JPS62197864A - Language information offering device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain the display/output of data on related words for an operator without detaching the hands from a keyboard, by retrieving the related word information on the designated words and displaying the obtained related word information on different picture areas in case the retrieving indications are given to the words of plural areas. CONSTITUTION:When the indication is given for the next candidate in order to check the continuation of the related word information displayed previously, the following NA pieces of word groups are displayed and output through the same window area in accordance with the arrangement order of a related word dictionary memory 6. In case plural sorting codes, for example, are available with the retrieving indication for another sorting, the retrieving output of the synonym information on the other code is obtained. Thus the corresponding sequence number, for example, is selected out of the related word groups displayed in the window area and designated by the ten keys to an input device for selective indication. Then the selected word is replaced with the word indicated by the cursor in the sentence based on said word and its attribute of the part of speech.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a linguistic information providing device that outputs related words of phrases in a word processor, workstation, or geometric translation device.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems]

Word processors have become widespread in recent years. Generally, when creating Japanese sentences with this type of document creation device, the user inputs a kana character string using the kana-kanji conversion function, and then selects appropriate words from the converted homophones. ing. An interface mechanism is provided so that users can freely select such homophone words, including words that have been registered by the user. Currently, there is no mechanism to freely search for content or replace words. However, in general, when drafting a draft or looking at the pages of a written text to change the phrasing of a phrase or expression, it is necessary to check whether the user remembers the word LKa or reference materials such as a dictionary. In addition, in order to change the wording of a word or expression in this way, it was necessary to perform a series of operations such as specifying the corrected part each time, manually converting the kana reading to kanji.0 [Purpose of the Invention] ] The present invention has been made in consideration of such circumstances, and its purpose is to structure and store IA data of synonyms, antonyms, and similar words, and to store the IA data of synonyms, antonyms, and similar words specified in the created sentence 1. To provide a highly practical linguistic information providing device capable of searching, displaying and outputting information regarding a given word and phrase, and replacing another outputted word with a word specified in an original sentence.

[Summary of the invention]

The present invention enables information data of synonyms, antonyms, and synonyms to be used as I-related words of a single word or phrase when creating or proofreading a text in a word processor, work stage translator, or machine translation device. For synonyms, words with the same code are grouped based on the semantic classification code given to each word, and synonyms are stored in a machine-searchable format. By searching for these related word information and displaying the obtained related word information in separate screen areas if a search instruction is given for a word in multiple locations,
This allows you to view information about multiple words at the same time.

〔Effect of the invention〕

Thus, according to the present invention, when creating or proofreading a text, information data on synonyms, antonyms, and synonyms related to a word can be searched on the device, without the need to take one's hands off the keyboard and look up a dictionary. K(m collocation data can be displayed and output, and by selecting a word or phrase that you think is appropriate, you can replace it with the original word part in the sentence. By displaying word information at the same time, it is possible to change the information within each group, for example, when rephrasing a compound word or replacing an expression form such as so-and-so with a different expression form such as a compound word that expresses the same meaning content. It is possible to view the words while comparing them, and it can effectively provide information for the user's decision-making thinking.Also, when creating dictionary data of related words, it is not necessary to create dictionary data for compound words or useful expressions. Its practical advantages are enormous, such as being able to effectively utilize the information created for a single word even without a word.

[Embodiments of the invention]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, four examples of apparatuses according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an embodiment device. Input device room 1
includes, for example, a keyboard device containing kana keys and some function keys, kana character strings for creating sentences, commands for performing various editing operations, and several commands for instructing the operation of the present invention. Command information is entered manually. Kana character strings are converted and output into kanji-mixed characters using the kana-kanji conversion function.

The command information input from the input device 1 is stored in the memory 2.
After being stored in the memory, the data is read out by the control unit 3. The control section 3 identifies the types of the various commands mentioned above, performs editing functions, search functions, judgment functions, etc. corresponding to those instructions, and sends display data to the output memory 4. The output memory 4 has a data area for displaying sentence data and a window area for temporarily storing, for example, related word information of words in a sentence, and these stored data are sent to the output device 5, such as the CT device or the The signals are output to the liquid crystal display device and displayed in the respective corresponding screen areas.

FIG. 2 shows a part of the specific contents of the Japanese dictionary memory 6 shown in FIG. If it exists, it contains information about the opposite word. Some classification codes, such as market (ichiba, shijiyo), have multiple classification codes due to different meanings. Figure 3 (a
) shows a part of the specific contents of the related word dictionary memory 7 in Fig. 1, and Fig. 1(b) shows the column of the J part in detail. This is a dictionary containing the word group I (I) belonging to the code.The classification is expressed, for example, as a three-digit numerical value.Code (160) has the classification G of "state", and it includes "like", "state", etc. '', followed by words such as ``circumstances,'' ``social conditions,'' and ``economy.'' It has an arrangement structure in which the meaning changes roughly in the order of the words.For example, "economy,""marketconditions," and "boom."
etc. are clustered nearby. Hereinafter, an example of the operation of the present invention will be described using specific phrase data with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5. The flc4 figure shows an overview of the display screen, and 41
Assume that the cursor is placed on the word "city" in the input sentence as shown in 1. The control unit 3 first performs the necessary initialization and waits for the user's input instruction. When a command to search for synonyms is input to the input memory 2, the cursor position of the sentence is changed. The Japanese dictionary memory 6 is searched for words that match 14 and later. (8300,83
10) This search is executed using the grammar analysis unit 32 in the dictionary search unit 31 shown in Fig. 1, and independent word parts, inflection parts, and attached word parts are extracted using a method such as the longest match method. In this example, ``market condition'' is recognized as an independent part of the noun, and ``ga'' is recognized as an attached word. Next (8311') is the setting of a flag to determine which of the plurality of window areas t should be used to output the synonyms, and the window memories 1-42 and 2-43 in FIG. They are designed to be used alternately. Initially, the FW is O, and the search result is output to the window memory 1, and the search result for the next word K + J is output to the window memory 2 with the FW set to 1. From then on, the FW alternates between O and 1. Farewell, as for the content of 60 items in the Japanese dictionary memory, it can be seen that the classification code is '160' and there is no opposite word. (8312') Below, (831
5) is the operation of the related word search section in FIG. Extracted.

FIG. 5(b) is a flow diagram showing 5315 in detail.

Here, according to the CMD value that indicates the different operation instructions,
The search for synonyms, the search for opposite words, and the extraction of next candidates for synonyms proceed.

Next, among the information retrieved in (8316), the first NA words are displayed on the output device as shown at 421 in FIG. Since the value of FW is O, the corresponding 421 area of the two prepared window areas is displayed with, for example, a sequence number attached. NA is (s3oo) in Figure 5.
is set in advance and indicates the number of related words retrieved in - searches. Similarly, NP is the number of words in the group of words belonging to the code "160" that indicates the position before the search instruction word "market conditions" to start extraction. That is, in the first display, the sequence of words from NP words before "Market Conditions" can be seen (8319-326).The operation then returns to (8301) K and waits for the next command. Next, for example, if a command to search for an opposite word is input, the word portion indicated by the cursor is similarly analyzed and the opposite word is extracted, and the results are similarly displayed in the window area of the output device.

(8304, 309, 327-331) If you instruct the next candidate to see the continuation of the related word information displayed earlier, the following NA word group will appear in the same window area.
Displayed and output according to the arrangement order of the related word dictionary memory 6 (
8305, 313° 333-337). In addition, the search instruction for another classification means, when there are multiple classification codes, such as "market", for example, a search output of synonym information regarding the other code (8306, 314, 338,
339).

In this way, for example, a corresponding sequence number is selected from the group of related words displayed in the window area, and the selection instruction (8
307) is performed, and based on this selected word, for example, the word "three economic periods" and its part-of-speech attribute, it is replaced with the word part "market conditions" previously indicated by the cursor in the sentence (8
317). The purpose of using part-of-speech attributes is to replace conjugated words with the same inflection as the conjugated form of the original word. This is so that we can provide variations that match the original context. Furthermore, as a procedure for matching "studyed" to "studyed", for example, the auxiliary verb "da" is connected to the "Bagyo Godan verb", and the auxiliary verb "Da" is connected to the "Bagyo Godan verb".
By adding grammatical knowledge such as the ``ta'' reading as ``ta'' to the grammatical analysis section shown in Figure 1, a more practical function can be transmitted.

In this way, (8317) is performed using the function of the grammar analysis section.

Next, after displaying synonyms related to "market conditions", move the cursor to the position of "bouncing back" and instructing a search for synonyms, and in the same way, you will get the independent word executive "bouncing back" and related words. It is possible to obtain information. This time, the value of FW is 1
, and the display on the output device 5 is made in the area 431 of FIG. 4.

(8332) At this time, the "market condition" displayed first
Synonyms related to the term do not change.

In other words, you can see related information about not only one word in a sentence but multiple words at the same time. For example, you can select "economy" for "market conditions" and "recovery" for "recovery." I want to do that.

The sentence in Figure 4 can be changed to ``When the economy recovers.''

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments.

For example, although a preset fixed area is used as an empty area for displaying synonyms, these may be output as search base words, for example, in the lower part. In this case, since the area is set according to the position of the search base word, for example, for a plurality of words in the same line, each related word can be viewed at the same time. In addition, as a means of selecting from among the displayed words, you can, for example, highlight a specific word by making it brighter, and use the command key "Next word" to switch between the words to be specified one after another. Alternatively, pressing the "select" key may be used.

In short, various modifications can be made without departing from the gist of the invention.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a Japanese dictionary memory, Fig. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a related word dictionary memory, and Fig. 4 is a diagram showing how to display it. FIG. 5, which is a diagram showing an example of the results, is an operation flow diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. 1... Input device, 2... Input memory, 3...
Control unit, 4... Output memory, 5... Output device, 6... Japanese dictionary memory, 7... Related word dictionary memory. Figure 2 Figure 3

Claims (1)

[Claims] an input means for inputting character information and an operation instruction signal; a dictionary memory storing word groups to which the words belong in correspondence with headwords; and an output means for outputting the character information input from the input means; control means for searching the dictionary memory using the word specified by the operation instruction signal as a headword for the character information input from the input means;
The control means is characterized in that when a plurality of words in the character information are instructed by the operation instruction signal, the control means causes the output means to separate and output each word group obtained by searching the dictionary memory. Linguistic information providing device.