JPH0916584A - Document preparing device and method for converting kana/kanji - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a KANA (Japanese syllabary)/KANJI (Chinese character) conversion function which is efficiently capable of performing the input of a character under a certain condition. CONSTITUTION: This device is provided with a designated range information storage part 14 storing the information showing the range to be the object of a priority changing processing changing priority for plural conversion candidates obtained by a KANA/ KANJI conversion, an attribute information storage part 16 storing the information showing the object for which priority should be changed, corresponding to the range shown by the stored information, a condition judgment part 12 judging the object stored in the attribute information storage part 16 corresponding to a pertinent range when the range to be the object of the input of a KANA is contained in the range shown by the information stored in the designated range information storage part 14, a priority changing part 18 setting priority information showing that the priority is changed for the judged object and a KANA/KANJI conversion part 22 changing priority for the plural conversion candidates obtained by performing the KANA/KANJI conversion for the input of the KANA in accordance with priority information.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creating apparatus for inputting characters by converting kana to kanji.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in a document preparation device such as a Japanese word processor, characters are input by kana-kanji conversion. In the Kana-Kanji conversion, there are cases where multiple homonyms that are candidates for conversion are obtained for the input reading. However, based on the final conversion result for the same input and the frequency of use, etc. The conversion efficiency is improved by dynamically changing the priority of kanji output as candidates.

By the way, recent document creation apparatuses are provided with functions such as an address book database. When this function is executed, in order to facilitate the registration of information in the address book database, a format for inputting an address book, for example, as shown in FIG. 8 is displayed, and characters are input in this format.

As shown in FIG. 8, the address book input format is provided with items indicating information to be input, such as name, postal code, and address. When information is input to these items, characters are input by kana-kanji conversion in a predetermined area (field) corresponding to each item in the same manner as in normal document creation.

However, in the conventional document creating apparatus, as shown in FIG.
In the case of the input in the format shown in, for example, although the input is for the name item and there can be no input other than the name, an incorrect Kana-Kanji conversion result (first candidate) is obtained as the name. Sometimes.

[0006]

As described above, in the conventional document creating apparatus, the character string that can be entered is limited depending on a specific item (the range of the character entry target) like the address book entry format. Nevertheless, the usual kana-kanji conversion sometimes outputs kanji other than the restricted ones as the conversion result (first candidate).

In such a case, when the efficiency of character input is deteriorated, for example, an operation of selecting an original conversion result from other conversion candidates or an operation of inputting again by single-kanji conversion is required. was there.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a document creation apparatus having a kana-kanji conversion function capable of efficiently inputting characters under a certain condition. And

[0009]

According to the present invention, in a document creating apparatus for inputting characters by kana-kanji conversion, priority is given to changing the priority order of a plurality of conversion candidates corresponding to kana input obtained by kana-kanji conversion. Corresponding to the range indicated by the information stored in the designated range information storage means and the designated range information storage means for storing the information indicating the range subject to the rank changing process, the target whose priority is to be changed And an attribute information storage unit for storing the information to be indicated, and the attribute information corresponding to the corresponding range when the range to be input for the kana is included in the range indicated by the information stored in the designated range information storage unit. Condition determination means for determining the object stored in the storage means and priority information for setting the priority information indicating that the priority order is changed for the objects determined by the condition determination means. And a kana-kanji conversion unit that performs kana-kanji conversion for kana input and changes the priority order according to the priority information set by the priority setting part for a plurality of conversion candidates obtained as a result. Is provided.

Further, the designated range information storage means stores information indicating that the arbitrarily designated priority order changing process is executed, and the attribute information storage means is stored in the designated range information storage means. It is characterized in that the information indicating the target of the priority change processing arbitrarily designated is stored together with the above information.

[0011]

According to this structure, when characters are input in a predetermined range, a target in which the character input should be prioritized is determined, and a plurality of conversion candidates are obtained by kana-kanji conversion. In that case, if there is a conversion candidate included in the target, it is preferentially output (as the first candidate). At that time, a predetermined range is determined for each item provided in the character input format or according to an arbitrarily set condition.

[0012]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the arrangement of a document creation apparatus according to this embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1, the input unit 1
0, condition determination unit 12, specified range information storage unit 14, attribute information storage unit 16, priority order change unit 18, priority information storage unit 2
0, a kana-kanji conversion unit 22, a dictionary storage unit 24, and an output unit 26 are provided.

The input unit 10 inputs predetermined data by operating an input device such as a keyboard or a handwriting input tablet. That is, the input unit 10 inputs data for inputting characters and data for operating the document creating apparatus or executing various functions.

The condition judging unit 12 sets the priority of conversion candidates to a predetermined condition when performing Kana-Kanji conversion for character input based on the data for executing various functions input from the input unit 10. The process of changing based on
Control for priority order change processing) is performed. The condition determination unit 12 inputs the designation of the character input range to be the target of the priority change process, the designation of the condition of the priority change process, etc., and sets them in the designated range information storage unit 14 or the attribute information storage unit 16, respectively. . In addition, the condition determining unit 12 determines whether or not the priority changing process is in a state of being executed based on the input from the input unit 10, and when it is determined that the priority changing process should be executed, the attribute The priority order changing unit 18 is instructed to change the priority order based on the attributes stored in the information storage unit 16.

The designated range information storage unit 14 is a condition judgment unit 1
The information about the character input range that is the target of the priority order changing process obtained through 2 is stored. For example, when there is an input mode for a specific item (for example, information registration for an address book database), the designated range information storage unit 14 determines which item is the target of priority change processing in this input mode. It is assumed that the information for discrimination is stored in advance without any special condition designation. Further, the designated range information storage unit 14 is not an input mode for a specific item, but information indicating whether or not an arbitrary priority change processing mode is set when a normal character is input, and The target range is stored according to a special condition specified by the user.

The attribute information storage unit 16 determines which of the information stored in the designated range information storage unit 14 when the condition determination unit 12 determines that the priority change processing is currently being executed. Information indicating whether to change the priority of the target Kana-Kanji conversion result is stored. For example, in the case of the input mode for a specific item, information (attribute) indicating a target whose priority order should be changed is stored for each item. In addition, information (attribute) indicating a target (specific field, etc.) arbitrarily designated by the input unit 10 is stored.

In response to an instruction from the condition judging section 12, the priority order changing section 18 stores priority information for instructing a change in the priority order of the conversion result of the kana-kanji conversion into the priority information storage section 20.
To be stored.

The priority information storage unit 20 includes a priority order changing unit 1
8 stores priority information. The priority information indicates a target to be output to the Kana-Kanji conversion unit 22 as a conversion result (first candidate) of the Kana-Kanji conversion.

The kana-kanji conversion unit 22 performs kana-kanji conversion on the character input data input via the input unit 10 based on the kana-kanji conversion dictionary stored in the dictionary storage unit 24. At that time, the kana-kanji conversion unit 22
According to the priority information stored in the priority information storage unit 20, the priority of the conversion candidates included in the specific target is changed (as the first candidate) and output. In general kana-kanji conversion, the priority of the kanji output as the conversion result (first candidate) is changed based on the final conversion result for the same input last time and the frequency of use. In this embodiment, the description of the same process is omitted for the sake of simplicity.

The dictionary storage unit 24 stores the dictionary referred to in the Kana-Kanji conversion by the Kana-Kanji conversion unit 22. To the dictionary stored in the dictionary storage unit 24, in addition to a general dictionary prepared in advance, a dictionary relating to a specific field (field-specific dictionary), a user dictionary arbitrarily created by the user, and the like should be added. You can In this embodiment, a general dictionary is
Information indicating a basic priority is added to a character string (conversion candidate) to be converted for a given kana input, which has a plurality of homonyms.

The output unit 26 outputs (displays) the result of Kana-Kanji conversion by the Kana-Kanji conversion unit 22. Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. As for the document creating apparatus of the present embodiment, assuming that the function of the address book database is provided, first,
An example of inputting information to the address book database will be described.
When information is registered in the address book database, a format for inputting an address book, for example, as shown in FIG. 8 is displayed, and characters are input in this format.

First, in order to register information in the address book input format, the input unit 10 is operated and the cursor is moved to the character input area corresponding to the item to be input. Then, the character data to be registered is input (kana input) (step A1).

The condition judging unit 12 judges whether or not it is necessary to execute the priority order changing process for a specific object when executing the kana-kanji conversion. Here, since the input mode for specific items in the information registration to the address book database is set, the specified range information storage unit 14 does not specify a special condition, but an item targeted for priority change processing in this input mode. Information for determining whether or not is stored in advance (step A2).

In this case, the condition judgment unit 12 refers to the condition stored in the designated range information storage unit 14 based on the position of the cursor, and inputs the item for which the priority order of kana-kanji conversion should be changed. It is determined whether or not there is, and the priority change processing for changing the priority is executed (step A
3).

In the present embodiment, for each item of the address book input format, information indicating the range of the character input area corresponding to the item and information (attribute) indicating the target whose priority order should be changed are provided. It is possible to use the first mode for storing or a second mode for providing a keyword table in which information indicating a range of a character input area corresponding to an item and an item name used in the address book input format are registered. it can.

In the first embodiment, the condition judging section 12 judges the area where the cursor is located, and the attribute corresponding to the corresponding area stored in the attribute information storage section 16 (indicates the object whose priority order should be changed). Information).

The condition judging unit 12 notifies the priority order changing unit 18 of the change of the priority when performing the Kana-Kanji conversion for the object indicated by the attribute. The priority order changing unit 18 stores, in the priority information storage unit 20, information indicating that the notified object should be output as the conversion result (first candidate) of the kana-kanji conversion.

In the second embodiment, the designated range information storage unit 14
, A keyword table as shown in FIG. 3 is provided. Then, the priority order changing process is executed according to the flowchart shown in FIG.

The condition judging unit 12 judges the area where the cursor is located, acquires the character string of the item corresponding to the area defined in the address book input format, and this character string is registered in the keyword table. Is determined.

For example, when a character is input for the item "name" in FIG. 8, the condition judging section 12 determines that the character string "name" is registered in the keyword table (step B1). .

In this case, the condition judgment unit 12 refers to the information stored in the attribute information storage unit 16 which indicates the target whose priority order should be changed corresponding to the relevant keyword. The condition determination unit 12 notifies the priority order changing unit 18 of a change in priority when performing Kana-Kanji conversion for an object corresponding to a keyword, in this case, a family name. Priority change unit 18
Stores in the priority information storage unit 20 information indicating that the notified object (“first and last name”) should be output as the conversion result (first candidate) of the kana-kanji conversion (step B).
2).

Here, the information stored in the priority information storage section 20 is referred to when the kana-kanji conversion processing in step A4 described later is executed for the kana input input in step A1.

When a character is input for the item of "address" in FIG. 8, the condition judging unit 12 refers to the keyword table and selects the corresponding object in the same manner as in the case of "name" described above. Then, the priority changing unit 18 is notified to increase the priority of the “place name”. As a result, the priority information storage unit 20 stores information indicating that the "place name" should be output as the conversion result (first candidate) of the Kana-Kanji conversion, and the Kana-Kanji conversion is executed.

The above description is based on the example of inputting information to the address book database. Next, a description will be given by taking a general document creation as an example, which does not use a format for inputting information.
When creating a general document, the specified range cannot be determined based on the items as described above. In the present embodiment, the third mode in which the priority change processing mode is set by the user's special condition specification, or the fourth mode in which the target document creation area is further specified in the priority change processing mode is used. be able to.

The priority order changing processing mode is set by a special condition designation from the user, and indicates that the priority order changing processing should be executed for a specific object. The target (specific field) of the rank changing process is designated. Information indicating that the priority change processing mode is in effect is stored in the designated range information storage unit 14, and information indicating the target (specific field) of the priority change processing is stored in the attribute information storage unit 16.

In the third mode, it is valid until an instruction to cancel the priority change processing mode is given. Further, in the fourth mode, as shown in FIG. 5, by designating a target range in which a document is to be created, the priority change processing mode is enabled within this target range. The target range is designated by, for example, the page, the row, the column, etc. of the document, and the designated content is stored in the designated range information storage unit 14. The condition determination unit 12 refers to each piece of information stored in the designated range information storage unit 14 to make a condition determination.

The target (specific field) of the priority order changing process designated together with the mode setting is a specific group (family name, first name, last name) in a general dictionary stored in the dictionary storage unit 24 in advance.
A place name, etc.), a dictionary relating to a specific field (field-specific dictionary), a user dictionary created by the user, or the like can be selectively designated. In the field-specific dictionary, words and phrases peculiar to each specialized field such as chemistry, economy, computer, and medicine are registered.

When character data is input (kana input) to create a general document (step A1), the condition judgment unit 12 specifies a special condition in the specified range information storage unit 14 (priority changing process). Mode (step A2), the priority changing process is executed for the set target (specific field) (step A4).

That is, when the priority changing processing mode is set, the condition judging unit 12 gives priority to the priority changing unit 18 in performing kana-kanji conversion for the set target (specific field). Notify the change of degree (3rd
Form, the fourth form).

The priority order changing unit 18 includes the priority information storage unit 2
0, the notified target is the conversion result of the Kana-Kanji conversion (first
It stores information indicating that it should be output as a (candidate). In the case of using the fourth mode, the condition determining unit 12 monitors the document creation status, and when it determines that the input character data is out of the target range, the priority changing unit 18
Is instructed to cancel the priority change.

Next, the kana-kanji conversion unit 22 executes kana-kanji conversion for the input character data (kana input) (step A5). The kana-kanji conversion unit 22 refers to the dictionary stored in the dictionary storage unit 24 to obtain conversion candidates corresponding to the kana input, and determines the first candidate according to the priority information stored in the priority information storage unit 20.

The kana-kanji conversion unit 22 can determine the first candidate according to the priority information by using the first determination method or the second determination method depending on the handling of the conversion candidate registered in the dictionary.

When the first determination method is used, in the dictionary stored in the dictionary storage unit 24, as shown in FIG. 6, for each conversion candidate, information indicating a target designated by the priority information (target (Identification information) is added as one of the control information. For example, target identification information indicating each target such as a family name and a place name is added to the corresponding conversion candidate.

The kana-kanji conversion unit 22 corresponds to the priority information stored in the priority information storage unit 20 in the conversion candidate group when a plurality of conversion candidates are obtained for the kana input (character data). If there is the target identification information to be added, the corresponding conversion candidate is output as the first candidate.

For example, when a kana of "Katou" is input, it is assumed that there are a plurality of conversion candidates as shown in FIG. 7A and the basic priority order is defined as shown in the figure. Here, it is assumed that the target identification information indicating the family name is added to “Kato” and “Kato” in the conversion candidates. The kana-kanji conversion unit 22 changes the priority order of “Kato” and “Kato” to be higher as shown in FIG. 7B when “first name and last name” is set in the priority information. As a result, "Kato" is output as the first candidate. Originally, when the priority defined in the dictionary is followed, “lower” is output as the first candidate, but since the priority is changed according to the priority information, work such as candidate selection becomes unnecessary and the user The intended character input can be performed efficiently.

When the second determination method is used, the kana-kanji conversion unit 22 gives priority to the acquisition of conversion candidates using the field-specific dictionary corresponding to the object indicated by the priority information, and then,
The conversion candidates are acquired using a general dictionary prepared in advance. The priorities of the conversion candidates follow the order of acquisition, so that the priorities will be changed as a result according to the priority information.

When the kana-kanji conversion unit 22 obtains a conversion candidate corresponding to the kana input, the output unit 26 displays the conversion result of the first candidate (step A6). When the input is continued (step A7), the kana-kanji conversion is performed as described above.

In this way, when characters are input in the format used when registering information in the address book database, the objects (first name, last name, place name, etc.) corresponding to the item to be input are given priority as conversion candidates. Since it is output, there is no need to perform work for selecting the next candidate, etc., and efficient character input is possible. Also, even when creating a general document, it is possible to set the target range arbitrarily and arbitrarily give priority to a specific target to output as a conversion candidate. It will be possible.

[0049]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, when a character is input under a certain condition, such as an input for a specific item, the conversion result of the kana-kanji conversion for a predetermined object (first candidate). ) Is controlled to be output preferentially, it is possible to provide a kana-kanji conversion function that enables efficient character input.

Even when a general document is created, a target range can be arbitrarily set, and a specific target can be arbitrarily prioritized and output as a conversion candidate. Character input is possible.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of this embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a keyword table used in this embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining character input using the address book input format according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an area in a document which is a target of priority order changing processing in the present embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining control information added to dictionary conversion candidates in the present embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of changing the priority order of conversion candidates in the present embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of an address book input format in which a character input item (field) is provided.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 ... Input part 12 ... Condition determination part 14 ... Specified range information storage part 16 ... Attribute information storage part 18 ... Priority change part 20 ... Priority information storage part 22 ... Kana-kanji conversion part 24 ... Dictionary storage part 26 ... Output part

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. In a document creation device for inputting characters by Kana-Kanji conversion, a target range of priority change processing for changing the priority of a plurality of conversion candidates corresponding to Kana input obtained by Kana-Kanji conversion. Designated range information storage means for storing information indicating the attribute, and an attribute for storing information indicating a target whose priority is to be changed, corresponding to the range indicated by the information stored in the designated range information storage means In the case where the information storage means and the range of the kana input target are included in the range indicated by the information stored in the designated range information storage means, the target stored in the attribute information storage means corresponding to the corresponding range is selected. Condition determining means for determining, priority setting means for setting priority information indicating that the priority is changed for the objects determined by the condition determining means, and a pseudonym And kana-kanji conversion means for performing kana-kanji conversion for the power and changing the priority order according to the priority information set by the priority setting means for a plurality of conversion candidates obtained as a result. Document creation device. 2. The specified range information storage means stores information indicating that the arbitrarily specified priority order changing process is executed, and the attribute information storage means is stored in the specified range information storage means. 2. The document creation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein information indicating a target of priority change processing arbitrarily designated is stored together with the information described above. 3. First information indicating a target range of priority change processing for changing the priority of a plurality of conversion candidates corresponding to kana input obtained by kana-kanji conversion,
When the second information indicating the target whose priority is to be changed is stored corresponding to the range indicated by the first information, and the target range of kana input is included in the target range of the priority order changing process. , The target corresponding to the corresponding range is determined based on the first information, priority information indicating that the priority is changed based on the second information is set for the determined target, and the pseudonym input is performed. A kana-kanji conversion method, wherein kana-kanji conversion is performed, and a plurality of conversion candidates obtained as a result are changed in priority according to the set priority information.