METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR SUBSTITUTING AND EDITING TECHNICAL TERM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for editing a clause described including technical term data the meaning of which is difficult to obtain without technical knowledge into a clause substituted by a plain expression. SOLUTION: The method for editing a clause includes: a synonym extraction step of comparing clauses before and after revision to extract a morpheme existing only in the revised version as a new word, and reading a technical term matched to the new word and a synonym of the technical term in reference to a technical term dictionary; a dictionary registration step of referring to an expression conversion dictionary to obtain a plain expression associated with the technical term or synonym, or receiving input of a plain expression if it cannot be obtained, and registering the plain expression to the expression conversion dictionary in association with the new word; and a revised clause conversion step of referring an object word of a clause conversion dictionary by use of the morpheme of the revised clause to read a plain expression, and converting the morpheme of the revised clause into the plain expression. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT