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Document composition supporting method and system, and electronic dictionary for terminology

  • US 6,047,299 A
  • Filed: 03/26/1997
  • Issued: 04/04/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/27/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A document composition supporting method for supporting editing of any given document by use of an electronic terminology dictionary while displaying said given document on a display unit, comprising:

  • generating said electronic terminology dictionary so that at least terms in standard expression and terms in alternative spelling/expression corresponding thereto are registered in association with each other, at least one term in alternative spelling/expression being registered corresponding to each of said terms in standard expression;

    inputting said given document and searching the input document by use of said electronic terminology dictionary for terms in said document which match with the terms in standard expression and the terms in alternative spelling/expression registered in said electronic terminology dictionary;

    editing said document on the basis of the result of search so that the terms in said document matching with the terms in alternative spelling/expression registered in said electronic terminology dictionary are replaced by the corresponding terms in standard expression registered in said electronic terminology dictionary; and

    displaying in response to the results of the search of said document, terms in said document matching with the terms in standard expression registered in said electronic terminology and terms in said document matching with the terms in the alternative spelling/expression registered in said electronic terminology dictionary on said display unit by use of different kinds of colors and/or underlines, respectively, so that they are distinguished from each other and from the other portions of said document.

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