JPH08180052A - Document preparation device and its control method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a word processor capable of controlling KANA (Japanese syllabary)/KANJI (Chinese character) conversion with the specified kind of KANJI as an object and freely setting the kind of the KANJI for controlling the KANA/KANJI conversion corresponding to the language standard of a document user. CONSTITUTION: This device is provided with a storage part 1b storing KANJI conversion control information for indicating whether or not the KANJI can be outputted as a KANA/KANJI converted result for each KANJI (word, single KANJI) inside a dictionary. A user can set original KANJI conversion control information as the field of 'user optional setting' in the storage part 1b. At the time of the KANA/KANJI conversion, by referring to the KANJI conversion control information of the set field/level, the propriety of the KANA/KANJI conversion of the KANJI (word, single KANJI) obtained by dictionary retrieval 15 judged, and when the KANA/KANJI conversion is controlled, the retrieved KANJI is cancelled and prevented from being outputted as the KANA/KANJI converted result.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creation device such as a Japanese word processor and its control method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Normally, in a Japanese word processor, an input kana character string is unconditionally converted into a kana-kanji mixed character string. Generally, control for selectively converting kana-kanji depending on the type is not performed. For this reason,
When creating a document suitable for the document usage environment, for example, when creating a document suitable for the language level of the document user (for example, when creating a document suitable for each grade level of elementary school students) With regard to the kanji obtained by the kana-kanji conversion, it was necessary to proceed with document creation while confirming the validity of using each kanji, which required a great deal of effort.

Further, as a method of creating a document suitable for a language level, there is a method of printing kanji with reading (ruby). However, even in this case, the creator of the document itself must judge which kanji should be read.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is intended to solve such problems, and regulates kana-kanji conversion into a specific type of kanji according to the document usage environment such as the language level of the document user. An object of the present invention is to provide a document creation device and a control method thereof that can perform the kana-kanji conversion and can freely set the type of kanji that controls kana-kanji conversion.

The present invention also provides a document creation apparatus capable of selectively and automatically adding a reading (ruby) to a kanji in a kana-kanji conversion result according to a document user's language usage environment such as a language level. The purpose is to provide a control method therefor.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the first invention is a dictionary in which information on various kanji necessary for kana-kanji conversion is stored in advance in association with each reading information, and For each kanji stored in the dictionary, conversion regulation information storage means for storing conversion regulation information indicating whether or not this kanji is output as a kana-kanji conversion result, and the conversion regulation information storage means is optional. Setting means for setting the conversion regulation information, search means for searching the kanji whose readings match from the dictionary based on the input kana characters or kana character strings, and the kanji searched by the search means. It is characterized by further comprising: a determination unit that determines whether or not to output as a Kana-Kanji conversion result based on the conversion regulation information stored in the conversion regulation information storage unit.

In order to achieve the above object, a second invention is a dictionary in which information of various kanji necessary for kana-kanji conversion is stored in advance in association with respective reading information, and kanji stored in the dictionary. For each time, control information storage means storing reading control information indicating whether or not reading should be added to this kanji, and input kana character string are converted into kana kanji mixed character string using the dictionary. A means to convert kana to kanji,
And a reading addition means for selectively adding reading to the kanji in the kana-kanji mixed character string obtained by the kana-kanji conversion means based on the reading control information stored in the control information storage means. I am trying.

[0008]

In the first aspect of the invention, for each kanji stored in the dictionary,
The user can arbitrarily set conversion regulation information indicating whether or not this kanji is properly output as the kana-kanji conversion result. At the time of kana-kanji conversion, the determination means determines whether or not the kanji searched by the search means from the dictionary should be output as the kana-kanji conversion result based on the conversion restriction information. Therefore, according to the present invention, the user can arbitrarily set the kanji for which the kana-kanji conversion should be restricted,
It is possible to regulate such kanji so that they are not output as the kana-kanji conversion result. Therefore, it is possible to efficiently create a document suitable for the document usage environment such as the language level of the document user.

In the second invention, the reading addition means selectively adds reading to the kanji in the kana-kanji mixed character string obtained by the kana-kanji conversion means based on the reading control information stored in the control information storage means. Therefore, it is possible to significantly reduce the operation load on the user when creating a document in which reading is added only to a particular type of kanji.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a word processor according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure,
Reference numeral 1 denotes a storage device, which is composed of a dictionary storage unit 1a, a Kanji conversion restriction information storage unit 1b, a Kanji reading / division information storage unit 1c, and a kanji reading / preliminary reading information storage unit 1d.

The dictionary storage unit 1a stores a dictionary necessary for kana-kanji conversion, that is, information of various kanji in association with reading information in units of words and single kanji. In addition, radical information, stroke number information, and the like for Kanji are also stored in the dictionary storage unit 1a.

The kanji conversion restriction information storage unit 1b indicates, for each kanji (word, single kanji) in the dictionary, whether or not this kanji should be output as a kana-kanji conversion result (whether kana-kanji conversion is possible). Kanji conversion regulation information is stored. FIG. 2 shows an example of this Kanji conversion regulation information. As shown in the figure, whether or not kana-kanji conversion is possible is determined by a 1-bit code (invalid code: 1 for each kanji (word, single kanji) in the dictionary).
Is invalid). FIG. 2A shows an example of Kanji conversion restriction information for each word, and FIG. 2B shows an example of Kanji conversion restriction information for each single Kanji. The Kanji conversion regulation information is defined for each of a plurality of fields, and further for each field, a plurality of levels. FIG. 3 shows the categories / levels of the Kanji conversion regulation information. As shown in the figure, in the present embodiment, there are six fields of "school year", "JIS first and second level kanji", "new kanji code system", "maker setting difficulty", "common kanji", and "user arbitrary setting". Kanji conversion regulation information is defined, and further, kanji conversion regulation information is defined for each field at a plurality of levels. For example, in the "school year" field, kanji conversion regulation information is defined for each of the six school year levels.

Here, "user arbitrary setting" 31 is a field in which the Kanji conversion regulation information is arbitrarily defined by the user. That is, the Kanji conversion restriction information of other fields is fixed Kanji conversion restriction information defined in the standard, whereas the Kanji conversion restriction information of the field of "user arbitrary setting" can be freely set by the user. , Can be changed. Each of the kanji reading / division information storage unit 1c and the kanji lesson reading / guidance reading information storage unit 1d stores information necessary for adding a reading (ruby) to a kanji. That is, the kanji reading / division information storage unit 1c stores the reading (ruby) information of each kanji (word, single kanji) in the dictionary, information indicating the division position of the reading, and the like. For example, the reading and division position of the kanji (word) "jukugo" is "Juku.
It is defined in the format of "go". This means that the reading of "jukugo" is "jukugo", and the reading is divided into "juku" and "go" for each kanji. The junior character lesson reading / struck character reading information storage unit 1d stores junior character lesson reading information and junior character reading information. For example, the information that the kanji reading "Yesterday" is "Yes" is stored.

Further, in FIG. 1, reference numeral 2 denotes a control unit (CPU) for controlling the entire device (word processor). The control unit 2 includes an input control unit 3 and a display control unit in addition to the storage device 1 described above. 4, Kanji conversion unit 5, font memory 6,
A homophone Kanji buffer 7 and a Kanji reading buffer 8 are connected. The input control unit 3 controls input of various commands from the keyboard 9 and character codes corresponding to keys. The display control unit 4 controls the display operation of the display device 10. The Kanji / Kanji conversion unit 5 executes Kana / Kanji conversion for the input character code by using each information in the storage device 1. Font memory 6
Is a memory that fixedly stores display font data corresponding to each character code. Homophone Kanji buffer 7
Stores the kanji (words, single kanji) of the homophones obtained as candidates for the kana-kanji conversion result. Kanji reading buffer 8
Stores the reading (ruby) information of a kanji (word, single kanji) determined by kana-kanji conversion.

Next, the operation of the word processor of this embodiment will be described.

In this word processor, the field / level of the Kanji conversion regulation information is set before the document is created, if necessary. That is, the setting work is performed when a document is created in which the Kana-Kanji conversion is selectively restricted.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing the procedure for setting this field / level. In this case, the user displays a list of all fields / levels on the display device 10 (step 4).
01), and select an arbitrary field / level from them (step 402). As a result, the Kanji conversion restriction information of the selected field / level is set as the information actually used for the Kana-Kanji conversion (step 408).

When newly setting or changing the Kanji conversion restriction information of "user arbitrary setting", after selecting "user arbitrary setting" from the displayed field / level list (step 403), the new setting or It can be carried out according to a predetermined procedure for change (steps 404, 40).
5, 406, 407). As a new setting method, specify each Kanji (word, single Kanji) in the dictionary and add an invalid code to it, or specify Kanji conversion restriction information for a certain field / level and then There is a method in which the conversion regulation information is partially changed, and this is used as “user arbitrary setting” Kanji conversion regulation information. Also, as a method to change the Kanji conversion restriction information of "User arbitrary setting", after displaying the existing Kanji conversion restriction information of "User arbitrary setting",
There is a method of designating an arbitrary kanji in the kanji and adding an invalid code to this kanji, or deleting the added invalid code. When setting the newly set or changed “user arbitrary setting” Kanji conversion restriction information as the information actually used for Kana-Kanji conversion, again in step 401, all the fields / levels for which the Kanji conversion restriction information is defined are defined. A list may be displayed on the display device 10, and a field / level of "user arbitrary setting" may be selected from the list.

Next, the operation of performing kana-kanji conversion using the set kanji conversion restriction information will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

When the reading of the created document (Kanji) is input through the keyboard 9 and the input control unit 3 (step 50).
1), the control unit 2 activates the Kanji conversion unit 5, and the storage device 1
The kana-kanji conversion is executed as follows using each information in.

First, the Kanji conversion unit 5 searches the dictionary in the dictionary storage unit 1a and extracts the Kanji (word, single Kanji) whose reading matches the input character code (step 502). Next, the control unit 2 refers to the set Kanji conversion restriction information and judges whether or not the invalid code "1" is set in the extracted Kanji (word, single Kanji) (step 503). If an invalid code is not set in the extracted kanji (word, single kanji), the kanji (word, single kanji) is stored in the homophone kanji character buffer 7 as a candidate for kana-kanji conversion result (step 504). If an invalid code is set in the extracted kanji (word, single kanji), it is determined that output of this kanji (word, single kanji) as a kana-kanji conversion result is restricted, and The extracted kanji (word, single kanji) is canceled (step 505) and the process returns to step 502.

In this way, for all kanji (words, single kanji) obtained by the dictionary search, it is determined whether kana-kanji conversion is possible based on the kanji conversion regulation information, and kana (words, single kanji) permitted to be converted. Only the same words are stored in the homophone Kanji buffer 7 (steps 502 to 506). After this, the kanji stored in the homophone kanji buffer 7 (word,
After a kanji confirmation operation of selecting a desired kanji from the single kanji (step 507), one kana-kanji conversion is completed.

Further, this word processor can automatically add a reading (ruby) to a kanji (word, single kanji) using the set kanji conversion restriction information. Next, the operation of this automatic kanji reading process will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

This automatic Kanji character reading process is executed in place of the above Kana-Kanji conversion restriction process. In other words, the kana-kanji conversion control process creates a document suitable for the language level of the document user by controlling some kanji so that it is not output as the kana-kanji conversion result. Does not regulate kana-kanji conversion, and automatically adds readings to some kanji that exceed the language level of the document user, for example, so that a document suitable for the language level of the document user is created. Create it.

When the reading of the created document (kanji) is input through the keyboard 9 and the input control section 3 (step 60)
1), the control unit 2 activates the Kanji conversion unit 5. The kanji conversion unit 5 searches the dictionary in the dictionary storage unit 1a, extracts the kanji (word, single kanji) whose reading matches the input character code (step 602), and extracts the extracted kanji (word, single kanji). The kana-kanji conversion result is stored in the homophone kanji character buffer 7 as a candidate (step 603). After all candidates are extracted by the dictionary search (step 604), a kanji determination operation is performed to select a target kanji from kanji (words, single kanji) stored in the homophone kanji buffer 7 (step 60).
5). When the kanji is determined, the control unit 1 determines the determined kanji (word, single kanji) based on the information in the kanji reading / division information storage unit 1c and the kanji reading / prediction reading information storage unit 1d.
The reading information is retrieved and stored in the Kanji reading buffer 8 (step 606). Here, when the confirmed Chinese character is a word composed of a plurality of Chinese characters, the control unit 1 reads the reading information and the reading division position information of the corresponding word from the Chinese character reading / division information storage unit 1c and stores it in the Kanji reading buffer 8. Store.
In addition, when the confirmed kanji has the kanji reading or the kanji reading, the control unit 1 reads the kanji reading or the kanji reading information from the kanji reading / kanji reading information storage part 1d to read the kanji. Store in buffer 8.

The reading information stored in the Kanji reading buffer 8 is read out at the time of printing the document, added to the corresponding Kanji (word, single Kanji) in a predetermined format, and printed. For example, based on the reading division information, the corresponding reading is added and printed above each kanji forming a word. For example, in the case of "jukugo", add "juk" above "juku"
"Go" is added above "word" and printed. In addition, the reading may be added in parentheses after the kanji (for example, "jukugo").

As described above, according to the word processor of the present embodiment, the kana-kanji conversion can be restricted for some kanji based on the kanji conversion restriction information defined for each field / level, and the document user can It is possible to efficiently create a document suitable for the document usage environment such as the language level of. In addition, the kana-kanji conversion restriction control can be performed using the kanji conversion restriction information defined by the user.

Further, according to the word processor of the present embodiment, by additionally using kanji conversion regulation information, kanji in a kana-kanji mixed sentence, which is the kana-kanji conversion result, is selectively and automatically added with a ruby and printed. It is possible to eliminate the reading work by the user such as ruby modification, and efficiently create a document suitable for the document usage environment.

In this embodiment, the kana-kanji conversion possibility is judged separately for the word and the single kanji by referring to the kanji conversion restriction information set for each word and each single kanji. Only the kanji conversion regulation information of each kanji is prepared in the storage device 1 in advance, and for example, “jukugo” is “jukuku”.
It may be configured to separately judge whether or not the kana-kanji conversion of each kanji composing a word can be performed.

Further, in the above embodiment, the result of restricting the conversion of kana-kanji is displayed on the screen, but the result of restricting conversion of kana-kanji may be reflected only in the print result. Absent. This process can be realized by referring to the Kanji conversion regulation information at the time of printing and detecting the Kanji that regulates the Kana-Kanji conversion.

[0032]

As described above, according to the document creating apparatus and the control method thereof of the present invention, the kana-kanji conversion for a particular type of kanji is controlled according to the language level of the document user and other purposes. You can do it, and you can freely set the type of kanji that controls kana-kanji conversion. This allows
It is possible to efficiently create a document suitable for the document usage environment.

Further, according to the present invention, the reading can be automatically added to the kanji of a specific type depending on the language level of the document user and other purposes, which is suitable for the document use environment. Documents can be created efficiently.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a word processor according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of Kanji conversion regulation information.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing classification of fields / levels of Kanji conversion regulation information.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a procedure for setting fields / levels in FIGS. 2 and 3;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure when performing kana-kanji conversion using the set kanji conversion restriction information.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure of an automatic Chinese character reading process.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Storage device, 1a ... Dictionary storage unit, 1b ... Kanji conversion regulation information storage unit, 1c ... Kanji reading / division information storage unit, 1d ...
Jukuji kun reading / speech reading information storage unit, 2 ... Control unit (CP
U), 3 ... input control unit, 4 ... display control unit, 5 ... Kanji conversion unit, 6 ... font memory, 7 ... homophone Kanji buffer, 8
… Kanji reading buffer.

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A dictionary in which various kanji information necessary for kana-kanji conversion is stored in advance in association with reading information, and each kanji stored in the dictionary is output as a kana-kanji conversion result. Conversion regulation information storage means for storing conversion regulation information indicating whether or not it is appropriate, setting means for setting arbitrary conversion regulation information in the conversion regulation information storage means, and input kana characters Or, based on a kana character string, a search means for searching the kanji whose readings match from the dictionary, and whether or not the kanji searched by the search means should be output as a kana-kanji conversion result to the conversion regulation information storage means. A document creating apparatus comprising: a determining unit that determines based on stored conversion regulation information. 2. The document creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the kanji information stored in the dictionary is information in units of words including kanji and in units of single kanji. 3. A dictionary in which information on various kanji necessary for kana-kanji conversion is stored in advance in association with reading information, and whether kanji should be added to each kanji stored in the dictionary. And a kana-kanji conversion means for converting the input kana-character string into a kana-kanji mixed character string using the dictionary, and a kana-kanji conversion means. A document creating apparatus comprising: a reading adding unit that selectively adds readings to Chinese characters in the obtained Kana-Kanji mixed character string based on the reading control information stored in the control information storing unit. . 4. The document creating apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising setting means for arbitrarily setting the reading control information stored in the control information storing means. 5. The document creating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the kanji information stored in the dictionary is information in units of words including kanji and in units of single kanji. 6. A dictionary in which information on various kanji required for kana-kanji conversion is stored in advance in association with reading information, and each kanji stored in the dictionary is output as kana-kanji conversion results. In a document creation device having a conversion regulation information storage unit for storing conversion regulation information indicating whether it is appropriate or not, it is possible to set arbitrary conversion regulation information in the conversion regulation information storage unit and input it. Based on a character or a kana character string, a Kanji character whose reading is matched is searched from the dictionary, and whether or not the searched Kanji character should be output as a kana-kanji conversion result is stored in the conversion restriction information storage means. A method of controlling a document creating apparatus, characterized by making a determination based on information. 7. A dictionary in which various kanji information necessary for kana-kanji conversion is stored in advance in association with each reading information, and whether kanji should be added to each kanji stored in the dictionary. In a document creation device having a control information storage unit that stores reading control information indicating whether or not, the input kana character string is converted into a kana-kanji mixed character string using the dictionary, and the converted kana-kanji character A method for controlling a document creating apparatus, wherein reading is selectively added to Chinese characters in a mixed character string based on reading control information stored in the control information storage means.