JP2002032367A - Information addition method and text presentation device for supporting text interpretation - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [PROBLEMS] In a medium for transmitting information through characters, for example, a medium such as an electronic newspaper provided by data broadcasting, a human can understand a sentence more strictly, and can operate a sentence by a machine ( Reconstruction and translation). SOLUTION: In a sentence that is grammatically expressed or a sentence written with leaving structural ambiguity, auxiliary information (structure, how to relate modifiers, Omissions, etc.) are added in a manner that is not directly reflected in normal sentence presentation, thereby improving inconvenience derived from the Japanese sentence description and supporting sentence interpretation.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to more precise understanding of texts by humans and manipulation of texts by machines in media, such as electronic newspapers provided by data broadcasting, for transmitting information through characters. (Reconstruction and translation) related to the method of adding information used to support, especially the sentence expressed softly grammatically or written with leaving structural ambiguity, the meaning of the sentence or By adding auxiliary information (structure, how to relate modifiers, omissions, etc.) that is useful in conveying the structure in a manner that is not directly reflected in normal sentence presentation, it is possible to improve the inconvenience derived from the Japanese sentence description. The present invention relates to an information adding method and a text presentation device for supporting text interpretation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An announcer reads out the contents of an article and conveys information, for example, a media such as a TV news program, and a media such as an electronic newspaper provided by data broadcasting, which conveys information through characters. When compared simply, in the latter case, it tends to be difficult to convey the meaning to the reader faithfully.

[0003] In the former video and audio media,
For example, while supplementary or additional supplementary information such as "between", "inflection", and "gesture gesture" can be supplemented and transmitted, the latter is due to the lack of such supplementary information. ing. In particular, newspapers often try to pack information in a limited space, and articles are often described or omitted in wordings peculiar to each newspaper company, and it is extremely difficult to restore the structure of sentences. It can be difficult and sometimes even almost incomprehensible.

[0004]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In Japanese, the proper use of “punctuation marks (.)” And “reading points (,)” assists the readability of sentences and makes it possible to understand the relationship between phrases. In this way, we try to express supplementary information similar to "between" and "intonation" when reading aloud.

However, due to the small number of symbols used for such purposes, the same symbol may be used to express several meanings in one sentence in some cases. There was a problem that readers could be misunderstood as a result.

[0006] In Japanese, the ability to faithfully express complex semantic contents having a hierarchical structure without misleading tends to be relatively poor. Except for some specific fields, such as sentences, in general, sentences are created based on idiomatic rules or the personal rules of the person expressing them, and only punctuation and punctuation are used. There is a limit in using the expression method of (1) to convey the meaning of a sentence having a complicated structure to the reader without misunderstanding and in a legible manner.

[0007] Furthermore, in the case of text media, there is even a case in which an expression ignoring the Japanese grammar is dared to be used in order to improve the appeal effect, etc., but in such a case, the meaning of the sentence alone is provided to the reader. Sometimes it is almost impossible to communicate faithfully.

[0008] The present invention has been made in view of the above-described circumstances, and has been modified so that the meaning or structure of a sentence expressed in a grammatically soft sentence or a sentence described with leaving structural ambiguity is added. Helpful information (structure,
Modifiers, omissions, etc.) are added in a manner that is not directly reflected in normal sentence presentation, thereby improving the inconvenience derived from the Japanese sentence description and improving the limit of expressiveness by character media. It is an object of the present invention to provide an information adding method and a text presenting device capable of supporting text interpretation, which are capable of interpreting text.

[0009]

Means for Solving the Problems As one of the approaches to solve the above-mentioned problems, information such as the above-mentioned "between", "inflection", "gesture gesture", etc. provided in video and audio media is encoded. May be added to the text. This encodes the operation performed by an announcer or the like in order to faithfully convey the meaning and structure when reading out a sentence, and is effective as a method of indirectly expressing the meaning or structure of the sentence.

On the other hand, as one approach for solving the above-mentioned problem, it is conceivable to directly add the meaning or structure of the sentence to the sentence on the sentence creating side. This is because, while maintaining the artistic expression of the text media as usual, separate from the text media information (so that it is not usually presented as text media), It adds information that complements the structure and is an effective way to directly express the meaning or structure of a sentence.

The present invention mainly embodies the latter method, and provides auxiliary information (related to the structure and modifiers) that is useful in transmitting the meaning or structure of a sentence expressed grammatically softly to the sentence. , Abbreviations, etc.) in a manner that is not directly reflected in ordinary sentence presentation, so that the conventional abbreviated and conventional sentence expression of news manuscripts and newspaper articles and the more strict sentence content description It is trying to realize a sentence description that balances the expressions for

More specifically, this is realized, for example, as described below.

(1) Add grammatical information such as (hierarchical) units in the sentence structure, their grammatical relations, reference relations of demonstrative pronouns, and omissions.

(2) The information is positioned to "support" the description of the contents of the sentence, and it is not necessary to completely describe the grammatical structure by itself, but to selectively describe portions that can be added. To allow (the uncertainty,
It is not necessary to add to the troublesome part).

(3) As a specific information adding method, a method based on a specification conforming to XML (eXtensible Markup Language), which is a meta language for describing information such as a logical structure and a semantic structure of a document, or a separate file A method of providing additional information is conceivable.

According to the present invention, it is possible not only to help a human understand a sentence more strictly, but also to support a manipulation (reconstruction and translation) of the sentence by a machine. Also, there is no undue burden due to the arbitraryness of the description. Furthermore, XML
If the information addition method conforming to the specifications conforming to XHTML is adopted, XHTML (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language)
Since compatibility with conventional media such as e) can be ensured, it is possible to smoothly promote its general use.

In the information adding method and the text presenting apparatus for supporting the text interpretation according to the present invention having the above-described excellent features, the additional information as exemplified below is not normally presented as character media. In this embodiment, the information is added to a sentence including character information.

For example, as described in claim 1, information for indicating a range of a block having a grammatical or semantic unit in a sentence is added in association with the range.

In this case, the semantic "block" may have a hierarchical structure. For example, before and after the block, information having a function such as parentheses "()" used in mathematics is used. Add.

Alternatively, as described in claim 2, information indicating a range is added to a block having a grammatical or semantic unit in the text in association with the range, and the block is added. Block and decoration / modification,
Information indicating the relationship with another block having a predetermined relationship including the relationship between the subject / predicate, parallel, and object is added.

In this case, it is only necessary to add information indicating that a certain “block” is related to another “block”, and further, the manner of the relation (modification relation, equivalent relation, subject / Information about the relationship between a predicate and an object, etc.) may be added.

Alternatively, in the case where one or a plurality of words that should be originally described in the sentence is omitted in the sentence to simplify the expression of the sentence, the omitted word is included. Information indicating that an abbreviated phrase is present or information relating to the abbreviated phrase itself is added to the text.

In this case, as the omitted phrase, for example, information indicating that a grammatically existing one (for example, a subject) is omitted may be added to assist the grammatical interpretation or may be omitted. Information about things (words, sentences, etc.) can be added.

Further, as described in claim 4, when the sentence includes a demonstrative pronoun or a phrase other than the demonstrative pronoun and having a function of designating another part in the sentence. In the above, it is also possible to add information on which phrase in the text is the target indicated by the demonstrative pronoun or a phrase other than the demonstrative pronoun.

By adding the information indicated by the demonstrative pronoun (or the one having the same function), it is possible to accurately understand the object indicated by the phrase such as "this", "it", "that". it can.

In the above claims 1 to 4, the information to be added is intended to be grammatical information (textual structure information), and the addition of semantic information is a requirement of the present invention (although it may be present). is not. Therefore, it is preferable that the semantic information is expressed in a text (or a quasi-text, which is additional information indicating omission or paraphrase).

It is not always necessary to add all types of items of the above-mentioned various types of additional information.
In actual operation, only information that can be added is added.

In order to add the additional information exemplarily recited in claims 1 to 4 “in a form not normally presented as character media”, for example, as described in claim 5, the additional information May be added according to a specification conforming to XML.

[0029] Alternatively, as described in claim 6, the information to be added is provided "in a form not normally presented as character media" by storing the added information in a separate file independent of the text of the text. You can also.

The sentence to which the additional information has been added in this way is, as described in claim 7, information in accordance with the information adding method for supporting the sentence interpretation according to any one of claims 1 to 6. A sentence presentation device for displaying an added sentence, wherein additional information separated from the provided sentence is input or additional information provided as a separate file is input, and a display level set by a user is provided. Additional information selecting means for selecting and outputting the additional information at a corresponding level, and additional information for receiving the output of the additional information selecting means, converting the selected additional information into a display format, and outputting the converted information A sentence for inputting the output of the display format converting means and the additional information display format changing means and for inputting the provided sentence, synthesizing the sentence and the additional information and outputting to the display means And the additional information combining unit, by using a sentence presentation device configured with a, it is possible to perform text presentation in a display mode desired by the user.

[0031]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of an information adding method for supporting a text interpretation according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description of each embodiment, information to be added is underlined to clearly indicate that the information is additional information according to the present invention.

[0032]

First Embodiment First, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described.
FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining an information adding method for supporting text interpretation according to the first embodiment. In the present embodiment, information indicating the range of a semantic “block” is added.

For example, "I and your parents are on good terms."
In this sentence, this sentence is interpreted in two ways: whether "I" and "your parent" are good friends, or "My parent" and "your parent" are good friends There is ambiguity. Of course, if the intention is the former,
If you write "I'm good with your parents" or change the word order and say "I'm good with your parents", the best friends are "I" and "You" It is clear that he is a "parent", and if the latter intention, that is, "my and you" and "parents" are good friends, "my parent and your parents are good friends." The risk of misunderstanding disappears. However, even though these styles are excellent in the accuracy of content transmission, they often impair the naturalness and beauty of sentences, and they are not good for everyday Japanese, and require the art of sentences. They tend not to be liked by artists.

(Embodiment 1-1) The semantic "block" such as "I and ( your parent ) are good friends" or " ( My and you ) parent are good friends." Can be specified for each meaning if information indicating the range of "is added.

This is the simplest (not troublesome) method of adding information. In this information addition method, it can be said that the sentence structure is described.

(Embodiment 1-2) Also in the same meaning, " ( I and ( your parent )) are good friends" and " (( I and you ) parent" are good friends ) . There may be various levels of detail in the first stage of information addition.

In the present embodiment, the addition of information is represented by " ( " or " ) ".
As shown in parentheses and underlines as in the above, this can be done by various methods such as a method of adding information by XML as shown in an embodiment described later.

[0038]

Second Embodiment Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIG. In this embodiment, information indicating whether a certain “block” is related to another meaningful “block” is added.

For example, to explain the movement of a flying pirate in an amusement park, suppose that there is a sentence "The hull of a pirate ship sways in a large wave."
Whether the hull of the pirate ship is large (first engagement), whether it moves as if it were waving (second engagement), or whether it sways greatly in a waving movement (Third way of engagement), three kinds of variations can be considered for the way of "big". The following information is given as an example of the manner in which these methods are involved in the additional information.

(Embodiment 2-1) " (1 Hull of a pirate ship )
(2 → 1 bigger ) "The hull of the pirate ship fluctuates (by 2 to 3 ) (to wave 3 ) ." The hull of the pirate ship oscillates (by 2 to 4 ) and waved (by 4 ) . " In the third example, an expression example of the additional information is shown in Example 1 of FIG.

(Embodiment 2-2) Further, as a modified example,
In the case of the third engagement, " (1 pirate ship's hull ) (2 → 4 larger ) (3 → 4 so that it undulates ) (4 → 1
Shakes. )] . An expression example of the additional information according to this modification is shown in Example 2 of FIG.

[0042]

Third Embodiment Next, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described. In this embodiment, similar to the second embodiment, a certain “block” is replaced by any other “block”.
In addition, information about how to be engaged is added.

[0043] (Example 3-1) For example, when the show "was scratched about yesterday she says hate him amok." That the engaging side of the sentence its kind with additional information, for example, "(1
When → 6 yesterday (2 subject she ) (3 reasons → 6 frenzy ) (4 purpose → 6 him ) (5 adjective → 6 no )
(6 predicates → 2 were lost. )

(Embodiment 3-2) In the third case of the embodiment 2-1 when the type of engagement is added, for example, the following is performed.

[ (1 ) The hull of the pirate ship is (2 modified → 4
Largely ) (three modifications → four waves ) (four predicates → one swaying. ) In the above-described embodiment, terms such as “subject” and “predicate” are used for technical explanation of the invention. However, those terms are not necessarily linguistically appropriate and are required to be linguistically appropriate as long as the purpose of showing the relationship between blocks can be achieved. not. An expression example of the additional information according to the embodiment 3-2 is shown in an example 3 of FIG.

[0046]

Embodiment 4 Next, Embodiment 4 of the present invention will be described. In the present embodiment, when a description of a part of a sentence is omitted for convenience of expression or the like, information specifying that the omission is omitted is added.

(Embodiment 4-1) For example, in the sentence "I dislike bananas, but I like oranges", the subject is omitted, but when this is notified by additional information, the following is performed. " (1 main) (2 objectives → 3 bananas ) is (3 statements
( 1 dislikes ), but (4 objectives → 5 oranges ) is (5 statements → 1
I like ) . By adding the additional information in this manner, "XX dislikes bananas, XX likes oranges.", And "XX dislikes bananas, and XX likes oranges." It does not mean that.

[0048]

Fifth Embodiment Next, a fifth embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the present embodiment, similarly to the fourth embodiment, when a part of the description of a sentence is omitted for convenience of expression or the like, information about the omitted content of the omitted part is further added, or The supplementary information is added when supplementing makes it easier to understand the meaning of the sentence.

For example, if there is a headline sentence of “Insurance murder, indictment fact acknowledged”, it does not mean that “insurance murder was indicted fact”, but that The text was partially omitted, as in "I admitted the fact." It is easy for a person who pays attention to the news and the like to grasp the background to understand the sentence by supplementing the abbreviation, but it is difficult to supplement the abbreviation for those who do not know the background.

[0050] (Example 5-1) Thus, this "○○ Prefecture
In in the trial of occurred insurance murder, the defendant was a sure <br/> Mel testimony to the fact prosecution. "
It is completed as a sentence so that people who do not know the background can understand the approximate contents.

[0051]

Embodiment 6 Next, Embodiment 6 of the present invention will be described. In the present embodiment, information is added which indicates a demonstrative pronoun (or a phrase having a function of pointing to another part of a sentence).

(Embodiment 6-1) For example, a description is given of "an arithmetic device characterized by having three arithmetic elements of an adder, a multiplier and a divider, and inputting the output thereof and the output thereof". If there is a sentence, " (1 adder ) and (2 multiplier )
And three (3 dividers ) , (> 1 it )
An arithmetic device characterized in that the output of (> 2 ) and the output of (> 2 ) are input to (> 3 ) . "
"It" refers to "adder,""that" refers to "multiplier," and "this" refers to "divider."

[0053]

Embodiment 7 Next, Embodiment 7 of the present invention will be described. In this embodiment, an example of information addition by XML is shown as a specific information addition method. (For example, it may be shown as a method compatible with BML.) (Embodiment 7-1) This embodiment is an example for the text exemplified in the embodiment 1-1.

" ( I and ( your parent )) are on good terms."
Is encoded using XML, for example, as follows.

[0055] "<brackets> me <brackets> your parents </ Batch
The arc></ / parenthesis> is close. (Embodiment 7-2) This embodiment is an example in which the text exemplified in the embodiment 1-2 is targeted.

" ( Parent of (( my and you ) ) is close."
Is encoded using XML, for example, as follows.

[ <Parens><Parens> Me and you </ Parens>
Of the parent </ brackets> is the good relationship. (Embodiment 7-3) This embodiment is an example in which the text exemplified in the embodiment 2-1 is targeted.

[ (1 Hull of a pirate ship ) (2 → 4 larger )
(Like 3 → 4 waves ) (4 → 1 swinging. )
When encoding using L, for example, it becomes as follows.

[ <Parenthesis id = “1”> The hull of the pirate ship is
</ Parentheses><parentheses id = “2” relation = “4”> large <
/ Parenthesis><parenthesis id = “3” relation = “4”> The wavy </ parenthesis><parenthesis id = “4” relation = “1”> swings. << / parenthesis >> (Embodiment 7-4) This embodiment is an example in which the text exemplified in the embodiment 3-1 is targeted.

[ (1 subject pirate ship's hull ) (2 qualification → 4
( Enlarged ) (3 qualifications → 4 waves ) (4 predicates → 1 swaying. )) Is encoded using XML, for example, as follows.

[ <Parenthesis id = “1” type = “subject”
> The hull of the pirate ship is </ parenthesis><parenthesis id = “2”
= "4" kind = "modification"> large </ parenthesis><parenthesis
id = “3” engagement = “4” kind = “modification”> wavy </ parentheses><parentheses id = “4” engagement = “1” kind
Kind = "predicate"> swinging. << / parenthesis >> (Embodiment 7-5) This embodiment is an example in which the text exemplified in the embodiment 4-1 is targeted.

[ (1 main) (2 objectives → 3 bananas ) is (3 statements
( 1 dislikes ), but (4 objectives → 5 oranges ) is (5 statements → 1
I like ) . Is encoded using XML, for example, as follows.

[ <Parenthesis id = “1” type = “subject”
><Omitted/><//parenthesis><parenthesis id = “2” relation = ”
3 "Kind =" Purpose "> Banana </ Parentheses> is <Parens i
d = “3” relation = “1” kind = “predicate”> dislike </ summary
Arc>, but <parenthesis id = “4” relation = “5” kind = ”eye
"> Orange </ braces> is <braces id =" 5 "
= “1” Kind = “predicate”> I like </ parentheses> . (Embodiment 7-6) This embodiment is an example in which the text exemplified in the embodiment 5-1 is targeted.

[0064] Trial of insurance murder case in XX prefecture
The defendant made a statement admitting the fact of prosecution . Is encoded using XML, for example, as follows.

[ <Omission / Content = “Getting up in XX Prefecture”>
Insurance murder <omission / content = "in case trial"> , <Ministry
Abbreviation / Content = "Defendant"> Indictment fact <Omission / Content = "
"> Accept <Omitted / Content ="">" (Embodiment 7-7) This embodiment is an example for the text exemplified in the embodiment 6-1.

[0066] includes three operational elements "(1 adders) and (2 multiplier) (3 divider), the output of the (> 1 it)
An arithmetic unit characterized in that an output of (> 2 ) is input to (> 3 ) . Is encoded using XML, for example, as follows.

[ <Parentheses id = "1"> adder </ parentheses
> And <parentheses id = "2"> multiplier </ parentheses> and <parentheses
id = “3”> divider </ parenthesis> , and <parenthesis instruction = “1”> output of </ parenthesis>
The output of <brackets indication = "2"> any </ brackets> <brackets
Instruction = “3”> An arithmetic unit characterized by inputting this into </ parenthesis> . "

[0068]

Embodiment 8 Next, Embodiment 8 of the present invention will be described. This embodiment is an example of a method of adding information using a file different from the text itself. Basically, the set of the content of the information to be added and its position (pointer) is repeated as necessary.

(Embodiment 8-1) This embodiment is the same as the embodiment 1 described above.
This is an example for the text exemplified in FIG.

“ ( I and ( your parent )) are on good terms.”
Is encoded, for example, as follows.

Original sentence: I and your parents are on good terms.

Additional information: first to seventh characters in parentheses, 3 to 7 in parentheses
Characters (Embodiment 8-2) This embodiment is an example for the text exemplified in the embodiment 5-1.

The trial of insurance murder in XX prefecture
In, the defendant made a statement to acknowledge the fact prosecution. Is encoded as follows, for example.

Original text: Recognition of murder of insurance money, fact of prosecution Additional information: Omission / First character "Occurrence in XX prefecture", Omission /
6th character "In case trial", omitted / 7th character "Defendant
Is ", abbreviated / 12th character" to ", abbreviated / 14th character"
I made a statement. "

[0075]

Ninth Embodiment Next, a ninth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In the ninth embodiment, a text presentation device 1 that receives the text data to which information is added by the means of the first to eighth embodiments and presents the received data is shown.

As shown, the sentence presentation device 1 includes
The data of the received text body is input, and the data of the additional information provided as a separate file independent of the text body is input. The additional information is input to the additional information selection means 3, and only the additional information of a level corresponding to the display level set by the user is selected and output. Here, the display level refers to, for example, Example 3
2 (Example 3 in FIG. 2), whether only the minimum necessary information is displayed (information equivalent to Example 1 in FIG. 2), whether only the information of the destination is displayed (information equivalent to Example 2 in FIG. 2), It is intended that the degree of display is different, such as whether information is displayed (FIG. 2-Example 3). The additional information selected and output by the additional information selection means 3 is converted into a predetermined display format by the additional information display format conversion means 5,
Further, the text and the additional information are input to the text / additional information synthesizing means 7, where the text and the additional information are synthesized and sent to the display device 11.

When the information is added in the XML format, additional information separating means 9 indicated by a broken line is provided so that the additional information is separated from the received text and input to the additional information selecting means 3. To do.

Considering commonality with the conventional display, it is conceivable that the initial state of the text presenting apparatus is set so that only the original text is displayed and no additional information is displayed. In this case, when the user requests the presentation device to display the additional information, the original text is combined with the additional information and displayed. Various application examples are conceivable as the display format as follows.

(1) The additional information is simply displayed.

(2) Display in a format like the expression used in the embodiment of this specification.

(3) A “block” is represented by using character modification such as character color, background color, box, and underline.

(4) The destination pointed by the demonstrative pronoun is expressed using a hyperlink or the like.

(5) The document structure is analyzed into a tree structure expression using the additional information, and is displayed in a tree expression format.

Further, as described in the first to sixth embodiments, the additional information has various types or stages. Therefore, it is specified (or stepwise) which type is to be reflected on the display (or stepwise). May be made.

Further, as shown in Embodiments 7 and 8,
In the case of encoding in conformity with XML, such functions can be realized by using style sheets, XSL Transformations (XSLT) that enables manipulation and transformation of XML documents, and expression using styles. it can.

The above-described embodiment has been described by way of example in order to facilitate understanding of the present invention.
It is not described to limit the technical scope of the present invention. In other words, the present invention naturally includes all embodiments belonging to the technical scope and includes any equivalents thereof.

[0087]

As described above, according to the information adding method according to the present invention, the meaning of a sentence expressed in a sentence that is grammatically soft or a sentence described with leaving structural ambiguity is added. Or, by adding auxiliary information (structure, how to relate modifiers, omission, etc.) that is useful in conveying the structure in a manner that is not directly reflected in normal sentence presentation, it is possible to support sentence interpretation. More specifically, the following effects can be obtained.

First, the reading side of the sentence can expect an effect that a more accurate understanding can be quickly reached by utilizing the grammatical information added especially in the case of a complicated sentence.

On the other hand, if the creator of the sentence is forced to adopt a complicated expression method, he / she does not have to spend time devising a sophisticated document expression method for the purpose of avoiding misunderstanding. The effect of being able to convey the intended content faithfully can be expected.

Further, the added grammatical information is also useful for text understanding by a machine, and may be used to obtain more accurate results in the following applications.

(1) Automatic translation application for Japanese → English, Japanese → French, etc. However, the technology according to the present invention is not limited to Japanese at all, and therefore, English → Japanese, French → Japanese,
Others are also available.

(2) A device for automatically reconstructing a sentence. For example, there are applications that reconstruct news for children, applications that divide long sentences into short sentences, and vice versa. In such a situation, the added information can be used for extracting a sentence structure for reconstruction.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram for describing an information adding method for supporting a sentence interpretation according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram for explaining an information adding method for supporting a sentence interpretation according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a text presentation device according to a ninth embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Text presentation apparatus 3 Additional information selection means 5 Additional information display format conversion means 7 Text / additional information synthesis means 9 Additional information separation means 11 Display device

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Claims (7)

[Claims] An information adding method for supporting a sentence interpretation, characterized by adding information for indicating a range of blocks having grammatical or semantic unity in a sentence in association with the range. . 2. To a block having a grammatical or semantic unity in a sentence, information for indicating the range is added in association with the range, and the block and the modification / modification, subject / An information addition method for supporting a sentence interpretation, characterized by adding information indicating a relation with another block having a predetermined relation including a relation between a predicate, parallel, and an object. 3. When simplifying the expression of a sentence by omitting one or a plurality of words that should be originally described in the sentence, the omitted word may be included in the sentence including the omitted word. An information addition method for supporting sentence interpretation, characterized by adding information indicating a certain fact or information relating to an omitted phrase itself. 4. When a sentence includes a demonstrative pronoun or a phrase other than a demonstrative pronoun and having a function of indicating another part of the text, the demonstrative pronoun or the demonstrative pronoun is used. An information addition method for supporting a sentence interpretation, characterized by adding information on which word in a sentence is a target indicated by a word other than the word. 5. The information adding method according to claim 1, wherein the information to be added is added according to a specification conforming to XML. Information addition method to support. 6. The information addition method for supporting text interpretation according to claim 1, wherein the additional information is stored in a separate file independent of the text of the text. Information addition method to support sentence interpretation characterized by. 7. A sentence presentation device for presenting a sentence to which information has been added according to the information addition method for supporting the sentence interpretation according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the sentence provided is provided. Additional information separated from the inside is input or additional information provided as a separate file is input,
Additional information selection means for selecting and outputting the level of the additional information according to the display level set by the user; and receiving the output of the additional information selection means and converting the selected additional information into a display format. Additional information display format conversion means for outputting and outputting the sentence provided, and inputting the provided sentence, synthesizing the sentence and the additional information and outputting to the display means And a text / additional information synthesizing means.