JPH0758490B2 - Document confirmation device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Outline] A document confirmation apparatus for confirming the structure of a manuscript, in which a manuscript is input, a certain item name is used as a starting point, and another item name having a term of this item name as an index word is extracted. By repeating the above process, it is possible to generate a system list of item names and to provide a means for facilitating confirmation of how to proceed with the explanation of the content of the manuscript and a means for comprehensively confirming the reference relationship between items. , Terms, and index terms are sequentially extracted from the manuscript in a readable form and stored in the physical sequence table, and the system list is created by extracting the item name that is the starting point of the system from the physical sequence table. Starting from the system list activation unit that activates the generation unit and the item name extracted by this system list activation unit, other item names that have the terms of this item name as index terms are repeatedly extracted, and the original And a system list generation unit that generates a system list of the item names of 1., and is configured to output the system list generated by the system list generation unit.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to a document confirmation device that confirms the structure of a document.

Here, the manuscript is a set of information, and is composed of many items. An item is a group of information, and the name of the item is called an item name. In general, other items are referred to in order to explain the contents of the items in detail. In this way, the reference relationship between items means how to proceed with the explanation, so the following promises occur.

(1) Do not refer to yourself indirectly.

(2) There is always a reference item.

(3) All items are indirectly referenced from the first item.

A means for confirming the reference relationship between items in the manuscript and confirming the method of proceeding with the explanation is required.

Note that, as a method of establishing a reference relationship between items, there are the following methods, for example. A keyword for searching an item in the manuscript is called an index word and will be added to the item. In the description of the item, the word indicating the reference destination is called a term so that it can be identified in the description. At this time, a reference relationship is established between the items by searching for another item having a term in the item description as an index term.

[Problems to be Solved by Conventional Techniques and Inventions]

Electronic manuals that display manuscripts on a computer generally have a large number of items, ranging from several thousand to about 10,000. Therefore, start the electronic manual to display each item one by one, and explain how to proceed and refer to it. It is difficult to manually confirm whether or not there is a problem. Therefore, it is desired to automatically extract these relationships.

The present invention takes a manuscript as an input, starts from a certain item name,
By repeating the extraction of other item names that have the term of this item name as an index word, a systematic list of item names is generated, and a reference relationship between the items and the means for facilitating confirmation of the manuscript description It is intended to provide a means for comprehensively checking.

[Means for solving the problem]

 FIG. 1 shows the principle configuration of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, the system information extraction unit 2 displays item names, terms,
From the manuscript in which the index words are written in a readable form, these item names,
The terms and index terms are extracted and stored in the physical order table 3.

The system list starting unit 6 extracts the item as the starting point of the system from the physical order table 3 and starts the system list generating unit 4.

The system list generation unit 4 extracts another item name having the term of the item name as an index word by using the physical order table 3 and the hierarchy table 5 with the item name extracted by the system list activation unit 6 as a starting point. This is repeated to generate a system list.

[Action]

In the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, the systematic information extraction unit 2 extracts these item names, terms, and index words from a manuscript in which the item names, terms, and index words are written in a readable form, and a physical order table is created. Three
The system list starting unit 6 extracts the item name that is the starting point of the system from the physical order table 3, and the system list generating unit 4 has this item name as the starting point and holds the term of the item name as an index word. Repeat the process of extracting other item names,
The system list of item names is created and output.

Therefore, it is possible to automatically generate a system list of item names from the manuscript and mark the problem of the reference relationship. By looking at this system list and the indication marks of problems with reference relations, you can easily correct that part of the manuscript, there are no mistakes in reference relations, and a good manuscript and electronic manual Can be created.

〔Example〕

Next, the configuration and operation of one embodiment of the present invention will be sequentially described in detail with reference to FIGS.

In FIG. 1, the manuscript is described so that the systematic list output device 1 can automatically extract the item names, terms, and index terms described in the manuscript (see FIG. 2). See below).

The system list output device (program) 1 extracts item names, terms, and index terms from an input manuscript, and outputs a system list of item names with a mark pointing out a problem of reference relation. .

The system list generation unit 4 generates a system list of item names starting from the item name extracted by the system list activation unit 6.

The system list activation unit 6 first activates the system list generation unit 4 starting from the first item name in the physical order table 3, and outputs a system list starting from the first item name.
Next, when an independent item is detected in the physical order table 3, the system list generation unit 4 is activated with the independent item as a starting point, and a system list with the independent item as a starting point is output. Here, an independent item is an item other than the first item in the physical order table 3, and is an item that is not referenced by any item.

The system list is output as a systematic diagram for item names by the route shown in Fig. 6 (a) (only the item name may be retrieved), or as a systematic diagram with indentation as shown in Fig. 6 (b). It was done.

FIG. 2 shows an example of the format of an electronic manual document. An electronic manual database is created by processing this manuscript with a computer, and the electronic manual search and display program is started to search and display the contents of this database. The manuscript has a structure as shown in FIG. 2 for each item.

An item identification section is provided above the items constituting this manuscript, and the "item name" is described in the 32-character area following the identifier "□". Here, the item name is the name of a group of information (referred to as an item) searched for in the electronic manual.

In addition, a display data section is provided in the center of the item, and an underline is used to specify a "term". Specifically, specify the character string between the control signal "underline start" and "underline end" (up to 32 characters, and if it exceeds 32 characters from the beginning to the 32nd character) as a term. ing.

In addition, a search data section is provided below the item, and "[index]"
In each line after the line starting with and until a blank line appears, the character string in the region of the first 32 characters is used as the index word.

Here, the index word is a keyword for a search in the electronic manual, and when the index word is entered in the input area of the screen displayed by the electronic manual, the item having the index word is searched and the display data section of the item is searched. Will be displayed on the screen. Also, if you move the cursor to a term displayed on the screen in the electronic manual and select it, this term is treated as if it was entered, and the display data section of the item that has that term as the index term is searched and displayed on the screen. Will be done.

By specifying the format to be described in the manuscript and creating the manuscript in accordance with the above, item names, terms,
Also, the index word can be easily taken out and stored in the physical order table 3.

First, the overall configuration will be described with reference to FIG.

In FIG. 3, the electronic manual original prepared according to the format shown in FIG. 2 is stored in a floppy disk, and the original is read from the floppy disk and input to the system list output device 1, whereby the system list is printed. If there is a problem in how to proceed with the explanation, or if there is a problem in the reference relationship between items, by looking at the system list, after correcting the manuscript of that part, let the computer process the manuscript. To create a database. Then, when the electronic manual is started, by pointing a term displayed on the screen with a cursor or the like, the display data part of the item having this term as an index term is retrieved from the database and displayed reliably ( For example, explanations of terms in some parts of the computer manual are displayed in more detail).

Hereinafter, when the manuscript of FIG. 4 is input to the first drawing system list output apparatus 1, the procedure for creating the sixth drawing system list is described in the fifth.
This will be specifically described with reference to FIGS.

First, a procedure for creating the physical order table 3 of FIG. 5 from the original document of FIG. 4 will be described. Here, the information type “i” represents an item name, “t” represents a term, and “x” represents an index word.

In FIG. 5, the serial number 1 of the information is that "A" following "□" (a symbol representing the item name) of the manuscript (1) in FIG. 4 is extracted and stored as the item name.

The serial numbers 2 and 3 are extracted and stored as underlined character strings "B1" and "B2".

The serial number 4 is one in which the character string "A" next to [Index] is extracted and stored as an index word.

Similarly, documents (2) to (5) are sequentially extracted and stored in the physical order table 3 as shown in the figure.

Second, from the information stored in the physical order table of FIG.
The procedure for creating the systematic diagram by the route of FIG. 6 (a) and the systematic diagram by the indentation of FIG. 6 (b) will be specifically described with reference to FIGS. 7 and 8. Here, the item name serial number column α, the term serial number column β, and the index word serial number column γ are serial numbers of the physical order table 3 when the item name, term, and index word are stored in the physical order table 3. Represents Further, or, they are associated with each other in FIG. 6 (a), FIG. 6 (b), FIG. 7 and FIG.

The system list activation unit 6 activates the system list generation unit 4 by designating the serial number “1” of the item name “A” at the head of the physical order table 3. As a result, the system list generation unit 4 generates a system starting from the item name "A" via the procedure from (a) in FIG. This procedure will be described below.

In FIG. 7, the item name “A” at the beginning (starting point) of the physical order table of FIG. 5 is taken out and the serial number “1” of this item is stored (see FIG. 6A). Then, the item name "A" is indented by one character as shown in FIG.

FIG. 7 searches for the first term “B1” of the item with the item name “A” in the physical order table of FIG. 5, and stores the serial number “2” in β (1). Then, use the same serial number “1” as this term “B1”.
It is found from 1 "and stored in γ (1). Furthermore, the item name having this index word" B1 ", that is, the serial number" 5 "of the item name" B11 "that was found first after this serial number" 11 "was found. "Is stored in α (2) (see FIG. 6 (a)), and this item name" B11 "is indented by two characters as shown in FIG. 6 (b) and output to the list. .

Fig. 7 looks for the first term "C1" in the item with the item name "B11" in the physical order table in Fig. 5, and changes its serial number "6" to β (2).
To store. Next, the same index word as the term "C1" is found from the serial number "19", and this is stored in γ (2). Furthermore,
Enter the serial number “18” of the item name “C1” that has this index word “C1” by α
It is stored in (3) (see FIG. 6 (a)). Then, as shown in FIG. 6B, the item name "C1" is divided into three characters,
Indent and output to the list.

In FIG. 7, since there is no term in the item of item name “C1” in the physical order table of FIG. 5, the same index word “C1” as the term of β (2) = 6 is added after γ (2) = 19. However, since this is not found, we have finished listing all items that have the term "C1" as an index term. Therefore, the term “C2” next to β (2) = 6 is searched for and the serial number “7” is stored in β (2). Next, since the same index word as the term "C2" cannot be found, the term "C2" is determined as "a term having no reference destination". This is output as a symbol "▼" in the list as shown in FIG.

In Fig. 7, since the term "C2" in the physical order table in Fig. 5 had no reference, the next term "A" was searched for, and the serial number "8" was found.
Is stored in β (2). Next, the same index word as the term "A" is found in the serial number "4", and this is stored in γ (2). Furthermore, the serial number “1” of the item name “A” having this index word “A” is α
Store in (3). However, since the same serial number “1” as α (3) = 1 is stored in the shallow α (1) = 1, the item name “A” is an item that indirectly refers to itself. It is determined that there is (see FIG. 6 (a)). This is output as a symbol “●” in the list as shown in FIG.

In Fig. 8, the item name "A" in the physical order table in Fig. 5 indirectly referred to itself, so the following term "B2"
, And stores the serial number “9” in β (2). Next, the same index word as the term "B2" is found in the serial number "17", and this is stored in γ (2). Further, the serial number “15” of the item name “B21” having this index word “B2” is stored in α (3). Then, the item name "B21" is changed to 3 as shown in FIG.
Indent the characters and output them to the list.

In Fig. 8, the item with the item name "B21" has no term,
And since there is no term next to β (2) = 9, β (1) = 2
The next index word "B1" (after γ (1) = 11) that is the same as the term "B1" is found at the serial number "14", and this is stored in γ (1). Serial number "12" of item name "B12" with this index word "B1"
Is stored in α (2). Then, the item name "B12" is indented by two characters as shown in FIG.

In Fig. 8, the item name of "B12" has no term, and β
(1) = 2 Because there is no other index word that is the same as the term "B1",
The term “B2” next to the item with the item name “A” is searched for, and this serial number “3” is stored in β (1). Next, the same index word as the term "B2" is found in the serial number "17", and this is stored in γ (1). Further, the serial number “15” of the item name “B21” having this index word “B2” is stored in α (2). And this item name "B
21 "is indented by 2 characters as shown in Fig. 6 (b) and output to the list.

In FIG. 8, the item name "B21" has no term, does not have the same index word as the term "B2", and has no term next to the item having the item name "A". Therefore, all items under the item name "A" of the starting point have been output as a list, and the generation of the system having the item name "A" as the starting point is completed.

Next, the system list starting unit 6 obtains an independent item from the information stored in the physical order table 3 of FIG. 5, specifies the serial number of the independent item, and starts the system list generating unit 4. As a result, the system list generation unit 4 generates a system starting from an independent item. This procedure will be specifically described. Here, an independent item is an item other than the first item in the physical order table 3, and is an item that is not referenced by any item.
That is, for all the index words of the item, the same term as the index word does not exist in the physical order table 3.

In FIG. 5, the item name "D" in the serial number "20" has index words "D" and "D1", but these do not appear as terms in the physical order table 3. Therefore, the system list starting unit 6
Determines that the item “D” is an independent item, specifies “20” as the serial number of the item name of the starting point, and activates the system list generation unit 4. After that, the same processing as in the case of creating the system list as the starting item name starting point of the physical order table 3 is performed, and the part from (6) of FIG. 6B is output. However, the independent item is attached with a symbol "■" and output to the list as shown in FIG.

The system list output device 1 stops because all the systems starting from the first item of the physical order table 3 and the systems starting from independent items have been generated and output to the list.

FIG. 6 shows an example of the system list of the example of the manuscript shown in FIG. Here, FIG. 6 (a) shows a system diagram by the route, and FIG. 6 (b) shows a system diagram by indentation. In the figure, or, each shows the processing in the same procedure.

7 to 9 show examples of hierarchical tables. This is the fourth
FIG. 5 shows the stored values at each stage of creating the systematic diagram (systematic list) of FIG. 6B by searching the physical order table of FIG.

Figure 10 shows a concrete example of the system list. In the figure, if the referenced item name cannot be found, this is indicated using the symbol "▼", and in the diagram, "There is no referenced item"
I am trying to insert the message. Also, the symbol "●" is used for items that refer to themselves indirectly.
Is used to express this fact, and a message "I also indirectly refer to myself" is inserted in the figure. Independent items are marked with the symbol "■". Further, regarding the document number and page including the item of the item name, and the item whose outline is described in the manuscript, the system information extracting unit 2 extracts the outline in the physical order table 3, and The list generator 4 outputs them together with the item names. When the symbol "▼", the symbol "●", and the symbol "■" are found in the system list in this way, this part is corrected. In addition, since the arrangement of item names and outlines in the system list expresses the structure of the manuscript,
Check this to see how to proceed, and if there is a problem, correct that part. By checking and correcting these, it becomes possible to efficiently create a high-quality electronic manual.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the present invention, a manuscript is input, a certain item name is used as a starting point, and another item name having a term of the item name as an index word is repeatedly extracted to obtain a system list of item names. Since the generated structure is adopted, it is possible to easily confirm the reference relation of the items by looking at the generated system list. If the symbol "▼" that indirectly refers to itself or the symbol "●" that there is no reference destination item is listed in the system list, correct this part, Also, if it is found that there is a problem in the arrangement of item names in the system list, that part can be corrected to efficiently create a high-quality electronic manual having a correct reference relationship.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the principle of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a format example of an electronic manual manuscript, FIG. 3 is an overall structure diagram of the present invention, FIG. 4 is a manuscript example, and FIG. 6 shows an example of the physical order table, FIG. 6 shows an example of a system list, FIGS. 7 to 9 show examples of a hierarchy table, and FIG. 10 shows a concrete example of a system list. In the figure, 1 is a system list output device, 2 is a system information extraction unit,
3 is a physical order table, 4 is a system list generation unit, 5 is a hierarchy table, and 6 is a system list activation unit.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A document confirmation device for confirming the structure of document data composed of a plurality of item names and a description of each item name, wherein the description of the document data is displayed on a display device, and the terms in the description are displayed. A means for designating, a means for searching whether or not the term of the designated description is the item name of the created document, and a list showing terms for which the description is not created, based on the search result. A document checking device comprising: a means for outputting. 2. A document confirmation device for confirming the structure of document data composed of a plurality of item names, a description of each item name, and a search word that is a related word of each item name, wherein the description of the document data is displayed. Means for displaying on the device and designating a term in the explanation sentence; means for searching whether the term of the designated explanation sentence is an index word of the created document; and a description based on the search result A document checking device comprising: a means for outputting a list showing terms for which sentences have not been created;