JPS5821287B2 - Kana-Kanji conversion device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention relates to a kana-kanji conversion system using a kana-kanji conversion dictionary, and in particular, character strings containing kanji and kana that are words that are often used by users and are not converted in the conversion dictionary. This invention relates to a kana-kanji conversion device that can easily obtain .

In the kana-kanji conversion system, words that are not included in the word dictionary (particularly proper nouns, compound words, etc.) remain unconverted, and the input kana character string is output as is.

For such unconverted portions, it was necessary to re-input the kana character string order for each kanji/idiom or segment.

In particular, if the unconverted part is a word that is often used in sentences, this process must be repeated.
It took a lot of time to input.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a kana-kanji conversion device that eliminates the above drawbacks and efficiently and quickly converts a kana character string into a character string containing kanji.

The following is an example of converting an unconverted part of a Japanese text input using a kana-kanji conversion system that could not be converted into a sentence containing kanji into a string containing kanji and kana.

The figure is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, 1 is an input device for inputting the reading of a Japanese sentence as a kana character string, and 2 is a reading information storage circuit.

3 is a reading information collation circuit, 4 is a conversion dictionary storage device that finds and stores a plurality of character strings containing kanji and kana character strings corresponding to the readings in order to convert the readings into character strings containing kanji; 6 is a conversion candidate display device, 7 is a conversion candidate selection device, 8 is a conversion result storage circuit, 9 is a switching circuit, 10 is a text storage device, and 11 is a conversion result storage circuit.

The input device 1 for inputting the pronunciation of a Japanese sentence is, for example, a kana manual keyboard.

The input reading information is stored in the reading information circuit 2, and upon completion of the reading information input, the reading information matching circuit 3 is driven, and the reading information is compared using the conversion dictionary storage device 4, and the characters containing kanji corresponding to the reading are detected. Column candidates are retrieved.

This candidate is stored in the conversion candidate storage circuit 5 and then displayed on the conversion candidate display device 6.

If there are multiple candidates, one of them is designated by the conversion candidate selection device 7, and only the designated candidate is stored in the conversion result storage circuit 8.

This conversion result is sent to the text storage device 1 via the switching circuit 9.
0 is stored sequentially.

In this way, sentences containing kanji corresponding to the readings of the input Japanese sentences are sequentially formed in the sentence storage device 10, but in the conversion dictionary storage device 4, for example, the word ``Pa Institute'' is stored together with its reading ``kenkiyuujo''. If it is not registered, it remains unconverted as shown in Table 3 (a), which will be described later.

In such a case, in this embodiment, the readings of the unconverted portion are inputted using the input device 1 after being divided into Kanji characters by separators (space keys).

In this case, the reading of each kanji may be input as auxiliary information.

Table 1 (a) shows the inputs of this embodiment, with a space as a separator and the input of C/R1 auxiliary information as the end of the input is shown in parentheses.

When the information shown in Table 1 (a) is supplied to the matching circuit 3,
It is divided into three pronunciations: "Ken", "Kiyuu" and "Jiyo", and is compared with the conversion dictionary 4 to obtain the candidates shown in Table 1 (b).

The conversion candidates obtained by comparison by the comparison circuit 3 are stored in the conversion candidate storage circuit 5, and are communicated to the operator by the conversion candidate display device 6.

Table 2 (a) shows an example displayed on the conversion candidate display device 6 of this embodiment.

The operator uses the conversion candidate selection device 7 to select the relevant kanji from the conversion candidates displayed on the conversion candidate display device 6.

Table 2 (b) shows an example of selection input according to this embodiment.

The kanji-kana-mashi-character-yuji-kenkyoku ``'' synthesized by the selection by the conversion candidate selection device 7 is stored in the conversion result storage circuit 8, and the sentence replacement circuit 9 is driven.

The sentence replacement circuit 9 matches the readings stored in the reading information recording circuit 2 with all the Japanese sentences to be converted stored in the sentence storage device 10, and replaces the parts with matching readings. '', the conversion result storage circuit 8
Replace it with the kanji-kana-mixed string research institute stored in .

Table 3 (a) shows the sentences before correction, and (b) shows the sentences after correction. The converted information storage device 11 stores the reading information stored in the reading information storage circuit 2 and the conversion result storage circuit 8. This is an auxiliary dictionary that is updated from kanji, kana, and other character strings.

In other words, this auxiliary dictionary is provided to automatically convert the do-yomi to be converted into a kanji-kana-mixed sentence for sentences input later.

In this way, words that the user often uses (strings containing kanji and kana) are automatically stored in the converted information storage device 11, and the readings that appear after that are converted without any instructions. be done.

In this case, it is clear that the pronunciations of frequently used words do not necessarily need to be regular ones, and may be specified arbitrarily.

Also, words that are no longer used at an appropriate time can be removed from the converted information.

Conventionally, word dictionaries used for language processing have been fixed, and it has not been possible to easily update the dictionaries.

According to the present invention, it is possible to convert an unconverted part that has the same reading in multiple places with a simple operation, and it will not be unconverted during subsequent input, and operations such as correction do not require full heat. A kana-kanji conversion device can be realized.

Note that it is clear that the registration in the auxiliary dictionary may be performed in advance before inputting the Japanese sentence.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The figure is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a reading input device, 2 is a reading information storage circuit,
3 is a collation circuit, 4 is a conversion dictionary storage device, 5 is a conversion candidate storage circuit, 6 is a conversion candidate display device, 7 is a conversion candidate selection device, 8 is a conversion result storage circuit, 9 is a replacement circuit, and 10 is a text storage device. , 11 is a converted information storage device (auxiliary dictionary).

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A means for inputting a kana character string, and a conversion dictionary containing a plurality of character strings containing kanji and kana character strings corresponding to their pronunciations, and converting the input kana character string to the corresponding kanji. In a kana-kanji conversion system that converts a mixed character string, for a kana character string that cannot be converted into a mixed kanji character string by the conversion dictionary, the conversion dictionary is used to convert the partial kanji mixed character string for each partial string. A writable and deletable auxiliary dictionary is provided to store the kanji-containing character string obtained by synthesizing these partial kanji-containing character strings, and the above conversion dictionary and auxiliary dictionary are provided for the input kana character string. A kana-kanji conversion device characterized by converting into a character string containing kanji using . 2. A means for inputting a kana character string, a conversion dictionary for converting the kana character string input by this means into a character string containing kanji, and sequentially converting the character string containing kanji obtained using this conversion dictionary. In a kana-kanji conversion system having a character storage device for accommodating, the conversion dictionary is used to convert unconverted kana character strings that have not been converted into kanji-containing character strings by the conversion dictionary for each partial character string. A writable and deletable auxiliary dictionary for storing a kanji-containing character string obtained by obtaining a partial kanji-containing character string and composing these partial kanji-containing character strings; A kana-kanji conversion device comprising means for searching for a kana character string and mixing it with a corresponding character string containing kanji stored in the auxiliary dictionary.