JPS5835629A - Kana-kanji converting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the burden in a homonym selecting operation and a correcting operation, by outputting preferentially the expression selected by a switch in respect to a read part which may be expressed with Kanji (Chinese character) as well as Kana (Japanese syllabary). CONSTITUTION:An input Kana string-word string converting part 3 reads out an input Kana string from an input buffer 1 and performs a grammatical processing, a homonym identifying processing, etc. while referring to a word dictionary 2 and converts the input Kana string to a corresponding word string. A word string-output character string converting part 5 receives the result and converts words, which have only one kind of Kana positional information, to strings of Kanji and Kana based on Kana positional information in respect to every word in the word string. In respect to words having two Kana positional information, a Kanji preference/Kana preference selecting switch 4 is read, and words are converted to strings of Kanji and Kana based on Kana positional information in a side (a) when the Kanji preference is selected but are converted to strings of Kanji and Kana based on Kana positional information in a side (b), and resultant strings are stored in an output buffer 6.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an improvement of a kana-kanji conversion device.

In general Japanese sentences, the parts that can be written in either kanji or kana, and the parts in utoshikana that do not need to be added, can be written according to the user's preference. However, from the perspective of kana-kanji conversion, the input method that is most dependent on the user's selection is the character type specification method. However, the character type designation method requires a key operation for each character type change position, which places a heavy burden on the user. On the other hand, in a method that inputs a wider range as one unit than the character type specification method, the burden on the user is relatively small in terms of key operations during input, but it is said to reflect the user's preferences as described above. These points are either not taken into consideration or, for example, words written in kanji and words written in kana are treated as homonyms and prioritized using frequency of use information. For this reason, the user's preferences cannot be fully reflected, and there are problems such as the burden of operation for selecting and correcting homophones.

The purpose of the present invention is to solve these problems, and to solve such problems by adding parts that are strange even when written in kanji or kana in general Japanese sentences, and okurigana, which may or may not be written in kanji. To provide a kana-to-kanji conversion device that can realize conversion using a notation according to a user's selection with a simple configuration and reduce the burden of operation for proofreading.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained using figures.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the kana-kanji conversion device of the present invention.
4 is a kanji preference/kana preference selection switch; 5 is a word string/output character string conversion unit; and 6 is an output banofer.

FIG. 2 shows an example of data in the word dictionary in the kana-kanji conversion device of the present invention, in which kana position information is attached to each word in addition to information such as reading and kanji. This kana position information is attached corresponding to each reading, and the position of the reading corresponding to a kanji is set to "0", and the position of the reading to be written in kana is set to "1". Therefore, σ1 in the figure is “
or”, bl is “or”, α2 is “application”, b2 is “
"Application" is indicated in each case.

First, the input kana string/word string converter 3 converts the input kana string/word string converter 3 into the input kana string/word string converter 3
The input kana string is read from , and is converted into a word string corresponding to the kana string by performing grammar processing, homophone identification processing, etc. while referring to the word dictionary 2. Based on the results, the word string/output character string conversion unit 5 converts each word in the word string, for words for which the kana position information is only -, into a string of kanji and kana based on the kana position information. , as shown in Figure 2, for words with two kana position information, kanji preference/
Read the kana preference selection switch, and if kanji preference is selected, give priority to the α side, if kana preference is selected, give priority to the converted kanji and kana string according to the kana position information on the b side, respectively. It is stored in the output vanofer 6.

As shown in Figure 2, if the order of the kana position information within a word is unified in the order of the least number of kana characters, or conversely in the order of the most number of kana characters, the word string/output character string converter This simplifies the processing in step 5, but this is just an example and is not limited to this.

Furthermore, considering the existence of words that require kana position information in five or more ways, instead of deciding on the notation according to the selected preference, as mentioned above, we will only give priority to the notation, and the remaining It is more practical to make the notation pattern selectable by operations such as homophone selection.

As explained above, a wider range than the character type specification method can be
Even when performing kana-kanji conversion by inputting it as a unit, according to the present invention, the desired conversion result can be easily obtained by simply selecting the kanji preference and kana preference using a switch according to the character of the document, personal preference, etc. As a result, the burden of cumbersome homophone selection and correction operations can be considerably reduced.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the kana-kanji conversion device of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a portion of an example of data of the word dictionary in FIG. 1. 1...... Enter Kapanopha, 2...
...Word dictionary, 3...Input kana string/word string conversion unit, 4...Kanji preference/kana preference selection switch, 5...・・Word string output character string conversion unit, 6・・・・・・・・・Output・(Zuffa O Patent applicant Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. −5=

Claims (1)

[Claims] A switch to select either kanji preference or kana preference,
It has a word dictionary with information indicating that the notation that should correspond to each reading part of each word is kanji, kana, kanji or kana, and the reading can be written in either kanji or kana. Regarding the part, the notation selected by the above switch will be output preferentially!
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