JP2008052677A - Translation device, translation system, and translation method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve quality of a translation dictionary itself by acquiring an evaluation of the translation dictionary used and feeding back the evaluation to a creator of the translation dictionary by paying incentive to the user of a translation device. <P>SOLUTION: A user terminal 2, a translation server 3, and a translation dictionary creator terminal 9 are connected via a network 1. The translation server 3 accepts a request of translation. An evaluation account DB 8 stores information on the user, such as the user's ID who returns a translation evaluation request form. Charge information is also stored. When the translation evaluation request form is returned, an amount of bonus in accordance with it is stored as the user information. The translation dictionary creator terminal 9 is a destination to which the translation server 3 returns an evaluation content of the translation evaluation returned by the user as a report. With this main construction, translation evaluation data from the user are made use of. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a translation apparatus, a translation system, and a translation method, and more particularly to a translation apparatus, a translation system, and a translation method that collect translation evaluation contents from a translation apparatus user.

  Traditionally, English has permeated as an international language and has been used in various situations in daily life, so there is a great demand for translation between Japanese and English. In recent internationalization, there is also a demand for translation with languages other than English. There are also WEBs that mediate between a large number of translation clients and a large number of translators via the Internet. In such a WEB, the translator's information is presented, and the client can select any translator. The information presented includes careers, translation examples, and results from previous clients.

  The client can select a more skilled translator, but if there is a flood of orders for a particular translator, the translator may not be able to fully demonstrate the translation skills that can be expected from the information presented. is there. Therefore, a translation mediation system has been proposed in which machine translation, a translation at a level that can correct an error in a translation or a break in syntax, and a higher level translation are adjusted in order. 1).

  There have also been proposed a translation system that is used by a user's own terminal after a user downloads a machine translation dictionary via the Internet, or a translation system that uses a machine translation dictionary in a server while being connected to the Internet. As for billing when using machine translation, a translation system that charges for each use has been proposed. In such a situation, in order to improve the translation accuracy, it is important to revise, expand and reinforce the machine translation dictionary, but new word registration and the like is a troublesome work. Further, even if the translation is for confirming the quality of the machine translation, the translation may be charged, so the user has to select the machine translation dictionary without being fully considered.

Therefore, it was considered necessary to clarify the motivation for registering new information in the translation dictionary database (DB) used in the translation apparatus and to expand the translation dictionary DB. 2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a translation dictionary registration and disclosure unit, a translation dictionary usage count counting unit, and a usage charge unit, and a machine translation dictionary registration device that improves translation accuracy by registering a translation dictionary that can be commonly used by users Etc. have been proposed (see, for example, Patent Document 2).
JP 2004-70783 A JP-A-2005-250746

  However, the above technique has a problem that although the machine translation dictionary can be expanded by registering new information, the quality of the translation dictionary itself is not mentioned. In other words, popular translation dictionaries can be selected, but the quality of the translation dictionaries themselves is strongly dependent on the competence of specialized dictionary vendors, including evaluation. It was also necessary to make the motivation for registering new information more powerful.

  The present invention has been made in view of such a situation. By paying an incentive to the user of the machine translation dictionary, the evaluation of the translation dictionary used is obtained and the evaluation is fed back to the translation dictionary creator. The purpose is to improve the quality of the translation dictionary itself.

  The invention according to claim 1 is provided with a translation device that translates using at least one or more translation dictionary means, and a user information storage means that stores information about the user who requested the translation. Then, a translation evaluation request form is created to inform the translation device user that the translation device is requested to be filled in, and the evaluation means of the returned translation evaluation request form is stored. Evaluation content storage means, wherein the user information storage means stores the presence / absence of a reply to the translation evaluation request for each user, and a corresponding recommended amount, and the management means stores the evaluation The translation apparatus is characterized in that the content is transmitted as an evaluation content report to the creator of the dictionary for translation used when the translation to be evaluated is performed.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the apparatus according to the first aspect, the management means calculates an amount actually charged to the user by subtracting the incentive amount from a charge amount corresponding to the use of the translation device. It is characterized by that.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the apparatus according to the first or second aspect, the information relating to the user includes a user ID, a user name, the number of times the translation device is used, a charge amount, whether or not there is a translation evaluation, and an incentive amount It is the information of this.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, a user terminal device that makes a translation request, the translation device according to any one of the first to third aspects, and a translation dictionary creator terminal device are connected via a network. In this translation system, the user terminal device comprises: input means for entering evaluation content in a translation evaluation request document transmitted from the translation device; and transmission means for transmitting the completed translation evaluation request document The translation dictionary creator terminal comprises a receiving means for receiving an evaluation content report from the translation device.

  The invention according to claim 5 is a translation method comprising: a translation step for performing translation using at least one or more translation dictionary steps; and a user information storage step for storing information relating to the user who requested the translation. Then, create a translation evaluation request form that tells the user to fill out the translation evaluation, manage the transmission and reception, and store the evaluation contents of the returned translation evaluation request form A storage step, wherein the user information storage step stores, for each user, the presence / absence of a reply to the translation evaluation request document and a corresponding incentive amount, and the management step stores the evaluation contents. This is a translation method characterized in that it is transmitted as an evaluation content report to the creator of the dictionary for translation used when the translation to be evaluated is performed.

  According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the method according to the fifth aspect, the management step calculates an amount actually charged to the user by subtracting the incentive amount from a charge amount corresponding to the use of the translation step. It is characterized by that.

  The invention according to claim 7 is the method according to claim 5 or 7, wherein the information about the user includes a user ID, a user name, the number of times the translation is used, a charge amount, whether or not there is a translation evaluation, and an incentive amount. It is characterized by being information.

  According to the present invention, by paying an incentive to the user of the machine translation dictionary, an evaluation of the translation dictionary used can be obtained, and the quality of the translation dictionary itself can be improved by feeding back the evaluation to the translation dictionary creator. I can do it.

  Hereinafter, a translation device, a translation system, and a translation method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. The embodiments described below are preferred embodiments of the present invention, and thus various technically preferable limitations are given. However, the scope of the present invention is particularly limited in the following description. As long as there is no description which limits, it is not restricted to these aspects.

  FIG. 1 is an overall schematic diagram of a translation system according to an embodiment of the present invention. A user (user) terminal 2, a translation server (translation device) 3, and a translation dictionary creator terminal 9 are connected via the network 1. The translation server 3 includes a translation management unit 4, a translation execution engine 5, a translation dictionary unit 6, an evaluation results database (DB) 7, and an evaluation account database (DB) 8.

  The user terminal 2 designates the original text for which translation is requested and sends a translation request to the translation server 3. The translation server 3 is a server that receives an order for a translation request. The evaluation result database 7 is a database that records the contents when a translation evaluation is returned from the user. The evaluation account database 8 is a database that stores information about the user such as the ID of the user who has returned the translation evaluation. Billing information is also stored. If a translation evaluation report is returned, the incentive amount corresponding to the reply is also stored as user information. The translation dictionary creation terminal 9 is a transmission destination of evaluation contents of translation evaluation returned from the user.

  At the time of translation, the translation management means 4 instructs the translation execution engine 5 to translate the received original text. The translation execution engine 5 refers to the translation dictionary unit 6 and executes translation. The translation dictionary unit 6 stores a plurality of dictionaries (not shown). For example, an English-Japanese dictionary, an English-Japanese dictionary specialized in computer terms, other specialized English-Japanese dictionaries, French-Japanese dictionaries, Japanese-German dictionaries, etc. The translation execution engine 5 selects an optimal dictionary from the translation dictionary unit 6 as necessary, and executes translation.

  Hereinafter, an operation process in machine translation according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation process according to the present embodiment. First, the user designates content (original text) to be translated from the user terminal 2 (step S1), and requests machine translation from the translation server 3 (step S2). The translation management unit 4 in the translation server 3 issues a translation instruction to the translation execution engine 5 (step S3). The translation execution engine 5 executes translation with reference to the translation dictionary unit 6 (step S4). The translation execution engine 5 reports the translation result to the translation management unit 4 after completing the translation (step S5). The translation management unit 4 creates a “translation evaluation request document” for requesting the user to evaluate the translation result (step S6), and transmits it to the user together with the translation result (step S7). The translation evaluation request form may be created by inserting the user's name into a standard document prepared in advance.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a translation evaluation request document according to this embodiment. As shown in FIG. 3, the evaluation incentive can be discounted from the translation usage fee, paid to the user (transferred to an account), or the like.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a translation operation process performed between the user terminal 2, the translation server 3, the translation execution engine 6, and the translation dictionary unit 7. As described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 2, steps 1 to 7 correspond to Steps 1 to 7 of FIG.

  Next, operation processing when receiving a translation evaluation according to an embodiment of the present invention from a user will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an operation process according to the present embodiment. The user inputs the evaluation result and transmits it to the translation server 3 (step S10). The translation management unit 4 in the translation server 3 summarizes the evaluation results such as the sent evaluation, the translation dictionary used in the translation, the user (user ID) who transmitted the evaluation (step S11), and an evaluation result database. 7 (step S12).

  Of the information stored in the evaluation results database 7, the data of the user who sent the evaluation is used as account information (user ID) for the incentive to the user, so it is sent to the evaluation account database 8. (Step S13). The evaluation contents are fed back to the creator of the translation dictionary and used for quality enhancement, and the evaluation contents are sent to the translation dictionary creator terminal 9 (step S14).

  FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an operation process according to the present embodiment performed between the user terminal 2, the translation management unit 4, and the evaluation result database 7. As described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 5, steps 10 to 14 correspond to steps 10 to 14 of FIG.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of data stored in the evaluation account database 8 according to the present embodiment. For each user, data such as a usage dictionary, the number of times of use, the number of times of evaluation for each use, a subsidy according to the evaluation, and a charge amount are stored. FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of an evaluation content report when the evaluation content according to the present embodiment is transmitted to the dictionary creator terminal 8. In addition, it is possible to report after accumulating to some extent a plurality of evaluations, or to report regularly.

  According to the above embodiment, it is possible to check the shortage of translation dictionaries in a short time from the viewpoint of the end user. Further, since a plurality of dictionaries are stored in the translation dictionary 4, it is possible to receive orders for translation requests for various contents.

  In addition, since translation evaluation results are accumulated and reported to the creator, the translation dictionary creator can be requested to review the translation dictionary.

  Although the present invention has been specifically described above based on the preferred embodiments, it is needless to say that the present invention is not limited to the above-described ones and can be variously modified without departing from the gist thereof.

1 is an overall schematic diagram of a machine translation system according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a flowchart which shows the operation | movement process which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the translation evaluation request document which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the operation | movement process which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the operation | movement process which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the operation | movement process which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the data stored in the evaluation account database 8 which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the evaluation content report which concerns on embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Network 2 User (user) terminal 3 Translation server 4 Translation management part 5 Translation execution engine 6 Translation dictionary part 7 Evaluation results database 8 Evaluation account database 9 Translation dictionary creator terminal

Claims (7)

Translation means for performing translation using at least one translation dictionary means;
A user information storage means for storing information relating to the user who requested the translation,
A management means for creating a translation evaluation request form informing that the translation device user is requested to fill in the evaluation for the translation, and managing the transmission and reception;
Evaluation contents storage means for storing the evaluation contents of the returned translation evaluation request form,
The user information storage means stores presence / absence of a reply to the translation evaluation request for each user, and a corresponding incentive amount,
The translation device is characterized in that the management means transmits the evaluation content as an evaluation content report to the creator of the translation dictionary used when the translation to be evaluated is performed.   The translation device according to claim 1, wherein the management unit calculates an amount actually charged to a user by subtracting the incentive amount from a charge amount corresponding to the use of the translation device.   3. The translation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information about the user is information of a user ID, a user name, the number of times the translation apparatus is used, a charge amount, whether or not there is a translation evaluation, and an incentive amount. . A translation system in which a user terminal device that makes a translation request, the translation device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, and a dictionary creator terminal device for translation are connected via a network,
The user terminal device
Input means for entering the evaluation content in the translation evaluation request form transmitted from the translation device;
A transmission means for transmitting the completed translation evaluation request form,
The translation dictionary creator terminal
Receiving means for receiving an evaluation content report from the translation device. A translation process for performing translation using at least one translation dictionary process;
A user information storage step for storing information about the user who requested the translation, and a translation method comprising:
Create a translation evaluation request form that tells the user to fill out the translation evaluation, and manage the transmission and reception
An evaluation content storage step for storing the evaluation content of the returned translation evaluation request form,
The user information storage step stores, for each user, whether or not there is a reply to the translation evaluation request document, and a corresponding incentive amount,
The translation method characterized in that the management step transmits the evaluation content as an evaluation content report to the creator of the translation dictionary used when the translation to be evaluated is performed.   6. The translation method according to claim 5, wherein the management step calculates an amount actually charged to the user by subtracting the incentive amount from a charge amount according to the use of the translation step.   8. The translation method according to claim 5, wherein the information on the user is information on a user ID, a user name, the number of times of translation, a charge amount, whether or not a translation is evaluated, and an incentive amount.

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