Granted Patent B2

US 12,561,516 · App. 18/425,322 · Granted Feb 24, 2026

Inventors: Takayuki Yamamoto (Matsumoto, JP); Kentaro Kanada (Ina, JP); Yuta Takahashi (Asahi-mura, JP); Masayuki Kawasaki (Matsumoto, JP)

Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

G06F40/166

Abstract

Claims (20)

1 . A sentence management system comprising:

an obtainer configured to obtain a sentence of interest and a plurality of comparison sentences;

a distance calculator configured to calculate a first sentence distance between the sentence of interest and each of the plurality of comparison sentences; and

a display processor configured to cause the sentence of interest, the plurality of comparison sentences, and a list of comparison sentence names arranged in order of the first sentence distance to be displayed simultaneously, wherein

the distance calculator is further configured to calculate the first sentence distance by calculating a number of edits on a per-word basis between the sentence of interest and the each of the plurality of comparison sentences, and

the display processor is further configured to cause a location of an edit between the sentence of interest and a comparison sentence of the plurality of comparison sentences to be displayed in a manner in accordance with the first sentence distance.

2 . The sentence management system according to claim 1 , wherein the distance calculator is further configured to calculate the first sentence distance by performing an addition using an edit weight in accordance with an edition type to the number of edits.

3 . The sentence management system according to claim 2 , further comprising:

a weight acceptor configured to accept a setting of the edit weight from a user.

4 . The sentence management system according to claim 1 , wherein

the obtainer is configured to further obtain a second sentence distance between the plurality of comparison sentences, and

the distance calculator is further configured to, by using triangle inequality, avoid calculating the first sentence distance between the sentence of interest and a specific comparison sentence of the plurality of comparison sentences between which the first sentence distance is large.

5 . The sentence management system according to claim 2 , wherein the edit weight for an edit of replacement with a non-synonym is greater than for an edit of replacement with a quasi-synonym included in a quasi-synonym database.

6 . The sentence management system according to claim 1 , wherein the edit includes insertion, deletion, and replacement of a word.

7 . The sentence management system according to claim 6 , wherein the edit further includes at least one of a misspelling of the word and a mistake of the word.

8 . The sentence management system according to claim 1 , wherein the display processor is further configured to cause the location of the edit to be displayed by emphasizing a non-matching word between the sentence of interest and the comparison sentence.

9 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a sentence management program that causes a computer to execute:

obtaining a sentence of interest and a plurality of comparison sentences;

calculating a first sentence distance between the sentence of interest and each of the plurality of comparison sentences by calculating a number of edits on a per-word basis between the sentence of interest and the each of the plurality of comparison sentences; and

causing a location of an edit between the sentence of interest and a comparison sentence of the plurality of comparison sentences to be displayed in a manner in accordance with the first sentence distance.

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