JPH0314037A - State transition table generating device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable a person to recognize the action of a system by displaying a processing contents display statement corresponding to a keyword in a form of state transition to enable the person to understand processing contents at sight of a generated state transition table. CONSTITUTION:This device consists of a keyword input means 101 for keyword input, a storage means 105 of statements corresponding to keywords where processing contents display statements corresponding to keywords are stored, a candidate statement selecting means 102 which selects candidates of processing contents display statements corresponding to the keyword, a candidate statement counting means 103 which counts candidate statements, and a display means 107. Thus, the state transition table is generated which the person recognizes processing contents at sight of.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to an apparatus for creating a state transition table for a system that performs control based on the state transition table.

(Prior art) In systems that perform control based on user input, a method is used in which a state transition table is created in advance that associates user input with state transitions, and control is performed based on that table. However, the state transition table at that time has conventionally been created using a device as shown in FIG. 60
1 is a keyboard for inputting characters, ruled lines, etc., 60
2 is a state transition table storage means for storing the state transition table input from the keyboard 601; 603 is a display means for displaying the contents of the state transition table storage means 602; FIG. 7 shows an example of a state transition table created by the state transition table creation device shown in FIG. In this figure, state 1 is the state before input,
Processing is the process that the system performs when there is an input, state 2
is the transition state after the system has processed it.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) In the state transition diagram of FIG. 7, the name of the function to be executed is written as is in the process column. In the example of FIG. 7, it is Copy. However, if the process column of the state transition table is described using function names, even if a human looks at the state transition table, it is not immediately clear how the system performs the process based on the state transition table. In this example, the problem was that I had no idea what to copy and where.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems and provide a state transition table creation device that creates a state transition table that allows humans to see and understand processing contents.

(Means for Solving the Problems) A state transition table creation device of the present invention is a state transition table creation device that creates a state transition table from a keyword input by a user, and includes a keyword input means for inputting the keyword;
keyword-corresponding sentence storage means for storing a processing content display sentence corresponding to the keyword; and candidate sentence selection means for selecting a candidate for the processing content display sentence corresponding to the keyword by referring to the keyword-corresponding sentence storage means. The present invention is characterized by comprising: a candidate sentence counting means for counting the candidate sentences; a state transition table storage means for storing the candidate sentences in the form of a state transition table; and a display means.

(Operation) The present invention will be explained in detail using FIGS. 3, 4, and 5. FIG. 3 is an example of a state transition table created using the state transition table creation device of the present invention. When entering the processing column in the table creation form, use the keyword ``copy'', for example.
If you input this and then support the selection of the processing content display statement, the text will be converted to the text ``Copy selected character string to buffer'' as shown in the process column of Figure 3. If the processing content display sentence corresponding to the keyword input by the user is not found in the keyword corresponding sentence storage means, a message indicating that there is no corresponding sentence is displayed on the display means, as shown in FIG. . Further, when there are a plurality of candidate processing content display sentences, as shown in FIG. 5, the candidate sentences are displayed on the display means, and the user selects an appropriate one from among them.

(Embodiment) FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. 1
01 is a keyword input means for inputting a keyword input by the user, and can be realized using keywords or the like. Candidate sentence selection means 102 selects candidates for processing content display sentences corresponding to the keyword input by the user, candidate sentence counting means 103 counts the number of processing content display sentences corresponding to the keyword, and candidate sentence selection means 102 , candidate sentence selection means 103 can both be realized using a microprocessor or the like. 104 is a state transition notation means for storing a state transition table, which can be realized using a semiconductor memory, a disk, or the like. Reference numeral 105 denotes a keyword-corresponding sentence storage means that stores processing content display sentences corresponding to keywords, and can be realized using a semiconductor memory, a disk, or the like. Reference numeral 106 denotes a message creation means for creating a message to be displayed to the user when the number of candidate sentences is not one, and can be realized using a microprocessor or the like. 107 is a candidate sentence,
It is a display means for displaying a state transition table message and is
This can be realized using a T-display, liquid crystal display, plasma display, etc.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure for creating a state transition table using the state transition table creation device configured as shown in FIG. First, the user enters keyword input means 1
A keyword is input using 01 (201). Next, the candidate sentence selection means 102 selects the keyword corresponding sentence storage means 105.
With reference to the contents of , a candidate for a processing content display sentence corresponding to the keyword input by the user is searched (202). Next, candidate sentence counting means 103 counts candidate sentences (203).

If the number of candidate sentences is 0 (204), the message creation means 106 generates a message indicating that the number of candidate sentences is 0.
is created, evaluated, and displayed on the means 107 (206). In this case, the user enters another keyword. When the number of candidate sentences is not O (204), if there are two or more candidate sentences (205), a message indicating that there are multiple candidate sentences is created by the message creation means 106 and displayed on the display means 107. Display (207). In this case, the user selects an appropriate one from among the plurality of candidates (208), and the selected one is entered in the state transition table storage means 104 (209). If the number of candidate sentences is not 2 or more (205
), since there is only one candidate sentence, it is entered in the state transition table storage means 104 (209).

(Effects of the Invention) By using the state transition table creation device of the present invention, the created state transition table allows a human to understand the processing contents just by looking at it, and the behavior of the system that operates based on the state transition table. becomes easier for humans to understand. Also,
Creating a state transition table is easy because a sentence indicating the processing content is displayed just by entering a keyword.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart of processing when creating a state transition table using the device configured as shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the invention. Figure 4 shows the message when there is no processing content display text corresponding to the keyword input by the user, and Figure 5 shows the processing content corresponding to the keyword input by the user. Message when there are multiple display sentence candidates. Figure 6 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a conventional state transition table creation device. Figure 7 is a diagram of a state transition table created using the conventional state transition table creation device. It is a figure which shows an example. In the figure, 101...keyword input means, 102
... Candidate sentence selection means, 103... Candidate sentence counting means,
104... State transition table storage means, 105... Keyword correspondence sentence storage means, 106... Message creation means, 107... Display means, 201-209... Flowchart of processing of the apparatus of the present invention. be.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A state transition table creation device that creates a state transition table from a keyword input by a user, comprising a keyword input means for inputting the keyword, and a keyword correspondence sentence storage means for storing a processing content display sentence corresponding to the keyword. a candidate sentence selection means for selecting candidates for the processing content display sentence corresponding to the keyword by referring to the keyword corresponding sentence storage means; and a candidate sentence counting means for counting the candidate sentences.
A state transition table creation device comprising: message creation means for creating a message according to the number of candidate sentences; state transition table storage means for storing the candidate sentences in a state transition format; and display means. .