| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically and efficiently convert a Japanese hiragana character string to a katakana character string. <P>SOLUTION: An exemplary method includes: receiving a first character string having the source character string; dividing the first character string into a plurality of sub-strings; converting the plurality of the sub-strings to second character strings through a dictionary; creating third character strings corresponding to the plurality of the sub-strings; analyzing the second and third character strings; constructing fourth character strings from the second and third character strings; creating a candidate list based on the fourth character strings; selecting the target character string from the candidate list and outputting the target character string. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT |
