JPH0746358B2 - Connectivity tester - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (a) Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a connectivity test apparatus.

(B) Conventional technology In the kana-kanji conversion process of Japanese word processors, which is now popular, it is very important to test the connectivity between the converted words.

As such a verification method, as disclosed in Japanese Examined Patent Publication No. 57-16375, there has been conventionally known a method of judging connectivity between converted words by grammatical analysis to determine whether or not connectivity is available. ing.

However, in this method, for example, when the reading "Shinkoshi Yuukiyo" is converted, it is converted into "Promotion religion". The conversion result itself is not a grammatical conversion error because it is a connection between a sahen noun and a noun, but from the viewpoint of semantic interpretation, it must be said that the conversion result is incorrect conversion.

Therefore, IPSJ Transactions Vol.27, No.11, Nov.1986 P1
As disclosed in 062-1067, a method of investigating the connection relation between a plurality of words corresponding to reading by using a compound dictionary in which a plurality of word pairs that can be connected in terms of semantic interpretation is stored in advance is studied. Has been done.

Specifically, for example, the reading "shinkoushiyuukiyou" is decomposed into word-based readings "shinkou" and "shinyuukiyou", and for each such reading, "progress, promotion, emerging," Kanji compound words such as “friendship, faith” and “religion” are candidates. At this time, using the grammatical analysis as in the past, the following 5 homonyms, namely, "progressive religion", "promotional religion", "emerging religion", "faith religion", and "faith religion" are candidates for the reading "Shinkoushi Yuukiyo" As mentioned above, "emerging" is a word pair that can be connected in terms of semantic interpretation.
Only a pair of the word "and the word" religion "is stored in the collocation dictionary, so if the conversion is performed using such a collocation dictionary, the kanji expression" emerging religion "takes precedence from the above five homonyms. Will be output.

(C) Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, in terms of semantic interpretation, if all connectable word pairs are to be stored in the compound dictionary, the memory capacity becomes enormous.

(D) Means for Solving the Problems The present invention has been made in view of the above point, and its structural feature is to test the connectivity in terms of semantic interpretation between words including Kanji or between clauses. A device, which is a connection dictionary that stores pairs of kanji that are easy to connect in terms of semantic interpretation, and kanji for each kanji of one word or phrase containing a plurality of kanji whose connectivity is tested A means for searching the kanji stored in the connection dictionary paired with the above, and a determination part for determining whether or not the search kanji is included in the other word or phrase whose connectivity is tested. Be prepared.

(E) Operation In such a configuration, the dictionary content for determining connectivity in semantic interpretation can be composed of pairs of Chinese characters, so the memory capacity can be reduced.

(F) Embodiment FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention, (1) and (2) are the first,
This is a second word buffer, and kana-kanji mixed words or kanji idioms, which should be judged as to whether or not they can be connected in terms of meaning interpretation, are stored in the buffer one by one, for example, by a main control unit (not shown). (3) is a connection dictionary, and in the dictionary, for example, as shown in FIG. 2, "kai", "shu", "san",
A single kanji character (hereinafter referred to as a single kanji character) that is easy to connect in terms of meaning, such as “add” or “out”, is stored as a pair. Specifically, the kanji "kai" is generally widely used for idioms that mean "yoriai", such as "meeting", "meeting", "general meeting", "hokai", etc. In addition, the single kanji such as "collection", "insect", "additional", and "de" are "collection", "participation", "participation", "addition",
A compound word or a kana-kanji mixed word that can be connected in terms of meaning and meaning with a compound word such as "exit" and "attendance" is constructed.

Returning to FIG. 1, (4) is a dictionary search unit, and the search unit performs this operation for each single Kanji character that composes a Kana-Kanji mixed word or a phrase stored in the first word buffer (1). A single kanji character paired with a kanji character and stored in the connection dictionary (3) is searched and output. (5) is a candidate buffer, and the single Chinese character output from the dictionary retrieval unit (4) is stored in the buffer. (6) is a connection determination unit, the determination unit,
It is determined whether or not a single kanji character that is the same as a kana-kanji mixed word or a single kanji character that composes an idiom stored in the second word buffer (2) is stored in the candidate buffer (5).
If stored, a signal indicating that connection is possible in terms of meaning interpretation is output, and if not, a signal indicating that connection is possible in terms of meaning interpretation is output.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described below with reference to a specific example.
Now, the words "general meeting" and "participation" are entered in the first and second word buffers (1) and (2), respectively, and the connection dictionary (3) is displayed in single kanji as shown in FIG. It is assumed that a plurality of single Chinese characters are stored as a pair for "kai", but such single Chinese characters are not stored for the single Chinese character "general."

In such a state, first, the dictionary retrieval unit (4) retrieves and outputs a single Kanji from the connection dictionary (3) as described above.
In the word buffer (1), the word "general meeting" is stored, and in the connection dictionary (3), the single kanji paired only for the single kanji "kai" is stored. Therefore, the dictionary search unit (4) is paired with the single Chinese character “kai” and stored in the connected dictionary (3).
Will be output to the candidate buffer (5).

Next, the connection determination unit (6) performs the determination as described above, but now the second word buffer (2) stores the idiom "participation", and the candidate buffer (5) contains the single kanji "shu",
Since “Gan”, “Add”, and “Out” are stored, the single Kanji that is the same as the single Kanji forming the phrase “Participation” stored in the second word buffer (2) is the candidate buffer (5). ) Found to exist in. Therefore, the connection determination unit (6)
Outputs a signal indicating that the words stored in the first and second word buffers (1) and (2) are connectable in terms of meaning.

At this time, instead of “participation” in the second word buffer (2), the synonyms “yamagawa”, “yamaya”,
When a compound word such as "Obstetrics" is stored, the same single kanji character that composes the compound word is a candidate buffer (5).
Since it is not stored in the connection determination unit (6),
A signal indicating that the words stored in the second word buffers (1) and (2) cannot be connected in terms of semantic interpretation is output.

In this embodiment, since the connection dictionary (3) that stores pairs of single Chinese characters that are easily connected in terms of meaning interpretation is used as a dictionary for determining whether or not they can be connected in terms of meaning interpretation, words are paired as in the conventional method. The memory capacity of the dictionary can be reduced as compared with the case of using the compound dictionary stored in.

Specifically, for example, “meeting”, “meeting”, “general meeting”,
With respect to the word “hokai”, the words “gather”, “participate”, “participate”, and “join” can be connected in terms of their meanings. If this is used as a conventional multilingual dictionary structure, a total of 16 words Must be stored in the dictionary. On the other hand, in the connection dictionary configuration as in this embodiment, it is sufficient to store four combinations in the dictionary as is clear from FIG. Also, one set of kanji in the dictionary (one pair)
Even if you compare the memory capacity per
While the capacity for a single kanji is sufficient, the compound dictionary structure requires a capacity for two or more single kanji.

In this embodiment, the first and second word buffers (1) and (2)
Although the words are stored in each of them, it is obvious that the same effect can be obtained even if the phrase is stored.

(G) Effect of the Invention According to the present invention, it is possible to reduce the dictionary capacity used for determining whether or not a connection is possible in terms of semantic interpretation, as compared with the related art.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the contents of a connection dictionary in this embodiment. (3) ... Connected dictionary, (4) ... Dictionary search unit, (6) ...
... Connection determination unit

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Kimio Nagasawa 2-18, Keihan Hon-dori, Moriguchi City, Osaka Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (56) Reference JP-A-58-99829 (JP, A)

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A connectivity verification device for testing the semantic interpretation connectivity between words or clauses containing Chinese characters, wherein the connectivity dictionary stores pairs of Chinese characters that are easy to connect in terms of semantic interpretation. And a means for searching the above-mentioned connection dictionary for each one kanji of one of the words or phrases containing a plurality of kanji whose connectivity is tested, and extracting a pair of kanji, and the retrieved kanji being connected. And a determination unit that determines whether or not is included in the other word or phrase to be tested.