METHOD FOR CORRECTING ERROR OF JAPANESE LANGUAGE SENTENCE AND DEVICE THEREFOR

摘要

PURPOSE:To provide a Japanese language sentence error correcting method which can extract a correction candidate character, and the device for performing its method, even if a character which cannot be analyzed is any kind of character of a KANJI (Chinese character), a KANA (Japanese syllabary), etc., as the result of executing a form analysis of an inputted Japanese sentence. CONSTITUTION:The device is provided with a morpheme analyzing part 3 for parsing a sentence into word units, a word dictionary part 5 for holding a notation and a part of speech used by the morpheme analyzing part 3, or also, by allowing a semantic attribute to correspond, an unanalyzable character detecting part 7 for detecting a character which becomes unanalyzable in the morpheme analyzing part 3 and the corresponding position in the sentence of the unanalyzable character, a dictionary retrieving part 8 for retrieving a word which contains a designated character in the notation from the word dictionary part 5, and a word connection testing part 9 for executing a test of consistency of the word based on the part-of-speech information in a state that a word and an idle character-string retrieved by the dictionary retrieving part 8 and the unanalyzable character in the sentence are replaced, by which the error of a Japanese language sentence is corrected.