JP2013061827A - Translation system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a translation system configured to provide a highly accurate translation result even when using a general-purpose machine translation, while allowing a user to just request translation.SOLUTION: The translation system includes: machine translation execution means 5 that executes machine translation using a general-purpose machine translation dictionary; translation request acceptance means that accepts a translation request for translating a translation object sentence for specific specialized application of first language into second language different from the first language; and intermediate translation execution means that analyzes the translation object sentence of the first language on the basis of translation request accepted by the translation request acceptance means, executes intermediate translation for converting words that are convertible by a specialized dictionary for converting words in the specific specialized application of the first language into words of the second language, into words of the second language, acquires the intermediate translation result, and delivers the intermediate translation result to the machine translation execution means 5. The machine translation execution means executes the machine translation of the intermediate translation result, and the result obtained thereby is defined as the translation result according to the translation request.

Description

  The present invention relates to a translation system capable of obtaining a translation result with high translation accuracy even when using general-purpose machine translation.

  General-purpose machine translation application programs have started to be provided free of charge, and are being adopted by various websites or incorporated and used in various applications. However, since general-purpose machine translation has not been narrowed down in its use, there is a problem in that translation accuracy for various dedicated uses is lowered.

  Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 7-141375 discloses a machine translation device that uses a dedicated dictionary to improve this problem and improve translation accuracy. In this patent document 1, instead of a general-purpose machine translation dictionary, a plurality of specialized dictionaries corresponding to specialized fields are prepared, and priorities are set in advance in the plurality of specialized dictionaries. A specialized dictionary is used to machine-translate the translation target sentence. Thereby, in this patent document 1, while obtaining a translation with good quality, the effort of subsequent editing is reduced.

  Further, in Patent Document 2 (Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 6-162071), when a specific word is not registered in a general-purpose machine translation dictionary, the specific word is not translated and is registered as a registered language. It is disclosed that a specific word is correctly translated with reference to the registration dictionary by performing registration and registration in the registration dictionary.

  That is, in Patent Document 2, for example, when “Kyoto” is not registered in the machine translation dictionary when translating from English to Japanese, the machine translation is performed while leaving “Kyoto” as it is. Then, by registering “Kyoto” → “Kyoto” in the registration dictionary and executing retranslation, “Kyoto” is correctly translated into “Kyoto”.

JP-A-7-141375 JP-A-6-162071

  However, in the invention of Patent Document 1, a plurality of specialized dictionaries are prepared instead of a general-purpose machine translation dictionary, and machine translation is executed using the plurality of specialized dictionaries in the priority order set by the user. Is. Therefore, an existing machine translation application program that uses a general-purpose machine translation dictionary cannot be used as it is.

  In addition, it is necessary for the user to set priorities for a plurality of specialized dictionaries in advance, which is troublesome for the user. Furthermore, because it is a machine translation that uses a specialized dictionary according to the priority set by the user, depending on the setting, it is not possible to obtain a high-quality translation result. It takes.

  In addition, the invention of Patent Document 2 keeps words that are not in the machine translation dictionary without machine translation, registers words that are not in the machine translation dictionary in the registration dictionary, and re-translates using the registration dictionary. By executing (machine translation), correct translation is performed. For this reason, there is a problem that the user must perform processing for registering a word that is not in the machine translation dictionary in the registration dictionary and instruct the user to execute retranslation using the registration dictionary.

  In view of the above problems, the present invention avoids the above problems and obtains a more accurate translation result simply by requesting translation even when using general-purpose machine translation. An object of the present invention is to provide such a translation system.

In order to solve the above problems, the invention of claim 1
Machine translation execution means for executing machine translation using a general-purpose machine translation dictionary;
A translation request accepting means for accepting a translation request for translating a sentence to be translated relating to a specific specialized use in a first language into a second language different from the first language;
Based on the translation request received by the translation request receiving means, the translation target sentence in the first language is analyzed, and the word in the first language for the specific specialized use is converted into the word in the second language. Performing an intermediate translation for converting only words that can be converted by the specialized dictionary to the second language, obtaining an intermediate translation result in which the first language and the second language are mixed, and obtaining the intermediate translation result. Intermediate translation execution means for passing the translation result to the machine translation execution means;
With
A machine translation result obtained by executing machine translation on the intermediate translation result by the machine translation executing means is used as a translation result according to the translation request.

  According to the invention of claim 1 having the above-described configuration, when the user makes a translation request to the second language for the sentence to be translated in the first language related to the specific special purpose, the translation request receiving means The translation request is accepted and the translation request is passed to the intermediate translation execution means.

  The intermediate translation execution means analyzes the sentence to be translated in the first language, executes the intermediate translation for converting only the terms that can be converted by the specialized dictionary for the specific special purpose into the terms in the second language, An intermediate translation result in which the first language and the second language are mixed is obtained. That is, in this intermediate translation result, only technical terms for professional use have already been translated into the second language, and the others are left as the first language. The intermediate translation execution means passes the intermediate translation result to the machine translation execution means.

  The machine translation execution means performs machine translation on the first language part excluding the part already translated into the second language in the received intermediate translation result by using a general-purpose machine translation dictionary. Get the final translation results. As a result, a machine translation result in which technical terms for specialized use are correctly translated is obtained as a final translation result.

  According to the present invention, since the intermediate translation execution means executes only the intermediate translation result in which the technical term for the special purpose is correctly translated, the machine translation is performed using the general-purpose machine translation. Even machine terminology can be obtained in which technical terms are translated correctly.

It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of 1st Embodiment of the translation system by this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the intermediate translation server in 1st Embodiment of the translation system by this invention. It is a sequence diagram for demonstrating the operation | movement sequence of 1st Embodiment of the translation system by this invention. It is a figure which shows the flowchart for demonstrating operation | movement of the specialized site server in 1st Embodiment of the translation system by this invention. It is a figure which shows the flowchart for demonstrating operation | movement of the intermediate translation server in 1st Embodiment of the translation system by this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of 2nd Embodiment of the translation system by this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the specialized site server in 2nd Embodiment of the translation system by this invention. It is a figure which shows the flowchart for demonstrating operation | movement of the specialized site server in 2nd Embodiment of the translation system by this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the intermediate translation server in 3rd Embodiment of the translation system by this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of 6th Embodiment of the translation system by this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the client terminal in 6th Embodiment of the translation system by this invention. It is a figure which shows the flowchart for demonstrating operation | movement of the client terminal in 6th Embodiment of the translation system by this invention. It is a figure which shows the flowchart for demonstrating operation | movement of the client terminal in 6th Embodiment of the translation system by this invention.

  Several embodiments of a translation system according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The present invention can be applied to a case where a translation target sentence in an arbitrary first language is translated into an arbitrary second language different from the first language. An example described below For simplicity of explanation, the first language before translation of the translation target sentence is Japanese, and the second language after translation is a foreign language such as English or Chinese.

[First embodiment]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of a first embodiment of a translation system according to the present invention. The translation system according to the first embodiment includes a client terminal 2, a specialized site server (hereinafter referred to as a specialized site server) 3, and an intermediate translation site connected to a communication network, in this example, the Internet 1. Server (hereinafter referred to as an intermediate translation server) 4 and a machine translation site server (hereinafter referred to as a machine translation server) 5.

  The client terminal 2 is composed of, for example, a personal computer having a communication function and a browser function through the Internet 1. The client terminal 2 is not limited to a personal computer, and may be a pad-type mobile terminal or a mobile phone terminal that has a communication function through the Internet 1 and a browser function.

  The specialized site server 3 is a server for a specific specialized use website. Here, specific specialized uses mean specific hobby uses such as haiku, go, shogi, and fishing, and specific purpose uses such as travel, tourism, shopping, and gourmet. Yes. In this example, each specialized site server 3 stores identification information (special ID) for identifying each special purpose (category) in a memory. Although only one specialized site server 3 is shown in FIG. 1, a plurality of specialized site servers for various specialized uses as described above are connected to the Internet 1.

  The specialized site server 3 is composed of, for example, a personal computer. The specialized site server 3 receives access from the client terminal 2 through the network 1 and connects to the client terminal 2, and sends provided information about the specific specialized use to the client terminal or from the client terminal 2. It has a function of receiving and holding comments and provision information, and using them for use by other accessors.

  On the other hand, the client terminal 2 has a function of displaying provided information from the specialized site server 3 on its display and sending comments and provided information input by the user to the specialized site server 3.

  Further, in this embodiment, the specialized site server 3 sends a translation target sentence such as provided information and comments from the client terminal 2 from the first language before translation, in this example, Japanese, and then to the second after translation. It has a function of a translation request receiving means for receiving a request for translation into a foreign language such as a language such as English or Chinese.

  In this embodiment, a contract for cooperation regarding intermediate translation is made in advance between the specialized site server 3 and the intermediate translation server 4, and each of the specialized site servers 3 has a URL ( uniform resource locator) and a password for connecting to the intermediate translation server 4 are also stored.

  When the specialized site server 3 receives the translation request from the first language to the second language from the client terminal 2, the specialized site server 3 stores the intermediate translation request for the translation target sentence to which the specialized ID read from the memory is added. The function of sending to the intermediate translation server 4 through the network 1 using the URL of the intermediate translation server 4 is provided. Furthermore, the specialized site server 3 has a function of returning the translation result received from the intermediate translation server 4 to the client terminal 2 that has requested the translation.

  The intermediate translation server 4 includes category-specific specialized dictionaries 41,..., 4n (n is a natural number) corresponding to each of a plurality of specific specialized uses (categories). That is, each of the category-specific specialized dictionaries 41,..., 4n is a term used for each specialized purpose of the specialized site server 3, and is a dictionary of terms not included in the general-purpose machine translation dictionary. . In this example, each of the category-specific specialized dictionaries 41,..., 4n is changed from Japanese, which is an example of the first language before translation, to a plurality of second languages after translation, for example, English, There are several specialized language dictionaries for translation into Chinese, Korean, Spanish, etc., respectively.

  Here are some examples of terms registered in the category-specific specialized dictionary. For example, if the specialized site is a tourist information site in Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture, and the corresponding specialized category-specific dictionary for translation from Japanese to English, For example, “Nikko Tosho-gu Shrine” = “Nikko Tosho-gu Shrine”, “Mt. Nantai” = “Mt. "=" Now "etc. are registered in the dictionary.

  Also, if the specialized site is a haiku site where haiku coterie gather, the specialized dictionary by category for translation from Japanese to English corresponding to it is “芭蕉” = “Matsuo Basho”, “Kijo” = “Masaoka Shiki”, “Phrase” = “haiku”, “Turn Phrase” = “make haiku”, etc. are registered in the dictionary.

  In addition, when the specialized site is a shogi site, the corresponding category-specific specialized dictionary for translation from Japanese to English includes “point to shogi” = “play a game of Shogi”, “first move” = “The first mover”, “rear hand” = “the second mover”,... Are registered in the dictionary.

  The intermediate translation server 4 receives an intermediate translation request from each of the specialized site servers 3, and the specialized ID added to the intermediate translation request and the designated second language also added to the intermediate translation request A function is provided for performing intermediate translation of the sentence to be translated using the specialized dictionary selected based on the above.

[Example of hardware configuration of intermediate translation server 4]
For example, as shown in FIG. 2, the intermediate translation server 4 is configured to use a personal computer. That is, the intermediate translation server 4 communicates with the communication interface 402, intermediate translation via the system bus 400 to the control unit 401 composed of a CPU (Central Processing Unit), ROM (Read Only Memory) and RAM (Random Access Memory). A request reception unit 403, an intermediate translation unit 404, a specialized dictionary selection unit 405, a machine translation request unit 406, and a translation result transfer unit 407 are connected.

  The communication interface 402 is an interface for the intermediate translation server 4 to communicate through the Internet 1.

  The intermediate translation request receiving unit 403 performs processing for receiving an intermediate translation request received from the specialized site server 3 through the communication interface 402. That is, when the intermediate translation request receiving unit 403 receives an intermediate translation request from the first language to the second language of the sentence to be translated from the specialized site server 3, the specialized site 3 included in the received intermediate translation request. Authentication is performed using the professional ID and password, and when the authentication is completed, the received intermediate translation request is formally accepted.

  Then, when the intermediate translation request accepting unit 403 officially accepts the intermediate translation request, the intermediate translation request includes the translation target sentence and the information of the designated second language among the information included in the intermediate translation request. At the same time, it is supplied to the specialized dictionary selection unit 405 with the added specialized ID and information of the designated second language.

  A plurality of category-specific specialized dictionaries 41,..., 4n are connected to the specialized dictionary selecting unit 405. The specialized dictionary selecting unit 405 converts the specialized IDs received from the intermediate translation request accepting unit 403 into category-specific specialized dictionaries corresponding to the specified second language information. , 4n. The category-specific specialized dictionary selected by the specialized dictionary selection unit 405 is a dictionary for intermediate translation executed by the intermediate translation unit 404.

  The intermediate translation unit 404 performs a morphological analysis on the translation target sentence received from the intermediate translation request reception unit 403, and decomposes the sentence into parts of speech. Then, the intermediate translation unit 404 translates only words that can be translated by the category-specific specialized dictionary selected by the specialized dictionary selection unit 405 from the words separated by the morphological analysis into the designated second language. Try to perform the translation.

  As a result of the intermediate translation in the intermediate translation unit 404, only those that can be translated by the category-specific specialized dictionary selected by the specialized dictionary selecting unit 405 are translated into the second language, and the others are the first language, Japan. It is left as a word. Then, the intermediate translation unit 404 passes this intermediate translation result to the machine translation request unit 406 together with information on the designated second language.

  The machine translation request unit 406 stores the URL of the machine translation server 5 and sends a machine translation request including the received intermediate translation result and information of the designated second language via the communication interface 402 to the Internet 1. Through the machine translation server 5.

  The translation result transfer unit 407 has a function of receiving the translation result sent from the machine translation server 5 and sending it to the specialized site server 3 that has requested an intermediate translation through the communication interface 402.

  In the configuration of the intermediate translation server 4 in FIG. 2 described above, the processing functions of the intermediate translation request reception unit 403, the intermediate translation unit 404, the specialized dictionary selection unit 405, the machine translation request unit 406, and the translation result transfer unit 407 are as follows. The CPU of the control unit 401 can be configured as a software function to be executed according to a software program, but is described as a functional block for convenience.

  The machine translation server 5 is a server that executes machine translation using a general-purpose machine translation dictionary, does not require member registration, and provides a machine translation service in response to access from any client terminal. Although this machine translation server 5 can also be comprised, for example with a personal computer, since the hardware structure is a known structure, the description is abbreviate | omitted here.

  The machine translation server 5 has a function of executing machine translation on the received intermediate translation result using a dictionary for machine translation into a designated second language. The machine translation server 5 has a function of returning the machine translation result to the intermediate translation server 4 that has requested translation.

[Translation Sequence Example in First Embodiment]
Next, the operation sequence in the translation system of the first embodiment is shown in the sequence diagram of FIG. 3, the flowchart of FIG. 4 showing the operation flow of the specialized site server 3, and the operation flow of the intermediate translation server 4. This will be described with reference to the flowchart.

  The user of the client terminal 2 accesses the specialized site server 3 via the network 1 and establishes a communication path between the client terminal 2 and the specialized site server 3. Then, the user of the client terminal 2 acquires information about the special purpose from the specialized site server 3 or exchanges comments to perform information communication between the client terminal 2 and the specialized site server 3. In this example, the user of the client terminal 2 sends a translation request to the specialized site server 3 using, for example, a comment sentence or an information sentence for specialized use as a translation target sentence.

  The specialized site server 3 includes a processing program for the translation request, and executes processing as shown in the flowchart of FIG. The processing program of the specialized site server 3 includes a procedure for receiving assistance from the intermediate translation server 4. On the other hand, the control unit 401 of the intermediate translation server 4 includes a processing program for an assist request (intermediate translation request to be described later) from the specialized site server 3, and executes processing as shown in the flowchart of FIG. To do.

  First, as shown in FIG. 4, the specialized site server 3 monitors the reception of the translation request from the client terminal 2 (step S101), and executes other processing when determining that the translation request has not been received. (Step S102) After the processing is completed, the process returns to Step S101.

  If it is determined in step S101 that the translation request has been received, the specialized site server 3 sends the Japanese (first language) translation target sentence specified by the received translation request, the second language designation information, and In addition, the identification information of the own site stored in the memory, that is, the intermediate translation request to which the professional ID is added is generated, and the generated intermediate translation request is generated using the URL of the intermediate translation server 4 stored in the memory. Transfer to the intermediate translation server 4 (step S103). Then, the specialized site 3 waits for the transfer of the translation result from the intermediate translation server 4 (step S104).

  On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 5, the control unit 401 of the intermediate translation server 4 monitors the intermediate translation request from the specialized site server 3 (step S201) and determines that the intermediate translation request has not been received. Sometimes, other processing is executed (step S202), and after the processing is finished, the processing returns to step S201.

  When the control unit 401 of the intermediate translation server 4 determines in step S201 that the intermediate translation request has been received, whether or not authentication has been obtained with the professional ID or password of the specialized site server 3 included in the received intermediate translation request. (Step S203), if the authentication is not successful, this is notified to the specialized site server 3 that has sent the intermediate translation request (step S204), and the process returns to step S201.

  When it is determined in step S203 that authentication has been obtained, the control unit 401 of the intermediate translation server 4 uses the translation request receiving unit 403 to perform intermediate translation of the received translation target sentence from the first language to the second language. Control is performed to accept the request (step S205). The translation request receiving unit 403 of the intermediate translation server 4 that has received the intermediate translation request extracts the professional ID of the specialized site 3 and the designation information of the second language included in the intermediate translation request, and the specialized ID and the second The language designation information is transferred to the specialized dictionary selection unit 405. Upon receiving this transfer, the specialized dictionary selection unit 405 selects the specialized category dictionary 4i (i is 1) corresponding to the received specialized ID and the designated second language from the plurality of specialized categories dictionaries 41 to 4n. (Integer of ~ n) is selected (step S206).

  Next, in the intermediate translation server 4, under the control of the control unit 401, the intermediate translation unit 404 uses the category-specific specialized dictionary 4 i selected by the specialized dictionary selecting unit 405 to translate received by the translation request accepting unit 403. The above-described intermediate translation is executed for the target sentence (step S207). As a result of the intermediate translation, as described above, the intermediate translation unit 404 translates only the words that can be translated by the category-specific specialized dictionary selected by the specialized dictionary selecting unit 405 into the second language, Obtain intermediate translation results in Japanese as the language. Then, the intermediate translation unit 404 sends the intermediate translation result to the machine translation request unit 406 under the control of the control unit 401.

  Next, under the control of the control unit 401, the machine translation request unit 406 receives the intermediate translation result acquired from the intermediate translation unit 404 and the specified second language information acquired from the intermediate translation request reception unit 403. Is generated, and the machine translation server 5 is requested to perform machine translation using the stored URL of the machine translation server 5 (step S208).

  Upon receiving this machine translation request, the machine translation server 5 executes machine translation on the intermediate translation result, and transmits the machine translation result together with the intermediate translation result to the intermediate translation server 4 that has sent the machine translation request.

  The control unit 401 of the intermediate translation server 4 monitors the output of the communication interface 402 and waits for reception of the machine translation result from the machine translation server 5 (step S209). If the control unit 401 determines in step S209 that the communication result from the machine translation site 5 has been received by the communication interface 402, the control unit 401 supplies the received machine translation result to the translation result transfer unit 407.

  The translation result transfer unit 407 transmits the received machine translation result to the specialized site server 3 that has sent the intermediate translation request (step S210). The processing of the intermediate translation server 4 ends here.

  The specialized site server 3 determines the reception of the machine translation result from the intermediate translation server 4 in step S104, and transmits the received machine translation result to the client terminal 2 that has requested the translation (step S105). The client terminal 2 displays the received machine translation result on the display screen and presents it to the user.

  As described above, in this embodiment, the translation object sentence for specialized use requested to be translated from the client terminal 2 to the specialized site server 3 is transferred from the specialized site server 3 to the intermediate translation server 4. , Only the term for specialized use is converted into an intermediate translation result translated into a second language designated in advance using the corresponding category-specific specialized dictionary. In this embodiment, the intermediate translation result is sent from the intermediate translation server 4 to the machine translation server 5, and is machine-translated by machine translation using a general-purpose machine translation dictionary in the machine translation server 5. More accurate translation results can be obtained.

Here are some examples of actual translations:
For example, an example is given assuming that the specialized site is a haiku site. For example, it is one of the machine translation sites that machine-translate using the general-purpose machine translation dictionary that exists in the current Internet for the sentence “I imitated Shiki and made a phrase.” When machine translation is executed, the machine translation result is
"I imitated the grayheaded cuckoo and made a haiku."
It became.

On the other hand, in this embodiment, the intermediate translation server 4 has a haiku as a specialized dictionary for each category based on the professional ID indicating the haiku site included in the intermediate translation request from the specialized site server 3. A specialized dictionary for the site is selected. In the intermediate translation server 4, the translation target sentence included in the intermediate translation request is subjected to morphological analysis, and the selected dictionary for the haiku site and each word are collided to convert “Shijo” into “Masaoka Shiki”. And “one phrase” is converted to “one haiku”. As a result, the intermediate translation server 4 obtains an intermediate translation result “I tried to make one haiku by imitating Masaoka Shiki” and supplies the intermediate translation result to the machine translation site 5. For example, if the machine translation site 5 is the same machine translation site as described above, the intermediate translation result is
"I imitated Masaoka Shiki and made one haiku."
Thus, a highly accurate translation result was obtained.

Also, when the machine translation is executed on another machine translation site connected to the current Internet for the same sentence, “I imitated Shiki and made a phrase,” the machine translation Result is,
"I do not have to imitate the expression, I made haiku."
It became.

Applying this embodiment to this machine translation site, we provided an intermediate translation result of “I imitated Masaoka Shiki and made one haiku.” When you make a request
"I have been imitating Masaoka Shiki, I made one haiku."
The machine translation result was obtained.

Next, assuming that the specialized site is a shogi site, for example, a translation example is given for a sentence that “the first hand won the 130th hand and the second hand”. When machine translation is executed on a machine translation site that translates the text of this example using a general-purpose machine translation dictionary connected to the current Internet, the machine translation result is
"The first move beat a rear guard by the 130th move."
It became.

On the other hand, in this embodiment, the intermediate translation server 4 has a haiku site as a specialized dictionary for each category based on the professional ID indicating the shogi site included in the intermediate translation request from the specialized site server 3. A specialized dictionary is selected. Then, the intermediate translation server 4 performs a morphological analysis on the translation target sentence included in the intermediate translation request and collates the selected shogi site specialized dictionary with each word, so that “first mover” is “The first mover” And “the second mover” is converted to “the second mover”. As a result, the intermediate translation server 4 obtains an intermediate translation result “The first mover has won the second mover by the 130th move”. And when this machine translation is executed on the same machine translation site as above,
"The first mover won the second mover by the 130th move."
It became.

Next, assuming that the specialized site is a tourist information site in Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture, for example, a translation example is given for the sentence “I will go to Nikko Toshogu”. When machine translation is executed on a machine translation site that translates the text of this example using a general-purpose machine translation dictionary on the current Internet, the machine translation result is
"I go to Toshogu, Nikko from now on."
It became.

On the other hand, in this embodiment, in the intermediate translation server 4, based on the professional ID indicating that it is a tourist information site in Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture, for example, included in the intermediate translation request from the specialized site server 3, A specialized dictionary for tourist information sites in Nikko is selected as another specialized dictionary. Then, in the intermediate translation server 4, the translation target sentence included in the intermediate translation request is subjected to morphological analysis, and the selected specialized dictionary and each word are collided to convert “from now” into “now”. Nikko Toshogu is converted to Nikko Tosho-gu Shrine. As a result, the intermediate translation server 4 obtains an intermediate translation result “Now, I will go to Nikko Tosho-gu Shrine”. And when this machine translation is executed on the same machine translation site as above,
"Now, I go to Nikko Tosho-gu Shrine."
It became.

  As is clear from the above, according to this embodiment, the intermediate translation is performed using the category-specific specialized dictionary, and the intermediate translation result is machine-translated on a general-purpose machine translation site, so that the accuracy is high. Translation results can be obtained.

  According to the above-described embodiment, the user (translation requester) of the client terminal 2 performs a retranslation request or the like just by requesting a translation in the same manner as a conventional general-purpose machine translation request. There is no need. Moreover, there is an effect that the existing machine translation site can be used as it is.

[Second Embodiment]
In the first embodiment described above, the server 4 of the intermediate translation site that executes the intermediate translation is particularly provided. In the second embodiment described below, the specialized site server 3 is provided with an intermediate translation function so that the server 4 of the intermediate translation site in the first embodiment can be omitted. .

  The intermediate translation server 4 in the first embodiment needs to include a plurality of category-specific specialized dictionaries in order to deal with a wide variety of specialized uses. On the other hand, in the specialized site server in the third embodiment described below, it is only necessary to consider the specialized use of the own site, so the specialized dictionary only has a specialized dictionary for the specialized use of the own site. Good.

  FIG. 6 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of the translation system according to the second embodiment. In FIG. 6, the same parts as those in the translation system of the first embodiment described above are denoted by the same reference numerals, and detailed description thereof is omitted.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the translation system of the second embodiment includes a client terminal 2, a specialized site server 30, and a machine translation server 5 connected to the Internet 1 as an example of a communication network. It is comprised by.

  The specialized site server 30 of the second embodiment is configured by a personal computer as shown in FIG. That is, the specialized site server 30 communicates with the control unit 301 including the CPU, ROM, and RAM via the system bus 300 via the communication interface 302, the translation request receiving unit 303, the intermediate translation unit 304, and the specialized dictionary language selection unit 305. The machine translation request unit 306 and the translation result transfer unit 307 are connected to each other.

  The communication interface 302 is an interface for the specialized site server 30 to perform communication through the Internet 1.

  The translation request accepting unit 303 performs a process of receiving a translation request received from the client terminal 2 through the communication interface 302.

  When the translation request receiving unit 303 receives a translation request from the client terminal 2, the translation request receiving unit 303 passes the translation target sentence included in the translation request and information on the designated second language to the intermediate translation unit 304. Information on the designated second language is passed to the specialized dictionary reference unit 305.

  The specialized dictionary language selection unit 305 is connected to a specialized dictionary 308 for terms that are used for specialized purposes of the specialized site server 30 and are not included in the general-purpose machine translation dictionary. This specialized dictionary 308 is, for example, a specialized dictionary for haiku sites if the specialized site server 30 is a haiku site server, and a specialized dictionary for shogi sites if it is a shogi site. This specialized dictionary 308 is used for translation from Japanese, which is an example of a first language before translation, into a plurality of second languages after translation, for example, English, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, etc. A plurality of specialized language dictionary sections for each language are included.

  The specialized dictionary language selection unit 305 has a function of selecting a language specialized dictionary unit for the designated second language received from the translation request accepting unit 303 and selecting a plurality of language specialized dictionary units for each language. The specialized language dictionary unit selected by the specialized dictionary language selection unit 305 is a dictionary for intermediate translation executed by the intermediate translation unit 304.

  The intermediate translation unit 304 performs a morphological analysis on the sentence to be translated received from the translation request reception unit 303 and breaks it down into words of each part of speech. Then, for each word separated by morphological analysis, the intermediate translation unit 304 designates only those that can be translated by the language specialized dictionary unit selected by the specialized dictionary language selection unit 305 out of the specialized dictionary 308. Translate to other languages and perform intermediate translation.

  As a result of the intermediate translation in the intermediate translation unit 304, only the words that can be translated by the specialized dictionary 308 are translated into the second language, and the others remain in the first language Japanese. Then, the intermediate translation unit 304 passes this intermediate translation result to the machine translation request unit 306 together with information on the designated second language.

  The machine translation request unit 306 stores the URL of the machine translation server 5, and sends a machine translation request including the received intermediate translation result and information of the designated second language via the communication interface 302 to the Internet 1. Through the machine translation server 5.

  The translation result transfer unit 307 has a function of receiving the translation result sent from the machine translation server 5 and sending it to the client terminal 2 that has requested translation through the communication interface 302.

  In the configuration of the specialized site server 30 in FIG. 7 described above, the processing functions of the translation request receiving unit 303, the intermediate translation unit 304, the specialized dictionary language selection unit 305, the machine translation request unit 306, and the translation result transfer unit 307 are as follows. The CPU of the control unit 301 can be configured as a software function to be executed according to a software program, but is described as a functional block for convenience.

[Translation Sequence Example in Second Embodiment]
Next, the operation flow of the specialized site server 30 in the translation system of the second embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  Similarly to the above, the user of the client terminal 2 accesses the specialized site server 30 via the network 1 and establishes a communication path between the client terminal 2 and the specialized site server 30. Then, the user of the client terminal 2 acquires predetermined information for specialized use from the specialized site server 30 or exchanges comments to perform information communication between the client terminal 2 and the specialized site server 30. . In this example, the user of the client terminal 2 sends a translation request to the specialized site server 30 using, for example, a comment sentence or an information sentence for specialized use as a translation target sentence.

  The control unit 301 of the specialized site server 30 includes a processing program for the translation request, and executes processing as shown in the flowchart of FIG.

  That is, as shown in FIG. 8, the control unit 301 of the specialized site server 30 monitors the reception of the translation request from the client terminal 2 (step S301), and determines that the translation request has not been received. The process is executed (step S302), and after the process ends, the process returns to step S301.

  If it is determined in step S301 that a translation request has been received, under the control of the control unit 301, the translation request accepting unit 303 accepts the translation request and specializes the designation information of the second language included in the translation request. Transfer to dictionary language selection unit 305. Upon receiving this transfer, the specialized dictionary language selection unit 305 selects the specialized dictionary unit for the second language designated in the specialized dictionary 308. Then, the intermediate translation unit 304 performs the above-described intermediate translation on the translation target sentence received by the translation request receiving unit 303 using the selected specialized dictionary unit for the second language (step S303). As a result of the intermediate translation, as described above, only the words that can be translated by the specialized dictionary unit for the second language are translated into the second language, and the others are left as the first language, Japanese. Intermediate translation results can be obtained. Then, the intermediate translation unit 304 sends the intermediate translation result to the machine translation request unit 306 under the control of the control unit 301.

  Next, under the control of the control unit 301, the machine translation request unit 306 receives the intermediate translation result acquired from the intermediate translation unit 304 and the specified second language information acquired from the translation request reception unit 303. Is generated, and the machine translation server 5 is requested to perform machine translation using the stored URL of the machine translation server 5 (step S304).

  When receiving the machine translation request, the machine translation server 5 executes machine translation on the intermediate translation result, and transmits the machine translation result together with the intermediate translation result to the specialized site server 30 that has sent the machine translation request.

  The control unit 301 of the specialized site server 30 monitors the output of the communication interface 302 and waits for reception of the machine translation result from the machine translation server 5 (step S305). When the control unit 301 determines in step S305 that the machine translation result from the machine translation site 5 has been received, the control unit 301 supplies the received machine translation result to the translation result transfer unit 307.

  The translation result transfer unit 307 transmits the received machine translation result to the client terminal 2 that has sent the translation request (step S306). The processing of the specialized site server 3 ends here. The client terminal 2 displays the received machine translation result on the display screen and presents it to the user.

  As described above, in the second embodiment, the specialized translation target sentence requested for translation from the client terminal is the specialized site server 3 in which only specialized words are stored in the corresponding category-specific specialized dictionary. It is used and converted into an intermediate translation result that has been translated into a second language designated in advance. The intermediate translation result is machine-translated by machine translation using a general-purpose machine translation dictionary, so that a more accurate translation result can be obtained.

  The second embodiment is different in that the intermediate translation is executed by the specialized site server 3 instead of being executed by the intermediate translation server 4, but it goes without saying that the same effect as the first embodiment can be obtained. Yes.

[Third Embodiment]
The translation system according to the first embodiment described above is configured to include the specialized site server 3, the intermediate translation server 4, and the machine translation server 5, but the intermediate translation server 4 has functions of the machine translation server 5. You may make it provide. The third embodiment is a translation system configured as described above.

  That is, in the third embodiment, the machine translation server 5 is not provided in FIG. Instead, as shown in FIG. 9, in addition to the blocks shown in FIG. 2, the machine translation unit 408 and the dictionary language selection unit 409 are further connected to the system bus 400 in the intermediate translation server 4. A general-purpose machine translation dictionary 410 is connected to the dictionary language selection unit 409.

  In the third embodiment, the machine translation requesting unit 406 of the intermediate translation server 4 instead of sending a machine translation request with the intermediate translation result and designation information of the second language to the machine translation server 5, This is supplied to the machine translation unit 408. Then, the machine translation unit 408 supplies the received second language designation information to the dictionary language selection unit 409. The dictionary language selection unit 409 selects a machine translation dictionary for the designated second language from the machine translation dictionary 401. Then, the machine translation unit 408 executes machine translation of the received intermediate translation result into the designated second language using the selected machine translation dictionary, and transfers the machine translation result to the translation result. Part 407. The translation result transfer unit 407 sends the received machine translation result to the specialized site server 3.

  9, the intermediate translation request receiving unit 403, the intermediate translation unit 404, the specialized dictionary selecting unit 405, the machine translation requesting unit 406, the translation result transferring unit 407, the machine translation unit 408, Each processing function of the dictionary language selection unit 409 can be configured as a software function executed by the CPU of the control unit 401 according to the software program, but is described as a functional block for convenience. .

  It will be apparent that the third embodiment can provide the same effects as those of the first embodiment described above.

[Fourth Embodiment]
The translation system according to the second embodiment described above is configured to include the client terminal 2, the specialized site server 30, and the machine translation server 5, but the specialized site server 30 also has the function of the machine translation server 5. May be. The fourth embodiment is a translation system configured as described above.

  That is, in the fourth embodiment, the machine translation server 5 is not provided in FIG. Instead, although not shown in the figure, the specialized site server 30 includes a machine translation unit and a dictionary language selection unit in addition to the blocks shown in FIG. 7, as in the second embodiment. In addition to being provided connected to the bus 300, a general-purpose machine translation dictionary is provided in the dictionary language selection unit.

  Also in the fourth embodiment, the intermediate translation result obtained by the intermediate translation unit 304 is machine-translated in the specialized site server 30 as in the second embodiment described above. Then, the machine translation result is transmitted to the client terminal 2.

  It will be apparent that the fourth embodiment can provide the same effects as those of the first and second embodiments described above.

[Fifth Embodiment]
In the above-described first embodiment, the specialized site server 3, the intermediate translation server 4, and the machine translation server 5 are provided separately, but the functions of these servers 3, 4, and 5 are One server may be provided.

  In that case, when the client terminal 2 requests the server to translate, the client terminal 2 sends the special purpose designation information together with the translation target sentence and the second language designation information to the server. The server selects a specialized dictionary for the specified specialized use and the second language from among a plurality of specialized dictionaries for each category according to the specialized use designation information included in the translation request from the client terminal 2, and selects the intermediate dictionary Perform translation. Then, the server machine-translates the intermediate translation result and transmits it to the client terminal 2.

  In the fifth embodiment, the same function and effect as those of the first embodiment can be obtained.

[Sixth Embodiment]
In the above embodiment, the intermediate translation unit is provided on the server side. On the other hand, the sixth embodiment described below is an example in which an intermediate translation unit is provided on the client terminal side.

  FIG. 10 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of the translation system according to the sixth embodiment. In FIG. 6, the same parts as those in the translation system of the first embodiment described above are denoted by the same reference numerals, and detailed description thereof is omitted.

  As shown in FIG. 10, the translation system of the sixth embodiment includes a client terminal 20, a machine translation server 5, a portal site (server) connected to the Internet 1 as an example of a communication network. 6. The portal site 6 not only has its own home page, but also introduces various Web sites (homepages), executes a search service using a search engine, provides a mail service, a Twitter service, and the like.

  As shown in FIG. 11, the client terminal 20 of the sixth embodiment is configured as a personal computer in this example. That is, the client terminal 20 communicates with the control unit 201 including the CPU, ROM, and RAM via the system bus 200 through the communication interface 202, the display interface 203, the operation input unit interface 204, and a network application (abbreviated as a network application). ) The execution unit 205, the intermediate translation unit 206, and the specialized dictionary 207 are connected.

  The communication interface 202 is an interface for the client terminal 20 to communicate with the portal site 6 and the machine translation server 5 through the Internet 1. For example, a display 208 such as an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) is connected to the display interface 203. The display interface 203 displays, for example, a display image by a browser or a display image by various other application software on the screen of the display 208 based on display control of the control unit 201.

  An operation input unit 209 such as a keyboard or a mouse is connected to the operation input unit interface 208. The operation input unit interface 208 transmits operation input information indicating what operation input has been made by the operation input unit 209 to the control unit 201. The control unit 201 analyzes the operation input information from the operation input unit interface 208, determines an operated key or an operation performed on the mouse, and executes a process according to the determination result.

  The network application execution unit 205 includes an application program for connecting to the Internet 1 and a browser, and accesses the portal site 6 or accesses the machine translation server 5 through the Internet 1 under the control of the control unit 201. To do.

  In the fifth embodiment, the intermediate translation unit 206 is an application program (abbreviated as API) acquired by the user of the client terminal 20 and installed in the client terminal 20. The specialized dictionary 207 is provided as an accessory to the API of the intermediate translation unit 206 and is installed in the client terminal 20 together with the API of the intermediate translation unit 206.

  As described above, this specialized dictionary 207 is prepared for each specialized purpose such as a specific hobby application such as haiku, go, shogi, and fishing, or a specific purpose application such as travel, tourism, shopping, and gourmet. The plurality of specialized dictionaries are selected by the user. By combining the specialized dictionary 207 and the intermediate translation unit 206, an intermediate translation application for exclusive use is obtained.

  In addition, as a specialized dictionary, translation from Japanese, which is an example of the first language before translation, to a plurality of second languages after translation, for example, English, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, etc. Are prepared as a plurality of language-specific specialized dictionaries for each language, but the specialized dictionary 207 is for the second language selected by the user from among the plurality of second language-specific specialized dictionaries. This is a specialized dictionary. In this example, for example, English is selected as the second language.

  For example, when a user has a haiku or shogi as a hobby and sends a blog or Twitter about the haiku or shogi, the user acquires a specialized dictionary specialized in haiku or shogi as the specialized dictionary 207, and the intermediate translation unit 206. Are installed in the client terminal 20 together with the API.

  The user acquires the API of the intermediate translation unit 206 and the specialized dictionary 207 by purchasing them as package software or by purchasing and downloading them from a predetermined website through the Internet 1 and installing them in the client terminal 20.

  The API of the intermediate translation unit 206 is activated by the control unit 201 when a translation target sentence is designated by a user operation input through the operation input unit 209 and a translation request is generated. Perform intermediate translation processing. After installing this intermediate translation unit 206, the user registers the URL of the machine translation server (site) 5 used for machine translation and stores it in correspondence with the intermediate translation unit 206.

  In the configuration of the client terminal 20 in FIG. 11, the processing functions of the intermediate translation unit 206 and the network application execution unit 205 are the software executed by the CPU of the control unit 301 in accordance with the software program as described above. Although it is configured as a function, it is described as a functional block for convenience.

[Operation Example of Client Terminal 20 in Sixth Embodiment]
12 and 13 are flowcharts for explaining an operation example of the client terminal 20 in the translation system of the sixth embodiment.

  The control unit 201 of the client terminal 20 monitors operation input information from the operation input unit interface 204, determines whether or not a network application activation request operation has been performed (step S401), and if a network application activation request operation has not been performed. When it is determined, other processing is executed (step S402). After the processing is completed, the processing returns to step S401.

  When it is determined in step S401 that a network application activation request operation has been performed, the control unit 201 activates the network application execution unit 205 to execute processing for connecting to the portal site 6 through the Internet 1 and launches a browser. The portal site home page is displayed on the screen of the display 208 (step S403).

  Next, the control unit 201 monitors the operation input information from the operation input unit interface 204, waits for an operation input (step S404), and when determining that the operation input has been made, It is determined whether or not it is a network application termination operation (step S405).

  If it is determined in step S405 that the operation input is an operation for terminating the network application, the control unit 201 disconnects the network connection through the Internet 1 and closes the browser (step S406). Thereafter, the control unit 201 returns the process to step S401.

  If it is determined in step S405 that the operation input is not a network application termination operation, the control unit 201 determines whether or not the request is a translation request (step S407). Processing according to the operation input, for example, input processing of a blog or a Twitter sentence in Japanese is executed (step S408). After the process in step S408 ends, the control unit 201 returns the process to step S404.

  When it is determined in step S407 that the operation input is a translation request, the control unit 201 activates the intermediate translation unit 206, executes the intermediate translation process shown in FIG. 13, and acquires the translation result ( Step S409). When the intermediate translation process in step S409 ends, the control unit 201 returns the process to step S404.

  Next, an example of the operation of the intermediate translation process in the intermediate translation unit 206 in the sixth embodiment executed in step S409 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  The intermediate translation unit 206 performs morphological analysis on the translation target sentence requested to be translated, for example, a blog or a Twitter sentence, and decomposes it into words for each part of speech (step S501). Then, for each word separated by morphological analysis, the intermediate translation unit 206 translates only the words that can be translated by the specialized dictionary 207 into the second language and executes the intermediate translation (step S502).

  Next, the intermediate translation unit 206 sends the intermediate translation result obtained in step S502 to the machine translation server 5 through the Internet 1 using a URL stored in advance, and requests machine translation (step S503). Then, the intermediate translation unit 206 receives the machine translation result from the machine translation server 5, displays it on the screen of the display 208, and temporarily stores it in the buffer memory (step S504).

  A specific example of the above processing operation will be described with reference to, for example, the case of performing Twitter. The user of the client terminal 20 accesses the portal site 6, selects Twitter, and inputs a Twitter sentence. Then, the user inputs the translation request. Then, a Japanese Twitter sentence input by the user and a second language Twitter sentence acquired as a machine translation result are displayed on the display screen. When the user performs a Twitter upload operation, the Japanese and second language Twitter sentences are uploaded to the portal site 6. In this case, it can be easily understood that the machine translation result obtained by processing by the intermediate translation unit 206 is exactly the same as the example sentences of the specific example given in the first embodiment.

  As described above, according to the sixth embodiment, the user can use, for example, the intermediate translation application software for professional use with his / her hobbies and interests as package software with the above-described specialized dictionary, or By acquiring the information through network sales through the Internet and installing it on the client terminal 20, it is possible to obtain a translation result with higher accuracy than machine translation. This makes it easy to provide blogs and Twitter for both foreigners and Japanese.

  In addition, when a client terminal 20 accesses, for example, a tourist site and uploads a comment for a foreign tourist, a more accurate foreign language comment can be uploaded.

  In the above description of the sixth embodiment, the client terminal 20 is configured as a personal computer, but may be a mobile phone terminal or a pad-type mobile information terminal.

[Other Embodiments and Modifications]
Each of the above embodiments has a configuration including a client terminal and a server through a network. However, the present invention can also be configured as a stand-alone translation system. In that case, the translation system may be configured to accommodate a variety of specialized uses so that the user can specify the specialized use when translating the sentence to be translated. It may be configured to enable only translation for use. In the former case, it is necessary to provide a plurality of specialized dictionaries for specialized use, as in the first embodiment, and in the latter case, only the specialized dictionaries for the specific specialized use need be provided.

  In the above-described embodiment, the first language is all Japanese and the second language is a foreign language. However, the first language is not limited to Japanese. Needless to say, the first language and the second language may be any language.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Communication network, 2,20 ... Client terminal, 3,30 ... Specialty site server, 4 ... Intermediate translation server, 5 ... Machine translation server, 41-4n ... Category specific dictionary, 207, 308 ... Specialty dictionary

Claims (8)

Machine translation execution means for executing machine translation using a general-purpose machine translation dictionary;
A translation request accepting means for accepting a translation request for translating a sentence to be translated relating to a specific specialized use in a first language into a second language different from the first language;
Based on the translation request received by the translation request receiving means, the translation target sentence in the first language is analyzed, and the word in the first language for the specific specialized use is converted into the word in the second language. Performing an intermediate translation for converting only words that can be converted by the specialized dictionary to the second language, obtaining an intermediate translation result in which the first language and the second language are mixed, and obtaining the intermediate translation result. Intermediate translation execution means for passing the translation result to the machine translation execution means;
With
The machine translation result obtained by executing machine translation on the intermediate translation result by the machine translation execution means is used as a translation result according to the translation request. The translation system according to claim 1, comprising a client terminal connected through a network, a first server, a second server, and a third server,
The first server is a server of the specific specialized purpose website provided with the translation request accepting means for accepting the translation request from the client terminal, and accepts the received translation request for the specific specialized purpose. Add identification information and transfer to the second server,
The second server includes a plurality of the specialized dictionaries for each specialized use, and includes the intermediate translation execution unit, and the specialized use added to the translation request transferred from the first server. Based on the identification information, a specialized dictionary for the specific specialized application is selected from the plurality of specialized dictionaries, the intermediate translation is executed, and the intermediate translation result is transmitted to the third server. And
The third server includes the machine translation execution unit, executes machine translation on the intermediate translation result from the second server, and returns the machine translation result to the second server;
The second server returns the machine translation result received from the third server to the first server in response to the transfer of the translation request,
The first server sends the machine translation result acquired from the second server to the network as a translation result for the translation request from the client terminal. The translation system according to claim 1, comprising a client terminal connected through a network, a first server, and a second server,
The first server includes the machine translation execution unit,
The second server is a server for the professional-use website, and includes the translation request receiving unit that receives the translation request sent from the client terminal, and the intermediate translation executing unit.
The intermediate translation execution means of the second server includes a specialized dictionary for the special purpose, and executes intermediate translation using the specialized dictionary based on the translation request received by the translation request receiving means, Sending a translation request including an intermediate translation result to the first server;
The first server performs machine translation on the translation request including the intermediate translation result from the second server, and returns the machine translation result to the second server;
The translation system, wherein the second server sends the machine translation result acquired from the first server to the network as a translation result for the translation request from the client terminal. The translation system according to claim 1, comprising a client terminal connected through a network, a first server, and a second server,
The first server is a server of the specific specialized purpose website provided with the translation request accepting means for accepting the translation request from the client terminal, and accepts the received translation request for the specific specialized purpose. Add identification information and transfer to the second server,
The second server includes a plurality of the specialized dictionaries for each specialized use, and includes the machine translation unit and the intermediate translation execution unit, and receives the translation request transferred from the first server. Based on the added identification information of the specialized use, the specialized dictionary for the specific specialized use is selected from the plurality of specialized dictionaries, the intermediate translation is executed, and the intermediate translation result is obtained. Executing the machine translation by the machine translation means, returning the machine translation result to the first server;
The first server sends the machine translation result acquired from the second server to the network as a translation result for the translation request from the client terminal. The translation system according to claim 1, comprising a client terminal connected through a network and a server.
The client terminal transmits a translation request for translating a translation target sentence related to a specific specialized use in the first language into a second language different from the first language to the server through the network,
The server includes the machine translation execution unit, the translation request reception unit, and the intermediate translation execution unit. The translation system according to claim 5,
The server is a server for the specific specialized use website, and includes the specialized dictionary for the specific specialized use in the server as the specialized dictionary. The translation system according to claim 5,
The server includes a plurality of specialized dictionaries for each specialized use, and the specialized dictionaries used for the intermediate translation from the plurality of specialized dictionaries according to the designation information of the specialized uses included in the translation request from the client terminal. A translation system comprising means for selecting a dictionary. The translation system according to claim 1, comprising a client terminal connected through a network and a server.
The client terminal includes the translation request accepting unit and the intermediate translation executing unit,
The server includes the machine translation execution unit.
The intermediate translation execution means of the client terminal includes a specialized dictionary for the specialized use, executes intermediate translation using the specialized dictionary based on the translation request received by the translation request receiving means, and the intermediate translation Send a translation request containing the results to the server,
The server performs machine translation on a translation request including the intermediate translation result from the client, and sends the machine translation result to the network as a translation result for the translation request from the client terminal. A featured translation system.

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