JP2001282787A - Machine translation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a machine translation device for facilitating the check of a translated result sentence by enabling the storage and retrieval of the other translated word in the translated result sentence. SOLUTION: A sentence in a first language inputted from an input device 20 is translated by a translation part 62 while using a translation dictionary 51 and displayed on a display device 30. The translation dictionary 51 is provided with a basic translated word dictionary part 52 and another translated word dictionary part 53. When the another translated word is selected for a part of the displayed translated result sentence by a user, flag information is added to that another translated word by a flag setting part 63. Further, by retrieving the translated result sentence, to which the flag information is added, by another translation retrieving part 64, only the part, where the other translated word is selected, is displayed with inversion or blink. Besides, the basic translated word of a word, for which the another translated word is selected, is stored in the other translated word dictionary part 53.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a machine translation device for translating a first language sentence into a second language sentence, and more particularly to a machine translation device capable of selecting another translation word other than a basic translation word during translation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a machine translation apparatus for translating a first language sentence into a second language sentence uses various translation dictionaries for translation. For example, there are a standard translation dictionary for storing general terms, a technical term dictionary for storing technical terms, and a user dictionary registered by a user as needed. In the machine translation device, for each word included in the first language sentence to be translated, an appropriate second
It is common to automatically select words in a language and use them to create a second language sentence.

Also, the word in the second language corresponding to one word in the first language is not always determined to be one, and there are often a plurality of candidate translations. For this reason, the standard translation dictionary stores a plurality of alternative translations in addition to the basic translation, so that the user can select the translation. If the user looks at the translated second language sentence and wants to replace the translation used therein with another word, another translation can be selected. When another translation word is selected, various translation devices have been proposed in which the second language sentence once created is reviewed as necessary, and a more appropriate translated sentence is created.

[0004]

After a second language sentence is created by the above-described machine translation apparatus, there is a case where it is desired to change only a portion where another translation is specified again. For example, if the user reviews the created second language sentence and finds that the word specified as another translation matches the basic translation of another first language word, For example, if you want to return to. However, in a conventional machine translation device,
It was not possible to distinguish from the created second language sentence whether the selected word was selected from the basic translation or another translation specified by the user. For this reason, there is no way to distinguish whether the same word in the second language sentence is the same word or has become the same by changing another word with a similar meaning to another word. Was.

[0005] In particular, when the second language sentence is not continuously created at once, even if the second language sentence being created is saved, its creation procedure is not saved, so that the second language sentence cannot be redone. Therefore, when trying to change only the translated words, the user has to search all applicable words and review the words one by one, and it takes a lot of trouble especially when the document is large.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and has as its object to provide a machine translation apparatus that can store and retrieve another translation word in a translation result sentence, thereby facilitating the review of the translation result sentence. To provide.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, an input means for inputting a first language sentence and a first language sentence inputted by the input means are provided in a predetermined manner. A translation dictionary storing various information necessary for translating into a second language sentence, a translation unit for translating the first language sentence into a second language sentence based on the translation dictionary, and a second language translated by the translation unit A machine translation device having display means for displaying a sentence, a basic translation word dictionary unit provided in the translation dictionary and storing a basic translation word corresponding to each word constituting the first language sentence;
A translation word dictionary unit that is provided in the translation dictionary and stores a plurality of translation word candidates corresponding to the basic translation word, and is stored in the translation word dictionary unit instead of the basic translation word in the second language sentence displayed on the display unit. Selecting means for selecting one translation word from the plurality of translation word candidates, and selecting a translation word via the selection means,
A setting unit that sets flag information in association with the translated word, based on the flag information set by the setting unit,
Search means for searching for another translated word in the second language sentence selected via the selection means.

According to the configuration of the present invention, the first language sentence input by the input means is translated by the translation means into the second language sentence based on the translation dictionary and displayed on the display means.
Here, the translation dictionary includes a basic translation word dictionary section and another translation word dictionary section, and the machine translation apparatus first performs translation using the basic translation word dictionary section. Thereafter, the user may select another translation word from the another translation dictionary unit by the selection means. Flag information is set to the selected alternative word by the setting means, and when the alternative means is searched for by the search means, the flag information is used. As a result, another translation set by the user is distinguished from the basic translation by the flag information. Further, by searching the word to which the flag information is added by the search means, it is possible to search only the word for which another translation is selected.

In order to achieve the above object, a second aspect of the present invention is directed to the first aspect of the present invention, wherein another translation word in the second language sentence searched through the search means is displayed in a predetermined display mode. A display control means for controlling the display means so as to be displayed is provided.

According to the configuration of the invention described above, the retrieved second
The translated words in the language sentence are displayed by the display control means in a predetermined display mode. Thereby, it becomes easy for the user to identify the retrieved translated word on the display screen.

In order to achieve the above object, a third aspect of the present invention is characterized in that, in the second aspect of the present invention, the predetermined display mode is reverse display or blink display.

According to the configuration of the present invention, the retrieved translated word is displayed in reverse display or blink display. As a result, the retrieved translated word on the display screen becomes clear at a glance and can be more easily recognized.

In order to achieve the above object, according to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the second aspect of the present invention, when another translation is selected through the selection means, a basic translation corresponding to the another translation is selected. Is stored in the translation word dictionary unit, and when a selection operation is performed by the selection unit to change the translation word already selected to another translation word or a basic translation word, the display control unit refers to the translation word dictionary unit. The basic translation is displayed on the display means as a first candidate.

According to the configuration of the present invention, the basic translation corresponding to the word for which the alternative translation is selected is stored in the alternative translation dictionary,
The basic translation is displayed at the first position in the alternative translation candidate list for changing the word. This makes it easy to take into account the basic translation by re-examining the translation result sentence so that it is the first in the alternative translation candidate list when trying to change again the word for which another translation was selected. It helps to review the results.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 5 is the invention according to claim 4, wherein the basic translation displayed on the display means from the already selected alternative translation via the selection means. The setting means cancels the setting of the flag information when the setting is changed to.

According to the configuration of the present invention, when the once-selected alternative word is changed to the basic word by the selection means,
The setting of the flag information is canceled by the setting means. Even if another translation is once selected and the flag information is set, if the user later changes to the basic translation,
No alternative word is selected for that word. Therefore, by canceling the setting of the flag information by the setting means, it is set that the word is not another translated word.
As a result, even if a word has a different translation once set,
When the user changes the selection to the basic translation, the user can return to the original state without recognizing it as another translation.

[0017]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment embodying a machine translation apparatus according to the present invention will be described below. FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of the machine translation apparatus according to the present embodiment.

As shown in FIG. 1, a machine translation apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment has a main controller 1 composed of a computer.
0, an input device 20 such as a mouse or a keyboard, a display device 30 such as a CRT, a printing device 40 such as a laser printer,
It comprises an external storage device 50 such as a DD or a CD-ROM. A translation dictionary 51 is stored in the external storage device 50. A basic translation word dictionary unit 52 that stores basic translation words inside the translation dictionary 51, and another translation word dictionary that stores a plurality of different translation words corresponding to each basic translation word A part 53 is provided.

The main controller 10 is a CPU 11 for controlling the entire machine translation apparatus 1, and an R for storing various programs and the like.
OM12, RAM1 provided with a temporary storage area and the like
3. An I / O control unit 14 that controls communication with an external device is connected to each other by a bus or the like. The input device 20, the display device 30, the printing device 40, and the external storage device 50, which are external devices, are connected to the main control device 10 via the I / O control unit 14, and are controlled by the CPU 11.

The ROM 12 has an overall control unit 61 for controlling the entire operation of the machine translation apparatus 1 and stores a character string in a first language in a second language.
A translation unit 62 for translating into a language, a flag setting unit 63 for setting flag information for another translation, and a translation search unit 6 for searching for another translation
4 and the like are stored. In the RAM 13,
Various work areas are provided.

Here, in the present embodiment, the input device 20
Constitute the input means and the selection means according to the first aspect. Further, the overall control unit 61 includes a display control unit according to the second aspect.

Next, the processing of the translation unit 62 and the flag setting unit 63 will be described. Since the general translation processing is the same as the conventional one, a description thereof will be omitted here, and only different points will be described. First, the translation unit 62 translates the first language sentence instructed for translation into a second language sentence according to a general translation process. At this time, the translation unit 62 refers to the basic translation word dictionary unit 52 in the translation dictionary 51 as a dictionary. The translation unit 62 displays the translated second language sentence on the display device 30 and waits for confirmation by the user.

Here, when the user decides to change the displayed translation result to another translation word different from the basic translation word used by the translation unit 62, the user selects the basic translation word to be changed and displays another translation word. Enter instructions. The translation unit 62 searches the translation word dictionary unit 53 and displays a list of translation words corresponding to the selected word on the display device 30. The user selects a desired translated word from the displayed list of translated words, and instructs the selection using the input device 20. When the user selects an alternative word, the flag setting unit 63 adds the flag information B-LEX to the selected alternative word. Further, the basic translation corresponding to the selected alternative word is stored in the alternative word dictionary unit 53 of the word via the overall control unit 61.

Next, in order to re-edit the second language document created as described above and holding the flag information B-LEX as its internal information, another translation search process for searching for another translation by the machine translation apparatus 1 is performed. The operation will be described using a flowchart. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an outline of the processing by the translation search unit 64.

As shown in FIG. 2, when the user instructs to execute a translation search, the translation search unit 64 requests an input as to whether the user specifies a translation word to be searched (step 1). , And the following steps are abbreviated as S). For this purpose, the alternative translation search unit 64 displays a dialog on the display device 30 for prompting an input as to whether or not to specify an alternative translation, and waits for an instruction input by the user.

If it is determined by the user's instruction that no alternate word is specified (S1: NO), the alternate word search unit 64 searches all the documents from the beginning and finds the word in which B-LEX is set in the sentence. It is determined whether or not there is (S2). If there is no word having B-LEX in the sentence (S2: NO), the translation search process ends. If a word having B-LEX is found (S2: YES), the alternative translation search unit 64 displays the document part including the word on the display device 30, and reversely or blinks the word having B-LEX (S3). ). In addition, it asks the user to determine whether to replace this word. That is, the translation search unit 64 displays a dialog on the display device 30 as to whether or not to replace this word, and prompts the user to input an instruction (S4).

If replacement is instructed by the user (S4: YES), the alternative translation search unit 64 performs a replacement process (S5). As a method of the replacement processing, the user may input a proper translation word by a key, or a list of another translation word may be displayed again. Further, when the replacement is completed, the user is instructed whether or not to search for the next word (S6). If you do not want to continue the search (S
6: NO) The translation search process ends.

If the search is to be continued (S6: YES),
The translation search unit 64 determines whether there is another translation that satisfies the previous condition (S7). If there is no other translation (S7: NO), the translation search process ends. If there is still another translation (S7: YES), the translation search unit 64 performs the same processing as described above, such as displaying the word in reverse video or blinking, and allowing the user to determine whether or not to replace the word (S3). ~ S6).

On the other hand, if the user first instructs in S1 to designate another translation (S1: YES), the translation search unit 64 prompts the user to input an instruction for another translation. The user uses the input device 20 to input another translation word to be searched (S
8). The alternate translation search unit 64 performs B-LE
It is determined whether there is a word having X (S9). If there is no word that satisfies the condition (S9: NO), the user is asked whether to search for another translated word (S10). If another translation is specified (S10: YES), the process is executed again from S8, and if not (S10: NO), the translation search process ends.

Next, an example in which a translation search process is performed using the machine translation apparatus 1 of this embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings. Here, Japanese is used as the first language, and English is used as the second language.

Here, it is assumed that the following four Japanese sentences to be translated have already been input. (1) I like Japanese oranges. (2) I ate oranges yesterday. (3) My mother likes oranges from California. (4) Orange is a digestible food. When the good Japanese sentences (1) to (4) are translated into English by a general translation process, the following translation results are obtained corresponding to each Japanese sentence. (E1) I like mandarines made in Japan. (E2) I ate three mandarines yesterday. (E3) My mother's favorites are oranges made in
California. (E4) Orange is digestible food.

Next, (E1), (E1)
When “mandarine” in 2) is changed to its alternative word “orange” and “digestible” in (E4) is changed to its alternative word “light”, the translation result is schematically shown in FIG. The result shown in FIG. In FIG. 3, the word “orange” is included in each of the four sentences (E1) to (E4) included in the document 70.
The “orange” 71 of 1) and the “orange” 72 of (E2) are different translations, and B-LEX is added. Also, (E
4) “light” 75 also has B-LEX added.

When a different translation is selected as described above, a basic translation corresponding to the another translation is stored in the another translation dictionary 53 by the overall control unit 61 simultaneously with the selection. Here, "or", which is stored from the beginning as a translation for "Mikan" stored in the
“mandarine” is stored in addition to “ange”, “tangerine”, and the like.

When a translation search process is performed on a document containing these English sentences, a dialog 76 shown in FIG. Here, when the user selects “Yes”, a window for inputting another translation word to be specified opens, and the user uses the input device 20 to input, for example, “orange”. Then, the alternative translation search unit 64 searches for the word “orange” having the B-LEX, and first searches for “orange” 71. As a result, as shown in FIG. 5, "orange" 71 is displayed in reverse video or blink.

Subsequently, the translation search section 64 operates the display device 30.
6 displays a dialog 78 shown in FIG.
The user waits for an instruction as to whether or not to replace “ange” 71. When the replacement is instructed, as shown in FIG. 7, another word list 79 of a word group which is a candidate for replacement is displayed. Here, a word group that is a candidate for replacement is retrieved from the alternative word dictionary unit 53. As described above, the basic translation word “mandarine” is stored by the flag setting unit 63 in the translation word portion for “mikan” in the alternative translation word dictionary unit 53, and as shown in FIG. At the top is the basic translation "mandarine".

The user selects an appropriate word from the alternative word list 79. At this time, the basic translation "mandar
When “ine” is selected, the B-LEX added to “orange” 71 is deleted. On the other hand, if another alternative word is selected, B-LEX is added to the selected word.
Is added.

Next, as shown in FIG. 8, the alternate translation search unit 64 displays a dialog 80 on the display device 30 and prompts the user to continue the search. If the search is to be continued, "orange" 72 is similarly searched and displayed in reverse or blinking. After the replacement
If the user instructs further continuation, the alternative translation search process ends because there is no corresponding word.

Alternatively, if no alternate translation is specified in the dialog box 76 of FIG. 4, all words having B-LEX in the document are searched, so that "orange" 71, "orang"
"e" 72 and "light" 75 in that order.

As described above, this machine translation apparatus 1
According to this, when a translation word is selected by the user during the translation by the translation unit 62, the flag setting unit 63 adds the flag information B-LEX to the translation word. Therefore, the used translation word can be distinguished by the flag information B-LEX. When the document is searched by the translation search unit 64, only the word to which the flag information B-LEX is added is searched, so that only the translation selected by the user is easily searched. In addition, the retrieved translated word is displayed in reverse or blink in the second language sentence of the translation result,
It is easily recognized by the user. As a result, from the translation result document containing the translated word selected by the user,
It is easy to review the translated words.

Further, the basic translation corresponding to the selected translation is stored in the translation dictionary 53 by the overall control unit 61. Therefore, when the user replaces another translation, the corresponding basic translation is displayed at the top of the translation list. This makes it easier to review and change the translated words.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, but can be modified and implemented without departing from the spirit of the invention. For example, in the above-described embodiment, the input from the keyboard is used to specify the translated word. However, all the words having B-LEX may be displayed in a list and selected from the list. Further, for example, in the above-described embodiment, the replacement process is performed one word at a time, but when there are a plurality of the same translated words, the replacement may be performed collectively.

[0042]

According to the first aspect of the present invention,
When the alternative word is selected by the selection means, the setting means sets the flag information to the other word. Therefore, the fact that the user has selected another translated word other than the basic translated word is added as flag information. In addition, since the flag information is searched by the search means, only the portion where another word is selected is searched. As a result, when reviewing the translation result sentence, it is easy to search for only another translation,
The entire translation result document can be easily reviewed.

According to the configuration of the second aspect of the present invention, the retrieved translated word portion is displayed in a predetermined display mode, so that it can be easily recognized and the translation result document can be easily reviewed. .

According to the configuration of the third aspect of the present invention, the retrieved translated word portion is displayed in reverse display or blink display, so that it can be more easily distinguished and the translation result document can be more easily reviewed. become.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the basic translation is displayed at the first position in the alternative translation candidate list for the selected alternative translation. This makes it easy to consider the base translation when reviewing the translation result sentence further,
Reviewing the translation result document becomes easier.

According to the fifth aspect of the invention, once the set flag information is changed to the basic translation, the flag information is released. As a result, only words for which another translation is selected in the final stage are searched by the search means, so that the translation result document can be more easily reviewed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a machine translation device.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a process performed by a translation search unit.

FIG. 3 is an image diagram of a document displayed on a display device.

FIG. 4 is an image diagram of a dialog displayed on a display device.

FIG. 5 is an image diagram of a document displayed on a display device.

FIG. 6 is an image diagram of a dialog displayed on the display device.

FIG. 7 is an image diagram of another translation word list displayed on the display device.

FIG. 8 is an image diagram of a dialog displayed on the display device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 machine translation device 10 main control device 11 CPU 12 ROM 20 input device 30 display device 50 external storage device 51 translation dictionary 52 basic translation word dictionary section 53 translation word dictionary section 61 overall control section 62 translation section 63 flag setting section 64 translation search Department

Claims (5)

[Claims] An input means for inputting a first language sentence, and a first language sentence input by the input means is input to a second
A translation dictionary storing various information necessary for translating into a language sentence; a translation unit for translating a first language sentence into a second language sentence based on the translation dictionary; a second language sentence translated by the translation unit A translation unit that is provided in the translation dictionary and stores a basic translation word corresponding to each word constituting the first language sentence; provided in the translation dictionary. A translated word dictionary unit that stores a plurality of translated word candidates corresponding to the basic translated word; and a plurality of translated word stored in the translated word dictionary unit instead of the basic translation word in the second language sentence displayed on the display unit. Selecting means for selecting one alternative word from alternative word candidates; setting means for setting flag information in association with the alternative word when another word is selected via the selecting means; setting by the setting means Flag Based on the information,
A machine translation device comprising: a retrieval unit that retrieves another translated word in the second language sentence selected via the selection unit. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a display control unit that controls the display unit to display the translated word in the second language sentence searched through the search unit in a predetermined display mode. 2. The machine translation device according to 1. 3. The machine translation apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the predetermined display mode is reverse display or blink display. 4. When a translation word is selected via the selection means, a basic translation word corresponding to the translation word is stored in the translation word dictionary unit, and the selected translation word is replaced with another translation word or basic translation word. When a selection operation is performed by the selection unit to change to a translated word, the display control unit refers to the another translated word dictionary unit to change the basic translated word to the first translated word.
3. The machine translation apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the apparatus is displayed on a display unit as a second candidate. 5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the setting means cancels the setting of the flag information when another selected word is changed to the basic word displayed on the display means via the selecting means. The machine translation device according to claim 4.