Development of Writing Tools for Japanese Documents on a Personal Computer

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Japanese word processors are so designed as only for input, editing, stror, and output of documents, but do not positively support to improve the writing. We have developed a system of writing tools for machine-readable Japanese documents, called SUIKOU, which analyzes a Japanese document textually and provides the writer with the useful information for polishing the writitg. At first we developed SUIKOU on mainframe. In this research, we transferred SUIKOU on a personal computer, extended its functions, improved its user interfaces, and put it to the practical use.1. SUIKOU runs on a personal computer NEC PC9801 with more than 512KD RAM. The program of SUIKOU is written in the language C. By adopting the high speed scrolling and simple multi-window, we improved the user interfaces.2. SUIKOU has two kinds of commands : primitives and macros. The latter commands which are prepared for primary users by combining the primitive commands. When invoked by a user, SUIKOU displays the macro command menu on a screen. The user can perform a function by selecting it among the menu. Each macro command responds within a second to analyze a document with 10000 Japanese characters and display the result.3. We designed primitive commands to operate on sets of sentences and sets of character strings, respectively. primitive commands are classified into five groups : displaying, extracting, sorting, setoperating, and miscellaneous command.4. To implement the extracting commands, we devised several algorithms which analyze a document textually without machine dictionaries nor grammatical analyses and extract the useful information from it. While implementing these algorithms, we used pattern matching techniques which we developed to be suitable for Japanese documents.5. We prepare an online manual which can be easily referenced while using SUIKOU.