Text processing apparatus using modification relation analysis
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1. A text processing apparatus comprising:
- sentence holding means for holding a sentence;
dictionary means for storing information for analyzing the sentence;
sentence analyzing means for analyzing the sentence held in said sentence holding means to determine modification relations between words or phrases constituting the sentence using information stored in said dictionary means;
modification information holding means for holding information about the modification relations obtained from the result of the determination by said sentence analysis means;
sentence-structure diagram formation means for forming a diagram showing the modification relation structure of the sentence held in said sentence holding means so that a plurality of words or phrases which modify the same word or phrase are arranged in parallel according to the modification relations held in said modification information holding means and that a distance between words or phrases in modification relation with each other in the diagram reflects the distance between them in the sentence held in said sentence holding means; and
display means for displaying the modification relation sentence-structure diagram formed by said sentence-structure diagram formation means.
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Abstract
In a text processing apparatus, a diagram of the mutual relationships between words or phrases of an inputted sentence is formed and the modification relationships of the sentence structure are displayed. The modification relationship sentence-structure diagram reflects the order of each word or phrase in the sentence and the perspective of the distance between words or phrases in modification relationship to each other in the sentence. Corrections are made to the inputted sentence by correcting the diagram structure.
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1. A text processing apparatus comprising:
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sentence holding means for holding a sentence; dictionary means for storing information for analyzing the sentence; sentence analyzing means for analyzing the sentence held in said sentence holding means to determine modification relations between words or phrases constituting the sentence using information stored in said dictionary means; modification information holding means for holding information about the modification relations obtained from the result of the determination by said sentence analysis means; sentence-structure diagram formation means for forming a diagram showing the modification relation structure of the sentence held in said sentence holding means so that a plurality of words or phrases which modify the same word or phrase are arranged in parallel according to the modification relations held in said modification information holding means and that a distance between words or phrases in modification relation with each other in the diagram reflects the distance between them in the sentence held in said sentence holding means; and display means for displaying the modification relation sentence-structure diagram formed by said sentence-structure diagram formation means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A text processing apparatus comprising:
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sentence holding means for holding a sentence; dictionary means for storing information for analyzing the sentence; sentence analyzing means for analyzing the sentence held in said sentence holding means to determine modification relations between words or phrases constituting the sentence using information stored in said dictionary means; modification information holding means for holding information about the modification relations obtained from the result of the determination by said sentence analyzing means; sentence-structure diagram formation means for forming a diagram showing the modification relation structure of the sentence held in said sentence holding means so that a plurality of words or phrases which modify the same word or phrase are arranged in parallel according to the modification relations held in said modification information holding means and that a distance between words or phrases in modification relation with each other in the diagram reflects the distance between them in the sentence held in said sentence holding means; display means for displaying the modification relation sentence-structure diagram formed by said sentence-structure diagram formation means; sentence-structure diagram correction means for altering a structure in the modification relation sentence-structure diagram displayed on said display means; and sentence formation means for forming a sentence in accordance with the modification relation sentence-structure diagram in which the modification relation is altered by said sentence-structure diagram correction means. - View Dependent Claims (7)
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8. A method for text processing by an apparatus equipped with a dictionary memory which stores information for analyzing a sentence, the method comprising steps of:
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holding a sentence in a first memory; analyzing the sentence held in said first memory to determine modification relations between words or phrases constituting the sentence by using information stored in said dictionary memory; holding information about the modification relations obtained from the result of the determination in a second memory; and forming a diagram showing the modification relation structure of the sentence held in said first memory so that a plurality of words or phrases which modify the same word or phrase are arranged in parallel according to the modification relations held in said second memory and that a distance between words and phrases in modification relation with each other in the diagram reflects the distance between them in the sentence held in said first memory. - View Dependent Claims (9)
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10. A method for text processing by an apparatus equipped with a dictionary memory which stores information for analyzing a sentence, the method comprising the steps of:
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holding a sentence in a first memory; analyzing the sentence held in said first memory to determine modification relations between words or phrases constituting the sentence by using information stored in said dictionary memory; holding information about the modification relations obtained from the result of the determination in a second memory; forming a diagram showing the modification relation structure of the sentence held in said first memory so that a plurality of words or phrases which modify the same word or phrase are arranged in parallel according to the modification relations held in said second memory and that a distance between words and phrases in modification relation with each other in the diagram reflects the distance between tham in the sentence held in said first memory; displaying the modification relation sentence-structure diagram formed above; altering the structure in the modification relation sentence-structure diagram displayed; and forming a sentence in accordance with the altered modification relation sentence-structure diagram in which the modification relation is altered.
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