JP2004157882A - Online document retrieval/translation method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the labor hour of a user by enabling a manual translation for a document obtained by an online mechanical retrieval and its electronic delivery to the user, and to improve the quality of mechanical translation by instantaneously reading the manual translation result of an unknown word to a dictionary (common dictionary) and narrowing the substantial updating interval of the dictionary. <P>SOLUTION: The online mechanical retrieval result can be instructed to be subjected to mechanical translation or further manual translation. The common electronic dictionary D is used for the mechanical translation and manual translation, and to a word set to an unknown work in the first mechanical translation, a translation is given in the following manual translation or in a work for making it into a dictionary by batch processing. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an online document search / translation method that combines online machine search and manual translation instructions and can be electronically delivered to a user.
[0002]
[Prior art]
At present, providing a machine search service online and providing a machine translation service online are both performed. Further, the machine search is combined with the subsequent machine translation, and the machine search is performed. There is also a service that attaches machine translations to the resulting documents.
[0003]
Although the above translations are machine translations, some of them are extremely excellent in terms of immediacy, but they have not always been satisfactory in terms of translation quality. When a user looks at the results of machine translation and finds it necessary to translate manually, it is time-consuming to obtain the original text and bring it to a company specializing in translation.
[0004]
Regarding the dictionary used, it is necessary for the dictionary to be constantly updated for proper machine translation of documents in which new terms always appear, for example, patent documents, etc. There is a small time lag between the discovery of an unknown word and its entry in the dictionary.
[0005]
[Patent Document 1]
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-198680 [Patent Document 2]
JP 2001-209643 A [Patent Document 3]
JP 2001-350753 A
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
The online document search / translation according to the present invention is capable of instructing manual translation of documents obtained by machine search online and enabling electronic delivery to the user, thereby reducing the user's trouble. The task is to reduce It is another object of the present invention to improve the translation quality of machine translation by immediately importing the translation result of an unknown word into a dictionary and narrowing the dictionary update interval. It is another object of the present invention to use a common dictionary for machine translation and manual translation to unify translated words between them.
[0007]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The above problem is solved by the following means. That is, according to the first aspect of the invention, it is possible to instruct manual translation of a document obtained by a machine search online, and to deliver the translation result to a user electronically. An online document search / translation method characterized by the following characteristics.
[0008]
According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an online document search / translation method capable of performing machine translation of a document obtained by machine search online, and further performing manual translation according to the result of the machine translation. An online document search / translation method characterized in that it is possible to give an instruction and the result of the manual translation can be electronically delivered to the user.
[0009]
According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided the online document search / translation method according to the second invention, wherein a common electronic dictionary is used for the machine translation and the manual translation. Is the way.
[0010]
According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the online document search / translation method according to the third aspect of the present invention, the unknown word found by the machine translation is registered in the electronic dictionary at the time of manual translation. This is an online document search and translation method.
[0011]
According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an on-line document search / translation method according to the third or fourth aspect of the present invention, wherein if the manual translation is not instructed among the unknown words found by the machine translation, This unknown word is an online document search / translation method characterized by being stored together with the sentence and field information in which it appears, and being registered in the electronic dictionary by a dictionary operation performed later.
[0012]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention, in particular, an example in which a translation service is performed in a patent information search service will be described with reference to the processing flowchart of FIG. As a result of the present invention starting (S00) and performing a search operation (S01) by a user, a document that hits an appropriate number is displayed as a hit list (S02).
[0013]
In S03, each document is browsed in the hit list order. In this browsing S04, it is asked whether machine translation or manual translation is necessary. After the result of the machine translation is displayed (S05) for the one required by the machine translation, the process returns to S03 and the same operation is repeated. An electronic dictionary D is used for this machine translation, and unknown word information found at that time is also stored in the electronic dictionary D.
[0014]
When the user is not satisfied with the translation quality of the machine translation and desires manual translation, the user proceeds to S06 by pressing an order button arranged on the screen, and a screen for confirming the delivery date and price of the manual translation is displayed. These pieces of information are supplied from a translation management system S20 stored in a separate system. In S07, when the order confirmation button is pressed, the order is confirmed. The order may be canceled for the convenience of the user, so that the order can be canceled for a certain period of time.
[0015]
After the order is confirmed, the document is electronically sent to the translator along with the text data of the relevant document and the document including the drawing (S08). In addition to the text of the original sentence, original image data of the official gazette and the like are attached so that the translator can easily translate. The translator manages the translation work through a system that manages the number of orders, the amount of processing per day, etc., so that the delivery date and the like can be promptly answered in a systematic manner.
[0016]
In S09, translation work by the translator is started. When the translation work is completed, a completion notification (S10) is issued, which is sent to the user by e-mail (S11), and the process ends (S99).
[0017]
At the time of the machine translation executed in S05, the unknown word having no translated word is stored together with the sentence in which the unknown word appeared and the field information, and the display is performed as it is in the original language. During the translation operation, the unknown word is given a translation and registered in the electronic dictionary D. Alternatively, when no manual translation is involved, the data is registered in the electronic dictionary D by a dictionary conversion operation separately performed as a batch operation. Since the electronic dictionary D is used commonly for both machine translation and manual translation, the translated words are unified and contribute to constant translation quality.
[0018]
In ordinary manual translation, the original sentence is brought into the translation company or prepared by the translation company. For example, in the case of performing translation in a patent information service, an applied patent publication is often set as a translation target. In this case, since the information provider has a database of patent information, it is optimal for online ordering.
[0019]
As described above, saving unknown words together with a sentence makes it possible to assign a more accurate translated word by referring to the appearing sentence rather than by using only the word when adding a translated word later. That's why. Also, the translation of the field information may differ depending on the field.
[0020]
In this embodiment, since the machine translation and the manual translation can be ordered and delivered online, the user can easily order the manual translation online. In addition, since the translation result is digitized online, the translation result can be used for other purposes. Furthermore, by using a common electronic dictionary D for translation, knowledge of machine translation and knowledge of manual translation are organically combined, and the quality of both is constantly improved.
[0021]
【The invention's effect】
According to the present invention, since it is possible to order and deliver machine translation and manual translation online, there is an effect that a user can easily place an order for manual translation online. In addition, since the translation result is digitized online, the translation result can be used for another purpose. Further, by using a common electronic dictionary for translation, there is an effect that knowledge of machine translation and knowledge of manual translation are organically combined, and the quality of both is constantly improved. The online document search / translation according to the present invention is capable of instructing manual translation of documents obtained by machine search online and enabling electronic delivery to the user, thereby reducing the user's trouble. Is achieved. Furthermore, the translation result of the unknown word is manually taken into the dictionary immediately, and the substantial interval of updating the dictionary is narrowed, so that the translation quality of the machine translation can be improved. Further, by using a common dictionary for machine translation and manual translation, it is possible to achieve an effect of unifying translated words between them.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a processing flowchart of an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (5)

An online document search / translation method characterized by being capable of instructing a manual translation of a document obtained by a machine search online and delivering the translation result to a user electronically. An online document search and translation method capable of machine-translating documents obtained by machine search online.
According to the result of the machine translation, it is possible to further instruct a manual translation,
An online document search / translation method, wherein the result of the manual translation can be electronically delivered to a user. The online document search / translation method according to claim 2,
An online document search / translation method, wherein a common electronic dictionary is used in the machine translation and the manual translation. The online document search / translation method according to claim 3,
An online document search / translation method, wherein unknown words found by the machine translation are registered in the electronic dictionary at the time of manual translation. In the online document search / translation method according to any one of claims 3 and 4,
If the manual translation is not specified among the unknown words found by the machine translation, the unknown words are stored together with the sentence and the field information in which they appear, and are stored in the electronic dictionary by a dictionary operation performed later. An online document search and translation method characterized by being registered.

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