INPUT SUPPORT APPARATUS, INPUT SUPPORT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM CONTAINING INPUT SUPPORT PROGRAM

• US 20140006005A1
• Filed: 06/26/2013
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: HASUNUMA, Takuya
• Application Number:
  US13/928,239
• Publication Number:
  US 20140006005A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/45 Example-based machine translation; Alignment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation

Abstract

An input support apparatus includes an example sentence acquiring unit which acquires example sentence data including a plurality of example sentences for each theme; a keyword input unit which inputs a keyword according to user operations; a theme finding unit which finds a theme of an example sentence including the keyword among the example sentences included in the example sentence data; a text input unit which inputs a text according to user operations; and a correspondence example sentence display control unit which extracts one or more example sentences corresponding to the found theme and matching the inputted text from the example sentences for each theme included in the example sentence data, and which controls display of a list of the extracted example sentences.

Claims

1. An input support apparatus comprising:

an example sentence acquiring unit which acquires example sentence data including a plurality of example sentences for each theme;

a keyword input unit which inputs a keyword according to user operations;

a theme finding unit which finds a theme of an example sentence including the keyword among the example sentences included in the example sentence data;

a text input unit which inputs a text according to user operations; and

a correspondence example sentence display control unit which extracts one or more example sentences corresponding to the theme found by the theme finding unit and matching the text inputted by the text input unit from the example sentences for each theme included in the example sentence data, and which controls display of a list of the extracted example sentences.

2. The input support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the correspondence example sentence display control unit includes:

a keyword example sentence display control unit which extracts one or more example sentences corresponding to the theme found by the theme finding unit and including the keyword or a word relevant to the keyword from the example sentences for each theme included in the example sentence data, and which controls display of a list of the extracted example sentences when the example sentence data does not include the example sentences matching the text inputted by the text input unit.

3. The input support apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the keyword example sentence display control unit includes:

a matching order example sentence display control unit which extracts one or more example sentences corresponding to the theme found by the theme finding unit and including the keyword or the word relevant to the keyword from the example sentences for each theme included in the example sentence data, and which controls display of a list of the extracted example sentences in an order of matching with the text inputted by the text input unit.

4. The input support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the correspondence example sentence display control unit extracts one or more example sentences corresponding to the theme found by the theme finding unit and beginning with the text inputted by the text input unit from the example sentences for each theme included in the example sentence data, and which controls display of a list of the extracted example sentences.

5. The input support apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a synonym acquiring unit which acquires synonym data including words each of which is associated with a synonym thereof; and

a keyword-relevant word setting unit which sets a synonym associated with the keyword in the synonym data, as the word relevant to the keyword, wherein

the theme finding unit includes;

a relevant-word theme finding unit which finds a theme of an example sentence including the word relevant to the keyword among the example sentences included in the example sentence data;

the keyword example sentence display control unit includes;

a keyword-relevant word example sentence display control unit which extracts one or more example sentences including the word relevant to the keyword among example sentences corresponding to the theme found by the relevant-word theme finding unit from the example sentences included in the example sentence data, and which controls display of a list of the extracted example sentences in an order of matching with the text inputted by the text input unit when the text includes the keyword or the word relevant to the keyword.

6. The input support apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the example sentence data includes first example sentences in a first language and second example sentences in a second language for each theme, the second example sentences being translations of the respective first example sentences and being associated with the respective first example sentences;

the keyword input unit inputs the keyword in the first language;

the text input unit inputs the text in the second language;

the keyword example sentence display control unit uses a word obtained by translating the keyword into the second language, as the keyword;

the correspondence example sentence display control unit controls display of a list of the second example sentences in the second language; and

the keyword-relevant word example sentence display control unit uses a word obtained by translating the word relevant to the keyword into the second language, as the word relevant to the keyword.

7. The input support apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the keyword example sentence display control unit performs control so as to highlight the keyword in the displayed list of the example sentences.

8. The input support apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a personal name determining unit which determines whether a personal name is included in the list of the example sentences displayed by the correspondence example sentence display control unit;

a personal name input unit which inputs, when the personal name determining unit determines that a first personal name is included in the example sentences, a second personal name different from the first personal name according to user operations; and

a personal name replacing display control unit which replaces the first personal name in the example sentences displayed by the correspondence example sentence display control unit, with the second personal name inputted by the personal name input unit, and which controls display of the example sentences after the replacement.

9. An input support method for a computer including an example sentence acquiring unit which acquires example sentence data including a plurality of example sentences for each theme, the method comprising:

inputting a keyword according to user operations;

finding a theme of an example sentence including the keyword among the example sentences included in the example sentence data;

inputting a text according to user operations; and

extracting one or more example sentences corresponding to the found theme and matching the inputted text from the example sentences for each theme included in the example sentence data, and controlling display of a list of the extracted example sentences.

10. Anon-transitory storage medium containing an input support program to be executed by a computer including an example sentence acquiring unit which acquires example sentence data including a plurality of example sentences for each theme, the program making the computer realize functions of:

a keyword input unit which inputs a keyword according to user operations;

a theme finding unit which finds a theme of an example sentence including the keyword among the example sentences included in the example sentence data;

a text input unit which inputs a text according to user operations; and

a correspondence example sentence display control unit which extracts one or more example sentences corresponding to the theme found by the theme finding unit and matching the text inputted by the text input unit from the example sentences for each theme included in the example sentence data, and which controls display of a list of the extracted example sentences.