JPS6298456A - Japanese language input device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To input a word of foreign origin by an original spelling of its language by sending the alphabetic inputted from a keyboard, to not only a Roman letter - KANA (Japanese syllabary) converting part, but also a foreign origin word converting part. CONSTITUTION:The alphabet which has been inputted from a keyboard 1 is outputted as an alphabetic character-string A, and in a Roman letter - KANA converting part 2, the alphabetic character-string A is converted to a KANA character string K, and when a conversion key on the keyboard 1 is depressed, a converting signal T is outputted. The converted KANA character-string K is converted to a KANJI (Chinese character) and KANA mixed sentence G. The alphabetic character-string A is inputted to a foreign origin word converting part 4, too, and when the converting signal T is inputted, for foreign origin word converting part 4 retrieves a word of foreign origin corresponding to the alphabetic character-string A, from a foreign origin word dictionary 5 and outputs it. The foreign origin word converting part 4 compares the character-string A with a spelling in the foreign origin word dictionary 5, outputs the foreign origin word corresponding to the spelling which coincides, as a foreign origin word sentence H, and outputs a selecting signal S, in case when there is no spelling which coincides.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a Japanese input device that creates a kanji-kana-mixed sentence including a foreign word from alphabets input from a keyboard or the like.

(Prior Art and its Problems) Conventionally, there has been a Japanese input method that creates a combination of kanji and kana from alphabets input from a keyboard or the like. For example, NEC Technical Report Vol. 1.36 No. 4 (1
On pages 135-140 of April 1983, there is a Romanji/Kana-Kanji conversion method described in a paper titled ``One-in-One Japanese Word Processor and the Irukafuji Method''.

With a Japanese input device using this method, for example, "Japanese"
If you type ', use the alphabet from your keyboard.
Enter NIHON'GOJ. Then, using the Romaji to Kana conversion function, ``Nihongo'' is displayed on the screen of the Japanese input device. Next, when you press the conversion key on the keyboard, the Kana-Kanji conversion function converts it to ``1 Japanese'' and displays it.

On the other hand, when a foreign word is input using a Japanese input device using this method, it is not possible to input the foreign word using its original alphabetical spelling. For example, when entering "data", first press the katakana key so that subsequent characters entered will be katakana. followed by ' DE TA
By inputting J, "1 data" is displayed on the screen.

However, as is well known, the original English spelling of ``data'' is 'DATA,' which is the input when using the Romaji/Kana-Kanji conversion method.' DE-TA
It is far from J.

In this way, with the conventional Romaji/Kana-Kanji conversion method,
Since foreign words cannot be input using the original spelling of the language, it is difficult for users of Japanese input devices who are familiar with the language to input foreign words.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an easy-to-use H history input device that uses the Romaji/Kana-Kanji conversion method by allowing foreign words to be input using the original spelling of the language. be.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the Japanese input device provided by the present invention includes an input section for inputting alphabets, and a Japanese language input device for interpreting the input alphabets as Roman characters. a romaji-kana conversion unit that converts into a character string, a kana-kanji conversion unit that converts the converted kana character string into a kanji-kana mixed sentence, a foreign word conversion unit that converts the alphabet into a corresponding loan word, and the kana-kanji conversion unit. and a selection section that selects and outputs either the Kanji/Kana mixed sentence output from the unit or the foreign word output from the foreign word conversion unit.

(Summary of the invention) Here, an overview of the present invention will be described. The Japanese input device according to the present invention has, in addition to a converting section using the conventional Romaji/Kana-Kanji conversion method, a foreign word converting section that directly converts alphabets input from a keyboard into foreign words. This foreign word conversion unit can be realized by having a foreign word dictionary that searches based on the input alphabet and outputs foreign words in Japanese such as katakana. Alternatively, for languages such as German, where pronunciation is determined by spelling, or katakana, there is no need for a foreign word dictionary. In this case, the foreign word converter outputs katakana notation corresponding to the spelling.

There are several methods for inputting foreign words as follows. In the first method, when entering a foreign word, first press the foreign word key on the keyboard. As a result, the alphabet subsequently inputted from the keyboard is sent to the foreign word conversion section, converted as a foreign word, and output.

In the other method, alphabets input from the keyboard are sent to the Romaji-Kana converter and also to the foreign word converter. The kana character string output from the romaji-kana converter is converted into a kanji-kana mixed sentence in the kana-kanji converter. If this kana-kanji conversion fails and no result is obtained, the conversion result of the loanword conversion unit becomes the output of the Japanese input device according to the present invention. And vice versa,
It is also possible to output the results of the kana-kanji conversion section if the conversion by the foreign word conversion section fails. An example of Japanese input using a method in which the result of the kana-kanji conversion section is output when the conversion of the foreign word conversion section fails will be described. First, when entering "Japanese", select 'NIHON' from the keyboard.
Enter GOJ and press the conversion key. Then ' NIHON
Since there is no foreign word spelled 'GO,' the conversion by the foreign word converter has failed. On the other hand, in the romaji-kana conversion section, the alphabet 'NIHON'GO' is '
The character string is converted into "Japanese" and then converted into the character string "Japanese" in the kana-kanji conversion section. As a result, the character string "1 Japanese" of the kana-kanji converter is output.

Also, when entering the foreign word "data", "D
ATA" from the keyboard and press the convert key. Then, the foreign word converter outputs the foreign word 1 data corresponding to the spelling 'DAIA J'. In this case, it means that the conversion in the foreign word conversion section has been successful, so this one data, a character string, is output as a result.

In the above explanation, we have described the case where alphabets are entered from the keyboard, but other than the keyboard, there are also input devices such as Nippon Denki Men's Personal OCR and PO.
Any device that can input alphabets, such as a character recognition device such as -10, can be used.

(Example) An example of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. The alphabet input from the keyboard 1 can be output as an alphabet character string A. The Romaji-kana conversion unit 2 converts the alphabetic character string A into the kana character string K. When the conversion key on the keyboard 1 is pressed, the conversion signal T is output. The converted kana character string is converted into a kanji-kana mixed sentence G in the kana-kanji conversion unit 3 according to this conversion signal. These Romaji/Kana conversion section 2 and Kana/Kanji conversion section 3 can be realized, for example, by using the Romaji input and Kanji conversion functions of NEC's Japanese word processor NWP-13N.

The alphabetic character string A is also input to the foreign word conversion section 4. When the conversion signal T is input, the loan word converter 4 searches the loan word dictionary 5 for a loan word corresponding to the alphabet character string A and outputs it.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing part of the contents of the foreign word dictionary i15.

The foreign word conversion unit 4 converts the input alphabetic character string A
is compared with the spelling in the foreign word dictionary 5, and the foreign word corresponding to the matching spelling is output as a foreign word sentence H. If there is no matching spelling, a selection signal S is output.

The selection unit 6 outputs the foreign word sentence H as the conversion result B when the selection signal S is not input. Since there is no spelling that matches the input alphabetic character string A in the foreign word dictionary 5, when the selection signal S is output, the selection unit 6 outputs the kanji-kana-mixed sentence G as the conversion result B.

(Effects of the Invention) According to the present invention, since foreign words can be input using their Mmm future spelling, it is possible to realize an easy-to-use Japanese input device.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the contents of a foreign word dictionary in the embodiment.

Claims (1)

[Claims] an input section for inputting alphabets, a Romanji-Kana conversion section for interpreting the inputted alphabets as Roman letters and converting them into a Kana character string, and a Kana-Kanji conversion section for converting the converted Kana character strings into Kanji-Kana mixed sentences. , a loanword converter that converts the alphabet into a corresponding loanword, and selects and outputs either the kanji-kana mixed sentence output from the kana-kanji converter or the loanword output from the loanword converter. A Japanese language input device comprising a selection section for selecting a Japanese language input device.