PREPARATION SUPPORTING SYSTEM FOR DATA FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE SENTENCE PROCESSING

PURPOSE:To provide a supporting system for reducing burden loaded to a data preparing person and generating data for natural language sentence processing to specify various synonymous sentences. CONSTITUTION:A preparation supporting system 20 for data for natural language sentence processing supports the generation of data for natural language sentence processing, which specify the synonymous sentences, to be utilized by a natural language sentence processing system. This system is composed of a conversion enable element information storage means 22 and a data generation support processing means 21. The conversion enable element information storage means stores the information of conversion enable elements which are synonymous even when one part of a natural language sentence is replaced. The data generation support processing means 21 confirms the existence of over one synonymous sentences specified by the inputted data for natural language sentence processing and the other synonymous sentences based on this conversion enable element information and when any other synonymous sentence is existent, the final data for natural language sentence processing are provided by adding information to the inputted data for natural language sentence processing so as to specify this other synonymous sentence as well.