JPH0696135A - Dictionary retrieving device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] To store the number of past searches for each term and display the number of past searches at the time of searching in a dictionary search device that provides a dictionary lookup function used when reading a document. Improve the learning efficiency of users' terms by. [Structure] A document memory 11 for storing a document, a search term designating device 12 for designating a term in a document to be looked up in a dictionary,
A morphological analyzer 13 that recognizes a prototype of a specified term,
By providing a dictionary search device 14 that searches for terms in the implementation, a dictionary search count storage device 15 that stores the search count of past terms for each term, and a number display color conversion device 16 that changes the search count to a corresponding color display. , It is possible to provide users with an efficient term learning function.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a dictionary search device for reading a created document.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, digitization of documents has progressed, and documents created in various languages have become available. Along with this, digitization of dictionaries is progressing, and a dictionary lookup function is being introduced as one function of word processors, for example. Also,
Documents created in foreign languages are also widely distributed,
It is expected that demand for electronic dictionary lookup functions will increase even more in the future. Especially in reading a foreign language document, the dictionary lookup is the most complicated and time-consuming task. Therefore, preliminarily or automatically retrieving a term from a document contributes to improving the efficiency of document reading.

A conventional dictionary search device will be described below. FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a conventional automatic dictionary search device. In FIG. 3, 1 is a document memory for storing documents, 2 is a search term designating device, 3 is a morphological analysis device,
Reference numeral 4 is a dictionary search device. The operation of the conventional dictionary search device configured as described above will be described below. First, a term for which a dictionary lookup is desired is selected from the stored documents. Then, the prototype of the term designated by the morphological analyzer is recognized. The dictionary search device can obtain a desired dictionary lookup result by performing a dictionary search using the prototype word as a search key.

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional configuration, it is possible to know at the time of dictionary search whether or not the term is a term searched in the past, and how often the term is searched. In other words, it does not fulfill the function of contributing to the user's term learning, which should be another function of the dictionary search other than the function of checking the meaning of the term. The present invention solves the above-mentioned conventional problems, and by providing the user with the number of times of past searches, the terms have been searched many times in the past and should be already stored. The purpose is to contribute to efficient term learning by making users recognize.

[0005]

In order to achieve this object, the dictionary search device of the present invention has a structure in which a dictionary search number storage device for storing the number of past searches is added to the conventional structure. is doing.

[0006]

With this configuration, the user can know how many times the term has been searched in the past when performing the dictionary search, and the learning efficiency can be improved.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 1, 11 is a document memory for storing a document, 12 is a search term designating device for designating a term to be searched, 13 is a morphological analyzer for recognizing the prototype of the designated term, and 14 is for actual searching. A dictionary search device to perform, 15 is a dictionary search count storage device for storing the number of past searches, and 16 is a count display color conversion device for converting the search count into color display.

The operation of the dictionary search device configured as described above will be described with reference to FIG. First, 2
(A) is a document to be processed. The underlined term silkworms in 2 (b) represents a term to be searched designated by the search term designating apparatus. 2 (c) represents a term prototyped by the morphological analyzer. Where the noun plural si
The prototype silkworm of lkworms is shown. Reference numeral 2 (d) shows the contents of the terms and the number of searches performed by the past user, which are stored in the dictionary search number designating device. 2 (e) is the contents of the conversion table designated by the number-of-times display color conversion device. In this example, green is designated when the number of searches in the past is one, and yellow-green is designated when the number of searches is three. 2 (f) is extracted from the dictionary search count storage device in which the number of past searches 3 of the search term silkworm is 2 (d), and "silkworm" which is the translation of silkworm searched by the dictionary search device is displayed. Furthermore, it shows that silkworms are displayed in the display color "yellow green" designated by the number-of-times display color conversion device. 2 (g) shows that the number of searches for the searched silkworm has been updated once to 4.

As described above, according to this embodiment, by providing the dictionary search count storage device, the number of times the user has searched in the past can be stored for each term, and the next time the same term is searched. By displaying the number of past searches in
It is possible to provide the user with a function for supporting efficient learning.

Although the English-Japanese dictionary search is used as the dictionary search device 14 in the embodiment, it may be a dictionary search for any other purpose. Although the English document is taken as the target document, it may be a document in any language.
Furthermore, although the number of searches is converted to color display, it may be converted to a font such as Gothic font or bold font for display.

[0012]

As described above, according to the present invention, by providing the dictionary search frequency storage device, it is possible to provide the dictionary search device which can contribute to the improvement of the term learning efficiency of the user.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a dictionary search device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram for explaining the operation of the dictionary search device according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a conventional dictionary search device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Document Memory 12 Search Term Designation Device 13 Morphological Analysis Device 14 Dictionary Search Device 15 Dictionary Search Frequency Storage Device 16 Frequency Display Color Conversion Device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A dictionary comprising a dictionary search count storage device for storing the number of searches in the past for each term, and a count display color conversion device for designating a color when displaying the search count. Search device.