JPS60122465A - Language information processing unit - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To expand the practicality by outputting a new word registered by the user in a dictionary with the highest priority, applying the unit to an information processing unit such as a word processor having a Kana(Japanese syllabary) Kanji(Chinese character) converting function to relieve the load selecting homonyms. CONSTITUTION:A dictionary read control circuit 21 reads word information of the same reading from a dictionary storage device 14 and the result is outputted from a frequency information control circuit 22. The control circuit 22 selects the frequency information of the highest priority and outputs it to a frequency information provision circuit 23. The frequency information for a new word is formed by adding N to the frequency information and also word information of the new word is formed by providing a frequency information. Thus, the word information of the new word has the frequency information with higher priority than that of the existing information. If no nomonym exists in the storage device 14, the frequency information is given by the frequency information provision circuit 23, the result is written in the dictionary storage device 14 by the control circuit 24 and the registration of the new word is finished. Even if homonyms exist, a CPU reads the word information of new registration from the storage device 14, converts it into the pattern information and outputs it to the display section of an input display device with priority.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a linguistic information processing device, and more particularly to a linguistic information processing device that can appropriately output when a new word is registered in a word dictionary.

Conventionally, when performing language processing, dictionaries to be referred to are:
A storage device in which a large number of words are registered has been provided, and various processes have been performed by looking up words in a dictionary within this storage device. By the way, in the case of Japanese, it is well known that there are many words that cannot be unambiguously determined because the word chunyo has homophones and allographs. For this reason, a device has been devised in which the frequency of use of words is investigated, and the results are used to assign frequency of appearance to words in a dictionary in advance, so that the words can be referenced in descending order of frequency of appearance, for example. In such devices, frequency information, which is a measure of the importance of words, is fixed. On the other hand, some users of this type of equipment
The frequency of word usage varies significantly, and even if a word is particularly frequently used by a user, if it occurs generally infrequently, it will always be ranked lower as a homophone candidate and save dictionary reference time. You will end up spending a lot.

As an example of something that can compensate for these shortcomings, an automatic dictionary update device is being considered that can obtain a dictionary with a word frequency structure that is most suitable for the user.

This device is described, for example, in Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 52-132653, and when a user specifies a word from homophones, it automatically counts up the frequency information of that word and displays the frequency of the content. After the words are classified according to the classification criteria, the words are stored in the dictionary again, so that the words in the dictionary have a frequency structure according to the user.

However, even with such a device, depending on the user, the words registered in the dictionary may not be enough, and the user may register new words needed by the user in the dictionary and use them. It is desirable to do so. In view of this point, linguistic information processing devices have been developed that have a function that allows a user to register a desired new word in the dictionary when the words previously registered in the dictionary are insufficient. However, even with these devices, when frequency information is assigned to a new word, the only method available is to determine and register a specific value. Therefore, in this method, optimal processing cannot be performed because the frequency information of existing words and newly registered words is not organically combined. In other words, if the user registers a word but gives priority to the existing word (homophone), it will take time and effort to select the homophone, which has the disadvantage of slowing down the process accordingly. .

[The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a linguistic information processing device that does not require effort in selecting homophones for a new word when the new word is registered in a word dictionary. purpose. ” Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of a linguistic information processing device to which the present invention is applied.

In the figure, 10 is a central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as CPU) that controls the entire apparatus. Reference numeral 11 denotes an input unit (e.g. keyboard, tablet) for inputting language information to be processed by this device and instructions for controlling this device.
It is an input display device that includes a table and a display section (for example, a CRT display) that displays information edited by CPU10. 12 is a printing device for printing document information created by this device; 113 is an auxiliary storage device for storing control information and document information created by this device. 14 is a dictionary storage device for storing word information referred to in this device.

The operation of the linguistic information processing device configured as described above will be briefly described. First, command information and language information input from the input section of the input display device 11 are transferred to the CPU 10. CPUl0 uses the dictionary storage device 14 based on the above information.
Word information is read out from the word information, pattern information is extracted from the word information, and displayed on the display section of the input display device i11. The document thus created is further edited and proofread to create desired document information. The created document information is then stored in the auxiliary storage device f13 and printed by the printing device 12.

Now, in the present invention, the user can input a new word (that is, a new word) to be registered from the input/display device 1, and the CPU 10 inputs a frequency to be added to the word information of the new word on the input/display device 11. The information is configured so that an optimal value can be set in relation to existing word frequency information.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of the present invention that implements the above functions. In the figure, 2o is a new word information input circuit provided on the input display device side W.

14 is the same dictionary storage device as in FIG. As shown in FIG. 3, the various word information stored in the dictionary storage device 14 includes at least information such as "pronunciation", "heading", and "frequency". In order to implement the present invention, a dictionary reading control circuit 21, a brightness information control circuit 22,
A frequency information adding circuit 23 and a dictionary writing control circuit 24 are provided. The dictionary reading control circuit 21 can read out all words with the same reading (that is, homophone and allographs) from the dictionary storage device 14 based on the registered reading information of the new word. The frequency information control circuit 22 performs control to select the maximum value of frequency information from all the word information output from the dictionary reading control circuit 21. That is, the frequency information control circuit 22 selects the frequency information of a word with the highest priority. The frequency information providing circuit 23 is the frequency information control circuit 2
A constant N (for example, an integer such as N=1) is added to the frequency information output from step 2, and the result is added to the frequency information section of the new word. However, if there is no word with the same pronunciation as the new word registered in the dictionary storage device 14, a value uniquely determined by the frequency information adding circuit 23 is added to the frequency information section of the new word. Dictionary writing control circuit 24 controls writing frequency information outputted from frequency information adding circuit 23 into dictionary storage device fli]4.

Next, the present invention configured as described above will be explained in detail. The pronunciation information, heading information, etc. of the new word to be registered are input from the new word information input circuit 20.

The dictionary reading control circuit 21 uses the input reading information to read out all word information with the same reading from the dictionary storage device 14 and outputs it to the frequency information control circuit 22. The frequency information control circuit 22 selects the frequency information of the word information having the highest priority from all the word information, and outputs it to the class IW information adding circuit 23. The frequency information adding circuit 23 adds N to the input frequency information to create new word frequency information, and adds the created frequency information to the pronunciation and heading information input from the new word information input circuit 20 to create the new word. Create word information. Therefore, the word information of the new word can have higher priority frequency information than the existing homonyms. However, if the homophone and allograph does not exist in the dictionary storage device 14, the frequency information adding circuit 23 adds desired frequency information. Then, the word information output from the frequency information adding circuit 23 is written into the dictionary storage device 14 by the dictionary writing control circuit 24, and the new word registration is completed. Next, when the pronunciation of a newly registered word is input from the input section of the input display device 11, the CPU 10 reads out the newly registered word information from the dictionary storage device J4 even if there is a homonym for the pronunciation. , and converts it into pattern information and outputs it to the display section of the input display device 11 with priority.

Therefore, according to the present invention, new words registered in the dictionary by the user are output with the highest priority, so when used in a linguistic information processing device such as a Japanese word processor or an automatic translation device that has a kana-kanji conversion function, homophones and allographs are output. The effort required to select words can be reduced and the practical effect is great.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of a linguistic information processing device to which the present invention is applied, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the detailed configuration of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the format of frequency information. . 14... Dictionary storage device 20... New word information input circuit 21... Dictionary read control circuit 22... Frequency information control circuit 23... Frequency information provision circuit 24...Dictionary writing control circuit (7317) Representative patent attorney Noriyuki Chika (and one other person)

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a linguistic information processing device having a dictionary registration function that registers word information created by a user in a dictionary storage device, when the pronunciation of the word registered in the dictionary storage device is input from the input unit, the word information 1. A linguistic information processing device comprising a means for outputting pattern information corresponding to a homonym to a display unit with priority over other homophones and allographs.