JP2886864B2 - Character processor - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention enables search for an elaborated word and also refers to a reference (for example, a word with “→” when it is marketed as a book). The present invention relates to a character processing device capable of displaying an elaborated phrase of the heading from a word (hereinafter, referred to as a reference word).

[Prior Art] Conventionally, in this type of character processing apparatus, since information indicating a reference destination is deleted (ignored), the word is originally a word indicating a reference destination. It was structured to be stored or displayed as one elaboration word.

For this reason, in a certain headline (a word instructing a search for an elaboration term), only one word (phrase) is displayed as the elaboration term, so the user selects the word once, and again searches for the elaboration term from the selected word. There was no other way but to instruct them to display the desired elaboration words.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, in the former technique, there is no problem with a word having no reference destination (a heading = a word instructing an elaboration word search). As you can see, there is a significant number of words that have a one-to-one heading and reference. For this reason, if these unfortunate words are searched unfortunately, there is a problem that the processing is time-consuming, for example, the operation for performing the search for the uncorrected words must be performed twice. . SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of these problems, the present invention enables display of information indicating a reference destination when a word indicating a reference destination is present in a search result of an elaborated phrase, and when a user selects the reference destination, The purpose of the present invention is to provide a means for searching and displaying an elaboration phrase of a heading as a reference destination, thereby shortening the processing time and simplifying the work burdened by a user (document creator). .

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the above problems, a character processing device of the present invention includes a sentence display means for displaying a sentence, and a designation for designating a word in a sentence displayed by the sentence display means. Means, dictionary means for storing, in association with the phrase, related terms of the word, distinguishing whether or not each related term is associated with further related terms, and A first search unit for searching for a related phrase of the phrase specified by the unit, and determining whether or not each related word is associated with a further related word for the related word searched by the first search unit. Discriminating means for discriminating, and attaching an identification code to the related term determined to be associated with a further related term by the discriminating means, and displaying the related term searched by the first search means. 1 related word display Means,
From the related term displayed by the first related term display means, a related term to which the identification code is attached is designated, and a further related term of the designated related term is searched from the dictionary means. Search means, second related term display means for displaying related terms searched by the second search means, and one related term from the related terms displayed by the first or second related term display means. A replacement unit that selects a phrase and replaces the specified phrase in the displayed text with the selected related phrase.

Also, the character processing method of the present invention includes a sentence display step of displaying a sentence, a designation step of designating a phrase in the sentence displayed by the sentence display step, and associating the phrase with the phrase, and a related phrase of the phrase. A first retrieval step of retrieving a related phrase of the phrase specified by the designation step from a dictionary storing whether or not each related phrase is associated with a further related phrase; A discriminating step of determining whether or not each related term is associated with a further related term for the related term searched in the first search step; and determining that each related term is associated with a further related term in the discriminating step. A first related phrase display step of attaching an identification code to the determined related phrase and displaying the related phrase searched by the first search means; and a related phrase displayed by the first related phrase display step. Before the phrase A second search step of specifying a related term to which an identification code is attached and searching a further related term of the specified related term from the dictionary; and a related term searched by the second search step. A second related term display step to be displayed, and one related term selected from the related terms displayed in the first or second related term display step, and the displayed related term is selected by the selected related term. Replacing the specified phrase in a sentence.

[Operation] With the configuration described above, the character processing apparatus and apparatus of the present invention store the related term of the term in association with the term by distinguishing whether or not each related term is further associated with the related term. From the displayed dictionary, search for related terms of the specified phrase in the displayed sentence, and determine whether each related term is associated with a further related term for the searched related terms, An identification code is attached to the related phrase determined to be associated with a further related phrase, and the searched related phrase is displayed. From the related terms displayed, specify the related terms that are associated with further related terms,
A further related phrase of the specified related phrase is searched from the dictionary, and the inspected related phrase is displayed. One related term is selected from the displayed related terms, and the specified related term in the displayed text is replaced with the selected related term.

Hereinafter, an embodiment according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of the character processing device of the present invention.

In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a keyboard on which keys for inputting information necessary for document creation or for giving control / instructions and the like are arranged. The keyboard 1 includes a kana-kanji conversion key required as a keyboard of the character processing device, and an elaborate word search instruction key 1a.

The revision phrase search instruction key 1a is a key for instructing a search of the revision dictionary from the character at which the cursor is located in the document when the key is inserted.

The ROM 2 is a read-only fixed memory, and stores a control procedure by the CPU 4, for example, a procedure shown in a flowchart. Reference numeral 3 denotes a dictionary section in which elaboration term phrases are stored, and details thereof will be described later.

The CPU 4 is a microprocessor that controls the entire device of the present invention, and performs arithmetic and logical decisions for character processing.

The text buffer 5 is a memory for storing document information and the like. The information stored here is given to the VRAM 6 to be displayed on the CRT display 7.

FDD8 is an external storage medium for storing created documents and the like.

PR9 prints out the created document etc. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of the dictionary section 3. The index section 31 shows the first character of the heading, the number of words of the heading starting with the same first character, and the elaboration. It is composed of an address section storing the head address of each headword stored in the phrase section 32. Third
FIG. 4 shows its basic format, and FIG. 4 shows a storage example.

Reference numeral 32 denotes an elaboration word part, which is a collection of headwords, elaboration words (synonyms, opposite words, related words, etc.), and reference words. FIG. 5 shows its basic format, and FIG. 6 shows an example of its storage.

The operation of this embodiment having the above configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

By operating the elaborate word search instruction key 1a, a process of searching and displaying the elaborate word (this process) is started.

First, in S1, a document stored in the text buffer 5, for example, “... ] To indicate which phrase (word) you want to paraphrase. For example, in order to search (display) an elaboration word of "invention" and paraphrase it with another word, a search for the elaboration word is instructed by designating a range of "invention".

In S2, first, it is checked whether or not the first character of the phrase input in S1 exists in the index unit 31, and if a matching character is searched from the index unit 31, the address of the elaboration phrase unit 32 is taken out.
Based on the data, the refined word / phrase section 32 is searched for a matching word / phrase.

Here, if the word entered in S1 can be searched from the dictionary for elaboration, the elaborated word and the reference word are extracted, and the process proceeds to the display processing of S3. The display processing S3, as shown in FIG.
First, in step S31, it is checked whether or not all the elaboration words of the headline input in S1 have been processed. If the processing has been successfully completed, the process proceeds to S32, and a screen display of the revised word and the reference word is performed. For example, it is displayed as shown in FIG. If not, the process proceeds to S33, where it is determined whether the word being processed is a reference word. If the word is a reference word, the process proceeds to S34. If not, the process proceeds to S35. S34 adds “→” to the beginning of the word so that it can be immediately determined that the word is a reference word.

In S35, CRT is identified as synonym, antonym, related word, etc.
When displayed in 7, this sets the data so that it is easy to identify it as a synonym and this is the opposite.

When the processing in S3 is completed, it is checked in S4 whether the user has selected the elaboration phrase and the reference word displayed on the screen of the CRT 7.

If the selected data is a reference word, the process proceeds to S5, and the reference destination is searched from the elaboration dictionary. After searching, return to S3,
The data for screen display is created again, and the data is displayed again on the CRT 7 as shown in FIG.

Also, if the selected data was an elaboration phrase,
Proceeding to S6, the phrase "consideration" stored in the text buffer 5 specified in S1 is replaced with the selected data.

[Other Embodiments] In this embodiment, a search instruction for an elaborated word is performed by specifying a range (the first character and the last character of the word to be rephrased are specified), but one document is automatically analyzed. Alternatively, a configuration may be adopted in which words that are considered to be paraphrased can be sequentially displayed.

Further, in the present embodiment, the search is performed based on the notation, but the search may be performed based on the reading information.

Further, in this embodiment, the reference destination is displayed on the screen once, and the user selects it to display the elaboration word of the reference destination. However, the user does not perform the display operation of the reference word, and the reference word is displayed. It is good also as composition which can also display the elaboration word of automatically. For example, if there is a reference destination as a result of searching the revision dictionary, the revision word of the reference destination may be automatically retrieved from the revision dictionary and displayed at one time (simultaneously).

In this embodiment, the part-of-speech information is not included in the elaboration dictionary. However, the part-of-speech information may be added so that a search can be performed even when the usage changes, such as a verb.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, it is determined whether or not each related term is associated with a further related term by searching for related terms of the term specified in the sentence. Then, the related term associated with the further related term is displayed with an identification code added thereto, and the related term associated with the further related term is designated, and the designated related term is associated with the designated related term. Further related words attached can also be displayed, and one related word is selected from the displayed related words or the further related words of the related words, and is replaced with the specified word in the text. be able to.

As a result, in the elaboration of the sentence, not only the related phrase directly associated with the specified phrase but also the related phrase specified by the user as a replacement candidate of the phrase specified as the replacement target. Since related terms can also be displayed, replacement candidates according to the user's intention can be displayed abundantly, and replacement candidates not intended by the user can be prevented from being displayed unnecessarily. In addition, if the related term is associated with a further related term, it is displayed with an identification code, so that the user can identify the related term that can be specified to display the further related term,
This has the effect of simplifying the designation operation.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration example of the dictionary unit 3 in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a basic format example of an index unit 31 in FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a storage example of the index unit 41 in FIG. 2. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a basic format of the elaboration phrase unit 32 in FIG. 2, and FIG. 6 is a diagram in FIG. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a storage example of the revised phrase unit 32, FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a process of this embodiment, FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a process of a display process example in FIG. 7, and FIG. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a display example of an elaboration phrase of “invention”. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a display example of an elaboration phrase of “→ ingenuity” in FIG. 3 ... Dictionary 32 ... Elaboration phrase

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A sentence display means for displaying a sentence, a designating means for designating a word in a sentence displayed by the sentence display means, and a related term of the word, and Dictionary means for distinguishing and storing whether or not it is associated with a further related word; first searching means for searching the dictionary means for a related word of the word specified by the specifying means; For related terms searched by the first search means,
Determining means for determining whether or not each related word is associated with a further related word; and attaching an identification code to the related word determined to be associated with the further related word by the determining means. A first related term display means for displaying a related term searched by the first search means; and a related term provided with the identification code from the related terms displayed by the first related term display means. , A second search unit for searching the dictionary unit for a further related phrase of the specified related phrase, and a second related phrase for displaying the related phrase searched by the second search unit. Display means; and selecting one related term from the related terms displayed by the first or second related term display means, and selecting the designated related term in the displayed sentence with the selected related term. Replace words A character processing device comprising: 2. A sentence display step of displaying a sentence, a designation step of designating a term in the sentence displayed by the sentence display step, and a related term of the term being associated with the term. A first retrieval step of retrieving a related phrase of the phrase specified in the designation step from a dictionary that stores whether the phrase is associated with a further related phrase or not; For relevant terms found,
A discriminating step of discriminating whether or not each related term is associated with a further related term; and attaching an identification code to the related term determined in the discriminating step to be associated with the further related term. , The first
A first related phrase display step of displaying related terms searched by the search means, and a related term attached with the identification code specified from the related terms displayed by the first related term display step. A second search step of searching the dictionary for a further related term of the specified related term, a second related term displaying step of displaying the related term searched by the second search step, A replacement for selecting one related phrase from the related phrases displayed in the first or second related phrase displaying step and replacing the specified phrase in the displayed sentence with the selected related phrase. And a character processing device.