JPH0713822B2 - How to translate - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a first language (Japanese, Russian, etc.) belonging to a word family having no article and a second language (English, French language belonging to a word family having an article). Etc.) and the translation method to be displayed.

[Technical Background of the Invention] When translating a language without articles into a language with articles, the most general treatment of articles is (1) ignore articles and do not put them into translation.

(2) All are definite articles.

(3) All are indefinite articles.

However, these methods are expedient and not grammatically correct. Therefore, it is necessary for humans to make corrections by post-editing. When the method of (1) is taken, a definite article or an indefinite article must be "inserted" where necessary in the article. In cases (2) and (3), the correct article must be "corrected", and
These operations are troublesome even if an editing / constructing device such as a word processor is used.

[Object of the Invention] The present invention is intended to make everything from translation to post-editing consistent and facilitate the assignment of correct articles.

Embodiment of the Invention FIG. 1 shows an embodiment.

The input source text is Japanese and the output translation is English.

Parse the input Japanese original sentence.

If there is a noun phrase, put all grammatically possible articles before it. There are various grammatical possibilities depending on the level of grammar. In Fig. 1, (1) if the noun is the no or the article is a noun (2) if the noun phrase begins with the vowel, the , A, or no article (3) If a noun phrase begins with a vowel, the noun is divided into the, an, or no article, but the noun is further subdivided into abstract nouns and substance nouns. It is also possible not to add a and an to.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a one-minute translation including a noun or a noun phrase.

Next, the translated text output in this manner is sent to the post-editing unit. Conventionally, the general method used to add articles in the post-editing section has been the troublesome process of inserting or correcting using the normal command of the editing program. According to the present invention, the correct article can be selected with one touch by the article selection method that is related to the article generation method by the translation unit. FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of a method of configuring article selection, and FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of an article selection method.

FIG. 3 shows a device with an article selection, keyboard 2
Four keys above, namely article selection key 3, [THE] key 4, [A] key 5, and Is provided. All the articles that can use (,) as the article characteristic are displayed. The display device 1 displays the translation result before the article selection. Further, the position currently being processed is indicated by the cursor 7. Of course, the article characteristics and the position being processed are not limited to this. The article characteristics may be blinking, change in brightness, color display, etc., and the position during processing can be indicated by the same method. That is, as an article characteristic, the article is displayed in a color different from other words, and the article currently being processed is blinked.

The article selection method will be described with reference to FIG.

First, when the article selection key 3 is pressed, a word with an article characteristic, that is, a word with an article is detected from the translation result, and the position of the first article in the screen with the article (third item) is detected. The cursor goes to position 7 in the figure). Then, when the [A] key 5 is pressed, "A" in is selected, the other articles disappear, and the cursor automatically goes to the next article position. Then, when the [THE] key 4 is pressed, "the" is selected. By repeating the following operation, the article is set quickly. The display method and selection method of articles are not limited to the above. Instead of displaying all possible articles, display only one, [A], [THE], It is also possible to provide a [next candidate] key instead of, and to make the next candidate appear each time this key is pressed.

Although only the Japanese-English translation is used in this embodiment, a similar method can be used for the Japanese-French and Japanese-German translations. In French and German, in addition to definite and indefinite articles, they also change shape depending on sex. Therefore, instead of the [THE] and [A] keys, the [definite article] and [indefinite article] keys can be used to
[Women] key [Nominative], [Goal] key, etc. may be provided.

If the grammar is precise, sex and case keys are unnecessary, so
At a minimum, it is possible to configure with only the [definite article] and [indefinite article] keys.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 to 4 are views for explaining one embodiment of the present invention. 1 ... Display device, 2 ... Keyboard, 3 ... Article selection key, 4 ... THE key, 5 ... A key, 6 ... key, 7 ... Cursor

Continuation of front page (56) Reference JP-A-56-11568 (JP, A) Information processing 20 [10] (1979-10) P. 896 −902

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A first language belonging to a word family having no article,
In a translation method for translating and displaying in a second language belonging to a word family having an article, in translating a sentence including a noun or a noun phrase in the first language into the second language, a noun or a noun phrase becomes a word. On the other hand, among a plurality of articles including non-articles, the first article is given from the grammatically assignable articles and once displayed on the display screen, and the displayed first article is the relevant noun or noun phrase. If it is not suitable for the word, the instruction is made to replace it with another article that is different from this first article, and the first article is grammar among multiple articles including no article according to this instruction. The translation method is characterized by replacing the second article among those that can be added, and then sequentially displaying the articles.