RETRIEVING SYSTEM FOR DICTIONARY OF COOPERATIVE COMPOUND WORD IN WORD DIVISION DEVICE

摘要

PURPOSE:To enable a cooperative compound word to be retrieved, when a character string segmented from an input characater string coincides with the first entry, and the second entry thereafter are present, by retrieving whether the character string represented at the entry is present in a remaining character string or not. CONSTITUTION:An input character string 1 is inputted to a word division device 2, and a word division is performed referring to a dictionary 3, and a result is outputted as a word division output 4. At the dictionary 3, as for the coopera tive compound word, a cooperative compound word 31 in which a word that cooperates with the second entry thereafter other than the first entry is designat ed, is posted, and when the character string coincides with the first entry, and the second entry is present, and the word designated at the second entry is present in the input character string, the cooperative compound word is added in a division candidate word. In this way, the translation of a text including the cooperative compound word can be performed exactly and rapidly.