JP2003132058A - Language conversion apparatus of character data - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten the time for language conversion processing and reduce labor thereof. SOLUTION: Character data are extracted from the first language file, such as a process design book 1J created by using a worksheet 10 to be output to a CSV file 7J. In this case, the rows of the worksheet 10 recorded with the character data are stored, in correspondence with the record number of the CSV file 7J. Also, the columns of the worksheet 10 recorded with the character data are stored, in correspondence with the order of the data in a recode. Dictionary files 11, 12 are referred to, and Japanese data among the character data in the CSV file 7J is subject to language conversion into English data to be output to CSV file 7E. Based on the record number and sequence of data, in the record of each character data recorded in the CSV file 7E after the conversion, the second language file, such as a process planning book 1E, is created.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a first computerized computer.
The present invention relates to a character data language conversion device for converting character data of a language into character data of a second language.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When a machine manufactured through various processes, for example, a working machine, is manufactured, a process design document in which the contents of the work in each manufacturing process, processing dimensions, etc. are described is prepared.
The process design document is a form of paper on which a basic description format is defined, and standard documents and drawings are described. The worker works in each manufacturing process according to the contents of the process design document.

By the way, in recent years, the working machine manufacturing technology may be transferred to another country. In such a case, it is necessary to convert the language described in the process design document into the language of another country.

When converting the language of the process design document created by handwriting, the operator converts the language conversion target character into a language and writes the character after the language conversion in a new process design document. Alternatively, the process design document is loaded into a computer by a scanner, and the character data recognized as a character is converted into a language by using a commercially available language conversion software. Since the character data after the language conversion is displayed on the display screen of the computer as the characters after the language conversion, the worker creates a new process design document while referring to the display screen of the computer.

However, if there is any change in the content of the handwritten process design document, a new process design document must be recreated. Furthermore, when it comes to language conversion, a person who is not familiar with other languages requires a great deal of time and labor. Therefore, in recent years, process design documents have been digitized and printed on paper as needed.

When converting the language of the computerized process design document, the process design document is displayed on the display screen of the computer, the operator selects the conversion target character on the display screen, and the language conversion is performed. Start the software and convert the language. Then, the worker himself / herself pastes the language-converted characters displayed on the display screen of the computer onto a new process design document displayed at another position on the same screen.

Further, the process plan may be created using spreadsheet software. In such a case, the conversion target character is described for each cell of the worksheet for the process design document. The operator selects the cell in which the conversion target character is described from the worksheet for the process design document displayed on the display screen of the computer. Then, the language conversion software is activated by computer processing, and the characters to be converted in the selected cell are subjected to language conversion, and the characters after language conversion are pasted on the worksheet for the process design document displayed on another screen.

As a technology for converting the language displayed on the display screen of the computer into a language, there is a technology for converting the language on the homepage screen. This technology converts all or part of the conversion target characters on the homepage screen selected by the operator into a language, and converts the conversion target characters included in the source program for creating the homepage screen into a dedicated language. Language conversion is performed using conversion software.

[0009]

When converting the language of the digitized process design document, the work of selecting the character to be converted, the work of starting the language conversion software, the work of pasting the converted character, etc. It must be done by the worker himself. These tasks are less time and labor intensive than the tasks of translating the handwritten process design language. However, this requires a lot of manual work by the operator, which requires a great deal of time and effort for an inexperienced operator. In addition, mistakes may occur during these operations.

When converting the language of the process design document created by using the spreadsheet software, it is necessary to select the language conversion target character in cell units. Therefore, when a large number of language conversion target characters are involved, it is necessary to repeat the work of language conversion target character selection and language conversion, and this also consumes a great deal of time and labor. In fact, such work is not practical.

In the technology for language conversion of characters displayed on the homepage screen, a program for language conversion processing is created. This program is designed to perform language conversion while searching for a language conversion target character described in a source program for creating a home page. According to this technology, search the conversion target character in the source program for homepage creation, language conversion by language conversion software,
The replacement with the character after the language conversion is repeated,
Extremely low processing efficiency. Further, the contents of a program that repeats such various processes are complicated. Therefore, the number of steps of the source program increases. For these reasons, it takes a lot of time from the start to the end of the language conversion processing by this technique.

Further, ordinary language conversion software stores various characters and their parallel translations so that they can be used for various purposes. Therefore, the size of the dictionary file becomes large and it takes a lot of time to search for characters.

Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to reduce the time required for language conversion processing and the labor required for language conversion processing.

[0014]

[Means for Solving the Problems, Actions and Effects] Accordingly, the first invention is a language data conversion device for character data.
A dictionary file in which character data of a language and character data of a second language, which is a parallel translation of the first language, are provided, and character data and the position of the character data from the first language file including the character data of the first language Data is extracted and stored in an intermediate file, the dictionary file is referenced, the character data of the first language stored in the intermediate file is converted into character data of a second language, and the character data of the first language is converted based on the position data. 1
Characteristic data of the first language in the language file is replaced with character data of the second language to create the second language file.

The first invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 4 and 6 to 12.

As shown in FIG. 2, according to the first invention, character data is first extracted from the process design document 1J (first language file). As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the process design document 1J uses the worksheet 10 to describe characters and drawings. The process design document 1J is digitized based on the format of spreadsheet software and stored in the file 4 as character data and drawing data. The extracted character data is CSV
It is output to a text file in the format (hereinafter referred to as “CSV file”) 7J. At this time, a record is created for each row of the worksheet 10, and each character data is separated by a comma (,). Then, as shown in FIG. 6, along with the character data, the position of the character data, that is, the row of the worksheet 10 in which the character data is described is saved corresponding to the record number of the CSV file 7J, and the character data is described. The columns of the worksheet 10 that have been saved are saved in correspondence with the order of the data in the record.

Next, the dictionary file 1 shown in FIG. 7 and FIG.
1 and 12 are referred to, Japanese (first language) data is converted into English (second language) data in the character data of the CSV file 7J, and each language-converted record is converted into CSV as shown in FIG. It is output to the file 7E.

On the other hand, a file 4C is created by copying the file 4. The process design document 1J is copied and saved in the file 4C.

Next, as shown in FIG. 10, each character data recorded in the CSV file 7E is displayed on the worksheet 20 based on the recorded record number and the order of the data in the record.

Then, the process design document 1E (second language file) as shown in FIGS. 11 and 12 is created. The process design document 1E is a copy of each character data on the worksheet 20 overwritten on each character data on the worksheet 10 of the process design document 1J stored in the file 4C. Note that each character data on the worksheet 20 is copied to the cells of the worksheet 10 in the same row and column as the cells of the worksheet 20.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, it is not necessary for the worker to perform language conversion and rearrange the characters after language conversion according to the format of the process design document as in the prior art. Therefore, the time required for the language conversion processing is shortened and the labor of the operator is reduced.

According to the first aspect of the invention, the process of once extracting all the character data into the file and the process of converting the language of the character data of the file are collectively performed. Such processing is more efficient than the conventional processing of repeatedly searching for a character to be subjected to language conversion, performing language conversion by language conversion software, and replacing the character with the character after language conversion. From this aspect as well, the time required for the language conversion processing is shortened.

A second invention is characterized in that, in the first invention, a dictionary file for forming one record by the character data of the first language and the character data of the second language which is a parallel translation of the character data is provided.

According to the second invention, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, in the word dictionary file 11 and the sentence dictionary file 12, one record is formed by the language conversion target data and the language-converted data. Has been done. Therefore, by searching the language conversion target data, it is possible to identify the data after the language conversion which is the parallel translation. Therefore, the time required for the language conversion processing is shortened.

A third invention is characterized in that in the first invention, a dictionary file for phrase conversion and a dictionary file for sentence conversion are separately provided as the dictionary files.

According to the third invention, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the word dictionary file 11 and the sentence dictionary file 12 are separately provided. When the language conversion target data is a sentence, a sentence is created by combining the data of the word dictionary file 11 and the data of the sentence dictionary file 12. Therefore, it is not necessary to store a sentence for each word / phrase. Therefore, the dictionary file can be downsized, and the search time for character data can be shortened. From the above, the time required for the language conversion processing is shortened.

A fourth invention is the first invention according to the first invention.
The character data of the language and the character data of the second language are fixed-form documents.

According to the fourth aspect of the invention, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, fixed-form documents are stored in the word dictionary file 11 and the sentence dictionary file 12. The number of standard documents such as words and phrases used in the manufacturing process of work machines is limited. Therefore, the character data stored in the dictionary file can be reduced, and the search time for the character data can be shortened. From the above, the time required for the language conversion processing is shortened.

[0029]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The language conversion processing of the present invention is performed by a computer. In the following embodiments, the case of converting Japanese into English will be described.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an outline of an embodiment of the present invention.

On the Japanese side and the other side, clients /
A server system is built.

Server 101 and client 1 on the Japanese side
02 OS includes Japanese character data. The database of the server 101 is managed by a dedicated software. This software consists of multiple module programs, and the source program contains Japanese character data. The database stores various data including Japanese data. Further, the client 102 stores a process design document including Japanese character data. This process design document is created based on the data stored in the database.

According to the present invention, the first language file, that is, the module program, the data of the database,
Character data is extracted from the process plan and the like, and is output to a CSV file. Japanese data of the character data of this CSV file is converted into English data, and a new C
Output to SV file. Based on the CSV file after the language conversion, a second language file, that is, a module program after the language conversion, database data, a process design document, and the like are created. Then, these are loaded on the server 201 and the clients 202 and 203 in other countries.

If there is character data that cannot be converted by the language conversion device of the present invention, the Japanese character data is directly reflected in the module program after the language conversion, the data in the database, the process design document and the like. . Therefore, when the process design document is displayed on the display device of the client in another country, for example, the question mark “?” Is displayed in the client 202, which is an environment that cannot support Japanese, and the client 202 is an environment that can support Japanese. Two
In 03, Japanese data is displayed as it is.

Next, as a specific example, in the case where a process design document written in Japanese is converted into a process design document written in English, the process flow will be described with reference to FIG.
Further, description will be made with reference to FIGS. 3 to 10 as appropriate.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the flow of the process plan document language conversion process.

In the file 4 (file name: AA process design document file), three process design documents 1J, 2J, 3J are digitized and stored in the form of spreadsheet software.
Although three types of process design documents 1J, 2J, and 3J are stored here, the number of process design documents to be stored may be one or more.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the process design document 1J. FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of a part of FIG. Note that the chain lines shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 are not actually displayed, but in order to make each cell of the worksheet 10 easy to understand, a part thereof is displayed here.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the process design document 1J
The title, the name of the created part, the name of each work, characters indicating the work content, etc., the external view of the part to be created, etc. are described. The characters described in the process plan include Japanese words and sentences. The process design document 1J is created by spreadsheet software using the worksheet 10 for the process design document, and one meaningful character or a group of characters is described for each cell of the worksheet.

When converting the process design documents 1J, 2J, 3J into languages, the operator operates the computer to display the designation screen 50 shown in FIG. 5 on the display screen.

FIG. 5 is a view showing the designation screen 50 displayed on the display screen of the computer.

The designation screen 50 includes a file list column 51 before language conversion, a file list column 52 after language conversion, a file storage destination designation column 53 after language conversion, and a dictionary file designation column 54.
a and 54b are displayed. In the pre-language conversion file list column 51, the file name in which the process design document to be language-converted specified by "select file" is stored, here "AA"
Process design document file "is displayed. In the post-language conversion file list field 52, a file name for storing the language-converted process design document, here “AA Process Planning fil
e ”is specified. The file name after language conversion is displayed in the file name designation field 55 after language conversion. In the post-language conversion file storage destination designation field 53, the storage destination of the file in which the language-converted process design document is stored, here, "language conversion result" is designated. Dictionary file specification fields 54a, 54
In b, the name of the dictionary file to be referred to, here, the “word dictionary file” and the “sentence dictionary file” are designated. Details of the dictionary file will be described later.

Each designation column 51, 52, 53, 54a, 54
When each item is designated in b and the OK button 56 is clicked, the language conversion processing shown in FIG. 2 is started by the arithmetic unit in the computer.

In the first step of the language conversion processing, character data is extracted from the digitized data of each process design document 1J, 2J, 3J (hereinafter referred to as "process design document data"). The process design document data is composed of various data such as character data and drawing data. In this step, the file 4 designated in the file list column 51 before language conversion on the designation screen 50
Character data is extracted from each process design document data in (file name: AA process design document file), and a CSV file 7 corresponding to each process design document 1J, 2J, 3J
J, 8J and 9J are created, the character data of the process design document 1J is output to the CSV file 7J, and the CSV file 8
The character data of the process design document 2J is output to J, and the character data of the process design document 3J is output to the CSV file 9J.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing each record output from the process design document data of the process design document 1J to the CSV file 7J. Due to the drawing space, the first record (record A) is shown in two lines in FIG.

One record of the CSV file 7J records one line of data in the worksheet 10 of the process design document 1J. Each data in this one record is separated by a comma (,), and if the data is blank, it is left-justified. The record of the CSV file 7J will be described more specifically with reference to FIGS. 3, 4, and 6.

For example, the process design document 1 shown in FIGS. 3 and 4
When each data from the 1st column to the 10th column in the 1st row of J is listed (displayed as "data"), the 1st column: blank, 2
Column: blank, 3rd column: “Δ1 ×”, 4th column: blank, 5th column: blank, 6th column: blank, 7th column: “process”, 8th column:
“(Previous process)”, 9th column: blank, 10th column: “main process”, ... These data are (blank, left justified), (blank, left justified), △ 1x, (blank, left justified),
(Blank, left justified), (blank, left justified), process, (previous process), (blank, left justified), main process, ... Output as record A.

For example, enumerating each data from the first column to the tenth column in the second line of the process design document 1J, the first column: "Sheet metal / welding standard work document", the second column: blank, the third column Eye: “Δ2 ×”, 4th row: blank, 5th row: blank, 6th row: blank, 7th row: blank, 8th row: “RAW”, 9th row: blank, 10th row: "SAW" ... These data are the standard work sheet for sheet metal and welding, (blank, left justified),
As record B indicated by Δ2 ×, (blank, left justified), (blank, left justified), (blank, left justified), (blank, left justified), RAW, (blank, left justified), SAW, ... Is output.

Similarly, the character data of another line of the process design document 1J is also output as a record of the CSV file 7J. The process design documents 2J and 3J are output as records to other CSV files 8J and 9J, respectively.

That is, the position of the character data, that is, the row of the worksheet 10 in which the character data is written is saved corresponding to the record number of the CSV file 7J, and the column of the worksheet 10 in which the character data is written is It is saved in the order of the data in the record.

Thus, in the first step of the language conversion processing,
Character data is extracted from the process design document data and output to a CSV file. Further, by separating each character data with a comma, the position data of each character data in each process design document 1J, 2J, 3J is also saved at the same time.

In the second step of the language conversion processing, the designation screen 5
The dictionary files specified in the dictionary file specification fields 54a and 54b of 0 are referred to, and the CSV files 7J, 8J, 9
Among the character data recorded in each J record, Japanese data is language-converted into English data.

It is possible to use a commercially available ordinary dictionary file, but in the present embodiment, a dedicated word dictionary file 11 and sentence dictionary file 12 are used to perform language conversion and sentence conversion of words and phrases. The language conversion is done separately.

Here, the word dictionary file 11 and the sentence dictionary file 12 will be described.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a part of records in the word dictionary file 11.

In one record of the word dictionary file 11, Japanese data and English data which is a parallel translation of this Japanese data are recorded. Japanese data and English data are separated by commas. The Japanese data and English data stored here are words and phrases. The word dictionary file 11 stores all the words and phrases used in the process design document. Records can be arbitrarily added to or deleted from the word dictionary file 11.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a part of the records of the sentence dictionary file 12.

In one record of the sentence dictionary file 12, Japanese data and English data which is a parallel translation of this Japanese data are recorded. Japanese data and English data are separated by commas. The Japanese data and English data stored here are sentences. For example, the Japanese data of record E is the sentence "& 1 carry in". This "&1" (and "&2","&3", ..., "&n")
Is called a wild card, and means that there is some word in that part. That is, one sentence is formed by "&1" + "import". In the record E, the English data is “Carry in & 1” and “Carry i
One sentence is formed by n ”+“ & 1 ”. All sentences used in the process design document are stored in the sentence dictionary file 12. Records are arbitrarily added to the sentence dictionary file 12, It can be deleted.

Regarding the process of converting the Japanese data into English data using these dictionary files 11 and 12, the Japanese data "work AS" of the record C shown in FIG.
"SY carry-in" in English data "Carry in Part"
The process of converting to "ASSY" will be described as an example. "Work ASSY carry-in" means the phrase "work" and the phrase "ASS".
The data is composed of Y and the sentence "& bring in", and the phrase "work" and the sentence "& bring in" are Japanese data.

First, the word dictionary file 11 is referenced. In the record D of the word dictionary file 11, Japanese data “work” and its parallel English data “Par” are written.
t ”is recorded. By referring to this record D,
The phrase "work" is converted to the phrase "Part". In other words, the sentence “Work ASSY carry-in” is the sentence “PartASSY
Carry-in ”.

Next, the sentence dictionary file 12 is referred to. In the record E of the sentence dictionary file 12, Japanese data “& 1 carry-in” and its parallel English data “Carry in & 1” are recorded. By referring to this record E, the sentence “PartASSY carry-in” is converted into the sentence “Carry in PartASSY”.

In this way, the Japanese data of the character data of the CSV file 7J is converted into English data and converted into CSV data.
It is output to the file 7E. Figure 9 shows CSV file 7E
It is a figure showing each record of. CSV file 8
The Japanese data among the character data of J and 9J is converted into English data and output to the CSV files 8E and 9E.

In parallel with the first and second steps, in the third step of the language conversion processing, the file 4C which is a copy of the file 4 is created. Here, the file 4 (file name: specified in the file list field 51 before language conversion of the specification screen 50)
A copy file of the AA process design document file) is newly created as a file 4C (file name: AA Process Planning file) specified in the language-converted file list column 52. The file 4C is stored in the storage destination (language conversion result) designated in the file storage destination designation column 53 after language conversion.

FIG. 10 is a diagram in which each data of the CSV file 7E is displayed on the worksheet 20.

In the fourth step of the language conversion processing, as shown in FIG.
Is used to display each data of the CSV file 7E on the display screen of the computer. The respective character data of the first record of the CSV file 7E are displayed in data order on the first line on the worksheet 20. At this time, one character data is displayed in one cell, and a cell corresponding to blank data is displayed as blank. Similarly, CSV file 7E
Each character data of the second record and after is displayed in a cell on the corresponding worksheet 20.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing the process design document 1E after the language conversion. Further, FIG. 12 is an enlarged view of a part of FIG. 11.

In the fifth step of the language conversion processing, as shown in FIG. 11, the process design document 1E after language conversion is displayed on the display screen of the computer by using the worksheet 10 for the process design document by the spreadsheet software. To be done. The file 4C stores each process design document data of the process design documents 1J, 2J, 3J. Here, the process design document data of the process design document 1J is displayed on the display screen of the computer using the worksheet 10 for the process design document by the spreadsheet software. At this time, each character data on the worksheet 20 is copied by overwriting each character data on the worksheet 10. Note that each character data on the worksheet 20 is copied to the cells of the worksheet 10 in the same row and column as the cells of the worksheet 20. Then, the process design document 1E is created by converting the Japanese data of the process design document 1J into English data,
Displayed on the computer display screen. In the same manner, the language-converted process design documents 2E and 3E are created for the other process design documents 2J and 3J.

Thus, the process design documents 1E, 2E, 3E are saved in the file 4C. Also, CSV files 7J-9
J, 7E-9E are deleted.

In this embodiment, the CSV file 7E
The respective data are displayed once on the worksheet 20 and then copied on the worksheet 10. But CS
Each character data of V file 7E is directly in worksheet 10
It is also possible to copy it on. In this case, each character data recorded in the first record of the CSV file 7E is displayed on the first line of the worksheet 10 in data order. At this time, one character data is displayed in one cell, and a cell corresponding to blank data is displayed as blank. Similarly, each character data after the second record of the CSV file 7E corresponds to the corresponding worksheet 1
It is displayed in the cell above 0.

According to the present embodiment, when converting the language of the process design document, the worker is required to specify each column 51, 52, 5 of the designation screen 50.
It is only necessary to specify the file name and the storage location of the file in 3, 54a, 54b, and the operator can perform the language conversion as before, and arrange the characters after the language conversion according to the format of the process design document. The work of re-doing is unnecessary. Therefore, the time required for the language conversion processing is shortened and the labor of the operator is reduced.

Further, according to the present embodiment, the process of once extracting all the character data into a file and the process of converting the language of the character data of this file are collectively performed. Such processing is more efficient than the conventional processing of repeatedly searching for a character to be subjected to language conversion, performing language conversion by language conversion software, and replacing the character with the character after language conversion. From this aspect as well, the time required for the language conversion processing is shortened.

Further, according to the present embodiment, the word dictionary file 11 and the sentence dictionary file 12 are the language conversion target data and the data after the language conversion which is the parallel translation thereof.
Records are formed. Therefore, by searching the language conversion target data, it is possible to identify the data after the language conversion which is the parallel translation. From this aspect as well, the time required for the language conversion processing is shortened.

Further, according to this embodiment, the word dictionary file 11 and the sentence dictionary file 12 are separately provided. When the language conversion target data is a sentence, a sentence is created by combining the data of the word dictionary file 11 and the data of the sentence dictionary file 12. Therefore, it is not necessary to store a sentence for each word / phrase. Therefore, the character data stored in the dictionary file can be reduced, and the search time for the character data can be shortened. From the above, the time required for the language conversion processing is shortened.

Further, according to the present embodiment, the word dictionary file 11 and the sentence dictionary file 12 store fixed-form documents. The number of standard documents such as words and phrases used in the manufacturing process of work machines is limited. Therefore, the character data stored in the dictionary file can be reduced, and the search time for the character data can be shortened. From the above, the time required for the language conversion processing is shortened.

When transferring the work machine manufacturing technology from Japan to an English-speaking country, it is necessary to transfer not only the process design document but also the database and each program module for processing the database. In the following, a case will be described in which, according to the present invention, Japanese data described in a source program is language-converted into English data, and Japanese data stored in a database is language-converted into English data.

FIG. 13 shows the process of language conversion of Japanese data described in the source program into English data.
~ It will be described with appropriate reference to FIG.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a flow of language conversion processing of the source program.

In the language conversion process of the source program, the same processes as the first process, the second process, the third process, and the fifth process described in the language conversion process of the process design document are performed.
Hereinafter, these steps will be described as a first step, a second step, a third step, and a fourth step of the language conversion processing. Since the 4th process explained in the process design document language conversion process is a process design document original process created using spreadsheet software,
It is not performed in the language conversion process of the source program.

Various source programs 31J as shown in FIG. 14 are stored in the module file 30.

The source program 31J is written in a programming language, and the 148th record of the source program 31J contains character data "parts composition table". Again 1
Character data “comment:” is described in the 56th record. In the 164th record, character data "file name:" is described. Again 172
Character data “plan:” is written in the record. In the 180th record, character data “Δ:” is described. Further, in the 188th record, character data "main body product number:" is described.

In the first step, character data is extracted from the source program 31J and output to the CSV file 35J. Further, the record number is output to the CSV file 35J as its position.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a record of a part of the CSV file 35J. In each record of the CSV file 35J, each data is recorded in the order of the file name 36, the record number 37, and the character data 38J. For example, the record F shown in FIG. 15 is obtained by extracting and outputting the character data “parts composition table” from the “148th record” of the module file “B1, FMT”.

In the second step, referring to the word dictionary file 11 and the sentence dictionary file 12, the Japanese data of the character data of the CSV file 35J is converted into English data. The language conversion result is output to the CSV file 35E as shown in FIG. Figure 16 shows CSV
It is a figure showing a part of record of file 35E, in which each data is recorded in the order of file name 36, record number 37, and character data 38E. Although not shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the word dictionary file 11 and the sentence dictionary file 12 in FIG. 8 store the Japanese data described in the source program 31J and its parallel English data. There is.

In the third step, the module file 30 is copied to create the module file 30C.

In the fourth step, the English data 38E of the CSV file 35E is converted into the file name 36 and the record number 37.
The corresponding character of the source program 31J stored in the module file 30C is copied by overwriting. Then, the source program 31E as shown in FIG. 17 is created.

The source program 31E is compiled, and the CSV files 35J and 35E are deleted.

Next, the process of converting the Japanese data stored in the database into English data will be described with reference to FIG.
21. Description will be made with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing the flow of a language conversion process for Japanese data in the database.

The database 40 is a relational database, and one or more tables are set therein. Each data in the database 40 is associated with each table. For example, the data of the database 40 are related by the table 41 of the form shown in FIG.

In the first step, the character data corresponding to the record in the table 41 is extracted from the character data in the database 40 and output to the CSV file 45J. The output result is shown in FIG. Figure 20 shows CSV file 4
It is a figure which shows the record of 1 copy of 5J. Each character data is recorded in the order of the items of the table 41, and the data are separated from each other by a comma.

In the first step, the database 40
The character data corresponding to the record of the table 41 is extracted from the
Each data may be output to the SV file 45J.

In the second step, referring to the word dictionary file 11 and the sentence dictionary file 12, the Japanese data of the character data of the CSV file 45J is converted into English data. The language conversion result is output to the CSV file 45E as shown in FIG. Figure 21 is CSV
It is a figure showing a part of record of file 45E.

In the third step, each character data of the CSV file 45E is uploaded according to the form shown in FIG. 19 and the database 40N is created.

The CSV files 45J and 45E are deleted.

In the above description, the case where the Japanese data of the character data is converted into the English data is taken as an example.
However, according to the present invention, it is possible to convert any language into another language by appropriately changing the language to be subjected to language conversion of the extracted character data and the language saved in each dictionary file.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an outline of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a flow of language conversion processing of a process design document.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a process design document 1J.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of a part of FIG.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a designation screen 50 displayed on a display screen of a computer.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing each record of a CSV file 7J.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a part of records of a word dictionary file 11.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing records of a part of the sentence dictionary file 12;

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing each record of a CSV file 7E.

FIG. 10 is a diagram in which each data of the CSV file 7E is displayed on the worksheet 20.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a process design document 1E after language conversion.

FIG. 12 is an enlarged view of a part of FIG. 11.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a flow of language conversion processing of a source program.

FIG. 14 is a diagram partially showing a source program 31J.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a record of a part of the CSV file 35J.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing a record of a part of the CSV file 35E.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a source program 31 after language conversion.
It is a figure which shows E partially.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing a flow of a language conversion process for Japanese data in a database.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing a form of a database table.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing a record of a part of the CSV file 45J.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing a record of a part of the CSV file 45E.

[Explanation of symbols]

1J to 3J, 1E to 3E Process design documents 7J to 9J, 7E to 9E CSV file 11 word dictionary file 12 sentence dictionary file

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A character data language conversion device comprising a dictionary file in which character data of a first language and character data of a second language, which is a parallel translation of the first language, are associated with each other. Character data and position data of the character data are extracted from the first language file containing the first language file and stored in the intermediate file, and the character file of the first language stored in the intermediate file is referred to the second language by referring to the dictionary file Character data of the first language in the first language file is replaced with character data of a second language based on the position data to create a second language file. Language converter. 2. The language of character data according to claim 1, further comprising a dictionary file that forms one record with the character data of the first language and the character data of the second language which is a parallel translation of the character data. Converter. 3. The character data language conversion device according to claim 1, wherein a dictionary file for phrase conversion and a dictionary file for sentence conversion are separately provided as the dictionary files. 4. The character data language conversion apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the character data of the first language and the character data of the second language are standard documents.