JPH077420B2 - Electronic dictionary - Google Patents

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic dictionary provided with a dictionary memory, and more particularly to an entry word corresponding to a designated word among a plurality of input first language words. The present invention relates to an electronic dictionary in which, in addition to displaying the meaning in the second language, the idiom included in a plurality of words input from the idiom associated with the found word and the meaning thereof are displayed.

(Prior Art) In recent years, a dictionary memory for storing Japanese translations (meanings) and part-of-speech information for each of a large number of English words arranged in a predetermined order has been provided in a control device, and an arbitrary English input Practical use of an electronic dictionary that searches the dictionary for words and displays the dictionary information such as the part-of-speech and translated word of the same spelling as the entered word on the display device in the same format as the original bound dictionary Has been done.

Furthermore, an electronic dictionary is also put into practical use, in which the compound word related to the found word and its translated word are stored in the dictionary memory in addition to the translated word, and the translated word, the compound word, and the translated word of the input word are displayed. Has been done.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) For each found word in the dictionary memory, in the electronic dictionary storing the translated word and the idiom and the translated word, when the idiom is instructed to be displayed, all the idioms stored are stored. And its translation are displayed.

In other words, the idiom candidates not related to the sentence including the desired idiom candidates related to the sentence currently being input are also displayed, and the operator selects the desired idiom candidate from the displayed idiom candidates. There is a problem in that it takes a lot of time and effort to translate the text.

(Object of the Invention) An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic dictionary capable of displaying an appropriate idiom candidate included in a sentence that has been input among the idioms related to a designated word and its translation.

(Means for Solving Problems) As shown in the functional block diagram of FIG. 1, the electronic dictionary according to the present invention has an input means for inputting an arbitrary character string in the first language, and an input means for the first language. Storage means for storing dictionary information about a large number of words, control means for searching the storage means for words corresponding to the character string input by the input means, and input character string input by the input means And a display unit for displaying a search result of the control unit, wherein the storage unit includes, for each of a large number of words in the first language, a found word represented by a prototype of the word and a second word thereof.
A dictionary memory storing a meaning in a language, a phrase associated with the found word, and a meaning in the second language of the phrase, the control means includes a plurality of words input from the input means. Received from the dictionary memory to search for an entry word corresponding to a designated word from the plurality of words, and an idiom included in the plurality of words input from the idioms associated with the entry word. Equipped with a search means for searching
With respect to the found word and the idiom detected by the searching means, the output control means for displaying the meaning of the found word and the idiom and the meaning of the idiom on the display means is provided.

(Operation) In the electronic dictionary according to the present invention, when data of a plurality of words is input from the input means, the search means searches for a headword corresponding to a designated word of the plurality of words. At the same time, the idiom included in the plurality of input words is searched from the idioms associated with the found word.

Next, the output control means and the meaning of the found word and the meaning of the idiom and the idiom regarding the found word and the idiom detected by the search means are displayed on the display means.

(Effect of the invention) According to the electronic dictionary of the present invention, as described above,
The dictionary memory stores and specifies the found word for each of the multiple words in the first language, its meaning in the second language, and the idiom associated with the found word and its meaning in the second language. The meaning of the headword that corresponds to the word, the word that is included in the multiple words that have been input in the word that accompanies the headword, and the meaning of the word are displayed. And even if it is complicated, you can know the meaning of the appropriate idiom included in the sentence without much time and effort in translation, and you can translate the entered sentence quickly and accurately. I can.

(Embodiment) An embodiment in which the electronic dictionary according to the present invention is applied to a Japanese word processor which also functions as an English sentence will be described with reference to the drawings.

The Japanese word processor (hereinafter referred to as word processor)
Is basically a keyboard 1, a display mechanism D and a control device C.
It has and.

The following operation members such as various keys for operating the word processor are arranged on the keyboard 1.

That is, various character / symbol keys corresponding to alphabets, numbers, kana, symbols, etc., alphanumeric mode key to select alphanumeric mode, hiragana mode key to select hiragana mode, katakana mode key to select katakana mode, line feed Key, space key, hiragana and katakana character input is converted to kanji, or in alphanumeric mode conversion key to display translated words, non-conversion key, shift key, tab key,
It is a next candidate key for displaying a candidate of an idiom related to an English word input when using the English-Japanese dictionary described later.

Note that the other keys are included in a normal word processor and will not be described.

The display mechanism D has a general configuration including a display 2 including a seven-line liquid crystal display (LCD) and a display controller 3 that outputs a drive signal to the display 2.

Next, the control device C will be described with reference to the block diagram of FIG.

The control device C includes a CPU (central processing unit) 4 and a ROM (read
It is composed of an only memory) 5 and a RAM (random access memory) 6, and a keyboard 4, a display controller 3, a ROM 5 and a RAM 6 are connected to the CPU 4 as shown.

In the ROM 5, a character generator that stores display data for displaying characters and the like on the display 2 in association with code data of each character and symbol, an English-Japanese dictionary, and a control program for controlling the display mechanism D are input. A program memory that stores an English-Japanese dictionary (hereinafter referred to as a dictionary) search control program for searching for translated words and phrases corresponding to English words and displaying them on the display 2 is provided.

The English-Japanese dictionary stores about 20,000 English words (found words) arranged in alphabetical order as described later, and translated words and idioms corresponding to each English word.

In the RAM6, a text memory for storing all input characters and symbols, the current position of the cursor is the line number information (line address data) in the text memory, and the digit number information from the left margin position (column address data). ) And the cursor position memory, the word memory that stores the word pointed to by the cursor, and the data of the text pointed by the cursor along with the movement of the cursor, that is, the cursor position, including periods or commas and sentences between periods or commas. A sentence memory that stores data, a character pointer that sequentially searches each data in the sentence memory when a phrase search is started, a stack-structured phrase memory that stores the detected phrase candidates and translated words, and a display mechanism D. It is equipped with various temporary storage memories necessary for controlling .

The CPU 4 sends code data corresponding to each character or symbol such as alphabets, numbers, hiragana, katakana and other symbols input from the character symbol keys of the keyboard 1 to RA.
The display data corresponding to these code data is sequentially read from the character generator of the ROM 5 and output to the display controller 3 while being sequentially stored in the text memory of the M6.

Further, the CPU 4 outputs the control signal corresponding to the input code data to the display controller 3 by processing the code data input from the various function keys of the keyboard 1 by the control program read from the program memory of the ROM 5.

Next, the outline and features of the electronic dictionary of the present application will be described.

The English-Japanese dictionary according to the present invention stores headwords, translations, and idiom patterns of various English words such as intransitive verbs, transitive verbs, nouns, and adjectives, and meanings of idioms. The translated word of the word indicated by the cursor is displayed, and by operating the next candidate key, among the idioms related to the word indicated by the cursor, only the idiom related to the sentence including the cursor and the meaning of the idiom can be displayed. .

For example, as shown in Fig. 3, the sentence "I take up with h
"im soon.", move the cursor to the word "take", and operate the conversion key, the transliteration of each part of speech is displayed along with the parts of speech of the intransitive verb, the transitive verb, and the noun.

Next, when the next candidate key is operated, among the idioms related to the word "take", only the idioms "take up with" and "take up" related to the input sentence "I take up with him soon." Is displayed.

Next, the structure of the English-Japanese dictionary according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

The English-Japanese dictionary consists of an index and a dictionary body, and when the dictionary is searched for an input word, the start address of the search area in which the dictionary body searches the dictionary body is the alphabetic character. It is stored corresponding to a to z.

For example, the headword starting with a is stored from address 3000 of the dictionary body.

About 20,000 headwords are stored in the dictionary body in alphabetical order, a part-of-speech code and a translated word are stored following each headword, and when there are a plurality of parts of speech, the part-of-speech code and the translated word are sequentially stored. Has been done.

Further, when a idiom related to the headword exists, the idiom pattern of the idiom, the idiom pattern, and the address storing the meaning of the idiom are sequentially stored.

The headword code of each alphabetic character that constitutes the headword, the part-of-speech code that means each part-of-speech, and the translated word code that means a translated word, such as kanji, hiragana, katakana, and symbols, are in the code range shown in Table 1 below. The range is set in the table.

For example, the alphabetic character “a” of the found word is set to the code “00”, the “b” is set to the code “01”, and the idiom pattern code data is code FF and FF.
It is stored surrounded by and (see FIG. 5).

The above code range table is stored in ROM5,
It is possible to distinguish whether the read code data is the headword code, the part-of-speech code, the translated word code, or the idiom pattern code.

As shown in Table 2 below, each part of speech is assigned to each part of speech code, and the part of speech corresponding to each part of speech code is displayed.

In addition, [self] is an intransitive verb, [other] is a transitive verb, [self / other] is an intransitive verb and transitive verb, [name] is a noun, [form] is an adjective,
[Adjunct] is an adverb, [yo] is a pronoun, [aux] is an auxiliary verb,
[Conjunction] is a conjunction, [Previous] is a preposition, [Crown] is an article,
[Abbreviation] is an abbreviation, [Juku] is an idiom, and [Translation] is a translation of the idiom.

For example, as shown in FIG. 5, the word “take” searched in the dictionary in FIG. 3 is followed by the found word “take”, the part-of-speech code 40 (intransitive word), the translated word “acquire, subtract”, and so on. The part-of-speech code 41 (transitive verb), the translated word “take, catch, buy”, the part-of-speech code 43 (noun), and the translated word “acquisition (thing), sales” are stored.

In addition, "*! Off" is a compound word pattern enclosed by two FF codes following the part-of-speech code 4C (compound word), and address data "15030" that stores the translated word of this compound word pattern,
Similarly, follow the part-of-speech code 4C, followed by the idiom pattern “*
! out ”, address data“ 15040 ”, part-of-speech code 4C, then idiom pattern“ *! over ”, address data“ 1505 ”
0 ”, the part-of-speech code 4C, the idiom pattern“ *! Up ”, and the address data“ 15060 ”are stored.

The code data “*” means the found word itself, and the code data “!” Means that an arbitrary number of words may be entered. For example, the idiom pattern "*! Up" is "take! Up"
Is.

And at the address "15060", the part-of-speech code 4D (translation)
After that, the translated word "take up" of the phrase "take up" is memorized, the part of speech code 4C (id phrase) is followed by "◇ with" as the phrase pattern, and the address data that stores the translation of this phrase pattern "15070" is stored, and the address "15070" is followed by the POS code 4D followed by the idiom "tak".
The translation of "e up with" is remembered. The code data "◇" means the preceding phrase, that is, "take up".

Further, in the found word “up”, the translated word is stored following the part-of-speech code 49 (preposition), the translated word following the part-of-speech code 45 (adverb), and further, the part-of-speech code 4C is followed by the idiom pattern “stand”.
* ", The address data" 18000 "that stores the translated word of the idiom pattern, the part-of-speech code 4C, and then the idiom pattern" tak
e! * ”and address data“ 15060 ”are stored.

For the found word "with," the part of speech code 49 is followed by the translated word, the part of speech code 4C is followed by the idiom pattern "compare! *", The address data is "5600", and the part of speech code 4C is followed by the idiom pattern "take! Up *". , Address data “15070” is stored.

Next, in order to make it easy to understand the explanation based on the flowchart of the search control routine for searching for the found word and the idiom of the English-Japanese dictionary according to the present invention, the outline of this control will be described below.
This will be described with reference to FIGS.

For example, if you enter the sentence "I take up with him soon." And move the cursor to the word "take" and operate the conversion key, the part of speech and translation for the word "take" are displayed, as shown in FIG. When you operate the key, based on the part-of-speech code 4C, the idiom pattern "take! Off" in the input sentence,
It is searched for a match with "take! Out", "take! Over", or "take! Up", and when it matches the phrase pattern "take! Up", further phrases are added based on the part-of-speech code 4C at address "15060". It was found that it matches the pattern “take! Up with”. As shown in FIG. 3, the phrase “take up with” and the translated word and the phrase candidate “take u” are selected from the longest phrase pattern.
"p" and the translated word are displayed.

Move the cursor to the word "up" and operate the conversion key to display the part-of-speech and the translated word.If you operate the next candidate key, it matches the idiom pattern "take! Up" based on the part-of-speech code 4C, and at address "15060" Jukugo pattern "take! Up w
It is found that the word matches "ith", and the subsequent search is performed as in the case of the word "take", and the idiom candidate "take up with" and the translated word are displayed.

When the conversion key is operated after moving the cursor to the word “with”, the search is performed as in the case of the word “up”, and the idiom candidate “take up with” and the translated word are displayed.

Next, a search control routine performed by the control unit C of the Japanese word processor will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

When the power of the word processor is turned on, this control is started, and initialization such as clearing each memory of the RAM 6 is executed in step S1 (hereinafter, simply represented by S1 and other steps are treated similarly).

In the next S2, a character string is input from the keyboard 1,
The input data is written in the text memory of RAM6.

Next, in S3, the cursor is moved to the desired word for which the dictionary information is to be displayed.

At this time, the word data designated by the cursor based on the data in the cursor position memory is written in the word memory of RAM6, and the sentence data of the sentence designated by the cursor (period or comma and data between periods or commas)
Is written in the text memory of RAM6.

In the next S4, the conversion key is operated to display the part of speech and the translated word of the word pointed by the cursor on the display 2.

In step S5, the search start address of the dictionary body is read based on the first character of the word data pointed to by the cursor and written in the word memory and the index data of the dictionary, and the word data and the found word code data are read. Based on the above, the dictionary search is performed in order from the search start address of the dictionary body to see which word the word data matches.

In the next S6, it is determined whether or not the word pointed by the cursor (target word) and the found word match based on the word data in the word memory and the found word code data. If there is no match and the target word is a variation other than the original form or a misspelling, this control ends.

In S7, all parts of speech and translations following the headword are displayed as candidates. (See FIGS. 3 and 5) In next S8, it is determined whether or not the next candidate key is operated, and when the next candidate key is operated within a predetermined time, S9 is executed.
When the next candidate key is not operated, that is, when it is not necessary to display the phrase, this control ends.

In S9, the idiom code data (4C) of the part-of-speech code and "FF"
Based on the idiom pattern data enclosed between the codes, the data in the sentence memory is searched for the idiom pattern.

At this time, in the data of the text memory, for example, the fifth
When searching for a phrase with the headword "take" in the figure, if the phrase pattern is "*! Up", the data after the character pointer is "take" is searched in sequence.
When the phrase is located at "h" and the phrase search is "with" and the phrase pattern is "take! up *", the character pointer sequentially searches the data from the beginning data of the sentence memory to "with".

In the next step S10, it is determined based on the idiom pattern data and the data in the sentence memory whether or not there is a idiom candidate. If there is a idiom candidate, the process proceeds to S11, and if there is no idiom candidate, this control ends.

In S11, the idiom candidate detected in S10 and the translated word of the idiom detected based on the part-of-speech code data 4D by moving to the address corresponding to the idiom candidate are written in the idiom memory.

For example, in FIG. 5, the idiom candidate “take up” and the translated word “take up, start” retrieved by moving to the address “15060” are written in the idiom memory.

In the next S12, based on the part-of-speech code data 4C, the idiom pattern data, and the data in the sentence memory, it is determined whether there are further idiom candidates, and when there is a idiom candidate, S11
If there is no idiom candidate, the process moves to S13.

Then, S11 to S12 are repeated, and if no idiom candidate is detected, the process proceeds from S12 to S13.

After that, in Fig. 5, the idiom candidate "take up with"
Then, the translated word "to get along, get to know" translated to the address "15070" is written in the idiom memory.

In S13, the idiom candidate and the translated word are displayed on the display 2 in order from the longest idiom pattern of the idiom candidates written in the idiom memory, and this control is ended. (See FIG. 3) For example, when the cursor indicates the word “up” or “with”, the idiom candidate “take up with” and its translation are displayed.

In the above embodiment, the original form of the English word is stored in the found word of the English-Japanese dictionary, but it is stored including each inflected form of the irregularly changing word, and the original form of the word pointed by the cursor is searched. The post-jukugo word search may be performed, or when the active form of a word that changes in a rule is used, the junior word search may be performed after the original form is searched with the end-processed word subjected to the end-of-process.

As explained above, among the idioms related to the word pointed by the cursor in the input sentence, appropriate idiom candidates related to the sentence and their translations are displayed, so the input sentence can be translated quickly and accurately. Can be done.

Here, the electronic dictionary of the above embodiment may be partially modified as follows.

(1) When all the translated words and idioms of the found word cannot be displayed at once, the remaining translated words and idioms are sequentially displayed each time the next candidate key or a dedicated display key is operated, for example.
Finally, all may be displayed.

(2) For example, as shown in FIG. 3, the dictionary is searched for the target word, and the data displayed on the display 2 is printed on the printing paper through the printing mechanism in a substantially similar format.

(3) Set the number of words in the English-Japanese dictionary to about 70,000,
The level information is classified into first level words necessary for junior high school students, second level words other than the first level words necessary for high school students, and third level words other than the first and second level words. In addition to the word data, the search range of words such as the first level word, the first and second level words, the first and third level words, and the vocabulary can be changed by a command from the level setting switch of the keyboard. Allows you to set the difficulty level.

(4) The electronic dictionary of the present application may be configured as a dedicated machine including a keyboard, a display mechanism, and a control device.

(5) In the above embodiment, an electronic dictionary having an English-Japanese dictionary has been described, but the technical idea of the present invention is, of course, an electronic dictionary for translating each Western language such as French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian into Japanese. That is, the invention can be similarly applied to an electronic dictionary that translates Western languages into Western languages, or an electronic dictionary that translates Western languages into Arabic, Chinese, and Korean respectively.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing the configuration of the present invention, and FIGS.
FIG. 6 shows an embodiment of the electronic dictionary according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a Japanese word processor which is also used for English sentence processing, FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a state in which dictionary information including input sentences and idioms of search results is displayed on the display, and FIG. FIG. 5 is an explanatory view for explaining the dictionary information storage structure of the English-Japanese dictionary, FIG. 5 is an explanatory view for visually exemplifying a found word in the English-Japanese dictionary, its dictionary information, and idiom information, and FIG. 6 is for a search control routine. It is a flowchart. 1 ... keyboard, 2 ... display, 3 ... display controller, D ... display mechanism, 4 ... CPU, 5
... ROM, 6 ... RAM, C ... Control device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Input means for inputting an arbitrary character string in a first language, storage means for storing dictionary information for a large number of words in a first language, and a character string input by the input means. In the electronic dictionary comprising a control means for searching the storage means for a word corresponding to, and a display means for displaying the input character string input by the input means and the search result of the control means, the storage means, For each of a number of words in the first language, the found word in the original form of the word, its meaning in the second language, the idiom associated with the found word, and the meaning of the idiom in the second language. A dictionary memory that stores the word, the control unit receives data of a plurality of words input from the input unit, and finds a word corresponding to a specified word from the plurality of words from the dictionary memory. Search with Retrieval means for retrieving idioms included in a plurality of words input from idioms associated with the lemmas, and meanings of the lemmas and idioms detected by the retrieval means, idioms and idioms And an output control unit that causes the display unit to display the meaning of.