited by the user. It is characterized by preventing it from being left as it is.

In a third aspect based on the first aspect, instead of the resolution result displaying means, the inconsistency information from the inconsistency detecting means or the inconsistency saving means is received to store the contents of the grammar rule storage and the document format rule. By using the inconsistency indication means to point out inconsistencies by using it, it is possible to prevent the user from leaving the imperfect signature related to the connection / anaphora relation information between the parts of the document in the document being edited. Is characterized by.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect, the inconsistency detection is provided by providing an edit unit recognition means for recognizing a meaningful group of edit units by analyzing a command execution sequence and a keystroke sequence of a user. It is characterized in that the means has improved the function of detecting inconsistency with higher accuracy.

In a fifth aspect based on the first aspect, by analyzing a command execution sequence and a keystroke sequence of the user, a certain edit timing is a timing suitable for pointing out the inconsistency elimination result or the inconsistency itself to the user. By providing a pointing timing determination means for determining whether or not
It is characterized in that the inconsistency pointing means is improved in function to point out the inconsistency at a more appropriate timing.

A sixth aspect of the present invention is the first aspect of the present invention, further including the resolution method selection means and the irregularity sign pointing means, which of the resolution result display means, the resolution method selection means, and the inconsistency pointing means is effective. By providing a mode selection unit that allows the user to select, the feature is that the editing mode suitable for the individuality of the user can be selected.

A seventh invention is the second invention which also comprises the solution result display means and the inconsistency pointing means, and displays the solution result using the result selected by the user at the time of editing the solution method selection means as teacher data. By providing a mode automatic switching means for switching between enabling and disabling each of the means, the solution method selecting means, and the inconsistency indicating means,
The feature is that the function is improved so that the editing mode suitable for the individuality of the user will be learned.

According to an eighth invention, in the second invention, the inconsistency detection is provided by providing an edit unit recognition means for recognizing a meaningful group of edit units by analyzing a command execution sequence and a keystroke sequence of a user. It is characterized in that the means has improved the function of detecting inconsistency with higher accuracy.

In a ninth aspect based on the second aspect, by analyzing the command execution sequence and the keystroke sequence of the user, a certain edit timing is appropriate timing for pointing out the result of the inconsistency elimination or the inconsistency itself to the user. By providing a pointing timing determination means for determining whether or not
It is characterized in that the inconsistency pointing means is improved in function to point out the inconsistency at a more appropriate timing.

In a tenth aspect based on the third aspect, the inconsistency detection is provided by providing an edit unit recognition means for recognizing a meaningful group of edit units by analyzing a command execution sequence and a keystroke sequence of a user. It is characterized in that the means has improved the function of detecting inconsistency with higher accuracy.

In the eleventh invention, in the third invention, by analyzing the command execution sequence and the keystroke sequence of the user, a certain edit timing is a timing suitable for pointing out the inconsistency elimination result or the inconsistency itself to the user. By providing a pointing timing determination means for determining whether or not
It is characterized in that the inconsistency pointing means is improved in function to point out the inconsistency at a more appropriate timing.

A twelfth aspect of the invention is an apparatus further comprising the resolution result display means according to the second aspect, wherein the result selected by the user at the time of editing the resolution method selection means is used as teacher data, the resolution result display means, the resolution direction. It is characterized by improving the function that the edit mode suitable for the individuality of the user is learned by providing the mode automatic switching means for switching the selection means between valid and invalid.

A thirteenth invention is the device further comprising the inconsistency pointing means in the second invention, wherein the result selected by the user at the time of editing the resolution method selecting means is teacher data,
By providing a mode automatic switching means for switching between enabling and disabling the means, it is characterized in that the editing mode suitable for the individuality of the user is learned.

(Operation) According to the present invention, by combining and operating the above-mentioned means, for example, when the affirmative at the end of a sentence is changed to a negative, the paradoxical conjunctive “but” at the beginning of the sentence is forgotten to be reviewed. It is possible to prevent editing errors caused by forgetting to interlock and change the structure of connection and anaphora, that is, many inconsistencies found in the text editing result. As a result, the user can concentrate his / her thoughts on the content of the document.

(Example) Next, the Example of this invention is described with reference to drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document editing apparatus which is an embodiment of the present invention. 2 (a), (b),
(C) shows the contents of each internal expression creating means 1, the connection relation inferring means 3, and the inconsistency detecting means 5. Further, FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram showing an operation flow of system initialization when a document is input from a file. Fourth
FIG. 5 shows an example of an input sentence and an example of an internal expression created by analyzing it by the internal expression creating means 1. FIG. 5 shows an example of user's editing and the corresponding system operation.

When there is an input document from a file, this apparatus creates the internal structure of the input document as follows according to the operation flow of system initialization shown in FIG.

An input document from a file, for example, the input sentence shown in FIG.
, The internal expression creating means 1 performs morphological analysis and syntactic structure estimation processing on the input document to create the internal expression shown in FIG. 4 (b) (S1 in FIG. 3). At this time, the internal expression creation rule shown in FIG. 2 (a) is applied. For example, the input sentence shown in FIG.
The paragraph-level internal representation of FIG. 4 (b) is created by the rule (i) of FIG. (A), and the sentence-level internal representation of FIG. 4 (b) is created by (ii) of FIG. 2 (b). Created and second
The phrase-level internal representation of FIG. 4B is created by (iii) of FIG. The created internal representation is sent to and stored in the internal representation storage means 2 via the data line 102 (S2 in FIG. 3).

The created internal representation is simultaneously input to the connection relation inference means 3 via the data line 103, and the connection relation inference means 3 is input.
Applies the connection relation inference rule shown in FIG. 2 (b) to create the connection / anaphora relation shown in FIG. 4 (c). That is, according to the rule (i) of FIG. 2 (b), the (relationship i) of FIG. 4 (c) is changed to the (relationship ii) of FIG. 2 (b) (ii).
However, according to rule (iii) in Figure 2 (b) (relationship iii)
Are created respectively. The created connection / anaphoric expression is sent to the internal expression storage means 2 via the data line 302, and is stored in combination with the already-stored internal expression of FIG. 4 (b). Further, this internal representation is sent to the display editing means 4 through the data line 204 and presented to the user (S in FIG. 3).
3). In this way, the system initialization is completed.

Next, an example of editing by the user in the steady editing state will be described. First, the user rewrites the sentence end of sentence 1 in FIG. 4 through the display / editing means 4 as shown in FIG. 5 (a). At this time, at least the inside of the sentence 1 among the internal expressions is saved from the internal expression storing means 2 to the internal expression saving means 8 through the data line 208. Then, the sentence 1 rewritten as shown in FIG.
1 is sent to the internal expression creating means 1, and only the sentence 1 is recreated by inferring the connection / anaphora relationship by the connection relationship inferring means 3 in the same procedure as in FIG. Store in 2.

Here, the inconsistency detecting means 5 includes the data line 205 and the data line 5.
Through 08, the internal representation of sentence 1 in the internal representation storage unit 2 (including the connection / anaphoric representation) and the internal representation of sentence 1 in the internal representation saving unit 8 are compared, and the second result is compared. The inconsistency detection rule described in FIG. That is, rule 1 “If“ hypothesis ”remains” & “hypothesis” is negative and positive inversion of the related phrase then “hypothesis” is changed to “concession” [no user inquiries] is applied and data is internally transmitted through the data line 205. The relevant part of the internal expression of the sentence 1 in the expression storage means 2 is updated.
Through the display control means 9 through rule 1 in FIG. 2 (c)
To send. Here, the display control means 9 decodes the instruction of "change [no inquiry to the user]" in Rule 1, and as a result, the resolution result display means 11 through the data line 911.
Send rule 1 to. The solution result display means 11 rewrites the rule 1 into the expression for the user "I changed" assumption "to" concession "" and sends it to the display editing means 4 through the data line 911 and the data line 409 and displays it.

At the same time, the display control means 9 outputs the internal representation of the sentence 1 in the internal representation storage means 2 (which has already been updated according to the rule 1) to the display editing means 4 through the data line 204. The storage means 2 is instructed.
In response to this instruction, the internal representation storage unit 2 causes the data line 204
FIG. 5 (a) displayed on the display editing means 4 via
Is rewritten to the display of FIG.

The inconsistency detection means 5 further determines from the comparison result that the "never" portion remaining in sentence 1, that is, the "complete negation" portion shown in FIG. Two
Apply.

Rule 2 "If" complete negation "disappears, then the user's confirmation is required about" the complete negation should be erased. "Here, the inconsistency detection means 5 asks the display control means 9 through the data line 509. Send rule 2 in FIG. 2 (c). Here, the display control means 9 deciphers the instruction "request user confirmation" in rule 2, and as a result sends rule 2 to the solution method selection means 12 through the data line 912. The resolution method selecting means 12 expresses the rule 2 as an expression ""
Are you sure you want to delete? Yes (CR) / No ”is rewritten and sent to the display / editing means 4 through the data line 912 and the data line 409 for display.

The user who sees this display, for example, presses the return key (CR) to mean "yes". This input is sent from the display editing means 4 to the display control means 9 through the data line 409. As a result, the display control means 9 updates the relevant part of the internal expression of the sentence 1 in the internal expression storage means 2 through the data line 902, that is, deletes "never" of "complete negation" and immediately outputs the result to the data. It is sent to the display editing means 4 through the line 204, and the display of the sentence 1 is updated to that shown in FIG. 5 (c).

Even if the inconsistency detecting means 5 can detect some inconsistency, there is a case in which unlike the rules 1 and 2 described above, it is not possible to present a method for eliminating the injustice. For example, in the input sentence of FIG. 4, when the user rewrites the phrase 41 of the sentence 4 into "a true correct idea", the inconsistency detecting means 5 updates the internal expression storing means 2 and the internal expression save. Taking the difference from the means 8, it is detected that the anaphoric relationship between the phrase 41 and the phrase 42 as shown in FIG. 4 (c) is broken, and the following in FIG. 2 (c) is detected. Rule 3 applies.

Rule 3 “If the anaphoric relationship is cut off then blinks the relevant portion to point out the possibility of inconsistency” Here, the inconsistency detection means 5 is shown to the display control means 9 through the data line 509 in FIG. Rule 3 is sent. Here, the display control means 9 “points out the possibility” in Rule 3.
The rule 3 is transmitted to the inconsistency indicating means 13 through the data line 913 as a result. The inconsistency indication means 13 rewrites Rule 3 into the expression for the user "Is the correspondence of the blinking part misaligned?" And rewrites the data line 913 and the data line 409.
Through the display editing means 4 and display. At this time, at the same time, the display control means 9 deciphers the "blink the corresponding part" of the rule 3 and reads from the internal expression storing means 2 the corresponding parts of the phrase 41 and the phrase "thinking" and "the The process of blinking by the display / editing means 4 is performed through the data lines 902 and 204. The user continues to edit with reference to this display as appropriate.

For example, just before Rule 1 is applied above, the user may erase the three characters to the right of "Wouldn't be grabbed" by one character from the right, and then "May not be missing." It is assumed that "no" is inserted character by character. In this case, each time one character is erased or inserted, the edit unit recognition means 14 notified from the display / editing means 4 via the data line 4014 of the occurrence of the erasure or insertion of the data line 1409,
The internal representation in the internal representation storage means 2 is inspected via the data line 902, and it is checked whether or not the alteration by the phrase unit or more has occurred. Only when this occurs, the internal expression storage means 2 is updated by the internal expression storage means 2 and the subsequent internal expression storage means 2 by the inconsistency detection means 5 as "a batch of edits has been performed by the user" for the first time. A series of operations starting from the comparison between the contents of the above and the contents of the internal expression saving means 8 are started. The editing unit recognition means 14 uses a data line as necessary.
Through 4014 and the data line 401, the internal display creating means 1 is instructed to recreate the internal representation in the vicinity where the erasure or insertion has occurred.

In any of the above cases where Rule 1, Rule 2, and Rule 3 are applied, the applied result is immediately presented to the user through the display / editing means 4. On the other hand, the pointing timing determination means 15 temporarily stores it in the mismatch saving means 6 through the data line 506 even if the rule of the mismatch detecting means 5 can be applied. In this way, a series of user's operations of some kind to the display / editing means 4 are monitored for being sent through the data lines 4014 and 4015. Here, the certain type of series of operations is, for example, a kind in which the user moves the edited portion to another paragraph and performs the operation five times or more. Only after confirming the execution of this series of operations, the pointing timing determination means 15 executes the rule stored in the mismatch saving means 6. In addition, the example of the series of operations described above was set to indirectly infer that the user is likely not aware of the occurrence of inconsistency,
The function of the pointing timing determination means 15 is shown.

The user can instruct the mode selecting means 16 from the display editing means 4 through the data line 416 to select the editing mode. That is, for example, when the user specifies a mode in which the elimination of the inconsistency is unnecessary, the elimination method selection display is not required, and the inconsistency is not indicated, the mode selection means 16 causes the elimination result display means 11 and the elimination method selection means through the data line 1609. 12. The function of the inconsistency pointing means 13 can be cut off from the display control means 9. As a result, even if the rule of the inconsistency detecting means 5 satisfies the application condition, the rule is not actually applied. The mode selecting means 16 can be cut off from a plurality of functions, or can be restored to the opposite.

The mode automatic switching means 17 uses the data line 1709 to
The user receives the menu selection result from the solution method selection means 12 sent from the display editing means 4 to the display control means 9 through the data line 409, and stores the history thereof. Then, the rule held by itself is applied to the history, and when the condition is satisfied, the mode automatic switching means 17 causes the resolution result display means 1 to pass through the data line 1709 according to the content of the rule.
1. The display control means 9 is instructed to disconnect or restore the functions of the resolution method selection means 12 and the inconsistency pointing means 13.

In the above description, an input document consisting of only sentences, that is, text strings has been described as a string, but the present invention is applicable not only to that but also to general documents including diagrams. For example, as the content of the connection relation inference means 3, it is inferred that "all kanji strings with numbers at the end in the sentence must appear somewhere in the chart, and vice versa." When the rules are stored, it is possible to point out an inconsistency that the drawing and the text cannot be matched when gradually writing a document such as a patent specification.

(Effects of the Invention) According to the present invention, due to the effects described in the above embodiments, for example, when the affirmative at the end of a sentence is changed to a negative, the conjunctive "but" in the paradox of the sentence is forgotten to be reviewed. , It is possible to prevent many editing errors caused by forgetting to interlock and change the structure of connection / anaphora of sentences, that is, many inconsistencies found in the document editing results. As a result, the user can concentrate his / her thoughts on the content of the document.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document editing apparatus which is an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 shows the contents of the internal representation creating means 1, the connection relation inferring means 3, and the inconsistency detecting means 5. Further, FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram showing an operation flow of system initialization when a document is input from a file. FIG. 4 shows an example of an input sentence and an example of an internal expression created by analyzing it by the internal expression creating means 1. FIG. 5 shows an example of user's editing and system operation corresponding thereto. is there. In the figure, 1 ... internal representation creating means, 2 ... internal representation storing means, 3
...... Connection relation inference means, 4 ... Display editing means, 5 ... Inconsistency detection means, 6 ... Inconsistency saving means, 7 ... Document output means, 8 ... Internal expression saving means, 9 ... Display control means,
11 …… Solution result display means, 12 …… Solution method selection means, 13
…… Inconsistency indication means, 14 …… Edit unit recognition means, 15 ……
Pointing timing determination means, 16 ... Mode selection means, 17 ...
... Mode automatic switching means.

Claims (13)

[Claims] 1. A document editing apparatus having a function of creating / editing electronic text, wherein morphological analysis processing and syntactic structure estimation processing are performed on input document data or a read document file, and the result is obtained. Each part of the document is provided with an internal expression creating means for creating an internal expression of the document based on the internal expression storing means for storing the internal expression output from the internal expression creating means and updating the internal expression according to a request from the outside. Connection showing the interlocking relation between anaphora and anaphora, and anaphoric relation information is inferred based on the information of connectives / pronouns and their corresponding function phrases and stored in the internal representation in the internal representation storing means. The inference means is provided, the document corresponding to the internal representation in the internal representation storing means is displayed to the user, and the internal representation is provided in response to the editing of the display content by the user. An internal expression saving means for updating the internal expression in the storing means, which holds the contents before editing in the internal expression storing means, and an internal expression in the internal expression saving means and the internal after editing By comparing the internal expression in the expression storage means with the inconsistency detection means for detecting the inconsistency information of the document caused by the editing by the user, and the output information of this inconsistency detection means is stored in any case. In case of not storing, it is provided with inconsistency saving means, receives inconsistency information from the inconsistency detecting means or inconsistency saving means, and displays inconsistency using grammar rules and document format rules. A document editing apparatus comprising: a control means and a solution result display means for displaying a result of solution of a mismatch. 2. The document editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein inconsistency information from the inconsistency detecting means or the inconsistency saving means is received in place of the resolution result displaying means, and the contents of the grammar rule and the document format rule are displayed. A document editing apparatus, comprising: a solution method selecting unit that displays a number of methods for correcting inconsistencies by using the solution method and prompts the user to make a selection. 3. The document editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein inconsistency information from the inconsistency detecting means or the inconsistency saving means is received in place of the resolution result displaying means to store grammar rules and document format rules. A document editing apparatus, characterized by comprising an inconsistency indicating means for indicating an inconsistency by using the contents of the above. 4. The document editing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising edit unit recognition means for recognizing a meaningful group of edit units by analyzing a command execution sequence and a keystroke sequence of a user. Characteristic document editing device. 5. The document editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein by analyzing a user's command execution sequence and keystroke sequence, a certain editing timing is appropriate for pointing out to the user the result of inconsistency elimination or the inconsistency itself. A document editing apparatus further comprising pointing timing determination means for determining whether it is timing. 6. The document editing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a resolution method selecting means and the inconsistency pointing means.
A document editing apparatus comprising: a mode selection unit that allows a user to select which of a resolution result display unit, a resolution method selection unit, and an inconsistency pointing unit is valid. 7. The solution result display means, the inconsistency pointing means,
3. The document editing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising: a solution result display means, a solution method selection means, and an inconsistency pointing means, wherein the result selected by the user at the time of editing the solution method selection means is used as teacher data. A document editing apparatus comprising an automatic mode switching means for switching between enabling and disabling the means. 8. The document editing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising edit unit recognition means for recognizing a meaningful group of edit units by analyzing a command execution sequence and a keystroke sequence of a user. Characteristic document editing device. 9. The document editing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein by analyzing the user's command execution sequence and keystroke sequence, a certain editing timing is appropriate for pointing out the inconsistency elimination result or the inconsistency itself to the user. A document editing apparatus further comprising pointing timing determination means for determining whether it is timing. 10. The document editing apparatus according to claim 3,
A document editing apparatus comprising: an edit unit recognition means for recognizing a meaningful group of edit units by analyzing a user command execution sequence and a keystroke sequence. 11. The text editing device according to claim 3,
By further analyzing the user's command execution sequence and keystroke sequence, there is further provided an indication timing determination means for determining whether or not a certain edit timing is an appropriate timing for indicating the result of inconsistency elimination or the inconsistency itself to the user. A document editing device characterized by the above. 12. The document editing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising the resolution result display means, wherein the resolution result display means uses the result selected by the user when editing the resolution method selection means as teacher data. The document editing apparatus further comprising an automatic mode switching unit that switches between enabling and disabling the elimination direction selecting unit. 13. The apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising the inconsistency pointing means, wherein the means selected by the resolution method selecting means by the user at the time of editing is effective as means. The text editing device further comprising an automatic mode switching means for switching between enabling and disabling.