JPS61296474A - Word retrieving device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To specify the upper, lower and coordinate concepts included in a specified key word by the movement of a cursor on the screen of a terminal by providing a means for storing words hierarchically at every concept and a key word specifying device. CONSTITUTION:Words are hierarchically stored in a word memory device 110 at every concept and each word is retrieved on the basis of the concept or the concept is retrieved from the word. At the retrieval of a word, a key word is specified by the key word specifying device 120 at first, and then the concept code of the key word is retrieved through the device 110. In this case, any one of upper, lower and coordinate concepts is selected on the basis of the movement of the cursor. Namely, a word having the concept code of upper concept at the upper movement of the cursor, the concept code of lower concept at the lower movement or the concept code of coordinate concept at the right or left movement is tested by the device 110 and the tested result is displayed on a display device 130. Consequently, a retrieval condition can be easily specified and a practical effect can be improved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a word search device that searches for words based on concepts.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems: 1. With the development of natural language processing technology, there are various applications of natural language processing, such as access to databases using natural language, and programming using natural language. 1) These applied systems are being developed, and... It is recognized that this is one of the major problems. 1] There is a lot of manpower in the vulgar language that performs the manpower of book 1.

For example, the keyword (from this, first the concept, tj, let's take this concept as a clue, then, the word '8::
It searches for fjτ. This disaster? ,,Concerning the concept of keywords, search condition 5: There has been no means for easily specifying them.

[Purpose of the invention]

The present invention was created in consideration of such concerns, and its purpose is to search for words that have concepts in the second, lower, or same rank than the concept of a specified keyword.
An object of the present invention is to provide a word search device capable of specifying higher, lower, and same level of a concept of search term #n by movement of a cursor.

[Summary of the invention]

The present invention provides a word storage device that stores words hierarchically for each concept and has a function of searching for a word based on the concept and a function of searching the concept of the word from the word, and a keyword for searching. The device is equipped with a keyword specification unit that specifies a keyword, and a terminal that has a function to move a cursor on the screen and a function to read the movement of the cursor. This is specified by the movement of the cursor, and a word having the specified superordinate concept, subordinate concept, or cognate concept is searched.

[Effects of the Invention] Thus, according to the present invention, when searching for a word based on a concept, one of the higher rank, lower rank, and the same rank for the keyword can be specified by moving the cursor.

It is possible to search for words that have higher, lower, or similar concepts to the concept of the keyword. In this way, when searching for a word, the search conditions that are problematic can be easily specified, and a great practical effect can be obtained.

[Invention arrangement]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a word search device for explaining the present invention in detail. The word search device of the present invention is a word storage device tiio that stores words hierarchically for each concept and has a function of searching for a word based on the concept and a function of searching the concept of the word from the word, a keyword specifying unit @ 120 to display a keyword, a terminal device 130 having a function of moving a cursor on the screen and a function of reading the movement of the cursor, and a @device 1 controlling each of these devices.
It consists of 40.

The word storage device 110 stores words hierarchically based on concepts. FIG. 2 shows a string of words to be stored.

Words such as ``feline,''``cat,''``teak,''``leopard,'' and ``Abyssinian'' are stored in a hierarchical manner.

This hierarchy is based on knowledge of the cat classification system. In other words, there are various animals in the cat family, such as Persians, jams, cheetahs, and leopards, but the first one is
This is the knowledge that they are classified into three stages: cats, cheetahs, and leopards. Taking ``cat'' as a column, there is ``cat fluff'' which is a superordinate concept of ``cat'' that includes ``cat,''``cheek,'' and ``leopard.'' Also, "cat"
Subordinate concepts include ``Abyssinian,''``Persian,''``Jam,'' and ``Chinchilla.'' Concepts on the same level as ``cat'' include ``cheek'' and ``leopard.''

The word # is stored in the word storage device 110 in the format shown in FIG. 3, for example. Concepts are represented by concept codes. By using this concept code, a word can be searched from a concept, and a corresponding concept code, that is, a concept can be searched from a word.

As these search methods, various methods that have been proposed in the past can be used.

The keyword designation device 120 is used to designate a keyword for the search. Various proposed methods for specifying keywords can be used. For example - as an example,
In FIG. 4, one window 400 is displayed on the screen of the terminal device 130, and a text is displayed within the window 400. The "cat" in this sentence is underlined 410,
Below this, a keyword is specified from the line.

On the terminal device 130, the cursor can be moved on one screen. As a means of this movement, for example, conventionally proposed methods such as a mouse (consisting of a main body 500, buttons 510 to 530, and a cable 540) shown in FIG. 5, or direction keys on a keyboard shown in FIG. ,
You can also use the function to read the movement of the cursor. From the results of reading the movement of the cursor (for example, the coordinate values on the screen), it can be determined whether the cursor has moved in any direction, such as up, down, left, or right.

Hereinafter, the specific operation of the side hearing device 140 will be explained based on the flowchart of FIG. 7. First, a keyword is designated by the keyword designation device 120. (Fig. 7 71
) At this time, the screen key row of the terminal theory 130 is as shown in FIG. 110. (Fig. 7 72) For example, if words are stored in a format such as %Fig. 3 1c, the concept code of ``1 cat'' is retrieved as rllJ.

The movement of the cursor is read by the terminal device 130.

You can tell which direction it moved, up, down, left or right. Based on this direction, one of the concepts of higher rank, lower rank, and the same rank is selected.

(Fig. 7 73) (1) When the cursor moves upward, the word recording/indication device 110 searches for a word having the concept code of the superordinate concept (in this case, rlJ). The search result is "feline costal proboscis"
and is displayed at the top of the screen, as shown in FIG. 8, for example. (Fig. 7 74.75) (11) When the cursor moves downward, the concept code of the subordinate concept (in this case b rl
1 x J x : integer] is searched for in the word storage device 110. Search results for "Abyssinian"
"Persia", "Jam", "Chinchilla"... For example, as shown in Figure 9, the cursor moves to the left at the bottom of the screen. or in the right case, the concept code of the cognate concept (in this case, [
1xJx: Vocabulary of words with gold number x 1)! #:1
Search from 10G. The search results are "teak" and "leopard", for example, on the right side of the screen (as shown in Figure 10).
This is shown below.

(Figure 7, 78, 79, 130) In this way, by moving the cursor ζ, one of the upper, lower, and the same rank for the keyword can be specified, and the higher or lower concept of the concept of the keyword can be specified.

It becomes possible to search for words that have similar concepts, and search conditions, which are problematic in word searches, can be easily specified, and a multi-purpose effect can be obtained.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. For example, in the above implementation column, the higher/lower/same level of the % concept corresponds to the cursor movement up/down/left or right, respectively, but this is not necessarily limited to this.
It is also possible to make the upper/lower level of a concept correspond to the upper right/lower left position of the cursor movement.

In addition, as for the method of specifying keywords, in the above implementation, keywords are selected from the text, but it is also possible to adopt methods that have been proposed many times in the past, such as a method in which the user directly inputs the keywords.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram for explaining an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of words written hierarchically, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the format of words. 4 is a diagram showing -1IAl for specifying a keyword, FIGS. 5 and 6 are diagrams showing means for moving the cursor, and FIG. 7 is a flowchart 1 showing an overview of one sequence of processing. Figure 8 is a diagram showing an example of search results for words in a superordinate concept, Figure 9 is a diagram showing a row of search results for words in a subordinate concept, and Figure 10 is a diagram showing a row of search results for words in a similar concept. I'll go. 110... Word storage device, 120... Keyword designation device, 130... Terminal device, 140... Control device. Representative Patent Attorney Kensuke Chika (and 1 other person) No. 1
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Claims (1)

[Claims] A specifying means for specifying a keyword of a word and a cursor position, a word storage means storing a word and a concept code indicating a hierarchical classification of the word in correspondence, and a cursor at a cursor position specified by the specifying means. and a control means for searching the word storage means for a concept code corresponding to the keyword specified by the specifying means and detecting the moving direction of the cursor position on the display means. The word search device is characterized in that the control means searches for a concept code of a classification corresponding to the movement direction of the cursor position from the searched concept code, and searches the word storage means for a word corresponding to the concept code.