JPH0916596A - Document creation support apparatus and method - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] By finding out the sentence style in which the word order is not uniform in the sentence by a simple operation and clearly showing it, it is possible to easily correct the word order in the sentence. When a key syntax is designated by a key syntax designating unit 3 according to a user operation, a sentence style determining unit 7 discriminates a sentence targeting an input sentence input from an input unit 1 under the control of a control unit 2. The extraction operation is performed according to the presence or absence of a punctuation mark, and the sentence style of the extracted sentence is determined by the character string pattern matching with the candidate of the specific character set that is the determining element. The determined sentence style is compared with the key syntax designated by the user in the sentence style comparison unit 8. If the word order is reversed, the corresponding input sentence is displayed by the output unit 9 separately from other sentences.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creation support device and method for pointing out an unstructured syntactic style portion in an input sentence.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A document creating apparatus such as a Japanese word processor provides various editing functions so that a user can efficiently create a desired document. However, even if a document (sentence) is created using this type of document creation apparatus, it is difficult to prevent the existence of a sentence style in which the word order is not uniform.

Conventionally, however, there has been no means for automatically finding the word order inconsistency existing in the input sentence. That is, in the conventional technology, an arbitrary character string is searched for in an input sentence, the searched character string is collected to a sentence, and the style of the sentence is determined based on the context of the particle with respect to the collected sentence. There is no means for comparing the sentence style with the key syntax specified in advance by the user and distinguishing it from other character strings for visualization if they differ.

For this reason, conventionally, the user generally revises a created sentence while viewing it on the screen or the like, finds a sentence style in which the word order is not uniform, and performs a correction operation each time. It was

[0005]

As described above, conventionally, there is no means for automatically finding the word order inconsistency existing in the input sentence. Therefore, when such a problem occurs, it is necessary for the user's visual inspection and manual operation. There was a problem such as spending a great deal of time and effort to correct the word order inconsistency without resorting to it.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to automatically find a sentence having an ununiform word order existing in an input sentence and display it by distinguishing it from other character strings. It is an object of the present invention to provide a document creation support device and method capable of easily correcting word order inconsistency in sentences.

[0007]

The configuration according to the first aspect of the present invention is a key syntax designating means for designating an arbitrary key syntax indicating a sentence style and a character string in an input sentence. The sentence style determining means for determining the sentence style of the sentence from the position in the sentence in which the character exists, and the comparison between the key syntax designated by the key syntax designating means and the sentence style determined by the sentence style determining means. As a result of the comparison between the sentence style comparing means for performing the above and the sentence style comparing means, when at least the word order of the key syntax and the determined sentence style is different, the character string of the corresponding sentence is displayed separately from the character strings of other sentences. And a display means.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration according to the first aspect, a morphological analysis is performed on an input sentence to obtain an analysis result in word units including word part of speech information. A means is added, and the sentence style determining means determines the sentence style of the relevant sentence based on the part-of-speech information of each word obtained by the morpheme analyzing means.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration according to the second aspect, the input sentence is syntactically analyzed based on the analysis result of the morphological analysis means, and each word is modified. A syntactic analysis means for obtaining an analysis result including a relation is added, and the sentence style determination means determines the sentence style of the corresponding sentence based on the modification relation of each word obtained by the syntactic analysis means. Characterize.

Further, as a distinctive display method in the configurations according to the first to third aspects, the same character set is used depending on the relationship between a specific character set that determines the key syntax and a specific character set that determines the sentence style. The character sets may be distinguished from each other in a case where the word order is the same, a case where the word order is different, and a case where the word sets are not the same.

[0011]

In the structure according to the first aspect described above, when the key syntax is designated by the key syntax designating means in accordance with a user operation, the sentence style determining means has a specific character in the character string in the input sentence. Sentence style determination processing is performed to determine the sentence style of the relevant sentence from the position in the sentence.

In this sentence style determination processing, the character string in the input sentence is searched, and the sentence is discriminated (and extracted) based on the presence or absence of a punctuation mark in the searched character string. Here, the character string between the two punctuation marks is determined as one sentence. It is also possible to provide the character string search function and the sentence discriminating function in an independent means other than the sentence style determining means.

The sentence style determining means performs character string pattern matching on each of the determined sentences, and [[;;]],
From the position in the sentence where a specific character (each character of the set) that is a determinant of the sentence style, such as [to;
The sentence style of the relevant sentence is determined by checking which pattern (style) such as “to ΔΔ” or “○○ to ΔΔ”.

The sentence style determined by the sentence style determination means is compared with the key syntax designated by the key syntax designation means (key syntax designated by the user) by the sentence style comparison means. As a result of this comparison, when at least the word order of the key syntax and the determined sentence style is different, the character string of the relevant sentence is displayed (visualized) separately from the character strings of other sentences.

As described above, in the configuration according to the first aspect, a user only needs to specify a desired key syntax and a sentence having a sentence style different in word order from the key syntax is automatically searched for. Since the sentence can be displayed separately from other sentences, the user can easily correct the word order inconsistency in the sentence.

In the configuration according to the second aspect, the morpheme analysis is performed by the morpheme analysis means to divide the input sentence into word units, and the word-by-word analysis result including the word part-of-speech information is obtained. Then, the sentence style deciding means becomes a deciding element of the sentence style, such as [ni; The sentence style is determined from the positional relationship (posterior relationship) in the sentence of the particle. The sentence style determined here is compared with the key syntax designated by the user by the sentence style comparing means. If the result of this comparison is that the key syntax and the determined sentence style differ at least in word order, then
The character string of the relevant sentence is displayed separately from the character strings of other sentences.

As described above, in the configuration according to the second aspect, the part of speech of each word obtained as a result of the morphological analysis is obtained instead of the sentence style determination by the character string pattern matching applied in the configuration according to the first aspect. The sentence style decision based on information (for example, the context of the particle which becomes the determinant element of the sentence style) is applied. Therefore, for example, when the style of the key syntax is specified as [ni; w] and the target input sentence is "Already written data to the floppy disk.", The adverb "already" in the input sentence From "to" in the following "data",
It is not erroneously determined that the sentence style is "ni;wo" that matches the specified key syntax.

In the configuration according to the third aspect, the syntactic analysis unit performs syntactic analysis on the input sentence based on the analysis result of the morphological analysis unit, and the modification relation of each word divided by the morphological analysis ( Dependency) and other analysis results are required. Then, in the sentence style determination means, from the dependency between each word obtained by the syntactic analysis means (for example,
The sentence style is determined based on the context of the two particles that are related to the same verb. The sentence style determined here is compared with the key syntax designated by the user by the sentence style comparing means. As a result of this comparison, when at least the word order of the key syntax and the determined sentence style is different, the character string of the relevant sentence is displayed separately from the character strings of other sentences.

As described above, in the configuration according to the third aspect, not the sentence style determination based on the part-of-speech information (positional relation of particles) applied in the configuration according to the second aspect, but the syntax analysis. The sentence style determination based on the modification relation of each word obtained as a result (for example, the front-back relation of two particles having a dependency with the same verb) is applied.
Therefore, for example, if the style of the key syntax is specified as [ni; w] and the target input sentence is "When you enter the next sentence, save the created sentence on the floppy disk." Of the two particles "ni" in the input sentence, the first particle "ni"("ni" in "sentence input") is the target verb "enter" and the next particle "o"(" Although it is not the same as the verb "save" which is the recipient of "o" in "sentence", the sentence style specifies the key syntax because of the context of the particles "ni" and "wo". There is no erroneous decision to "is a" that matches.

[0020]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. [First Embodiment] FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall arrangement of a document creation support apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

The document creation support apparatus of FIG. 1 mainly comprises an input unit 1, a control unit 2, a key syntax designation unit 3, a sentence style determination unit 7, a sentence style comparison unit 8 and an output unit 9.
The input unit 1 has a magnetic disk device or the like for storing a file (here, Japanese sentence file) consisting of characters, symbols, etc., and inputs data (Japanese sentence) of the file instructed by the control unit 2. Control

The control unit 2 controls the entire system.
The key syntax designating section 3 is used for designating a key syntax according to an input operation from a user.

The sentence style determination unit 7 specifies a specific character "ha" for the character string in the input sentence instructed by the control unit 2.
Processing for determining the style of a sentence is performed from the position in the sentence where characters such as “ga”, “ni”, and “wo” exist.

The sentence style comparison unit 8 compares the sentence style determined by the sentence style determination unit 7 with the key syntax designated by the key syntax designation unit 3. The output unit 9 is a display device such as a CRT display or a flat panel display typified by a liquid crystal display.

Next, the operation of the configuration of FIG. 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, the key syntax specification part 3
Performs a process of selecting and designating a key syntax according to a user's input operation (step S1). Here, "○○ to △△
The specification of a key syntax style such as “to” or “○○ to ΔΔ” is realized by the user's input operation. For example, when the user inputs “B in A”, the key syntax designation unit 3
The character set [to;] that is the determinant of the style is specified as the key syntax.

When the key syntax designating unit 3 performs the key syntax designating process in accordance with the user operation, the control unit 2 outputs the data (Japanese sentence) of the Japanese sentence file designated by the user operation from the input unit 1. It is input and sent to the sentence style determination unit 7.

Then, the sentence style determination unit 7 extracts a sentence from the Japanese sentence input from the input unit 1 under the control of the control unit 2, and determines the sentence style of the extracted sentence each time (step S2). Is executed as follows.

First, the sentence style determining unit 7 searches for a character string in the input sentence and determines (and extracts) a sentence based on the searched character string depending on the presence or absence of a punctuation mark. Here, 2
A character string between two punctuation marks is determined as one sentence.

Next, every time the sentence style determining unit 7 discriminates a sentence, from the position in the sentence where the character in the key syntax designated by the user is present among the characters such as "ha, ga, o, ni". Determines sentence style. That is, the sentence style determination unit 7 performs character string pattern matching on the determined character string of the sentence so that the character string in the sentence is “○○ to ΔΔ” or “○○ to ΔΔ”. Any pattern (style)
Is checked to determine the sentence style of the sentence.

When the sentence style determining unit 7 determines the sentence style of the input sentence, the control unit 2 activates the sentence style comparing unit 8. Then, the sentence style comparison unit 8 performs the sentence style comparison process of comparing the sentence style determined by the sentence style determination unit 7 with the key syntax intended by the user designated by the key syntax designation unit 3 (step S3).

Here, there are two cases in which the sentence style determined by the sentence style determining unit 7 is different from (the style of) the key syntax. For example, if the key syntax is [to; to], the different styles are [to; to] and others. The former has the same contents of the character strings that make up the style, but the word order is reversed, whereas the latter has the different contents of the character strings that make up the style, and is independent of the key syntax. In other words, the former is the same character set in terms of the relationship between the specific character set that determines the key syntax (here, "ni" and "wo") and the specific character set that determines the sentence style. , The word order is different, whereas the latter does not have the same specific character set.

Therefore, the sentence style comparison unit 8 determines, as a result of the comparison between the sentence style of each sentence and the key syntax, (a) word order matching (a specific character set that determines the key syntax and a specific character set that determines the sentence style). In the relation with the character set, the same character set and the same word order have the same style matching), (b)
Reverse word order (the same character set, but different word order
No.), (c) Other (not the same character set, but a second style mismatch irrelevant to the key syntax and sentence style) is notified to the control unit 2.

The control unit 2 follows the comparison result notified from the sentence style comparison unit 8 for each sentence, so that the word order is reversed in (b) above.
Only in the case of the comparison result notification of, the corresponding sentence is distinguished from other sentences and different display form (for example, shading, reverse display, etc.)
Is displayed by the output unit 9 (step S4). FIG. 3 shows an example of a method of determining this distinctive display.

When the processing of one sentence is completed as described above, the above-mentioned steps S2 to S2 are performed for the next sentence in the input sentence.
S4 is performed, and the same processing is repeated until the last sentence of the input sentence.

Next, the operation of each processing unit in the first embodiment will be described with reference to actual examples. First, it is assumed that, for example, [to;

Next, the sentence style determining unit 7 discriminates and extracts from the input sentence a sentence such as "Write data to floppy disk" as shown in FIG. 4A, and the sentence (input sentence). To the key syntax of [[;
It is assumed that the character string pattern matching using [] is performed.

By the character string pattern matching, the sentence style determining unit 7 performs the characters "o" and "ni" in the input sentence.
(Including "○○ to △△" character string pattern)
When is matched, the mutual positional relationship (forward and backward positions) of "o" and "ni" is determined from the character position. In this example,
The character positions of "wo" and "ni" are "ni → 10" and "wo →"
14 "is obtained. The description format of "ni → 10" and "wo → 14" is that the character positions of "wo" and "ni" in the input sentence "write data to the floppy disk" are "10" characters from the beginning of the sentence. The eye indicates that it is the 14th character. In this case, the sentence style determination unit 7 acquires “10 <14” as the positional relationship between “o” and “ni”, and determines that the sentence style is [ni;

Next, the sentence style determined by the sentence style determination unit 7 is changed to the key syntax [to;] specified by the key syntax designation unit 3 according to the user operation, and the sentence style comparison unit 8 is executed.
In the process of comparing. Here, since the word order of the sentence style is opposite to the word order of the key syntax, the sentence style comparison unit 8 notifies the control unit 2 of the comparison result of “word order reverse”.

Then, the control section 2 inputs the text "write data to the floppy disk" shown in FIG. 4 (a).
Is distinguished from other sentences, and is displayed by being shaded (represented by diagonal lines in the figure) by the output unit 9 as shown in FIG.

When the sentence style determining unit 7 matches the characters "o" and "ni" in the key syntax different from each other, the processing of the statement is ended and the matching processing of the next statement is started. It will be. [Second Embodiment] FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the overall structure of a document creation support apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention. The same parts as those in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and detailed description is omitted.

The document creation support apparatus shown in FIG. 5 mainly includes an input unit 1, a control unit 12, a key syntax designation unit 3, and a morphological analysis unit 1.
4, an analysis dictionary 16, a sentence style determination unit 17, a sentence style comparison unit 8 and an output unit 9.

The control unit 12 controls the entire system including the morphological analysis unit 14 and the sentence style determination unit 17. The morpheme analysis unit 14 performs analysis processing (morpheme analysis processing) on a word-by-word basis with respect to the input sentence instructed by the control unit 2.

The analysis dictionary 16 is used to previously register knowledge information required for morphological analysis (Japanese analysis) in the morphological analysis unit 14. This knowledge information includes a headline for each word and part-of-speech information.

The sentence style determination unit 17 is a morpheme analysis unit 1.
From the result of the morphological analysis in 4 (word part-of-speech information), the sentence style of the input sentence is determined by the position in the input sentence such as the particle "wa", "ga", "ni", "wo". In this way, the sentence style determination unit 17 simply uses the character “ha”,
Instead of determining the style of the sentence from the position in the sentence where "ga", "ni", "wo", etc. exist, the morphological analysis unit 14
Discrimination of part of speech of each word analyzed in (position of particle in sentence)
The sentence style determining unit 7 differs from the sentence style determining unit 7 in FIG.

Next, the operation of the configuration of FIG. 5 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, the key syntax specification part 3
Specifies the style of key syntax in accordance with the user's input operation, as in the first embodiment (step S11).

The control unit 12 sends the data (Japanese sentence) of the Japanese sentence file stored in the input unit 1 to the morphological analysis unit 14. When the Japanese sentence is input from the input unit 1, the morphological analysis unit 14 searches the analysis dictionary 16 and performs a morphological analysis process of dividing the input sentence into words (step S12). In this morphological analysis process, the part-of-speech information of each divided word is obtained from the analysis dictionary 16. The result of the morphological analysis processing by the morphological analysis unit 14 is sent to the sentence style determination unit 17 via the control unit 12.

Then, the sentence style determination unit 17 determines the result of the morphological analysis processing of the morphological analysis unit 14 (part-of-speech information of each word).
From, the sentence style is determined by the position of the particle in the sentence (step S13). A specific example of this sentence style determination will be described later.

When the sentence style determining unit 17 determines the sentence style of the input sentence, the control unit 12 activates the sentence style comparing unit 8. Then, the sentence style comparison unit 8 sets the sentence style determined by the sentence style determination unit 17 to the first
Similar to the embodiment described above, a sentence style comparison process for comparing with the key syntax intended by the user designated by the key syntax designation unit 3 is performed (step S14). Then, the sentence style comparison unit 8 notifies the control unit 12 of any one of (a) word order match, (b) word order reverse, and (c) as a result of the sentence style comparison process.

The control unit 12 distinguishes the corresponding sentence from other sentences only when the sentence style comparing unit 8 notifies the comparison result of "word order reverse" of the above (b), and a different display form (for example, a network). It is displayed by the output unit 9 (step S15).

When the processing of one sentence is completed as described above, the above-mentioned step S12 is performed for the next sentence in the input sentence.
~ S15 is performed, and the same process is repeated until the last sentence of the input sentence.

Next, the operation of each processing unit in the second embodiment will be described with reference to actual examples. here,
It is assumed that the input sentence is “Already written data on the floppy disk.” As shown in FIG.

In the example of this sentence, if it is processed by the device having the configuration of FIG. 1, the result of the character string pattern matching in the sentence style determination unit 7 (the third character "ni", that is, the adverb "already""Ni" exists in the 17th character "ni", that is, before the case particle "ni") "ni → 3",
“3 → 7” is obtained with “o → 7”, and the sentence style is [ni;
Is mistakenly determined to be [].

In this embodiment, however, the morpheme analysis unit 14 performs morpheme analysis on the input sentence, and the sentence style is determined by determining the part of speech of each word analyzed here. The occurrence of such an error can be prevented.

Specifically, after the key syntax designating section 3 specifies the key syntax style as [to;] in accordance with the user's operation, the input sentence "already written data to floppy disk" in FIG. For ".."
Morphological analysis is performed according to 4. FIG. 8 shows the morphological analysis result obtained by the morphological analysis unit 14. In addition, the numbers in FIG.
It indicates (the word position) of the word position of the corresponding word from the beginning of the sentence.

In the sentence style determination unit 17, the word positions of the particles "ni" and "wo" in the sentence are obtained from the morphological analysis result of the morphological analysis unit 14 for the input sentence as shown in FIG. The sentence style is determined by the positional relationship. That is, the sentence style determination unit 17 obtains “3 <6” by “(case particle) → 3” and “(case particle) → 6” from the result of the morphological analysis shown in FIG. Is correctly determined to be [to; to]. Here, the description format of "(case particle) to → 3" and "(case particle) to → 6" is
The input sentence "I have already written the data to the floppy disk. The word positions of" (case particle) wo "and" (case particle) ni "in the sentence are" 3 "word and" 6 "word respectively from the beginning of the sentence. Indicates that there is.

When the sentence style determining unit 17 determines the sentence style of the input sentence, control is passed to the sentence style comparing unit 8, and the determined sentence style [[; The key syntax designated by the syntax designation unit 3 is compared with [to;]. As a result of the comparison here, "word order reverse" of the above (b) is obtained, and the input sentence "I have already written the data to the floppy disk" shown in Fig. 7 (a) is distinguished from other sentences. FIG. 7B by the output unit 9.
It is shaded and displayed as in. [Third Embodiment] FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing the overall arrangement of a document creation support apparatus according to the third embodiment of the present invention. The same parts as those in FIG. 5 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and detailed description is omitted.

The document creation support apparatus shown in FIG. 9 mainly includes an input unit 1, a control unit 22, a key syntax designation unit 3, and a morphological analysis unit 1.
4, a syntax analysis unit 25, an analysis dictionary 26, a sentence style determination unit 27, a sentence style comparison unit 8 and an output unit 9.

The control unit 22 controls the entire system including the syntax analysis unit 25 and the sentence style determination unit 27. The syntactic analysis unit 25 performs a process (syntactic analysis process) of analyzing a mutual relation and a modification relation of a word string which is a result of the morphological analysis performed by the morphological analysis unit 14 on the input sentence.

The analysis dictionary 26 is for pre-registering knowledge information required for morphological analysis (Japanese analysis) by the morphological analysis unit 14 and syntactic analysis by the syntactic analysis unit 25. This knowledge information includes a headline for each word and part-of-speech information.

The sentence style determining section 27 is used by the syntax analyzing section 25.
The style (sentence style) of the input sentence is determined from the modification relation between each word which is the result of the syntax analysis in. As described above, the sentence style determination unit 27 does not determine the sentence style only based on the determination of the part of speech of each word (the position of the particle in the sentence).
The sentence style determining unit 17 in FIG. 5 is that the sentence style is determined from the modification relation between the words which is the result of the syntactic analysis by the syntactic analysis unit 25 (more specifically, from the particle used for the same verb). Is different from.

Next, the operation of the configuration of FIG. 9 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, the key syntax specification part 3
Specifies the style of key syntax in accordance with the user's input operation, as in the first or second embodiment (step S21).

The control unit 22 sends the data (Japanese text) of the Japanese text file stored in the input unit 1 to the morphological analysis unit 14. When the Japanese sentence from the input unit 1 is input, the morpheme analysis unit 14 searches the analysis dictionary 26 and performs a morpheme analysis process that divides the input sentence into words (step S22). The result of the morpheme analysis processing by the morpheme analysis unit 14 is sent to the syntax analysis unit 25 via the control unit 22.

Then, the syntactic analysis unit 25 determines that the morphological analysis unit 1
From the result of the morphological analysis process of No. 4, the syntactic analysis process of analyzing the mutual relation, the modification relation, and the like of each word of the input sentence is performed (step S23). The result of syntax analysis by the syntax analyzer 25 is sent to the sentence style determiner 27 via the controller 22.

Then, the sentence style determining unit 27 determines the sentence style from the particle used for the same word (here, a verb) based on the dependency between the words which is the result of the syntactic analysis of the syntactic analyzing unit 25. Yes (step S24). A specific example of this sentence style determination will be described later.

When the sentence style determining unit 27 determines the sentence style of the input sentence, the control unit 22 activates the sentence style comparing unit 8. Then, the sentence style comparison unit 8 sets the sentence style determined by the sentence style determination unit 27 to the first
Alternatively, similarly to the second embodiment, a sentence style comparison process for comparing with the key syntax intended by the user designated by the key syntax designation unit 3 is performed (step S25). Then, the sentence style comparison unit 8 determines, as a result of the sentence style comparison processing,
The control unit 22 is notified of (a) word order matching, (b) word order reversal, or (c) other.

The control unit 22 distinguishes the relevant sentence from other sentences only when the sentence style comparing unit 8 notifies the comparison result of "word order reverse" of (b) above, and a different display form (for example, a halftone dot) is displayed. It is displayed by the output unit 9 (step S26).

When the processing of one sentence is completed as described above, the above-mentioned step S22 is performed for the next sentence in the input sentence.
26 are performed, and the same processing is repeated until the last sentence of the input sentence.

Next, the operation of each processing unit in the third embodiment will be described by giving an actual example. here,
It is assumed that the input sentence is “When the next sentence is entered, the created sentence is saved in the floppy disk.” As shown in FIG. 11A.

In the example of this sentence, if processed by the apparatus having the configuration of FIG. 5, the morphological analysis unit 14 obtains the morphological analysis result as shown in FIG. "(<Case particle) to → 5", "(case particle) to → 13" yields "5 <13", and the sentence style is [to;
Is mistakenly determined to be [].

In this embodiment, however, the syntactic analysis unit 25 performs syntactic analysis based on the analysis result of the morphological analysis unit 14, and the sentence style is determined by the dependency between the analyzed words. Therefore, the occurrence of such an error can be prevented.

Specifically, after the key syntax designating section 3 specifies the key syntax style as [to;] according to the user's operation, first, the input sentence “when entering the next sentence” in FIG. , The created sentence is saved in the floppy disk. "Is performed by the morphological analysis unit 14.

In the syntactic analysis unit 25, syntactic analysis processing for analyzing the modification relation between each word divided by the morphological analysis based on the morphological analysis result in the morphological analysis unit 14 as shown in FIG. Is performed, and the analysis result is shown in FIG.
A modification relation between each word as shown in is required.

Then, in the sentence style determining section 27, FIG.
The sentence style is determined as follows from the modification relation of the words, which is the result of the syntactic analysis by the syntactic analysis unit 25 for the input sentence as shown in FIG.

First, in the example of FIG. 13, the particle "ni"("ni" in "text input") appearing first among the two particles "ni" in the input sentence is dependent on the verb "enter". And the following particles "wo"("wo" in "sentence") and "ni"
The sentence style determination unit 27 determines that (“ni” in “on floppy disk”) is a dependency of the same main verb “save”. In this case, the sentence style determination unit 27 is used for the same verb "save" 2
The style of the input sentence is determined as [wa; ni] based on the two postpositional particles "o" and "ni" and their context.

When the sentence style determining unit 27 determines the sentence style of the input sentence, control is passed to the sentence style comparing unit 8 and the determined sentence style [[; The key syntax designated by the syntax designation unit 3 is compared with [to;]. As a result of the comparison here, "word order reverse" of (b) above is obtained, and the input sentence "When entering the next sentence, the prepared sentence is saved in the floppy disk as shown in FIG. 11 (a). Is distinguished from other sentences, and is displayed by the output unit 9 as shown in FIG.

The first to third embodiments of the present invention have been described above. In the above embodiment, the same character set is used, but the word order is different due to the relationship between the specific character set that determines the key syntax and the specific character set that determines the sentence style of the input sentence. The case has been described in which the corresponding input sentence is displayed separately from other sentences only in the case of "word order reverse" (see FIG. 3), but the present invention is not limited to this.

For example, as shown in FIG. 14A, not only the case of "word order reverse" (mismatch) of the above (b),
Even in the case of "others" (irrelevant) in (c), the distinction display method (hereinafter,
The distinctive display method # 1) may be applied. Alternatively, as shown in FIG. 14B, the distinctive display (here, shaded) is performed only in the case of “reverse word order” (mismatch) in (b) above. In addition to (display), in the case of “word order matching” (sentence style matches key syntax) in (a) above, OK display (here, in the vicinity of the corresponding input sentence) is a special display to that effect. Distinguishing display method that displays the character string of "OK" (hereinafter,
The distinction display method # 2) may be applied. Here, for example, in the document creation support apparatus of FIG.
FIG. 15 shows a specific example of distinctive display when the individual display methods # 1 and # 2 shown in (a) and (b) are applied.
This will be described with reference to FIG.

First, suppose that [to;] is specified as the key syntax by the user operation. In addition, the input sentence is shown in Fig. 15 (a), "First, it issues a command to the device to start error detection. Next, it enters grammar and style error detection processing for the input sentence. Error detection If so, an error warning will be presented to the user. "

The input sentence is divided into the following three sentences by the delimiter of the punctuation marks. (Sentence # 1) "First, issue a command to start error detection to the device." (Sentence # 2) "Next, start processing to detect grammatical and style errors in the input sentence." (Sentence # 3) “When an error is detected, an error warning is presented to the user.” In the sentence style determination unit 27, the sentence styles of the sentences # 1 to # 3 are calculated by the method described in the third embodiment. To decide.
The sentence style comparison unit 8 receives the sentence style determination result of the sentence style determination unit 27, compares the sentence styles of the sentences # 1 to # 3 with the key syntax designated by the user, and (a) matches the word order, (b) ) It is determined whether the word order does not match (word order reverse) or (c) is irrelevant (other). Statements # 1 to # 3 above
In the above example, the sentence style determined by the sentence style determination unit 27 and the comparison result by the sentence style comparison unit 8 are as follows.

(Style of sentence # 1) →→→ [to;] (mismatch) (Style of sentence # 2) →→→ [to] (irrelevant) (Style of sentence # 3) →→→ [ (Match) Therefore, based on the comparison result in the sentence style comparing unit 8 described above, the sentences (sentences # 1 to # 3) in the input sentence shown in FIG. (A) Discrimination display method # 1
15 is applied and is displayed by the output unit 9, the display processing result (processing result # 1) is as shown in FIG. Further, the display processing result (processing result # 2) when the distinctive display method # 2 is applied is as shown in FIG.

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As described above in detail, according to the present invention, it is possible to find a sentence style in which the word order is not uniform in the input sentence by a simple operation. It is possible to provide an effective support function for easy document creation.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of a document creation support device according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining a process of detecting / distinguishing display (visualization) of an inconsistent word order on an input sentence in the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining a method of determining a distinctive display in an inconsistent word order on an input sentence, which is applied in the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an input sentence processed in the first embodiment and a distinction display processing result for the input sentence.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of a document creation support device according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flow chart for explaining a process of detecting / distinguishing and displaying (visualizing) an inconsistent word order on an input sentence according to the second embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of an input sentence processed in the second embodiment and a distinction display processing result for the input sentence.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a morphological analysis result for the input sentence in FIG. 7.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of a document creation support device according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a flow chart for explaining a process of detecting / distinguishing display (visualization) of an inconsistent word order on an input sentence according to the third embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of an input sentence processed in the third embodiment and a distinction display processing result for the input sentence.

12 is a diagram showing a morphological analysis result for the input sentence in FIG.

13 is a diagram showing a syntactic analysis result based on the morphological analysis result in FIG.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an example of a distinctive display method different from the first to third embodiments.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an example of an input sentence composed of three sentences and a distinction display processing result when the distinction display method in FIG. 14 is applied to this input sentence.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Input part, 2, 12, 22 ... Control part, 3 ... Key syntax designation part, 7, 17, 27 ... Sentence style determination part, 8 ... Sentence style comparison part, 9 ... Output part, 14 ... Morphological analysis part, 16,
26 ... analysis dictionary, 25 ... syntactic analysis unit.

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A document creation support device having a support function for creating a document having a unified sentence style, wherein key syntax designating means for designating an arbitrary key syntax indicating a sentence style, and an input sentence. A sentence style determining means for determining the sentence style of the sentence from the position in the sentence in which a specific character exists for the character string in the character string; and a key syntax designated by the key syntax designating means and the sentence style determining means. A sentence style comparing means for comparing with the determined sentence style, and as a result of the comparison by the sentence style comparing means, if at least the word order of the key syntax and the determined sentence style is different, the character string of the corresponding sentence is changed to another. And a display unit for displaying the sentence separately from the character string of the sentence. 2. A document creation support device having a support function for creating a document having a unified sentence style, wherein key syntax designating means for designating an arbitrary key syntax indicating a sentence style, and an input sentence. Morphological analysis is performed on the morpheme analysis unit to obtain a word-by-word analysis result that includes word part-of-speech information; Sentence style determining means, a sentence style comparing means for comparing the key syntax designated by the key syntax designating means with the sentence style determined by the sentence style determining means, and a result of the comparison by the sentence style comparing means. A display means for displaying the character string of the corresponding sentence separately from the character strings of other sentences when at least the word order of the key syntax and the determined sentence style is different. Document creation support apparatus characterized by being provided. 3. A document creation support device having a support function for creating a sentence having a unified sentence style, wherein a key syntax designating means for designating an arbitrary key syntax indicating a sentence style, and an input sentence. Morphological analysis is performed on the morpheme analysis means for obtaining a word-by-word analysis result including word part-of-speech information, and a syntactic analysis is performed on the input sentence based on the analysis result of the morpheme analysis means. Syntactic analysis means for obtaining an analysis result including the modification relation, a sentence style determination means for determining the sentence style of the sentence based on the modification relation of each word obtained by the syntactic analysis means, and the key syntax designation means A sentence style comparing means for comparing the key syntax designated by the sentence style determining means with the sentence style determined by the sentence style determining means; A document creation support apparatus comprising: a display unit that displays a character string of a corresponding sentence separately from character strings of other sentences when the key syntax and at least the word order of the determined sentence style are different. 4. The display means has the same character set and the same word order depending on the relationship between the specific character set that determines the key syntax and the specific character set that determines the sentence style. 4. The document creation support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the case is displayed separately from the case where the word order is different and the case where the word groups are not the same. 5. A document creation support method for supporting the creation of a document having a unified sentence style, which accepts an external specification of an arbitrary key syntax indicating a sentence style, and Determines the sentence style of the corresponding sentence from the position in the sentence in which a specific character exists, compares the determined sentence style with the accepted key syntax, and as a result of this comparison, the key syntax and the determined sentence style If at least the word order is different, the character string of the relevant sentence is displayed separately from the character strings of other sentences. 6. A document creation support method for supporting the creation of a document in which sentence styles are unified, wherein an external specification of an arbitrary key syntax indicating a sentence style is accepted while morphological analysis is performed on an input sentence. Then, the analysis result of each word including the part-of-speech information of the word is acquired, the sentence style of the relevant sentence is determined based on the acquired part-of-speech information of each word, and the determined sentence style is the received key syntax. As a result of the comparison, if at least the word order of the key syntax and the determined sentence style are different, the character string of the corresponding sentence is displayed separately from the character strings of other sentences. Method. 7. A document creation support method for supporting the creation of a document in which sentence styles are unified, wherein an external specification of an arbitrary key syntax indicating a sentence style is accepted while morphological analysis is performed on an input sentence. By doing so, the analysis result of each word including the part-of-speech information of the word is obtained, the input sentence is parsed based on the analysis result of this word unit, and the analysis result including the modification relation of each word is obtained Then, the sentence style of the corresponding sentence is determined based on the obtained modification relation of each word, the determined sentence style is compared with the accepted key syntax, and as a result of this comparison, the key syntax and the determined A document creation support method characterized in that a character string of a corresponding sentence is displayed separately from character strings of other sentences when at least word order of sentence styles is different.