TEXT CONVERSION DEVICE, TEXT CONVERSION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20130103717A1
• Filed: 07/06/2011
• Published: 04/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Ebara, Kenichi
• Application Number:
  US13/806,916
• Publication Number:
  US 20130103717A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/772
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2455 Query execution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/129 Handling non-Latin characters, e.g. kana-to-kanji conversion
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs

Abstract

A text conversion device includes a database that stores information, an inputter (120), a determiner (171), a text extractor (172), a related information extractor (177), and a converter (178). The inputter (120) is configured to input a text. The determiner (171) is configured to determine whether the text inputted by the inputter (120) contains a word specifying the database, and if the determination result indicates that the word is contained, the text extractor (172) extracts the word and a remaining text. The related information extractor (177) extracts information from the database specified by the extracted word with the use of the remaining text without the word as a search key. The convertor (178) converts the text inputted by the inputter (120) into any of the extracted information.

Claims

1. A text conversion device comprising:

a database configured to store information

an inputter configured to input a text

a determiner configured to determine whether a text inputted by the input contains a word specifying the database;

a text extractor configured to extract the word and a remaining text without the word from the text;

a related information extractor configured to extract information from the database specified by the word extracted by the text extractor with the use of the remaining text as a search key; and

a converter configured to convert the text inputted by the inputter to any of the information extracted by the related information extractor,

wherein

the text extractor extracts the word and the remaining text from the text, if the determiner determines that the text contains the word specifying the database.

2. The text conversion device according to claim 1, wherein

the database includes a predictive conversion database to store information extracted by the related information extractor as a conversion candidate of predictive conversion for the text inputted by the inputter, and

the related information extractor extracts the information from the predictive conversion database.

3. The text conversion device according to claim 1, wherein

the database stores phone number information indicative of a phone number;

and

the related information extractor extracts the phone number information as the information from the database.

4. The text conversion device according to claim 1, wherein

the database stores mail address information indicative of a mail address;

and

the related information extractor extracts the mail address information as the information from the database.

5. The text conversion device according to claim 1, wherein

the database stores address information indicative of an address, and

the related information extractor extracts the address information as the information from the database.

6. The text conversion device according to claim 1, wherein

the database comprises a database that stores a content;

the related information extractor extracts content information as the information from the database that stores the content; and

the converter converts the inputted text to any of the extracted content information, and attaches a content specified by the converted content information to a mail.

7. A text conversion method comprising:

an input step to input a text;

a determination step to determine whether the inputted text contains a word specifying a database;

a text extraction step to extract the word and a remaining text without the word from the text, if it is determined that the text contains the word specifying the database;

a related information extraction step to extract information from the database specified by the extracted word with the use of the remaining text as a search key; and

a conversion step to convert the inputted text to any of the information extracted at the related information extraction step.

8. A computer-readable recording medium that has stored a program causing the computer, having a database that stores information, to perform:

an input procedure to input a text;

a determination procedure to determine whether the inputted text contains a word specifying the database;

a text extraction procedure to extract the word and a remaining text without the word from the text, if it is determined that the text contains the word specifying the database;

a related information extraction procedure to extract information from the database specified by the extracted word with the use of the remaining text as a search key; and

a conversion procedure to convert the inputted text to any of the information extracted in the related information extraction procedure.