JPH04227571A - Electronic translating method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To maintain the correspondence between an original sentence and a translated sentence at all times by automatically obtain a correct translated sentence corresponding to a corrected original sentence once the original sentence is corrected. CONSTITUTION:When the original sentence and translated sentence to be edited are specified from an editing input device 8 at the time of document editing, an editing controller 9 reads corresponding documents out of an original sentence file 3 and a translated sentence file 5. When insertion is performed, an insert sentence is translated by a translation controller 4 and the editing controller 9 inserts the sentence into the translated sentence file 5 at a corresponding place. When the translated sentence is corrected, only the translated sentence file 5 is corrected and the original sentence is not altered.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[Purpose of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic translation method for automatically converting a text written in one language into a text in another language.

0002

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION In recent years, with the development of computer technology, there has been an increasing trend to use computers to perform translation work from a foreign language to a native language and vice versa, or between foreign languages. This is a so-called machine translation system, in which sentences in a first language are analyzed by a computer, and sentences in a second language are generated using a computer based on the results. The translations obtained in this way are usually not 100% accurate, but only a few percent
It is normal for there to be errors of up to several tens of percent. Therefore, human translators must once compare the original text and the translated text and perform editing work such as corrections, additions, and deletions. However, the machine translation devices that have been developed so far have had problems when correcting the original text during editing work. When entering a new sentence in the original text, you have to input the entire sentence anew and retranslate it, or translate the inserted sentence in another place and move it to the position where it should be inserted. From a point of view, it was inefficient.

0003

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In this way, it is extremely inefficient to insert a new original sentence at a desired position.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic translation method that automatically obtains a correct translation corresponding to the corrected original text when the original text is corrected. [Structure of the invention]

[0005]

[Means and effects for solving the problems] The present invention provides an electronic translation method for translating an inputted sentence in a first language into a sentence in a second language, and displaying the translation result on a display device. When inserting a new sentence in the first language into the displayed sentence in the first language and translating it into a second language, insert the new sentence in the first language to any part of the sentence in the first language. position, translate only this input sentence in the first language into the second language, and associate this sentence translated into the second language with the position where the sentence in the first language is inserted. This is an electronic translation method characterized by displaying on the display device. This makes it possible to insert sentences into the original text and translate the inserted sentences while always maintaining the correspondence between the original text and the translated text.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment. (1)
is an input device for inputting the original text in the first language, and is realized by a keyboard or the like. This input device (1)
When one sentence of the original text has been inputted, the input control device (2)
It is stored in the original text file (3) via .

[0007] The translation control device (4) inputs the original text from the original text file (3) and translates it into the second language.
Output the translated text. This output result is the translation file (
5) Stored in .

[0008] Original text file (3) and translation file (
5) Both the original text and the translated text stored in are guided to the display device (7) via the display control device (6). This display device (7) displays the original text in the first language and the corresponding translated text in the second language in appropriate correspondence, and is realized by a CRT or the like. (8) is an editing input device, and when the editor instructs the editing location and editing content from this editing input device (8), the editing control device (9) gives instructions from the original text file (3) or translation file (5). Recall the created statement and edit it by modifying, inserting, deleting, etc. Editing control device (9)
also performs control to associate sentences in the original text file (3) and translated text file (5) sentence by sentence. That is, when storing the translated text obtained as a result of inputting the original text in the original text file (3) into the translation control device (4) in the translated text file (5), the correspondence between the two texts, such as the address of the original text and the corresponding translated text, is determined. The address is stored in the editing control device (9).

Next, the flow of general information and control will be explained in order regarding two types of new input and editing. Figure 2,
FIG. 3 is a flow diagram showing the processing of this embodiment.

(1) When creating a new translation (Figure 2
) First, an original text is input from the input device (1) via the input control device (2) and is displayed on the display device (7) via the display control device (6). This original text is stored in the original text file (3) after one sentence has been input. Furthermore, this original text is input to a translation control device (4) and converted into a corresponding translated text.

This translated text is stored in the translated text file (5), but at this time, the editing control device (9) uses the address in the translated text file (5) and the original text file (3).
) are stored in correspondence with the addresses inside. The translated text is then displayed on the display device (7) via the display control device (6).

(2) When editing a document (FIG. 3) First, the editor inputs a document name for specifying the original text and translated text to be edited using the editing input device (8). The editing control device (9) selects the original text file (based on the document name).
3) and the corresponding sentences in the translation file (5) are read out and displayed on the display device (7) via the display control device (6).
to be displayed. Next, the editor specifies the part to be edited using the editing input device (8) and performs editing such as correction, insertion, deletion, etc. At this time, if the editor edits only the translated text, the editing control device (9) rewrites the corresponding sentence in the translated text file (5) based on the editing result. Also, if the original text is edited, the original text file (3) is rewritten according to the editing results. At this time, if the editing is within one sentence of the original text, the edited original text (changed sentence) is written to the original text file (3), then input to the translation control device (4), and the changed sentence is replayed. The translated and corrected translation is output. This corrected translation is written to the translation address stored in the translation file (5) by the editing control device (9) in association with the original text address. This translated text is then displayed on the display device (7) via the display control device (6).

[0013] When editing involves inserting an entire sentence into the original text, when the inserted sentence is translated by the translation control device (4), the editing control device (9) stores the translated text in the translation file (5).
Insert it into the corresponding location. Similarly, in the case of deleting an entire sentence in the original text, the corresponding translation in the translation file (5) is deleted. There is no need to retranslate the entire original text from scratch. In other words, the translated text is inserted at the corresponding position where only the inserted text was translated.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a change in display results before and after editing within one sentence of the original and translated texts when performing English-Japanese translation according to this embodiment. As is clear from this Figure 4,
When a translation is modified, the corresponding original text remains unchanged and the modified translation is displayed as is. Further, when the original text is modified, the corresponding translated text is automatically modified and displayed faithfully to the modified original text. As is clear from the above, according to the present invention, the editing work of the original text and the translated text can be performed extremely smoothly, so that a practically useful translation device can be realized.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, but can be implemented with various modifications without departing from the gist thereof.

[0016]

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, after an original text has been translated, when a new sentence is inserted at an arbitrary position in the original text to complete the translated text, the correspondence between the original text and the translated text is always maintained. Moreover, the efficiency of correction is greatly improved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flow diagram showing a processing overview of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flow diagram showing an overview of processing in an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing changes in display results when performing English-Japanese translation in an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1... Input device 2... Input control device 3... Original text file 4... Translation control device 5... Translation file 6... Display control device 7... Display device
8...Editing input device 9...Editing control device

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim 1. An electronic translation method that translates an input sentence in a first language into a sentence in a second language and displays the translation result on a display device, wherein the first language sentence displayed on the display device On the other hand, when inserting a new sentence in the first language and translating it into the second language, input the new sentence in the first language to be inserted at an arbitrary position in the sentence in the first language, and then Translating only one sentence in one language into a second language, and displaying this translated sentence in the second language on the display device in association with the position where the sentence in the first language is inserted. electronic translation method.