JPS61156462A - Word processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain especially the word processor suitable to a translated sentence input of a foreign language sentence by being provided with an input means to input the foreign language, a memory means to store the foreign language and the Japanese language corresponding to the foreign language, and a converting means to convert the foreign language inputted based upon the contents of the memory means to the corresponding Japanese language. CONSTITUTION:A keyboard 14 is designed to input a Japanese sentence to be converted or respective types of indication, and connected through a keyboard interface 13 to a bus line 5. A printer 15 prints a converted KANJI (Chinese character) KANA (Japanese syllabary) mixed sentence and a CRT16 displays an inputted KANA or sentence, a converted KANJI KANA mixed sentence and respective types of indication to the user. A disk 18 for a Japanese diction ary, a disk 19 for a foreign language dictionary, and a disk 20 for a document are connected to a bus line 5. A 'foreign language' key 21 displays that the bus is a mode bus to convert a foreign language to the Japanese language, and a 'the ending of a word' key 22 selects the ending of the word for speaking Japanese. At the disk 19 for the foreign dictionary, the foreign language and the Japanese language corresponding to it are registered.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Technical field of invention] The present invention relates to word processors.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems]

Conventional Japanese word processors use a kana-kanji conversion function and a dictionary registration function to convert Japanese input into kana into ordinary sentences containing kanji and kana.

The Kana-Kanji conversion function is a function that converts Kana character strings into corresponding Kanji-Kana mixed words (including words, clauses, and sentences; the same shall apply hereinafter) by inputting Kana character strings in appropriate meaning units. be. The dictionary registration function is a function in which a user registers special ``kanji-kana mixed words'' and their ``kana readings'' used by the user. After registration, by inputting the ``Kana reading'', it can be converted into the corresponding ``Kanji-Kana mixed word''.

Using such a Japanese word processor, external t3i
When trying to input Ii sentences, especially translated sentences of foreign language technical materials, the following problems occur. First of all, Japanese word processors are only intended for Japanese processing, so all foreign language processing is the responsibility of the user. In particular, it is difficult to unify the selection of translations for technical terms. Traditional word processors need to determine the best translation at the time of input.
This will impose a heavy burden on users.

In order to reduce this burden, it may be possible to register translations of special technical terms using a dictionary registration function, but with conventional Japanese word processors, dictionary registration can only be done in ``kana reading''. Therefore, it was not possible to register the translation in a foreign language. Further, since the data after dictionary registration and the data after existing dictionary are treated separately, it is not possible to perform flexible processing such as displaying the data after dictionary registration and the data after existing dictionary in order of frequency.

Furthermore, in order to translate foreign language sentences, automatic translation systems using large computers have been developed, and by using these systems, it is becoming possible to automatically translate foreign language sentences into Japanese sentences. However, automatic translation systems are large-scale systems and require a large amount of processing cost and time. Furthermore, the current state of the art requires the user to review the translated text, and it is not something that can be easily used by the user.

(Object of the Invention) The present invention has been made in consideration of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a word processor particularly suitable for inputting translations of foreign language sentences.

[Summary of the invention]

In order to achieve the above object, a word processor according to the present invention includes an input means for inputting a foreign language, a storage means for storing the foreign language and Japanese words corresponding to the foreign language, and a word processor for inputting a foreign language based on the contents of the storage means. was input by the input means. The present invention is characterized by comprising a conversion means for converting a foreign language into a corresponding Japanese language.

[Embodiments of the invention]

A word processor according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. CPtJ 10 controls this entire word processor. The I10 control program for this control (standard input/output program, file creation/deletion program, etc.), kana-kanji conversion program, and various functional programs such as addition, search, and deletion are stored in the main storage device 11.

Kanji characters to be used are registered in the Kanji ROM 12.

The keyboard 14 is for inputting Japanese sentences to be converted and various instructions, and the keyboard interface 13
It is connected to the pass line 5 via. printer 15
Now print the converted kanji and kana mixed sentences. CRT1
6 displays input kana sentences, converted sentences containing kanji and kana, and various instructions to the user. Further, a Japanese dictionary disk 18, a foreign language dictionary disk 19, and a document disk 20 are connected to the path line 5 via a disk controller 17.

The features of this embodiment are the key arrangement of the keyboard 14 and the foreign phrase m disk 19. As shown in FIG.
A "foreign language" key 21 and a "word ending" key 22 are added to the keyboard of the JW-7). This "foreign language" key 21 indicates that the mode bus is for converting a foreign language into Japanese. Furthermore, the user selects a Japanese conjugated ending using the "word ending" key 22.

Foreign languages and their corresponding Japanese words are registered on the foreign language dictionary disk 19. For example, when the foreign language is English, the English word "processor" is stored in correspondence with the Japanese word "arithmetic processing unit." In some cases, multiple Japanese words are associated with one English word. For example, the English word ``'+gean'' is matched with the Japanese word ``means'', ``meaningful'', and ``middle'' [the vulgar J is memorized. Furthermore, in this foreign language dictionary, if the corresponding Japanese word is a conjugated word such as a verb, adjective, adjective verb, etc., the ending of the conjugated word is also registered. For example, the ending of the word ``hishikarou'', ``hishiri'', and
It was despicable.'' [J is also registered for despicable.

The word processor according to this embodiment adds a "foreign language" key 21 and a "word ending" key 22 to the keyboard 14, and is provided with a foreign language dictionary 119, so that in addition to conventional kana-kanji conversion, input in a foreign language can be performed. [The feature is that it is also possible to convert from N3M to kanji/kana mixed words.

Next, the operation of this word processor will be explained using FIG. First, determine whether the input is finished or not (Step 100)
, this process ends if the input is completed. If the input is not completed, it is determined whether the input is a foreign language (step 10).
1). When entering a foreign language, first press "Foreign language" key 2
1 (step 111), and then input the foreign language to be converted from the keyboard (step 112). For example, input the English word "mean". Next, "Select/Execute" key 2
When 4 is pressed, the corresponding Japanese is displayed based on the contents of the foreign language dictionary 19 (step 113).

For example, [means J is displayed for °'1ean'.

The next step is to decide whether the displayed Japanese is appropriate or not.
114), press the [Next candidate] key 23 if it is not appropriate (
Step 115). When the "next candidate" key 23 is pressed, the Japanese language registered next to the Japanese language already displayed is displayed. It is determined again in step 114 whether the displayed Japanese is appropriate or not, and the above operations are repeated until the displayed Japanese is appropriate. For example, after the Japanese word ``means,''``meaningful'' comes next.
"Intermediate" and "Vile" are displayed in order.

Next, it is determined whether the Japanese word selected by the above operation is a conjugated word or not (step 116), and if it is not a conjugated word, the "select/execute" key 24 is pressed in step 116), and the process returns to the first step 100. In the case of a conjugated word, press the "Ending" key 22 (Step 118), press the word [Next Candidate] key 23 to change the conjugated ending, and select an appropriate conjugated ending (Step 119). 120
). For example, if the conjugate word ``Hashiri'' is selected for English ``@6 a n It,'' by pressing the ``R tail'' key 22 and the ``Next candidate'' key 23, the conjugated word ``Hashiri'' is selected. ”, “It was despicable”, “If it was despicable” is displayed. When the appropriate Japanese ending is displayed,
Step 117) of pressing the "select/execute" key 24 returns to the first step 100.

If the input is not a foreign language, it is determined in step 102 whether the input is a kanji character or a mixed sentence. If the sentence is not a mixture of kanji and kana, press the "hiragana" key 25 (step 103)
, hiragana are input (step 104). After confirming that the input is correct, the user presses the "select/execute" key 23 (step 105) and returns to the first step 100.

In the case of a sentence containing kanji and kana, press the "Kanji/Bunsetsu" key 26.
is pressed to input the reading of the sentence containing kanji and kana in hiragana (step 107). Next, when the "select/execute" key 24 is pressed, a sentence containing kanji and kana corresponding to the hiragana sentence is displayed based on the Japanese dictionary 18 (step 108). Next, judge whether the displayed kanji/kana mixed sentence is appropriate or not (Step 109), and if it is not appropriate, press the "Next candidate" button 2.
Press 3 (step 110) and repeat the above operations until you get a proper kanji-kana mixed sentence. When the appropriate kanji/kana mixed sentence is obtained, press the "select/execute" key 24 (step 105) to return to the first step.

Note that in this embodiment, dictionary registration in foreign languages is also possible. This is possible not only for words but also for clauses and sentences. For example, for English I "function code", Japanese "function code J", English "" UNIX is
a trademark of Be1l Labor
"Japanese rUNIX is a registered trademark of Bell Laboratories." can be registered in the dictionary.

In addition, in this embodiment, the translated word Japanese can be input in a foreign language and can be handled without distinguishing it from words in the existing dictionary ♂.
Flexible processing such as displaying these words in order of frequency is possible.

In this way, according to this embodiment, input can be made in a foreign language, making it extremely easy to unify the selection of translated words. Also, for special terms, if you use the foreign language dictionary registration function, you can uniformly use appropriate translations. It is also extremely easy to review the translation and create a terminology list after translation. In particular, for technical documents, it is often more difficult to select a translation than to have a complicated syntax, so by using the word processor of this embodiment, it is also possible to directly input a translation by looking at a foreign language sentence. .

In addition to English, the foreign language may be any foreign language such as German or French.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, a translation of a foreign language sentence can be input easily, and the word processor according to the present invention is extremely effective as an auxiliary device for the translation of foreign language sentences.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a word processor according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the keyboard of the word processor, and FIG. 3 is a time chart showing the operation of the word processor. 10... CPU, 11... Main storage device, 12...
Kanji ROM, 13...keyboard interface,
14...keyboard, 15...printer, 16...
・ . CRT, 17...Disk controller, 18...
Japanese dictionary disk, 19...Foreign language dictionary disk, 20...Document disk.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. An input means for inputting a foreign language; a storage means in which a foreign language and a Japanese language corresponding to the foreign language are stored; A word processor comprising a conversion means for converting a foreign language into a corresponding Japanese language. 2. The word processor according to claim 1, wherein the storage means stores a plurality of Japanese words corresponding to one foreign language, and one Japanese language is selected from the plurality of Japanese words. 1. A word processor, further comprising: a selection means for converting a plurality of corresponding Japanese words into a Japanese language selected by the selection means. 3. an input means for inputting a foreign language; a memory means for storing a foreign language, a Japanese word corresponding to the foreign language, and a conjugated ending of the Japanese word; and a memory means for inputting a foreign language based on the contents of the memory means. A word processor comprising: a conversion means for converting a foreign word input by the means into a corresponding Japanese word; and a word ending selection means for selecting a conjugated ending of the converted Japanese word. 4. The word processor according to claim 3, wherein a plurality of Japanese words are stored in the storage means in correspondence with one foreign language, and one Japanese language is selected from the plurality of Japanese words. 1. A word processor, further comprising: a selection means for converting a plurality of corresponding Japanese words into a Japanese language selected by the selection means.