JPH0756914A - Document generation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a document generation device having a function for teaching the reading, the meaning or usage of a word or a compound word of KANJI (Chinese character), in a document to a user. CONSTITUTION:When the word or a compound word of KANJI whose reading and meaning are not known such as 'airo' appears at the time of displaying the document which is kept in a document keeping part 4 and which others generate in a display device 1 and executing reference and editing, a fetch means for word being processing object 14 fetches 'airo' from an editing memory 5 and gives a notice to a read retrieval part 11 when the part of 'airo' is designated by a cursor and the like and a read retrieval key on a keyboard 2 is depressed. The reading and the meaning or usage are stored for the respective words and the compound word of KANJI in a dictionary data base 6. The read retrieval part 11 retrieves and reads the dictionary data base 6 with 'airo' as a key, and obtains 'a-i-ro' and the meaning or usage 'a narrow path and trouble'. A controller 13 displays the reading and the meaning or usage on the display device 1.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creating apparatus called a word processor or the like, and particularly in a dictionary such as a Kanji dictionary when a word or idiom whose reading is unknown exists in an already created document. The present invention relates to a document creation device that allows the user to know the reading by performing a simple operation without checking.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A document preparation device capable of electronically preparing a document, for example, a Japanese document preparation device, is now becoming a necessity not only in offices of companies but also in general households. Such a Japanese document creation device inputs a reading of a word or idiom in hiragana or romaji, and if you want to convert it to kanji, press the conversion key to automatically convert it to kanji and store it in the editing memory. In addition, the monitor is displayed on the display device. The created document can be printed out and stored in a document storage unit such as a floppy disk so that it can be referred to and edited later.

By the way, as one of the usage modes of the document creating apparatus, a person creates a document and saves it on a floppy disk or the like, and a third party sets the floppy disk on the document creating apparatus to read the document contents. There are usage forms such as referencing and editing. That is, the document is transmitted without passing through the form of paper. In such a case, since a document created by another person will be understood, a word or idiom whose reading is unknown may appear in the document. In such a case, conventionally, a kanji dictionary is used to understand how to read by relying on the stroke number of the kanji included in the word. Also,
The meaning may come to mind when the reading is understood, but the meaning and usage may be unknown even if the reading is known, and in that case, the meaning and usage are further investigated. Further, when the contents are transmitted to a third party by telephone while looking at the screen, the meaning does not matter, but it is troublesome if only the reading is unknown.

[0004]

As described above, when there is a word or idiom whose reading is unknown in a document that has already been created, it has conventionally been necessary to look it up in a Kanji dictionary or the like. There was a problem that it could not proceed efficiently.

Therefore, a first object of the present invention is to detect a word or idiom whose reading is unknown in a document,
An object of the present invention is to provide a document creation device that allows the user to know the reading immediately by performing a simple operation without looking it up in a dictionary such as a Kanji dictionary.

A second object of the present invention is to provide a document creating apparatus which displays the meaning and usage of the word or phrase at the same time as reading.

Further, the third object of the present invention is to know the reading, meaning and usage of a word or a compound word whose reading is unknown in a document that has already been created. For, a document creation device that allows the user to easily know what words and phrases exist corresponding to the input pronunciation, what they mean, and what they are used for To provide.

Incidentally, as the prior art related to the present invention,
For example, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 63-118976, a dictionary for storing meanings, examples and similar words corresponding to each word is provided, and an already input word is designated to request the similar word. Technology for displaying similar words together with their meanings and examples in the case of being displayed, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2-1
As disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 81266, a meaning explanation file for holding meanings of words in correspondence with words is provided, and when a meaningless word is selected in a kanji state and the meaning display key is pressed, the meaning is displayed, and meaning unknown. There is a technology to display the same word and its meaning as the reading by selecting the word in kana and pressing the meaning display key, but all of these technologies show how to read a word or idiom. Since this is a technology that naturally requires knowledge, it does not have the function of teaching the user how to read already existing words or phrases.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above first object, the present invention holds a document being edited in an edit memory and displays it on a display device, and interactively according to an operation from an input device. In a document creation device that creates a document,
A dictionary database that stores readings corresponding to words or phrases and a range of the words or phrases to be processed are specified and read from the document displayed on the display device by an operation from the input device. When a search request is input, processing target word extracting means for extracting the words or phrases in the specified range from the editing memory, and reading corresponding to the words or phrases extracted by the processing target word extracting means are input. A reading retrieval unit for retrieving from the dictionary database is provided, and the reading retrieved by the reading retrieval unit is displayed on the display device.

Further, in order to achieve the above-mentioned second object, a document is created in which a document being edited is held in an edit memory and is displayed on a display device to interactively create a document in accordance with an operation from an input device. In the device, a dictionary database that stores the reading and usage or meaning of the word or phrase corresponding to the word or phrase, and an operation from the input device,
When a range of words or phrases to be processed is specified from the document displayed on the display device and a reading search request is input, the words or phrases in the specified range are retrieved from the editing memory. The processing target word retrieval means and the reading retrieval means for retrieving the reading and usage or meaning corresponding to the word or phrase extracted by the processing target word retrieval means from the dictionary database are provided, and are searched by the reading retrieval means. The display and the usage or meaning are displayed on the display device.

Further, in order to achieve the above-mentioned third object, a document preparation for holding a document being edited in an edit memory and displaying it on a display device, and interactively creating a document according to an operation from an input device. In the device, a dictionary database that stores the reading and usage or meaning of the word or phrase corresponding to the word or phrase, and an operation from the input device,
A range of words or phrases to be processed is specified from the document displayed on the display device, and a reading search request is input, whereby the words or phrases in the specified range are retrieved from the editing memory. A processing target word extracting means for extracting the reading being input from the editing memory by inputting a word or a phrase search request for the reading being input displayed on the display device, and the processing target word Yomi retrieval means for retrieving the pronunciation and its usage or meaning corresponding to the word or phrase retrieved by the retrieval means from the dictionary database, and the word or phrase corresponding to the pronunciation retrieved by the processing target word retrieval means and its usage Alternatively, the reading / searching means includes a word / idiom search means for searching the dictionary database for meaning. They are words or phrases and their usage or meaning search for the read and use or means and said word-phrase search means is configured to display on the display device.

[0012]

In the document creating apparatus of the present invention, the range of words or idioms to be processed is selected from the documents displayed on the display unit by the operation of the input unit such as the input of the reading retrieval request key and the movement of the cursor. Is specified and the phonetic search request is input, the processing target word extracting means extracts the words or phrases in the specified range from the editing memory, and the phonetic retrieval means corresponds to the extracted words or phrases. The reading and its usage or meaning are retrieved from the dictionary database, and the retrieved reading and its usage or meaning are displayed on the display device. Also, when a word or phrase search request is input for the reading being displayed on the display device by an operation from the input device such as inputting a word / phrase search key while inputting characters, the process target The word retrieval means retrieves the reading in the input from the editing memory, and the word / idiom retrieval means retrieves the word or phrase and its usage or meaning corresponding to the retrieved pronunciation from the dictionary database, and retrieves this. Display a word or phrase and its usage or meaning on a display device.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

Referring to FIG. 1, a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is a display device 1 such as a CRT display device.
And a keyboard 2 having character keys such as a kana key, a numeric key, an alphabet key, an execution key, a kana-kanji conversion key, a non-conversion key, a phonetic search key, a word / idiom search key, and a magnetic floppy disk device. Document storage unit 4 and editing memory 5 such as main memory
The dictionary database 6, the display control unit 7, the input control unit 8, the input / output control unit 9, the Kana-Kanji conversion unit 10, the reading search unit 11, the word / idiom word search unit 12, and these are controlled. The control device 13 includes a control device 13, and the control device 13 includes a processing target word extracting unit 14.

The dictionary database 6 is a means for holding words / idioms and their readings and their meanings / usages. It is possible to search for words / idioms and their meanings / usages with the reading as a key. You can retrieve the reading and its meaning or usage. FIG. 2 shows a part of the contents of the dictionary database 6.

FIGS. 3 to 5 are flow charts of processing examples of the document creating apparatus of the present embodiment, and FIGS. 6 and 7 are diagrams showing screen examples during word / phrase search processing for newly input reading, and FIG.
FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a screen at the time of a phonetic search process for a word / idiom in a document that has already been input. The operation of this embodiment will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 1, when a user gives an instruction to create a new document by operating the keyboard 2, the control device 13 which receives this instruction through the input control unit 8 displays a new document creation screen through the display control unit 7 on the display device. No. 1 is displayed and the key input is awaited (S1 in FIG. 3).

When the user inputs characters such as hiragana, numbers, and alphabets from the keyboard 2, these are transmitted from the input control unit 8 to the control device 13, and the control device 13 edits these characters in the editing memory. 5, and at the same time, it is displayed on the screen of the display device 1 via the display control unit 7 (S2 and S3 in FIG. 3).

If the user inputs three characters "ko", "re", and "ga" and presses the non-conversion key on the keyboard 2, for example, the control device 13 will say "koga". The characters are stored in the edit memory 5 and displayed on the monitor on the display device 1 as shown in FIG.
In the above, the stored character string "koga" is managed as a character string in a fixed state in response to the depression of the non-conversion key.

Next, when the user inputs three characters "a", "i", and "ro", the control device 13 causes "airo".
Is stored in the edit memory 5 in succession to "Kono ga" and is displayed on the monitor of the display device 1 as shown in FIG. 6 (a). At this time, since the non-conversion key and the conversion key have not been pressed yet, the character string of "Airo" is managed as an undetermined state.

At this point, when the user presses the word / phrase search key on the keyboard 2, the control device 13 identifies this in step S4 of FIG. 3 and executes the processing of FIG.

First, the internal processing target word extracting means 14
To retrieve the undetermined character string from the editing memory 5 (S
11). That is, in this case, the character string "airo" is taken out.

Next, the extracted "Airo" is the word
Pass it to the phrase search unit 12 to request a search for words and phrases,
The word / phrase search unit 12 searches the dictionary database 6 for the corresponding word / phrase and meaning or usage with "Airo" as a key (S12).

In the case of FIG. 2, the word / idiom “narrow” and the meaning or usage “narrow, hindrance” are stored in the dictionary database 6 corresponding to the reading “air”, so that “narrow” and “narrow” are stored. , Trouble ”is searched (YE in S13 of FIG. 3).
S).

When the control device 13 receives the search result from the word / phrase search unit 12, it replaces the undetermined character string “Airo” in the editing memory 5 with one retrieved word / phrase “narrow”, As shown in FIG. 6B, the display of "Airo" is changed to "Bottle". At the same time, as shown in FIG. 6B, its meaning and usage are displayed at the bottom of the screen (S1).
4). If there is no corresponding word or idiom and the search is unsuccessful (NO in S13), the undetermined character string "Airo" is in the hiragana state and is in the confirmed state (S18).
To step S1.

After displaying the retrieved words / idioms, their meanings, and usages, the controller 13 waits for key input (S15). When the word / idiom retrieval key is pressed again (S16), the process proceeds to step S14. Return, word / phrase search section 1
Display another word or phrase found in 2 and its meaning or usage. In this case, since only one word or phrase is registered in the dictionary database 6 for "Airo", the display content does not change, but for example, "Koron" is displayed as shown in FIG. 7 (a). When the word / phrase search key is pressed for an undetermined character string, the dictionary database 6
As shown in FIG. 2, four words and idioms are registered in, so as shown in FIG. 7B, first, for example, the word and idiom “quarrel” and its meaning and usage “to argue with words”.
Is displayed and the word / phrase search key is pressed again,
As shown in FIG. 7 (c), the next candidate word / idiom “Public”
And its meaning / usage "fair discussion" is displayed, and every time the word / phrase search key is pressed, the display is "protest",
Instead of "high theory", return to the first "quarrel" again.

When a key other than the word / phrase search key is pressed while a certain word / phrase is displayed, the displayed word / phrase is set to the definite state (S16, S1).
7), the process proceeds to the process after the process S2 in FIG.

As described above, in the present embodiment, when the reading is input and the word / phrase search key is pressed, the words / phrases corresponding to the reading are displayed one by one on the display device 1 together with their meanings and usages. As a result, the user can proceed with document creation while confirming the meanings of words and phrases.

If it is not necessary to know the meaning of a word or idiom, if the Kana-Kanji conversion key on the keyboard 2 is pressed after the reading is input, it is identified by the control device 13 in step S6 of FIG. It is converted to Kanji by the unit 10. The kana-kanji conversion unit 10 includes a control device 13
The dictionary database 6 is searched by using the undetermined character string ("Airo" in the above example) passed from the key as a key, and the control device 13 is notified of the word or phrase that reads the undetermined character string.
The control device 13 replaces the undetermined character string with the notified word or phrase (S7). At this time, when a plurality of words / idioms exist for the same reading, the candidate word / idiom is changed every time the Kana-Kanji conversion key is pressed.

When the user finishes creating the document by repeating the above-mentioned operation and presses the end key of the keyboard 2, the control device 1 identified in step S8 of FIG.
3 performs end processing S10, and in this end processing,
The contents of the document created in the editing memory 5 are stored in the document storage unit 4 through the input / output control unit 9 so that they can be reused thereafter.

Next, the operation of referring to and editing the document stored in the document storage unit 4 will be described.

When the user operates the keyboard 2 to specify a document to be referenced or edited and instruct to start updating,
The control device 13 reads the specified document from the document storage unit 4 through the input / output control unit 9 and stores it in the editing memory 5, and displays the content on the display device 1. And
It waits for key input in step S1 of FIG.

Now, assuming that a document as shown in FIG. 8A is displayed on the screen of the display device 1, and the user does not know how to read the "narrow" in the document, its meaning, and usage, Suppose you could not understand the content of the document. In such a case, conventionally, the number of strokes in "Kawa" has been changed to "Kuwa" in a Kanji dictionary.
It was necessary to check the reading and the meaning and the like of "Kushiro", but in this example, the reading of "Kushiro" and its meaning and usage can be known by the following simple operation. it can.

First, the cursor key on the keyboard 2 is operated to position the cursor at the beginning of the word or idiom to be examined. The process corresponding to the cursor key is the process S in FIG.
Done at 9. In this case, position the cursor on the character "small".

When the reading search key on the keyboard 2 is pressed in this state, it is identified in step S5 of FIG.
The control device 13 executes the process of FIG.

First, in step S21, the user is made to specify the range of a word or idiom to be examined. This is done by moving the cursor to the end of the word or idiom to be examined and pressing the execution key on the keyboard 2, for example. The control device 13 recognizes the range from the position of the cursor when the reading search key is pressed to the position of the cursor when the execution key is pressed as the processing target character string, and recognizes the range recognized as the processing target character string. In order to present it to the user, an underline is drawn on the character "Bottle" as shown in FIG. 8 (b).

Next, the control device 13 causes the processing target word extracting means 14 to extract the recognized processing target character string from the editing memory 5 (S22). Then, the retrieved "narrow path" is passed to the reading search section 11 to request a reading search, and the reading search section 11 uses the "narrow path" as a key in the dictionary database 6 to determine the corresponding reading and meaning or usage. Search (S23).

In the case of FIG. 2, since the reading “Airo” and the meaning or usage “narrow road, obstacle” are stored in the dictionary database 6 in correspondence with the word / idiom “Kushiro”, “Airo”
And "narrow road, obstacle" are searched (YE in S24 of FIG. 5).
S).

When the control device 13 receives the retrieval result from the reading retrieval unit 11, it displays the reading, the meaning, and the usage, for example, at the bottom of the screen as shown in FIG. 8B (S25). Then, the process proceeds to step S1 of FIG. As a result, the user can know how to read "Kunro", its meaning, and usage.

If the word / idiom corresponding to the character string to be processed does not exist in the dictionary database 6 because the range of the word / idiom to be searched is erroneously specified (S).
No in 24), a message indicating that there is no reading is displayed on the display device 2 (S26).

The embodiment of the present invention has been described above.
The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various other additions and changes can be made. For example, the word / phrase search unit 12
May be omitted, or only the reading may be displayed during the reading search. Further, it is applicable not only to the Japanese document creation device but also to other foreign language document creation devices such as a Chinese document creation device and an English document creation device.

[0042]

As described above, according to the document creating apparatus of the present invention, the following effects can be obtained.

When a word or a idiom whose reading is unknown exists in the document, the reading can be immediately known only by performing a simple operation without looking it up in a dictionary such as a Kanji dictionary. . Therefore, difficult words created by others,
Even documents containing idioms can be read easily.

At the same time as reading, the meaning and usage of the word or idiom is also displayed on the display device, so that the readability of the document can be further improved.

Since the user can easily know what kind of word or idiom exists corresponding to the input pronunciation and what meaning or meaning it is used for, the user tries to create a document by himself. Even those who do this can efficiently create a correct document.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a part of the contents of a dictionary database.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a processing example of the document creating apparatus according to the embodiment of this invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a processing example at the time of word / idiom search for a newly input reading.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a processing example at the time of phonetic search for a word / idiom in a document that has already been input.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a screen example during a word / idiom search process for a newly input reading.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing another screen example at the time of word / phrase search processing for a newly input reading.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a screen during reading search processing for a word / idiom in a document that has already been input.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Display device 2 ... Keyboard 4 ... Document storage unit 5 ... Editing memory 6 ... Dictionary database 7 ... Display control unit 8 ... Input control unit 9 ... Input / output control unit 10 ... Kana-Kanji conversion unit 11 ... Reading retrieval unit 12 ... Words Idiom word search unit 13 ... Control device 14 ... Process target word extracting means

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A document creation device for holding a document being edited in an edit memory and displaying it on a display device, and interactively creating a document in accordance with an operation from an input device. By a dictionary database storing the, by the operation from the input device, the word or phrase range to be processed is specified from the document displayed on the display device, and a reading search request is input, Processing target word extracting means for extracting the specified range of words or idioms from the editing memory; and reading reading means for searching the dictionary database for readings corresponding to the words or idioms extracted by the processing target word extracting means. And a structure for displaying the reading retrieved by the reading retrieval means on the display device. . 2. A document creation device for holding a document being edited in an edit memory and displaying it on a display device to interactively create a document in accordance with an operation from an input device. And a dictionary database that stores the usage or meaning thereof, and the range of the word or the phrase to be processed is specified from the document displayed on the display device and the reading search request is input by the operation from the input device. By doing so, the processing target word extracting means for extracting the words or phrases in the specified range from the editing memory, and the reading and usage or meaning corresponding to the words or phrases extracted by the processing target word extracting means are described. And a reading retrieval means for retrieving from a dictionary database, and the reading and usage or meaning retrieved by the reading retrieval means Document creating apparatus characterized by having a configuration to be displayed on the display device. 3. A document creation device for holding a document being edited in an edit memory and displaying it on a display device to interactively create a document in accordance with an operation from an input device. And a dictionary database that stores the usage or meaning thereof, and the range of the word or the phrase to be processed is specified from the document displayed on the display device and the reading search request is input by the operation from the input device. As a result, the words or phrases in the specified range are retrieved from the editing memory, and a word or phrase search request is input for the reading being input that is displayed on the display device. Processing target word extracting means for extracting the reading in the input from the memory, and a word or phrase extracted by the processing target word extracting means Yomi search means for searching corresponding dictionary and its usage or meaning from the dictionary database, and word or phrase corresponding to the reading read by the processing target word extracting means and word for searching the dictionary database for its usage or meaning And a phrase search means, and a structure for displaying the reading and usage or meaning searched by the reading search means and the word or phrase searched by the word and phrase search means and the usage or meaning thereof on the display device. A document creation device characterized by the above.