JPH07191996A - Supporting device for editing dictionary - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the burden of an editor of a dictionary in enriching vocabulary of the dictionary by suggesting another idiomatic expression to the editor through changes in wording of idiomatic expressions in editing the dictionary in terms of phrases such as idiomatic expressions. CONSTITUTION:A dictionary input/output means 2 accepts the idiomatic expression and its meaning from an idiomatic expression dictionary part 1 and sends it to a knowledge retrieval means 5. The means 1 retrieves a change in wording of a case particle and a word with declined or conjugated endings in a knowledge base part 4 for a case of particle and a word with declined or conjugate endings. The retrieval result is sent to an idiomatic expression candidate compounding means 6 with its meaning. The means 6 compound the indeclinable parts of speech in the original idiomatic expression with the case particle and the word with declined or conjugated endings of the retrieval result and makes it as a candidate of the idiomatic expression to be registered in a dictionary. The idiomatic expression candidate is suggested to the editor of the dictionary with the original idiomatic expression and its meaning and is sent to a register information receiving means 7. The means 7 accepts the judgement by the editor whether or not the received idiomatic expression candidate is registered in the dictionary if it is to be accepted, it is registered in the dictionary.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a natural language processing field, and more particularly to an apparatus for supporting the creation of a dictionary used for machine translation or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, natural language processing dictionaries have been created centering on a vocabulary in word units. In other words, with regard to word-based headings, support is mainly for describing lexical information such as different notation, syntactic information such as part-of-speech, and semantic information such as semantic classification. There was no technology to support the creation of a dictionary with vocabulary as a headline.

[0003]

However, there are some expressions in natural language in which a plurality of phrases function in phrase units. For example, an idiomatic expression such as "selling oil" used in the meaning of "steam" is so. These consist of multiple words, and the meaning of the whole phrase is not the addition of the meanings of the constituent words, so a word-by-word dictionary cannot handle it sufficiently. Therefore, in order to process such an expression, it is necessary to register a vocabulary for each phrase in the dictionary.

In order to enhance the number of vocabularies in a phrase-based dictionary, it is conceivable to increase the vocabulary by using paraphrasing of the constituent words of the phrase, for example, paraphrasing / transitive verbs in the idiom part or paraphrasing in antonyms. For example, consider the case of registering "make expectations". "Expect" to "apply"
Does not have the original meaning of "physically hooking a concrete object", but is used together with "expectation" to mean "expect" as a whole. In other words, in this case "call"
Has only the same function as the inflection ending "do". In this respect, "expecting" is an idiomatic expression. Now,
When registering “expect”, it is efficient to register the vocabulary by also registering “expect”, which is translated by the intransitive verb “kake” corresponding to the transitive verb “kake”. However, it takes a great deal of effort for the dictionary creator to consider the paraphrase of the constituent words each time and synthesize the idiom based on the paraphrase.

Further, paraphrases of intransitive / transitive verbs such as "kake" and "kake" are not always permitted. For example, "arm standing", which means "excellent in art", is an idiomatic expression used, but "arm standing", which is another transliteration of "standing", is used as an idiomatic expression. Absent. Further, even if paraphrasing of constituent phrases is permitted, another meaning may occur as a whole phrase.
For example, in contrast to "heavy ass", which means "being difficult to act," the antonym "light" of "heavy" means "light ass" is different from "sexually sloppy appearance". Means. As described above, in the phrase-based vocabulary, if the constituent words are different, it is often not used or has a different meaning. Therefore, the dictionary creator must judge whether or not an expression obtained by paraphrasing the constituent words as described above is used each time registration is made, and consider whether or not there is a change in meaning. Information related to these meanings needs to be accurately reflected in the dictionary.

The present invention, when creating a dictionary in phrase units, reduces the work of the dictionary creator when expanding the number of vocabularies and supports the description of dictionary information related to the meaning that requires the dictionary creator to make a judgment. The purpose is to do.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention comprises an idiom expression dictionary unit for storing idioms and their meanings, a dictionary input / output unit for inputting / outputting idioms and their meanings from the idiom expression dictionary unit, and dialects. And a knowledge retrieving means for retrieving the paraphrase of "case particle + noun" constituting the idiomatic expression received from the dictionary input / output means to the noun knowledge base part. And the word phrase in the original idiom and the search result "case particle + idiom" are combined and newly registered as a candidate for the idiom, and the idiom candidate is used together with the original idiom and its meaning. The idiom candidate synthesizing means to be presented to the creator and the dictionary writer's judgment as to whether or not to newly register the idiom candidate in the idiom dictionary unit. Input of the meaning of It is characterized by having a registration information receiving unit configured to receive.

[0008]

In the present invention, first, the dictionary input / output means receives the common expression and its meaning from the common expression dictionary section and sends them to the knowledge retrieval means. The knowledge retrieval means searches for the paraphrase of the “case particle + adjective” constituting the received idiomatic expression in the adjective knowledge base section, and sends the search result to the idiomatic expression candidate synthesis means together with the original idiomatic expression and its meaning. . The idiomatic expression candidate synthesizing means uses the case in the original idiomatic expression and the “case particle + idiom” of the search result.
Is used as a candidate for an idiomatic expression to be newly registered in the dictionary. As a result, the work of finding another idiom by using the paraphrase of the constituent words of the idiom as a clue is automated, and the effort of the dictionary creator in expanding the vocabulary is reduced. In addition, the idiom candidate synthesizing means presents the idiom candidate with the original idiom and its meaning to the dictionary creator,
Send them to the registration information receiving means. The registration information receiving means accepts the judgment by the dictionary creator as to whether or not to register the received idiomatic expression candidate in the dictionary, and when registering, accepts the meaning of the idiomatic expression candidate by the dictionary creator and enters it in the dictionary. Send to output means. The dictionary input / output unit registers the received idiomatic expression candidate and the meaning input by the dictionary creator in the idiomatic expression dictionary unit. When a plurality of candidate meanings are considered, the dictionary creator inputs them individually, and the meanings are registered in the dictionary as different headings. As described above, in the present invention, the dictionary creator judges and inputs the meaning of the paraphrased idiom candidate while comparing it with the meaning of the idiom before paraphrase. It is written correctly in the dictionary, which improves the quality of the dictionary.

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

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

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 is an idiomatic expression dictionary unit that stores idiomatic expressions and their meanings, and 2 is an idiomatic expression dictionary unit 1.
It is a dictionary input / output means for inputting / outputting idiomatic expressions and their meanings. Reference numeral 3 is a display means for displaying information such as a display device. Reference numeral 4 is a noun knowledge base unit that stores the linguistic knowledge of the noun, and 5 is a knowledge retrieving means for searching the noun knowledge base unit 4 for paraphrases of "case particles + nouns" that form an idiomatic expression. is there. 6 is the phrase in the idiomatic expression and the search result “case particle +
It is an idiom candidate synthesizing means for synthesizing a idiom "and newly registering an idiom candidate. The idiom candidate synthesizing means 6 creates a dictionary of the synthesized idiom candidates together with the original idiom and its meaning. And sends them to the registration information receiving means 7. Reference numeral 7 receives a judgment by the dictionary creator as to whether or not to register the idiom candidates received from the idiom candidate synthesizing means 6 in the idiom dictionary unit 1, It is a registration information receiving means for accepting the input of the meaning of the candidate by the dictionary creator when registering, and a registration information accepting means when the dictionary creator decides to register the idiomatic expression candidate in the idiomatic expression dictionary unit 1. Reference numeral 7 sends the idiomatic expression candidate and the meaning inputted by the dictionary creator to the dictionary input / output means 2, and the dictionary input / output means 2 registers them in the idiomatic expression dictionary unit 1. 8 is a character like a keyboard The force means. 1,2 in Figure 1,
A conventional dictionary creation support device is composed of 3 and 8. A feature of the present invention is that the candidates for the conventional expression newly registered based on the paraphrases of the constituent words of the conventional expressions in FIGS. 1, 5 and 6 are combined and presented to the dictionary creator, and the candidate for the conventional expression. When registering in the dictionary, 7 in FIG. 1 is to accept the input of the meaning of the candidate by the dictionary creator.

Next, the operation of the embodiment when an idiomatic expression heading is input will be described with reference to FIG. 1, FIG. 2, FIG. 3, FIG.
This will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 6, 7, 8 and 9.

FIG. 2 shows an example of an idiomatic expression dictionary unit 1 which stores idiomatic expressions and their meanings. Idioms are entered with words separated by columns. This is to make it easier to operate idiomatic expressions word by word. The dictionary input / output unit 2 outputs the idiomatic expression and its meaning of the idiomatic expression dictionary unit 1, for example, the idiomatic expression “make an expectation” and its meaning “expect”, and sends it to the knowledge retrieval means 5. The knowledge retrieving means 5 retrieves the paraphrase of “case particle + synonym” that composes “make expectations” into the synonym knowledge base unit 4. 3 and 4 show
It is an example of the vocabulary knowledge base unit 4. FIG. 3 is an example of a case in which an intransitive / transitive verb pair is stored with a case particle, and FIG. 4 is an example in which an antonym pair of an adjective is also stored with a case particle. The symbols M, N, P in FIG. 3 and the symbol X in FIG. Nominal phrases and case particles are separated by columns and entered. Intransitive /
The combination of the case particle and the noun in each of the pair of transitive verbs and the pair of antonyms is determined by the symbol representing the body word. For example, referring to FIG. 3 for the case of “expecting”, the knowledge retrieval unit 5 first finds the intransitive verb “kake” corresponding to the transitive verb “kake” and then “kake” of “kake”.
"Ga" is found by associating M immediately before with "M" of "Kake", and "Ga" and "Kake" are combined. Therefore, in this case, the knowledge retrieval means 5 takes “ga” as a search result as a paraphrase of “apply”, and the search result is the original idiomatic expression “make an expectation” and its meaning “expect”.
It is sent together with the conventional expression candidate synthesizing means 6. The idiomatic expression candidate synthesizing means 6 synthesizes the word “expectation” in the original idiomatic expression and “ga kan” of the search result to make it a newly registered idiom candidate “expected”, and the idiomatic expression candidate. The original idiomatic expression "make expectations" is "make expectations"
And its meaning “expect”, and sends it to the registration information receiving means 7. Here, the dictionary idiom is presented with the original idiom “make expectations” and its meaning “expect”, and the idiom candidate “expects”, and the dictionary writer uses the idiom “expects”. To determine whether to register. The registration information accepting means 7 accepts a judgment by the dictionary creator whether or not to register, and when registering, accepts the meaning of the idiomatic expression candidate by the dictionary creator, and inputs the idiomatic expression candidate and the dictionary creator. The meaning is sent to the dictionary input / output means 2. The dictionary input / output unit 2 receives the idiomatic expression candidates and the meaning input by the dictionary creator, and registers them in the idiomatic expression dictionary unit 1. If the dictionary creator determines not to register the idiomatic expression candidate, the registration information receiving means 7 accepts the judgment, and at that point, the dictionary creation work with the idiomatic expression as a clue ends. Hereinafter, three examples of inputting the meaning of the idiomatic expression candidate will be described with reference to FIGS. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. In the present invention, the dictionary creator inputs the number of meanings of idiomatic expression candidates, and the number of headlines is registered in the dictionary.
FIG. 5 is an example of a screen display when the dictionary creator has only one input. In FIG. 5, the dictionary creator inputs “expected” as the meaning of the idiomatic expression candidate “expected”. In the idiomatic expression dictionary unit 1, the idiomatic expression "expected" is registered in the meaning of "expected". Figure 6
Is an example of a screen display when a plurality of meanings of idiomatic expressions are generated, and in this case, the adjective knowledge base unit 4 stores knowledge of adjective antonyms as shown in FIG. In FIG. 6, the candidate “light ass” has two meanings, “less cautious” and “sexually lazy,” so the dictionary creator defines them as meaning 1 and meaning 2, respectively. Enter as. In such a case, meaning 1
“Light ass” and meaning 2 “Light ass” are registered in the dictionary as separate headings. FIG. 7 shows an example of dictionary description in such a case. FIG. 8 is a screen display example when the dictionary creator determines not to register the idiomatic expression candidate. In this case, the dictionary creator selects "no" for registration.
When a new idiomatic expression is registered in the dictionary without using the paraphrased idiomatic expression search, the dictionary creator may enter the idiomatic expression to be registered and its meaning in the same format as in FIGS. 5 and 6. The dictionary input / output unit 2 registers each in the idiomatic expression dictionary unit 1. FIG. 9 is an example of a screen display in such a case.

[0014]

As described above, according to the present invention, the task of synthesizing a newly registered idiom expression candidate by using the paraphrase of a constituent word of one idiom as a clue is automated, so that the number of vocabularies in the dictionary is enhanced. The labor of the creator is reduced.

Further, according to the present invention, the dictionary creator judges and inputs the meaning of the paraphrased idiom while comparing it with the meaning of the idiom before paraphrase. Therefore, the dictionary information relating to the meaning that the dictionary creator needs to judge. Is accurately described in the dictionary, and as a result, the quality of the dictionary is improved.

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[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is an example of an idiomatic expression dictionary unit 1 in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an example of a noun knowledge base unit 4 in the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an example of a noun knowledge base unit 4 in the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is an example of a meaning input screen by a dictionary creator in the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is an example of a meaning input screen by a dictionary creator in the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is an example of a dictionary description when there is a plurality of meanings of an idiom candidate in the embodiment.

FIG. 8 is an example of a screen when the dictionary creator decides not to register an idiomatic expression candidate in the dictionary in the embodiment.

FIG. 9 is an example of an input screen when the dictionary creator registers an idiomatic expression in the dictionary without performing a search in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 idiomatic expression dictionary part 2 idiomatic expression input / output means 3 display means 4 idiom knowledge base part 5 knowledge search means 6 idiomatic expression candidate synthesizing means 7 idiomatic expression selecting means 8 input means 9 part input by dictionary creator 10 dictionary creator Entered by the dictionary creator 11 entered by the dictionary creator 12 entered by the dictionary creator 13 entered by the dictionary creator

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An idiomatic expression dictionary section for storing idiomatic expressions and their meanings, a dictionary input / output means for inputting / outputting idiomatic expressions and their meanings from the idiomatic expression dictionary section, and a noun storing language knowledge of the nouns. The knowledge base unit, the knowledge search unit for searching the word base knowledge base unit for a paraphrase of "case particle + noun" constituting the idiomatic expression received from the dictionary input / output unit, and A candidate for an idiom to be combined with a word and a search result "case particle + idiom" and newly registered in the dictionary, and the idiom candidate is presented to the dictionary creator along with the original idiom and its meaning. Registration information that accepts the synthesizing means and the judgment by the dictionary creator of whether or not to newly register the idiom candidate in the idiom dictionary unit, and when registering, accepts the meaning of the idiom candidate by the dictionary creator. Receiver A dictionary creation support device having a step.