JPS61107470A - Document editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve inference of editing intention for effective editing by specifying historical range of document editing to be used for inference of editing behavior, and performing the inference based on the information in that range. CONSTITUTION:If the start indication 11 of analogical range to be used for the inference of editing behavior is given, all the editing operations thereafter are stored as history until a termination instruction 13 of the analogical range is given (12). With this ascertained editing operation history, the inference is done for the editing indication input thereafter containing ambiguity (14). Detailed editing indications derived from the inference are executed (15). It may be allowed to extract (21,23) only the portion of the specified analogical range from the memory storing (22) all the operation history instead of the one storing the operation history from the start instruction to termination instruction of the analogical range.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention estimates the editing action intended by the operator from the editing depth input for document information, and calculates the text!
The present invention relates to a document editing device that can perform editing effectively.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems]

In recent years, with the development and spread of artificial intelligence and knowledge engineering, various information processing systems incorporating these techniques have been developed. For example, it is being considered to introduce inference, which is one of the important concepts of artificial intelligence, to construct a document editing system that creates and edits documents, programs, data, etc.

By the way, the above reasoning consists of two types of reasoning: one is deductive reasoning that derives individual facts (e.g., theorems) from general rules (e.g., axioms), and the other is conversely, deriving individual facts (e.g., theorems) from general rules (e.g., axioms), and vice versa. It is broadly divided into inductive reasoning, which derives general rules that hold true (e.g., general knowledge).

Thus, sentence 818 introduces action reasoning. In the collection system (editor), for example, if the instruction to [delete] is entered for the sentence ``There is an error in this.'' without specifying the deletion range, It becomes possible to infer the part to be deleted using an inference rule such as "There is an error in this sentence." In other words, according to the system's inference rules, from editing instruction information containing ambiguity,
It becomes possible to estimate the editing action originally intended by the information and execute it.

On the other hand, when creating the document ``Weather in various places'' shown in Figure 4(b) from the document ``Temperature in various places'' shown in Figure 4(a), an editor that has introduced inductive reasoning can, for example, write ■ Sapporo 25 , 5 21.4 Cloudy → Sapporo: Cloudy ■ Tokyo 28.9 24.0 Cloudy → Tokyo: Cloudy From the two corrections (editing instructions), for example, as shown in Figure 5, place name〉〈Real number 1〉〈Real number 2 〉〈Weather〉→ Place name〉：
It is possible to inductively infer the pattern conversion rule (editing action intended by the operator) that is <weather>. According to this inference result, the next occurrence in the document is “Osaka 33.2.
24.5 It becomes possible to automatically make a correction (document editing action) to the pattern "Osaka: Fine" for the pattern "Haru J" or with confirmation from the operator.

However, when performing such inductive reasoning, it is quite difficult to find information that can serve as a clue for the reasoning.

For example, among the information obtained before starting inference, the number of combinations of information that may be used for inference is extremely large, and the number of combinations of information that can be used for inference differs depending on which information is used for inference. Inference results are obtained. Therefore, the inference process requires a lot of time, and it is difficult to easily obtain the intended inference result.

In this way, a document editing system that incorporates inference greatly contributes to improving usability, but if the inference is incorrectly performed, it can lead to a decrease in usability. have.

[Purpose of the invention]

The present invention was made in consideration of these circumstances, and its purpose is to provide a practical method that enables efficient document editing by effectively introducing inference without deteriorating usability. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a document editing device with high functionality.

[Summary of the invention]

The present invention infers a document editing action to be performed on the editing target document based on editing instruction information given to the editing target document and the history of the editing document, and applies the analogous document editing action to the editing target document. In a document editing device equipped with means for performing editing, it is possible to input instructions for the editing instruction information and the range of the history of the edited document, which are used for analogy of the document editing action.

Then, the above editing action can be analogized by storing the editing instruction information and the history of the edited document from the start point of the inputted history range to the end point of the history range, or by storing the editing instruction information and the history of the edited document that are sequentially stored. This is done by extracting editing instruction pictorial information and editing documents within the history range for which an instruction has been input from the history.

〔Effect of the invention〕

Thus, according to the present invention, the history range of document editing used for inferring editing actions is specified, and only the information therein is used to infer the editing actions, so that the inference processing can be performed efficiently and according to the editing intent. It becomes possible to effectively obtain inference results in accordance with the above. In other words, it is possible to reliably infer the editing action intended for document information from the specified document editing history and efficiently edit the document. Therefore,
This provides great practical effects, such as making it possible to edit documents efficiently without deteriorating usability.

[Embodiments of the invention]

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

Figure 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of the embodiment device, and Figures 2 (a) and (b).
) shows an example of the flow of the inference process.

The document editing section 1 executes editing processing of a document stored in the document storage section 4 under the control of the document editing control section 2 or the analogy section 3. The document editing control unit 2 reads out a document to be edited from the document storage unit 4 to the text collection unit 1, for example, according to various document editing instruction information input from the keyboard 5 via the input control unit 6, or The specified editing process is performed on this editing target document.

The document information edited in the document editing section 1 in this manner is displayed on the display 8 via the output control section 7 as appropriate and presented to the operator.

Therefore, the analogy section 3 stores the information stored in the editing history storage section 9.
For example, from the editing instruction information and the history of the edited document as shown in FIGS. 3(a) and 3(b), the editing action intended by the operator for the document information is inferred. This inference is performed by the inductive reasoning described above. According to the editing action inferred by the analogy section 3 in this manner, the document editing section 1 executes document editing on the document information.

Therefore, the editing history storage section 9 is, for example, as shown in FIG. 2(a).
When an instruction to start an analogy range is received via the keyboard 5 as shown in (step 11), the document editing instruction information input from that point on and wording information edited according to this instruction information are used for analogy. The information is sequentially stored as an editing history (step 12). This editing history is stored repeatedly until there is an instruction to end the analogy range (step 13).

The editing history stored in the C editing history storage section 9 in this way is, for example, "Position information B1 of the cursor on the screen accompanying the Kanle movement instruction JAI and its screen) Accompanying deleted character information B
2 and its screen content C2, the inserted character information B3 accompanying the r character string insertion instruction JA3, its screen content C3, etc. Note that each editing instruction A and the screen content C of the edited document accompanying the editing instruction are stored in association with each other, for example, using the image address P as a pointer.

The analogy unit 3 infers the intention of the editing action from the information of the editing history stored in this way, for example, as an editing rule (step 14), and applies this editing rule to other document information. The editing action is then executed (step 15).

As shown in FIG. 2(b), the process continues until the range of editing history to be used for editing analogy is specified (step 21).
, the editing instruction information and the edited document are sequentially stored as a history (step 22), and then an instruction is given to specify the glue layer range to be used in the editing (step 21), and only the history information of the corresponding analogy range is extracted. (step 23), and infer the editing action from this extracted history information (step 2).
4) Editing the document may be performed (step 25).

In this way, according to this device that specifies the glue range to be used for analogy and infers the editing action for document editing, the information (I collection history) that is the basis of the analogy is specified, so it is possible to specify the range of the glue layer used for analogy. The number of combinations of information does not increase, and editing rules can be easily and efficiently inferred.

For example, in the case of the above-described example shown in FIG. 4, since the editing history has been specified, it is possible to easily infer the editing rules as shown in FIG. 5. Therefore, if you edit a document while extracting document information that conforms to the rules using pattern matching, etc., word editing that better reflects the operator's editing intentions can be efficiently executed automatically or with the operator's confirmation. It becomes possible to do so. Therefore, great practical effects such as improved usability can be achieved.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above. For example, various conventionally known algorithms can be appropriately applied to the inductive reasoning algorithm. Furthermore, the method of specifying the range of document editing history used for analogy processing is not particularly limited.

In short, the present invention can be implemented with various modifications without departing from the gist thereof.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 (
a) and (b) are diagrams illustrating an example of the flow of analogy processing of editing actions based on storage of document editing history and specified document editing history;
Figure 3 is a diagram showing an example of storing document editing history, Figure 4 (a)
(b) is a diagram showing an example of document editing, and FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of inferred document editing rules. 1... Document editing section, 2... Document editing control section, 3...
- Analogy section, 4... Document storage section, 5... Keyboard,
6... Input control unit, 1... Output control unit, 8... Display, 9... Edit history storage unit. Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue (%l cPl Q Q Female)

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) Based on the editing instruction information given to the document to be edited and the history of the edited document, the document editing action to be performed on the document to be edited is inferred, and the analogous document editing action is performed on the document to be edited. A document editing device comprising: means for inputting an instruction for inputting the editing instruction information and the history range of the edited document to be used for analogy of the document editing action. (2) The analogy of the editing act is performed by storing the editing instruction information and the history of the edited document from the start point of the inputted history range to the end point of the history range. Document editing device. (3) The analogy of the editing act is performed by extracting editing instruction information and editing documents within the history range in which the instructions were input from the history of editing instruction information and editing documents that are sequentially stored. The document editing device according to scope 1.