JPH0512247A - Document preparation device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Object] An object of the present invention is to provide a document creation apparatus capable of automatically generating Katakana candidates for reading without using a memory area holding homophones. According to the present invention, in a document creation apparatus having a function of converting the reading into a kanji-kana mixed sentence by searching a dictionary by using the input reading information as a key and obtaining kanji as a conversion candidate, On the other hand, attribute information designating whether or not to convert to katakana is registered in the dictionary, and the corresponding attribute information in the dictionary corresponding to the input reading is searched to convert the reading to katakana. Judgment means (corresponding to the kana-kanji conversion processing device 2) for deciding whether or not to perform, and when it is judged by this judgment means that the input reading is converted to katakana, a katakana candidate corresponding to the reading is generated. And a conversion means (corresponding to the kana-kanji conversion processing device 2).

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a Japanese document creating apparatus having a kana-kanji conversion processing function, and more particularly to automatic generation of katakana for input reading.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to input katakana with this type of document creation device, the device is entered in katakana mode, or katakana for reading is registered as a homophone in a kana-kanji conversion dictionary, and a conversion instruction is given. At that time, there is a method of inputting by requesting a katakana candidate or a method of automatically generating a katakana candidate unconditionally when the reading is input.

However, in the method of registering katakana in the kana-kanji conversion dictionary described above, it takes time and time to select a katakana candidate to be registered, so that it is not possible to follow the ever-changing requirements of katakana terms, and moreover, the kana-kanji character Since there is a restriction on the memory area of the conversion dictionary, there is a drawback that it is not possible to supply satisfactory Katakana candidates. In addition, there is a drawback that the operation is troublesome because the Katakana candidate request instruction has to be issued each time it is necessary.

Further, in the case where the Katakana candidates are unconditionally automatically generated and the batch selection method is adopted,
There are drawbacks that overflow easily occurs in the memory area holding the same phoneme and unnecessary katakana candidates exist, which makes the next candidate selection operation troublesome. In addition, when inputting in the device in Katakana mode, the mode must be switched each time, and there is a drawback that the operation is similarly troublesome.

[0005]

As described above, in the conventional document creating apparatus, in the method of unconditionally automatically generating katakana candidates and inputting them into the document, an overflow occurs in the memory area holding the homophones. However, there are drawbacks that the next candidate selection operation becomes troublesome because there are unnecessary katakana candidates.

Therefore, the present invention eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks, and provides a document creation apparatus capable of automatically generating Katakana candidates for reading without using a memory area holding homophones. Has a purpose.

[0007]

According to the present invention, attribute information designating whether or not to convert input reading information into katakana is registered in a dictionary, and the corresponding reading information corresponding to the input reading information is registered. Find the corresponding attribute information in the dictionary,
Judgment means for deciding whether or not to convert the reading information into katakana, and if the judging means judges that the inputted reading information is to be converted into katakana, a katakana candidate corresponding to the reading information is generated. And a converting means.

[0008]

In the document creating apparatus of the present invention, the judging means is
The attribute information in the dictionary corresponding to the input reading information is searched to determine whether to convert the reading information into katakana. The converting means generates a katakana candidate corresponding to the reading information when the determining means determines to convert the input reading information into katakana.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the document creating apparatus of the present invention. Reference numeral 1 is an input device such as a keyboard for inputting a reading for converting into Kanji, and a conversion instruction key 11
have. It should be noted that the conversion instruction key 11 is a key for instructing a conversion unit to be converted at a time in the input hiragana including the reading for converting into kanji. When the conversion instruction key 11 is pressed for reading, reference numeral 2 refers to the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 3 to search for attribute information corresponding to the reading, and Katakana candidates are automatically generated from this attribute information to convert to kanji. A kana-kanji conversion processing device for performing conversion, 3 is a kana-kanji conversion dictionary that has readings and corresponding kanji headings, a utilization table, an attached word connection table, etc., and holds attribute information of each word, 4 is a kanji A display device 5 for displaying a document or the like converted into a kana-mixed sentence is an output buffer for storing converted kanji candidates or katakana candidates and the following hiragana.

The dictionary mentioned here has reading information and corresponding Kanji headings (converted words), has part of speech, frequency, and connection information, and further includes a utilization table and a connection table of adjunct words. It is a generic term.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. The reading input from the input device 1 is taken into the kana-kanji conversion processing device 2 by pressing the conversion instruction key 11. In step 201 shown in FIG. 2, the kana-kanji conversion processing device 2 searches the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 3 using the acquired reading as a key, performs grammatical processing, etc., and extracts a matching candidate from the beginning of the reading. , And store it in the output buffer 5. In step 201, it goes without saying that the kana-kanji conversion processing device 2 executes the grammatical processing and the connection check which are carried out by the general kana-kanji conversion processing, and each kana-kanji conversion dictionary 3 obtains the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 3. It holds candidate attribute information.

Next, in step 202, the kana-kanji conversion processing device 2 checks the attribute information of the candidates extracted from the dictionary 3 and determines in step 203 whether it is unnatural even if a katakana candidate is generated. Here, the attribute information that is not unnatural even if the katakana candidate is generated is, for example, a plant or an animal. Next, if a candidate having attribute information for which a katakana candidate should be generated is searched, step 20
4, the katakana candidate is generated from the input reading, is stored in the output buffer 5 like the kana-kanji conversion candidate, and the process is ended. Step 203
If no candidate having attribute information that should generate a katakana candidate is found, the processing ends at this point.
The display processing device 4 reads the kanji candidates or katakana candidates stored in the output buffer 5 and displays them in a document on a screen (not shown).

[0013] For example, if the reading "Kotoshi is sheep" is entered in the above device, this year is / sheep / year. Can be converted to This is because when the kana-kanji conversion processing device 2 searches the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 3 using the reading "sheep" as a key, the candidate "sheep" having the attribute information that it is an animal is searched, so it is automatically A Katakana candidate called a sheep is automatically generated. This makes it possible to easily input the katakana candidate “sheep” for the reading “sheep”.

According to this embodiment, the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 3
It is determined whether or not to convert the reading into katakana based on the attribute information for the reading, and when converting into katakana, the kana and kanji characters are provided because the kana and kana candidates corresponding to the reading are created and provided. Katakana candidates can be automatically generated without using the homophone memory area of the conversion dictionary 3. Moreover, since whether or not to automatically generate the Katakana candidate corresponding to reading is limited by the attribute information in the dictionary 3, there are few unnecessary Katakana candidates, and the troublesomeness of the candidate selection operation can be reduced.

In the above embodiment, the Kana-Kanji conversion dictionary 3
The attribute information in is checked, and as a result, katakana candidates are generated for readings that are not unnatural even if katakana candidates are generated, but whether or not to generate katakana candidates corresponding to the input reading It is also possible to have a configuration in which the information designating the is registered in advance in the dictionary 3 and it is determined whether or not a katakana candidate is generated based on this information.

In addition, it is also possible to allow the user to selectively set whether or not to automatically generate katakana candidates as described above during the kana-kanji conversion processing. Further, it is also possible to have a configuration in which the user is set not to automatically generate katakana candidates only for certain attributes. Also, a configuration is possible in which the user selects and specifies in advance for each reading information whether or not to generate katakana candidates registered in the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 3.

[0017]

As described above, according to the document creating apparatus of the present invention, katakana candidates for reading can be automatically generated without using the memory area holding the same phoneme, and the document input efficiency can be improved. Can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a document creation device of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart showing a conversion process of the kana-kanji conversion processing device shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Input device 2 ... Kana-Kanji conversion processing device 3 ... Kana-Kanji conversion dictionary 4 ... Display processing device 5 ... Output buffer

Claims (1)

Claims: 1. A document having a function of converting the reading information into a kanji-kana mixed sentence by searching a dictionary using the input reading information as a key to obtain kanji as a conversion candidate. In the creating device, the attribute information that specifies whether or not to convert the reading information into katakana is registered in the dictionary, and the corresponding attribute information in the dictionary corresponding to the input reading information is searched. A determination unit that determines whether or not to convert the reading information into Katakana, and if the determination unit determines that the input reading information is converted into Katakana, a Katakana candidate corresponding to the reading information is selected. A document creation apparatus comprising: a conversion unit that generates the document.