JPH1063667A - Document processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently convert a special symbol in a source sentence into the other special symbol designated by a user by detecting the part of a processing object concerning the special symbol and executing conversion according to conversion information. SOLUTION: When a special symbol data registration/edition processing mode is selected by a mode discriminating part 101, while referring to a special symbol registration/edition table 112 or a special symbol conversion reference table 113, data are set to a special symbol conversion collation table 114 by starting a special symbol processing control part 108. On the other hand, an input processing part 102 transfers source sentence data to a tag information extracting part 102 and tag information is extracted and separated. Afterwards, the tag information is added and synthesized with translated sentence data by a tag information synthesizing part 105 and at a special symbol conversion discriminating processing part 106, while using the data extracted from the special symbol collation table 114, the special symbol data in the translated sentence data are replaced with special symbols or the like designated by the user. Then, replaced document data are outputted to an output processing part 107.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing system, and is applicable to, for example, a machine translation system for translating a document such as a hypertext including a tag symbol into a document in another language.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A format when a document is displayed and printed out (special effects exerted when the document is displayed and printed out; for example, underlining, character emphasis, and dividing ruled lines for dividing a character portion into a plurality of parts, etc.). ), A document containing tag information consisting of a character string that specifies
A method of translating using a computer system has already been proposed (for example, see the following document). In this method, the text portion other than the tag portion is translated without translating the tag portion, and the tag information is left in the translated text.

Literature, Naota Ishikawa and Masayuki Hiyama, "English-Japanese Machine Translation Support System for Tagged Documents", CALS Japan '9
4, S2-1] In this specification, the tag information is HTML
(Hypertext Markup Language).

By the way, in a document with tags, for example, the notation in the document data of the tag information that defines the start position of a character string displayed or printed out in "highlighted characters" at the time of output is "<
EM>", and the notation in the document data of the tag information that defines the end position of the character string output as" highlighted characters "is"<
/ EM>".“<” And “>” used for notation of such tag information may be used as ordinary parenthesis information in document data. Therefore, the parenthesis information is displayed and printed so that the output processing unit or the like can easily discriminate whether the character is used as a character (concept including a symbol) defining the tag information or whether this character is used as the parenthesis information. In contrast to those indicated by “<” and “>”, the document data is described with a predetermined character string other than “<” and “>”. In this kind of document data, a symbol whose description (description) is different from that at the time of output is called a special symbol.

For example, the special symbol "&" is represented by "&amp;" in the document data, the special symbol "<" is represented by "&lt;" in the document data, and the special symbol ">" is represented in the document data. In this case, “&gt;” is used.

In the following description, the "ordinary form" of a special symbol refers to a mode that exists in the document data in the same notation as when output, and the "special form" of the special symbol is
A mode that exists in the document data in a notation different from that at the time of output. For example, if the special symbol “<” is described as “<” in the document data, it is in “normal form”.
If the special symbol “<” is described as “&lt;” in the document data, it is in a “special form”. Therefore,
In the document data, basically, a special symbol is described in a special form.

[0007]

In general, a machine translation system is provided with a user dictionary for translating a specific phrase in an original text into a translation desired by the user. And in translating special symbols,
There is a need to translate as a form desired by the user. For example, in a case where “<” or “>” is included in an English sentence as a bracket notation, the user may desire a translated sentence replaced with another bracket notation because the bracket notation is not familiar in Japanese. In order to respond to such a request, even if a special symbol is registered in a user dictionary or the like, for example, in a tagged document, the special symbol is represented in a special form in the document data. Therefore, the translation result desired by the user cannot be obtained. Therefore, it is conceivable to register the special form of the special symbol in the tagged document as it is in the user dictionary.
And the notation in the data are different, making the work of registering the user dictionary difficult, hindering the use of the translation process, and confusing the registration operation.

The same problem as described above occurs in document conversion between the same languages for converting a special symbol in an original text into another special symbol or the like.

For this reason, a special symbol which is treated as a special form different from the output notation in a document can be registered in a normal form when the user registers the special symbol, and in the document processing, as a special form of data in the document. Processable,
There is a demand for a document processing system that realizes an environment in which a special symbol in an original text can be efficiently converted to another special symbol specified by a user and that can perform document processing flexibly and efficiently.

[0010]

According to the present invention, there is provided a document processing system for processing a document having a special symbol which is described in a special form different from the notation at the time of display and printout. Is characterized by having the following means.

That is, (1) the special form of the special symbol;
Special symbol description information storage means that stores the correspondence between the notation at the time of display and printout and the normal form of the same special symbol, and (2) conversion of the special symbol to another special symbol or character,
And / or to take in conversion information for converting a character to a special symbol, take in the conversion source or destination special symbol in the conversion information in a normal form, and store the special symbol description information storage means. Special symbol conversion information importing means for converting into a special form by referring to stored contents, and (3) special symbol conversion information importing means. And a special symbol conversion executing means for detecting a portion of the document to be processed and executing conversion in accordance with the conversion information.

With such a configuration, the user can easily input the conversion information for the processing target document in which the conversion source or the conversion destination is a special symbol. The conversion can be performed correctly.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment in which a document processing system according to the present invention is applied to a machine translation system will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

The machine translation system of this embodiment is constructed on an information processing device such as a workstation having an input device, a processing device, a storage device (including an auxiliary storage device), and an output device. Specifically, it has the configuration shown in the block diagram of FIG.

Referring to FIG. 1, the machine translation system includes:
Functionally, the mode determination unit 101, the input processing unit 102,
Tag information extraction unit 103, translation unit 104, tag information synthesis unit 105, special symbol conversion determination processing unit 106, output processing unit 1
07, special symbol processing control unit 108, input buffer 10
9, a tag information holding unit 110, an output buffer 111, a special symbol registration / edit table 112, a special symbol conversion reference table 113, and a special symbol conversion collation table 114.

The mode determining unit 101 is a part for determining a processing mode designated by a user and controlling data processing. In this embodiment, there are two types of processing modes. That is, the translation processing mode for executing the translation processing of the tagged document, and the translation of the special symbol to another special symbol or a specific character, and the translation of the specific character to the special symbol, the heading in the original data. This is a special symbol data registration / edit processing mode in which the form and the heading form in the translation data are registered as data or the registered data is edited. The mode determination unit 101 determines which of the two types of processing mode is in.

When the translation processing mode is selected, control is transferred to the input processing unit 102 to register special symbol data.
When the editing processing mode is selected, control is transferred to the special symbol processing control unit 108.

The input processing unit 102 includes a mode determination unit 101
, And manages original text data input from an input device such as a keyboard or original data in an external storage device, and stores necessary original text data in the input buffer 109 when the processing is executed. The necessary original text data is transferred to the tag information extraction unit 103 of the row. Also, the input processing unit 102 transfers the next original data to the tag information extracting unit 103 according to a signal from the output processing unit 107, or when there is no original data to be processed, controls the mode determining unit 101. Or move it.

The tag information extraction unit 103 includes the input processing unit 10
2, the tag information is extracted and separated, and the tag information together with the position information is output to the tag information holding unit 110 for storage, and the original data from which the tag information is separated is translated. The data is output to 104.

The translation unit 104 inputs the original text data having no tag information output from the tag information extraction unit 103, and translates it into a target language specified by the user (for example, from English to Japanese or from Japanese to Japanese). English) and translated data (translation result) are output to the tag information synthesizing unit 105.

The tag information synthesizing unit 105 receives the translated sentence data output from the translating unit 104 and
0 based on the tag information added to the original sentence data extracted from the original sentence data, the target sentence document data with the tag is added to the target sentence data and converted into the special symbol conversion determination processing unit 1.
06.

The special symbol conversion determination processing unit 106 receives the tagged document data (translation data) output from the tag information synthesizing unit 105 as described later, and extracts the data extracted from the special symbol conversion collation table 114 described later. Using,
The presence of the special symbol data registered by the user in the translated data is determined, and if it exists, it is replaced with a special symbol specified by the user, and the replaced document data is output to the output processing unit 107. Is what you do.

The output processing unit 107 receives the translation data output from the special symbol conversion determination processing unit 106, stores the translated data in the output buffer 111, displays the data on a display device in accordance with a user's instruction operation, or stores the data in an external storage. For example, data is transferred to a device to store a translation. The output processing unit 107 activates input of the next original text data to the input processing unit 102 when the storage of the translation data is completed.

The special symbol processing control unit 108 is activated based on the judgment of the mode judgment unit 101, and is used by the user to register or edit data relating to translation of special symbols using the special symbol registration / edit table 112. Or the special symbol conversion reference table 113 using the created data.
, And controls processing for setting data in the special symbol conversion / collation table 114.

The special symbol registration / edit table 112 is a table used by a user to register and edit data relating to translation of special symbols. In registration or editing in this table, the user can work in a normal form without being aware of a special form in which special symbol-related data is handled in a tagged document. The configuration of the special symbol registration / edit table 112 is shown in FIG. 3 showing a registration example described later.

The special symbol conversion reference table 113 has, for example, the configuration shown in FIG. 2 described below, and stores special symbol related data in a normal form registered and edited by the user in the special symbol registration / edit table 112. It stores data to be converted into special symbol related data that is treated as a special form in the corresponding tagged document. That is, in the special symbol conversion reference table 113, the special symbol processing control unit 108 stores the special symbol registration / edit table 112
Is converted to special symbol-related data that is handled as a special form in a corresponding tagged document and is set in the special symbol conversion / collation table 114. The reference data for is stored.

The special symbol conversion / collation table 114 has, for example, a configuration shown in FIG. 4 described later, and is a special form in a tagged document corresponding to the special form-related data registered and edited by the user. The special symbol related data to be handled is set. The data set in the special symbol conversion collation table 114 is used by the special symbol conversion determination processing unit 106.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration example of the special symbol conversion lookup table 113 described above.

The special symbol conversion reference table 113 includes a special symbol reference heading item 113A and a special symbol conversion reference heading item 113B. The special symbol reference heading item 113A stores a heading of a special symbol in a normal form registered by the user. That is, display,
The character code in the notation at the time of print output is stored. In contrast, special symbol conversion reference heading item 113
B stores the heading of the special symbol used in a special form in the tagged document corresponding to the data of the special symbol reference heading item 113A. That is, its display,
Characters described in the document data are stored in order to output the character of the special symbol reference heading item 113A at the time of printout.

In FIG. 2, special symbol reference heading item 1
“<” And “>” are stored as the data of 13A, and the corresponding special symbol conversion reference heading item 11 is stored.
“&Lt;” and “&gt;” are stored as 3B data.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the configuration of the above-mentioned special symbol registration / edit table 112 used by a user for registering / editing data relating to translation of special symbols and an example of registration thereof.

The special symbol registration / edit table 112 includes a special symbol heading item 112A and a special symbol conversion heading item 1
12B. Special symbol heading item 11
2A stores the headline of the word to be registered in the original sentence (the heading in the form at the time of output) input by the user, and the special symbol conversion heading item 112B stores the special symbol heading item 112A input by the user. Corresponding to the headline,
The heading of the phrase to be translated (heading in the format at the time of output)
Is stored.

In FIG. 3, as special symbol heading data,
“<”, “>”, “｛”, And “｝” are registered, and “”, “”, “<”, and “>” are registered as the corresponding special symbol conversion heading data. I have.

FIG. 4 shows a special symbol conversion / collation table 114.
FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the configuration and an example of stored contents. FIG. 4 shows the contents stored in the special symbol conversion reference table 113 shown in FIG.
3 shows the contents stored in the special symbol conversion / collation table 114 when the contents stored in No. 2 are the contents shown in FIG.

When the user registers and edits the special symbol related data in the special symbol registration / edit table 112 in the special symbol conversion / collation table 114, the special symbol processing control unit 108 causes the special symbol processing control unit 108 shown in FIG. By referring to the symbol conversion reference table 113, special symbol related data which is treated as a special form in a tagged document and corresponding to a special form related data in a normal form (form at the time of output) registered and edited by a user is set. Is done.

The special symbol conversion collation table 114 includes a special symbol collation heading item 114A and a special symbol conversion collation heading item 114B.

In the special symbol collation heading item 114A, the data of the special symbol heading item 112A of the special symbol registration / editing table 112 is stored in the special symbol conversion reference table 113.
, Data converted to a special symbol heading used in a special form in the tagged document is set. At the time of this conversion, if the data in the special symbol heading item 112A of the target special symbol registration / edit table 112 does not exist as a heading of a special symbol used in a special form in the tagged document, the user Is set in the special symbol collation heading item 114A as the normal symbol heading of the special symbol registered in the normal symbol.

Similarly, special symbol conversion collation heading item 11
4B, the data of the special symbol conversion heading item 112B of the special symbol registration / edit table 112 is converted into the heading of the special symbol used in a special form in the tagged document by referring to the special symbol conversion reference table 113. The set data is set. Even at the time of this conversion, if the data in the special symbol conversion heading item 112B of the target special symbol registration / editing table 112 does not exist as a heading of a special symbol used in a special form in the tagged document. The special symbol conversion collation heading item 11 is a form in which the heading of the special symbol of the normal form registered by the user is unchanged.
Set to 4B.

In the example of FIG. 4, the special symbol collation heading item 1
The data of the special symbol conversion reference table 113 of FIG. 2 is used for the special symbols “<” and “>”, which are the data of the special symbol heading item 112A of the special symbol registration / edit table 112 of FIG. "&Lt;",
"&Gt;" is set, and for "@" and "@" other than special symbols, reference is made to the special symbol conversion reference table 113 of FIG. 2, and there is no corresponding special symbol reference heading item 113A. Therefore, "@" and "@" which are the headings as they are are set.

Also, special symbol conversion collation heading item 114
The data of B is stored in the special symbol registration / edit table 11 of FIG.
2 for the special symbol conversion heading item 112B other than the special symbol "", "", refer to the special symbol conversion reference table 113 in FIG. Since there is no data, the headings "" and "" are set as they are, and the special symbols "<" and ">" are referred to the special symbol conversion reference table 113 in FIG. &Lt;","& g
t; "is set.

Hereinafter, the operations of the special symbol processing control unit 108 and the special symbol conversion determination processing unit 106 for executing the characteristic processing of this embodiment will be described in order.

FIGS. 5 and 6 are processing flowcharts of the special symbol processing control unit 108.

As described above, the special symbol processing control unit 10
8 is activated based on the determination of the mode determination unit 101, and the user operates the special symbol registration / edit table 112
Processing for registering and editing data relating to translation of special symbols using data, and referring to the special symbol conversion reference table 113 using the created data, and setting data in the special symbol conversion collation table 114. When the series of activated processes is completed, the process returns to the mode determination unit 101.

When the special symbol data registration / edit processing mode is designated by the user, the mode determination section 101 determines this mode and activates the control by the special symbol processing control section 108. At this time, the special symbol processing control section 108 starts a series of processes shown in FIGS.

From the special symbol registration / edit table 112,
Extract existing special symbol registration / edit table data,
A display is made so that the user can register or edit the special symbol related data (step 1001).

Thereafter, through interactive data exchange with the user, the user registers and edits the special symbol related data in the displayed special symbol registration / edit table, and completes the registration / edit operation. Guide to
When a completion command is received from the user, the next step 10
The control is shifted to 04 (steps 1002 and 1003).
In this registration and editing work, the user can work on the special symbol-related data as normal form data without being conscious of the special form handled in the tagged document.

In the next step 1004, the data to be stored in the special symbol registration / edit table for which the registration / edit work has been completed is stored in the special symbol registration / edit table 112.

Thereafter, the special symbol registration / editing table 11
Then, one piece of data of the special symbol registration / edit table 112 stored in 2 is extracted (step 1005). Note that this one data extraction process is executed each time the processing loop of steps 1005 to 1010 is repeated, and the extraction order is, for example, as follows. The special symbol conversion heading item 112B corresponding to the extracted data of the special symbol heading item 112A is extracted first from the data of the special symbol heading item 112A of the special symbol registration / editing table 112, and then when the control is shifted to step 1005. Is extracted, and extraction is performed in the order of the next data of the special symbol heading item 112A.

When such one data extraction operation is performed, it is determined whether or not data could not be extracted by this extraction operation (step 1006). Here, if a positive result is obtained, the special symbol registration / edit table 112
Means that steps 1008 to 1010, which will be described later, have been executed for all the data stored in the mode.

If there is data extracted from the special symbol registration / edit table 112, the extracted data is collated with the data of the special symbol reference heading item 113A of the special symbol conversion reference table 113, and the collation result is obtained. It is determined whether or not there is data of the special symbol reference heading item 113A that matches the target data (steps 1007 and 1008).

As a result of this determination, if there is matching data, the special symbol conversion reference heading item 113B corresponding to the matched special symbol reference heading item 113A
Is extracted and replaced with the data extracted in the target step 1005 (step 1009). Then, the special symbol collation heading item 114A or the special symbol conversion collation heading item 1 in the special symbol conversion collation table 114
14B is set with data obtained by replacing the target data (step 1010).

On the other hand, if the result of determination in step 1008 is that there is no matching data, the data extracted from the special symbol registration / editing table 112 is used as is in the special symbol collation header Item 114A or special symbol conversion collation heading item 1
14B (step 1010).

Here, the special symbol conversion collation table 114
The order in which data is set in the special symbol collation heading item 114A or the special symbol conversion collation heading item 114B is the special symbol collation header item 114A at first, and the data in the next step 1010 is the special symbol conversion collation heading. The item 114B is the order in which the data in the next step 1010 is set in the special symbol collation heading item 114A, and is the same as the order in which one data is extracted from the special activation registration / edit table 112.

As a result, the data extracted from the special symbol heading item 112A of the special symbol registration / editing table 112 or the data obtained by replacing the data is set in the special symbol collating heading item 114A of the special symbol conversion / collation table 114, and the special symbol Data extracted from the special symbol conversion heading item 112B of the registration / editing table 112 or data obtained by replacing the data is set in the special symbol conversion collation heading item 114B corresponding to the special symbol collation heading item 114A of the special symbol conversion collation table 114. Will be done.

When the processing for one data extracted from the special symbol registration / editing table 112 is completed in this way, the process returns to the above-described step 1005, where the special symbol registration / editing is performed.
The next data in the editing table 112 is extracted and the same processing is performed. Therefore, the special symbol registration / edit table 112
The processing loop consisting of steps 1005 to 1010 is repeated for the number of data existing in. If the unextracted data does not exist from the special symbol registration / edit table 112 by repeating this processing loop, it is determined that there is no data in step 1006, and the processing of the special symbol processing control unit 108 ends.

Next, the special symbol conversion determination processing unit 106 that appropriately uses the contents stored in the special symbol conversion collation table 114
Will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIGS. 7 and 8 are processing flowcharts of the special symbol conversion determination processing unit 106.

As described above, the special symbol conversion determination processing unit 106 receives the translated text data output from the tag information synthesizing unit 105 and uses the data extracted from the special symbol conversion collation table 114 to convert the translated text data in the translated text data. The presence / absence of the special symbol data registered by the user is determined, and if it exists, the process is performed so that the translated data is output to the output processing unit 107 by replacing the special symbol data with the special symbol designated by the user.

When the special symbol conversion determination processing unit 106 starts the processing shown in FIGS.
The tag-added translation data output from step 05 is read (step 2001).

After that, the special symbol conversion collation table 114
Then, by performing an operation of extracting one data from the special symbol collation heading item 114A, it is determined whether or not the data has been extracted, thereby confirming the existence of the unextracted data of the special symbol collation heading item (steps 2002 and 2003).

Here, if unextracted data cannot be taken out by the extraction operation, the flow shifts to step 2009 described later. On the other hand, if unextracted data can be extracted by the extraction operation, character data is extracted from the head of the read translated data (step 2004), and it is further determined whether or not the extraction of the character data has reached the end of the sentence. (Step 2005).

When the extraction of character data reaches the end of the sentence, the process returns to step 2002 to execute the operation of extracting the next unextracted data from the special symbol conversion / collation table 114.

On the other hand, if the extraction from the translated sentence data does not reach the end of the sentence, the character data (including the character data string) extracted in step 2004
The data is compared with the data of the special symbol collation index item 114A of the special symbol translation collation table 114 extracted in step 002 (step 2006), and based on the collation result, the target special symbol conversion collation table 114 It is determined whether or not there is character data that matches the data of the special symbol collation heading item 114A (step 2007).

As a result of this determination, if there is no matching character data, the process returns to the above-described step 2004 to extract the next (closer to the sentence end) character data from the read translated data.

On the other hand, if matching character data exists, the matched special symbol conversion / collation table 114
The data of the special symbol conversion collation heading item 114B of the special symbol conversion collation table 114 corresponding to the data of the special symbol collation heading item 114A is extracted, and the part of the matched character data in the translation data is extracted from the item 114B. (Step 2008). Then, the process returns to the above-described step 2004 to extract the next (closer to the end of the sentence) character data from the read translated data and repeat the collation processing until the end of the sentence.

Steps 2002 to 2008 as described above
Is repeated, and in step 2003, if there is no more unextracted data in the special symbol collation heading item 114A of the special symbol conversion collation table 114, the input translation data (data that may be partially replaced) is output. The data is output to the processing unit 107, and a series of processing ends.

Hereinafter, the operation of the machine translation system according to the embodiment will be specifically described using an example sentence as a case of translating an English sentence into a Japanese sentence.

Here, output (display output or print output)
A case will be described in which English sentences 1 and 2 are input as original sentence data, and these English sentences 1 and 2 are translated into Japanese. The special symbols "<" and ">" in the first English sentence are translated as "" and "", respectively, and the special symbols "記号" and "、" in the second English sentence are respectively "<" , ">".

English 1 This is <a pen>. English 2 That is {a pencil}. As described above, when a special symbol is not to be translated as it is, "<" and ">" which are data relating to the special symbol are respectively "" and "", and "、" and "｝" are respectively " In order to translate as <>, “>”, it is necessary to register data relating to translation related to special symbols in advance.

Such registration is performed by activating the system of this embodiment and causing the mode determining unit 101 to translate the special symbol into another special symbol or specific character, or to execute the reverse of the conversion. This is performed by registering a heading form and a translation form of the special symbol therein as data, or by selecting a special symbol data registration / editing processing mode for editing the registered data. When the special symbol data registration / edit processing mode is selected, control is transferred to the special symbol processing control unit 108.

The special symbol processing control unit 108 extracts the existing special symbol registration / edit table from the special symbol registration / edit table 112 in step 1001 and displays it so that the user can register or edit the special symbol related data. .

Next, in step 1002, step 10
The user performs an operation of registering and editing special symbol-related data in the special symbol registration / edit table 112 indicated by 01. In this example, "<", "<"
The data “>”, “｛”, and “｝” are registered, and the special symbol conversion heading item 112B is added to the special symbol heading item 11B.
"[", """, Corresponding to the data registered in 2A,
The data “<” and “>” are registered. This registered state is as shown in FIG. 3 described above.

Next, in step 1003, when the user completes the registration / editing work in step 1002 and designates a completion command to the system, the special symbol processing control unit 108 receives the command and transfers control to the next step 1004. Step 1
In 004, the special symbol registration /
Data to be stored in the edit table is stored in the special symbol registration / edit table 112.

Next, in step 1005, step 10
Special symbol registration / edit table 112 stored in step 04
Perform data extraction processing. In this example, the special symbol heading item 112 in the special symbol registration / edit table 112 is used.
The data “<” which is the first data of A is extracted, and when the control is shifted to the next step 1005, the data ““ ”which is the first of the special symbol conversion heading item 112B is extracted. Every time
“>”, “”, “｛”, “<”, “｝”, “>” Are extracted.

In step 1006, it is determined whether there is data extracted from the special symbol registration / editing table 112.
Since there is data "<", the next step 100
Go to 7. In Step 1007, Step 100
5 and Special Symbol Conversion Lookup Table 113
Is compared with the data of the special symbol reference heading item 113A, and the existence of matching data is determined in step 1008. The extracted data is “<”, and the special symbol reference in the special symbol conversion lookup table 113 is referred to. Since the data of the heading item 113A is as shown in FIG. 2, it matches, and the process proceeds to the next step 1009.

In this step 1009, the data of the special symbol conversion reference heading item 113B corresponding to the data of the matched special symbol reference heading item 113A is extracted and replaced with the data extracted in the target step 1005. In this example, the data extracted in the target step 1005 is “<”, and there is data matching the special symbol reference heading item 113A of the special symbol conversion reference table 113 and the corresponding special symbol conversion reference heading item. Since the data of 113B is “&lt;”, the target data “<” is replaced with “&lt;”.

In the next step 1010, the target data is set in the special symbol collation heading item 114 A or the special symbol conversion collation heading item 114 B in the special symbol conversion collation table 114, but the process proceeds from step 1009 to step 1010. Sometimes, the replaced data is set, and when the process proceeds from step 1008 to step 1010, the extracted data is set as it is. The setting order is as described above. In this example, the data “& l
t; ”is set in the special symbol collation heading item 114A in the special symbol conversion collation table 114. The set contents of the special symbol conversion / collation table 114 at this stage are as shown in FIG.

Thereafter, control returns to step 1005,
"" Is extracted as the next data from the special symbol conversion heading item 112B of the special symbol registration / edit table 112, and the existence of the data is determined in step 1006.
Since the data exists, in step 1007, the special symbol reference heading item 113 of the special symbol conversion reference table 113
The collation with the data of A is performed, and in step 1008, the collation result is confirmed. Since the matching data does not exist in the special symbol reference heading item 113A of the special symbol conversion reference table 113, the target data ""
In step 010, the data "" is set in the special symbol conversion collation heading item 114B in the special symbol conversion collation table 114. Special symbol conversion collation table 1 at this stage
The set contents of 14 are as shown in FIG. 9 (B).

Next, control is transferred to step 1005 again, data is extracted from the special symbol registration / editing table 112, and the number of data existing in the special symbol registration / editing table 112 is sequentially changed from step 1005 to step 101.
0 is repeated. If there is no longer any data extracted from the special symbol registration / edit table 112, this is determined in step 1006, and the processing of the special symbol processing control unit 108 ends.

In this example, the special symbol conversion / collation table 114 when the processing of the special symbol processing control unit 108 is completed.
Are as shown in FIG. 4 described above.

When the processing of the special symbol processing control unit 108 is completed, the control returns to the mode determination unit 101. At this time,
When confirming the data related to the registered special symbol or correcting the data related to the registered special symbol, the special symbol data registration / edit processing mode is selected. When the translation processing of the tagged document is performed by reflecting the data on the registered special symbol, the translation processing mode is selected.

The operation of the system when the translation processing mode is selected will be described below.

When the translation processing mode is selected, control is transferred to the input processing unit 102. The English sentences displayed on the screen to be translated are English sentence 1 and English sentence 2 described above.

However, the input original text data is original text data including tag information for designating a format when a document is printed, and original text data 1 and original text data 2 corresponding to English text 1 and English text 2. Are as follows.

Original data 1 This is &lt;
a pen &gt; Original data 2 That is @a penci
l｝. Therefore, these original text data become input data of the input processing unit 102, are stored in the input buffer 109, and
The sentence is sent one by one to the tag information extraction unit 103 in the next stage. When all the processing target statements in the input buffer 109 have been processed, the control returns to the mode determination unit 101.

A detailed description of the translation processing of the tagged document in the translation processing system from the tag information extracting unit 103 to the tag information synthesizing unit 105 is omitted (see the above-mentioned document). As a result of the translation processing, the tag information synthesizing unit 105 outputs “This is &lt;
t; Is output and the special symbol conversion determination processing unit 10
6 will be input.

The special symbol conversion determination processing unit 106 reads the translated sentence data output from the tag information synthesis unit 105 in step 2001. In the next step 2002, the special symbol collation heading item 1 of the special symbol conversion collation table 114 is set.
One data is extracted from 14A. Next, when the control shifts to step 2002, the next data is extracted from the special symbol collation heading item 114A.

When the process first enters step 2002, the leading data "&lt;" is extracted from the special symbol collation heading item 114A of the special symbol conversion collation table 114. Next, in step 2003, step 200
It is determined whether or not the data of the special symbol collation heading item 114A extracted in step 2 exists. However, since the data “&lt;” exists, the process proceeds to the next step 2004.

In step 2004, step 2001
The character data is extracted from the head of the data read in step "20. This is &lt; pen &gt;"
At 05, it is determined whether the end of the sentence has been reached. If the end of the sentence has not been reached, the extracted character data is stored in step 2
In 006, the data is compared with the data “&lt;” of the special symbol collation heading item 114A of the special symbol conversion collation table 114 extracted in step 2002, and in the next step 2007, the collation result is determined, and a match is found. If so, the process proceeds to the next step 2008. Since the input data “this is &lt; pen &gt;” has one piece of data “&lt;” of the special symbol collation heading item 114A, it is determined in step 2007 that there is a match, and the process proceeds to step 2008.

In step 2008, the special symbol collation heading item 1 of the matched special symbol conversion collation table 114
Special symbol conversion collation heading item 114 of special symbol conversion collation table 114 corresponding to data “&lt;” of 14A
B data "" is extracted from the special symbol conversion collation table 114, and the input data "this is &lt;
t; Is replaced with the matching character data (actually, character string data). In this example, as a result of the replacement processing, translated data “This is“ Pen &gt; ”is generated.

Next, the process proceeds to step 2004, where the next character data is extracted. However, since no matching character data exists, the process reaches the end of the sentence. In step 2005, the end of the sentence is determined, and the process proceeds to step 2002.

In the second step 2002, the special symbol collation heading item 1 of the special symbol conversion collation table 114 is used.
The next data “&gt;” is extracted from 14A.
Through steps 2003 to 2007, it is determined whether there is matching data in the input translation data, and a replacement process is performed in step 2008.
is. Is generated.

Next, proceeding to step 2004, the next character data is extracted. However, since there is no matching character string data, it is determined in step 2005 that this is the end of the sentence, and the flow proceeds to step 2002.

In the third step 2002, the next data “｛” is extracted from the special symbol collation heading item 114A of the special symbol conversion collation table 114. Thereafter, steps 2003 to 2008 are executed. Since there is no matching data, the process proceeds from the step 2005 to the fourth step 2002, where the next data “｝” is extracted from the special symbol collation heading item 114A of the special symbol conversion collation table 114. Step 2008 is executed, but since there is no matching data in the input data, the process proceeds from step 2005 to step 2002 again.

In the fifth step 2002, no data can be extracted because there is no data to be extracted. In step 2003, it is determined that there is no unextracted data. The process proceeds to step 2009, and the replacement process is performed in step 2008. The translated data “This is a“ pen ”” is output.

Next, the translated sentence data “This is a“ pen ”” output from the special symbol conversion determination processing unit 106 is output to the output processing unit 107. The output processing unit 107 receives the translation data output from the special symbol conversion determination processing unit 106, stores the translated data in the output buffer 111, and transmits a processing end message to the input processing unit 102. The output processing unit 107 displays the translated text data in the output buffer 111 on a display device by a user's instruction operation, or transfers the translated data to an external storage device and stores the translated text.

Next, the input processing unit 102 transfers the original text data 2 (corresponding to English text 2) to the tag information extraction unit 103 according to the message of the output processing unit 107. Although details of the processing for the original text data 2 are omitted, “that is {pencil}” is output from the tag information holding unit 110 to the special symbol conversion determination processing unit 106, and the special symbol conversion determination processing unit From 106, "That is &lt; pencil & g
t; Is output to the output processing unit 107.

The output processing unit 107 receives the data output from the special symbol conversion determination processing unit 106, stores the data in the output buffer 111, and transmits a processing end message to the input processing unit 102. The output processing unit 107
Displays the data in the output buffer 111 on a display device in response to a user's instruction operation, or transfers the data to an external storage device to store the translation.

Note that this document data "that is &lt;
Pencil &gt; Is displayed, "that is <pencil>."

According to the above embodiment, screen display (print)
The upper part is written as normal forms such as "&", "<", and ">". In order to translate data related to special symbols that are treated as special forms in tagged documents as the form desired by the user, When registering the conversion information, the user can register the special symbol in a normal format and automatically process it as a special format in the tagged document in the translation process. The conversion information can be easily registered and edited, and even if the operation of registering and editing the conversion information is facilitated, it is possible to prevent the conversion information from adversely affecting the translation result.

Further, as described above, special symbols can be translated in a form designated by the user, so that translation of tagged documents can be performed flexibly and efficiently, and a practical translation environment can be realized. It has a great effect.
Conventionally, there are many machine translation systems in which conversion information using a special symbol as a conversion source or a conversion destination cannot be user-registered due to the difficulty of registering and editing conversion information using a special symbol as a conversion source or a conversion destination. Existed.

In the above embodiment, the special symbol represented by a special form in the tagged document is “&”,
Although "<" and ">" have been shown, other special symbols may be included. Even if a special form and a normal form are present, even if the character is not a symbol. good. The term “special symbol” in the claims is a concept including such special characters.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the translation of a tagged document which may include a special symbol has been described, but the document to be translated is not limited to the tagged document as long as the document includes the special symbol.

Further, in the above embodiment, the special symbol conversion judging section is interposed between the tag information synthesizing section and the output processing section. It may be inserted at other positions such as between the tag information extracting units, between the tag information extracting unit and the translating unit, or between the translating unit and the tag information synthesizing unit.

Further, in the above embodiment, the special symbol registration / edit table is shown. However, this is omitted, and when the user registration information is input, the special symbol is changed from the ordinary form to the special form. You may make it store in a special symbol conversion collation table immediately, converting into a form. In this case, when the registered content of the special symbol conversion information is displayed for editing, it is necessary to read the special symbol conversion collation table and convert the special symbol from a special form to a normal form.

Further, in the above embodiment, when the conversion information related to the special symbol is registered in the special symbol registration / editing table by providing the special symbol conversion collation table, the conversion from the normal form to the special form is performed. I showed you what to do,
The special symbol conversion collation table is omitted, and the special symbol conversion determination processing unit requests the special symbol processing control unit to take out data or convert from a normal form to a special form at a predetermined timing (step 2002, step 2008). It may be something.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the special symbol conversion determination processing unit always converts character data of translated sentence data that matches the conversion content of the special symbol stored in the special symbol conversion collation table. Alternatively, it may be possible to select from the input device whether or not to execute the conversion operation by the special symbol conversion determination processing unit.

Furthermore, in the above-described embodiment, the system configured on a single information processing apparatus is shown. However, the system according to the present invention is applied to a terminal device of a system connected via a network. Is also good. For example, the present invention can also be applied to a machine translation system in which text or hypertext including a tag symbol or the like exists in any server on a computer network, is retrieved from any other client, and displayed on the client. It is.

In the above embodiment, the present invention is applied to a machine translation system. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and may be applied to other document processing systems for processing documents containing special symbols. Can also be applied. For example, the present invention can be applied to a summarizing system for summarizing a tagged document including a special symbol, a semantic analysis system for performing a semantic analysis on a tagged document including a special symbol, and the like.

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As described above, according to the present invention, the special symbol description information storage means for storing the correspondence between the special form of the special symbol and the ordinary form, and the conversion information related to the special symbol Special symbol conversion information which takes in a conversion source or conversion destination special symbol in the conversion information in a normal form and refers to the storage contents of the special symbol description information storage means to convert it into a special form. Capturing means, and special symbol conversion executing means for detecting a part of the document to be processed, which corresponds to the conversion source of the conversion information in which the notation form has been converted for the special symbol, and executing conversion in accordance with the conversion information; Therefore, the conversion information can be easily input by the user and the usability can be improved, and the conversion related to the special symbol can be correctly executed even if the input is facilitated.

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FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a configuration example of a special symbol conversion reference table according to the embodiment;

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a registration example of a special symbol registration / edit table according to the embodiment;

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a configuration example of a special symbol conversion / collation table according to the embodiment;

FIG. 5 is a processing flowchart (1) of a special symbol processing control unit of the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a processing flowchart (2) of the special symbol processing control unit of the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a processing flowchart (1) of a special symbol conversion determination processing unit of the embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a processing flowchart (2) of the special symbol conversion determination processing unit of the embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining a specific operation of the embodiment;

[Explanation of symbols]

101: mode determination unit, 102: input processing unit, 103 ...
Tag information extraction unit, 104 translation unit, 105 tag information synthesis unit, 106 special symbol conversion determination processing unit, 107 output processing unit, 108 special symbol processing control unit, 109 input buffer, 110 tag information holding Section, 111: output buffer, 112: special symbol registration / edit table, 113: special symbol conversion reference table, 114: special symbol conversion collation table.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A document processing system for processing a document having a special symbol described in a special form different from the notation at the time of display and print output, the method comprising: A special symbol description information storage unit that stores the correspondence between the notation and the ordinary form of the same special symbol, and converts a special symbol into another special symbol or character, and / or converts a character into a special symbol. In this case, the conversion source or the conversion destination special symbol in the conversion information is fetched in a normal form, and the special symbol description information storage means is referred to for storing the special symbol. The special symbol conversion information fetching means for converting to a special symbol conversion information fetching means and the special symbol conversion information fetching means for detecting the part of the document to be processed which corresponds to the conversion source of the conversion information in which the notation form is converted. And a special symbol conversion executing means for executing the conversion in accordance with the conversion information. 2. The document processing system according to claim 1, wherein the document is a tagged document including tag information defining a format at the time of display and printout. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a translation unit for translating the source language document into a target language document, wherein the special symbol conversion executing unit performs a source language document stage or a target language document stage.
3. The document processing system according to claim 1, wherein conversion of a document portion related to the special symbol is performed.