Information display control apparatus and recording medium recording information display control program

• US 8,027,831 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2007
• Issued: 09/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Yanagisawa, Masaaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Hudspeth; David R
• Assistant Examiner(s): SPOONER, LAMONT M
• Application Number:
  US11/729,272
• Publication Number:
  US 20070260451A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,645 Days
• Field of Search: 704/1, 704/8, 704/9, 704/10, 715/259, 715/264, 707706-708
• US Class Current: 704/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/242 Dictionaries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis

Abstract

An information display control apparatus includes an example sentence storage unit that stores a plurality of example sentences, an input unit that accepts a user'"'"'s operation of inputting a string of characters, an example sentence search unit that, when a compound word consisting of a plurality of constituting words which are combinable and splittable is input via the input unit, searches the example sentences in the example sentence storage unit for an example sentence containing the compound word in a combined state where the plurality of constituting words are combined and an example sentence containing the compound word in a split state where the plurality of constituting words are split, and a display control unit that displays the example sentences searched by the example sentence search unit.

Claims

1. An information display control apparatus comprising:

an example sentence storage unit which stores a plurality of example sentences;

an input unit which accepts a user'"'"'s operation of inputting a string of characters;

a split form of split verb distinguishing unit which distinguishes whether or not a plurality of words is input in split form of a split verb via the input unit;

a split verb example sentence search unit which, when the input plurality of words is distinguished to be in split form of a split verb by the split form of split verb distinguishing unit, searches the example sentences in the example sentence storage unit for an example sentence containing the plurality of words in combined form of the split verb and an example sentence containing the plurality of words in split form of the split verb; and

a split verb example sentence display control unit which displays the example sentences searched by the split verb example sentence search unit.

2. The information display control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a symbol-inserted plural words distinguishing unit which distinguishes whether or not a plurality of words with an ampersand symbol as a word separator is input via the input unit;

a plural words example sentence search unit that, when the input plurality of words is distinguished into words with an ampersand symbol as a word separator by the symbol-inserted plural words distinguishing unit, searches for an example sentence containing the plurality of words; and

a plural words example sentence display control unit that displays the example sentences searched by the plural words example sentence search unit.

3. The information display control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an example sentence search unit which, when a compound word consisting of a plurality of constituting words which are combinable and splittable is input via the input unit, searches the example sentences in the example sentence storage unit for an example sentence containing the compound word in a combined state where the plurality of constituting words are combined and an example sentence containing the compound word in a split state where the plurality of constituting words are split; and

a display control unit which displays the example sentences searched by the example sentence search unit.

4. The information display control apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a constituting word converting unit which, when a compound word is input via the input unit, converts at least one constituting word into a changing form word in the compound word, and wherein the example sentence search unit searches for an example sentence containing a compound word in a combined state which has the changing form word and an example sentence containing a compound word in a split state which has the changing form word.

5. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having a program stored thereon that controls a computer to perform functions comprising:

storing a plurality of example sentences;

accepting a user'"'"'s operation of inputting a string of characters;

distinguishing whether or not a plurality of words is input in split form of a split verb;

when the input plurality of words is distinguished to be in split form of a split verb, searching the example sentences stored by the example sentence storage function for an example sentence containing the plurality of words in combined form of the split verb and an example sentence containing the plurality of words in split form of the split verb; and

displaying the searched example sentences.