JPS6170663A - Address translating device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the efficiency of automatic document translation by decomposing address expression into elements on the basis of address section information and translating them individually when the address expression is inputted in the 1st language, and then reconstituting translation data into address information in the 2nd language. CONSTITUTION:The address section information 21 includes KEN(prefecture), SHI(city), MACHI(street), and CHO(avenue) and the number of an address index showing exclusive relation is entered in each item together. An address element analyzing device 20 analyzes the input by using them. A place name translation dictionary 31 contains names of places and readings in Japanese, and also contains data hierachically on the basis of the exclusive relation of the names of places. This is used to read data having larger exclusive relation successively, thereby obtaining English equivalents to section words. Constitution order of address expression in English is entered as address expression constitution information 41 by using the address index of the address section information 21 and the word order of English is determined by the index to obtain the final result.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to an address translation device that automatically converts an address written in another language into an address in another story.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems]

In recent years, with the development of computer technology, there has been a growing movement to have computers perform translation work between different languages. This is a so-called machine translation system, in which a first language document is analyzed by a computer, and a second language document is also generated by the computer based on the results.

This translation system targets not only formal sentences and noun phrases used in titles, but also address expressions. However, the structure of address expressions is generally very different from that of ordinary sentences, and proper translation cannot be achieved using sentence and phrase analysis and generation methods, which naturally requires the help of people who know the 7 Uno's of translation. Therefore, it could not be said to be satisfactory in terms of performance and efficiency as a machine translation.

[Purpose of the invention]

The present invention was devised in consideration of the above circumstances, and
Its purpose is to automatically translate address expressions between different languages into appropriate expressions.

[Summary of the invention]

In the present invention, when an address expression is input in the first language, the analysis 9
It translates the words, reconstructs the address expression, and outputs the address expression in the second language.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, an address expression in one language can be automatically translated into an appropriate address expression in another language without any manual effort, thereby improving the efficiency of document translation and enhancing the performance of a machine translation system. It is possible to significantly reduce the burden of pre- and post-nibut on the user.

[Embodiments of the invention]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment.

10 is an input control device for inputting the address expression of the first color word. The input control device is given an address expression directly input from the keyboard 11 or an address expression stored in advance in an address file 12.

Reference numeral 20 denotes an address component analysis device that decomposes the address expression in the first language into each component based on the characteristics of the address expression. For example, if the 18th word is Japanese, it is "prefecture", "city", "ku".

Analysis is performed based on characteristics such as "town" and "chome". These features are stored in address delimiter information 21 for each b word.

30 is a place name translation device which translates each word of the constituent elements decomposed in 20 using a place name translation dictionary 31.

Reference numeral 40 denotes an address expression composition device which reconstructs an address expression using the respective components translated at 30 in the order of the second language based on the second hue address expression composition information 41.

50 is an output control device that outputs the second language address expression generated in 40. A CRT display device 51, a computer file 52, or the like is used as an output device.

Next, each component of the above embodiment will be explained in detail, and an example of the process of translating from Japanese to English will be shown with reference to the drawings.

Now, in the input control device 10, the "〒2
A case will be explained in which the address "1-1, Toshiba-cho Temuka, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kawasaki City" is input.

As shown in Figure 3, the address delimiter information 21 includes "delimiter words" that are delimiters in Japanese address expressions, and each item also includes an address index number indicating an inclusive relationship. I'm about to be killed. This number shows that larger items appear υ before smaller ones. Using this,
When the address component analysis device 20 analyzes
The results shown are obtained.

As shown in FIG. 4, the place name translation dictionary 31 stores a large number of Japanese place names along with their pronunciations. This contains data hierarchically based on the inclusion relationship of place names. By using this, you can check the pronunciations in order from the one with the largest inclusion relationship, and the English M (" tY
+ku+...), the result of Figure 2 (cl) is obtained.

In the address expression composition information 41, as shown in FIG. 5, the composition order in English address expressions is described using the address index of the address delimiter information 21. This determines the English word order, and the English address expressions “1,” shown in Figure 2(d),
Komukai-T'oshiba-cho, Sai
wai-ku.

Kawasaki-city, 210'' is reconstructed as the final result.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. For example, place name dictionaries can provide efficient translation of place names by providing a mechanism that allows users to search for only place names within the range of postal codes. Furthermore, the function of the component analysis device can be reduced by providing the address in the first language to be inputted separately for each address component. In addition, by using the hierarchical translation dictionary shown in Figure 4, information omitted in the input address can be supplemented, for example, from "Yozaki City" to [Kawasaki City].
aki-city, Kanagawa-Pref
, can also be translated as J.

In short, the present invention can be implemented with various modifications without departing from the gist thereof.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is a diagram showing an example of address translation processing according to the present invention, and Figure 3 is an example of the configuration of Japanese address delimiter information in an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a Japanese to English place name translation dictionary according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 5 is an example of English address expression configuration information in an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 10... Input control device 11... Keyboard 1
2...First address file 20...Address component analysis device 21...Address delimiter information 30...Place name translation device 3
1 Place name translation dictionary 40... Address expression reconstruction device 41... Address expression configuration information 50... Output control device 51... CFLT display device 52... Second language address file agent Patent attorney Nori Chika Yu (and 1 other person) Figure 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] an input means for inputting an address in a first language; an analysis means for analyzing the address in the first language inputted by the input means into its constituent elements; A converting means for converting constituent elements into constituent elements of a second language address, a constituent means for constructing a second language address from the constituent elements of the second language address converted by the converting means, and the constituent means. An address translation device comprising: output means for outputting the address in the second language.