JPH07160708A - Evaluating device and changing device for homage of honorific expression - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the honorific expression homage evaluating device which evaluates the degree of homage of an honorific expression and the honorific expression homage changing device which obtains an honorific expression of homage matched to user's intention from honorific expressions. CONSTITUTION:The degree of homage of each word is described in an honorific expression dictionary 3. An honorific expression synthesis and homage change rule holding part 4 holds rules to synthesize honorific expressions and change the degrees of homage of words. A homage calculating part 2 takes out the degree of homage from the honorific expression dictionary 3 with respect to each word in all or a part of a sentence held in a text structure holding part 2 and obtains the degree of change of the degree of homage due to synthesis of words in accordance with rules in the honorific expression synthesis and homage change rule holding part 4 and calculates the degree of homage of all or a part of the sentence held in the text structure holding part 1. The calculation result is displayed on an homage display part 5 together with all or a part of the sentence held in the text structure holding part 1.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for evaluating the respect of a honorific expression of a sentence or a part of a sentence in a document creation device and the like, and a sentence or a part of the sentence in a sentence as a honorific expression. It relates to a device for changing or changing the level of respect.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for example, a document creation device or a device called a revision support device, which has a function of converting into a honorific expression has been considered. For example, there are "a device for converting to honorific expressions" described in JP-A-63-167956 and "a device for converting honorific expressions for sentences" described in JP-A-1-106161.

These devices are intended to convert the original expressions into honorific expressions, but the degree of respect of the converted honorific expressions cannot be specified, and the user must select one of several expressions. You have to choose the right one. For example, the honorific word for "come" comes from the form of simply adding the respected auxiliary verb "ru" such as "come"
There are expressions with different degrees of respect, such as "Welcome", "Visit", "Welcome", and even "Visit Asobasu". In the conventional device, the degree of respect in these expressions is not taken into consideration, and the task of determining the degree of respect and selecting an appropriate one is left to the user.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and provides a honorific expression respect evaluation device for evaluating the degree of respect of honorific expressions, and a user's expression from the honorific expressions. An object of the present invention is to provide a honorific expression respect changing device that can obtain a respectful honorific expression that matches the intention.

[0005]

According to the present invention of claim 1, in a honorific expression honorific evaluation device for evaluating a level of respect included in a honorific expression used in a sentence, A honorific expression dictionary in which expressions and degrees of respect are described, and a means for retaining and combining honorific expressions that retains rules for changing a compound honorific expression and respect for a word, and a given sentence or For each word in a part of a sentence, the degree of respect is taken out from the honorific expression dictionary, and the respect of a sentence or a part of the sentence given according to the rule held in the honorific expression / respect changing rule holding means. It is characterized by having a respect calculation means for calculating the degree.

In the invention according to claim 2, the honorific expression and the degree of respect are described in the honorific expression altering device for changing the level of respect included in the sentence or a part of the sentence. A honorific expression dictionary and a synthetic honorific expression synthesis / respect change rule holding means for holding a synthetic honorific expression for a word and a rule for changing the degree of respect of a word, and for each word in a given sentence or part of a sentence On the other hand, a respect calculation means for calculating the degree of respect of a sentence or a part of a sentence given in accordance with the rule held in the honor expression / respect changing rule holding means by extracting the degree of respect from the honor expression dictionary. A honorific expression retrieving means for retrieving honorific expressions having different degrees of respect for a word from the honorific expression dictionary, a word retrieved by the honorific expression retrieving means or the honorific expression combination Honorific expression generating means for generating a honorific expression different from a given sentence or a part of the sentence using a new honorific expression synthesized according to the rule held in the respect changing rule holding means, and the honorific expression generating means A respect display means for displaying the honorific expression generated by the above together with the evaluation value of the respect level calculated by the respect calculation means,
It is characterized by having a honorific expression selecting means for selecting an appropriate expression from the honorific expressions displayed on the respect display means.

According to the third aspect of the invention, the honorific expression and the degree of respect are described in the honorific expression altering device for changing the level of respect included in the sentence or a part of the sentence. A honorific expression dictionary and a synthetic honorific expression synthesis / respect change rule holding means for holding a synthetic honorific expression for a word and a rule for changing the degree of respect of a word, and for each word in a given sentence or part of a sentence On the other hand, a respect calculation means for calculating the degree of respect of a sentence or a part of a sentence given in accordance with the rule held in the honor expression / respect changing rule holding means by extracting the degree of respect from the honor expression dictionary. A honorific expression search means for searching the honorific expression dictionary with a different degree of respect for a word from the honorific expression dictionary, and the honorific expression retrieved by the honorific expression search means or the honorific expression. Honorific expression generating means for generating a honorific expression different from a given sentence or a part thereof by using a new honorific expression synthesized according to the rule held by the expression synthesis / respect change rule holding means, and the honorific expression The respective honorific expressions generated by the generating means are compared with the evaluation level of the respect level calculated by the respect calculating means and the respect level designated by the user, and the honorific expression having the closest respect level is selected. It is characterized by having a honorific expression selecting means.

[0008]

According to the present invention, in the honorific expression respect evaluation device according to claim 1, when the sentence or a part of the sentence is passed to the respect calculation means, the respect calculation means uses the honorific expression dictionary to generate a sentence. Get the degree of respect for each word that makes up. Further, by using the rule held in the honorific expression synthesis / respect change rule holding means, it is checked what kind of respect expression is changed for each word. According to this rule, the degree of respect given to the sentence expression is calculated based on the degree of respect obtained from the honorific expression dictionary. The calculation result can be presented to the user together with the original sentence on the display means, or can be used as an input for other means. Here, the degree of honorifics includes, for example, in the example of "come" used in the section of the conventional technology, from "come" that does not include honorific expressions at all to "come to come" It is weighted in order of respect.

In the honorific expression reliance changing device according to the second aspect, the honorific expression retrieving means retrieves words having different respects from each word in the sentence. The word searched by the honorific expression search means, or the searched word is synthesized according to the rules held in the honorific expression synthesis / respect change rule holding means, and the obtained new honorific expression is used. Then, a honorific expression different from the given sentence or a part thereof is generated by the honorific expression generating means. The degree of respect is calculated using the respect calculation means based on the generated honorific expression. The honorific expression generated together with the calculated degree of respect is displayed using the respect display means. The user selects a honorific expression by the honorific expression selecting means. At this time, since the degree of respect is displayed on the respect display means, the user can refer to this to select a honorific expression having a desired degree of respect.

In the honorific expression altering device according to claim 3, in the same manner as the honorific expression altering device according to claim 2, sentences or one of sentences having different honorific expressions by the honorific expression generating means. The division is generated, and the degree of respect is calculated using the respect calculation means based on the generated honorific expression.
The honorific expression selecting means selects, from the honorific expressions generated by the honorific expression generating means, a honorific expression having a degree of respect closest to the degree of respect designated by the user. Accordingly, by only designating the degree of honorific desired by the user, it is possible to obtain the honorific expression corresponding to the degree of honorific designated. The honorific expression selected by the honorific expression selecting means is displayed using, for example, the display means, and the user can confirm this.

The honorific expression respect changing device of the present invention can be used in a document creating device. For example, a sentence or a part of a sentence held by a document editor is given to the honorific expression respect changing device and selected. By returning the honorific expression to the document editor, it is possible to proceed with the editing of the document using the honorific expression with the desired degree of honorific.

[0012]

1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a honorific expression evaluation device according to the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a sentence structure holding unit,
Reference numeral 2 is a honorific calculator, 3 is a honorific expression dictionary, 4 is a honorific synthesis / respect change rule holding unit, and 5 is a respect display unit. The sentence structure holding unit 1 holds a sentence or a part of a sentence in a form of a result of morphological analysis or a form of a result of syntax / semantic analysis. The honorific expression dictionary 3 describes the degree of respect for each word. The honorific expression synthesizing / respect changing rule storage unit 4 stores rules for synthesizing honorific expressions and changing the degree of respect for words. The retained rule is, for example, a rule that indicates the degree to which the respect of a word is changed by synthesizing a honorific expression by adding an affix, auxiliary verb, auxiliary verb, etc. to a word. Is. The respect calculator 2
For each word in the sentence or part of the sentence held in the sentence structure holding unit 1, the honorific expression dictionary 3 extracts the degree of respect, and the word is changed according to the rules in the honorific expression respect changing rule holding unit 4. Calculate the degree of respect of a sentence or a part of a sentence by obtaining the degree of change of the degree of respect by the composition of. The respect display unit 5 displays the sentence or a part of the sentence held in the sentence structure holding unit 1 together with the degree of respect calculated by the respect calculating unit 2.

Although the sentence structure holding unit 1 is used in this embodiment, the sentence structure holding unit 1 may be omitted and the sentence may be directly input to the respect calculation unit 2. The sentence or part of the sentence input to the respect calculation unit 2 is not limited to the above-mentioned morphological analysis result or syntactic / semantic analysis result.
It can also be configured to hold information of other forms of sentences. When a sentence is directly input to the respect calculation unit 2, the respect calculation unit 2 can be configured to perform syntax analysis. Since the honorific expression dictionary 3 and the honorific expression synthesis / respect change rule holding unit 4 are searched, it is necessary that the sentence can be recognized for each word.

An embodiment of the honorific expression evaluation device of the present invention described above will be specifically described based on the example sentence "The teacher gave the raised flowers to his highness."

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the morphological analysis result stored in the sentence structure storage unit 1. When the result of the morphological analysis is held in the sentence structure holding unit 1, for example, as shown in FIG.
Information as shown in is held. FIG. 2 shows a result of morpheme analysis of the above-mentioned example sentence, which holds information such as a morpheme, a part of speech corresponding to the morpheme, and, if there is a use, a type of use and a use form. Of course, information other than these information may be held.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an example of the structure of the honorific expression dictionary 3. In the example shown in FIG. 3, the honorific expression dictionary 3 is composed of an index and a dictionary body. The index is composed of a word and a pointer that points to information about the word held in the dictionary body. The words can be arranged in ascending order, for example. The index may further have an index composed of the first one sound or a few sounds, or the first one character or a few characters, on the upper level thereof. In the dictionary body, a word and, as information of the word, stem part-of-speech, inflection, and honorific information are stored in association with each other. Also,
Depending on the word, information such as a honorific prefix or suffix may be stored. As the honorific information, a triple of (flat expression honorific type and respect level) is held. A flat expression is an expression that does not include any honorific expressions. Honorific type indicates either respect, humility, or politeness. The respect level indicates the degree of respect of the word. The honorific expression dictionary 3 can be searched by searching the index by word and referring to the information held in the dictionary body from the pointer corresponding to the searched word.

In the example shown in FIG. 3, when the morpheme "supplied" is given from the sentence morphologically analyzed as shown in FIG. 2, the index is searched, the corresponding pointer is obtained, and the dictionary body is obtained. Refer to. From the referenced dictionary body, it can be seen that, as the honorific information of the morpheme "given", the flat expression is "do", the honorific type is the honorific, and the respect level is 1.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of an example of rules stored in the honorific expression synthesis / respect change rule storage unit 4. In each rule, three types of information of an original pattern, a synthetic honorific expression, and a respect change are described. If an expression matches the original pattern,
A synthetic honorific expression is constructed based on the information of the synthetic honorific expression in the rule. Also, based on the information of respect change,
The degree of respect of the original expression is changed. When assessing the respect of the honorific expression, the sentence is compared with the information of the synthetic honorific expression, not the original pattern, to obtain information of the respect modification.

The original pattern is represented by a sequence of (index number constraint condition ...). The number starting with "*" indicates the index number. The synthetic honorific expression is a string of morphemes indicating a created pattern. As the morpheme format, if it is indicated by an index number, (index number element designation ...)
It is one of the three formats in the case of (attribute designation ...). The index number indicates that the morpheme (sequence) that matches the original pattern is applied as it is. When it is shown as (index number element designation ...), it indicates that the change designated by the element designation is added to the morpheme (column) that matches the original pattern. The case of (attribute designation ...) Indicates that a new morpheme is inserted.
The honorific change indicates how much the honorific level is changed with respect to the honorific type, "honorific type + numerical value",
Alternatively, it is indicated by "honorific word type-numerical value".

For example, the rule 3 shown in FIG. 4 is that "a verb for the use of five dan or a sakyaku inflection, which does not have an auxiliary verb, changes the verb into a preformed form and puts the morpheme" re "behind. Add and change the inflectional form of "ru" to the inflectional form of the original verb to generate honorific expressions, and increase the respect level by +1
The rule is "to do". Here, it is limited to those without auxiliary verbs, but those with auxiliary verbs may be specified by another rule. In addition, when specifying the attributes of synthetic honorific expressions,
The designation such as (inflectional type = * 1. Inflectional type) is made. This is a designation to make the morpheme of this morpheme the same as the morpheme of the original pattern shown by * 1.

Further, according to the rules 1 and 2, the information of the honorific prefix stored in the honorific expression dictionary 3 is referred to for a word of a noun in which a word other than the noun comes immediately before a certain word, and the noun is referred to. Decide whether "O" or "GO" is attached. The condition that the compound noun is not added to the second and subsequent nouns is specified by (* 1 (part of speech ≠ noun)). For example, when the word “Hana” is given, it can be seen from the honorific expression dictionary 3 shown in FIG. 3 that the honorific prefix of this word is “go”, so rule 1 is applied, and as a compound honorific expression. It is possible to generate a "Goma". At that time, the respect level is changed by adding 0.5 to the honorific level of the honorific type "teitei".

As described above, according to the present invention, the conditions for applying the rules, the information which the given morpheme has with respect to the synthesized honorific expression, the elements added from the information stored in the honorific expression dictionary 3, etc. Can be specified.

The respect calculation unit 2 checks the level of respect of each part of the sentence held in the sentence structure holding unit 1 and calculates the degree of respect of the whole sentence. The honorific expression dictionary 3 is searched based on the morphemes held in the sentence structure holding unit 1 to obtain the degree of respect. In the example sentence above, for example, the degree of respect of “teacher”, “respect” 1, “give”, and “humbleness” 2 can be obtained.

The application of the rules of the honorific expression synthesis / respect change rule holding unit 4 is performed not by the original pattern but by pattern matching with the synthetic honorific expression. Apply rules that match synthetic honorific expressions and refer to respect changes. In the above-mentioned example sentence, among the rules shown in FIG. 4, rule 2 and rule 3 indicate that “Oh!” Please be careful +0.5. By applying these rules, it can be seen that "flower" is polite +0.5 (from rule 2) "given" respect + 1 (from rule 3) "grown" respect + 1 (from rule 3) .

The respect calculation unit 2 calculates the respect of the entire sentence from the degree of respect obtained from the honorific expression dictionary 3 and the information of the respect change obtained from the rules of the honorific expression synthesis / respect change rule holding unit 4. To do. In this example, the sum of the respect level values is simply calculated for each honorific type. As a result, respect 3 (from "give up", "bred up", "teacher") humbleness 2 (from "give up") and polite 0.5 (from "flower").

In the above calculation, the total sum is simply calculated for each honorific type, but for example, the respect level is used as it is for the main sentence element and 1/2 is used for the embedded sentence element as a whole. It can also be configured to calculate the degree of respect for. Also, other weightings can be applied to calculate the degree of respect. Further, the overall degree of respect may be calculated from the degree of respect calculated for each honorific type.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of an example of a display on the respect display section 5. The respect display unit 5 receives the value calculated by the respect calculation unit 2, and presents the degree of respect to the user together with the original sentence held in the sentence structure holding unit 1.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a second embodiment of the honorific expression respect change device of the present invention. In the figure, the same parts as those in FIG. Reference numeral 6 is a honorific expression search unit, 7 is a honorific expression synthesis unit, 8 is a honorific expression selection unit, 9 is a sentence analysis unit, and 10 is a document file. The honorific expression search unit 6 searches the honorific expression dictionary 3 for honorific expressions such as respectful words and humble words having different degrees of respect for a certain word. The honorific expression synthesis unit 7 converts a sentence or a part thereof into a honorific expression obtained by the honorific expression search unit 6, or a rule held in the honorific expression synthesis / respect change rule holding unit 4. To generate a different honorific expression that is different from the original sentence or part of it. The honorific expression selection unit 8
The respect level of the honorific expression generated by the honorific expression generation unit 7 is calculated by using the respect calculation unit 2, and the evaluation value of the calculated respect level is displayed along with the sentence held in the sentence structure holding unit 1. It is displayed using the section 5, and the appropriate expression is selected. The sentence analysis unit 9 takes out a sentence or a part of a sentence from the document file 10 and performs morphological analysis or syntactic / semantic analysis.

In this embodiment, the sentence analysis unit 9 is provided, the sentence held in the document file 10 is analyzed, and the result is held in the sentence structure holding unit 1. Similar to the honorific expression respectfulness evaluation device shown in FIG. 1, the result analyzed by another means may be held in the sentence structure holding unit 1, or the sentence itself may be held in the sentence structure holding unit 1. Alternatively, the analysis may be performed by the following means. It is also possible to use the honorific expression dictionary 3 when the sentence analysis unit 9 analyzes the sentence.

The document file 10 can also be composed of a buffer or the like for receiving data from another system such as a document editor. The sentence analysis unit 9 can also be configured to directly receive the input data.

The first embodiment of the honorific expression changing device of the present invention will be described based on a specific example. As an example sentence, "The teacher gave the raised flowers to his Highness" above.
Will be explained using the sentence.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of the syntax / semantic analysis result stored in the sentence structure storage unit 1. In this example, it is assumed that the sentence analysis unit 9 performs syntax / semantic analysis and the sentence structure holding unit 1 holds the sentence. The result of the syntactic and semantic analysis of the example sentence is shown in FIG. The data structure actually held in the sentence structure holding unit 1 can use various methods.

The honorific expression selecting unit 8 first calculates the degree of respect for the syntactic / semantic analysis result as shown in FIG. Therefore, the result of the syntax / semantic analysis is passed to the respect calculation unit 2. The honorific expression selection unit 8 also passes the result of the syntax / semantic analysis to the honorific expression synthesis unit 7. The honorific expression synthesis unit 7
Create expressions that are semantically the same as the sentences expressed by the syntactic and semantic analysis results, but with different degrees of respect.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of an example of the configuration of the honorific expression search unit 6 and the honorific expression dictionary 3. In the example shown in FIG. 3, the honorific expression dictionary 3 has an index, but in this embodiment, the honorific expression search unit 6 has an index. The honorific expression search unit 6 includes an index and a honorific expression correspondence unit. The honorific expression correspondence section,
It is constructed as a collection of pointers to the honorific expression dictionary of words having the same meaning but different degrees of respect.
In the honorific expression correspondence part, for example, the honorific type and its degree,
The word itself is also listed. With such a honorific expression search unit 6, a certain word can be searched by a honorific type such as honorific, humble, or polite. In this embodiment, a word having no respect, such as “do”, is also included in the honorific expression dictionary 3, and the honorific expression search unit 6 also holds a pointer to the word. This is to allow the respect to be set to 0 as in the case of changing “give” to “do”.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of an example of rules expressed by the structural pattern held in the honorific expression synthesis / respect change rule holding unit 4. Similar to the example shown in FIG. 4, the honorific expression synthesis / respect change rule 4 has a rule in which three types of information of an original pattern, a synthetic honorific expression, and a respect change are described. However, in this example, the original pattern and the synthetic honorific expression are expressed not as a sequence of morphemes but as a conversion rule of a structural pattern. FIG. 9 shows an example thereof. Here, the elements * 2 and * 3 of the original pattern are
It is specified repeatedly. The element * 2 shows a sequence of auxiliary verbs other than "re" / "ru", and the element * 3 shows a sequence of final particles. All of them can be specified by an index in the synthetic honorific expression.

FIG. 10 shows the syntax to which the degree of respect is added.
It is explanatory drawing of a semantic analysis result. The honorific calculation unit 2 receives the syntactic / semantic analysis result of the sentence received from the honorific expression selection unit 8 via the rules and the honorific expression search unit 6 held in the honorific expression synthesis / respect change rule holding unit 4. The content of the obtained honorific expression dictionary 3 is used to calculate the respect given to the entire sentence. For the syntax / semantic analysis result shown in FIG.
The degree of respect is calculated and added, which is shown in FIG.

In the calculation of the degree of respect in the respect calculation unit 2, the degree of respect is used as it is for the elements of the main sentence, and 1 / is used for the elements of the embedded sentence.
Use 2 to calculate the overall degree of respect. In the example sentence,
“Brought up” is in the embedded sentence, 1 × 1/2 = 1
A degree of respect of / 2. Using this to calculate the overall degree of respect is as follows. Respect 2.5 Modesty 2 Careful 0.5

Next, consider changing the degree of respect. In order to simplify the example, we will only consider a portion of the given sentence, “give”. A part of expressions with different degrees of respect and "give up" obtained using the honorific expression search unit 6 are shown below. Do 0 Give humility 2 Give humility 3 Give respect 1 Give respect 4

The rules held in the honorific expression synthesis / respect change rule holding unit 4 that can be used for verbs are as shown below. Oshiru Kenshin +1 (Respect / Kenshin 0 only) Osu Shouken +2 (Respect / Kenshin 0 only) Otoru Respect +2 (Respect 0 only) Osu Give Respect +3 (Respect 0 only) O-Asobasu Respect +4 (Respect / Humility 0 only) Masu / Is Careful +1 Yes Carefulness +2 Some of these (Respect / Humility 0 only) and (Respect 0
Only) etc. are described.

From these, the honorific expression synthesizing unit 7 can synthesize the honorific expressions as shown below. The honorific expressions shown here are only those (plus or minus 1) close to the degree of respect (humility 2, respect 1, respect 0) of the original expression. In addition, here, the syntax structure is omitted and they are listed in the form of surface sentence. Humble respect respect nicely done 1 0 0 good done 1 0 1 good done 1 1 0 good done 1 1 1 1 good 2 0 0 good 2 0 1 good 2 1 0 good Giving 2 1 1 Giving 3 0 0 Giving 3 0 1 Giving 3 1 0 Giving 3 1 1 Giving 3 2 0 Giving 3 2 1

The honorific expression selection unit 8 presents these using the honorific display unit 5 to allow the user to select the optimum expression.
At this time, the level of respect can be displayed together with the sentence including the honorific expression. In that case, the user can select a sentence with reference to the displayed respect level. The syntax / semantic structure of the sentence selected here is returned to the sentence structure holding unit 1 and held therein. Further, the sentence structure holding unit 1 may be configured to be converted back by the sentence analysis unit 9 and returned to the document file 10.

A second embodiment of the honorific expression altering device according to the present invention will be described. The configuration is similar to that of the first embodiment, but some functions are different. In the second embodiment, the honorific expression selection unit 8 selects a honorific expression having a respect level closest to the respect level given by the user.
Here, "closest" means that when d = (respect level given by the user-respect level of the synthesized honorific expression), the honorific expression with d = 0 may be selected.
When there is no honorific expression for d = 0, for example, the absolute value of d can be the smallest. Alternatively, some definitions are possible, such as d> 0 and the smallest absolute value of d, or d <0 and the smallest absolute value of d.

Similar to the first embodiment described above, the honorific expression synthesizing unit 7 generates sentences using various honorific expressions. When various honorific expressions are generated in the honorific expression synthesizing unit 7 as in the case of the above-mentioned “give”, when the user selects the respect level of (humility 3, respect 1, respect 1), The honorific expression "contributed" is selected to match this level of respect.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory view of an example of setting the respect level. As a method for the user to set a desired respect level, for example, a screen as shown in FIG. 11 can be displayed on the respect display unit 5 and designated by the displayed virtual slide volume. By moving this volume, you can freely select expressions with different degrees of respect. This movement of the volume can be performed by a pointing device such as a mouse. Of course, it is also possible to actually set the volume. It is also possible to input a numerical value from a keyboard or the like, or to increase or decrease by pressing a specific key.

In FIG. 11A, as the level of respect,
(Humbleness 2, Respect 1, Careful 0) is set. The honorific expression selected in this setting is, for example, "given". From this state, as shown in FIG. 11 (B), when the volume is moved and the respect level is set to (hence 3, respect 1, respect 1), the honorific expression that is set is
For example, it will be changed to "Given".

When the level of respect is determined, the sentence of the selected honorific expression is returned to and held in the sentence structure holding unit 1.
Further, it is written back to the document file 10.

[0047]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, the user can evaluate, for example, the degree of respect of a created sentence or a part of the sentence when creating a document. it can. Further, a sentence or part of a sentence that does not include respect can be rewritten using a honorific expression, or the degree of respect of a sentence can be changed to a sentence with higher or lower respect. This improves the efficiency of document creation,
Further, there is an effect that high quality can be achieved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a honorific expression evaluation device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of an example of a morpheme analysis result stored in a sentence structure storage unit 1.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of a honorific expression dictionary 3.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of an example of rules stored in a honorific expression synthesis / respect change rule storage unit 4.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of an example of a display on the respect display unit 5.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a first embodiment of the honorific expression respect change device of the present invention.

7 is an explanatory diagram of a syntax / semantic analysis result stored in the sentence structure storage unit 1. FIG.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of an example of a configuration of a honorific expression search unit 6 and a honorific expression dictionary 3.

9 is an explanatory diagram of an example of a rule expressed by a structural pattern held in a honorific expression synthesis / respect change rule holding unit 4. FIG.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram of a result of a syntax / semantic analysis in which a degree of respect is added.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram of an example of setting a respect level.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 sentence structure storage unit, 2 honorific calculation unit, 3 honorific expression dictionary, 4 honorific expression synthesis / respect change rule storage unit, 5 honorific display unit, 6 honorific expression search unit, 7 honorific expression synthesis unit, 8
Honorific expression selection section, 9 sentence analysis section, 10 document files.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A honorific expression evaluating device for evaluating a level of respect included in a honorific expression used in a sentence in a sentence, and a honorific expression dictionary in which a honorific expression and a degree of respect are described, and for a certain word. Synthetic honorific expressions and honorific expression composition / respect change rule holding means for holding rules for changing the degree of respect for words and respect for each word in a given sentence or part of a sentence by the honorific expression dictionary The honorific expression respect means characterized by having a respect calculating means for calculating the degree of respect of a sentence or a part of a sentence given in accordance with the rule held in the above-mentioned honorific expression / respect changing rule holding means. Evaluation device. 2. A honorific expression changing device for changing the level of respect included in a sentence or a part of a sentence in a sentence, in a respect changing device, and a respect dictionary for a certain word. Synthetic honorific expressions and honorific expression composition / respect change rule holding means for holding rules for changing the degree of respect for words and respect for each word in a given sentence or part of a sentence by the honorific expression dictionary And a degree of respect for a word, and a respect calculation means for calculating the degree of respect for a given sentence or part of a sentence according to the rules held in the above-mentioned honorific expression / respect change rule holding means. Different honorific expressions from the honorific expression dictionary, a word searched by the honorific expression searching means or the word is held in the honorific expression synthesis / respect changing rule holding means. The honorific expression generating means for generating a honorific expression different from a given sentence or a part thereof using a new honorific expression synthesized in accordance with the rule, and the honorific expression generated by the honorific expression generating means, A honorific expression having a respect expression means for displaying together with an evaluation value of a respect level calculated by the respect expression means, and a honorific expression selecting means for selecting an appropriate expression from the honorific expressions displayed on the respect expression means. Expression respect change device. 3. A honorific expression dictionary for describing a honorific expression and a degree of respect in a honorific expression changing device for changing a respect level included in a sentence or a part of a sentence in a sentence. Synthetic honorific expressions and honorific expression composition / respect change rule holding means for holding rules for changing the degree of respect for words and respect for each word in a given sentence or part of a sentence by the honorific expression dictionary And a degree of respect for a word, and a respect calculation means for calculating the degree of respect for a given sentence or part of a sentence according to the rules held in the above-mentioned honorific expression / respect change rule holding means. Different honorific expressions from the honorific expression dictionary, and honorific expressions retrieved by the honorific expression searching means or means for retaining the honorific expressions combining / respecting rule holding means. The honorific expression generating means for generating a honorific expression different from a given sentence or a part thereof by using a new honorific expression synthesized according to the rule held in, and each of the honorific expression generating means generated. Comparing the honorific expression with the evaluation value of the respect level calculated by the respect calculating means with the respect level designated by the user, the honorific selecting means for selecting the honorific expression having the closest respect level is provided. Characteristic expression changing device.