JPH0740267B2 - Document creation device - Google Patents

Description

[Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document creation device, and particularly when creating a patent specification, expands the range of meaning of words used in the claims. The present invention relates to a document creation device having means capable of automatically generating another word.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, displaying homonyms and opposition words for one word is performed in any OA (office automation) device that realizes kana-kanji conversion. Displaying synonyms for one word was done in part by a dedicated WP (word processor) (Sharp WD-2400).

These items are displayed for the purpose of obtaining the correct answer because the operator obtained something different from the original intention of the operator in terms of the conversion result of the Kana-Kanji conversion.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As described above, the above-described conventional document creating apparatus does not consider the semantic range of the term with respect to the term. However, for example, when trying to write a claim such as a patent specification, when it is difficult to determine whether or not the term used has a depth of meaning in the range intended by the operator, the above term is used. It is desirable to be able to create a claim that reflects the intention of the operator by automatically displaying terms that have deep or shallow meaning categories.

An object of the present invention is to provide a document creation device that can assist an operator in selecting a term having a concept of a desired width in such a case.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a plurality of nouns in a document creation device including display means for displaying a created document, as shown in FIG. 1A. For each noun, for each noun, a semantic hierarchy dictionary storing means for storing the term of the noun and its superordinate concept and the term of its subordinate concept, and for each term other than a plurality of nouns, the pertinent term and its Synonym storage means for storing synonyms, antonyms, and associative words, and in response to the designation of a term existing in the created document, it is determined whether or not the designated term is a noun,
When the designated term is a noun, the semantic hierarchy dictionary storage means is referred to, the terms of superordinate concepts and subordinate concepts of the designated term are read from the semantic hierarchy dictionary storage means, and the read superordinate concept and The term of the subordinate concept is displayed on the display means together with the identification information as to whether it is the superordinate concept or the subordinate concept, and when the designated term is not a noun, the synonym storage means is referred to and designated. A control means for displaying at least one of a synonym of a term, an antonym, and an associative word is provided.

Further, the control means, as the identification information of the higher-level concept or the lower-level concept, for example, a column for displaying the higher-level concept and a column for displaying the lower-level concept are provided on the display unit,
It is also possible to operate to display the read terms of the superordinate concept and the subordinate concept in the corresponding column.

The semantic hierarchy dictionary has a plurality of terms having narrower concepts as child trees for one term having a wider concept, and a grandchild tree having a narrower concept for each of these child trees. If you want, you can have a narrower tree of concepts. Such a semantic hierarchy dictionary is mainly applied to those that express nouns and other synonyms, but if possible, it may be applied to those that express states such as adjectives, adjective verbs, and adverbs.

[Operation] In this way, for example, when writing the claims of a patent specification, for example, a certain noun term came to my mind, but an operator who wants to use a term with a broader concept than that When the user thinks, and the term of a broader concept is displayed by tracing the tree of the above-mentioned semantic hierarchy dictionary upward, the operator expands the scope of the claims by using the term. It is possible to make effective rights.

[Embodiment] An embodiment of the document creation apparatus of the present invention will be described below.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 2, the processing device 201 (control means) is, for example, a microprocessor, and the program memory 20
The program stored in 3 is executed, and each block is controlled and data is transferred via the bus line 202.

When a key code for instructing a character or control is input from the key input device 208 which is a part of the data input device, the key code is stored in the key code memory 207. Processor 2
01 indicates that the entered code represents a character,
The input character pattern is generated by the pattern (character) generation device 209 and displayed on the display device 211 through the display control circuit 210. The kana-kanji conversion device 204 performs kana-kanji conversion on the above character string as kana-kanji conversion reading,
The result is sent to the external storage device 2 via the external storage device control circuit 212.
Sequentially store in 13 (document storage means). When the operator specifies a term or the like of a part of the document stored in the external storage device 213, the processing device 201 determines whether the term represents a noun or other synonym, or a part of speech indicating a state such as an adjective, an adjective, or an adverb. Depending on what is represented, the semantic hierarchy dictionary 205 or the synonyms, antonyms, and associative words table 206 is searched to retrieve the necessary term, and the display device 211 is operated via the display control circuit 210.
(Document display means).

The meaning hierarchy dictionary 205 and the table 206 are, in this embodiment,
It is stored in the internal storage device. Of course, it may be stored in an external storage device.

FIG. 1B is a flowchart of processing functions using the document creating apparatus of the present invention, and the processing contents will be described below with reference to FIG.

The operator of the document creation device takes out a document he / she wants to handle from the documents stored in the external storage device 213 of FIG. 2 and further designates a specific term in the document (101).
The processing unit 201 first determines whether the term is a noun, an adjective, an adjective, an adverb, or another part of speech (102). If the term is a noun, the meaning hierarchy dictionary 205 is referred to (103), and it is determined whether the term is entered in the meaning hierarchy dictionary 205 (104). If the above terms are semantic hierarchy dictionary 2
If it is not in 05, a message is output to the display device 211 (105) and the process returns to the term designation 101 again. If the above term is in the semantic hierarchy dictionary, the next term in the semantic hierarchy dictionary 205 Determine if there is a hierarchy. If the above term is located at the highest level of the semantic hierarchy dictionary 205 (106), it means that there is no information in a higher level, so the lower level term group is searched and displayed on the display device 211. Display (113). If the above term is located at the bottom of the semantic hierarchy dictionary 205 (1
07), because there is no information in the layers below this, the term in the upper layer is searched and displayed on the display device 211 (10).
9). If the term is neither in the uppermost layer nor in the lowest layer of the semantic hierarchy dictionary 205, information is present in both the upper and lower layers of the above term, so one upper word and one lower word The group is searched and displayed on the display device 211 (108).

If the specified term is a part-of-speech that expresses the state of an adjective, an adjective, or an adverb, a synonym, an antonym,
The associative word table 206 is searched (110), and it is determined whether or not the term is entered in the synonym, antonym and associative word table 206 (111). If no entry is made, a message is output to the display device 211 (11
2) Return to term designation 101. The above terms are synonyms, antonyms,
If there is an entry in the associative word table 206, a synonym,
The antonyms, associative words, etc. are output to the display device 211 (114). Ten
When the processes of 8, 109, 113 and 114 are completed, the operation returns to the term designation 101 by the operator. Thereafter, the above operation is repeated, and when the operator finishes the term designation, the process of the present invention ends.

In the present embodiment, the method has been shown in which the operator successively specifies the terms he / she wants to process, but as described above, the processing device 210 automatically and sequentially selects the specified document from the document. Extract nouns, adjectives, adjective verbs, adverbs, etc.
An embodiment in which the process of 102 in FIG.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the information written in the semantic hierarchy dictionary 205 in FIG. 2 focusing on the hierarchical relationship, and FIG. 4 shows the structure of the above information inside the computer. It is a thing.

In FIG. 3, it is assumed that the word "information processing device" is included in the highest layer 301. Below the above hierarchy, a middle hierarchy 302 is connected, and “OA equipment” and “computer terminal”, which correspond to the hierarchy below the word “information processing apparatus”, are described. In the “OA device”, the three words “word processor”, “personal computer”, and “workstation” are written as the lowest hierarchy 303. In this way, the term has a semantically narrow concept from the highest hierarchy 301 to the lowest hierarchy 302.

The data having the above relationships are arranged inside the computer as shown in FIG. That is, with respect to a certain term 401, a layer one level higher than the level of the term 401 (this is called the parent term 402) and one level lower than the level of the term 401 (which is a child term) 403, which indicates the term
Information of child terms 404, 405, ... Is stored. That is, the meaning hierarchy dictionary 205 is such that information about a parent term and a child term group can be obtained for one term.
That is why.

FIG. 5 and FIG. 6 show a display state of the display device 211 when the document creating apparatus of the present invention is used.

In FIG. 5, it is assumed that the operator has designated "OA equipment" (501). By referring to the semantic hierarchy dictionary in FIG. 4, it is understood that the superordinate concept of “OA equipment” is “information processing device” and the subordinate concepts are “word processor”, “personal computer” and “workstation”. From the upper concept column 502 and the lower concept column 504, respectively. The operator-specified terms are shown in the term column 502. FIG. 6 shows a display state when the operator designates "word processor" (601). From the semantic hierarchy dictionary of FIG. 4, it can be seen that the superordinate concept of “word processor” is “OA device”, but the subordinate concept does not exist. Therefore, "OA device" is displayed in the higher concept column 602 and "Word Processor" is displayed in the term column 603, but nothing is displayed in the lower concept column 604.

In the above embodiment, the specific term in the document stored in the external storage device is specified, but any term may be specified during the document input operation before being stored in the external storage device, Further, when the document is stored in the internal storage device, the term in the internal storage device may be designated.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, when a patent specification or the like is written, the concept is broadened with respect to the terms used in the claims and the detailed description of the invention. It is possible to obtain detailed expressions, narrow expressions, etc., and finish the contents of the description intended by the author. Also,
According to the present invention, when a term in a document is a noun, it is possible to acquire a superordinate concept and a subordinate concept of the term by referring to a hierarchical semantic dictionary, and when the term is not a noun, a synonym and an opposite Synonyms and the like can be obtained by referring to the word and associative word dictionary.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1A is a block diagram showing the configuration of the present invention, FIG. 1B is a processing function flowchart using the document creating apparatus according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the document creating apparatus of the present invention. , FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram for explaining the concept of the semantic hierarchy, FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram for explaining the structure of the semantic hierarchy dictionary, and FIGS. 5 and 6 are the processing according to the present invention. FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a display state realized by the display device when the display is performed. 201 …… Processing device 202 …… Bus 203 …… Program memory 204 …… Kana-Kanji conversion device 205 …… Semantic hierarchy dictionary 206 …… Synonyms, antonyms, and associative words table 207 …… Key code memory 208 …… Key input device 209 ...... Character generator 210 …… Display control circuit 211 …… Display device 212 …… External storage device control circuit 213 …… External storage device

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Michihiro Maze, 292 Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Pref., Hitachi, Ltd. Microelectronics Device Development Laboratory (72) Inventor, Yasumasa Matsuda Totsuka, Yokohama, Kanagawa 292 Yoshida-cho, Tokyo, Hitachi, Ltd. Microelectronics equipment development laboratory (72) Inventor Tetsuo Iwamoto 292 Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Hitachi, Ltd. Microelectronics equipment development laboratory (72) ) Inventor Kazuko Suzuki, 292 Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Ltd.Hitachi, Ltd. Microelectronics Equipment Development Laboratory (72) Inventor Shigeyuki Nishitani 292, Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Micro electronic Inside the Device Development Laboratory (72) Toshiharu Kawasaki, Toshiharu Kawasaki, 292 Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa Inside Hitachi, Ltd. Microelectronics Device Development Laboratory (72) Inventor Yukie Yamazaki 292 Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa Address Company Hitachi, Ltd. Microelectronics Equipment Development Laboratory (56) References JP 62-197864 (JP, A)

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A document creation apparatus having display means for displaying a created document, wherein for each of a plurality of nouns, the noun, a term of a superordinate concept and a term of a subordinate concept are stored. The meaning hierarchy dictionary storage means, the synonym storage means for storing the term and its synonyms, antonyms, and associative words for each term other than a plurality of nouns are present in the document created above. In response to the designation of the term, determine whether the designated term is a noun,
When the designated term is a noun, the semantic hierarchy dictionary storage means is referred to, the terms of superordinate concepts and subordinate concepts of the designated term are read from the semantic hierarchy dictionary storage means, and the read superordinate concept and The term of the subordinate concept is displayed on the display means together with the identification information as to whether it is the superordinate concept or the subordinate concept, and when the designated term is not a noun, the synonym storage means is referred to and designated. A document creating apparatus, comprising: a control unit that displays at least one of a synonym of a term, an antonym, and an associative word. 2. The control means is provided with a column for displaying a superordinate concept and a column for displaying a subordinate concept on the display means as identification information as to whether the concept is the superordinate concept or the subordinate concept, and the corresponding column. The document creation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the term of the superordinate concept and the subordinate concept read out is displayed.