JPH0385672A - Retrieval replacing device with function for analyzing attribute - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] 1 (a) Industrial Application Field This invention is mainly used in information processing devices such as Japanese word processors, and searches for desired data from input data and converts it into a desired form. This invention relates to a search and replace device for replacing data with other data.

(b) Conventional technology Information processing devices such as Japanese word processors are generally equipped with various editing functions, one of which is to search for desired data from input data and edit it. There is a search and replace function that allows you to replace data with other desired data.

Among the above-mentioned information processing devices, a group of devices necessary to achieve such a search and replace function will be described here as a search and replace device.

In a conventional search and replace device, for example, if it is used in a Japanese word processor, the first
As shown in the input screen examples in Figures 0 and 11, the system searches for specified character strings in the input document and sequentially converts them into character strings that should be unconditionally replaced.
Each time when searching for that string, either by bracket replacement processing or
Search and replace processing was performed by sequential replacement processing, in which instructions were given to the user and the characters were converted into a replacement character string.

(C) Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, when the above-mentioned batch replacement process is performed in a conventional search and replace device, for example, it is necessary to modify "cry" in "dog cries" to "bark". If you simply convert "cry" to "squeal" when someone is born
If the sentence exists, that sentence will also be converted to ``A person cries.'' Similarly, when it becomes necessary to change the word ``bark'' in ``a person barks'' to ``cry,'' simply converting ``bark'' to ``cry'' results in ``a dog barking.''
If such a sentence exists, there will be an inconvenience that that sentence will also be converted to ``The dog cries.''

As described above, simply specifying "crying", "screaming", etc. may impair the reliability of text editing and creation.

In addition, as with the sequential replacement process described above, if you check the user or the conversion target each time and give instructions, it is possible to prevent erroneous conversion (it is possible, but it takes a lot of time). There is a problem with that.

This invention was made in consideration of such circumstances, and for each word, its attributes are set, for example, "dog", "cat", etc.
, if there is a word such as "cow", °°animal", or "person",
Whether words such as "adult" or "child" should be registered in the kana-kanji conversion dictionary, such as "person," and the search target character should be replaced depending on the attribute of the subject of the search target character. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a search and replace device with an attribute analysis function, which is capable of determining.

(d) Means to solve the problem FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the present invention.

As shown in the figure, the present invention includes a dictionary means 101 that stores a large number of words including kanji along with their pronunciation information, and further stores attributes for each word, inputs various document information,
An input means 102 for inputting search characters and replacement characters and specifying attributes; a storage means 103 for storing document information input from the input means 102; and a document information stored in the storage means 103. a search means 104 that searches for search characters input from the input means +02; and a search means 1;
Determining means 10 analyzes a sentence containing the character searched by 04 to find the subject of the character, and determines the attribute of the subject based on the dictionary means 101.
5, and replacement means 10B for replacing the searched character with a replacement character input from the input means 102 when the attribute determined by the determination means 105 matches the attribute specified by the input means +02. This is a search and replace device with an attribute analysis function.

Incidentally, as the dictionary means +01 in this invention, a kana-kanji conversion dictionary is used in which attribute information is added to each word of a conventionally known kana-kanji conversion dictionary.

This dictionary means +01 usually includes core memory,
An internal memory such as an IC memory and an external storage device such as a floppy disk device or a magnetic disk device are used.

In addition, the input means 102 may be any device that can input various document information, input characters to be searched or replaced, and specify attributes, such as a keyboard device, a tablet device, an OCR device, etc. device, magnetic tape device, etc. are used.

Furthermore, the search means 104, the determination means 105, and the replacement means 106 generally include a CPU, ROM, RAM,
It is convenient to use a microcomputer consisting of an I10 board, and a RAM therein is usually used as the storage means IO3.

(e) Operation As shown in FIG. 1, according to the present invention, the dictionary means 10
1, an attribute is stored for each word stored in the storage unit 103. When a search and replacement process is performed, the search unit 104 first selects a search character from among the document information stored in the storage unit 103. is searched, and then the determining means 105 analyzes the sentence containing the retrieved character to determine the subject of the character, and determines the attribute of the subject based on the dictionary means +01.

Then, when the determined attribute matches the attribute input from the input means 102, the replacement means 106 replaces the searched character with the replacement character.

Therefore, if the attribute of the subject of the search target character to be searched is different from the specified attribute, the replacement process will not be performed, so the replacement process will not be performed in the wrong form for the subject, improving the reliability of the document. do.

(f) Examples Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on examples shown in the drawings. Note that this invention is not limited to this.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an implementation configuration in which the present invention is applied to a Japanese word processor.

In this figure, ■It is a keyboard equipped with ephemeral keys, function keys, etc., and inputs information to the control unit 2 to specify document reading information in kana, search character and replacement character reading information, and attributes to be described later. do.

The control unit 2 is composed of a microcomputer, and the RO
According to the control program written in the program memory 3 consisting of M, various data processing is performed.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a kana-kanji conversion dictionary consisting of a floppy disk device for converting kana character strings input from the keyboard 1 into kanji, and stores a large number of words including kanji along with their reading information. The Kana-Kanji conversion dictionary section 4 also
As will be described later, attributes for each word are stored.

5 is a CRT display or LC (liquid crystal) display,
Alternatively, it is a display device such as an EL display.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a RAM, which includes an input data buffer 7 that stores text data converted into kana-kanji, an attribute data buffer 8 that stores attribute data input from the keyboard I, and a search data 8 that stores search characters. A buffer 9 and a replacement data buffer 10 for storing replacement characters are respectively set.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing the attribute system, and each word registered in the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 4 is classified based on the system shown in the figure.

In other words, the major categories are nature, culture, etc., and the intermediate categories are, for example, if the major category is nature, then astronomy, topography, plants, etc., and if the major category is culture, etc. If there is, it is classified into social studies, academics, etc.

In addition, the items of the middle classification are further divided into small classifications, for example, if the middle classification is academic arts, the items are classified into literature, music, art, etc. as small classifications.

The numbers in parentheses "()" attached to each classification item are classification codes to indicate the attributes of each word.The numbers attached to major categories are the code of the first digit, and the numbers attached to medium categories are the code of the first digit. digit code, and for subcategory numbers, the code of the first successive digits,
each represents.

Following this example, "dog", "cat", "fish", "cow"...
The word "・" has the attribute of "animal", and the words "person", "adult", "child", "man", "woman", etc. have the attribute of "person".

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of attributes registered in the Hakana-Kanji Conversion Dictionary 4. As shown above, for each word in the Kana-Kanji Conversion Dictionary 4, the classification code indicating the attribute of each word is registered as a code.

For example, in the case of "cow" shown in Figure 3, natural (0)
, animal (3), the first code is "0", the next code is "3", and the attribute code is "03...". In addition, in the case of "trumpet", since the attributes are culture (1), arts (I), and music (1), the attribute codes are "III..." from the beginning.

FIGS. 5 to 8 are explanatory diagrams showing examples of input screens of the display device 5 when search and replacement is executed.

The control unit 2 converts various document information input from the keyboard into kana-kanji using the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 4, and then
The input data is stored in the vanofer 7.

The program memory 3 stores an input screen as shown in FIG.
When there is a search/replace instruction from the keyboard 1 while the text is stored in the memory, the input screen shown in FIG. indicate.

After displaying such a screen, if an attribute is specified from the keyboard l, the control unit 2 converts the specified attribute into an attribute code and stores it in the attribute data buffer 8, and also converts the specified attribute into an attribute code and stores it in the attribute data buffer 8. As shown in Figure 6, the specified attribute is displayed in the attribute item column of the input screen. What is shown in FIG. 6 is a display example when the attribute is specified as, for example, "person."

You can specify such an item by setting it on the funx key on the keyboard l, or move the cursor 11 as shown in Fig. 5 to the attribute item position and directly from the keyboard l. You may input "Hito" and convert it to kanji.

Furthermore, when a search character is input from the keyboard 1, the control unit 2 stores the input search character in the search data buffer 9, and as shown in FIG.
The entered search characters are displayed in the search character field on the IrinoJ screen. What is shown in FIG. 7 is an example of a display when the search character is inputted as, for example, "squeal".

Further, when a replacement character is input from the keyboard 1, the control unit 2 stores the input replacement character in the replacement data buffer 10, and as shown in FIG. Displayed in the replacement character field on the input screen. In the example shown in FIG. 8, the replacement character is, for example, “
This is an example of the display when "crying" is input.

After inputting such conditions, when a start of processing is instructed from the keyboard 1, the control unit 2 first searches the character string specified by the search character, for example, if it is a predicate (a word with a conjugated form). If so, the specified range is searched from among the sentences stored in the input data buffer 7, including the inflected forms. For example, in the case of the above-mentioned "squeal", searches may be made such as "no cries,""cries,""cries," and so on. To find out how to use ``naku'', refer to part-of-speech information (see FIG. 4) registered for each word in the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 4.

Note that if the character string specified by the search character, that is, the word, is not registered in the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 4, the processing of the inflected form is not performed.

If the corresponding search string is found, morphological analysis, syntactic analysis, etc. are performed on the sentence containing the search string.
The subject of the search string is determined. Note that this morphological analysis, syntactic analysis, etc. are performed using conventionally known text analysis methods.

Next, analyze and determine where the subject falls in the classification system diagram shown in Figure 3, and if the result matches the attribute code specified in the attribute item column, the search string Replace a column with a replacement string. Of course, in this case, if the search character string has changed to past tense, etc., it is converted accordingly and then replaced.

In addition, if no attributes are specified, Figures 10 and 11
Perform conventional search and replace processing as shown in the figure.

Furthermore, if the process is executed without a replacement character being input, only the search process is performed, and in that case, the search mode item is not displayed in the input screen examples shown in FIGS. 5 to 8.

Next, the contents of the processing operation of the control section 2 will be explained according to the flowchart shown in FIG. 9.

First, when executing the search/replace process, a search/replace input screen is displayed based on instructions from the keyboard 1, and then the search/replacement screen is displayed, which allows you to specify attributes and enter search and replacement characters.
Parameters for replacement are set (step 21)
.

Thereafter, it is checked whether the search data, that is, the search character, is a predicate (step 22), and if it is a predicate, a usage pattern is set (step 23).

Next, it is checked whether the replacement data, that is, the replacement character, is a predicate (step 24), and if it is a predicate, it is further checked to see if the search data and replacement data match. (Step 25), if the parts of speech match (i), match the usage patterns of the search data and replacement data (Step 26), and search for the sentence mid-up search data pattern stored in the input data banofer 7 (Step 27). ).

If the search data is not a predicate in step 22, if the replacement data is not a predicate in step 24, and if the parts of speech of the search data and replacement data do not match in step 25, the process advances to step 27.

Next, check whether there is a search pattern (Step 2)
8) If there is a search pattern, check whether attributes have been set (step 2), and if attributes have been set, search for the sentence with the search pattern, that is, the search pattern. The included sentences are analyzed syntactically and morphologically (step 30), and the subject of the search pattern is determined (step 31).

After determining the subject, the set attributes and
It is checked whether the attributes of the subject match (step 32), and only if they match, the searched data is replaced with replacement data (step 33), and the search in step 27 is performed again.

If no attributes have been set in step 2, the process advances to step 33. Further, in step 32, if the set attribute and the subject attribute do not match, the replacement process in step 33 is not performed, and step 27
Return to

Then, in step 28, if there is no search pattern, the search and replacement process ends.

In this way, the attributes of each word are registered in the Kana-Kanji conversion dictionary 4, and the replacement process is performed only when the attribute of the subject of the search word matches the specified attribute. It is possible to prevent replacement processing in an incorrect format, and to create accurate sentences without grammatical errors.

(G) Effects of the Invention According to this invention, the attributes of each word are stored in advance in the dictionary means, and when a search character is replaced with a replacement character, the attribute of the subject of the search character is the attribute specified by the input means. Since the search character is replaced with the replacement character only when it matches, it is possible to create accurate sentences without grammatical errors without having to check the search character each time during the search and replace process. It becomes possible to edit.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a Japanese word processor, FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing the attribute system, and FIG. Figure 9 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of attributes registered in the ephemeral kanji conversion dictionary, Figures 5 to 8 are explanatory diagrams showing an example of the input screen when search and replace processing is executed, and Figure 9 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the input screen when the search and replace process is executed. A flowchart showing the operation, FIG. 1O and FIG. 11 are explanatory diagrams showing an example of an input screen when conventional search and replace processing is executed. 1...Keyboard, 2...Control unit, 3...
Program memory, 4: Kana-Kanji conversion dictionary, 5: Display device, 6: RAM, 7: Input data buffer, 8: Attribute data Buffer, 9... Search data buffer, 10... Replacement data buffer, 11... Cursor. Figure 5 Chikuzu Figure 10 Figure 11 Figure 9 Figure 9

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Dictionary means that stores a large number of words including kanji along with their pronunciation information and further stores attributes for each word;
An input means for inputting various document information, inputting search characters, replacement characters, and specifying attributes; a storage means for storing document information inputted from the input means; and document information stored in the storage means. a search means for searching for a search character inputted from an input means; a subject for the character by analyzing a sentence containing the character searched by the search means; and an attribute of the subject based on a dictionary means. and a replacement means for replacing the searched character with a replacement character input from the input means when the attribute determined by the determination means matches the attribute specified by the input means. Search and replace device with attribute analysis function.