JPH0816584A - Document editing processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the operation efficiency of editing operation on a document editing system. CONSTITUTION:A sentence punctuating means 15 punctuates a document data (document data of its application) inputted through an input means 11 and another document data (document data of other applications) inputted through an internal buffer input means 14 according to the same sentence punctuation rule. At a request to insert data, an internal buffer output means 17 outputs the document data (document data from other applications after the punctuating process) from an internal buffer storage means 16. A display and editing means 12 displays the document data of its application after the sentence punctuating process on an editing screen, sentence by sentence, and inserts the document data outputted from the internal buffer output means 17 in at an insertion indication position on the editing screen, sentence by sentence, and displays them.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document editing system (for example, a machine translation support system) which is application software (hereinafter, simply referred to as an application) for performing various document editing processes (for example, machine translation processing) on a sentence basis. ) Applied to the document editing processing apparatus (“apparatus” realized in the form of “software”), especially the document data in an application other than the document editing system (hereinafter referred to as other application) It has a function (known as a copy & paste function or a cut & paste function; hereinafter referred to as a copy & paste function) that allows it to be inserted at an arbitrary position in the edit screen of its own application). The present invention relates to a document edit processing device. In addition,
As is apparent from the above, the present invention is premised on that a plurality of applications are applied in a multi-window system that operates using each window (for example, an X window system developed and licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). I am trying.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Some document editing systems perform document editing processing on a sentence-by-sentence basis. For example, a machine translation support system that performs translation processing from Japanese to English is "bi
t separate volume, machine translation, Hirogo Nomura and Hozumi Tanaka, Kyoritsu Publishing ”
In "II. Machine translation basics and technology, translation environment and systemization technology, Yoshiyuki Sakamoto", page 120, left column, line 18 "the current machine translation is translated one sentence at a time" As described above, it is common to perform translation processing on a sentence-by-sentence basis.

Therefore, a document edit processing apparatus (a document edit system for performing document edit processing on a sentence-by-sentence basis) applied to such a document edit system (to support the document edit processing of the document edit system) "input",
Software that performs "display" and "accept edits" uses the "sentence cutting function" that separates sentences by sentence when input data (document data to be input) is input. Was displayed in.

For example, the document edit processing device applied to the above-mentioned machine translation support system uses the sentence cutting function to input the document data of the original sentence (Japanese sentence) from the original sentence file in units of one sentence. Then, the input data was displayed on the edit screen (translation edit screen) on the window corresponding to the own application.

Here, as a method of realizing such a sentence segmentation function, there are methods such as those shown in and below (what unit of document data is recognized as "one sentence" by each method). But it will be different). A method that simply determines sentence breaks based on sentence endings (periods or punctuation). That is, a method of performing sentence segmentation processing according to a sentence segmentation rule such as "separate by sentence end symbol" (such a sentence segmentation rule is predetermined in the application itself). A method for allowing a user to specify a rule for dividing a sentence (sentence cutting rule) and determining a sentence break (division position) based on the sentence cutting rule (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 4-172558)
(See No. Gazette (Machine Translator)).

By the way, in the document edit processing device under the environment of the multi-window system, the copy and paste function is used to transfer the document data in another application (the document data displayed in the window corresponding to the other application) to a mouse, a keyboard or the like. The document data can be fetched into an internal buffer by an operation, and the document data can be inserted into a desired position (insertion designated position designated by a mouse or the like) in an edit screen on a window corresponding to the application. Then, such a copy & paste function brings about improvement in the work efficiency of the editing work in the document editing system to which the document editing processing apparatus is applied.

The present invention is a technique relating to a document edit processing apparatus having the above-mentioned "text cut function" and "copy & paste function".

Conventionally, in this type of document edit processing device, the sentence segmentation function is performed by the document data in the application itself (document data stored in an input medium such as a document file or document data input from an input device such as a keyboard). etc)
It is applied only to, and when the document data in another application is taken in (inserted) by the copy & paste function, sentence cutting processing was not performed. this is,
This is because the “sentence cutting function” and the “copy and paste function” were developed through separate processes, so it was not assumed that the two would be fused.

[0009]

In the above-mentioned conventional document edit processing device, sentence cutting processing is not performed when the document data in another application is inserted by the copy & paste function. Since multiple sentences are displayed in the area within one sentence of the edit screen on the window corresponding to the own application, it becomes necessary to correct the display of each sentence after inserting the inserted multiple sentences. There has been a problem that an operation (operation using a keyboard or the like) by the user for performing is necessary. That is, there is a drawback that the work efficiency of the editing work in the document editing system is reduced.

In view of the above points, an object of the present invention is to perform document cutting by automatically performing sentence cutting processing when the document data from another application is inserted into the editing screen of the own application by the copy and paste function. It is an object of the present invention to provide a document edit processing device for improving the work efficiency of editing work in a system.

[0011]

A document edit processing apparatus according to the present invention is a document edit processing apparatus having a copy & paste function for inserting document data in another application at an arbitrary position, from an input medium or an input device. Input means for inputting document data in its own application, internal buffer input means for inputting document data in another application, sentence cutting processing of document data input by the input means, and document input by the internal buffer input means A sentence cutting means for performing data sentence cutting processing in accordance with the same sentence cutting rule, and an internal buffer storage means for storing document data input from another application for which sentence cutting processing has been performed by this sentence cutting means,
When there is a data insertion request, the internal buffer output means for outputting the document data after sentence cutting in the internal buffer storage means, and the document data in the own application in which the sentence cutting processing by the sentence cutting means is one sentence A display for displaying the document data, which is displayed on a unit-by-unit basis, and which is output from the internal buffer output means and which has been cut out from another application, at the insertion instruction position on the edit screen in units of one sentence.
It has edit means and output means for outputting the document data edited by the document edit system via the display / edit means to an output medium or an output device.

[0012]

In the document edit processing device of the present invention, the input means inputs the document data in the own application from the input medium or the input device, the internal buffer input means inputs the document data in the other application, and the sentence cutting means inputs the means. The sentence cutting process of the document data input by the internal buffer storage unit and the sentence cutting process of the document data input by the internal buffer input unit are performed according to the same sentence cutting rule, and the internal buffer storage unit performs the sentence cutting process by the sentence cutting unit. Stored document data input from another application, and outputs the document data after sentence cutting in the internal buffer storage means when the internal buffer output means makes a data insertion request,
The display / editing unit displays the document data in the own application, which has been subjected to the sentence cutting process by the sentence cutting unit, on the edit screen in units of one sentence, and outputs the document data after the sentence cutting from another application output by the internal buffer output unit. 1
The document data is inserted sentence by sentence at the insertion instruction position in the editing screen, and the output unit outputs the document data edited by the document editing system to the output medium or the output device via the display / editing unit.

[0013]

The present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the document edit processing apparatus of the present invention.

The document edit processing apparatus according to the present embodiment includes an input medium (input document file, etc.) and an input device (keyboard, etc.).
Input means 11 for inputting document data in its own application and display / editing means 12 for displaying document data on a display device in a multi-window system
And an output unit 1 for outputting the edited document data to an output medium (output document file or the like) or an output device (printer or the like).
3, internal buffer input means 14, sentence cutting means 15
And an internal buffer storage means 16 and an internal buffer output means 17. The document edit processing device is applied to a document edit system (for example, a machine translation support system) which is an application for performing a predetermined document edit process (for example, a machine translation process) (the display / editing means 12 is a document). Accept the document editing process from the editing system).

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the processing of the document edit processing apparatus of this embodiment. This processing includes self application document data input step 201, sentence cut processing step 202, one sentence unit display step 203, other application document data input step 204, sentence cut processing step 205, and sentence cut document data storage. Step 206, data insertion request presence / absence determination step 207,
Document data extraction / output step 208 after sentence cutting, and 1
A sentence unit insertion display step 209 and an edited document data output step 210 are included.

3 to 9 are diagrams for explaining a specific operation of the document edit processing apparatus according to the present embodiment (FIG. 9:
It is a figure for explaining the concrete operation of the conventional document edit processing device in contrast with the concrete operation of the document edit processing device of this example.

Next, the operation of the document edit processing apparatus of the present embodiment thus constructed will be described (see FIG. 2).

The input means 11 inputs the document data (for example, the document data formed by the arrangement of characters in the input document file) in its own application (the document editing system) (step 201).

The sentence cutting means 15 performs sentence cutting processing on the document data input by the input means 11 (step 202), and displays / edits the document data after sentence cutting.
Pass to 2.

The display / editing means 12 displays the document data after sentence cutting in units of one sentence on the editing screen on the window corresponding to the application itself (step 203). The display / editing means 12 receives a document editing process from the document editing system for the document data thus displayed.

On the other hand, the internal buffer input means 14 inputs the document data from another application program (the document data displayed on the screen on the window corresponding to the other application) based on the operation of the keyboard, the mouse or the like ( Step 204). In addition, step 2
There is no direct continuity of the processing flow between the processing of 03 and the processing of step 204 (the dashed arrow in FIG. 2 indicates that fact. The processing of step 209 and step 2
The same applies to the dashed arrows between the treatments of 10).

The sentence cutting means 15 performs sentence cutting processing on the document data input by the internal buffer inputting means 14 (step 205), and stores the document data after sentence cutting in the internal buffer storage means 16 (step 20).
6). The sentence cutting rule in the sentence cutting process in step 202 and the sentence cutting rule in the sentence cutting process in step 205 are set to be the same.

The display / editing means 12 accepts a data insertion request input based on an operation on the editing screen (operation of a keyboard, mouse, etc.), and when the data insertion request is made, the effect is sent to the internal buffer output means 17. Notice.
It should be noted that the data insertion request is a request having an instruction to insert document data from another application and an insertion instruction position indicating a position to be inserted on the edit screen.

The internal buffer output means 17 always determines (in practice, every certain short time) whether or not there is the above-mentioned notification from the display / editing means 12, that is, the data insertion request (step 207). .

The internal buffer output means 17 performs step 2
When it is determined in 07 that "there is a data insertion request", the document data after sentence cutting is taken out from the internal buffer storage means 16 and the document data is output to the display / editing means 12 (step 208).

The display / editing means 12 inserts and displays the document data after sentence cutting received in step 208 in units of one sentence from the insertion instruction position on the editing screen (step 20).
9).

When the internal buffer output means 17 determines in step 207 that "there is no data insertion request", the determination in step 207 is repeated.

The output means 13 is the display / editing means 1
The document data edited by the document editing system via 2 is output to an output medium (output document file or the like) or an output device (printer or the like) (step 210).

Next, the specific operation of the document edit processing apparatus of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. Here, an operation when the document editing processing device is applied to a machine translation support system (translation processing document editing system) that performs a translation process from Japanese to English will be described.

The input means 11 inputs certain document data (such as document data in an original text file which is an input document file). The sentence cutting unit 15 performs a sentence cutting process on the document data. The display / editing means 12 displays an edit screen (translation edit screen) having the document data after sentence cutting.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of such a parallel translation editing screen. This parallel translation edit screen is composed of a sentence number (NO.), An original sentence area, and a translated sentence area from the left. In this parallel translation edit screen, the original sentence (Japanese sentence) is displayed on the left side, the translated sentence (English sentence) is displayed on the right side, and both are separated by a ruled line, etc. One original sentence and translated sentence are paired. You can edit documents.

As shown in FIG. 3, the display / editing means 12 displays the result of the sentence cutting by the sentence cutting means 15 (document data after sentence cutting) in the original sentence area (sentence number to
The original text area corresponding to) is displayed.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a screen on a window corresponding to another application (both the edit screen shown in FIG. 3 and the screen shown in FIG. 4 are displayed on the same display device). .

The internal buffer input means 14 displays the document data of the portion (the reverse display portion in FIG. 4) of "For the details of this case, it is necessary to take such a load" on the screen shown in FIG. To input to the edit screen (translation edit screen) of the own application. In FIG. 4, “reverse display” is indicated by diagonal lines.

This input is performed in the following modes. From the document data on the screen of FIG. 4, the document data to be taken into the application (the document data to be input) is selected by an operation such as dragging with the mouse. When this selection operation is performed, the selection range is displayed in reverse video, etc., as shown in FIG. The internal buffer input means 14 outputs the document data within the selected range (in this example, the document data as shown in FIG. 5).
Enter

The sentence cutting means 15 performs sentence cutting processing on the document data to generate document data after sentence cutting as shown in FIG. 6, and stores the document data after sentence cutting in the internal buffer storage means 16. To do. In this example, the sentence segmentation processing is performed based on the punctuation mark (.) (According to the sentence segmentation rule “separate by punctuation”), and each line in FIG. 6 corresponds to one sentence. ing.

Next, the user designates a position (insertion designation position) where the document data from another application is desired to be inserted on the parallel translation editing screen with a mouse or a cursor (see FIG. 7). The display / editing means 12 receives a data insertion request including information indicating the insertion designated position.

When the internal buffer output means 17 recognizes the existence of this data insertion request, the internal buffer storage means 1
Document data after sentence cutting stored in 6 (see Fig. 6)
And the document data after sentence cutting is passed to the display / editing means 12.

The display / editing means 12 displays the delivered document data (document data after sentence cutting shown in FIG. 6) in units of one sentence from the insertion instruction position. Here, since the insertion instruction position is the position related to the sentence number (see FIG. 7), each sentence included in the inserted document data is displayed at the position corresponding to the sentence number of, and the parallel translation edit screen after insertion is displayed. Is as shown in FIG.

When the same insertion (processing by the copy & paste function) is performed using the conventional document edit processing device, the parallel translation edit screen after the insertion is as shown in FIG. That is, in the conventional technique, the document data that has not been subjected to sentence cutting processing is displayed as it is on the parallel translation editing screen (see the position of the sentence number in FIG. 9). Therefore, in the conventional document edit processing device,
For the parallel translation editing screen as shown in FIG. 9, it is necessary to manually perform a sentence cutting process again.

[0042]

As described above, the present invention has a function (copy & paste function) for inserting document data from another application at an arbitrary position in the editing screen, and processes in units of one sentence. In the operation of the document edit processing device applied to such a document edit system, when the document data from another application is taken in (inserted) by the copy & paste function, the sentence cutting process is automatically performed to perform the document edit. This has the effect that the work efficiency of the editing work in the system can be improved.

Here, the sentence cutting means for realizing the sentence cutting function for obtaining the above-mentioned effect can be realized by the function which has been conventionally used for performing the sentence cutting process of the document data in the own application (conventional). From the existing copy-and-paste function will be incorporated with the existing sentence-breaking function). Therefore, the above-mentioned effects can be obtained only by using the conventional function, and the number of steps for realizing the present invention can be small.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of a document edit processing device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a process of the document edit processing device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining a specific operation of the document edit processing device shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining a specific operation of the document edit processing device shown in FIG.

5 is a diagram for explaining a specific operation of the document edit processing device shown in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining a specific operation of the document edit processing device shown in FIG.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining a specific operation of the document edit processing device shown in FIG.

FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining a specific operation of the document edit processing device shown in FIG.

FIG. 9 shows a specific operation of a conventional document edit processing device.
FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining a comparison with a specific operation of the document edit processing device shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Input Means 12 Display / Editing Means 13 Output Means 14 Internal Buffer Input Means 15 Sentence Means 16 Internal Buffer Storage Means 17 Internal Buffer Output Means

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A document edit processing device having a copy & paste function for inserting document data in another application at an arbitrary position, an input means for inputting document data in the own application from an input medium or an input device, and others. The internal buffer input means for inputting the document data in the application, the sentence cutting processing of the document data input by the input means, and the sentence cutting processing of the document data input by the internal buffer input means follow the same sentence cutting rule. And an internal buffer storage means for storing the document data input from another application that has been subjected to the sentence cut processing by the sentence cut means, and in the internal buffer storage means when a data insertion request is made. Internal buffer output means for outputting document data after sentence cutting The document data in the own application that has been subjected to the sentence cutting processing by the sentence cutting means is displayed on the edit screen in units of one sentence, and the document data after the sentence cutting from another application output by the internal buffer output means is displayed as one. It has display / editing means for inserting sentence by sentence at the insertion instruction position in the editing screen, and output means for outputting the document data edited by the document editing system via the display / editing means to an output medium or output device. A document edit processing device characterized by the above. 2. The document edit processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising sentence cutting means for performing sentence cutting processing based on the punctuation. 3. The document edit processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising display / edit means for receiving the document edit processing from the machine translation support system.