JP2000268037A - Terminal and translation server - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily and appropriately grasp the correspondence of prescribed parts in original and translated sentences on a home page. SOLUTION: This terminal is provided with an original/translated sentence display means 202I for displaying the prescribed ranges of original and translated sentences on the home page on a display device, a display range change means 202J for inputting an instruction for changing the range to be displayed concerning one document of original or translated sentences, a display change means 202K for changing the range to be displayed concerning one document, a tag detecting means 202L for detecting the number of prescribed tags in the document existent between the displayed range of one document before the instruction and the range of one document displayed by the instruction and a second display change means 202M for changing the range to be displayed concerning the other document of original or translated sentences on the basis of the detected number of tags.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a terminal for displaying original and translated text of a document, and a translation server connected to the terminal via a network and for displaying the original and translated text of the document on the terminal.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a network system in which a plurality of computers are connected via a network, a document or the like stored in the computer can be retrieved and viewed by another computer connected via the network. It has become. Such network systems include WWW on the Internet.
(World Wide Web) is known.

[0003] A plurality of WWW servers for storing home pages are connected to the Internet, and the WWW servers are scattered around the world. A search engine (search server) is used to search for a homepage including the contents desired by the user from a huge amount of homepages on the Internet. In addition, since WWW servers connected to the Internet exist in various countries around the world, home pages are described in various languages. Therefore, a translation server is used to translate a language described on a homepage into another language.

Here, related prior inventions are shown below.
The invention described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 9-171511 discloses a tag monitoring method in which a data monitoring means provided in a user-side terminal device converts a document into a hyperlink information included in a hypertext document sent from a server. With the information added, the document is sent to the user-side application, and when the document conversion method is included in the search request command from the user-side application, the document sent from the server-side application is indicated by the tag information. Send to user application according to document conversion method. The invention described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-283357 discloses a translation system in which a translation server device fetches a translation original from a document providing device and performs translation processing based on a translation request sent from the translation request device. Separate the translation source text taken from the providing device into tags and text, translate the text with a translation dictionary, and if there is a tag that indicates a link destination in the tag, rewrite the tag with a translation request destination command and original text link destination data To the translation request device.

[0005] The invention described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-134060 is a technical term dictionary which, when receiving a translation instruction of a language in a certain specialty field, previously scores and stores it according to the closeness between the respective specialty fields. When a related specialty field that has a close relationship with the relevant specialty field is extracted from the score in the relation table, and there is a translation result in the technical term dictionary of the relevant specialty field,
The related points are added and evaluated for each of the certain specialty field and the related specialty field, a technical term dictionary of one specialty field having the highest evaluation is specified, and a translated word is translated from the technical term dictionary. According to the invention described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-265469, when translating a hypertext, a user can select whether or not to translate an anchor.

[0006]

Conventionally, in a terminal, it was possible to display the original text of a home page and to display the translated text of the home page, but it was difficult to determine where a predetermined portion of the original text of the home page corresponds in the translated text. It could not be easily grasped.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a terminal and a translation server which can solve the above-mentioned problems. This object is achieved by a combination of features described in the independent claims. The dependent claims define further advantageous embodiments of the present invention.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, a terminal according to a first aspect of the present invention is a terminal for displaying an original and a translated sentence in a hypertext format on a display device. An original text translation display means for displaying a predetermined range on the display device, a display range change means for inputting an instruction to change the display range of one of the original text and the translated text, and Display changing means for changing a range to be displayed; detecting a correspondence of a predetermined tag in the document existing between the displayed range of one document before the instruction and the range of one document to be displayed by the instruction And a second display change unit that changes a display range of the other document of the original sentence or the translated sentence based on the correspondence between the detected tags. The tag detecting means may detect the number of line feed tags indicating a line feed position in one document.

[0009] To achieve the above object, a second aspect of the present invention is provided.
The terminal according to the aspect of the present invention is a display system that displays the original text and the translated text in a hypertext format on a display device, and an original text translation display means for displaying a predetermined range of the original text and the translated text on the display device, and one of the original text and the translated text. Specifying means for specifying a desired part in the displayed range of the document, position specifying means for specifying the position of the specified part in one of the documents by a predetermined tag in the document, and specifying the position of the part. It is characterized by comprising a corresponding part specifying means for specifying a corresponding part of the other document of the original text or the translated text based on the tag, and a display changing means for displaying a range including the corresponding part.

[0010] The position specifying means may specify the position using a line feed tag indicating a line feed position in one of the documents. Further, the display changing means may make the display form of the other document part different from that of the other document part.

In order to achieve the above object, a first aspect of the present invention is provided.
The translation server according to the embodiment of the present invention is a translation server that receives a translation request of a hypertext format homepage from a terminal via a network, translates the homepage, and transmits the translated homepage to the terminal via a network, and includes a homepage address. Translation request accepting means for accepting a translation request from a terminal, source text acquisition means for acquiring the original text of the homepage based on the homepage address included in the translation request, translation means for translating the acquired original text of the homepage, A translation result transmitting means for transmitting the acquired homepage's original and translation to the terminal, and an instruction for causing the terminal to display a predetermined range of the homepage's original and translation, and to change the display range of one of the original and translation's documents , And, based on the instruction, change the display range of one document. The number of predetermined tags in the document existing between the range in which one document is displayed before the instruction and the range of the one document displayed in accordance with the instruction, based on the number of detected tags. Display control means for changing the display range of the other document of the original or translated sentence of the homepage.

In order to achieve the above object, a first aspect of the present invention is provided.
The translation server according to the embodiment of the present invention is a translation server that receives a translation request of a hypertext format homepage from a terminal via a network, translates the homepage, and transmits the translated homepage to the terminal via a network, and includes a homepage address. Translation request accepting means for accepting a translation request from a terminal, source text acquisition means for acquiring the original text of the homepage based on the homepage address included in the translation request, translation means for translating the acquired original text of the homepage, A translation result transmitting means for transmitting the original and translated text of the acquired homepage to the terminal, and displaying a predetermined range of the original and translated text of the homepage on the terminal, and displaying one of the original or translated text of the homepage in the displayed range. Specify the desired part, and then Display control means for specifying the location by a predetermined tag in the document, specifying the corresponding part of the other document of the original or translated text based on the tag specifying the position of the part, and displaying a range including the corresponding part. It is characterized by having.

[0013] In the translation server according to the present invention, an additional information storage unit for storing associating information for associating additional information to be supplied to the terminal with a display condition for displaying the additional information; Further comprising additional information detecting means for detecting additional information that satisfies the display condition based on one of the phrases, wherein the translation result transmitting means comprises:
The additional information may be transmitted to the terminal together with the original sentence and the translated sentence of the homepage.

[0014] In the translation server according to the present invention, an additional information storage unit for storing association information for associating additional information supplied to the terminal with display conditions for displaying the additional information, and a user of the user who uses the terminal. User information storage means for storing information; and additional information detection means for detecting additional information that satisfies display conditions based on the user information of the terminal user. The additional information may be transmitted to a terminal. The additional information detecting means may detect additional information that satisfies the display condition based on at least one of the original sentence or the translated sentence of the homepage and the user information.

The above summary of the present invention does not list all of the necessary features of the present invention, and a sub-combination of these features may also be an invention.

[0016]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described through embodiments of the present invention. However, the following embodiments do not limit the invention according to the claims, and are described in the embodiments. Not all combinations of features are essential to the solution of the invention.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a network system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The network system includes a plurality of terminals 202 for displaying a homepage according to an instruction from a user, a translation server 206 for performing a homepage translation process as an example of a processing server and an explanation server, and a search process for a desired homepage. It has a search engine (search server) 208 to perform, and a plurality of homepage servers 210 that store homepages so that they can be viewed. The terminal 202, the translation server 206, the search engine 208, and the homepage server 210 are connected via the Internet 200 as an example of a network. In the present embodiment, the terminal 202 is an Inte
PC (Personal c) capable of executing a browser such as rnet Explorer (trademark) or Netscape Communicator (trademark)
omputer). Here, the server refers to a device that provides a service to another device.
It may be a C (Personal computer), WS (Work Station) or the like, and is not limited to a device sold as a so-called server computer. In addition, translation means not only converting all documents in one language into documents in another language,
This includes replacing or adding a phrase in another language corresponding to some phrase in a document in one language.

First, a network system according to a first embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing functional blocks of the terminal according to the first embodiment of the present invention. The terminal 202 includes a search request transmitting unit 202A, a search result receiving unit 202B, and a search result displaying unit 202C.
, Translation instruction receiving means 202D, translation requesting means 202
E and information storage means 2 as an example of permission information storage means
02F, translation result receiving means 202G, and translation result display means 202H.

The search request transmitting means 202A receives a content to be searched from a user using an input device (not shown) such as a mouse or a keyboard, and transmits the content to the search engine 208 as a search request. Search result receiving means 202
B receives the search result for the search request from the search engine 208. In the present embodiment, this is realized by the function of the browser. The search result display means 202C displays the search result received by the search result receiving means 202B. In the present embodiment, this is realized by the function of the browser.

The translation instruction receiving means 202D receives a translation instruction of a homepage included in the search result displayed by the search result display means 202C from the user. In this embodiment, as described later, the search result document includes translation request anchors, buttons, and the like, and the translation instruction receiving unit 202D uses the input device to perform translation by the user's instruction to these anchors, buttons, and the like. Accept instructions. The translation request means 202E is a translation instruction receiving means 202
Based on the translation instruction received by D, a translation request for the homepage is transmitted to translation server 206. In the present embodiment, this is realized by the function of the browser.

The information storage means 202F stores various information. In the present embodiment, information is written by the search engine 208 and the information is extracted by the translation server 206. In the present embodiment, a so-called C
This can be realized by an OOKIE (cookie) file. In the present embodiment, the information storage unit 202F stores an identification number as an example of identification information of the search engine 208, an expiration date for treating the identification number as valid, and a translation permission number as an example of permission information for translation. I do. The translation result receiving means 202G receives the translation result from the translation server 206. In this embodiment, H as a translation result
Receives a document in TML (hypertext markup language) format.

The translation result display means 202H has an original translation display means 202I, a display range changing means 202J, a display changing means 202K, a tag detecting means 202L, and a second display changing means 202M.

The original translation display means 202I displays the translation result. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen by the original sentence display unit 202I according to the first embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, the original translation display means 202I
Displays the translation of the entire homepage sent from the translation server 206 as a translation result.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing another example of the display screen by the original translation display means 202I according to the first embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the original translation display means 202
I displays a document in which the translated phrase is associated with the phrase in the original sentence of the homepage sent as a translation result from the translation server 206. In the document shown in FIG.
For example, the translation phrase “preamble” is associated with the phrase “PREFECE” in the original text, and the translation phrase “act” is associated with the phrase “acting”.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing another example of a display screen by the original / translated sentence display means 202I according to the first embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5, the original sentence display means 202
I simultaneously displays the original sentence and the translated sentence of the homepage sent as a translation result from the translation server 206,
The whole image of each displayed document is indicated by a scroll bar SBR, and the current display range of the document is indicated by a scroll box SBR.
Shown by BX, move the display range toward the beginning of the sentence (scroll)
And a sentence end scroll button SBA for moving the display range toward the end of the sentence.

The display range changing means 202J receives from the user an instruction to change the display range of one of the original sentence and the translated sentence displayed by the original / translated sentence display means 202I. In the present embodiment, the display range changing unit 202J receives the movement of the display range of the corresponding document in the direction of the head of the sentence when the head of text scroll button SFA shown in FIG. 5 is clicked (pressed) by an input device such as a mouse. When the end-of-sentence scroll button SBA is clicked with an input device such as a mouse, the display range of the corresponding document is moved in the end-of-sentence direction, and the scroll box SBX is dragged and moved with an input device such as a mouse. Then, an instruction to change the display range of the document to the display range based on the position of the scroll box SBX in the scroll bar SBR is received.

The display change unit 202K changes the display range of a corresponding document in one of the original sentence and the translated sentence instructed by the user in accordance with the instruction. Tag detecting means 202L
Indicates the range indicated for either the original or translated text,
A predetermined tag existing between the display range of one of the original text and the translated text changed by the user's instruction (for example,
Line feed tags). Second display change means 202M
Changes the other display range of the original sentence or the translation based on the detected number of tags. Thereby, the one display range instructed to be changed and the other display range can be displayed in association with each other.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing functional blocks of the search engine according to the first embodiment of the present invention. The search engine 208 includes a search request receiving unit 208A, a searching unit 208B, a search result creating unit 208C, a search result transmitting unit 208D, and an information storage control as an example of a permission information storage control unit and an identification information storage control unit. Means 20
8E and permission information transmitting means 208F. The search request receiving unit 208A receives a search request including the contents related to a desired homepage from the terminal 202. The search unit 208B searches for a home page including the corresponding content based on the search request received by the search request receiving unit 208A.

The search result creating means 208C includes the search means 2
A translation result document including page information such as the content of the home page searched by 08B and translation request information for transmitting a translation request for the home page to the translation server is created. In the present embodiment, the search result creation unit 20
8C creates a translation result document in an HTML format document, and in the document, page information such as the name and contents of a home page, a link to the home page, and translation request information for notifying the translation server 206 of a translation instruction for the home page. And include. As an example of the translation request information, an address of the translation server 206 is described as an address to be linked, and an address of a homepage to be translated (eg, UR
L) is described.

It is to be noted that a JAVA script, a JAVA applet or the like in which a description for transmitting a translation request is transmitted from the terminal 202 to the translation server 206 is prepared, and the JAVA script, the JAVA script, and the JAVA script are received upon receiving an instruction from the user.
A translation instruction button for executing the A applet or the like may be described in the search result document. In this way, the translation instruction for the home page can be notified to the translation server 206 without directly showing the address of the translation server 206 to the user, and illegal access to the translation server 206 can be effectively prevented. .

[0031] The search result transmitting means 208D transmits the search result document to the terminal 202. Information storage control means 208E
Causes the terminal 202 to store, in the terminal 202, a translation permission number used for determining whether or not translation can be performed when performing a translation for the translation request of the search result document, identification information of the search engine, and an expiration date of the identification information. In the present embodiment, the information is stored in the cookie file by the function of the browser. The permission information transmitting unit 208F transmits to the translation server 206 a translation permission number similar to the translation permission number stored in the terminal 202 by the information storage control unit 208E.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a hardware configuration of the translation server according to the first embodiment of the present invention. The translation server 206 includes a CPU (central processing unit) 9
0, ROM (read only memory) 92, and RAM (ran
dom access memory) 94, a communication I / F (interface) 96, a display 98, and an input device 100.
, Specialized dictionary A102, specialized dictionary B104, general dictionary A106, general dictionary B108, and FD (floppy disk)
Drive 110 and CD-ROM (compact disk RO)
M) a drive 114;

The CPU 90 includes a ROM 92 and a RAM 94
Perform processing based on the program stored in the. Communication I
/ F96 is a translation server 206 and Internet 200
Mediates the exchange of data between Display 9
8 displays various information. The input device 100 inputs settings for the translation server 206 and the like. FD drive 1
10 reads data or a program from the floppy disk 112 and transfers it to the CPU 90. The CD-ROM drive 114 reads data or a program from the CD-ROM 116 and passes it to the CPU 90.

In this embodiment, the specialized dictionary A102 stores Japanese words and foreign words such as English in one of special fields such as law, computer, and communication. The specialized dictionary B104 stores Japanese words and phrases in foreign languages such as English in a specialized field different from the specialized dictionary A102 in association with each other. The general dictionary A106 stores a general Japanese phrase having a relatively high degree of difficulty in association with a foreign language phrase such as English. The general dictionary B108 stores a general Japanese phrase having a relatively low difficulty level and a foreign language phrase such as English in association with each other. Each dictionary also stores information necessary for translation between a Japanese sentence and an English sentence, for example, case information of a phrase, meaning information of the phrase, attribute information of the phrase, and the like.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing functional blocks of the translation server according to the first embodiment of the present invention. Each of these functions is mainly configured by the CPU 90 executing a program stored in the ROM 92 and the RAM 94.
The translation server 206 includes a process receiving unit, a request receiving unit, and a translation request receiving unit 2 as an example of a translation request receiving unit.
06A, translation means 206B, and permission information receiving means 20
6I, an information acquisition unit 206J as an example of an authorization information acquisition unit and an identification information acquisition unit, an authentication unit 206K as an example of an authentication detection unit and an expiration date information detection unit, a translation control unit 206L, and a charge management unit 206M. , A translation result transmitting unit 206N as an example of a processing result transmitting unit and an explanation transmitting unit, and a display control unit 206O. The translation request receiving unit 206A receives a translation request from the terminal 202.

The translation unit 206B includes an original text acquisition unit 206C as an example of a cache unit, a cache correspondence unit, and a link destination page acquisition unit, and a phrase detection unit 206D.
And explanation means 2 as an example of a link destination page translation means
06E, a document creation unit 206F as an example of a link processing unit, and a detection control unit 206H. The original sentence acquisition unit 206C acquires a homepage from the homepage server 210 based on the address included in the translation request. Also, the original text acquisition unit 206C is provided by the explanation unit 2
The translation and the original sentence of the home page translated by 06E are stored. When the original sentence and the translated sentence of the homepage for which translation is requested are stored, the original sentence acquisition unit 206C stores the original sentence of the stored homepage in the homepage server 2.
It is detected in step 10 whether or not the original sentence has been updated. If the original sentence has not been updated, the translation result transmitting means 206N transmits the original sentence and the translated sentence of the stored home page. The original sentence acquisition unit 206C acquires a linked home page in the original sentence of the home page acquired based on the translation request.

The word / phrase detection means 206 D
By analyzing the inside of the homepage acquired by the 06C, the field to which the phrase in the homepage belongs is detected, the field of the dictionary used for detecting the phrase to be translated is determined, and the dictionary of the field is used to determine the field of the dictionary. Detect words to be translated from. For example, the phrase detecting means 206D
If it is detected that many of the words in the homepage are words in a specialty field included in the specialty dictionary A102 or the specialty dictionary B104, the specialty dictionary A in the specialty field is detected.
When a phrase to be translated in the homepage is detected using the personal dictionary 102 or the specialized dictionary B104, and it is detected that many of the phrases in the homepage are words in a general field included in the general dictionary A106 or the general dictionary B108. In step (2), the general dictionary A 106 or the general dictionary B 108 is used to detect a word to be translated in the homepage. In the present embodiment, when a general dictionary is used, first, a phrase is detected using the general dictionary A106 having the highest difficulty level.

The explanation means 206E includes the phrase detection means 206
A translated phrase corresponding to the phrase detected by D is detected from the dictionary. The explanation means 206E translates the full text of the homepage using a plurality of dictionaries.

The document creating means 206F creates a document as a translation result in which the words detected by the description means 206E are associated with the words detected by the word detecting means 206D in the original sentence of the homepage. Further, the document creating means 206F creates, as a translation result, a translation of the full text of the homepage obtained by the explanation means 206E. Document creation means 2
06F creates the full text of the homepage obtained by the explanation means 206E and its translation as a translation result.

Further, the document creating means 206F processes the link destination address of the anchor to another home page existing in the original sentence and the translation of the home page into the address of the translation server 206, and also converts the link home page before the change. The address is processed into information to be passed to the translation server 206. As a result, the terminal 202 displaying the translation result document can request the translation server 206 to translate the home page to which the anchor is linked simply by giving an instruction to the anchor in the translation result document. Then, a translation result document of the homepage can be obtained.

The detection control means 206H includes the phrase detection means 2
If the phrase detected by 06D does not satisfy the predetermined condition, the phrase detecting unit 206D is caused to detect the phrase in the homepage using a dictionary having a lower level of difficulty. The predetermined condition includes, for example, a condition that the number of words reaches a certain number, whether the ratio of the detected words to the words of the entire homepage is equal to or more than a certain value, and the like.

The permission information receiving means 206I receives the translation permission number from the search engine 208. The information acquisition unit 206J acquires the translation permission number, the identification number of the search engine 208, and the expiration date from the terminal 202. The authentication means 206K detects whether or not the translation permission number received by the permission information receiving means 206I is the same as the translation permission number acquired by the information acquisition means 206J. The authentication unit 206K is provided with an information acquisition unit 206J.
Detects whether the validity period obtained by has expired.
The translation control unit 206L responds when the authentication unit 206K detects that there is no identical one, or when it is detected that the same one exists and the expiration date has passed. Then, control is performed so that the translation means 206B does not execute the translation process according to the translation request.

The billing management means 206 M
B manages accounting information corresponding to the translation performed. Examples of the billing information according to the translation include the time required for translation, the capacity of the homepage to be translated, the number of translation instructions (the number of translation instructions), the contents of the page, the type of language, and the type of dictionary used. . In the present embodiment, the charging management unit 206M
Uses the number of translation instructions as billing information, and manages the number of translation instructions in association with the identification number of the search engine 208. Specifically, the billing management unit 206M, when performing the translation by the translation unit 206B,
Add “1” to the translation instruction count associated with the search engine identification number acquired by 06J.

The translation result transmission means 206N transmits the translation result created by the document creation means 206F to the terminal 202. The display control unit 206O transmits the original translation display unit 202I, the display range change unit 202J, the display change unit 202K, and the tag detection unit 2 to the browser of the terminal 202.
02L and a program for executing the function of the second display change unit 202M are included in the translation result document by the document creation unit 206F. The display control unit 206O may attach a program (so-called plug-in) that executes these functions to the translation result document, for example, by being embedded in the browser of the terminal 202.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a processing sequence of the network system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
When the search request transmitting unit 202A of the terminal 202 makes a search request to the search engine 208 (step S100), the search request receiving unit 208A of the search engine 208 receives the search request, the search unit 208B performs the search, and creates a search result. Means 208C creates a search result document, search result transmission means 208D transmits the search result document to terminal 202, and information storage control means 208E requests information storage means 202F of terminal 202 for a translation based on the search result. The translation permission number, the identification number of the own search engine 208, and the expiration date to be given to the translation process at the time are stored (step S102). Also, the search engine 208
Transmits the similar translation permission number to the translation server 206 (step S104). In the translation server 206, the permission information receiving means 206I receives and stores the translation permission number (step S106).

At the terminal 202, the search result document transmitted from the search engine 208 is received by the search result receiving means 202B.
Is received, and the search result display means 202C displays the search result document. Then, when the translation instruction receiving unit 202D receives a translation instruction of the homepage in the search result document from the user, the translation requesting unit 202E transmits a translation request based on the translation instruction to the translation server 206 (step S10).
8).

In translation server 206, upon receiving a translation request from terminal 202, information acquisition means 206J
A translation permission number, a search engine identification number, and an expiration date are obtained from the second information storage unit 202F (steps S110 and S112). Next, the authentication means 206K
It is detected whether or not the translation permission number acquired from the terminal 202 by the information acquisition means 206J is registered in the translation permission number stored by the permission information receiving means 206I (step S114). Determines that the translation is not permitted, and does not cause the translation control unit 206L to execute the translation process of the translation request by the translation unit 206B (step S116).

On the other hand, if it is registered, the translation is permitted, so that the original
06C, based on the address of the home page included in the translation request, detects whether the original text and the translated text of the home page have already been cached (step S11).
8) If cached, charge management means 20
6M performs a billing process (step S132), the document creation unit 206F extracts the original sentence and the translated sentence, creates a translation result document, and sends the translation result document to the translation result transmission unit 20.
6N transmits to terminal 202 (step S134).

On the other hand, when the cache is not cached, the original sentence acquisition unit 206C requests the homepage server 210 to transmit the homepage based on the address included in the translation request (step S120), and obtains the homepage. (Step S122). Then
The document creating means 206F processes the link existing on the homepage (step S124), and the translation result transmitting means 206N transmits the homepage on which the link has been processed to the terminal 202 (step S126). Next, the translation unit 206B performs a translation process on the home page (step S128), and the original sentence acquisition unit 206C caches the original sentence and the translation of the home page (step S130). Then, the accounting management unit 206M performs an accounting process (step S132), and the document creation unit 20
6F creates a translation result document including the translation, and the translation result transmission unit 206N transmits the translation result document to the terminal 202 (step S134). As a result, the translation result receiving means 202G of the terminal 202 receives the translation result, and the translation result display means 200H displays the translation result.

Further, in the translation server 206, the original sentence acquisition means 206C requests the home page server 210 to transmit the corresponding home page based on the link information of the home page linked in the original sentence of the home page (step S136). The homepage is acquired (step S138). Next, the translation means 206B
Performs translation processing and link processing processing on the acquired homepage (step S140), and
6C caches the original sentence and the translated sentence of the homepage (step S142).

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of the translation processing of the network system according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 10 shows a translation process (step S128) for detecting a translation phrase corresponding to an original phrase on a homepage, which is an example of the translation process. Translation process (step S
In 128), the phrase detecting means 206D detects the phrase in the original sentence of the homepage, and from the phrase, a simple phrase,
For example, in the case of English, words such as "I", "a", and "You" are screened (excluded) (step S12).
8A). Next, the phrase detecting means 206D determines the field of the content described on the homepage and the level of difficulty based on the words remaining after the screening (step S128B), and selects a dictionary suitable for the field and the level of difficulty (step S128B). In step S128C), the explanation unit 206E detects a phrase corresponding to the phrase on the homepage using the selected dictionary (step S128D). Next, the detection control means 206H detects whether a sufficient explanation has been given, for example, whether or not the number of the explained words is sufficient (Step S).
128E) If it is sufficient, the processing is terminated. On the other hand, if it is insufficient, other dictionaries, for example, a general dictionary when using a specialized dictionary, and a general dictionary when using a general dictionary. A dictionary having a lower difficulty level is selected, and the processing steps S128C to S128E are performed.

As another example of the translation process performed by the translation means 206B, there is a translation process for translating the entire original text of the homepage. Since this translation process is generally known,
Here, a brief description will be given. First, morphological analysis processing of the original text of the homepage is performed. In this morphological analysis processing, processing is performed using the dictionaries 102, 104, 106, and 108 to decompose words (morphemes) at the part-of-speech level and associate each morpheme with parts of speech, case information, semantic information, attribute information, translated words, and the like. I do. Next, the dependency between the morphemes is analyzed based on the information associated with each morpheme, the relationship between the morphemes is compiled into a tree structure, and the document structure in the language of the translation destination is specified based on the tree structure. Then, a translated sentence for the whole sentence is created by applying the translated word of each morpheme to the document structure.

Next, a network system according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 11 shows the second embodiment of the present invention.
It is a figure showing the functional block of the terminal concerning an embodiment.
The terminal 202 according to the present embodiment uses the translation request unit 202E of the terminal 202 according to the first embodiment shown in FIG. 2 to transmit a translation request to the search engine 208, and does not have the information storage unit 202F. The translation result receiving means 202G receives the translation result from the search engine 208. Note that each unit other than the above has the same function as each unit of the first embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing functional blocks of a search engine according to the second embodiment of the present invention. The search engine 208 of the present embodiment does not include the information storage control unit 208E and the permission information transmission unit 208F in the search engine 208 according to the first embodiment shown in FIG. Translation request relay transmitting means 2080 and translation result relay receiving means 208
P and a translation result relay transmission unit 208Q. Note that each unit other than the above has the same function as each unit of the first embodiment.

The translation request relay receiving means 208N is connected to the terminal 2
02, a translation request is received. Translation request relay transmission means 2
08O adds the identification number of its own search engine 208 to the translation request received by the translation request relay receiving means 208N, and transmits the translation request to the translation server 206. The translation result relay receiving means 208P receives the translation result from the translation server 206. The translation result relay transmission means 208Q transmits the translation result received by the translation result relay reception means 208P to the terminal 2.
02.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing functional blocks of the translation server according to the second embodiment of the present invention. The translation server 206 according to the present embodiment is different from the translation server 206 according to the first embodiment shown in FIG.
, The information acquisition unit 206J, the authentication unit 206K, and the translation control unit 206L, and the translation request receiving unit 206A receives the translation request from the search engine 208, and searches the translation result transmission unit 206N. The translation result is transmitted to the engine 208, and the accounting management means 206M manages the accounting based on the search engine identification number received by the translation request receiving means 206A. In addition, about each means other than the above,
It has the same function as each means of the first embodiment.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a processing sequence of the network system according to the second embodiment of the present invention. When the search request transmitting unit 202A of the terminal 202 makes a search request to the search engine 208 (step S20)
0), search request receiving means 208 of search engine 208
A receives the search request, the search unit 208B performs a search, the search result creation unit 208C creates a search result document, and the search result transmission unit 208D sends the search result document to the terminal 2.
02 (step S202).

At the terminal 202, the search result document transmitted from the search engine 208 is received by the search result receiving means 202B.
Is received, and the search result display means 202C displays the search result document. Then, when the search instruction receiving unit 202D receives a translation request for a homepage in the search result document from the user, the translation request unit 202E transmits a translation request to the search engine 208 (step S204). And
In the search engine 208, the translation request relay receiving means 20
8N receives the translation request from the terminal 202, adds the identification number of its own search engine 208 to the translation request received by the translation request
(Step S206).

In the translation server 206, when the translation request receiving means 206A receives a translation request from the terminal 202 which is relayed and transmitted by the search engine 208, the translation request includes the original text acquisition means 206C of the translation means 206B. It is detected based on the address of the home page whether or not the original sentence and the translated sentence of the home page have already been cached (step S208). Search engine 208 that relayed the translation request from
(Step S22).
4) The document creating means 206F takes out the original sentence and the translated sentence to create a translation result document, and the translation result sending means 206N sends the translation result document to the search engine 208 (step S226). In search engine 208,
The translation result relay receiving unit 208P receives the translation result document, and the translation result relay transmitting unit 208Q transmits the translation result to the terminal 202 that has requested the translation (step S22).
8).

On the other hand, if the cache is not cached, the original text acquisition means 206C requests the homepage server 210 to transmit the corresponding homepage based on the address for which translation is requested (step S210), and acquires the original text of the homepage. (Step S212). Next, the document creating means 206F processes the link existing in the original text of the homepage (step S214), and the translation result transmitting means 206N transmits the original text of the homepage with the processed link to the search engine 208 (step S216). ). In the search engine 208, the translation result relay receiving means 208P receives the original text of the home page to which the link has been processed, and the translation result relay sending means 208Q transmits the original text of the home page to the terminal 202 which has requested the translation (step S218).

Further, in the translation server 206, the translation means 2
06B performs a translation process on the home page (step S220), and the original sentence acquisition unit 206C caches the original sentence and the translated sentence of the home page (step S22).
2). Then, the accounting management unit 206M performs an accounting process (step S224), the document creation unit 206F creates a translation result document including the translation, and the translation result transmission unit 206N sends the translation result document to the search engine 208 ( Step S226). In search engine 208,
The translation result relay receiving unit 208P receives the translation result document, and the translation result relay transmitting unit 208Q transmits the translation result to the terminal 202 that has requested the translation (step S22).
8). As a result, the translation result receiving means 202 of the terminal 202
G receives the translation result, and the translation result display means 200H displays the translation result.

A network system according to a third embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 15 shows a third embodiment of the present invention.
It is a figure showing the functional block of the terminal concerning an embodiment.
The terminal 202 of the present embodiment is configured such that the translation request unit 202E of the terminal 202 according to the first embodiment shown in FIG. 2 transmits a translation request to the search engine 208, and does not include the information storage unit 202F. Note that each unit other than the above has the same function as each unit of the first embodiment.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing functional blocks of a search engine according to the third embodiment of the present invention. The search engine 208 of the present embodiment is different from the search engine 208 of the first embodiment shown in FIG. 6 in that the translation request relay receiving means 208N and the translation request relay transmitting means 208O are provided.
And the information storage control means 208E and the permission information transmitting means 208F are not provided. Note that each unit other than the above has the same function as each unit of the first embodiment. The translation request relay receiving means 208N
02, a translation request is received. Translation request relay transmission means 2
08O adds the identification number of its own search engine 208 and the address of the terminal 202, for example, an IP address to the translation request received by the translation request relay receiving means 208N, and transmits the translation request to the translation server 206.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing functional blocks of a translation server according to the third embodiment of the present invention. The translation server 206 according to the present embodiment is different from the translation server 206 according to the first embodiment shown in FIG.
, An information acquisition unit 206J, an authentication unit 206K, and a translation control unit 206L, and the translation request receiving unit 206A receives a translation request from the search engine 208. The translation result is transmitted in a data format equivalent to that transmitted from the search engine, with the IP address of the terminal 202 received by the translation request receiving means 206A as a transmission destination. In the present embodiment, the translation result transmitting means 206N
Makes the IP address of the transmission source of the data including the translation result the IP address of the search engine 208 and transmits the translation result. Note that each unit other than the above has the same function as each unit of the first embodiment.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing a processing sequence of the network system according to the third embodiment of the present invention. When the search request transmission unit 202A of the terminal 202 makes a search request to the search engine 208 (step S30)
0), search request receiving means 208 of search engine 208
A receives the search request, the search unit 208B performs a search, the search result creation unit 208C creates a search result document, and the search result transmission unit 208D sends the search result document to the terminal 2.
02 (step S301).

At the terminal 202, the search result document transmitted from the search engine 208 is transmitted to the search result receiving means 202B.
Is received, and the search result display means 202C displays the search result document. Then, when the search instruction receiving unit 202D receives a translation request for a homepage in the search result document from the user, the translation request unit 202E transmits a translation request to the search engine 208 (step S302). And
In the search engine 208, the translation request relay receiving means 20
8N receives the translation request from the terminal 202, and adds the identification number of its own search engine 208 and the address of the terminal 202 to the translation request received by the translation request relay transmission unit 208P.
For example, an IP address is added and transmitted to the translation server 206 (step S303).

In the translation server 206, when the translation request receiving means 206A receives the translation request from the terminal 202 which is relayed and transmitted by the search engine 208, the translation request includes the original sentence acquiring means 206C of the translation means 206B. It is detected based on the address of the home page whether or not the original sentence and the translated sentence of the home page have already been cached (step S308). Search engine 208 that relayed the translation request from
(Step S32).
2), the document creating means 206F takes out the original sentence and the translated sentence to create a translation result document, and the translation result sending means 206N sends the translation result document to the terminal 202 (step S324).

On the other hand, when the cache is not cached, the original text acquisition means 206C requests the homepage server 210 to transmit the corresponding homepage based on the address for which translation is requested (step S310), and acquires the homepage (step S310). S312). Next, the document creation means 206F processes the link existing on the home page (step S314), and the translation result transmission means 206
N displays the homepage on which the link has been processed in terminal 20
2 (step S316). Next, the translation unit 206B performs a translation process on the home page (step S318), and the original sentence acquisition unit 206C caches the original sentence and the translated sentence of the home page (step S32).
0). Then, the accounting management unit 206M performs an accounting process (step S322), the document creation unit 206F creates a translation result document including the translation, and the translation result transmission unit 206N sends the translation result document to the terminal 202 (step S322). S324). As a result, the translation result receiving means 202G of the terminal 202 receives the translation result, and the translation result displaying means 20
0H displays the translation result.

A description will be given of a network system according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 19 shows a fourth embodiment of the present invention.
It is a figure showing the functional block of the terminal concerning an embodiment.
The terminal according to the present embodiment is such that the terminal 202 according to the first embodiment shown in FIG. 2 further includes a user information input unit 202N. Note that each unit other than the above has the same function as each unit of the first embodiment. The user information input means 202N receives information (user information) of the user of the terminal 202 and receives the translation server 206
Notify. The user information includes, for example, age, gender, occupation, hobby, and the like.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing a hardware configuration of a translation server according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention. In addition,
Functional portions similar to those of the terminal 206 of the first embodiment shown in FIG. 7 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description will be omitted. The translation server 206 includes a CPU 90, a ROM 92,
AM94, communication I / F 96, display 98,
Input device 100, specialized dictionary A102, specialized dictionary B10
4, a general dictionary A106, a general dictionary B108, and a user database 118 as an example of a user information storage unit.
And an advertisement database 120 as an example of an additional information storage unit.

The user database 118 stores user information and user identification information given to the user in association with each other. FIG. 21 is a diagram showing information stored in the user database 118 according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention. In the present embodiment, a user identification ID as user identification information, a user name, and user information such as occupation, hobby, age, and gender are stored in association with each other. For example, the information on the first line is that the user identification ID is “MK3356”, the user name is “MIHO KOIKE”, the occupation is “self-employed”, the hobby is “ski”, and the age is “
24 ", indicating that the gender is" female ".

The advertisement database 120 stores the additional information to be provided to the user and the conditions (information provision conditions) for providing the additional information in association with each other. FIG. 22 is a diagram showing data stored in the advertisement database 120 according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention. In the present embodiment, the advertisement database 120 stores the file name of the advertisement image as an example of the additional information, the conditions for the user information for performing the advertisement (advertisement target), and the conditions for the original and translated sentences of the homepage when performing the advertisement (English). Word, sum word), the number of times the advertisement is desired to be displayed (desired display times), and the number of times the advertisement is actually displayed (actual display times) are stored. The actual display count is used as billing information to the advertiser.

For example, in the data of the first line, the image of the advertisement is “CAR008.JPG”, and the advertisement target is “20”.
The conditions for the original text and the translated text of the homepage when advertising are "CA" and "CA".
R "," AUTOMOBILE ", or" MOTOR "
Or more than a predetermined ratio, or the Japanese word in the translated sentence contains the word "automobile", "new car" or "used car" in a predetermined ratio or more. Is 100,000 times, which indicates that the advertisement is currently displayed 42,365 times.

FIG. 23 is a diagram showing functional blocks of a translation server according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention. The translation server 206 according to the present embodiment differs from the translation server 206 according to the first embodiment shown in FIG.
6P, a user information setting unit 206Q, a user identification information acquiring unit 206S, and a user information detecting unit 206T.
, An additional information detecting means 206V, a user identification information storage controlling means 206W, and an additional information managing means 206X, and the document creating means 206F is provided with the additional information detected by the additional information detecting means 206V as a search result. A function for creating an added document is added. Note that each unit other than the above has the same function as each unit of the first embodiment.

[0086] User information receiving means 206 P receives user information from terminal 202. User information setting means 2
06Q assigns user identification information to the user information received by the user information reception unit 202P, and stores the user information and the user identification information in the user database 118 in association with each other. The user identification information indicates the user (terminal 2
02) can be uniquely specified. The user identification information storage control unit 206W causes the terminal 202 to store the user identification information assigned by the user information setting unit 206Q. The user identification information acquisition unit 206S acquires user identification information from the terminal 202. The user information detection unit 206T detects user information corresponding to the user identification information acquired by the user identification information acquisition unit 206S from the user database 118.

The additional information detecting means 206V detects additional information satisfying the information provision condition from the advertisement database 120 based on the user information detected by the user information detecting means 206T. Further, the additional information detecting means 206V
Detects additional information that satisfies the information provision condition from the advertisement database 120 based on the phrase included in the original or translated sentence of the homepage to be translated. The additional information detection unit 206V is configured to detect additional information that satisfies the information provision condition from the advertisement database 120 based on the user information detected by the user information detection unit 206U and the phrase included in the original or translation of the homepage to be translated. May be detected.

The additional information managing means 206X manages the number of times of addition to the translation result document by the document creating means 206 for each additional information. FIG. 24 is a diagram illustrating an example of a document created by the document creating unit according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 24 shows FIG.
7 is an example of a document in which additional information is added to the translation result document shown in FIG. As shown in the figure, a translation is displayed, and an advertisement image is displayed in the advertisement area CMA.

FIG. 25 is a diagram showing another example of a document created by the document creating means according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 25 shows an example of a document in which additional information has been added to the translation result document shown in FIG. 4 by the document creation means 206F. As shown in the figure, the translation result in which the English word translation is inserted is displayed, and the advertisement image is displayed in the advertisement area CMA.

FIG. 26 is a diagram showing still another example of a document created by the document creating means according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 26 shows the document creation means 206F of FIG.
7 is an example of a document in which additional information is added to the translation result document shown in FIG. As shown in the figure, the original and translated sentences of the home page are displayed, and the image of the advertisement is displayed in the advertisement area CMA.

FIG. 27 is a diagram showing a processing sequence of the network system according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention. When the search request transmitting unit 202A of the terminal 202 makes a search request to the search engine 208 (step S40)
0), search request receiving means 208 of search engine 208
A receives the search request, the search unit 208B performs a search, the search result creation unit 208C creates a search result document, and the search result transmission unit 208D sends the search result document to the terminal 2.
02, and a translation permission number to be given to a translation process when the information storage control unit 208E requests the information storage unit 202F of the terminal 202 for a translation request based on the search result.
The identification number of the own search engine 208 and the expiration date are stored (step S402). Also, the permission information transmitting means 208F of the search engine 208
06 is transmitted (step S40).
3). In the translation server 206, the permission information receiving unit 206
I receives and stores the translation permission number (step S40)
4).

The terminal 202 transmits the search result document transmitted from the search engine 208 to the search result receiving means 202B.
Is received, and the search result display means 202C displays the search result document. When the translation instruction receiving unit 202D receives a translation instruction of the homepage in the search result document from the user, the translation requesting unit 202E transmits a translation request based on the translation instruction to the translation server 206 (step S40).
5).

In the translation server 206, when a translation request is received from the terminal 202, the information
The translation permission number, the search engine identification number, and the expiration date are obtained from the second information storage unit 202F, and the identification information obtaining unit 206S obtains the user identification information from the information storage unit 202F of the terminal 202 (steps S406 and S4).
07). Next, the authentication unit 206K detects whether the translation permission number acquired from the terminal 202 by the information acquisition unit 206J is registered in the translation permission number stored by the permission information receiving unit 206I (step S4).
08) If not registered, it is determined that translation is not permitted, and the translation control unit 206L does not cause the translation unit 206B to execute the translation process for the translation request (step S409).

On the other hand, if the translation permission number has been registered, the identification information acquisition means 206S detects whether or not the user identification information has been obtained.
It is detected whether the user identification information is registered in the user database 118 (step S410). As a result, if the user identification information is not obtained, or if the user identification information is not registered in the user database 118, the user information receiving unit 206P requests the terminal 202 to register the user information (step S41
2). In the terminal 202, upon receiving the user information registration request, the user information input means 202N receives the input of the user information from the user, and transmits the user information to the translation server 2.
06 (step S414). Translation server 20
In 6, the user information receiving unit 206P receives the user information transmitted from the terminal 202, the user information setting unit 206Q assigns user identification information to the user information, associates the user information with the user identification information, and associates the user database 118 with the user database 118. (Step S416), and stores the user identification information assigned to the terminal 202 by the user identification information storage control unit 206W.

On the other hand, if it is detected that the user identification information is registered, or if the user identification information is allocated and stored in the user database, the original text acquisition means 206C of the translation means 206B sends a request for translation. Based on the address of the included home page, it is detected whether or not the original sentence and the translated sentence of the home page are cached (step S418).

If the translation is not cached, the original sentence acquisition unit 206C requests the homepage server 210 to transmit the corresponding homepage based on the address for which translation is requested (step S420), and acquires the homepage (step S422). . Next, the document creation means 20
6F processes the link existing on the homepage (step S424), and the translation result transmitting unit 206N transmits the homepage on which the link has been processed to the terminal 202 (step S426). Next, the translation means 206
B translates the home page (step S
428), the original sentence acquiring unit 206C caches the original sentence and the translated sentence of the homepage (step S430).

The above processing (steps S420 to S43)
0), or when caching is performed, the additional information detecting means 206V and the additional information managing means 20
6X and the document creating means 206F perform additional information processing for creating a translation result document in which additional information has been added to the translation of the homepage, and the accounting management means 206M performs accounting processing, and converts the translation result document to which the additional information has been added. The translation result transmitting unit 206N transmits the message to the terminal 202 (step S43).
6). As a result, the translation result receiving means 202 of the terminal 202
G receives the translation result document, and displays the translation result display means 200H.
Displays a translation result document as shown in FIG. 24, FIG. 25, or FIG.

Further, in the translation server 206, the original sentence acquiring means 206C requests the home page server 210 to transmit the corresponding home page based on the link information of the home page linked in the original sentence of the home page (step S438). The home page is acquired (step S440). Next, the translation means 206B
Performs a translation process on the acquired homepage (step S442), and the original sentence acquiring unit 206C caches the original sentence and the translated sentence of the homepage (step S44).
4).

FIG. 28 is a flowchart of the additional information processing of the network system according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention. In the additional information processing (step S432 shown in FIG. 27), the user information detection unit 206T detects user information corresponding to the user identification information acquired by the identification information acquisition unit 206S from the user database 118, or receives user information. It is received from the means 206P and passed to the additional information detecting means 206V. Next, based on the transferred user information, the additional information detection unit 206V detects an advertisement image satisfying the information provision condition from the advertisement database 120 (step S432A), and the document creation unit 206F includes a translation of the advertisement image. It is embedded in the translation result document (step S432B), and the additional information management unit 206X adds “1” to the actual display count of the embedded advertisement image in the advertisement database 120 (step S432C). In step S432A, the additional information detection unit 206V may detect an image of an advertisement that satisfies the information provision condition from the advertisement database 120 based on the phrase included in the original or translated sentence of the homepage to be translated. In addition, the additional information detection unit 206V outputs an advertisement that satisfies the information provision condition from the advertisement database 120 based on the user information detected by the user information detection unit 206T and the phrase included in the original or translated text of the homepage to be translated. May be detected.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and various modifications are possible. For example, the translation result display means 202H of the above embodiment may be configured as follows. FIG. 29 shows the translation result display means 20 according to the present invention.
It is a figure showing other examples of a 2H functional block. The translation result display means 202H includes an original text translation display means 202I for displaying the original text and the translation, and a display designation means 202O for designating a predetermined portion in one of the displayed ranges of the original text or the translation of the translation result document. A position specifying means 202P for specifying the position of the part in one document by a predetermined tag in the document, and specifying a corresponding part of the original document or the translation in the other document based on the tag specifying the position of the part. And a display change unit 202R for displaying a range including the corresponding portion.

According to the translation result display means 202H,
The original translation display unit 202I displays the translation result document including the original and the translation as shown in FIG.
O accepts the specification of a predetermined portion in the displayed range of one of the original text or the translated text from the user by a mouse or the like, and the position specifying means 202P determines the position of the specified portion in the one document in a predetermined tag in the document. For example, it is specified by a line feed tag. Next, the corresponding part specifying means 202Q specifies the corresponding part of the other document of the original or translated text based on the tag specifying the position of the part, and the display changing means 20Q.
2R displays the range including the corresponding portion.

The display changing means 202R may make the display form of the corresponding part different from that of other parts, for example, the color, character size, character thickness, whether or not to shade, and the like. The original translation display unit 202I, the display designation unit 202O, the position identification unit 202P, the corresponding part identification unit 202Q, and the display change unit 202R are connected to the terminal 202.
The program to be executed by the browser of the translation server 20
The display control means 206O of No. 6 may be included in the translation result document in the document creation means 206F and transmitted to the terminal 202.

In the first embodiment, the terminal 20
The cookie file No. 2 stores the identification information of the search engine 208, and the translation server 206 acquires the identification information of the cookie file and specifies the search engine 208.
The translation server 206 transmits the identification information of the search engine 208 directly to the search engine 208.
May be specified. In the first embodiment, the translation engine number and the search engine 208 as the translation permission information stored in the terminal 202 are stored in the translation server 20.
6 uses the same translation permission number as the translation permission information to be transmitted to the terminal 202. However, the present invention is not limited to this.
08 may be compatible with the translation permission information transmitted to the translation server 206.

In the first embodiment, the terminal 20
2 transmits the translation permission information to the translation server 206, and the translation server 206 determines the translation permission based on the translation permission information. However, the present invention is not limited to this. In advance, an agreement on translation permission (for example, a code system of translation permission information acquired by the translation server from the terminal 202) is prepared in advance.
The search engine 208 causes the terminal 202 to store the translation permission information according to the agreement, and when a translation request is received from the terminal 202, the translation server 206 extracts the translation permission information from the terminal and determines the translation permission according to the agreement. You may.

In the fourth embodiment, the translation server 206 causes the translation result document as an example of the processing result to include the additional information. However, the present invention is not limited to this. The search engine 208 as an example of a server may include additional information in a search result document as an example of a processing result. In the fourth embodiment, the translation server 206 of the network system according to the first embodiment is provided with a unit for including additional information in the translation result document. However, the present invention is not limited to this. The network system according to the second or third embodiment may be provided with similar means. Further, in the above embodiment, the translation server 206 transmits the home page translation to the terminal after transmitting the home page translation to the terminal. However, the present invention is not limited to this. You may make it transmit together with a translation.

Further, in the above embodiment, the translation server 206 is used as an example of the explanation server. However, the present invention is not limited to this. The present invention can also be applied to this. Further, in the above embodiment, the words and phrases are classified according to the difficulty level for the general dictionary, but the words and phrases may be classified according to the difficulty level for the specialized dictionary. When the dictionaries are classified according to the degree of difficulty, different dictionaries may be provided for each degree of difficulty, or the degree of difficulty of each phrase may be specified in one dictionary.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiment, the technical scope of the present invention is not limited to the scope described in the above embodiment. It is apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes or improvements can be added to the above embodiment. It is apparent from the description of the appended claims that embodiments with such changes or improvements can be included in the technical scope of the present invention.

[0097]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, it is possible to easily and appropriately grasp the correspondence between predetermined portions in the original and translated sentences of the homepage.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a network system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing functional blocks of a terminal according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen displayed on the terminal according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing another example of the display screen displayed on the terminal according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing still another example of the display screen displayed on the terminal according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing functional blocks of a search engine according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of a translation server according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing functional blocks of a translation server according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a processing sequence of the network system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a translation process of the network system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing functional blocks of a terminal according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing functional blocks of a search engine according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing functional blocks of a translation server according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a processing sequence of the network system according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing functional blocks of a terminal according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing functional blocks of a search engine according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing functional blocks of a translation server according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing a processing sequence of the network system according to the third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing functional blocks of a terminal according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 20 is a diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of a translation server according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing information stored in a user database according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 22 is a diagram showing data stored in an advertisement database according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 23 is a diagram showing functional blocks of a translation server according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 24 is a diagram illustrating an example of a document created by a document creating unit according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 25 is a diagram illustrating another example of a document created by the document creating unit according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 26 is a diagram showing still another example of a document created by the document creating unit according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 27 is a diagram showing a processing sequence of the network system according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 28 is a flowchart of additional information processing of the network system according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 29 is a diagram showing another example of the functional blocks of the translation result display means according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

90 CPU 92
ROM 94 RAM 96
Communication I / F 98 Display 100
Input device 102 Professional dictionary A 104
Specialty dictionary B 106 General dictionary A 108
General dictionary B 110 FD drive 112
FD 114 CD-ROM drive 116
CD-ROM 118 User database 120
Advertising database 200 Internet 202
Terminal 206 Translation server 208
Search engine 210 homepage server

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Junichi Nakamura 2-6-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Inside CSK Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Kentaro Kobayashi 2-6-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo CSK Co., Ltd. (72) Mitsuhiro Ohara, Inventor 2-6-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo CSK Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Tamotsu Ogata 2-6-1, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo CSK Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor, Daisuke Nakamura 2-6-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Stock Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Hiroshi Obayashi 2-6-1, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Stock CSK Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Yoshinao Shimura 2-6-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Nao Okubo Tree 2-1-2 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Co., Ltd. CSK Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Tomoyuki Nakamura 2-6-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Co., Ltd. CSK Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Toru Shimamura Tokyo 2-6-1, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Inside CSK Corporation (72) Inventor Kiyotaka Ogawa 2-6-1, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Inside CSK Corporation (72) Inventor Shozo Iguchi Tokyo 2-6-1, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Japan CSK Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Yukitaka 2-6-1, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan CSK Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor, Koji Abe Tokyo 2-6-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Co., Ltd. CSK Corporation (72) Inventor Yoichi Yamashita 2-6-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Co., Ltd. C72K Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Tetsuji Yano Shinjuku, Tokyo 2-6-1, Nishi-Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo CSK Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Yoshi Toshi Masakazu Toda 2-72-1, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo (72) Inventor Masaya Toda 2-6-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Intranet: CSK, Inc. (72) Inventor Yasuo Saito Tokyo 2-6-1, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Co., Ltd. CSK Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Hideo Ogawa 2-6-1, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Co., Ltd. C72K Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Kenichiro Daisaku Shinjuku, Tokyo 2-6-1 Nishi-Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan CSK Corporation (72) Inventor Shuichi Mishima 2-6-1, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Tokyo, Japan F-term 5B089 GA11 GA21 HA10 JA01 JA22 JB02 JB24 KA02 KC41 KH17 LB14 5B091 AA03 BA03 CB25 CB26 CB27 CD03

Claims (10)

[Claims] 1. A terminal for displaying a hypertext format original sentence and a translated sentence on a display device, wherein the original sentence and the translated sentence display means for displaying a predetermined range of the original sentence and the translated sentence on the display device, Display range changing means for inputting an instruction to change the display range of one of the documents, display change means for changing the display range of the one document based on the instruction, and the one before the instruction Tag detecting means for detecting a correspondence relationship of a predetermined tag in a document existing between the displayed range of the document and the range of the one document displayed according to the instruction; and a correspondence of the detected tag. A terminal comprising: a second display change unit that changes a display range of the other document of the original sentence or the translated sentence based on the relationship. 2. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the tag detecting unit detects the number of line feed tags indicating a line feed position in the one document. 3. A display system for displaying, on a display device, an original sentence and a translated sentence in a hypertext format, wherein: an original sentence translated sentence display means for displaying a predetermined range of the original sentence and the translated sentence on the display device; Designation means for designating a desired part in the range displayed for one document of the translated sentence; position identification means for identifying the position of the designated part in the one document by a predetermined tag in the document; A corresponding portion specifying unit that specifies a corresponding portion of the other document of the original text or the translated text based on the tag that specifies the position of the portion; and a display change unit that displays a range including the corresponding portion. A terminal characterized by the following. 4. The terminal according to claim 3, wherein the position specifying unit specifies a position using a line feed tag indicating a line feed position in the one document. 5. The terminal according to claim 3, wherein the display change unit changes a display form of the part of the other document from another part of the document. 6. A translation server for receiving a translation request for a hypertext format homepage from a terminal via a network, translating the homepage, and transmitting the translated homepage to the terminal via a network, the translation server including an address of the homepage. Translation request receiving means for receiving the translation request from the terminal, original text acquisition means for acquiring the original text of the homepage based on the address of the homepage included in the translation request, and translating the original text of the acquired homepage. A translation unit, a translation result transmitting unit that transmits the acquired original text and translation of the homepage to the terminal, and the terminal displays a predetermined range of the original text and translation of the homepage, and displays one of the original text and the translated text. Input an instruction to change the display range of the document,
The range in which the one document is displayed is changed based on the instruction, and the range is displayed between the range in which the one document is displayed before the instruction and the range of the one document displayed in accordance with the instruction. Display control means for detecting a predetermined number of tags in a document to be changed, and changing a display range of the other document of the original or translated sentence of the home page based on the detected number of tags. Translation server to do. 7. A translation server for receiving a translation request of a hypertext format homepage from a terminal via a network, translating the homepage, and transmitting the translated homepage to the terminal via a network, wherein the translation server includes an address of the homepage. Translation request receiving means for receiving the translation request from the terminal, original text acquisition means for acquiring the original text of the homepage based on the address of the homepage included in the translation request, and translating the original text of the acquired homepage. A translation unit, a translation result transmitting unit that transmits the acquired original text and translation of the homepage to the terminal, and the terminal displays a predetermined range of the original text and the translation of the homepage, and one of the original text or the translated text of the homepage. Point to the desired part in the range displayed for the document Then, the position of the specified portion in the one document is specified by a predetermined tag in the document, and based on the tag specifying the position of the portion, the corresponding portion of the original document or the translated document in the other document is determined. And a display control means for displaying a range including the corresponding portion. 8. An additional information storage unit for storing association information for associating additional information to be supplied to the terminal with display conditions for displaying the additional information, based on at least one of an original sentence and a translated sentence of the homepage. Further comprising additional information detecting means for detecting additional information that satisfies the display condition, wherein the translation result transmitting means transmits the additional information to the terminal together with the original and translated text of the homepage. Item 8. The translation server according to item 6 or 7. 9. An additional information storage unit storing association information for associating additional information supplied to the terminal with a display condition for displaying the additional information, and a user storing user information of a user who uses the terminal. An information storage unit; and an additional information detection unit that detects additional information that satisfies a display condition based on the user information of a user of the terminal. 8. The translation server according to claim 6, wherein the additional information is transmitted to the terminal. 10. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the additional information detecting means detects additional information satisfying the display condition based on at least one of an original sentence or a translated sentence of a homepage and the user information. Translation server.