JP2006244510A - Output control device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the convenience of a user in the display of an output control device, in the output control device used for displaying an original text and its translation on separate screens by contradistinguishing them with each other. <P>SOLUTION: Based on a designated display type of display screens (a type indicating which language hyper document should be displayed on a plurality of display screens), a processing type (a type of a language conversion process) of hyper document data is determined, and the conversion control of document data of a reference destination of the hyper document data is executed. Even if the hyper link is referred from the translation in a state that the hyper link of an original text is embedded in the translation thereof and a document of the reference destination of the hyper link embedded in the original text is described by the language of the original text, the document of the reference destination of the hyper link is converted into the language of the translation and displayed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an output control apparatus having a parallel translation screen that displays an original text and its translation in comparison, and is particularly suitable for application to a hypermedia system that handles words, text, images, audio, and the like in association with each other. is there.

  In the conventional translation screen of machine translation, when the original screen has a link structure, there has been a technique of displaying the link structure as it is embedded in an appropriate position on the translated screen. For example, when a hyperlink exists in the original sentence, the hyperlink is embedded and displayed at an appropriate position in the translated sentence. On such a bilingual translation screen, it is possible to follow the hypertext of the translated text by performing the same operation as that of the hypertext of the original text.

  Furthermore, it is also known that when a hyperlink location is designated, the linked document is translated and displayed.

  However, when trying to display the original text and its translation on different screens, specific words, sentences, hyperlinks, etc. in the original text displayed on one screen are displayed on the other screen. It is difficult to know which words, sentences, hyperlinks, etc. in the translated text, and as a result, it is very inconvenient for users trying to compare the original text with the translated text I was supposed to force my mind.

  In view of the above problems, the present invention has an object to provide an output control device capable of improving the convenience of the user when the original text and its translation are compared and displayed on different screens. To do.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, the output control apparatus of the present invention includes a display unit provided with a plurality of display screens for displaying the original hyper document data and the corresponding hyper document data, and At least an input unit for selecting the display screen and inputting a processing command, and when there is an input from the input unit, indicates which language of hyper document data is displayed on each of the plurality of display screens Displayed on one of the plurality of display screens, an input control unit that monitors the display type, a process type definition file that stores the relationship between the display type and the corresponding process type that is the type of language conversion process When a hyperlink location included in the original hyper document data or the translated hyper document data is selected by the input unit, A processing type determination unit that searches the processing type definition file using the display type monitored by the control unit as a search key, determines a corresponding processing type, and a data acquisition unit that acquires document data of a reference destination of the hyperlink location A language for the document data of the reference destination acquired by the data acquisition unit when necessary based on the processing type determined by the processing type determination unit A conversion processing control unit that causes the conversion processing unit to perform conversion processing, and a display screen that displays the hypertext data of the original text, the document data of the reference destination acquired by the data acquisition unit is output, An output control unit that outputs a language conversion processing result of the reference document data by the conversion processing unit to a display screen that displays the hyper document data of the translated sentence; It is characterized in that to obtain.

  As a result, even if the hyperlink of the original text is embedded as it is in the translated text, and the hyperlink is referenced from the translated text in the state where the reference document of the hyperlink embedded in the original text is described in the original language, Then, it becomes possible to display the document referred to by the hyperlink by converting it into the translated language. As a result, the source document can be displayed in the original language on the screen where the original text is displayed, and the reference document is displayed in the target language on the screen where the translation is displayed. Thus, it is possible to prevent the documents written in different languages from being displayed on the same screen.

  According to the output control device of the present invention, a specific word, sentence, hyperlink, etc. in the original text displayed on one screen is the word, sentence, It is possible to easily know whether the hyperlink is supported, and the convenience of the user when comparing the original text with the translated text can be significantly improved.

Hereinafter, an output control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an output control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, a process type information acquisition unit 1 acquires process type information for converting first data into second data. The related information acquisition unit 2 acquires third data associated with the first data. The related information conversion unit 3 converts the third data acquired by the related information acquisition unit 2 into fourth data based on the processing type information acquired by the processing type information acquisition unit 1.

  As a result, when data conversion is performed between the first data and the second data, the related information conversion means 3 also uses the first data for the third data associated with the first data. It is possible to perform the same conversion process as described above, and output the third data associated with the first data in accordance with the data type of the second data. As a result, for example, even when data conversion of hypermedia data is performed, it is possible to output data associated with each other by hyperlinks by matching the data types with each other. In addition, it is possible to prevent information from being output with different data types.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of an output control method according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 2, the first data 11 belongs to the first data type and is associated with the third data 13 by the link A embedded in the first data 11. It is assumed that the third data 13 belongs to the first data type. The first data 11 is converted into second data by a conversion process. In this second data, the link structure of the first data 11 is embedded as it is, and is linked to the third data 13 by the link B.

The first data 11 is displayed on the screen E, and the second data 12 is displayed on the screen J. As a result, the first data 11 and the second data 12 can be compared.
When the link A of the first data 11 is called while viewing the screen E, the third data 13 is displayed on the screen E. In this case, since the first data 11 and the third data 13 belong to the first data type, when the link information is referred from the screen E, the data types displayed on the screen E match. .

  On the other hand, when the link B of the second data 12 is called while viewing the screen J, the third data 13 is displayed on the screen J. In this case, since the second data 11 belongs to the second data type and the third data 13 belongs to the first data type, when the link information is referred from the screen J, information with different data types Are switched and displayed on the screen J. This may cause confusion for those who view the screen J. For example, if the second data 11 and the third data 13 are described in different languages, even if the third data 13 is displayed on the screen J and the person who cannot read the language, what I don't know what is written.

  Therefore, when the link B of the second data 12 is called from the screen J, the third data 13 belonging to the first data type is changed to the fourth data 14 belonging to the second data type. After being converted to, it is displayed on the screen J. As a result, it is possible to match the data types displayed on the screen J, and even when referring to the link information from the screen J, it is possible to prevent the user from being confused.

  Hereinafter, the output control apparatus according to the present invention will be described taking the case where it is applied to a screen control apparatus as an example. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the screen control apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention. In the first embodiment, when hyper document data is handled on a plurality of associated screens (windows, browsers, etc.), the type of information to be displayed (for example, language type) is controlled for each screen, so that the user can Intuitive and easy-to-understand interface.

  3, the display unit 21 is a CRT, a liquid crystal display, or the like, and includes a screen E, a screen J, a screen K,... That display a plurality of types of information. The input control unit 22 monitors the display form displayed on the screen E, the screen J, the screen K,. The processing type determination unit 23 determines the processing type of the hyper document data based on the designated display forms of the screen E, the screen J, the screen K,. The processing type definition file 24 stores the processing content of the document data referred to by the hyperlink corresponding to the processing type. The data acquisition unit 25 acquires document data referred to by a hyperlink. The external data 26 supplies document data referred to by a hyperlink. The conversion processing unit 27 includes conversion devices 27a to 27c and performs conversion processing corresponding to the processing type. The conversion processing control unit 28 selects the conversion devices 27a to 27c based on the contents of the processing type definition file 24, and performs conversion control of the document data that is the reference destination of the hyper document data. The output control unit 29 outputs the processing result of the reference destination document data for the designated screen E, screen J, screen K,.

  For example, it is assumed that the hyper document is displayed in English on the screen E, the hyper document is displayed in Japanese on the screen J, and the hyper document is displayed in French on the screen K. Here, it is assumed that the hyperlink of the hyper document displayed on the screen E is also embedded in the hyper document displayed on the screen J and the screen K. In this case, when the hyperlink is traced from the screen E, the document referred to by the hyperlink is displayed on the screen E in English.

  On the other hand, when the hyperlink is traced from the screen J, the document referred to by the hyperlink is written in English even though the hyper document is displayed in Japanese on the screen J. It is determined that the displayed language does not match the language of the referenced document. For this reason, the document referred to by the hyperlink is translated into Japanese, and the language displayed on the screen J and the language of the referenced document are matched with each other, and then displayed on the screen J.

  When the hyperlink is traced from the screen K, the document referred to by the hyperlink is written in English even though the hyper document is displayed in French on the screen K. It is determined that the language to be used does not match the language of the referenced document. For this reason, the document referred to by the hyperlink is translated into French, and the language displayed on the screen J is matched with the language of the reference destination document before being displayed on the screen J.

  In this way, even if a hyperlink of an English document is embedded in a Japanese document as it is and the document to which the hyperlink is embedded is written in English, the Japanese document On the screen J on which is displayed, it is possible to display the document to which the hyperlink is referenced in Japanese, and it is possible to prevent documents written in different languages from being displayed alternately on the same screen. It becomes possible.

  FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the screen control apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention. In the second embodiment, various functions are added to the configuration of the screen control apparatus of FIG. 3 to improve convenience when performing screen control.

  4, the input unit 31 is, for example, a keyboard, a mouse, a scanner, etc., and selects the screen E, the screen J, the screen K,... Of the display unit 32, or the screen E, the screen J, the screen K. ,... Are scrolled, and hyperlinks displayed on screen E, screen J, screen K,. The display unit 32 includes a screen E, a screen J, a screen K,... That display a plurality of types of information. When there is an input from the input unit 31, the input control unit 33 constantly monitors which processing command is issued for which screen E, screen J, screen K,. The display state management table 33a manages the display states of screen E, screen J, screen K,... For each document type.

  The process type determination unit 34 searches the process type definition file 35 based on the screen information obtained from the display unit 32 and the process command obtained from the input unit 31 and determines the process type performed by the apparatus. The process type definition file 35 stores a screen correspondence table and a process correspondence table for process commands. The data acquisition unit 36 is activated when the process type determination unit 34 needs to acquire new data, and acquires new data from the external data 37. The external data 37 is stored in an external storage device such as a hard disk, or is acquired from an external database via a communication line. The conversion processing unit 38 includes a plurality of conversion devices 38a to 38c, and activates the conversion devices 38a to 38c necessary for the conversion processing. The conversion processing control unit 39 performs conversion control on the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 when it is determined that conversion processing on the external data 37 is necessary. The language type determination unit 39a determines the language type of the document data by examining the ratio of the character types included in the document data.

  The output control unit 40 distributes the converted data according to the processing type determined by the processing type determination unit 34, and outputs the data to appropriate screens E, J, K,. When there is no screen E, J, K,... Corresponding to the document type, the screen generation unit 40a generates a new screen E, J, K,. When the document data of the reference destination of the hyper document data is displayed on the screens E, J, K,..., The screen synchronization control unit 40b synchronizes with the display of the document data of the reference destination, Are displayed on other screens E, J, K,. The display order control unit 40 c controls the output order of the external data 37 based on the acquisition time of the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36. The character code correspondence table 41 defines character codes displayed on the screens E, J, K,... For each screen E, J, K,. The display order definition table 42 defines the priority of the output order of the external data 37 in correspondence with the acquisition time of the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing screen control processing according to the first embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 5, the input unit 31 receives an input from the operator (step S1).
Next, the processing type determination unit 34 uses the input received by the input unit 31 and the display type of the screens E, J, K,. Search is performed (step S2).

  Next, the process type determination unit 34 determines the process type based on the search result of the process type definition file 35 (step S3). Next, the data acquisition unit 36 acquires the external data 37 according to the process type determined by the process type determination unit 34 (step S4).

  Next, the conversion process control unit 39 determines whether conversion processing is necessary for the acquired external data 37 based on the process type (step S5). When conversion processing is necessary, the conversion devices 38a to 38c corresponding to the processing type are activated to perform conversion processing (step S6).

  Next, the output control unit 40 uses the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 based on the display types of the screens E, J, K,. The screens E, J, K,... For displaying the converted data converted by 38 are determined (step S7).

  Next, the output control unit 40 outputs the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 or the conversion data converted by the conversion processing unit 38 to the display unit 32, and the determined screens E, J, K,. .. (step S8).

  FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the system configuration of the screen control apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 6, 51 is a central processing unit (CPU) that performs overall processing, 52 is a read only memory (ROM), 53 is a random access memory (RAM), 54 is a communication interface, 55 is a communication network, and 56 is Input / output interface, 57 is a display for generating a plurality of display screens, 58 is a printer for printing text and images, 59 is a memory for temporarily storing data read by the scanner 60, 60 is text and images, etc. A scanner for reading, 61 a keyboard, 62 a driver for driving a storage medium, 63 a hard disk, 64 an IC memory card, 65 a magnetic tape, 66 a floppy disk (registered trademark), 67 a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, etc. The optical disk 68 is a bus.

  Programs for performing screen control processing and translation processing, hypermedia data, and the like are stored in a storage medium such as the hard disk 63, the IC memory card 64, the magnetic tape 65, the floppy disk (registered trademark) 66, and the optical disk 67. Then, screen control can be performed by reading a program for performing screen control processing and translation processing from these storage media to the RAM 53. A program for performing screen control processing, translation processing, or hypermedia data can also be stored in the ROM 52.

  Furthermore, a program for performing screen control processing, translation processing, or hypermedia data can be extracted from the communication network 55 via the communication interface 54. The communication network 55 connected to the communication interface 54 includes, for example, a LAN (Local Area Network), a WAN (Wide Area Network), the Internet, an analog telephone network, a digital telephone network (ISDN: Integrated Service Digital Network), and a PHS (Personal Handy Network). System) and satellite communication.

  When the program for performing the screen control process is activated, the CPU 51 monitors the display state on the display 57. When the hyperlink displayed on the display 57 is called, the document data referred to by the hyperlink is acquired. Here, assuming that the document data referred to by the hyperlink is written in English, when the hyperlink is called from the screen displayed in English, the document data is displayed on the screen in English. On the other hand, when a hyperlink is called from a screen displayed in Japanese, a program for English-Japanese translation is started, and the document data referred to by the hyperlink is converted into Japanese and then displayed on the screen.

Hereinafter, the operation of the screen control apparatus of FIG. 4 will be described more specifically. In the following embodiments, for ease of explanation, English-Japanese machine translation will be described as an example.
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing screen control processing in machine translation. In FIG. 7, the input unit 31 accepts an input for link reference (step S11).

  Next, the data acquisition unit 36 obtains link reference destination document data (step S12). Next, the process type determination unit 34 determines the language type of the screens E, J, K,... On which the link reference has been input (step S13).

Next, the process type determination unit 34 determines the language type of the link reference destination document (step S14).
Next, the processing type determination unit 34 defines the processing type using the language type of the screens E, J, K,... On which the link reference is input and the language type of the link reference destination document as search keys. The file 35 is searched (step S15).

  Next, by referring to the processing type definition file 35, it is determined whether or not the document data at the link reference destination needs to be translated (step S16). If the translation is unnecessary, the document data obtained by the data acquisition unit 36 is displayed as it is on the screens E, J, K,... Where the link reference is input (step S17).

On the other hand, if translation is necessary, the conversion devices 38a to 38c corresponding to the language type are activated, and the document data obtained by the data acquisition unit 36 is translated (step S18).
Next, the document data subjected to the translation process is displayed on the screens E, J, K,... On which the link reference is input (step S19).

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the conversion process according to the first embodiment of the present invention. In the conversion process according to the first embodiment, a translation process is performed.
In FIG. 8, for example, the conversion device 27a separates tag information from an English document (step S21), and decomposes the English document into sentence units (step S22). Next, one sentence is extracted from the English document (step S23), and the English sentence is converted into a Japanese sentence by machine translation (step S24). When the machine translation is completed up to the last sentence of the English document (step S25), the Japanese sentence is combined to create a Japanese document (step S26), and the tag information is embedded in the created Japanese document (step S27). ).

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the conversion process according to the second embodiment of the present invention. In the conversion process according to the second embodiment, a dictionary search process is performed. In FIG. 9, for example, the conversion device 27b separates tag information from an English document (step S231), and decomposes the English document into sentence units (step S232).

  Next, one English word is extracted from the English document (step S233), and the English-Japanese word dictionary is searched to convert the English word into a Japanese word (step S234). When the English-Japanese word search is completed up to the last word of the English document (step S235), a Japanese word collection is created by combining Japanese words (step S236), and tag information is added to the created Japanese word collection. Backfill (step S237).

  FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing screen display control processing according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the display method of the screen is controlled so that the sentences or words corresponding to each other in the original sentence and the translated sentence are displayed at substantially the same position. For example, when Japanese is translated into English, the amount of documents generally increases by about 1.2 to 2 times. For this reason, when a Japanese document and an English document are displayed in contrast on the same size screen, the positions of the corresponding sentences or words may be misaligned. It is necessary to be able to efficiently compare the documents in English with those in English.

  In FIG. 10, the output control unit 40 obtains a translation obtained as a result of translating the original sentence (step S241). Next, the output control unit 40 calculates the number of lines in the translation (step S242), calculates the number of lines in the original text (step S243), and displays the original text and the translation on the screens E, J, K,. (Step S244).

  Next, the output control unit 40 adjusts the screens E, J, K,... According to the number of translation lines when the ratio of the difference in the number of lines between the original sentence and the translation is equal to or greater than the threshold (step S245). (Step S246), the screens E, J, K,... Are adjusted according to the number of lines of the original text (Step S247). For example, when the ratio of the number of lines between the original sentence and the translated sentence exceeds 0.3, the screen size is adjusted.

  In addition to the method of counting the number of lines in the original sentence and the translated sentence, the document amount of the original sentence and the translated sentence may be calculated by counting the number of characters in the original sentence and the translated sentence. As a method for adjusting the screen, for example, character size, character spacing, line spacing, or line feed position can be controlled. For example, if the source document volume is larger than the translated document volume, the original text size, character spacing, line spacing, or line feed number should be smaller than the translated text size, character spacing, line spacing, or line feed number. Are displayed on the screens E, J, K,.

  Further, when the original document volume is larger than the translated document volume, the horizontal size of the screens E, J, K,... For displaying the original text is set to the screens E, J, K,. It may be made larger than the horizontal size of. For example, when a Japanese document is translated into English and the English document volume is twice the Japanese document volume, the horizontal direction of screens E, J, K,. Is set to twice the horizontal size of the screens E, J, K,. This makes it possible to substantially match the lines displaying the corresponding sentences between the Japanese document and the English document.

  Hereinafter, the operation of the screen control apparatus of FIG. 4 will be described in more detail with reference to an example of a method for displaying an English-Japanese parallel translation screen. In the following embodiment, it is assumed that the document referred to by the hyperlink is always an English document.

  FIG. 11A is a diagram illustrating a display example of an English-Japanese parallel document. In FIG. 11A, screen E and screen J are generated side by side. Screen E is a screen for displaying data written in English. On this screen E, for example, a document 1E written as “The is a book on the table. Andthere are pens on the floor.” Is displayed. Screen J is a screen for displaying data written in Japanese. On this screen J, as a result of the English-Japanese translation of the document 1E, a document 1J with “There is a book on the table and there is a pen on the floor” is displayed.

  The document 1E includes a hyperlink 71 to the document 2E, and this hyperlink 71 is displayed by hatching at the position of “pens” in the document 1E. The hyperlink 71 points to the document 2E written in English.

  When the document 1E is translated into the document 1J, the hyperlink 71 to the document 2E is stored in the document 1J as it is, and the hyperlink 72 to the document 2E is embedded at a corresponding position in the document 1J. For this reason, the hyperlink 72 to the document 2E is displayed with diagonal lines at the position of the “pen” in the document 1J. The screens E and J can be realized by a window or a browser of a window system.

  It is assumed that the operator follows the hyperlink 72 of the document 1J by clicking on the screen J in this screen state. Then, the data acquisition unit 36 takes out the document 2E from the external data 37.

  FIG. 11B shows an example of the content of the document 2E referred to by the hyperlink 72. In FIG. 11B, “It's a fine daytoday” is written in a document 2E, and English is used as a description language. On the other hand, the document 2E is called from the screen J. The screen J is a screen for displaying data described in Japanese. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 11B, the content of the document 2E described in English is translated into Japanese to obtain a document 2J. The content of this document 2J is “Today is good weather”.

  FIG. 11C is a diagram illustrating a first display example of the English-Japanese conversion result of the reference destination document. In FIG. 11C, when the output control unit 40 receives the content of the document 2J, which is the output target document, from the conversion processing control unit 39 and receives the information that the output target screen is the screen J from the processing type determination unit 34, Let J display the contents of document 2J. As a result, “Today is good weather” is displayed on the screen J in Japanese.

  As described above, even when the English document 2E is referred to from the screen J, it is possible to display it in Japanese on the screen J, and to display English and Japanese alternately on the screen J. Can be prevented.

  FIG. 12A is a diagram showing an example of the content of input information when the hyperlink 72 is called from the screen J of FIG. This input information is information when the hyperlink 72 on the screen J is clicked.

  In FIG. 12A, the input information includes an input screen name and a hyperlink reference destination document name. For example, when the hyperlink 72 is called from the screen J, in this embodiment, the input screen name is the screen J and the reference destination document name is the document 2E. This input information is sent to the process type determination unit 34. The process type determination unit 34 searches the process type definition file 35 based on the input information, and acquires the process type to be performed on the document 2E.

  FIG. 12B is a diagram showing an example of the contents of the process type definition file 35. In FIG. 12B, the processing type definition file 35 describes conversion processing corresponding to the language of the reference destination document and the language displayed on the input screen. For example, if the language of the referenced document is English and the language displayed on the input screen is Japanese, English-Japanese translation is specified as the conversion process, the language of the referenced document is English, and the language displayed on the input screen is English In the case of, if no conversion is specified as the conversion process, the language of the referenced document is Japanese, and the language displayed on the input screen is English, Japanese-English translation is specified as the conversion process, and the language of the referenced document is Japanese. If the language displayed on the input screen is Japanese, no conversion is specified as the conversion process.

  When the input information of FIG. 12A is given, the language displayed on the screen J is Japanese and the language describing the document 2E is English. Therefore, the reference language is English and the input screen language is English. An English-Japanese translation corresponding to Japanese is retrieved from the processing type definition file 35. Based on the search result of the processing type definition file 35, processing type information for processing the document 2E is created.

  FIG. 12C is a diagram illustrating a first content example of the processing type information. In FIG. 12C, from the information that the reference destination document in FIG. 12A is the document 2E, the processing type “access the document 2E referenced by the hyperlink 72 by accessing an external database” is obtained. Further, from the search result of the processing type definition file 35, the processing type “obtain the document 2J by translating the document 2E obtained by tracing the hyperlink 72 into Japanese” is obtained. Furthermore, from the information that the input screen of FIG. 12A is the screen J, the processing type “display the document 2J on the screen J” is also obtained.

  The data acquisition unit 36 acquires the data of the document 2E from the external data 37 in accordance with the processing type of “accessing and acquiring the document 2E referenced by the hyperlink 72 by accessing an external database”. The conversion processing control unit 39 causes the conversion processing unit 38 to perform English-Japanese translation of the document 2E according to the processing type “translate the document 2E obtained by tracing the hyperlink 72 into Japanese to obtain the document 2J”. . The output control unit 40 displays the document 2J on the screen E of the display unit 32 in accordance with the processing type “display the document 2J on the screen J”. As a result, the display of FIG. 11C is performed.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing screen control processing according to the second embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 13, the input unit 31 receives an input from the operator (step S31).
Next, the processing type determination unit 34 performs processing using the language type of the reference document received by the input unit 31 and the language type of the screens E, J, K,... Monitored by the input control unit 33 as search keys. The type definition file 35 is searched (step S32).

  Next, the process type determination unit 34 determines the process type based on the search result of the process type definition file 35 (step S33). Next, the data acquisition unit 36 acquires the external data 37 according to the processing type determined by the processing type determination unit 34 (step S34).

  Next, the conversion process control unit 39 determines whether or not a translation process is necessary for the acquired external data 37 based on the process type (step S35). When translation processing is necessary, the conversion devices 38a to 38c corresponding to the processing type are activated to perform translation processing (step S36).

Next, the output control unit 40, based on the language type of the screens E, J, K,... Monitored by the input control unit 33, the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36, or the conversion processing unit The screens E, J, K,... For displaying the converted data converted by 38 are determined (step S37).
Next, the output control unit 40 outputs the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 or the conversion data converted by the conversion processing unit 38 to the display unit 32, and the determined screens E, J, K,. .. (step S38).

  Next, FIG. 14A for explaining the second display example of the English-Japanese parallel translation document is a diagram showing a display example of the English-Japanese parallel translation document. The display example of the English-Japanese parallel translation document of FIG. 14A is exactly the same as the display example of the English-Japanese parallel translation document of FIG. Further, the hyperlinks 71 and 72 in FIG. 14A also point to the document 2E in FIG. 11B.

  Assume that the operator follows the hyperlink 72 of the document 1J by clicking on the screen J in the screen state of FIG. In this case, the input information is the same as that shown in FIG. For this reason, English-Japanese translation is retrieved from the process type definition file 35 as the conversion process. Based on the search result of the processing type definition file 35, processing type information for processing the document 2E is created.

  FIG. 14B is a diagram illustrating a second content example of the processing type information. From the information that the reference destination document in FIG. 12A is the document 2E, a processing type of “accessing the external link database 2E for the reference destination document 2E of the hyperlink 72” is obtained. Further, from the search result of the processing type definition file 35, the processing type “obtain the document 2J by translating the document 2E obtained by tracing the hyperlink 72 into Japanese” is obtained. Furthermore, from the information that the input screen of FIG. 12A is the screen J, the processing type “display the document 2J on the screen J” is also obtained.

  Here, a condition is added that the contents displayed on the screen E and the screen J correspond to each other. As a result, the content of the document 2J corresponds to the content of the document 2E. Since the document 2E is described in English, a processing type of “display the document 2E on the screen E” is also obtained.

  FIG. 14C is a diagram illustrating a second display example of the English-Japanese conversion result of the reference destination document. In FIG. 14C, the output control unit 40 displays the content of the document 2E on the screen E according to the processing type “display the document 2E on the screen E”. As a result, “It ’s a fine day today” is displayed on the screen E in English. Further, the output control unit 40 activates the screen synchronization control unit 40b according to the processing type “display the document 2J on the screen J” and displays the contents of the document 2J on the screen J. As a result, “Today is good weather” is displayed on the screen J in Japanese.

  Thus, by providing the screen synchronization control unit 40b and linking the reference display on the screen E and the screen J, it is possible to specify the reference destination of the screen J simply by clicking the hyperlink 72 of the screen J. In addition, the reference destination of the screen E can be specified, and the contents displayed on the screen E and the screen J can be controlled to coincide with each other.

  Next, screen control processing according to the third embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the third embodiment, the type of a document to which a hyperlink is referred is automatically determined, and screen control is performed. Here, an English-Japanese bilingual screen control method when the hyperlinked document is not guaranteed to be an English document and either the English document or the Japanese document is unknown will be described.

  FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating a language type determination method according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 15, the language type determination unit 39a receives a character string in the document data obtained by the data acquisition unit 36 and outputs the language type of the document data. For example, when a sentence “This is a pen.” Is input to the language type determination unit 39a, English is output as the determination result of the language type of the sentence. When a sentence “This is a pen” is input to the language type determination unit 39a, Japanese is output as the determination result of the language type of the sentence.

  As in this example, when the target languages are only English and Japanese, the language type can be determined from the ratio of 1-byte characters and 2-byte characters included in the character string. That is, the language type of a document can be determined by setting a document in which the content rate of double-byte characters in the document data is 20% or more to Japanese, and a document having a content rate less than that to English. In the case of a language pair that cannot be determined from the character code, the language type of the document can be determined by performing a dictionary search.

As described above, by providing the language type determination unit 39a, it is possible to guarantee the uniqueness of the document type on the screen even if the document is a different type of hyperlink reference destination.
FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing screen control processing according to the third embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 16, the input unit 31 receives an input from the operator (step S41).

  Next, the processing type determination unit 34 uses the input received by the input unit 31 and the display type of the screens E, J, K,. Search is performed (step S42).

  Next, the process type determination unit 34 determines the process type based on the search result of the process type definition file 35 (step S43). Next, the data acquisition unit 36 acquires the external data 37 according to the processing type determined by the processing type determination unit 34 (step S44).

  Next, the language type determination unit 39a determines the data type of the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 (step S45). Next, the conversion process control unit 39 searches the process type definition file 35 based on the determination result of the data type of the external data 37, and determines whether the conversion process is necessary (step S46). If conversion processing is necessary, the conversion devices 38a to 38c corresponding to the processing type are activated to perform conversion processing (step S47).

  Next, the output control unit 40 uses the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 based on the display types of the screens E, J, K,. The screens E, J, K,... For displaying the converted data converted by 38 are determined (step S48).

  Next, the output control unit 40 outputs the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 or the conversion data converted by the conversion processing unit 38 to the display unit 32, and the determined screens E, J, K,. ... Are displayed (step S49).

  Next, screen control processing according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 17A is a diagram showing a display example of an English document in the fourth embodiment. In FIG. 17A, screen E and screen J are generated side by side. Screen E is a screen for displaying data written in English. On this screen E, for example, a document 1E written as “The is a book on the table. Andthere are pens on the floor.” Is displayed. Screen J is a screen for displaying data written in Japanese. Nothing is displayed on this screen J.

  The document 1E includes a hyperlink 71 to the document 2E, and this hyperlink 71 is displayed by hatching at the position of “pens” in the document 1E. The hyperlink 71 points to the document 2E written in English.

  It is assumed that the operator follows the hyperlink 71 of the document 1E by clicking on the screen E in this screen state. Then, the data acquisition unit 36 takes out the document 2E from the external data 37. Then, it is assumed that a process of displaying the document 2E on the screen E and displaying the document 2J on the screen J is instructed as the processing type. In this embodiment, the output control unit 40 refers to the screen display state management table 33a before executing the instruction from the process type determination unit 34. This screen display state management table 33a manages whether screens E, J, K,... Are displayed. FIG. 17B is a diagram showing an example of the contents of the screen display state management table 33a.

  In FIG. 17B, the contents of the screen display state management table 33a are being displayed on the screen E and not being displayed on the screen J. Therefore, in the current display state, it can be seen that the English document 1E is displayed on the screen E and the Japanese document 1J is not displayed on the screen J. Since document 1E is displayed on screen E, document 2E is displayed on screen E. On the other hand, since the document 1J is not displayed on the screen J, the document 1J is first displayed on the screen J, and then the document 2J is displayed.

  FIG. 17C is a diagram showing a display example of an English-Japanese parallel document. In FIG. 17C, the document 1J is displayed on the screen J. That is, on the screen J, as a result of the English-Japanese translation of the document 1E, the document 1J with “There is a book on the table and there is a pen on the floor” is displayed.

Thus, by displaying the document 1J on the screen J and then displaying the document 2J, it is possible to display the English-Japanese translation of the reference source and the reference destination.
FIG. 18 is a flowchart showing screen control processing according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

  18, the processing type determination unit 34 uses the input received by the input unit 31 and the display type of the screens E, J, K,... Monitored by the input control unit 33 as a search key. Is searched (step S51).

  Next, the process type determination unit 34 determines the process type based on the search result of the process type definition file 35 (step S52). Next, the data acquisition unit 36 acquires the external data 37 according to the processing type determined by the processing type determination unit 34 (step S53).

  Next, the conversion process control unit 39 determines whether conversion processing is necessary for the acquired external data 37 based on the process type (step S54). If conversion processing is necessary, the conversion devices 38a to 38c corresponding to the processing type are activated to perform conversion processing (step S55).

  Next, the output control unit 40 uses the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 based on the display types of the screens E, J, K,. The screens E, J, K,... For displaying the converted data converted by 38 are determined (step S56).

  Next, the output control unit 40 determines whether there are output screens E, J, K,... Based on the contents of the display state management table 33a (step S57). If the output screens E, J, K,... Do not exist, the screen generator 40a is activated to create new screens E, J, K,.

  Next, the output control unit 40 outputs the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 or the conversion data converted by the conversion processing unit 38 to the display unit 32, and the determined screens E, J, K,. ... Are displayed (step S59).

  Next, screen control processing according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the fifth embodiment, the display order of the document data on the screens E, J, K,... Is controlled by providing the display order control unit 40c. For example, the case where the operator displays the document 2E and the document 2J in FIG. 14C as a result of referring to the hyperlink 72 in FIG. Here, in order to display the document 2E on the screen E, it is necessary to acquire the external data 37 via an external high-speed line. Also, it is necessary to perform English-Japanese translation to obtain document 2J. In this case, the output order of the document 2E and the document 2J is determined by referring to the display order definition table 42.

  FIG. 19 is a diagram showing an example of the contents of the display order definition table 42 according to one embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 19, processing contents include acquisition of data from a cache, acquisition of data from a hard disk, acquisition of external data via a high-speed line, acquisition of data from a cache + machine translation processing, external data via a telephone line Suppose there is an acquisition of. Priorities are given to these processing contents in the order of short processing time. As a result, the acquisition of data from the cache has priority 1, the acquisition of data from the hard disk has priority 2, the acquisition of external data via the high-speed line has priority 3, the acquisition of data from the cache + machine translation processing Priority 4 and acquisition of external data via a telephone line are priority 5.

  From the contents of the display order definition table 42, the priority of obtaining the contents of the document 2E is 3, the priority of creating the document 2J is 4, and the order of the contents of the document 2E is more than the creation of the document 2J. , You can see that the priority is high. For this reason, the output control unit 40 prioritizes the output of the document 2E to the display unit 32 over the output of the document 2J.

  Note that when the content of the document 2E is acquired through a telephone line, the order of the content of the document 2E has a lower priority than the creation of the document 2J, and the output of the document 2J is more Priority is given to the output of document 2E.

  FIG. 20 is a flowchart showing screen control processing according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention. 20, the processing type determination unit 34 uses the input received by the input unit 31 and the display type of the screens E, J, K,... Monitored by the input control unit 33 as a search key. Is searched (step S61).

  Next, the process type determination unit 34 determines the process type based on the search result of the process type definition file 35 (step S62). Next, the process type determination unit 34 determines the process order based on the contents of the display order definition table 42 (step S63).

  Next, the data acquisition unit 36 starts acquiring the external data 37 according to the process type determined by the process type determination unit 34 (step S64). Next, the conversion process control unit 39 determines whether conversion processing is necessary for the acquired external data 37 based on the process type (step S65). If conversion processing is necessary, the conversion devices 38a to 38c corresponding to the processing type are activated to perform conversion processing (step S66).

  Next, the output control unit 40 uses the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 based on the display types of the screens E, J, K,. The screens E, J, K,... For displaying the converted data converted by 38 are determined (step S67).

  Next, the output control unit 40 outputs the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 or the conversion data converted by the conversion processing unit 38 from the highest priority to the display unit 32, and the screen E, J, K,... Are displayed (step S68).

  Next, screen control processing according to the sixth embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the sixth embodiment, before the conversion processing unit 27 performs conversion processing, the display order definition table 42 is referred to and it is determined whether it takes time to obtain data to be converted. Then, when it takes time to obtain the data to be converted, the conversion process is started for a part of the obtained data. For example, it is assumed that the document 2J is obtained by obtaining the data of the document 2E from the outside and subjecting the data of the document 2E to English-Japanese machine translation. Here, it is assumed that it takes time to obtain the data of the document 2E. In this case, the translation process is executed every time the contents of the document 2E are obtained one sentence at a time. Since the meaningful minimum unit when performing the translation process is a sentence, it is possible to efficiently perform the translation process without waiting until the entire document 2E is obtained by performing the translation process in sentence units. Become. A plurality of sentences such as two sentences or three sentences may be put together for translation.

  In this way, by starting the translation process for a part of the acquired data, it is possible to perform the acquisition of the data of the document 2E and the translation process of the document 2E in parallel. Since it is not necessary to wait for the translation process of the document 2E until the acquisition is completed, the translation result of the document 2E can be output quickly.

  FIG. 21 is a flowchart showing screen control processing according to the sixth embodiment of the present invention. 21, the process type determination unit 34 uses the input received by the input unit 31 and the display type of the screens E, J, K,... Monitored by the input control unit 33 as a search key. Is searched (step S71).

  Next, the process type determination unit 34 determines the process type based on the search result of the process type definition file 35 (step S72). Next, the data acquisition unit 36 refers to the display order definition table 42 and, when it takes time to obtain the external data 37, partially acquires the external data 37 (step S73).

  Next, the conversion processing control unit 39 determines whether or not conversion processing is necessary for the acquired external data 37 based on the processing type (step S74). If conversion processing is necessary, the conversion devices 38a to 38c corresponding to the processing type are activated to perform conversion processing (step S75).

  Next, it is determined whether or not the acquisition of the external data 37 has been completed. If the acquisition of the external data 37 has not been completed, the process returns to step S73 to continue acquiring the external data 37 (step S76).

Next, the output control unit 40 uses the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 based on the display types of the screens E, J, K,. The screens E, J, K,... For displaying the converted data converted by 38 are determined (step S77).
Next, the output control unit 40 outputs the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 or the conversion data converted by the conversion processing unit 38 to the display unit 32, and the determined screens E, J, K,. .. (step S78).

  Next, screen control processing according to the seventh embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the seventh embodiment, screens E, J, K,... For each language to be displayed are prepared in the same manner as the parallel translation screen for machine translation. A character code correspondence table 41 is also provided. In the character code correspondence table 41, character codes for each screen E, J, K,. The character code correspondence table 41 can automatically set the character code for opening each screen E, J, K,.

  FIG. 22 is a diagram showing an example of the contents of the character code correspondence table 41 according to one embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 22, the character code correspondence table 41 defines character codes for each of the English screen E and the Japanese screen J. For example, the screen E is specified as Latin 1 type as a character code, and the screen J is specified as Japanese automatic identification as a character code. The output control unit 40 refers to the character code correspondence table 41, sets the character code to Latin 1 when opening the screen E, and sets the character code to Japanese automatic identification when opening the screen J. .

  FIG. 23 is a flowchart showing screen control processing according to the seventh embodiment of the present invention. 23, the output control unit 40 determines the character codes of the screens E, J, K,... To be opened by referring to the character code correspondence table 41 (step S81), and the screens E, J, K Are opened (step S82).

  Next, the processing type determination unit 34 uses the input received by the input unit 31 and the display type of the screens E, J, K,. Search is performed (step S83).

  Next, the process type determination unit 34 determines the process type based on the search result of the process type definition file 35 (step S84). Next, the data acquisition unit 36 acquires the external data 37 according to the processing type determined by the processing type determination unit 34 (step S85).

  Next, the conversion process control unit 39 determines whether conversion processing is necessary for the acquired external data 37 based on the process type (step S86). If conversion processing is necessary, the conversion devices 38a to 38c corresponding to the processing type are activated to perform conversion processing (step S87).

  Next, the output control unit 40 uses the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 based on the display types of the screens E, J, K,. The screens E, J, K,... For displaying the converted data converted by 38 are determined (step S88).

  Next, the output control unit 40 outputs the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 or the conversion data converted by the conversion processing unit 38 to the display unit 32. Then, the determined screens E, J, K,... Are displayed with the character codes defined in the character code correspondence table 41 (step S89).

  Next, screen control processing according to the eighth embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the eighth embodiment, since the screens E, J, K,... Displaying the English-Japanese bilingual documents overlap, the hyperlink is hidden under the other screens E, J, K,. If there is, the hidden hyperlink is made visible by adjusting the display position on the screens E, J, K,.

  FIG. 24A is a diagram illustrating a display example of an English-Japanese bilingual document before adjustment of the display position of the document. In FIG. 24A, the screen E is generated on the screen J, and a part of the screen J overlaps with the screen E. This screen E is a screen for displaying data written in English. On this screen E, for example, a document 1E written as “The is a book on the table. And the there are pens on the floor” is displayed. Screen J is a screen for displaying data written in Japanese. On this screen J, as a result of the English-Japanese translation of the document 1E, a document 1J with “There is a book on the table and there is a pen on the floor” is displayed. Here, since the document 1E overlaps the document 1J, a part of the content of the document 1J is not visible.

  The document 1E includes a hyperlink 71 to the document 2E, and this hyperlink 71 is displayed by hatching at the position of “pens” in the document 1E. The hyperlink 71 points to the document 2E written in English.

  When the document 1E is translated into the document 1J, the hyperlink 71 to the document 2E is stored in the document 1J as it is, and the hyperlink 72 to the document 2E is embedded at a corresponding position in the document 1J. Here, since a part of the screen J is hidden under the screen E, the hyperlink 72 displayed at the position of the “pen” in the document 1J cannot be seen. Therefore, the hyperlink 72 is made visible by changing the display position of the document 1J.

  FIG. 24B is a diagram showing a display example of an English-Japanese bilingual document after adjusting the display position of the document. In FIG. 24B, the hyperlink 72 is made visible by shifting the display position of the entire sentence of the document 1J, “There is a book on the table. There is a pen on the floor.” Yes.

  FIG. 25 is a flowchart showing screen control processing according to the eighth embodiment of the present invention. 25, the process type determination unit 34 uses the input received by the input unit 31 and the display types of the screens E, J, K,... Monitored by the input control unit 33 as search keys. Is searched (step S91).

  Next, the process type determination unit 34 determines the process type based on the search result of the process type definition file 35 (step S92). Next, the data acquisition unit 36 acquires the external data 37 according to the processing type determined by the processing type determination unit 34 (step S93).

  Next, the conversion process control unit 39 determines whether conversion processing is necessary for the acquired external data 37 based on the process type (step S94). If conversion processing is necessary, the conversion devices 38a to 38c corresponding to the processing type are activated to perform conversion processing (step S95).

  Next, the output control unit 40 uses the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 based on the display types of the screens E, J, K,. The screens E, J, K,... For displaying the converted data converted by 38 are determined (step S96).

  Next, the output control unit 40 outputs the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 or the conversion data converted by the conversion processing unit 38 to the display unit 32, and the determined screens E, J, K,. .. (step S97).

  Next, the output control unit 40 determines whether or not the hyperlinks 71 and 72 are hidden under the screens E, J, K,... (Step S98). If the hyperlinks 71 and 72 are hidden, the hyperlinks 71 and 72 are made visible by shifting the display positions of the documents 1E and 1J including the hyperlinks 71 and 72 (step S99).

Next, screen control processing according to the ninth embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 26 is a diagram showing a first display example of hyperlinks in an English-Japanese parallel translation document.
In FIG. 26, screen E and screen J are generated side by side. Screen E is a screen for displaying data written in English. On this screen E, for example, a document 1E written as “The is a book on the table. And the there are pens on the floor” is displayed. The document 1E includes a hyperlink 71 to the document 2E, and this hyperlink 71 is displayed by hatching at the position of “pens” in the document 1E. The hyperlink 71 points to the document 2E written in English.

  Screen J is a screen for displaying data written in Japanese. It is assumed that the English-Japanese translation result of the document 1E is displayed on the screen J, but the English-Japanese translation result of the document 1E cannot be obtained because the translation of the document 1E has failed. In this case, the character string “pens” corresponding to the hyperlink 71 is extracted from the document 1E. Only the character string “pens” is translated into English. When the English-Japanese translation of the character string “pens” is successful, the character string “pen” obtained as a result of the English-Japanese translation is pasted on the screen J as a hyperlink 72 to the document 2E. FIG. 27 is a flowchart showing screen control processing according to the ninth embodiment of the present invention.

  27, the processing type determination unit 34 uses the input received by the input unit 31 and the display types of the screens E, J, K,... Monitored by the input control unit 33 as search keys. Is searched (step S101).

  Next, the process type determination unit 34 determines the process type based on the search result of the process type definition file 35 (step S102). Next, the data acquisition unit 36 acquires the external data 37 according to the processing type determined by the processing type determination unit 34 (step S103).

  Next, the conversion processing control unit 39 determines whether or not conversion processing is necessary for the acquired external data 37 based on the processing type (step S104). If conversion processing is necessary, the conversion devices 38a to 38c corresponding to the processing type are activated to perform conversion processing (step S105).

  Next, the conversion processing control unit 39 determines whether the conversion of the external data 37 has been successful (step S106). When the conversion of the external data 37 fails, the conversion processing control unit 39 extracts only the character string corresponding to the hyperlink 71 from the acquired external data 37. Then, the conversion devices 38a to 38c corresponding to the processing type are activated, and the hyperlink 71 is converted (step S107).

  Next, the output control unit 40, based on the display type of the screens E, J, K,... Monitored by the input control unit 33, the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 or the hyperlink 71. .. Are displayed (step S108).

  Next, the output control unit 40 outputs the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 or the conversion result of the hyperlink 71 to the display unit 32 and displays it on the determined screens E, J, K,. (Step S109).

  FIG. 28 is a diagram illustrating a second display example of hyperlinks in an English-Japanese bilingual document. In FIG. 28, screen E and screen J are generated side by side. Screen E is a screen for displaying data written in English. On this screen E, for example, a document 1E written as “The is a book on the table. And the there are pens on the floor” is displayed. The document 1E includes a hyperlink 71 to the document 2E, and this hyperlink 71 is displayed by hatching at the position of “pens” in the document 1E. The hyperlink 71 points to the document 2E written in English.

  Screen J is a screen for displaying data written in Japanese. It is assumed that the English-Japanese translation result of the document 1E is displayed on the screen J, but the English-Japanese translation result of the document 1E cannot be obtained because the translation of the document 1E has failed. In this case, the character string “pens” corresponding to the hyperlink 71 is extracted from the document 1E. Only the character string “pens” is translated into English. Here, when the English-Japanese translation of this character string “pens” also fails, the character string “pens” corresponding to the hyperlink 71 is pasted on the screen J as a hyperlink 72 to the document 2E as it is.

  FIG. 29 is a flowchart showing screen control processing according to the tenth embodiment of the present invention. 29, the processing type determination unit 34 uses the input received by the input unit 31 and the display type of the screens E, J, K,... Monitored by the input control unit 33 as a search key. Is searched (step S111).

  Next, the process type determination unit 34 determines the process type based on the search result of the process type definition file 35 (step S112). Next, the data acquisition unit 36 acquires the external data 37 according to the processing type determined by the processing type determination unit 34 (step S113).

  Next, the conversion process control unit 39 determines whether conversion processing is necessary for the acquired external data 37 based on the process type (step S114). If conversion processing is necessary, the conversion devices 38a to 38c corresponding to the processing type are activated to perform conversion processing (step S115).

  Next, the conversion processing control unit 39 determines whether or not the conversion of the external data 37 has succeeded (step S116). When the conversion of the external data 37 fails, the conversion processing control unit 39 extracts only the character string corresponding to the hyperlink 71 from the acquired external data 37. Then, the conversion devices 38a to 38c corresponding to the processing type are activated, and the conversion processing of the hyperlink 71 is performed (step S117).

  Next, the conversion processing control unit 39 determines whether or not the hyperlink has been successfully converted (step S118). If the hyperlink conversion fails, the conversion processing control unit 39 copies the hyperlink 71 before conversion (step S119).

  Next, the output control unit 40, based on the display type of the screens E, J, K,... Monitored by the input control unit 33, external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36, or before conversion Screens E, J, K,... For displaying the hyperlink 71 are determined (step S120).

  Next, the output control unit 40 outputs the external data 37 acquired by the data acquisition unit 36 or the hyperlink 71 before conversion to the display unit 32 and displays it on the determined screens E, J, K,. (Step S121).

  Next, screen control processing according to the eleventh embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the eleventh embodiment, the display contents on one screen and the display contents on the other screen are changed in conjunction with each other. For example, one screen is automatically scrolled in correspondence with the scrolling of one screen. Further, when editing a document, the document may be automatically edited on the other screen in accordance with the editing content of the document on one screen. For example, when a sentence in a specified area of one document is moved (or copied) to a specified position, the corresponding sentence in the other document is automatically moved (or copied) to the corresponding position. It may be. Further, when a sentence in a designated area of one document is deleted, a sentence in a corresponding area of the other document may be automatically deleted. Furthermore, when the content of the document on one screen is changed by performing an editing operation, only the changed portion may be re-translated and displayed on the other screen.

  Hereinafter, a case where scrolling is interlocked on a plurality of screens will be described. FIG. 30A is a diagram showing a display example of an English-Japanese parallel translation document before scrolling. In FIG. 30A, screen E and screen J are generated side by side. Screen E is a screen for displaying data written in English. On this screen E, for example, a document 1E written as “The is a book on the table. Andthere are pens on the floor.” Is displayed, but a part of the document 1E covers the end of the image. "Thefloor." Is not visible.

  Screen J is a screen for displaying data written in Japanese. On this screen J, as a result of English-Japanese translation of document 1E, document 1J is written with the words “There are books on the table. There is a pen on the floor.” Because there is a part on the edge of the image, “Yes” is not visible. The document 1E includes a hyperlink 71 to the document 2E, and this hyperlink 71 is displayed by hatching at the position of “pens” in the document 1E. The hyperlink 71 points to the document 2E written in English.

  When the document 1E is translated into the document 1J, the hyperlink 71 to the document 2E is stored in the document 1J as it is, and the hyperlink to the document 2E is embedded at a corresponding position in the document 1J. For this reason, the hyperlink 72 to the document 2E is displayed with diagonal lines at the position of the “pen” in the document 1J.

  Scroll bars 81 and 82 are respectively added to the right ends of the screen E and the screen J that are in a parallel translation relationship. By operating the scroll bars 81 and 82, the screen E and the screen J can be scrolled. Here, by interlocking the scrolling between the screens E and J, the display portion of the other screen can be changed by following the change of the display portion of one screen. For example, when the document 1J is scrolled, the corresponding document 1E is automatically scrolled by the same amount.

  FIG. 30B is a diagram showing a display example of the English-Japanese bilingual document after scrolling. In FIG. 30B, as a result of scrolling the document 1E on the screen E, the entire document 1E written as “The is a book on the table. And there are pens on the floor.” Is displayed on the screen without interruption. E is displayed. In addition, as a result of scrolling the document 1J on the screen J in conjunction with the scrolling of the document 1E, the entire document 1J written as “There is a book on the table. There is a pen on the floor.” It is displayed on the screen J without interruption on the way.

  In this way, by automatically scrolling the other screen in conjunction with the scrolling of one screen, it is possible to browse documents while matching the correspondence between the contents displayed on both screens. It becomes.

  Next, screen control processing according to the twelfth embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the twelfth embodiment, the hyperlink reference history is displayed on the screen so that the hyperlink reference history can be easily recognized.

  FIG. 31 is a diagram showing a third display example of hyperlinks in an English-Japanese bilingual document. In FIG. 31, screen E and screen J are generated side by side. Screen E is a screen for displaying data written in English. On this screen E, for example, a document 1E written as “The is a book on the table. And the there are pens on the floor” is displayed. Screen J is a screen for displaying data written in Japanese. On this screen J, as a result of the English-Japanese translation of the document 1E, a document 1J with “There is a book on the table and there is a pen on the floor” is displayed.

  The document 1E includes a hyperlink 91 to the document 2E, and this hyperlink 91 is displayed at the position “pens” of the document 1E. The hyperlink 91 points to the document 2E written in English. Further, if the hyperlink 91 has been referred to before, a reference record display is added. In this embodiment, the hyperlink 91 is highlighted with shading (or a lattice pattern) as a reference record display.

  When the document 1E is translated into the document 1J, the hyperlink 91 to the document 2E is stored in the document 1J as it is, and the hyperlink 92 to the document 2E is embedded at a corresponding position in the document 1J. Therefore, a hyperlink 92 to the document 2E is displayed at the position of “pen” in the document 1J. Here, when the document 1E including the hyperlink 91 referred to before is translated to obtain the document 1J, the hyperlink 92 is embedded in the document 1J while the reference record of the hyperlink 91 is preserved. As a result, the hyperlink 92 embedded in the document 1J is also highlighted as a reference record display with shading (or a lattice pattern). FIG. 32 is a flowchart showing reference record display processing according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 32, the input original document is decomposed into sentence units (step S131), and it is determined which word of which sentence corresponds to the reference record (step S132).
Next, one sentence is extracted from the input original document (step S133), and the extracted sentence and the position information of the word having the reference record included in the sentence are passed to the machine translation (step S134). For example, if there is a reference record in the “book” portion of the original text “This is a book”, the original text “This is book” and information that there is a reference record in the “book” portion are used for machine translation. Passed.

  Next, a translation with a reference record is obtained by machine translation (step S135). For example, in machine translation, a translation “This is a book” is generated in correspondence with the original sentence “This is a book”. Then, based on the information that there is a reference record in the “book” part, the reference record is embedded in the “book” part corresponding to “book”. When the machine translation is completed up to the last sentence of the original document (step S136), the translated sentence with a reference record is assembled to create a document (step S137).

  FIG. 33 is a diagram showing a fourth display example of hyperlinks in an English-Japanese parallel translation document. In FIG. 33, screen E and screen J are generated side by side. Screen E is a screen for displaying data written in English. On this screen E, for example, a document 1E written as “The is a book on the table. And the there are pens on the floor” is displayed.

  The document 1E includes a hyperlink 101 to the document 2E, and this hyperlink 101 is displayed at the position “pens” of the document 1E. The hyperlink 101 points to the document 2E written in English. Here, when the operator inputs the screen E, the display method of the reference record of the hyperlink 101 is changed. As a result, the hyperlink 101 is displayed as a horizontal line.

  Screen J is a screen for displaying data written in Japanese. On this screen J, as a result of the English-Japanese translation of the document 1E, a document 1J with “There is a book on the table and there is a pen on the floor” is displayed. When the document 1E is translated into the document 1J, the hyperlink 71 to the document 2E is stored in the document 1J as it is, and the hyperlink to the document 2E is embedded at a corresponding position in the document 1J. Here, when there is no input to the screen J, a hyperlink 72 to the document 2E is displayed with diagonal lines at the position of “pen” in the document 1J.

  Next, screen control processing according to the twelfth embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the twelfth embodiment, when the vertical position where a hyperlink is displayed is different between one screen and the other screen, the vertical position of the hyperlink is aligned by changing the line spacing. It is.

  FIG. 34A is a diagram illustrating a first display example of the English-Japanese bilingual document before unifying the vertical position of the hyperlink. In FIG. 34A, screen E and screen J are generated side by side. Screen E is a screen for displaying data written in English. On this screen E, for example, a document 1E written as “The is a book on the table. Andthere are pens on the floor.” Is displayed. Here, the line spacing of the document 1E displayed on the screen E is narrowed, and a blank is generated after the text displayed on the screen E.

  Screen J is a screen for displaying data written in Japanese. On this screen J, as a result of the English-Japanese translation of the document 1E, a document 1J with “There is a book on the table and there is a pen on the floor” is displayed.

  The document 1E includes a hyperlink 71 to the document 2E, and this hyperlink 71 is displayed by hatching at the position of “pens” in the document 1E. The hyperlink 71 points to the document 2E written in English.

  When the document 1E is translated into the document 1J, the hyperlink 71 to the document 2E is stored in the document 1J as it is, and the hyperlink to the document 2E is embedded at a corresponding position in the document 1J. For this reason, the hyperlink 72 to the document 2E is displayed with diagonal lines at the position of the “pen” in the document 1J.

  Here, the vertical positions of the hyperlink 71 displayed on the screen E and the hyperlink 72 displayed on the screen J are shifted. For this reason, when comparing the hyperlink 71 and the hyperlink 72, it is necessary to look for the hyperlink 72 corresponding to the hyperlink 71 by looking around the entire screen J, and the comparison between the hyperlinks 71 and 72 becomes troublesome.

  FIG. 34B is a diagram showing a first display example of the English-Japanese bilingual document after unifying the vertical position of the hyperlink. In FIG. 34B, the hypertext displayed on the screen E is shifted by shifting the whole sentence written as “The is a book on the table. And the there are pens on the floor” in the lower direction of the screen E. The vertical positions of the link 71 and the hyperlink 72 displayed on the screen J are made to coincide with each other. As a result, since the display position of the hyperlink 72 corresponding to the hyperlink 71 can be easily predicted, the hyperlink 71 and the hyperlink 72 can be quickly compared.

  In addition to the method of changing the line interval, the display position of the sentence may be controlled by changing the character interval, the character size, and the line feed position. Next, screen control processing according to the thirteenth embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the thirteenth embodiment, when the vertical position where the hyperlink is displayed is different between one screen and the other screen, the vertical position of the hyperlink is aligned by scrolling one of the screens. Is.

  FIG. 35A is a diagram showing a second display example of the English-Japanese bilingual document before unifying the vertical position of the hyperlink. In FIG. 35A, screen E and screen J are generated side by side. Screen E is a screen for displaying data written in English. On this screen E, for example, a document 1E written as “The is a book on the table. Andthere are pens on the floor.” Is displayed.

  Screen J is a screen for displaying data written in Japanese. On this screen J, as a result of the English-Japanese translation of the document 1E, a document 1J with “There is a book on the table and there is a pen on the floor” is displayed.

  The document 1E includes a hyperlink 71 to the document 2E, and this hyperlink 71 is displayed by hatching at the position of “pens” in the document 1E. The hyperlink 71 points to the document 2E written in English.

  When the document 1E is translated into the document 1J, the hyperlink 71 to the document 2E is stored in the document 1J as it is, and the hyperlink to the document 2E is embedded at a corresponding position in the document 1J. For this reason, the hyperlink 72 to the document 2E is displayed with diagonal lines at the position of the “pen” in the document 1J.

  Here, since the positions of the screen E and the screen J are shifted from each other in the vertical direction, the vertical positions of the hyperlink 71 displayed on the screen E and the hyperlink 72 displayed on the screen J are shifted. Yes. For this reason, when comparing the hyperlink 71 and the hyperlink 72, it is necessary to look for the hyperlink 72 corresponding to the hyperlink 71 by looking around the entire screen J, and the comparison between the hyperlinks 71 and 72 becomes troublesome.

  FIG. 35B is a diagram showing a second display example of the English-Japanese bilingual document after unifying the vertical position of the hyperlink. In FIG. 35B, by scrolling the document 1J on the screen J, the vertical position of the hyperlink 71 displayed on the screen E and the hyperlink 72 displayed on the screen J are matched. ing. As a result, since the display position of the hyperlink 72 corresponding to the hyperlink 71 can be easily predicted, the hyperlink 71 and the hyperlink 72 can be quickly compared.

  In the embodiment described above, the vertical position of the hyperlink 71 displayed on the screen E and the hyperlink 72 displayed on the screen J are matched by scrolling the document 1J on the screen J. However, the vertical positions of the hyperlink 71 displayed on the screen E and the hyperlink 72 displayed on the screen J may be matched by scrolling the document 1E on the screen E. .

  Next, screen control processing according to the fourteenth embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the fourteenth embodiment, when the horizontal position where a hyperlink is displayed is different between one screen and the other screen, the horizontal position of the hyperlink is aligned by changing the display position. It is.

  FIG. 36A is a diagram showing a display example of an English-Japanese bilingual document before unifying the horizontal position of the hyperlink. In FIG. 36A, screen E and screen J are generated side by side. Screen E is a screen for displaying data written in English. On this screen E, for example, a document 1E written as “The is a book on the table. Andthere are pens on the floor.” Is displayed.

  Screen J is a screen for displaying data written in Japanese. On this screen J, as a result of the English-Japanese translation of the document 1E, a document 1J with “There is a book on the table and there is a pen on the floor” is displayed.

  The document 1E includes a hyperlink 71 to the document 2E, and this hyperlink 71 is displayed by hatching at the position of “pens” in the document 1E. The hyperlink 71 points to the document 2E written in English.

  When the document 1E is translated into the document 1J, the hyperlink 71 to the document 2E is stored in the document 1J as it is, and the hyperlink to the document 2E is embedded at a corresponding position in the document 1J. For this reason, the hyperlink 72 to the document 2E is displayed with diagonal lines at the position of the “pen” in the document 1J.

  Here, the horizontal positions of the hyperlink 71 displayed on the screen E and the hyperlink 72 displayed on the screen J are shifted. For this reason, the comparison between the hyperlink 71 and the hyperlink 72 may be bothersome.

  FIG. 36B is a diagram showing a display example of the English-Japanese bilingual document after unifying the horizontal position of the hyperlink. In FIG. 36 (b), the hyperlink 71 displayed on the screen E and the hyperlink 72 displayed on the screen J are shifted by horizontally shifting a part of the sentence including the hyperlink 72. The horizontal position of each is matched. As a result, since the display position of the hyperlink 72 corresponding to the hyperlink 71 can be easily predicted, the hyperlink 71 and the hyperlink 72 can be quickly compared.

  In the above-described embodiment, the hyperlink 71 displayed on the screen E and the hyperlink 72 displayed on the screen J are shifted by partially shifting a sentence including the hyperlink 72 in the horizontal direction. However, by shifting a part of the sentence including the hyperlink 71 in the horizontal direction, the hyperlink 71 displayed on the screen E and the screen J are displayed. The horizontal position of the hyperlink 72 may be matched.

  As mentioned above, although one Example of this invention was described, this invention is not limited to the Example mentioned above, Various other changes are possible within the range of the technical idea of this invention. For example, in the above-described embodiment, the English-Japanese parallel translation screen has been described as an example. However, when voice is included in the hyperlink reference destination, English voice and Japanese voice are alternately output. You may do it.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the output control apparatus concerning one Example of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows an example of the output control method concerning one Example of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the screen control apparatus concerning one Example of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the screen control apparatus concerning 2nd Example of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the screen control processing concerning one Example of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the system configuration | structure of the screen control apparatus concerning one Example of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the screen control process in machine translation. It is a flowchart which shows the 1st Example of the conversion process concerning this invention. It is a flowchart which shows 2nd Example of the conversion process concerning this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the screen display control process concerning one Example of this invention. (A) is a diagram showing a display example of an English-Japanese bilingual document, (b) is a diagram showing an English-Japanese conversion result of the reference destination document, and (c) is a first English-Japanese conversion result of the reference destination document. It is a figure which shows the example of a display. (A) is a figure which shows the example of the content of input information, (b) is a figure which shows the example of the content of a process classification definition file, (c) is a figure which shows the 1st content example of process classification information. It is a flowchart which shows the screen control processing concerning 2nd Example of this invention. (A) is a figure which shows the example of a display of an English-Japanese bilingual document, (b) is a figure which shows the 2nd content example of process classification information, (c) is the 2nd of the English-Japanese conversion result of a reference destination document. It is a figure which shows the example of a display. It is a figure which shows the language classification determination method concerning one Example of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the screen control processing concerning 3rd Example of this invention. (A) is a figure which shows the example of a display of an English document, (b) is a figure which shows the example of the content of a screen display state management table, (c) is a figure which shows the example of a display of an English-Japanese parallel translation document. It is a flowchart which shows the screen control processing concerning 4th Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the content of the display order definition table concerning one Example of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the screen control processing concerning 5th Example of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the screen control processing concerning 6th Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the content of the character code correspondence table concerning one Example of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the screen control processing concerning 7th Example of this invention. (A) is a figure which shows the example of a display of the English-Japanese parallel translation document before adjustment of the display position of a document, (b) is a figure which shows the example of a display of the English-Japanese parallel translation document after adjustment of the display position of a document. It is a flowchart which shows the screen control processing concerning 8th Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the 1st example of a display of the hyperlink in an English-Japanese bilingual document. It is a flowchart which shows the screen control processing concerning 9th Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the 2nd example of a display of the hyperlink in an English-Japanese parallel translation document. It is a flowchart which shows the screen control processing concerning 10th Example of this invention. (A) is a figure which shows the example of a display of the English-Japanese parallel translation document before a scroll, (b) is a figure which shows the example of a display of the English-Japanese parallel translation document after a scroll. It is a figure which shows the 3rd example of a hyperlink in an English-Japanese bilingual document. It is a flowchart which shows the reference record display process concerning one Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the 4th example of a display of the hyperlink in an English-Japanese bilingual document. (A) is a diagram showing a first display example of an English-Japanese bilingual document before unifying the vertical position of a hyperlink, and (b) is a first example of an English-Japanese bilingual document after unifying the vertical position of a hyperlink. FIG. (A) is a figure which shows the 2nd example of a display of the English-Japanese parallel translation document before unification of the vertical direction position of a hyperlink, (b) is the 2nd example of the English-Japanese bilingual document after unification of the vertical direction position of a hyperlink It is a figure which shows the example of a display of 2. (A) is a figure which shows the example of a display of the English-Japanese bilingual document before unification of the horizontal direction position of a hyperlink, (b) shows the display example of the English-Japanese bilingual document after unification of the horizontal direction of a hyperlink. FIG.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Process classification information acquisition means 2 Related information acquisition means 3 Related information conversion means 11 1st data 12 2nd data 13 3rd data 14 4th data 21 Display part 22 Input control part 23 Process classification determination part 24 Process Type definition file 25 Data acquisition unit 26 External data 27 Conversion processing units 27a to 27c Conversion device 28 Conversion processing control unit 29 Output control unit 31 Input unit 32 Display unit 33 Input control unit 33a Display state management table 34 Processing type determination unit 35 Processing Type definition file 36 Data acquisition unit 37 External data 38 Conversion processing units 38a to 38c Conversion device 39 Conversion processing control unit 39a Language type determination unit 40 Output control unit 40a Screen generation unit 40b Screen synchronization control unit 40c Display order control unit 41 Character code Correspondence table 42 display order definition table 51 CPU
52 ROM
53 RAM
54 communication interface 55 communication network 56 input / output interface 57 display 58 printer 59 memory 60 scanner 61 keyboard 62 driver 63 hard disk 64 IC card 65 magnetic tape 66 floppy disk (registered trademark)
67 Optical disc 68 Bus 71, 72, 91, 92, 101 Hyperlink 81, 82 Scroll bar

Claims (1)

A display unit having a plurality of display screens for displaying the original hyper document data and the corresponding hyper document data;
An input unit for selecting at least the display screen and inputting a processing command;
An input control unit for monitoring a display type indicating which language of hyper document data is displayed on each of the plurality of display screens when there is an input from the input unit;
A process type definition file storing the relationship between the display type and the process type corresponding to the language conversion process corresponding to the display type;
The display monitored by the input control unit when a hyperlink location included in the original hyper document data or the translated hyper document data displayed on any of the plurality of display screens is selected by the input unit A process type determination unit that searches the process type definition file using a type as a search key and determines a corresponding process type;
A data acquisition unit that acquires document data of a reference destination of the hyperlink portion;
A conversion processing unit for performing language conversion processing of document data;
A conversion processing control unit that causes the conversion processing unit to perform language conversion processing of the document data of the reference destination acquired by the data acquisition unit based on the processing type determined by the processing type determination unit; ,
The document data of the reference destination acquired by the data acquisition unit is output to a display screen that displays the hypertext data of the original text, while the conversion is performed on the display screen that displays the hypertext data of the translated text An output control unit that outputs a language conversion processing result of the document data of the reference destination by the processing unit;
An output control device comprising:

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