System for reviewing its processing and method therefor

• US 5,974,370 A
• Filed: 12/28/1995
• Issued: 10/26/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Jeyachandran, Suresh, Suda, Aruna Rohra
• Primary Examiner(s): Poinvil, Frantzy
• Application Number:
  US08/579,735
• Time in Patent Office: 1,398 Days
• Field of Search: 395/752, 395/759, 395/792-795, 395/803, 704/1, 704/2, 704/4, 704/5, 704/7-10, 707/1, 707/530, 707/531, 707/532, 707/536
• US Class Current: 704/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/232 Orthographic correction, e.g. spell checking or vowelisation
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/027 Concept to speech synthesisers; Generation of natural phrases from machine-based concepts generation of parameters for speech synthesis out of text G10L13/08

Abstract

To accurately perform a process of natural language information, such as a process for generating a sentence from a concept, or a process for recognizing each character which constitutes a sentence, if, after input information is processed and the processed results thereof are output, a part of the output processed results is corrected, the process for the entire input information is reviewed on the basis of the corrected result. As a result, the corrected results of a certain portion can be reflected in another portion.

Claims

1. A reviewing system, comprising:

input means for inputting information;

processing means for applying a processing to input information from said input means to obtain processed results in a form of natural language;

output means for outputting the processed results in the form of natural language of said processing means;

correcting means for designating and correcting a word of the processed results in the form of natural language output from said output means; and

control means for controlling said processing means so that the processing of said input information or of a part of said input information is reapplied to correct a word in the processed results, which is different than the designated word, thereby conforming the corrected results.

2. A reviewing system according to claim 1, wherein said processing means includes a knowledge base in which knowledge of language is stored, and generation means for generating natural language information corresponding to a concept represented by the input information by referring to the knowledge of the knowledge base.

3. A reviewing system according to claim 2, wherein said correcting means corrects words or phrases of a part of the generated natural language information to synonymous words or phrases.

4. A reviewing system according to claim 2, wherein said correcting means changes an expression form of words and phrases of a part of the generated natural language information.

5. A reviewing system according to claim 2, wherein, when the processing is reapplied, said generation means generates natural language information so that generated information of a corrected part corresponds to the corrected result.

6. A reviewing system according to claim 1, wherein said correcting means includes candidate output means for outputting other candidates which can be replaced for a part of the processed results.

7. A reviewing system according to claim 6, wherein said candidate output means includes means for outputting information regarding the differences between the candidates.

8. A reviewing system according to claim 1, wherein said correcting means includes means for outputting, in response to a request, a reason why a specific candidate is selected as a processed result from among a plurality of candidates.

9. A reviewing system according to claim 1, wherein, when the processing is reapplied, said processing means performs the processing so that the processed results of other than the corrected results conform to said corrected results.

10. A reviewing system according to claim 1, wherein the processing is reapplied, said processing means performs the processing so that a processed result of a corrected part corresponds to the corrected result.

11. A reviewing method, comprising the steps of:

inputting information;

applying a processing to the input information to obtain processed results in a form of natural language;

outputting the processed results in the form of natural language;

designating and correcting a word of the processed results in the form of natural language output from said outputting step; and

reapplying the processing to said input information or to a part of said input information to correct a word in the processed results, which is different than the designated word, thereby conforming the corrected result.

12. A reviewing method according to claim 11, wherein said processing includes a generation step for generating natural language information corresponding to a concept represented by the input information by referring to the knowledge of a knowledge base in which the knowledge of languages is stored.

13. A reviewing method according to claim 12, wherein said correcting step corrects words or phrases of a part of the generated natural language information to synonymous words or phrases.

14. A reviewing method according to claim 12, wherein said correcting step changes an expressions form of words and phrases of a part of the generated natural language information.

15. A reviewing method according to claim 12, wherein, when the processing is reapplied, said generation means is performed so that generated information of a corrected part corresponds to the corrected result.

16. A reviewing method according to claim 11, wherein said correcting step includes a candidate outputting step for outputting other candidates which can be replaced for a part of the processed results.

17. A reviewing method according to claim 16, wherein said candidate outputting step includes a step for outputting information regarding differences between the candidates.

18. A reviewing method according to claim 11, wherein said correcting step includes a step for outputting, in response to a reason why a specific candidate is selected as a processed result from among a plurality of candidates.

19. A reviewing method according to claim 11, wherein, when the processing is reapplied, the processing is performed so that the processed results of other than said corrected results conform to said corrected results.

20. A reviewing method according to claim 11, wherein, when the processing is reapplied, said processing is performed so that a processed result of a corrected part corresponds to the corrected result.

21. A computer-readable storage medium storing a reviewing program for controlling a computer to perform reviewing, said program comprising codes for causing the computer to perform the steps of:

inputting information;

applying a processing to the input information to obtain processed result in the form of natural language;

outputting the processed result in the form of natural language;

designating and correcting a word of the processed results in the form of natural language output from said outputting step; and

reapplying the processing to said input information or to a part of said input information to correct a word in the processed results, which is different than the designated word, thereby conforming the corrected result.