JP3000602B2 - Japanese processing device and method - Google Patents

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Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a Japanese language processing apparatus and method for inputting a Japanese character string and converting and correcting the Japanese character string.

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, as a conventional Japanese language processing apparatus and method, an apparatus for processing "honorific expressions" has been announced.

"Honorific expressions" are polite prefixes "o", suffixes "sama", and suffix "ita" that appear in sentences, and unifying or correcting these expressions is a Japanese processing device. realizable. In addition, a device that issues a warning when a ending of an honorific expression is stored in advance and a usage that does not match the ending is found in a sentence can be realized.

Examples of such a conventional Japanese-language processing apparatus and method include a "honorific sentence conversion apparatus for sentences" (JP-A-1-106161) and a "document creation apparatus" (JP-A-63-311559). Such a conventional Japanese language processing apparatus and method will be briefly described below.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a conventional Japanese processing device.

Reference numeral 1 denotes a Japanese input unit, which is, for example, a keyboard or a file reading device for inputting Japanese notation as codes. Reference numeral 2 denotes a Japanese storage unit for temporarily storing the Japanese notation input to the Japanese input unit. Numeral 3 is a designation unit for designating a specific character string in the Japanese storage unit 2. For example, the characters "sama" and "Nasaru" which are the endings of the Japanese honorific expression temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit 2 are designated. I do. Reference numeral 4 denotes an honorific dictionary storage for storing character strings expressing Japanese honorifics. For example, prefixes “O” and “O” of Japanese honorific expressions are used.
And suffix expressions such as “sama”, “narashiru”, and “say”. Reference numeral 5 denotes an honorific conversion unit that converts a Japanese character string temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit 2 specified by the specifying unit 3 into an honorific expression using the information on the honorifics stored in the honorific dictionary storage. . Reference numeral 6 denotes a Japanese display unit for displaying a Japanese character string temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit 2.
It is a display. Reference numeral 7 denotes an honorific word judging unit that finds an expression that does not match the honorific expression string stored in the honorific word dictionary unit in the Japanese memory unit 2 and displays a warning on the display unit 6.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the procedure of Japanese character string processing in the conventional Japanese processing method.

Reference numeral 401 denotes a Japanese input stage in which Japanese is input from the Japanese input unit 1 and temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit 2. Reference numeral 402 denotes a Japanese display stage in which a Japanese character string temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit 2 is output and displayed on a CRT or the like. Reference numeral 403 denotes a Japanese character string designation stage in which the designation unit 3 designates a partial character string of the Japanese character string temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit 2. Reference numeral 404 denotes a honorific word conversion stage, in which a partial character string of the Japanese character string temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit 2 specified by the specifying unit 3 in the Japanese character string specifying stage 403 is stored in the honorific dictionary storage unit. This is the stage of conversion according to the stored contents. Reference numeral 405 denotes a honorific word judging step, in which a partial character string of the Japanese character string temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit 2 specified in the Japanese specifying step 403 is checked according to the contents of the honorific word dictionary unit 6, and the honorific word dictionary storage unit This is the stage of finding an unusual honorific expression not found in 2. Reference numeral 406 denotes a warning display step, in which when an abnormal honorific expression is found in the honorific word determination step 405, this is output and displayed on the output unit 6.

In the conventional Japanese language processing apparatus configured as described above and the Japanese language processing method including the above steps, a character string indicating an honorific in a sentence can be correctly converted or determined. For example, you can add "sama" to the personal name "Sato" and convert it to "Sato-sama".
For "rice" with "rice" appended to "rice", a warning can be displayed as an incorrect honorific expression character string.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, in the conventional Japanese language processing apparatus and method as described above, the "superior"
And the "current" relationship cannot be directly handled, so that the meanings of the honorifics are not uniform even though they are correct as the honorific expression character strings. For example, although a certain character string has “sato” added to the personal name “Sato”, an expression that does not have “sato” added to another character string may appear.

In addition, since the conversion of the honorific expression character string is left to the user, for example, even if the vertical relationship between the characters "Sato" and "Tanaka" appearing in the sentence is predetermined, this relationship is used as a Japanese character string. Responsibility for the expression is left to the user, and the sentence "Sato, Tanaka is incorrect, using the honorific word that should be used when the current person" sees "the superior while" Sato "is above him The expression "I met you"
Had a problem that it could not be found.

An object of the present invention is to provide a Japanese language processing device capable of processing the meaning of honorifics in view of the problems of the conventional Japanese language processing device and method.

Means for Solving the Problems The invention according to claim 1 includes a Japanese input unit for inputting a Japanese character example, a Japanese storage unit for temporarily storing a Japanese character string input from the Japanese input unit, A Japanese character string temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit is read, and a special relation analysis unit that outputs the special relation information indicated by the Japanese character string, and the special relation information output by the special relation analysis unit are temporarily stored. A first treatment relation temporary storage section, a treatment relation input section for inputting treatment relation information, a second treatment relation temporary storage section for temporarily storing the treatment relation information input from the treatment relation input section, and the first treatment relation A Japanese-language processing device comprising: a temporary storage unit and a temporary relationship comparison unit that compares a temporary relationship stored in the second temporary relationship temporary storage unit and outputs a comparison result.

The invention according to claim 2 is a step of inputting the Japanese character string, extracting the treatment relation information indicated by the input Japanese character string, and inputting the treatment relation information to be indicated by the Japanese character string. And a step of comparing the treatment relation information extracted from the Japanese character string with the inputted treatment relation information.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided an output unit for displaying a comparison result of a treatment relationship, a Japanese character string correction information input unit for inputting correction information of a Japanese character string, and an input to the Japanese character string correction information input unit. 2. The Japanese language processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a Japanese character string correction unit configured to read the corrected correction information and correct a Japanese character string temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit. It is.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the Japanese language processing method according to the third aspect, further comprising a step of displaying a comparison result of the treatment relation and a step of correcting a Japanese character string.

The invention according to claim 5 includes a honorific conversion unit that converts a Japanese character string temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit in accordance with the treatment relation information temporarily stored in the second treatment relation temporary storage unit. A Japanese-language processing device according to claim 1.

The invention according to claim 6, further comprising the step of converting an honorific expression of the input Japanese character string according to the input treatment relation information. It is.

Operation According to the present invention, the above-described configuration and stairs are used to input a treatment relation, such as the upper or lower part of a Japanese character string, to be interpreted, and to convert and determine the Japanese character string according to the treatment relation.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a Japanese language processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Elements 1, 2, 3, and 6 in this configuration diagram are the same as those of the conventional example shown in FIG. Reference numeral 8 denotes a treatment relation analysis unit that reads a Japanese character string temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit 2 and outputs a treatment relation indicated by the character string. 9
Is a first treatment relation temporary storage unit for temporarily storing the treatment relation information output from the treatment relation analysis unit 8. Reference numeral 10 denotes a treatment relation input unit for inputting a treatment relation to be indicated by a Japanese character string temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit 2. Treatment-related input section
From 10, for example, if the personal relationship between the personal names “Sato” and “Tanaka” appearing in the character string temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit 2 is “Sato” is higher than “Tanaka” ,
The information "Meno (Sato, Tanaka)" is input in the form of a predicate. Numeral 11 denotes a second treatment relation temporary storage section for temporarily storing the treatment relation information input from the treatment relation input section. 12 is
In a honorific conversion unit for converting an honorific of a partial character string specified by a section specified by the Japanese character string specification unit 3 temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit 2 in accordance with the treatment relation temporarily stored in the second processing relation temporary storage unit. is there. 13 is a treatment relation comparison that compares the treatment information temporarily stored in the first treatment relation temporary storage unit 9 with the treatment relation information temporarily stored in the second treatment relation temporary storage unit, and outputs the comparison result to the output unit 6. Department. Reference numeral 14 denotes a Japanese character string correction information input unit for inputting correction information of a Japanese character string temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit 2. Reference numeral 15 denotes correction information read from the Japanese character string correction information input unit 14, A Japanese character string correction unit for correcting Japanese character string information temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit 2 according to the information.

The operation of the character string input device according to the present embodiment configured as described above will be described below with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In FIG. 2, reference numerals 401, 402 and 403 are the same as those of the conventional example shown in FIG. Step 201 is a step of inputting the treatment relation information to be indicated by the Japanese character string temporarily stored in the Japanese storage section 2 from the treatment relation input section, and temporarily storing the information in the second treatment relation temporary storage section 11. . 202
Is a Japanese character string in the Japanese storage unit 2 specified in the Japanese character string specifying step 403, and the honorific expression conversion unit 12 uses the honorific expression according to the treatment relation information temporarily stored in the second treatment relation temporary storage unit 11. This is the stage of conversion. To this stage, the treatment relation input section
When the treatment relation information input in step 10 is temporarily stored in the second treatment relation temporary storage unit 11, the process proceeds. 203
In the Japanese character string designation step 403, the Japanese character string specified in the Japanese character string storage unit 2 is read by the treatment relation analysis unit 8, and the treatment relation indicated by the Japanese character string is stored in the first treatment relation temporary storage unit 9. This is the stage of extracting the treatment relations to be output to. Control proceeds to this stage when no information is set in the second treatment relation temporary storage unit 11. 204, the treatment relation information temporarily stored in the second treatment relation temporary storage unit 11 in the treatment relation input step 201 and the treatment relation information temporarily stored in the first treatment relation temporary storage unit 9 in the treatment relation extraction step 203 This is a treatment relation comparison stage in which the relation comparison unit 13 makes a comparison and outputs a comparison result.
Reference numeral 205 denotes a comparison result display step in which the comparison result output from the treatment relation comparison unit 13 in the treatment relation comparison step 204 is output from the output unit 6. 206 is a Japanese correction stage in which the Japanese character string correction unit 15 corrects the Japanese character string information temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit 2 in accordance with the information input from the Japanese character string correction information input unit 14. is there. Which of the treatment relation input step 201 and the Japanese correction step 206 the control shifts to is determined by the operation of the user.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, by directly inputting the treatment relation to be indicated by the honorific expression in the Japanese sentence, it is possible to obtain an honorific expression even in Japanese, which is semantically correct as a character string. .

Effect of the Invention As described above, according to the present invention, an honorific expression of a sentence composed of a Japanese character string or a normal Japanese character string that is not an honorific expression is converted into an expression that conforms to the treatment relationship that the honorific expression should indicate. In addition, it is possible to find and correct expressions that do not correspond to the treatment relationship that the honorific expression should show, and its practical value is great.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a Japanese language processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the Japanese language processing apparatus of the embodiment, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a Japanese language processing apparatus, and FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of a conventional Japanese language processing apparatus. 1 Japanese input unit 2 Japanese storage unit 6 Output unit 8 Treatment relationship analysis unit 9 First treatment relationship temporary storage unit 11 Second treatment relationship temporary storage Section, 12 ... Honorific word conversion section, 13 ... Treatment relation comparison section, 14 ... Japanese character string correction information input section, 15 ... Japanese character string correction section.

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Claims (6)

(57) [Claims] 1. A Japanese input unit for inputting a Japanese character string,
A Japanese storage unit for temporarily storing a Japanese character string input from the Japanese input unit, and a reading relation in which the Japanese character string temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit is read and the Japanese character string indicates A treatment relation analysis unit that outputs information, a first treatment relation temporary storage unit that temporarily stores the treatment relation information output by the treatment relation analysis unit, and a treatment that inputs treatment relation information to be indicated by the Japanese character string A relationship input unit, a second treatment relationship temporary storage unit for temporarily storing the treatment relationship information input from the treatment relationship input unit, and a temporary storage in the first treatment relationship temporary storage unit and the second treatment relationship temporary storage unit. A processing unit for comparing the received treatment relation information and outputting a result of the comparison. 2. A step of inputting a Japanese character string, extracting treatment relation information indicated by the input Japanese character string, and inputting treatment relation information to be indicated by the Japanese character string. Comparing the treatment relation information extracted from the Japanese character string with the inputted treatment relation information. 3. An output unit for displaying a comparison result of a treatment relationship,
A Japanese character string correction information input unit for inputting correction information of a Japanese character string, and the Japanese characters temporarily read into the Japanese storage unit by reading the correction information input to the Japanese character string correction information input unit 2. The Japanese processing device according to claim 1, further comprising a Japanese character string correction unit for correcting a column. 4. The method according to claim 2, further comprising the steps of displaying a comparison result of the treatment relation information and correcting a Japanese character string. 5. An honorific conversion unit for converting a Japanese character string temporarily stored in the Japanese storage unit in accordance with the treatment relation information temporarily stored in the second treatment relation temporary storage unit. 1. The Japanese processing device according to 1. 6. The method according to claim 2, further comprising the step of converting an honorific expression of the input Japanese character string according to the input treatment relation information.