JPH03211659A - Document preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To arbitrarily and preferentially output a specified word and to improve efficiency in the preparation of a document by freely changing a long term learning frequency. CONSTITUTION:When read information is inputted through a keyboard 16 and a frequency information display instruction key is operated, CPU 11 reads and displays all the words corresponding to input read information and frequency information from the long term learning dictionary 31 of a dictionary area 15. When arbitrary frequency information is inputted by the operation of a numerical key after frequency information to be changed on a display screen is selected by a cursor, CPU 11 changes frequency information on the display screen in correspondence with input frequency information and rewrites the content of the long term learning dictionary 31. Even if the frequency of the desired word is low in frequency information till previous time, for example, the word can immediately and preferentially by outputted. Then, frequency information in the long term learning dictionary 31 can be inspected and it can be adjusted to an appropriate value.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a document creation device having a long-term word learning function.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, in a document creation device, for example, when performing homophone conversion in kana-kanji conversion, among a plurality of words with the same reading, words can be referred to in order of frequency of use. This is achieved by using a dictionary that stores a plurality of words with the same reading and frequency information for each word, and sequentially reading words corresponding to the input reading information from this dictionary according to the frequency information.

By the way, in a document creation device that uses such a dictionary, if the frequency information of words is fixed, even if the word is particularly used by the user, if the frequency information of that word is low, it may not appear immediately. This may cause problems such as not being able to move. Therefore, a learning function is generally used that updates frequency information of the selected word each time the user selects one of a plurality of words with the same pronunciation. This allows the dictionary to have a word appearance frequency structure tailored to the user.

This learning function includes long-term learning and short-term learning.

In long-term learning, unless there is a specific instruction, frequency information is updated according to the frequency of word appearance. On the other hand, in short-term learning,
For example, the frequency information is initialized each time the power is turned on or each document. Here, we introduce a document creation device with long-term learning function,
I will explain about it.

In a conventional document creation device equipped with a long-term learning function, when a certain word is selected during homophone conversion, the frequency information of that word is unconditionally updated by +1. For this reason, when it is desired to preferentially output a word with a low frequency based on the previous frequency information, the priority order cannot be changed unless a considerable number of words are used. Also, for example, if the same word is used many times in the same document, the frequency information of that word will be significantly higher than the frequency information of other words.
There was a problem that the priority of that word was always fixed at the first place.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) As described above, in conventional long-term learning, it has not been possible to arbitrarily prioritize output of specific words. Furthermore, if a certain word is used too frequently, the frequency information for that word becomes extremely high, causing problems such as a lack of validity in the priority order of homophones.

The present invention was made in view of the above points, and in long-term learning of a word dictionary, by freely changing word frequency information, specific words can be given priority output as desired, and it is also flexible. An object of the present invention is to provide a document creation device having a long-term learning function that can give validity to the priority order of homophones by updating the priority order with a certain frequency.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) That is, the present invention has a storage means that stores a plurality of words for the same pronunciation and frequency information of each word, and stores frequency information according to the appearance frequency of the word. In a document creation device equipped with a long-term learning function for updating information, all words corresponding to the input reading information and their frequency information are read out from the storage means and displayed, and the frequency information of the displayed words is changed. ,
It is provided with a frequency change processing function for rewriting the contents of the storage means according to the contents of the change.

The present invention also provides a document creation device having a long-term learning function, which counts the number of times the word is selected when a word is read out from the storage means according to the frequency information, and the number of times the word is selected reaches a predetermined number. The device is equipped with a frequency update processing function that updates the frequency information of the selected word when the frequency reaches a predetermined number, or when a predetermined number is reached before the word is selected a predetermined number of times.

(Function) According to the above configuration, the frequency change processing function allows a specific word to be outputted immediately with priority. Furthermore, the frequency update processing function makes it possible to give validity to the priority order of homophones.

(Embodiment) Hereinafter, a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the configuration of the document creation device according to the same embodiment. In the figure, 11 is a microprocessor (CP
U), 12 is a memory accessed by the microprocessor 11. Microprocessor (hereinafter referred to as CP)
11 (referred to as U) controls the entire device;
By accessing the memory 12 and starting a program according to input instructions, document creation processing, long-term learning processing, etc. are executed.

The memory 12 includes a program area 13 in which various processing programs that determine the operation of the CPU II are stored.
A character pattern area 14 in which font data is stored, a dictionary area 15 in which various dictionaries for converting readings input in kana or Roman characters into kanji are registered are provided.

Here, in the same embodiment, the dictionary area 15 of the memory 12
A long-term learning dictionary 31 as shown in FIG. 3 is stored therein. This long-term learning dictionary 31 has a word appearance frequency structure due to the long-term learning function, and the dictionary 31 contains a plurality of words with the same reading and the number of times each word has been used up to now. In other words, the frequency information is stored in association with each other.

In addition, 6 is a keyboard (KB), 17 is a keyboard interface (KB-IF), 18 is a display, 1
9 is a display controller (display-CNT), 20 is a display dot memory, and 21 is a floppy disk device (FD).
D) 22 is the FDD interface (FDD-I
F), 23 is a printer device (PRT), and 24 is a printer interface (PRT-IF).

The keyboard (KB) 1B outputs input information necessary for document creation etc. to the CPU II via the keyboard interface (KB-IF) 17.

This keyboard 16 includes "character" keys, "numeric" keys, "symbol" keys, "cursor" keys, etc., as well as "frequency information display instructions" used when changing frequency information, which will be described later.
In addition to the keys, the "
Various function keys are provided, including a "Select/Execute" key, a "Delete" key, and an "Insert J key" used for document creation, editing, proofreading, etc.

The display device 18 is composed of, for example, a 10-line liquid crystal display, and the bottom line (10th line) is set as an area exclusively for guide display (guide line). Display-CNT19 is C
Under the control of the PUII, the display of the display 18 is controlled using the display dot memory 20.

The floppy disk device (FDD) 21 is a CPU II
The FDD interface (FDD-I
F) Save the created document or add external characters (
It stores characters, symbols, marks, etc. other than JIS 1st level characters and 2nd level characters), 2nd level characters, etc.

The printer device (PRT) 23 prints documents stored in the document area in the memory 1 or from the floppy disk device (FDD) 21 through the printer interface (PRT-IF) 24 under the control of the CPU II. It executes print processing such as printing document information read into the computer and stored in the document area onto paper, transporting the paper, etc.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained.

The document creation device of the present invention includes a frequency change processing function and a frequency update processing function. Here, the operation of each function will be explained.

(1) Long-term learning frequency change processing operation First, the opening degree change processing operation will be explained with reference to FIGS. 1 and 4. As shown in the flowchart of Figure 1, K
Step A1): Enter the reading information through B1B.
Subsequently, the user operates a "frequency information display instruction" key (not shown) on the KBIB (step A2). This allows the CPUI
Step A is to read all words and their frequency information according to the input reading information from the long-term learning dictionary 31.
3. This is displayed as shown in FIG. 4(a) (step A4). In the example of FIG. 4(a), six words such as "specification" and "use" are displayed in order of degree of pronunciation for the pronunciation information "shou". At present, for example,
The frequency information for "Specification" is "3o" and the frequency information for "Usage J" is "2.
o".

Here, when changing the opening degree (step A5), after selecting the frequency information to be changed on the display screen with the cursor (step A6), select the desired frequency information by operating the "numeric" key (not shown) on the KBlB. (for example, one of the information 0 to 1000) is input (step A7). As a result, C.P.
The UII changes the frequency information on the display screen and rewrites the contents of the long-term learning dictionary 31 according to the input frequency information (step A8).

Through such frequency change processing, if, for example, the frequency information "3o" of "Specifications" is selected on the display screen of FIG. 4(a) and the frequency information "2o" is input, the frequency information shown in FIG. The content of the long-term learning dictionary 31 is rewritten according to the input frequency information at this time. Also, in this example,
Through similar processing, the frequency information of "use" is changed from "20" to "30".

In this way, the long-term learning frequency can be changed arbitrarily. Therefore, for example, even if the frequency of a desired word is low based on previous frequency information, that word can be immediately output with priority. It is also possible to check the frequency information in the long-term learning dictionary 31 and adjust it to an appropriate value.

Furthermore, by changing the frequency information to "0", processing can be added to stop the output of that word.

(2) Regarding the long-term learning frequency update process operation method, the frequency change process operation will be explained with reference to FIGS. 5 to 7. Conventionally, each time a word was selected, the frequency information of that word was unconditionally updated by "+1", so if a certain word was used frequently, the frequency information of that word was changed to "+1". There was a problem where the frequency was significantly higher than the frequency information. In order to solve this problem, the present invention is characterized in that frequency information is updated differently from the conventional method.

That is, as shown in the flowchart of FIG.
When reading information is input through IB (step Bl),
The CPUIL reads words corresponding to the input reading information from the long-term learning dictionary 31 according to the frequency information (step B2). Here, if a certain word is selected from among the words read out sequentially according to the frequency information (step B3)
, CPU II counts the number of times the selected word has been selected (step B4), and determines whether the number of selections has reached N times (for example, two times) (step B5). Then, when the number of selections reaches N times,
The CPU 11 updates the frequency information of the same word in the long-term learning dictionary 31 to r+MJ (for example, r+lJ), and initializes the number of selections (count value) of the same word (step B6).

In this way, when the same word is selected twice in the selection of homophones, the frequency information of that word is updated by "+1". Therefore, by using such an updating method, even if a certain specific word is used many times, it is possible to prevent the frequency information of the same word from becoming extremely high.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining another update processing operation. That is, the CPU II reads the word corresponding to the input reading information from the long-term learning dictionary 31 according to the frequency information, and counts the number of times the same word is selected (steps 01 to C4). Here, the CPU II is executed T times (for example, 5
Step C5) Check the word selection contents up to the previous step.
It is determined whether the number of selections has reached N times (for example, 2 times) during these T times (step C6). Then, when the number of selections reaches N times, the CPU II updates the frequency information of the same word in the long-term learning dictionary 31 by "10M" (for example, r+3J), and also updates the number of selections (count value) of the same word. Initialize (step C7).

In this way, when selecting a homophone, for example, if the same word is selected twice during the previous word conversion operation five times, the frequency information of that word will be updated by +3J. will be explained in detail with reference to Fig. 7. As shown in Fig. 7, if we now select the word ``spec'' as a homophone for the pronunciation of ``sho'', then This means that the word "specifications" has been selected twice during the previous five word selection operations including the word selection operation. Therefore, at this time, the frequency information of "Specification" is "+
3” will be updated.

In other words, this frequency updating method updates frequency information according to the probability of word appearance (here,
``+3'' update with a probability of 215).

Even when such an updating method is used, it is possible to prevent the frequency information of frequently used words from increasing excessively, as in the case of FIG. 5.

Note that when updating frequency information as shown in Figures 5 and 6, the user shall specify the update method in advance; if this is not specified, the update will be performed as usual. (a method of updating frequency information by "+1" for each word selection).

Further, for example, when the frequency information increases to a certain number during document creation, processing such as stopping updating of that word can be added.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, the long-term learning frequency can be freely changed. Therefore, specific words can be outputted with priority as desired, thereby increasing document creation efficiency.

In addition, the flexible frequency of updating makes it possible to give validity to the priority order of homophones. Therefore, when selecting homophones, words can always be output in an appropriate priority order.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart for explaining the long-term learning frequency change processing operation according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the document creation device of the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the display screen during the above change processing operation; FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining the long-term learning frequency update processing operation of the present invention; FIG. The figure is a flowchart for explaining the operation of updating the long-term learning frequency according to another embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen during the update processing operation of FIG. 6. 11... Microprocessor (CPU) 12...
・Memory, 13...Program area, 14...Character pattern area, 15...Dictionary area, ■6...Keyboard (KB), I7...Keyboard interface (KB-IF), ■8・... Display unit, 19 ... Display controller (display-CNT) 20 ... Display dot memory, 21 ... Floppy disk device (FD
D) 22...Disk interface (F
DD-IF) 23... Printer (PRT), 24...
・Printer interface (PRT-IF), 3
1...Long-term learning dictionary.

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) In a document creation device that has a storage means that stores a plurality of words corresponding to the same pronunciation and frequency information of each word, and is equipped with a long-term learning function that updates the frequency information according to the frequency of appearance of the word, an input pronunciation is provided. a display means for reading out and displaying all the words and their frequency information corresponding to the information from the storage means; a changing means for changing the frequency information of the words displayed by the display means; and according to the change content of the changing means. and rewriting means for rewriting the contents of the storage means. (2) In a document creation device that has a storage means that stores a plurality of words corresponding to the same pronunciation and frequency information of each of the words, and is equipped with a long-term learning function that updates the frequency information according to the frequency of appearance of the word, the input pronunciation is reading means for reading words corresponding to information from the storage means according to frequency information; selection means for selecting words read from the reading means; and counting means for counting the number of times a word selected by the selection means has been selected. and updating means for updating frequency information of the word selected by the selecting means when the number of selections obtained by the counting means reaches a predetermined plurality of values. (3) In a document creation device that has a storage means that stores a plurality of words corresponding to the same pronunciation and frequency information of each word, and is equipped with a long-term learning function that updates the frequency information according to the frequency of appearance of the word, the input pronunciation is reading means for reading words corresponding to information from the storage means according to frequency information; selection means for selecting words read from the reading means; and counting means for counting the number of times a word selected by the selection means has been selected. and updating means for updating the frequency information of the word selected by the selection means when the number of selections obtained by the counting means reaches a predetermined number before the word is selected a predetermined number of times. Characteristic document creation device.