JPS6174060A - Loan word easy input system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To input a loan word easily by registering an English word and KATAKANA (Japanese syllabary) corresponding to the English word in a dictionary, retrieving the dictionary with the inputted English word as a heading and converting to the corresponding KATAKANA. CONSTITUTION:KATAKANA corresponding to an English word (heading) is registered in a dictionary for converting KANA (Japanese syllabary) KANJI (Chinese character), when the English word is inputted, the dictionary is retrieved with the word as a heading and the word is converted to a corresponding KATAKANA notation. When a heading is not found in the dictionary, the heading is outputted as a converting result as it is.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Application of the Invention] The present invention relates to word processing for inputting Japanese using a kana-kanji conversion method.

[Background of the invention]

Conventional input of foreign words written in katakana in Roman letters is as follows: 1. Input according to the fixed Roman letter notation, 2.0-
It was common to input katakana directly into maji, but 1
In the case of , it is the difficulty of notation.

In the case of No. 2, there were drawbacks such as poor operability (necessitating mode switching from alphanumeric input to katakana input, etc.). Incidentally, known examples related to kana-kanji conversion include JP-A-58-19956 and JP-A-57-41767.

[Purpose of the invention]

In kana-kanji conversion input, foreign words written in katakana are a
-When inputting in Japanese characters, the notation is often more difficult than the English spelling.

Example: In the case of ``N7tware'', input English characters 5OFTWARE Input Roman characters 5UFUTO EA The present invention aims at the simple input of foreign words written in katakana when inputting Roman characters.

[Summary of the invention]

In the case of foreign words, the spelling of the English word is generally easier than the Roman alphabet, and many people remember the spelling of the English word itself.

For this reason, it would be easier to input heroic words if it were possible to input them and convert them into the corresponding katakana.

The present invention is a method for realizing this "English word - katakana" conversion, in which the katakana notation corresponding to the English character (heading) is registered in a dictionary for kana-kanji conversion, and the input English character string is converted into kana. If Kf conversion is not possible (generally, consonants are consecutive), it is assumed that the input is an alphabetic character, a dictionary is searched, and the corresponding katakana is converted. Alphabetic characters that are allowed in the Roman alphabet (for example, r
MAK tomake'') is provided with a function to specify that it is an alphabetic character, performs special processing, searches a dictionary, and converts it to katakana.

C Embodiments of the invention] Examples of the invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

As shown in Figure 1, the conversion mechanism is as follows: English words (headings) and corresponding katakana are registered in a dictionary for kana-kanji conversion, and when an English word is entered, the dictionary is searched using that as a header. Convert the corresponding katakana notation Kf. Also, the second stage is the exile until inputting and converting the text in a-m character notation.
As shown in the figure. In the conversion process, it is first determined whether the input text is an alphabetic character designation (E/XXXX/), and if it is an alphabetic character designation, the alphabetic character string surrounded by E/ and / is directly set as a heading for dictionary search. If the character is not an alphabetic character, processing is performed to convert the a-ma character into a kana character. Then, it is determined whether the conversion to kana has been performed correctly, and if the conversion to kana has been successful, the kana character string is set as the heading for the dictionary search. Subsequently, the dictionary is searched using the obtained heading, and the corresponding word is output as a conversion result. The corresponding heading is added to the dictionary/:
If it is, the heading is output as is as the conversion result.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, when a foreign word written in katakana is input in Roman letters, the spelling of the English word can be entered as is and converted into katakana without using difficult Roman letters.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing the flow of input and output in an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flowchart of conversion. No.1 fertilizer

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In the Japanese input method, which inputs a Japanese sentence written in Roman letters and converts it into a sentence containing kanji and kana using a kana-kanji conversion dictionary, register the English characters and their corresponding katakana in the dictionary, and then input the English characters. A simple foreign word input method characterized by searching a dictionary using the foreign word as a heading and converting it into the corresponding katakana.