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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2000
Kazuhisa Takazawa, Chiba, JP;
Seiko Instruments Inc., Chiba, JP;
Abstract
An electronic dictionary that can perform model sentence searches at high speed and can search through a plurality of dictionaries at the same time is obtained by providing dictionary daa having sub-information comprising translations corresponding to word entries, model sentences and idiomatic phrases relating to the word entries, and translations of the model sentences and idiomatic phrases, in which as least the model sentence data of the sub-information are extracted from the dictionary data and stored as sub-dictionary data. A pointer is provided at a position in the dictionary data where the sub-information is embedded, and associates respective sub-information with sub-dictionary data.