Language input method and system

Abstract

To solve the following problem; either of a search process for a match at the beginning of a word and a kana-kanji conversion process has merits and demerits, and is not sufficiently used in a language input system capable of using both the search process for a match at the beginning of the word and the kana-kanji conversion process. At least one of search candidates for a match at the beginning of the word and at least one of kana-kanji conversion candidates (continued clause conversion candidates and all candidates) to an inputted character string are displayed in a display area of a display screen as 'the first candidate group' at a display ratio in much consideration of the search candidate for a match at the beginning of the word, and 'the next candidate group' consisting of candidates impossible to display in the display area as 'the first candidate group' is displayed by changing a display ratio between the search candidate for a match at the beginning of the word and the kana-kanji conversion candidate from 'the first candidate group' to reduce a display ratio of the search candidate for a match at the beginning of the word and to increase a display ratio of all the candidates.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a language input method, in particular to a language input method and system having both a forward consistent retrieval processing device and a kana-kanji conversion processing device. Background technique [0002] As a prior art for efficiently inputting Japanese, Japanese Patent Laying-Open Publication No. 2001-325252 can be cited, for example. In this prior art, for the inputted kana character string, output the previous matching search candidates (predictive candidate search conversion), input the additional kana character string, mix the kana-kanji conversion candidates with the preceding search candidates, and output it. However, this is merely to switch the preceding coincidence search processing to kana-kanji conversion processing in order to reduce the preceding matching search candidates to be output, or to match them with kana-kanji conversion candidates. That is, the double processing of the previous matchi...

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Although if a plurality of candidates are output at a time, the user can search for the desired candidate among these candidates, but for the user, since there is only one desired candidate, there are many other unnecessary candidates. As a result, Caused an increase in search work and made users feel impatient

[0027] In addition, although increasing the number of words in the front matching search dictionary will definitely increase the user's expectation value, when there is no desired candidate, the increased expectation value will lead to greater disappointment, so there is also an implicit Deal with the problem that the expected result "non-existent word" is the factor that most violates the user's expectations from the previous coincidence search

Although it is convenient to use the front consistent search candidate in terms of usage, it is not satisfactory in terms of the output of the candidate

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