KR100946227B1 - Method of Converting Korean Spelling to Roman Spelling Using Computer and Computer Memory Device Recording Computer Program Performing the Method - Google Patents

Abstract

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a computer program, and more particularly, to a technology for developing a computer program capable of automatically converting a Hangul notation into a Roman notation and vice versa.

The current Hangul Roman standard notation has many unreasonable problems that hinder mechanization. To correct this problem, we need to establish a new system of Hangul Roman notation and develop a computer program that can reversibly implement Roman notation and Hangul notation.

The Hangul Roman alphabet conversion method of the present invention enables the Korean phoneme and the English alphabet to be 1: 1 in correspondence with each other so that the Hangul notation can be reversibly converted into a Roman notation.

When the Hangul notation is converted into Roman notation or the Hangul notation by the method of the present invention, the Hangul is always the same as the Roman alphabet and the Roman alphabet is always the same and reversibly converted. In the case of developing and using a computer program to which the conversion method of the present invention is applied, a person who does not know the contents of the Hangul roman notation can automatically convert the Roman alphabet from the Hangul to the Hangul notation.

 Hangul, Roman, Conversion, Computer Program

Description

Method of Converting Korean Spelling to Roman Spelling Using Computer and Computer Memory Device Recording Computer Program Performing the Method}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to computer program development, and more particularly, to a method for converting a Hangul notation into a Roman alphabet and vice versa, and a technology for developing a computer program capable of automatically implementing the same.

Hangeul is a very unique writing system of our nation and its scientific excellence is well known. In particular, the advantage of Hangeul is that it can display a variety of pronunciation, it is easy to be mechanized due to the simple spelling.

Currently, Hangul is spoken by about 70 million people, including Koreans (or Koreans) living in Korea and abroad, including South and North Korea, and recently adopted as an international language for the application of industrial property rights under the International Patent Cooperation Treaty. It has been done. In addition, the number of foreigners who use Hangul is increasing rapidly due to the recent increase in international marriages and the sudden increase in foreigners living in Korea due to studying abroad or work.

As mentioned above, as the status of Hangeul has risen and the world has become more global, and the exchange with foreign countries has become more frequent, the population using Hangeul continues to increase. As a result, there are frequent occurrences in which the Hangul alphabet is the most commonly used alphabet system in the world, and the Roman alphabet is written in Korean. In particular, there are frequent occurrences in which proper names such as names of people and names, names of Korean foods, and names of utensils are written in the Roman alphabet system including English.

In accordance with the necessity of the Roman alphabet notation in Korean as described above, the Korean government has announced the Roman alphabet notation in Korean as the Korean Ministry of Culture and Tourism Notice No. 200-8 (2007.07.07), and proposes the Korean alphabet standard notation.

According to the existing Korean alphabet standard notation, Korean characters should be written according to the standard pronunciation method of Korean language, and signs other than Roman characters should not be used (Chapter 1). Corresponding Roman spellings are given for each (chapter 2). In addition, the notation in the case of phonological changes in Chapter 3 (1), syllable division (2), proper noun notation (3), human name notation (4), administrative notation (Paragraph 5), natural feature names, cultural property names, artificial building name notation (paragraph 6), human name, company name, group name notation (paragraph 7), etc. are prescribed.

The Hangul Roman standard notation is reasonably established based on the similarity between the pronunciation of English and Korean, one of the Roman language systems. However, because Korean pronunciation and English pronunciation are different from each other, it is not possible to convert the Hangul notation into the romanization of perfectly identical pronunciation, and in case of Hangul, the writing and pronunciation are often different according to the law of pronunciation. Due to this limitation, the standard notation has the following problems.

1. The problem of different letter notation

Depending on whether it's a first or last star, "ㄱ" is denoted by g or k, "c" by d or t, and "ㅂ" by b or p, while "ㅈ", "ㅅ", and "ㄹ" are not. not.

2. The problem of writing "ㄹ" as "r" in front of vowels and "l" in front of consonants or at the end of words (eg, copper: Guri, Seorak: Seorak, Chilgok: Chilgok, Imsil: Imsil, etc.).

3. When a phonological change occurs, write down the result of the change (eg Jongno [Jongno]: Jongno, Wangsimni [Wangsimni]: Wangsimni, Sunrise [Chaetoji]: haedoji, etc.). Does not reflect.)

4. "ㄲ": kk, "ㄸ": tt, "ㅃ": pp notation problem.

5. Frequent use of "-" in words. (Eg Jung-ang, Jung-ang, Ban-gudae, Se-un, Se-un, Hae-undae, etc.)

6. Problems in which mutually reversible and unique inverse transformations are impossible.

As mentioned above, the current Hangul roman notation is contrary to the scientific principles of Hangul, unstructured and has many exceptions. Current notation cannot mechanically romanize Hangul text, and cannot completely restore romanized text to Hangul.

Therefore, the current Hangul Roman standard notation is causing a lot of confusion and difficulties in reading Hangul notation and Hangul education of foreigners.

As mentioned above, there are many unreasonable problems in the current Hangul Roman standard notation. In order to correct this problem, a new system of Hangul Roman notation must be established, and it is necessary to develop a computer program capable of reversibly implementing the Roman notation and Hangul notation. have.

The newly developed Hangul roman notation should be a new notation that can overcome the problems of the current Hangul roman standard notation. This new notation should be able to write Hangul consistently in Roman letters.

In addition, a computer program must be developed to efficiently convert between Korean and Roman characters according to the new notation as described above, and the computer program to be developed must be able to mechanically implement Korean as a Roman alphabet or a Roman alphabet as a Korean alphabet. The conversion of Hangul and Roman notation should be mutually reversible.

In order to solve the above technical problem, a new Korean alphabetic notation must be prepared. The new roman alphabet notation of Hangeul should be able to be reversibly converted from each other by matching Korean phonemes and Roman alphabets in a 1: 1 correspondence, and also have a means for distinguishing the syllables of Hangeul.

And the computer program for Hangul-Roman conversion should be able to convert Hangul notation to Roman alphabet or Hangul notation in designated area.

The overall procedure for converting Hangul notation into Roman notation is listed as follows.

First step (syllable phoneme separation step): separating the Hangul notation in the region to be converted into syllables and phonemes;

Second step (phoneme designation step): designating one or two or more Roman alphabets corresponding to each phoneme of the Hangul separated in the first step;

Step 3 (Syllable Construction Step): List the Roman alphabets specified in the second step in the phoneme order of Hangul, with the first alphabet of each syllable in Korean being capitalized and the rest all lowercase, corresponding to one Korean character. Constructing a Roman alphabet column;

A fourth step (conversion step): converting the Hangul alphabet to the Roman alphabet by listing the Roman alphabet strings configured in the third step in the order of the letters of the Hangul notation;

And the sequence of converting Roman alphabet to Korean notation is listed as follows.

First step (syllable phoneme separation step): dividing the Roman alphabet in the region to be converted into syllables and phonemes of Korean characters;

A second step (phoneme designation step): a step of designating a Hangul phoneme corresponding to each of the Roman alphabets corresponding to the phonemes of the Hangul separated in the first step;

A third step (syllable construction step): combining the Hangul phonemes specified in the second step to construct a character that is one syllable;

A fourth step (conversion step): converting the roman alphabet into a Hangul notation by arranging the Hangul characters configured in the third step in order;

When converting a Hangul notation into a Roman notation or a Roman notation into a Hangul notation by the method of the present invention, the Hangul is always converted to the Roman alphabet and the Roman alphabet is the same as Hangul and is also reversibly converted.

When using a computer program to which the conversion method of the present invention is applied, a person who is unfamiliar with the contents of the Hangul roman notation can automatically convert the Hangul or Roman notation to Roman or Hangul notation.

According to the present invention, the Hangul can be written systematically and uniformly as a Roman alphabet, so it can be used as a basic tool for foreigners' Hangul education, and can be used as a Korean marking means in regions or language systems where Hangul is not used.

In addition, Korean names and names can be written in Roman letters uniformly, efficiently, and scientifically, and Korean information can be exchanged through a computer system that cannot use Hangul.

As a prerequisite of the present invention, a new Hangul notation method should be established in which the standard Hangul roman notation is slightly modified.

The romanization of the new Hangul is as follows.

1. The Hangul system uses the combined Hangul system. That is, the phonemes constituting the syllables should be mechanically decomposed into consonants and vowels.

2. Specify the Hangul phoneme, which is a consonant and a vowel, and the Roman alphabet corresponding to 1: 1.

In designating the Roman alphabet corresponding to each Korean phoneme, 1) use the phonetic and notation notation considering the phonetic or notation of the Roman alphabet used in English or other foreign languages, and 2) the actual pronunciation of Korean. It is formulated according to the mechanical principle of Hangul's letters rather than the suitability of notation.

According to the principle, it is recommended to apply the current standard notation as follows to the 1: 1 correspondence system of Hangul phoneme and Roman alphabet.

That is, for consonants "ㄱ" to g, "b" to n, "c" to d, base "ㄹ" to l, first consonant "ㄹ" to r, "ㅁ 'to m," ㅂ "for b," ㅅ "for s," o "for ng," ㅈ "for j," ec "for ch," ㅋ "for k," ㅌ "for t," 'To p, "ㅎ" to h, "ㄲ" to gg, "ㄸ" to dd, "ㅃ" to bb, "ㅆ" to ss, "ㅉ" to jj, "ㄳ" Is designated as gs, "ㄵ" is set to nj, "ㄶ" is set to nh, "ㄺ" is set to rg, and "ㄻ" is set to rm and the like.

The "o" of the Korean initials is omitted when noticing Roman characters, and when the Hangul is romanized, "ㅇ" is automatically added when the syllable begins with a vowel.

For vowels, "ㅏ" is a, "ㅓ" is eo, "ㅗ" is o, "TT" is u, "ㅡ" is eu, "ㅣ" is i, "ㅐ" is ae, "ㅔ" for e, "ㅚ" for oe, and "ㅢ" for ui.

"ㅑ" to ya, "ㅕ" to yeo, "ㅛ" to yo, "ㅠ" to yu, "ㅒ" to yae, "ㅖ" to ye, "ㅟ" to wi, Specify "ㅘ" as wa, "ㅙ" as wae, "ㅝ" as wo, and "ㅞ" as we.

3. When writing Hangul syllables in Roman letters, capitalize the first Roman alphabet of syllables. Ignore conventions that capitalize the first letter of a proper noun.

According to the rules above, Hangul is displayed in Roman letters, "Wangsimni" from Wangsimni to WangSibRi, "Sunrise" from Haedoji to HaeDodI, "NagDongGang" from Nakdonggang to "NagDongGang", and "Look" Is denoted BaRaBobNiDa in the current barabomnida.

The procedure for converting a Hangul notation into a Roman alphabet according to the above rules is as shown in FIG. 1.

That is, the first syllable phoneme separation step is to divide the Hangul notation in the region to be converted into syllables and phonemes. Hangul is a simple syllable because a letter is one syllable. In the separation of phonemes, the Hangul letters are composed of a consonant + vowel or a consonant + vowel + a final consonant. The consonant consonants (ㄲ, ㄸ, ㅃ, ㅆ, 복) and Bokja consonants (ㄳ, ㄵ, ㄶ, ㄺ, ㄻ, etc.) are treated as one phoneme. Double vowels (ㅘ, ㅟ, ㅙ, etc.) are also treated as a phoneme.

The phoneme designation step of the second step is to designate a Roman alphabet corresponding to each phoneme. Depending on the phoneme, one or more Roman alphabets may be specified. If the initial is "ㅇ", the Roman alphabet is not specified. In this step, a conversion code table specifying the Roman alphabet corresponding to each of the Korean phonemes can be input to the computer in advance, and the corresponding Roman alphabet can be called out from the code table and designated, or the corresponding Roman alphabet can be immediately generated and designated according to the Korean phonemes. It may be.

In the third step, the syllable construction step, the phonemes corresponding to a single Hangul alphabet are arranged in order to form a single syllable. At this time, the first Roman alphabet of one syllable is capitalized and the rest are all lowercase.

The converting step, the fourth step, converts the Hangul notation to the English notation by arranging the Roman alphabet formed in the syllable construction step in the order of Hangul. The spaces and punctuation marks (.,?,!, Etc.) are kept intact.

Through the conversion procedure as described above, a string written in Korean is converted to English written. In other words, "Wangsimni" translates into "WangSibRi", "Sunrise" into "HaeDodI", "Nakdonggang" into "NagDongGang", and "Look in." Into "BaRaBobNiDa."

The method of converting a roman notation written in Korean to a roman notation is also the same as the method of converting the Hangul notation to roman notation, but the contents of each step are different.

The syllable phoneme separation step of step A is a step of separating the Roman alphabet in the region to be converted into syllables and phonemes of the Korean alphabet. Since the beginning of a syllable is written in all capital letters, the syllable is separated from one capital letter alphabet up to the next capital letter alphabet by one syllable.

The phoneme is divided based on vowels, starting with the vowels (a, e, i, o, u) of the Roman alphabet or starting with y or w of the consonants of the Roman alphabet and reporting until the next consonant alphabet as the vowel phoneme of the Korean alphabet. One or two consonant alphabets before and after the vowel phoneme are consonant phones.

The phoneme specification step B is a step of designating a phoneme of Hangul corresponding to each of the Roman phonemes. If the beginning of a syllable begins with a vowel, designate the consonant "ㅇ".

The syllable construction step of step C combines the letters which are one syllable by combining the Korean phonemes specified in the phoneme specification step.

In the conversion step D, the Hangul characters configured in the syllable construction step are listed in order to convert the Roman alphabet to the Hangul notation.

After the conversion procedure as described above, a string written in Roman characters is converted to Korean notation. In other words, "WangSibRi" translates into "Wangsimni", "HaeDodI" translates into "Sunrise", "NagDongGang" translates into "Nakdonggang" and "BaRaBobNiDa." Into "Look."

The computer conversion program as described above can be easily implemented by those with basic knowledge in the field of computer program for document writing.

A method of converting a Korean alphabet to a Roman alphabet or a Roman alphabet to a Korean alphabet using a computer on which the above computer program is installed is as follows.

1) Install a conversion program on the computer with the conversion table specified so that Hangul and English spells correspond 1: 1. The conversion key is assigned to one key of the keyboard which is an input device of the computer. The inverse transform may have a separate key, but the reverse key may be designated to be inversely converted when used with another key (Shift key, Ctrl key, etc.).

2) Designate the part of the Hangul notation to be converted to Roman characters. In some cases, the entire text can be specified.

3) The Korean notation or English notation of the designated area is converted into English notation or Korean notation by inputting a conversion command using the above conversion key.

4) Print the converted Roman alphabet array and display it on the monitor or include it in the document file.

The detailed method of converting Roman alphabet to Korean is as follows.

1) Converts an array of Roman alphabets into an array of Hangul syllables and phonemes in the specified text to be converted.

2) The Korean phonemes converted from 1) are combined to make Korean letters consisting of initial, neutral, and final characters.

3) Output the converted Hangul characters and display them on the monitor or include them in the document file.

The method of the present invention can be used together with a computer program for writing a document or as a module of a computer program for writing a document to convert a Korean alphabet to an English alphabet or an English alphabet to a Korean alphabet.

1 is a flow chart of the Hangul Roman alphabet conversion method of the present invention.

Claims (2)

With the Korean phoneme corresponding to all the consonants and vowels of Hangul and one or two or more Roman alphabets corresponding to each Hangul phoneme 1: 1, the following steps are sequentially performed on the computer. By converting all or part of the Hangul notation of the computer document file to Roman alphabet and Roman alphabet to Hangul notation, A first step (syllable phoneme separation step): a step in which the computer automatically divides the Hangul notation within a specified area of the computer document file to be converted into syllables and phonemes in order; A second step (a roman alphabet designation step): a step of automatically extracting, by a computer, a Roman alphabet input for each of the Korean phonemes separated in the first step; Step 3 (Syllable Construction Step): The computer automatically lists the roman alphabet extracted by the computer in the second step in the phoneme order of Hangul, with the first Roman alphabet of each syllable in Korean being capitalized and the rest all lowercased. Constructing a Roman alphabet string corresponding to the Hangul letters of the alphabet; A fourth step (conversion step): converting the Hangul alphabet into the Roman alphabet by automatically arranging the Roman alphabet strings configured in the third step in alphabetical order of the Hangul notation; How to convert Hangul notation to Roman notation by sequentially performing: Step A (Syllable Phoneme Separation Step): In the Roman alphabet notation in the designated area of the computer document file to be converted, the computer automatically starts with a capital letter and before each next capital letter appears. The computer automatically divides the syllables and, based on the Roman alphabet that designates the vowels of the Korean alphabet in each of the divided syllables, automatically corresponds to the consonants of the Hangul consonants. Separating phonemes represented by the Roman alphabet; Step B (Hangul phoneme designation step): extracting the phoneme of the phoneme, which is automatically designated and input by the computer, for each phoneme represented by the Roman alphabet separated in step A; Step C (syllable construction step): a step in which a computer automatically constructs a Hangul character that is one syllable by combining the Hangul phonemes specified in the step B; Step D (conversion step): a step of arranging the Hangul characters configured in step C in order, and automatically converting the Roman alphabet to the Hangul notation; To convert Roman alphabets to Hangul notation sequentially: Hangul Romanization method, consisting of. A recording medium for a computer, comprising a computer program for performing the Hangul Romanization method of claim 1.

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