JPH08263492A - Method and device for supporting document preparation - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To prevent erroneous characters caused by the erroneous conversion of Chinese characters (KANJI) or character input errors by referring to the use frequency of vocaburary used for a prepared document file in the case of newly preparing a document, and displaying that vocaburary in the case of low frequency. CONSTITUTION: Concerning the contents of a prepared document file 1 prepared by a word processor, etc., syntax analysis is performed by a sentence decomposing mechanism 2, the vocaburary contained in the document is extracted, and the history of use is learnt by a vocaburary learning mechanism 3 and recorded in a vocaburary dictionary 4. Corresponding to an instruction from a user, a low-frequency vocaburary deciding mechanism 5 investigates the use history of all the vocaburaries recorded in the vocaburary dictionary 4 and concerning the vocaburary of low use frequency, low use frequency information is written in a vocaburary dictionary 6. When newly preparing the document, concerning the contents of an under-preparation document file 7, syntax analysis is performed by a sentence decomposing mechanism 8 and the vocaburary contained in the document is extracted. With this vocaburary as a key, a vocaburary frequency investigating mechanism 9 retrieves the vocaburary dictionary 6 and when the use frequency is low, this is pointed out to the user by a low frequency vocaburary point-out mechanism 10.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creation support method and device used in a document creation device such as a word processor and a text editor, and more particularly to a document creation support method and method for reducing the occurrence of typographical errors during document creation. Regarding the device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, a word processor has various functions for creating a document with few errors.
For example, there is known a document creation support function for pointing out a sentence that does not match the grammar, pointing out an error in a word, and pointing out an inconsistency in a style by analyzing a document for grammar. In addition, an AI conversion function is also known in which, when converting Kanji, the preceding and following sentences are referred to and the characters are automatically converted into Kanji suitable for the context.

Further, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 4-98453 discloses that
For words that are easily erroneously written due to typographical errors, omissions, misuse, etc., an error term dictionary that stores erroneous notations that are error-prone is stored in advance. A technique is disclosed in which an erroneous notation in document data is detected by collating with the notation.

[0004]

As a peculiar error when creating a document with a word processor, it is known that there is an error at the time of kanji conversion, but with the conventional document creation support function, erroneous characters are sufficiently generated. I can't control it. For example, in the sentence "that girl loves candy,"
“That girl likes rain.” “That girl likes candy.”
There are two possibilities of sentences. Since these two sentences are grammatically correct and contextual, and are not typographical errors, it is not possible to judge whether the conversion between "rain" and "candy" is correct with this sentence alone. . Therefore, the document creator intended to create the sentence "That child likes rain." However, in the case where it was converted into the sentence "That child likes candy." Cannot detect this error with the conventional document creation support function. If "that child" means a young woman,
If "rain" is likely to be correct and "that child" means a child, then "candy" is likely to be correct, but such a judgment cannot be made by the conventional document creation support function. It was

At this time, if the document creator makes a mistake in inputting the character and inputs "that one is like",
There is a possibility that it will be converted to the sentence "That child likes sharks." In particular, when performing Kanji conversion by inputting Roman characters, the "A" key and the "S" key are adjacent to each other on the keyboard, so "AME" is intended to be entered as "SAME".
There is a possibility of erroneous input. It is unlikely that women and children like sharks, but in this case as well, the grammatical correctness made it impossible to judge the possibility of character input errors with the conventional document creation support function.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to prevent erroneous characters caused by erroneous conversion of Chinese characters, character input errors, and the like.

[0007]

A document creation support method of the present invention reads a created document file created in the past,
The vocabulary used is extracted from the created document file, information on the frequency of use is added to each vocabulary of a vocabulary dictionary in which a large number of vocabularies are stored in advance, and when a new document is created, the vocabulary of the vocabulary dictionary is used. It is characterized in that when the frequency of use of the used vocabulary is low, it is displayed with reference to the information on the frequency of use.

Further, the document creation support apparatus of the present invention comprises means for reading a created document file, means for extracting a used vocabulary from the created document file, and a vocabulary dictionary in which a large number of vocabularies are stored in advance. Means for adding information on frequency of use to each vocabulary stored in the vocabulary dictionary, means for reading a document file being created, means for extracting a vocabulary used from the document file being created, and the vocabulary dictionary A means for investigating the usage frequency of the used vocabulary extracted from the document file being created with reference, and a means for displaying the fact that the usage vocabulary extracted from the document file being created has a low usage frequency. It is characterized by having.

[0009]

When a new document is created, the usage frequency of the vocabulary used in the created document file created in the past is referred to, and if the usage frequency is low, that fact is displayed.

[0010]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The features of the present invention will be specifically described below based on embodiments with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing an embodiment of a document creation support device of the present invention. In the present embodiment, the word processor incorporates a low-frequency vocabulary pointing function, which will be described later, as one of the document creation support functions.

The content of the created document file 1 created by a word processor or the like is supplied to the sentence decomposition mechanism 2 and parsed, and the vocabulary contained in the document is extracted. The extracted vocabulary is supplied to the vocabulary learning mechanism 3, and the usage history of which vocabulary has been used is learned. This usage history is recorded in the vocabulary dictionary 4 as binary data of “used” and “unused”.

In the vocabulary dictionary 4, a large number of vocabularies for Kanji conversion are recorded beforehand, and the above-mentioned usage history information is recorded corresponding to each vocabulary.

The low-frequency vocabulary determination mechanism 5 checks the usage history of all the vocabulary recorded in the vocabulary dictionary 4 based on the instruction from the user, and the low-frequency vocabulary has a low frequency of use. Is written in the vocabulary dictionary 6 in correspondence with each vocabulary. In FIG. 1, the vocabulary dictionary 4 and the vocabulary dictionary 6 are shown as independent components, but in reality,
As shown in FIG. 3, usage history and usage frequency information are recorded corresponding to each vocabulary.

When a new document is created by the word processor, the contents of the document file under creation 7 are supplied to the sentence decomposition mechanism 8 and parsed to extract the vocabulary contained in the document. The vocabulary frequency checking mechanism 9 searches the vocabulary dictionary 6 using the vocabulary extracted from the document file under creation 7 as a key, and checks the usage frequency of the corresponding vocabulary. If the vocabulary is used infrequently, the low-frequency vocabulary pointing mechanism 10 indicates to the user that the vocabulary is used infrequently.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing hardware for realizing the document creation support device shown in FIG. In the figure, 21 is a keyboard for inputting characters and various instructions, 22 is a document file based on the input characters and instructions, and the sentence decomposition mechanism 2 and vocabulary learning mechanism 3 described above are used. , A CPU for realizing the low-frequency vocabulary determination mechanism 5, the sentence decomposition function 8, and the vocabulary frequency investigation mechanism 9 by software, 23 is a memory for storing software executed by the CPU 22, 24 is a created document or the above A display device such as a CRT display for displaying the identified low-frequency vocabulary, 25 is an auxiliary storage device such as a hard disk in which the vocabulary dictionaries 4 and 6 and the software of the word processor are stored. Software for realizing the document creation support function of this embodiment is also stored in this auxiliary storage device 25.

According to this embodiment, when a new document is created by the word processor, a large number of previously created documents (created files) are read to check the vocabulary usage frequency, and the vocabulary dictionary 4 is used. "Use" for each vocabulary
And "unused". In the present embodiment, “unused” is set for all vocabularies in the initial state, and a vocabulary used even once in the document used for checking the usage frequency is set to “used”, The unused vocabulary remains set to "unused". When a certain amount of documents are checked, the usage frequency data is reflected in the vocabulary dictionary 6 based on an instruction from the user. That is, the usage frequency of the vocabulary in the vocabulary dictionary 6 corresponding to the vocabulary that is “used” in the vocabulary dictionary 4 is set to “high usage frequency”. As a result, the vocabulary dictionary 6 is set to "high usage frequency" and "low usage frequency" for each vocabulary.

For example, when a writer who often writes a novel whose main character is a young woman creates a new document, by reading a previously created document and setting the vocabulary dictionary, for example, , "Rain" is set as a vocabulary of "high usage frequency", and "candy" and "shark" are set as a vocabulary of "low usage frequency". Therefore, in the case of the sentence "Anoko am Amigasukida.", If "Ame" is converted to "Ame" due to a conversion error, the frequency of use of "Ame" on the display device is low. An indication that the vocabulary is low is displayed. Further, even when the character is converted into "shark" due to a character input error, a message indicating that "shark" is a vocabulary that is rarely used is displayed on the display device.

In this embodiment, two types of dictionaries, the vocabulary dictionary 4 and the vocabulary dictionary 6, are used, and after reading a sufficient amount of documents for determining the frequency of use, the vocabulary dictionary 4 is read.
Since the contents of the above are reflected in the vocabulary dictionary 6, there is no annoyance that many vocabularies are pointed out as "infrequent use" at the initial stage of use.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention, the vocabulary used in the past document is referred to, and when the vocabulary which is used less frequently is used when a new document is created, Since a message indicating that the frequency of use is low is displayed, it is possible to avoid missed conversion operation errors and character input errors and reduce typographical errors.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing an embodiment of a document creation support device of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram showing hardware for realizing the document creation support device shown in FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing a data structure in a vocabulary dictionary.

[Explanation of Codes] 1 ... Created file, 2 ... Sentence decomposition mechanism, 3 ... Vocabulary learning mechanism, 4 ... Vocabulary dictionary, 5 ... Low frequency vocabulary determination mechanism, 6 ... Vocabulary dictionary, 7 ... Document file being created, 8 ... Sentence decomposition mechanism, 9 ...
Vocabulary frequency survey mechanism, 10 ... Low frequency vocabulary pointing mechanism, 21 ...
Keyboard, 22 ... CPU, 23 ... Memory, 24 ... Display device, 25 ... Auxiliary storage device

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A created document file created in the past is read, a vocabulary used is extracted from the created document file, and information on the frequency of use is provided for each vocabulary of a vocabulary dictionary in which a large number of vocabularies are stored in advance. A method for supporting document creation, which is characterized in that, when a new document is newly created, the information on the frequency of use of the vocabulary dictionary is referred to, and if the frequency of use of the used vocabulary is low, that fact is displayed. . 2. A means for reading a prepared document file, a means for extracting a vocabulary used from the prepared document file, a vocabulary dictionary in which a large number of vocabularies are stored in advance, and each of the vocabulary stored in the vocabulary dictionary. Means for adding information on frequency of use to a vocabulary, means for reading a document file being created, means for extracting a vocabulary used from the document file being created, and a document file being created with reference to the vocabulary dictionary A document comprising means for investigating the frequency of use of the extracted vocabulary, and means for displaying the fact that the frequency of use of the vocabulary extracted from the document file under creation is displayed when the frequency of use is low. Creation support device.