JPH07114565A - Electronic dictionary - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] When searching for a phrase or an example, not only providing parallel translation information for that phrase or example, but also the part-of-speech and meaning information of the headword in which the phrase or example is registered. It is an object of the present invention to improve the efficiency of the dictionary search by displaying the related dictionary information of (3) without further searching. [Structure] Using a compound word or an example as a search key, not only the bilingual data of the compound word but also the dictionary position of the entry word in which the compound word or example is registered are searched, and the part of speech of the entry word, the meaning information, the method, etc. are related. It has a function of displaying dictionary information.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention uses a compound word or an example as a search key to search the dictionary position of the entry word in which the compound word or example is registered in addition to the bilingual data, and the part of speech, word meaning information, and usage The present invention relates to an electronic dictionary having a function of displaying related dictionary information such as.

The field of application of the present invention is considered to be application to a general-purpose electronic dictionary search system, an English education system, a translation support system, an English text reading comprehension support system, and the like.

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art In an electronic dictionary search device represented by a conventional electronic book or the like, a function of inputting a headword itself as a search key and displaying a dictionary description of a corresponding headword, and a search key of a plurality of keyword strings Most of them have a simple function of displaying an example including the keyword and its parallel translation, and it is hard to say that the merits of the electronic dictionary are maximized.

For example, since the search result obtained by the keyword search of the example is only the parallel translation data for the example, when searching for more detailed information on a similar expression or a central word constituting the example, it is necessary to re-search. It is necessary to perform a headword search and check around the meaning position where the example in the corresponding headword is written, and for that purpose it is very inefficient to search, such as having to page many times. . Further, when the central word forming the example is not known, the time and effort for searching a plurality of headwords increase.

[0005]

As described above, it is very inconvenient that only parallel translation data can be obtained in a phrase search or an example search.

The object of the present invention is not to provide only parallel translation information of a idiom or an example when retrieving the idiom or example as described above, but to detect the part of speech of the headword in which the idiom or example is registered. By displaying related dictionary information such as word sense information without the trouble of further searching,
It is to improve the efficiency of dictionary search. Also, because you can get related dictionary information and similar expressions with a single search,
Educational effects can be expected.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and is a means for inputting a character string for retrieval, and a storage means for holding bilingual data and dictionary data for idioms and examples. And a control means for searching the storage means based on the character string input by the input means, a parallel translation interface means, and a display means for displaying the input character string and the search result. , An electronic device having a means for searching not only those bilingual data but also the dictionary position of the headword in which the idiom or the example is registered and displaying the related dictionary information such as the part-of-speech, word meaning information, and usage of the headword. It provides a dictionary.

[0008]

[Function] When searching a compound word or an example, not only the parallel translation information of the compound word or example is provided, but the related dictionary information such as the part-of-speech and word meaning information of the entry word in which the compound word or example is registered is provided. By displaying the data without further searching, the efficiency of the dictionary search can be improved.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment in which the present invention is applied to an English-Japanese dictionary search system will be described below with reference to the drawings.

As shown in the block diagram of FIG. 1, the electronic dictionary of the present invention includes a character string inputting means 1 for retrieval, a bilingual database of Japanese and English idioms and examples, and a storage means 2 for holding dictionary data. A control means 3 for searching the storage means based on the character string input by the input means, an interactive interface function 4, and a display means 5 for displaying the input character string and the search result are provided. The input method of the character string is when the user directly inputs with a handwriting character recognition device such as a keyboard or pen, or the area of the character string already displayed on the screen or the method of inputting by specifying the word string etc. Can be considered.

As shown in FIG. 2, the storage means contains a bilingual database in which English idioms and examples and their Japanese meanings are paired, and a dictionary database in which a normal English-Japanese dictionary is converted into a machine-readable format. To be The dictionary database consists of information that a normal English-Japanese dictionary has, such as headwords, parts of speech, word meanings, usages, idioms and examples. Each element of the bilingual database is extracted from the phrase and the example data in the dictionary database, and also has a pointer pointing to the position of the meaning of the word in the dictionary database to which it originally belongs. As a result, it becomes possible to efficiently read the corresponding dictionary data description after searching the data for the idiom or the example. In addition, by inserting a delimiter between each headword, it is possible to easily retrieve all the information of the searched headword and the headword in which the example exists.

The search means 3 searches the phrase database in the storage means 2 based on the character string input from the input means 1 to obtain the phrase or example that best matches the input character string, and to explain the phrase. The word meaning position of the dictionary being made is acquired by tracing the pointer. The obtained result is displayed on the display means 5 by the dialogue interface function 4, together with the translation of the idiom, the part of speech of the headword to which it belongs, the meaning and meaning information, and the parallel translation information of other idioms and examples. afterwards,
By making it possible to browse the information of the preceding and following headwords through the interactive interface, the user can operate the electronic dictionary as if he / she browsed the actual dictionary following the example search.

FIG. 3 shows an input character string "fill out a".
It is a figure which shows the state which performed the search by this electronic dictionary system by making "n application" into the search object character string. The input character string "fill out an".
The search means searches the parallel translation database in the storage means for the item that most matches "application", finds the translated word "write the required format", and displays it on the display means. At the same time, the position of the entry word "fill out" in which this example exists is found by tracing the pointer, and the description content is read from the storage means and displayed on the display means. As a result, the user can search for the search string "fill out analog".
ation ”as well as its translation
Information regarding "ll out" can also be referred to at the same time. By performing a search for a phrase or an example in this way, information regarding a headword including the example can be obtained without any further search procedure. If the area is made sufficiently wide, the headword information before and after the searched headword can be displayed, so that more rich information can be provided to the user.
It can be noted that there is a similar expression in "in" such as "fill in a form".

Since the data displayed on the display means is taken out from a certain position of the continuous dictionary data, if the user wants to obtain the dictionary information regarding another headword before and after, it is stored by an appropriate key operation. It is possible to read from the means and display it on the display means. Here, up / d
It is possible to browse the data in the headword before and after with "own", and to move to the headword located before and after the headword displayed by prev / next to browse the contents.

[0015]

As described above, according to the present invention,
When searching for an idiom or example, in addition to the bilingual information for that idiom or example, the user can display related dictionary information such as part-of-speech or word sense information of the entry word in which the idiom or example is registered. The user can operate the electronic dictionary as if he / she actually browses the dictionary even after searching for an example or phrase, as he / she can know the related information of the phrase or example being searched without further searching. This enables efficient dictionary usage.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a system configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration example of dictionary data stored in a storage unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a specific phrase search execution sequence according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 character string input means 2 storage means 3 search control means 4 interactive interface 5 display means

Front page continuation (72) Inventor Yoshihide Nakao 22-22 Nagaike-cho, Abeno-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A means for inputting a character string for retrieval, a storage means for holding bilingual data and dictionary data of phrases and examples, and a control for searching the storage means based on the character string input by the input means. Means, an interactive interface means, and a display means for displaying the input character string and the search result,
Using the phrase or example as a search key, not only the bilingual data of those phrases, but also the dictionary position of the entry word in which the phrase or example is registered is searched, and related dictionary information such as the part-of-speech, meaning, and usage of the entry word. An electronic dictionary having means for displaying.