JP3457035B2 - Document creation support device - Google Patents

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Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sentence creation support device capable of rewriting a sample sentence into a desired sentence while changing some sentences and words therein.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art This type of sentence creation support device is a device necessary for swiftly processing a sentence, since it is only necessary to replace a part of a sentence or a word as compared with the case of constructing a sentence from scratch. There is. The operation of the conventional text creation support device will be described below. FIG. 13 is a block diagram of a conventional text creation support device. In FIG.
Reference numeral 201 denotes an input unit including a keyboard for inputting various kinds of information and instructions, and reference numeral 202 denotes a sentence storage unit that stores sample sentences, menus, and the like. Sample sentences such as thank-you letters and apology letters are used. FIG. 14 shows, as an example thereof, a sample sentence for a catalog delivery guide.
The menu is a hierarchical representation of all sample sentences classified in the sentence storage unit 202. For example, a menu having a hierarchical structure as shown in FIG. 15 is used. In the sentence storage unit 202, in addition to the sample sentences and menus, candidate sentences and candidate words provided corresponding to the sentences and words in the sample sentences are also stored. These will be described later in the sentence candidate storage unit 206 and the word candidate storage unit 207.

Reference numeral 203 denotes a text search unit for searching a text stored in the text storage unit 202 according to information and instructions input from the input unit 201, and reference numeral 204 denotes information input from the input unit 201 or text searched and extracted by the text search unit 203. A sentence creating unit for creating a sentence using 205, a sentence created by the sentence creating unit 204 and a sentence searched by the sentence searching unit 203, including sentence candidates in the sentence and word candidates in the candidate sentence. A created-sentence storage unit temporarily stores, and a sentence candidate storage unit 206 stores therein sentence candidates in the sentence stored in the created-sentence storage unit 205. A sentence candidate is the whole of other candidate sentences that can be replaced with the small unit sentence that constitutes the sample sentence. FIG. 16 shows an example of the sentence candidates shown in FIG.
4 shows sentence candidates for the sentence in which the underline 1 is drawn in the sample sentence of 4. Here, in FIG. 16, the sentence 1 at the top row is a sentence of the sample sentence read by the search from the sentence storage unit 202 (corresponding to the sentence underlined 1 in FIG. 14, and this sentence is hereinafter referred to as a representative candidate sentence. Is called). The sentences 1a to 1d in the second to fifth columns correspond to sentence candidates. Note that, for convenience of description, the sentence candidate at the top is the first candidate, and will be referred to in descending order as it goes down.

A word candidate storage unit 207 stores word candidates in the candidate sentence stored in the sentence candidate storage unit 206. An example of word candidates is shown in FIG. In the figure, 2a to 2c are word candidates. The word in the top row indicates the word in the candidate sentence (hereinafter, this word is referred to as the representative word). As in the case of the sentence candidates described above, for convenience of description, the top one of the word candidates is the first candidate, and the word candidates are called in descending order.

A sentence candidate selection unit 208 selects a sentence from the sentence candidates stored in the sentence candidate storage unit 206 according to the instruction information input to the input unit 201 and stores the selected sentence in the sentence candidate storage unit 206. 209 is a word candidate storage unit 207
The word candidate selection unit that selects a word from the word candidates stored in the input unit 201 according to the instruction information input to the input unit 201, and stores the selected word in the word candidate storage unit 207, 210 indicates the word information input to the input unit 201. The input word storage unit 213 to be stored is an output unit such as a CRT, and the input unit 20
When nothing is input from 1, the menu screen of FIG. 15 is displayed, and when the input unit 201 is operated on the menu screen to instruct selection of a sentence type, for example, a sample sentence shown in FIG. 14 is displayed, and the input unit is further displayed. When there is an instruction to select a sentence candidate or word candidate through 201, the candidate screens shown in FIGS. 16 and 17 are simultaneously displayed in a window different from the sample sentence.

Next, the operation of the sentence creation support device having the above configuration will be described. Suppose you want to send a letter with the "sample of cosmetics requested by phone". However, since I do not know how to write the letter in a format like that, take out a sentence that seems to be helpful from the data containing various sentences, arrange the sentences and write the letter. To Therefore, the information to that effect is input to the input unit 201 in FIG. First, the sentence classifications shown in Fig. 15 are displayed on the menu screen. Select "Send / Remit", then select "Send" in the sentence classification and select "Send a sample" from the list. Select the letter “Send Catalog” that you can refer to. Then, the sentence search unit 203 searches the sentence storage unit 202 and extracts the letter sentence of "send catalog" shown in FIG. Therefore, this Figure 1
Modify the sentence shown in 4 to be the letter you need now. That is, input information into the input unit 201,
The text creation unit 204 changes the date, the product name, and the like.
FIG. 18 shows a sentence in the middle of making a change. That is, FIG. 18 shows a state in which “September 20” and “word processor” are changed to “October 1” and “cosmetics” in the sentence of FIG.

By the way, the retrieved sentence shown in FIG. 14 is stored in the prepared sentence storage unit 205. Then, candidates for replaceable sentences and words are prepared for some of the sentences and words in this sentence, and these are stored in the sentence candidate storage unit 206 and the word candidate storage unit 207, respectively. In the letter sentence shown in FIG. 14, the underlined portions of the sentence candidates are shown in FIGS. 16 and 19, and the word candidates are shown in FIG. 17, and the first candidate is shown in FIG. It is displayed in the text.

Now, in the sentence including the changed portion shown in FIG. 18, trying to see if there is a more appropriate expression,
When the content of the sentence candidate storage unit 206 is displayed, the display content is as shown in FIG. FIG. 20 shows the sentence candidate data when a part of the sentence displayed as the first candidate of the sentence candidate data shown in FIG. 16 is changed. As shown in the figure, even if the sentence in the created sentence is changed, the sentence candidate data does not change up to the corresponding word in the sentence of the other candidate, and remains the sentence candidate data shown in FIG. So, as a text expression,
When trying to use the sentence of the fourth candidate, the fourth candidate is selected, and the word changing work just performed in the prepared sentence is performed. FIG. 21 shows a sentence in which sentence candidates are selected and changed in this way.

Next, the word portion indicated by the second underlined portion in FIG. 14 will be changed in sentence by selecting a candidate word. FIG. 17 shows word candidate data displaying the contents of the word candidate storage unit 207, and FIG. 22 shows the word candidate storage unit 207 when the third candidate of the word candidate data is selected.
It is the content display of. At this time, the created text is changed as shown in FIG.

Further, FIG. 19 shows the third underlined sentence candidate data shown in FIG. 14, and the second candidate which is a desired sentence expression is selected from the sentence candidates, and further, FIG. 24 shows a sentence in which the word “catalog” is changed to “sample” in the created sentence. By thus selecting the sentence candidates, selecting the word candidates, and inputting the words, the letter sentence to be written can be obtained.

[0011]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional configuration, when another candidate sentence having a different sentence expression is selected after changing the word, the word in the selected sentence remains unchanged. Therefore, there is a problem in that those words have to be changed again, which is troublesome.

[0012] In view of the above problems, the present invention provides a very convenient sentence creation support device which can eliminate the need to change a word in a candidate sentence even if a candidate sentence having a different expression is selected after the word is changed. With the goal.

[0013]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a text creation support apparatus according to the present invention comprises a sample text and a sample text.
One or more sentence candidates that can replace the sentence in the pull sentence
, And a part of the sample sentence and sentence candidates.
For words, memorize in the form replaced with the index
Correlate the first storage means with the index and word
The second storage means for storing and the support in the first storage means.
In the first storage means for outputting sample sentences or sentence candidates
About sample sentences or indexes in sentence candidates
Refers to the second storage means,
Outputting means to output after converting to corresponding word
Changed from existing sample sentences or words in sentence candidates
Select the word and specify the changed word to replace the word to be changed.
Accepting means for accepting a replacement request and a replacement request;
The index of the word to be changed and the previous
The index of the modified word and the first memory
The sample sentence in the means and the variable in the sentence candidate
All of the indexes that are the same as the index of the word
Is replaced with the index of the changed word
And means.

Here, in the sample sentence and the sentence candidates,
Corresponding to the word, a word candidate group that can be replaced with the word
A third storage means for storing, wherein the receiving means is a front
It is stored in correspondence with the modified word in the third storage means.
The word candidates selected from the group of word candidates
It is characterized in that it accepts the designation to do.

The sentence creation support apparatus of the present invention is a
A pull sentence and a sentence that can be replaced with the sentence in the sample sentence
A first storage means for storing two or more sentence candidates;
Corresponding to the words in the sample sentences and sentence candidates,
Second storage means for storing a word candidate group replaceable with a word
And a sample sentence or sentence candidate in the first storage means
Output means to output and sample sentence being output or
Select the word to be changed from the words in the sentence candidates, and
Word candidates stored corresponding to the changed word in the memory
Replace the word candidate selected from the group with the modified word
Recipient who accepts the designation as a change word and the replacement request
A column, and the sample sentences and sentences in the first storage means
All of the same words as the modified word in the candidate,
And a word replacement unit that replaces the changed word.
Is characterized by.

With this configuration, through the receiving means,
From the words in the sample sentences or sentence candidates that are output,
Change word selection and change word replacement
When a designation and a replacement request are made, the word replacement means
The index of the word to be changed with reference to the storage means 2
And the index of the modified word,
The sample sentence in the storage means and the sentence in the sentence candidate
The index must be the same as the index of the word to be changed.
Is replaced with the index of the modified word.

[0017]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a sentence creation support device according to an embodiment of the present invention. The text creation support device is the same as that of the conventional technique shown in FIG. 13, and includes an input unit 301, a text storage unit 302, a text search unit 303, a text creation unit 304,
It is composed of a created text storage unit 305, an output unit 313, a word information storage unit 311, which is newly provided in this embodiment, a word replacement unit 312, and an index word conversion unit 314.

The input section 301, the output section 313, the text creation section 304, and the created text storage section 305 have exactly the same functions as those of the prior art, and therefore a description thereof will be omitted. The sentence storage unit 302 stores a correspondence table and sample sentences, sentence candidates, and word candidates similar to those of the conventional sentence storage unit. An example of the correspondence table is shown in FIG. This correspondence table is a table where sentence candidates and word candidates of representative words used in sample sentences are arranged in the right column and index numbers are arranged in the left column. The number or candidate word is uniquely determined. The sample sentence, the sentence candidate, and the word candidate are different from those in the sentence storage unit of the conventional technique, and are candidates among the representative words forming the sample sentence and the sentence candidates of the representative candidate sentence forming the sample sentence. The point is that a representative word having a word is stored in a state of being changed to an index number, and candidate words are also stored in a state of being changed to an index number.
An example thereof is shown in FIGS. 6, 7 and 8. 6 shows a sample sentence, FIG. 7 shows sentence candidate data of the first underlined part of the sample sentence of FIG. 6, and FIG. 8 shows word candidate data of a representative word used in the representative candidate sentence of the underlined part. .

The text search unit 303, in accordance with the information and instructions input from the input unit 301, the sample sentences stored in the sentence storage unit 302, the candidate sentences of the sample sentences, the candidate words, the candidate words of the candidate sentences, and the correspondence table. searching, created emissions <br/> pull sentence Bunkoho, word candidate, a sentence storage section 305
The correspondence table is stored in the word information storage unit 311 and the sample sentence is output to the output unit 313 via the index word conversion unit 314 described later. Incidentally, Sample sentences stored in the created sentence storage section 305, Bunkoho, word candidates in the form of a correspondence table stored in the word information storage unit 311 is the same as the storage form is stored in the text storage unit 302, For example, FIG. 5, FIG. 6, FIG. 7, and FIG.
It is stored as it is in the sentence candidate storage unit 306 and the word information storage unit 311.

The word replacement unit 312 replaces the input unit 301 with
The representative word of the sample sentence or the representative candidate sentence
When the change of the front word is instructed (hereinafter, the changed word
The word to be changed and the word to be replaced after that are called changed words.
B), input the information of the changed word and the changed word from the input unit 301
Received, and refer to the correspondence table of the word information storage unit 311
And change the index number of this modified word and the modified word
It is read and stored in the sentence candidate storage unit 306.
In sentence candidates, the same index number as the word to be changed
If there is an issue, change it to the index number of the changed word.
It is replaced and stored in the word candidate storage unit 307.
In word candidates, the same index as the word to be changed
If there is a representative word of the number, change it. Index of words
Replace with the number. Index word conversion unit 314
Is the sample sentence or sentence before output to the output unit 313.
Supplement, word candidates Word information storage unit 311 Refer to the correspondence table of
Corresponding to the index numbers used for them
Replace with the word 2 to 4 show the above sentence creation
It is a flowchart showing the control operation of the support device,
The operation will be described with reference to FIG.

First, when a sample sentence of "send catalog" shown in the figure is selected from the menu screen through the input unit 301 (S1), the sentence search unit 303 selects the sample sentence selected from the sentence storage unit 302. The sentence candidate of the sentence, the word candidate, the word candidate of this sentence candidate, and the correspondence table are read out, respectively, and the created sentence storage unit 305 and the word information record are read.
It is stored in the storage unit 311 (S2). At this time, the output unit 3
The selected sample sentence is displayed on the display screen 13 by replacing the index number contained therein with the word corresponding to the index number (S).
3).

Next, when the operator selects a candidate sentence or a candidate word through the input unit 301 (S4), FIG.
The subroutine of FIG. 4 is called (S5). That is, for example, when there is an instruction to change a sentence in the sample sentence to another candidate sentence (S10), the sentence candidates including the sentence in the candidate sentence are displayed in another window (hereinafter, sentence candidate or word When any candidate sentence is selected together with the window displaying the candidates, the sentence in the sample sentence is replaced with the selected candidate sentence (S1).
1). The sentence candidates or word candidates in the candidate window are displayed on the output unit 313 each time. It is replaced so the operator can select by the word itself rather than the index number. Furthermore, these display processes are
Since they are simultaneously performed in any of the processing steps, they will not be described again.

When the representative word displayed in the candidate window or the representative word in the representative candidate sentence is changed to another candidate word (S12), the word replacement unit 312 causes the correspondence table in the word information storage unit 311. Is read, the word to be changed (word to be changed) and the word to be replaced thereafter (changed word) are searched as search keys in the correspondence table, and the index number corresponding thereto is read (S13).
The index number of the changed word in the representative candidate sentence and the sentence candidate stored in the sentence candidate storage unit 306 is replaced with the index number of the changed word (S14), and the word candidates stored in the word candidate storage unit 307 If the index number of the word to be changed in is the representative word, the index number of the changed word is replaced with that (S15). Thus, replacement of all the sentence candidates including the index number of the changed word and the word candidates is automatically executed.

After that, in the case of a representative word that directly constitutes the sample sentence, the index number of the representative word in the sample sentence is replaced with the index number of the changed word, and in the case of the representative word in the representative candidate sentence, the sample The representative candidate sentence in the sentence is replaced with the representative candidate sentence after being replaced with the index of the selected changed word. FIG. 9 shows an example in which “catalog” in the representative candidate sentence in the first underlined portion of FIG. 6 is changed to “sample”. From this figure, it can be seen that the corresponding words of all the candidate sentences have been replaced, and further, the sentence candidate data in the second underlined portion of FIG. 6 becomes FIG. The data is shown in FIG. As you can see from these figures, all candidate sentences other than the candidate sentence that changed the word,
Words are also replaced in the candidate words. Note that FIG. 12 shows the above process, that is, "catalog" in the representative candidate sentence.
Is a sample sentence stored in the created-sentence storage unit 305 after changing "to" to "sample", and all (20) "catalogs" are replaced with (22) "sample".

In the present embodiment, the information input to the input unit 301 is selection information, but the word change may be made not only by word selection but also by inputting the word itself. In that case, the input word is , Is stored in the input word storage unit 310 , the word is newly added to the correspondence table, and the same processing is performed.

[0026]

According to the text creation support device of the present invention, 1
If one candidate sentence or word candidate is changed, the word is changed in the other candidate sentences and word candidates as well. Therefore, even if another candidate sentence is selected after the word change, repeated words There is an effect that it is not necessary to perform the changing operation, and the operation labor can be remarkably reduced.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a text creation support device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a control operation of the text creation support device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a control operation of the text creation support device of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a control operation of the text creation support device of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a correspondence table.

FIG. 6 is a sample sentence stored in a sentence storage unit.

FIG. 7 is sentence candidate data stored in a sentence storage unit.

FIG. 8 is word candidate data stored in a sentence storage unit.

9 is a diagram showing the sentence candidate data stored in the sentence candidate storage unit when “catalog” in the representative candidate sentence in the first underlined portion of FIG. 6 is changed to “sample”.

10 is a second underlined sentence candidate of FIG. 6 stored in the sentence candidate storage unit when “catalog” in the first underlined representative candidate sentence of FIG. 6 is changed to “sample”; It is a figure which shows data.

11 is a diagram showing word candidate data stored in a word candidate storage unit 307 when “catalog” in the representative candidate sentence in the first underlined portion of FIG. 6 is changed to “sample”.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing sample sentences stored in the created sentence storage unit when “catalog” in the representative candidate sentence in the first underlined portion of FIG. 6 is changed to “sample”.

FIG. 13 is a configuration diagram of a conventional text creation support device.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing sample sentences stored in a sentence storage unit.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a menu read from a text storage unit.

16 is a diagram showing sentence candidate data in the first underlined portion of the sample sentence in FIG.

17 is a diagram showing word candidate data of the second underlined part of the sample sentence of FIG. 14. FIG.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing a partially modified sample sentence.

19 is a diagram showing sentence candidate data of the third underlined portion of the sample sentence of FIG.

20 is a diagram showing the sentence candidate data after changing a part of the first underlined portion of the sample sentence of FIG.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing a partially modified sample sentence.

22 is a diagram showing the word candidate data after changing the second underlined word candidate of the sample sentence of FIG.

FIG. 23 is a diagram showing a partially modified sample sentence.

FIG. 24 is a diagram showing a partially modified sample sentence.

[Explanation of symbols]

301 Input section 302 Text memory 303 sentence search unit 304 Writing department 305 Created text storage 306 sentence candidate storage 307 word candidate storage unit 308 sentence candidate selection section 309 word candidate selection unit 310 Input word memory 311 word information storage unit 312 word replacement section 313 Output section 314 Index word conversion unit

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A format in which a sample sentence and one or more sentence candidates that can be replaced with sentences in the sample sentence are stored, and some words in the sample sentence and sentence candidates are replaced with indexes. In the first storage means, a second storage means for storing an index and a word in association with each other, a sample sentence or a sentence candidate in the first storage means, and the first storage means. For the index in the sample sentence or sentence candidate in the above, output means for referring to the second storage means and converting it into a word corresponding to the index, and outputting the sample sentence or sentence candidate Selecting a changed word from the words, specifying a changed word to be replaced with the changed word, and receiving means for receiving a replacement request; and the changed word with reference to the second storage means. The index and the index of the changed word are specified, and all the same indexes as the index of the changed word in the sample sentence and the sentence candidates in the first storage means are replaced with the index of the changed word. A sentence creation support device, comprising: 2. A third storage unit that stores a word candidate group that can be replaced with the word in association with the words in the sample sentence and the sentence candidates, wherein the accepting unit is the third storage unit. 2. The sentence creation support device according to claim 1, wherein a designation is made to select a word candidate selected from a word candidate group stored corresponding to the changed word in the change word as the changed word. 3. A format in which a sample sentence and one or more sentence candidates that can be replaced with sentences in the sample sentence are stored, and some words in the sample sentence and sentence candidates are replaced with indexes. A method for assisting text creation using a text creation support device comprising: a first storage means for storing a text and a second storage means for storing an index and a word in association with each other. The device outputs the sample sentence or sentence candidate in the first storage unit, and the index in the sample sentence or sentence candidate in the first storage unit is referred to in the second storage unit. The output step of converting the word into a word corresponding to the index and outputting the word, the sentence creation support device selects the word to be changed from the words in the output sample sentence or sentence candidate, and the word to be changed. A step of accepting a change word to be replaced with and a request for replacement, and the sentence creation support device identifies the index of the changed word and the index of the changed word by referring to the second storage means. , A word replacement step of replacing all of the same indexes as the indexes of the changed words in the sample sentence and sentence candidates in the first storage means with the changed word indexes. How to support writing. 4. The sentence creation support apparatus further comprises third storage means for storing a word candidate group that can be replaced with the word in correspondence with the words in the sample sentence and the sentence candidates, and the accepting step. 4. The sentence creation support according to claim 3 , wherein the designation of a word candidate selected from a word candidate group stored corresponding to the changed word in the third storage means as the changed word is accepted. Method.