JP2021184295A - Automatic translation device and automatic translation program - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide an automatic translation device and an automatic translation program that allow what original sentences are like to be easily grasped.SOLUTION: An automatic translation device that translates from a first language into a second language includes detection means and translation means. The detection means detects words with a delimiter such as parenthesis from an original sentence in the first language. The translation means determines whether translation results into the second language of a word within a delimiter of a word with the delimiter detected by the detection means and a word immediately before the delimiter accord, and if it is determined that they accord, outputs the translation result of the word immediately before the delimiter and the translation result of the word within the delimiter, and outputs them by adding a remark to at least the translation result of the word in the delimiter.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 10

Description

The present invention relates to an automatic translation device that automatically translates a first language, for example, the original text of Japanese, into a second language such as English, and a program used for the automatic translation.

Japanese sentences often include delimiter phrases enclosed in pairs of delimiters (hereinafter simply referred to as delimiters), such as parenthesized phrases enclosed in parentheses. For example, like "Tanaka", the reading of the Chinese character is inserted as a delimiter (parentheses) after the Chinese character of the person's name. Also, as in the case of "patent", the English katakana notation after a specific phrase may be inserted as a delimiter (parentheses) appendix. Also, when inserting the English katakana notation as a delimiter (parentheses) appendix after the English notation, such as "Patent", or vice versa, English, such as "Patent". After the katakana notation of, the English notation may be inserted as a delimiter (parentheses) appendix.

Furthermore, as the phrase with a delimiter, as in task (1) and task (a), by using parenthesized phrases such as numbers and alphabets, the mode of expressing the item number and item symbol of the immediately preceding phrase, and fruits. Examples of the previous phrase in parentheses, such as (apple, strawberry, peach, etc.), and the previous phrase, such as Socrates (ancient Greek philosopher) and Plato (427 BC-347 BC). There are some that explain the above with parenthesized words.

When automatically translating a Japanese sentence into English, for example, the translation result of the word with a delimiter is almost the case of the above item number or item symbol, the example of the previous word, or the explanation of the previous word. It doesn't matter. However, in the case of reading the kanji of the above person's name, notation in English katakana, etc., the translation result of the automatic translation will be "Tanaka (Tanaka)" or "Patent (Patent)", and the same word will be used. There was a problem that it was repeated meaninglessly and became redundant.

Patent Document 1 (Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 11-3334) discloses an invention intended to improve the problem of words and phrases with delimiters in the case of automatically translating such a Japanese sentence into a foreign language. In the translation device disclosed in Patent Document 1, "information (correspondence table information) regarding knowledge such as a parenthesis expression pattern, a classification of the parenthesis expression, and an action for each parenthesis expression is stored, and in the text. It is possible to analyze the parenthesized expression of and not translate the redundant or unnecessary parts. "

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 11-3334

However, in the invention of Patent Document 1, it is necessary to prepare and store in advance the correspondence table information in which the parenthesis expression pattern, the classification of the parenthesis expression, and the action for each parenthesis expression are associated with each other. It is necessary to analyze the parentheses expression in the text to determine which of the corresponding table information the parentheses expression pattern and the classification correspond to, which causes a problem that the processing becomes complicated.

In addition, there is a problem that processing cannot be performed in the case of a parenthesis expression pattern that is not registered in advance in the corresponding table information.

In the above, parentheses have been explained as delimiters, but the above problems are caused by using delimiters other than parentheses, such as hyphen symbols, such as reading kanji and katakana notation in English. The same occurs in the case of. In parentheses, if the words in parentheses are represented by ○, (○), {○}, [○], [○], (○) (however, () is black parentheses), <○>,'○ Includes various symbols such as'and'〇'. Further, the delimiter other than the parentheses includes, in addition to the hyphen, ・ ○ ・, | ○ |, * ○ *, ~ ○ ~, etc., and the same problem occurs.

In view of the above problems, what was the original text of the present invention when the original text of the first language such as Japanese including words with delimiters such as parentheses was automatically translated into the second language? It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic translation device and an automatic translation program capable of obtaining a translation result that can recognize.

In order to solve the above problems, the invention of claim 1 is
An automatic translation device that translates from a first language to a second language.
A detection means for detecting a delimiter-attached phrase enclosed in a delimiter from the original text of the first language,
An attribute determination means for determining the attribute of the phrase in the delimiter with respect to the phrase immediately preceding the delimiter, and
The translation result of the phrase immediately before the delimiter and the translation result of the phrase in the delimiter are output, and at least the translation result of the phrase in the delimiter is the delimiter determined by the attribute determination means. A translation method that adds annotations according to the attributes of words and phrases in the symbol and outputs them,
Provide an automatic translation device equipped with.

According to the invention of claim 1 of the above-described configuration, when the detection means detects a phrase with a delimiter such as a parenthesis, the translation means translates the word immediately before the delimiter and the translation result of the phrase in the delimiter. Is output, and at least the translation result of the phrase in the delimiter is output with a comment corresponding to the attribute of the phrase in the delimiter for the phrase immediately before the delimiter determined by the attribute determination means.

This makes it possible to easily understand what the original text looks like when the original text of the first language, such as Japanese, including words with delimiters such as parentheses is automatically translated into the second language. The translation result is obtained.

According to the present invention, an automatic translation device that can easily grasp what the original text looks like when the original text of the first language including words with delimiters such as parentheses is automatically translated into the second language. An automatic translation program can be provided.

It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the 1st Embodiment of the automatic translation apparatus by this invention. It is a figure used for demonstrating operation of 1st Embodiment of the automatic translation apparatus by this invention. It is a figure which shows a part of the flowchart for demonstrating the example of the flow of the processing operation of 1st Embodiment of the automatic translation apparatus by this invention. It is a figure which shows a part of the flowchart for demonstrating the example of the flow of the processing operation of 1st Embodiment of the automatic translation apparatus by this invention. It is a figure for demonstrating the example of the automatic translation result of 1st Embodiment of the automatic translation apparatus by this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the 2nd Embodiment of the automatic translation apparatus by this invention. It is a figure used for demonstrating the structure of a part of the configuration example of the 2nd Embodiment of the automatic translation apparatus by this invention. It is a figure which shows a part of the flowchart for demonstrating the example of the flow of the processing operation of the 2nd Embodiment of the automatic translation apparatus by this invention. It is a figure which shows a part of the flowchart for demonstrating the example of the flow of the processing operation of the 2nd Embodiment of the automatic translation apparatus by this invention. It is a figure for demonstrating the example of the automatic translation result of the 2nd Embodiment of the automatic translation apparatus by this invention. It is a figure for demonstrating the example of the automatic translation result of another embodiment of the automatic translation apparatus by this invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the automatic translation apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. This automatic translation device may be configured by a dedicated device, but in this embodiment, for example, a program for an automatic translation device according to the present invention is applied to a personal computer, a tablet terminal, and a high-performance mobile phone terminal called a smartphone. It is configured by installing the embodiment of. The following embodiment is a case where the first language is Japanese and a foreign language such as English is assumed as the second language.

[First Embodiment]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining a configuration example of a first embodiment of the automatic translation apparatus according to the present invention. In the block diagram of FIG. 1, in order to facilitate understanding of the embodiment of the automatic translation apparatus according to the present invention, a part (main part) of the processing portion executed by the automatic translation program is also shown as a functional block. be.

The automatic translation device of this embodiment has a memory 102, a display interface 103, an operation input unit interface 104, an external input interface 105, and an original memory 106 for a control unit 101 composed of a computer (processor) through a system bus 100. , The translation condition receiving unit 107, the morphological analysis unit 108, the translation execution unit 109, the translation dictionary storage unit 110, the translation result memory 111, and the delimiter-attached phrase processing unit 112 are connected to each other.

The memory 102 stores programs and data for supporting the processing executed by the control unit 101. The program includes a program for automatic translation.

A display 121 made of, for example, an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) is connected to the display interface 103.

Further, the operation input unit interface 104 is connected to the operation input unit 122 composed of touch sensors arranged so as to be superimposed on the display screen of the LCD constituting the display 121. Software buttons (icon buttons) included in various input screens are displayed on the display screen of the display 121, and operations to these software buttons are detected by the operation input unit 122 composed of a touch sensor, and the operation input unit interface. It is transmitted to the control unit 101 through 104. The control unit 101 performs processing according to the operation input in the operation input unit 122. The operation input unit is not limited to the one using the touch sensor as in this example, and may be composed of a keyboard or a group of operation buttons. Further, voice input using a microphone may be used.

The external input interface 105 is composed of, for example, a USB memory interface, a card-type memory interface, or the like. Further, the external input interface 105 may be configured by an optical disk drive. In this embodiment, the original Japanese data stored in the USB memory, the optical disk, or the like is taken in through the external input interface 105.

The original text memory 106 stores the data of the original Japanese text input by the user through the operation input unit 122 and the data of the original Japanese text taken in through the external input interface 105.

The translation condition reception unit 107 stores the translation conditions specified by the user through the operation input unit 122 (in addition to the case where the character is directly input as a character input, the selection specification is included). In this case, the translation conditions include the designation of the original Japanese text to be translated, and the foreign language such as English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Korean from the specified Japanese original text. In addition to specifying the foreign language to be translated into which language of the word, it also includes the selection specification of whether or not to process the redundancy removal for the delimiter-attached phrase. Here, the process of removing redundancy for a phrase with a delimiter is a process of removing the delimiter and the delimiter when the translation result of the phrase immediately before the delimiter and the translation result of the phrase in the delimiter are the same. This is a process that prevents the translation result of the delimiter internal phrase from being included in the final automatic translation result.

The automatic translation device of this embodiment does not always perform the redundancy removal process for the delimiter phrase, but performs it when the user selects and specifies "to perform the redundancy removal process". To. The reason why the user's selection can be specified in this way is that the translation may not be allowed to be translated freely and may have to be the literal translation of the original text (literal translation, literal translation). It was done. It should be noted that a list of words and phrases immediately before the delimiter and words and phrases with delimiters may be presented so that the user can select and specify from the list.

The morphological analysis unit 108 divides the original Japanese text to be translated into columns of morphemes (minimum units having the meaning of language), and each part of speech (noun, verb, conjunction, delimiter such as parentheses, punctuation mark, etc.) ). The morphological analysis unit 108 sends analysis result information including a sequence of morphemes of the analysis result and each part of speech to the translation execution unit 109. Since the morphological element analysis unit 108 also detects symbols such as delimiters and punctuation marks as morphemes, it has a function of a phrase detecting means with delimiters.

The translation execution unit 109 is designated by using the analysis result information about the original Japanese text from the morphological analysis unit 108 and the bilingual dictionary of foreign language and Japanese stored in the translation dictionary storage unit 110. Automatically translates the original Japanese text into the specified foreign language. The translation dictionary storage unit 110 stores in advance a bilingual dictionary with Japanese words and phrases for each of foreign languages such as English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Korean. .. The bilingual dictionary may exist on a server on the Internet and may be updated at any time.

The translation result memory 111 temporarily stores the automatic translation result generated by the translation execution unit 109. Then, the automatic translation result of the translation result memory 111 is displayed on the display screen of the display 121 through the display interface 103 and presented to the user.

In this embodiment, the delimiter-attached phrase processing unit 112 is activated when the user receives a selection designation for performing redundancy removal processing for the delimiter-attached phrase through the operation input unit 122. Then, the phrase processing unit 112 with a delimiter receives the analysis result in the morphological analysis unit 108 and the translation result in the translation execution unit 109, and receives the translation result of the phrase in the delimiter of the phrase with the delimiter and the delimiter. Compare with the translation result of the word immediately before the symbol to determine whether they match.

Then, when the delimiter-attached phrase processing unit 112 determines that the translation result of the delimiter-internal phrase of the delimiter-attached phrase and the translation result of the phrase immediately preceding the delimiter match, the translation result memory 111 The translation result for the delimiter and the delimiter internal phrase is deleted from the automatic translation result stored in (that is, the delimiter-attached phrase is not output as the automatic translation result). Here, not only the translation result of the delimiter internal phrase that matches the translation result is not output, but the delimiter such as parentheses () is not output as the translation result because the translation result of the delimiter internal phrase is not output. This is to prevent the automatic translation result from being uncomfortable because only the delimiter such as parentheses, which has no words and phrases, remains in the delimiter.

Further, in this embodiment, when the delimiter-attached phrase processing unit 112 determines that the translation result of the delimiter-internal phrase of the delimiter-attached phrase does not match the translation result of the phrase immediately before the delimiter. , The delimiter and the translation result of the delimiter internal phrase are included in the automatic translation result stored in the translation result memory 111 as they are.

In the configuration of the automatic translation device of FIG. 1, the translation condition receiving unit 107, the morphological analysis unit 108, the translation execution unit 109, and the delimiter-attached phrase processing unit 112 have a program in which the control unit 101 is stored in the memory 102. It can be configured as a software processing function unit by executing it.

[Processing operation of the automatic translation device of the first embodiment]
In this first embodiment, prior to the start of automatic translation, the Japanese original text file to be translated is selected from the Japanese original text files stored in the original text memory 106 by the user. Is selected and specified. Then, as shown in FIG. 2, the selected and designated Japanese original text is displayed in the original text display field 1211 of the display screen 121D of the display 121.

As shown in FIG. 2, the display screen 121D of the display 121 displays input fields 1212 and 1213 for accepting selection and designation of translation conditions by the user. The input field 1212 is a field for receiving a selection designation of a foreign language as a second language for which a translation result is desired to be obtained from the original Japanese text, and the user can translate English presented as a pull-down menu (not shown). , French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Korean and other foreign languages can be selected and specified. FIG. 2 shows a case where English is selected and specified.

The input field 1213 is a field for accepting the selection input of whether or not to perform the above-mentioned redundancy removal processing, and when the user performs the redundancy removal processing, the user performs the redundancy removal processing in "Yes". If not, enter a check in "No".

In the automatic translation device of this embodiment, when the above-mentioned selection and designation input of the translation condition is completed by the operation input of the user as described above, the translation start button (icon button) 1214 and the translation stop button (icon button) are completed. 1215 is displayed on the screen, and the user can press the button. In the case of this embodiment, the selection designation input of the translation condition is performed collectively, but the candidate points for whether or not to perform the redundancy removal processing are sequentially presented, and the selection designation input is individually performed according to the presentation. You can also do. Of course, it is also possible to enable the preview of the selected selection part after the selection is specified, and to complete the selection specification after the user confirms the preview.

Further, instead of inputting the selection of whether or not to perform the redundancy removal process, the redundancy removal process may be performed by default, and only when not, that effect may be input. On the contrary, the redundancy removal processing may not be performed by default, and the fact may be input only when the redundancy processing is performed.

Then, when the translation start button 1214 is pressed by the user, the automatic translation processing operation in the automatic translation device of the first embodiment is started. Further, when the translation stop button 1215 is pressed by the user, the automatic translation processing operation is not started and is stopped.

3 and 4 are flowcharts showing an example of the flow of the automatic translation processing operation in the automatic translation apparatus according to the first embodiment having the above configuration. Hereinafter, an example of the automatic translation processing operation in the automatic translation apparatus of the first embodiment will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 3 and 4. In the processing of each step of the flowcharts of FIGS. 3 and 4, the control unit 101 performs each function processing of the translation condition receiving unit 107, the morphological analysis unit 108, the translation execution unit 109, and the delimiter-attached phrase processing unit 112. , The case where the software processing is performed by executing the program stored in the memory 102 will be described.

First, the control unit 101 determines whether or not the translation start button 1214 is pressed by the user through the operation input unit 122 to give an instruction to start automatic translation (step S1). When the start instruction is given, the control unit 101 checks the input field 1213 for the redundancy removal process (step S2), and determines whether or not it is selected and specified for "perform redundancy removal process" (step). S3).

When it is determined in step S3 that "do not perform redundancy removal processing" is selected and specified, the control unit 101 morphologically analyzes the original Japanese text, executes verbatim translation (step S4), and the translation result. Is written in the translation result memory 111, and the translation result is displayed in the translation result display field 1216 (see FIG. 2) on the display screen 121D of the display 121 (step S5).

Then, the control unit 101 determines whether or not the translation has been completed up to the end of the original Japanese text to be translated (step S6), and if it is determined that the translation has not been completed, the process is returned to step S4, and this step S4. The subsequent processing is repeated. Further, when it is determined in step S6 that the translation has been completed up to the end of the original Japanese text to be translated, the control unit 101 ends this automatic translation process.

Then, when it is determined in step S3 that the selection is specified for "perform redundancy removal processing", the control unit 101 morphologically analyzes the original Japanese text (step S11 in FIG. 4). Next, the control unit 101 determines whether or not the phrase with the delimiter has been detected from the result of the morphological analysis (step S12).

When it is determined in step S12 that the delimiter-attached phrase has not been detected, the control unit 101 executes verbatim translation (step S13), writes the translation result to the translation result memory 111, and displays 121. The translation result is displayed in the translation result display field 1216 (see FIG. 2) on the display screen 121D (step S17).

Next, the control unit 101 determines whether or not the translation has been completed up to the end of the original Japanese text to be translated (step S18), and if it is determined that the translation has not been completed, returns the process to step S11, and this step. The processing after S11 is repeated.

Then, when it is determined in step S12 that the phrase with the delimiter is detected, the control unit 101 translates the original Japanese text verbatim, and the translation result of the phrase in the delimiter and the translation result of the phrase immediately before the delimiter. (Step S14), and it is determined whether or not both translation results match (step S15). If the translation result of the phrase in the delimiter and the translation result of the phrase immediately before the delimiter do not match in step S15, the control unit 101 sets the translation result of the phrase immediately before the delimiter and the phrase in parentheses. Each of the translation results is written in the translation result memory 111, and the translation result is displayed in the translation result display field 1216 of the display screen 121D of the display 121 (step S17).

Then, the control unit 101 determines whether or not the translation has been completed up to the end of the original Japanese text to be translated (step S18), and if it is determined that the translation has not been completed, the process is returned to step S11, and this step S11. The subsequent processing is repeated.

Further, in step S15, when it is determined that the translation result of the phrase in the delimiter and the translation result of the phrase immediately before the delimiter match, the translation result of the delimiter and the phrase in the delimiter is verbatim. Removed from the translation result (step S16), only the translation result of the word immediately before the delimiter is written in the translation result memory 111, and the translation result is displayed in the translation result display field 1216 of the display screen 121D of the display 121. (Step S17).

Then, the control unit 101 determines whether or not the translation has been completed up to the end of the original Japanese text to be translated (step S18), and if it is determined that the translation has not been completed, the process is returned to step S11, and this step S11. The subsequent processing is repeated. Further, when it is determined in step S18 that the translation has been completed up to the end of the original Japanese text to be translated, the control unit 101 ends this automatic translation process.

[Specific example of automatic translation processing result in the first embodiment]
As shown in FIG. 5, the operation in the case where "redundancy removal processing" is selected and specified in the automatic translation processing in the above first embodiment will be further described with reference to specific examples. FIG. 5 shows an example of processing when the words and phrases with delimiters included in the original Japanese text shown in FIG. 2 are translated into English. In this example, the delimiter is all parentheses, but it goes without saying that the delimiter is not limited to parentheses as described above.

The example of FIG. 5 (A) is a case where the reading is described as a parenthesis phrase for a Chinese character (the example of the figure is a person's name), and in this case, on the right side of FIG. 5 (A). As shown, when translating verbatim, the translation result immediately before the parentheses and the translation result of the words in the parentheses both become "Tanaka" and match. Therefore, the control unit 101 automatically translates only the parentheses and the translation result, that is, "Tanaka" from which the parentheses symbol () and Tanaka are removed, that is, (Tanaka) is removed.

Further, the example of FIG. 5 (B) is a case where the English katakana notation is described as a parenthesis phrase for the Chinese character, and in this case, as shown on the right side of FIG. 5 (B). , When translating verbatim, the translation result immediately before the parentheses and the translation result of the phrase in the parentheses both become "Patent" and match. Therefore, the control unit 101 sets only the parentheses and the translation result, that is, "Patent" from which (Patent) is removed, as the automatic translation result.

Further, the example of FIG. 5C is a case where the explanation of the immediately preceding phrase is described as a parenthesized phrase, and in this case, as shown on the right side of FIG. 5C, verbatim. When translating, the translation result immediately before the parentheses and the translation result of the words in the parentheses usually do not match. Note that the example of FIG. 5C is a case where the phrase for specifying the immediately preceding phrase is a parenthesized phrase as an explanation of the immediately preceding phrase. In this case, the translation result immediately before the parentheses and the translation result of the words in the parentheses do not match, so the control unit 101 outputs the verbatim translation as it is in parentheses as an automatic translation result.

As the type of the example of FIG. 5C, the formation of the Chinese character stroke composition is explained as a parenthesized note, and the explanation of the traditional Chinese character without font is explained as a parenthesized note. There is also. For example, "medicine (easy for a canopy)" or "● (the crown on greed is not)".

As described above, according to the automatic translation device of this embodiment, the translation result of the phrase immediately before the delimiter is compared with the translation result of the phrase in the delimiter, and when both match, the delimiter and the delimiter are used. Since the word in the symbol is removed from the automatic translation result to remove the redundancy of the automatic translation result, the type of the word with the delimiter and each type are described in advance as in the conventional case explained at the beginning. It is not necessary to store the corresponding table in the storage unit, and it is possible to remove the redundancy of the automatic translation result by a simple process.

Further, in the first embodiment described above, since the user can select and specify whether or not to perform the redundancy removal processing according to the purpose of the automatic translation, for example, automatic translation for proof that cannot be translated freely, etc. In the case of usage, it is convenient to be able to translate verbatim without performing redundancy removal processing.

[Second Embodiment]
In the first embodiment described above, no processing is performed on the translation result when the user selects and specifies that the redundancy removal processing is not performed, and the words and phrases of the same translation result are simply with a delimiter. It was made continuous. However, as described above, even when words and phrases with the same translation result are consecutive, the relationship between the word and phrase immediately before the delimiter and the phrase with the delimiter is "Kanji and its reading" or "Kanji and". In addition to "corresponding English katakana notation", there are various modes (classification = attribute) such as English and its pronunciation notation (katakana notation). This can be categorized as a difference in the attributes of the delimiter-attached phrase with respect to the phrase immediately preceding the delimiter.

As a result of automatic translation, the user can see what the relationship between the phrase immediately before the delimiter and the phrase with the delimiter in the original text was when the words and phrases of the same translation result were consecutive with the delimiter. It would be convenient if you could know.

Therefore, in this second embodiment, the translation result when the user selects and specifies that the redundancy removal process is not performed is annotated according to the difference in the attribute of the delimiter-attached phrase with respect to the phrase immediately before the delimiter. Allow it to be included in automatic translation results.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the automatic translation apparatus of the second embodiment, and the same parts as those of the first embodiment of FIG. 1 are designated by the same reference numerals. In the automatic translation apparatus of the second embodiment, in addition to the above-mentioned processing units of the automatic translation apparatus of the first embodiment, the system bus 100 is provided with a delimiter-attached phrase attribute determination unit 113 and a table. The information storage unit 114 is connected. Then, instead of the delimiter-attached phrase processing unit 112 of the first embodiment, the delimiter-attached phrase processing unit 112A is provided. Others have the same configuration as that of the first embodiment.

As shown in FIG. 7, the table information storage unit 114 stores the information of the correspondence table between the attribute of the delimiter-attached phrase and the example of the annotation for each attribute. That is, to explain the example of FIG. 7, the table information storage unit 114 stores an example of a phrase with a delimiter, an attribute thereof, and an annotation added to the translation result for the attribute, respectively. ing. In this example, there are multiple types of annotations to be added to the translation result (two types of annotations 1 and 2 in the example in the figure), and as will be described later, the user decides which annotation to use. It is possible to select and specify.

Specifically, as shown in FIG. 7, the phrase example No. with a delimiter is used. The attribute of the delimiter-attached phrase in "Tanaka" of 1 is the immediately preceding "Chinese character reading", and the delimiter-attached phrase example No. The attribute of the delimiter-attached phrase in the "patent" of 2 is the immediately preceding "Kanji English translation katakana notation", and the delimiter-attached phrase example No. The attribute of the delimiter-attached phrase in "Patent" of No. 3 is the immediately preceding "English Japanese translation", and the delimiter-attached phrase example No. The attribute of the delimiter-attached phrase in "Patent" of 4 is the immediately preceding "English Japanese translation katakana notation", and the delimiter-attached phrase example No. The attribute of the delimiter-attached phrase in the "patent" of 5 is the immediately preceding "English translation of the Chinese character".

Then, in the example of FIG. 7, one of the annotations (annotation 1) is a mode in which a symbol * and a number are combined, and the other aspect of the annotation (annotation 2) is a translation result of the above attributes. It is said that it was translated into the language of. In this example, the annotation 2 is a simple translation of the above attribute, so that the annotation becomes long and redundant. Therefore, in the English example of Note 2 in FIG. 7, the phrase example No. with a delimiter is used. 2-No. All of 5 are referred to as "translation", but in order to distinguish each of them, a numerical number of a phrase example is added to each of "translation".

The above example of the phrase with a delimiter is an example in which the result of verbatim translation is the same for the phrase immediately before the delimiter and the phrase within the delimiter. , The result of verbatim translation may be inconsistent between the phrase immediately before the delimiter and the phrase within the delimiter. However, in this embodiment, it is possible to add an annotation to the translation result only when the result of the verbatim translation is the same for the phrase immediately before the delimiter and the phrase with the delimiter.

That is, in this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 7, the table information includes the delimiter-attached phrase example No. For an example in which the phrase immediately before the delimiter and the phrase within the delimiter do not match, as in 6, the attribute is stored in the table information, but the annotation is not defined and is not stored. That is, in this embodiment, no annotation is added to an example of a phrase with a delimiter in which the phrase immediately before the delimiter and the phrase within the delimiter do not match.

In FIG. 7, only the case of English is shown as Note 2, but in this embodiment, foreign languages such as English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Korean translated from Japanese are shown. Needless to say, note 2 may be prepared for all of the above.

Further, in the second embodiment, when the annotation 1 is selectively designated by the user and the "combination of the symbol * and the number" of the annotation 1 is added to the automatic translation result, the added annotation 1 is added. When the user clicks each of them, the translation of the attribute of FIG. 7 by the language of the translation result is configured to pop up, for example, what the attribute corresponding to the added annotation 1 is. Similarly, when the user clicks the "translation number number" when the annotation 2 is selected and specified by the user, what is the attribute corresponding to the "translation number number" of the added annotation 2? , The translation of the attribute of FIG. 7 by the translation result language is configured to be displayed, for example, in a pop-up.

In the second embodiment, when the delimiter-attached phrase attribute determination unit 113 receives a selection designation from the user through the operation input unit 122 that the redundancy removal process for the delimiter-attached phrase is not performed. If you add an annotation, it will be activated when the selection is specified. Then, when the delimiter-attached phrase attribute determination unit 113 is activated, when the parenthesized phrase is detected as the analysis result by the morphological analysis unit 108, the attribute of the delimiter-attached phrase with respect to the phrase immediately preceding the delimiter. Is determined. Then, the delimiter-attached phrase attribute determination unit 113 transfers the attribute information of the determination result to the delimiter-attached phrase processing unit 112A.

The delimiter-attached phrase processing unit 112A executes the same processing as the delimiter-attached phrase processing unit 112 of the first embodiment, and in the second embodiment, from the user through the operation input unit 122. When the selection specification that the redundancy removal processing for the delimiter-attached phrase is not performed is accepted and the selection is specified to add the annotation, the attribute of the determination result from the delimiter-attached phrase attribute determination unit 113. Upon receiving the information, the process of adding the annotation selected and specified by the user to the automatic translation result is executed.

[Processing operation of the automatic translation device of the second embodiment]
Also in this second embodiment, prior to the start of automatic translation, the user selects and specifies the original text file to be translated from the Japanese original text files stored in the original text memory 106. In addition to accepting, it also accepts the selection specification of the foreign language to be translated from Japanese, and also accepts the selection input of whether or not to perform the redundancy removal processing for the words with delimiters.

Further, in the second embodiment, when it is selected and specified that the redundancy removal processing is not performed for the delimiter-attached phrase, the selection specification for whether or not to perform the annotation addition processing for the delimiter-attached phrase is accepted. When it is selected and specified to perform the annotation addition processing for the delimiter-attached phrase, the selection specification of whether to add the annotation of the annotation 1 or the annotation 2 is accepted.

Then, in the case of this second embodiment, when the above-mentioned selection and specification input of the translation condition is completed based on the operation input of the user, the translation start button (icon button) is displayed on the screen and the translation start button is used. When pressed by a person, the automatic translation processing operation in the automatic translation device of the second embodiment is started.

8 and 9 are flowcharts showing an example of the flow of the automatic translation processing operation in the automatic translation apparatus according to the second embodiment having the above configuration. Hereinafter, an example of the automatic translation processing operation in the automatic translation apparatus of the second embodiment will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 8 and 9. In the processing of each step of the flowcharts of FIGS. 8 and 9, the control unit 101 performs the translation condition receiving unit 107, the morphological analysis unit 108, the translation execution unit 109, the delimiter-attached phrase processing unit 112A, and the delimiter-attached phrase. Each function process of the attribute determination unit 113 will be described as a case where the software process is performed by executing the program stored in the memory 102.

First, the control unit 101 determines whether or not the translation start button 1214 is pressed by the user through the operation input unit 122 to give an instruction to start automatic translation (step S21). When the start instruction is given, the control unit 101 checks the input field 1213 for the redundancy removal process (step S22), and determines whether or not it is selected and specified for "perform redundancy removal process" (step). S23).

When it is determined in step S23 that the selection is specified for "perform redundancy removal processing", the control unit 101 executes the processing shown in the flowchart of FIG. 4 as in the case of the first embodiment. To do so. Here, the description will be omitted in order to avoid duplication.

Then, when it is determined in step S23 that "do not perform redundancy removal processing" is selected and specified, the control unit 101 determines whether or not the user has selected and specified "add annotation". (Step S24).

When it is determined in step S24 that "no annotation" is selected and specified, the control unit 101 morphologically analyzes the original Japanese text, executes verbatim translation (step S25), and the translation result. Is written in the translation result memory 111, and the translation result is displayed in the translation result display field 1216 (see FIG. 2) on the display screen 121D of the display 121 (step S26).

Then, the control unit 101 determines whether or not the translation has been completed up to the end of the original Japanese text to be translated (step S27), and if it is determined that the translation has not been completed, the process is returned to step S25, and this step S25. The subsequent processing is repeated. Further, when it is determined in step S27 that the translation has been completed up to the end of the original Japanese text to be translated, the control unit 101 ends this automatic translation process.

When it is determined in step S24 that "add annotation" is selected and specified, the control unit 101 analyzes the original Japanese text by morphological analysis (step S31 in FIG. 9), and separates from the result of the morphological analysis. It is determined whether or not the symbolized phrase is detected (step S32).

When it is determined in step S32 that the delimiter-attached phrase has not been detected, the control unit 101 executes verbatim translation (step S33), writes the translation result to the translation result memory 111, and displays 121. The translation result is displayed in the translation result display field 1216 (see FIG. 2) on the display screen 121D (step S36).

Next, the control unit 101 determines whether or not the translation has been completed up to the end of the original Japanese text to be translated (step S37), and if it is determined that the translation has not been completed, returns the process to step S31, and this step. The processing after S31 is repeated.

Then, when it is determined in step S32 that the delimiter-attached phrase has been detected, the control unit 101 determines the attribute of the delimiter-attached phrase (step S34). Then, the control unit 101 sequentially translates the phrase immediately before the delimiter and the phrase with the delimiter verbatim, and also refers to the table information storage unit 114 according to the attribute determined in step S34 to translate the phrase in the delimiter. The annotation to be given to the result is determined and added according to the determined attribute (step S35). Here, as described above, whether to add the annotation 1 or the annotation 2 is selected and specified by the user before the start of translation, so the annotation of the one selected and specified is added.

As described above, it may not be necessary to add annotations depending on the attributes of the delimiter-attached words and phrases, as described above.

Next, the control unit 101 writes the translation result of the phrase immediately before the delimiter, the translation result of the phrase with the delimiter, and the annotation added as necessary to the translation result memory 111, and the display 121. The translation result is displayed in the translation result display field 1216 of the display screen 121D (step S36).

Then, the control unit 101 determines whether or not the translation has been completed up to the end of the original Japanese text to be translated (step S37), and if it is determined that the translation has not been completed, the process is returned to step S31, and this step S31. The subsequent processing is repeated. Further, when it is determined in step S37 that the translation has been completed up to the end of the original Japanese text to be translated, the control unit 101 ends this automatic translation process.

[Specific example of annotation]
FIG. 10 shows a specific example of the annotation addition processing executed in the case of “no redundancy removal processing” in the automatic translation processing in the second embodiment described above. FIG. 10 shows an example of processing when a word with a delimiter included in the original Japanese text is translated into English. In this example, the delimiter is all parentheses, but it goes without saying that the delimiter is not limited to parentheses as described above. Further, the annotation 1 is added immediately after the delimiter internal phrase in the delimiter, and the annotation 2 is added immediately after the delimiter internal phrase in the delimiter with [].

In FIG. 7, the example of FIG. 10 (A) shows the phrase example No. with a delimiter. In the case where the attribute of 1 is the reading of Chinese characters, in this case, as shown on the right side of FIG. 10A, when annotation 1 is selected and specified by the user, "* 1" is in parentheses. It is added immediately after the phrase, and when annotation 2 is selected and specified by the user, [translation 2] is added immediately after the phrase in parentheses.

Further, in the example of FIG. 10B, in FIG. 7, the phrase example No. with a delimiter is used. 2 is the case where the attribute is the English translation of katakana notation of Chinese characters. In this case, as shown on the right side of FIG. 10B, when annotation 1 is selected and specified by the user, "* 2" is used. Is added immediately after the word in parentheses, and [translation 2] is added immediately after the word in parentheses when annotation 2 is selected and specified by the user.

Then, in this second embodiment, although not shown in FIG. 10, when the user clicks "* 1" or "* 2" of the annotation 1 displayed on the display screen, the corresponding delimiter symbol is used. Annotated phrase attributes are displayed, for example, in a pop-up. Similarly, when the user clicks [translation 1] or [translation 2] of the annotation 2 displayed on the display screen, the corresponding delimiter-attached phrase attribute is displayed in a pop-up, for example.

[Effect of the second embodiment]
According to the automatic translation device of the second embodiment, the same effect as that of the automatic translation device of the first embodiment can be obtained, and when the redundancy removal processing is not performed, the translation of the word immediately before the delimiter is performed. Even if the result and the translation result of the phrase in the delimiter are the same, the translation result for the phrase in the delimiter is annotated according to the attribute of the phrase with the delimiter, so that the delimiter is added in the original text. It has the effect of being convenient because it is possible to easily understand how the phrase with the symbol is related to the phrase immediately before it.

Then, according to the automatic translation apparatus of the second embodiment described above, when the user instructs the annotation added to the automatic translation result, the user can obtain detailed information about the attribute meant by the annotation. Since it is presented in, it also has the effect of being extremely convenient.

[Modified example of the second embodiment]
In the description of the second embodiment described above, the annotation is added only to the phrase within the delimiter, but the annotation is added to both the phrase immediately before the delimiter and the phrase within the delimiter. By doing so, it is possible to show in more detail the relationship between the phrase with the delimiter and the phrase immediately preceding it. For example, FIG. 11 is an example of the case where such annotations are additionally displayed, and shows a processing example when the words and phrases with delimiters included in the original Japanese text are translated into English.

In FIG. 7, the example of FIG. 11 (A) is shown in FIG. In the case where the attribute of 1 is the reading of kanji, in this case, as shown on the right side of FIG. 11 (A), the translation result "Tanaka" of the kanji "Tanaka" immediately before the delimiter (parentheses) is [Kanji] is added immediately after, and [kana] is added immediately after the translation result "Tanaka" of the reading "Tanaka" in the delimiter (in parentheses). This makes it easy to understand that in the original Japanese text, the phrase with the delimiter was a reading of Chinese characters.

Further, in the example of FIG. 11B, in FIG. 7, the phrase example No. with a delimiter is used. In the case where the attribute of 3 is the Japanese translation of English, in this case, as shown on the right side of FIG. 11 (B), the translation result "Pantent" of the English "Pantent" immediately before the delimiter (parentheses). [English] is added immediately after, and [Japanese] is added immediately after the translation result "Pentent" of the Japanese translation "patent" in the delimiter (in parentheses). This makes it easy to understand that in the original Japanese text, the phrase with the delimiter was a Japanese translation of English. Of course, in the case of the French translation of English, [French] is added, and in the case of the German translation, [German] is added.

[Other embodiments or modifications]
In the second embodiment described above, the comment is added to the automatic translation result only when the translation result of the phrase immediately before the delimiter and the translation result of the phrase within the delimiter are the same. Even if the translation result of the phrase immediately before the delimiter and the translation result of the phrase within the delimiter do not match, a comment corresponding to the attribute determined by the delimiter-attached phrase attribute determination unit 113 may be added. good.

Also, if the phrase with the delimiter is a ruby of a kanji that is difficult to read, the translation result of the phrase immediately before the delimiter and the translation result of the phrase inside the delimiter will not match, but in the case of translation into a foreign language. Does not need to translate the ruby, so the translation result of the ruby may not be included in the automatic translation result.

In the above-described embodiment, the case where there is one delimiter-in-word phrase in the delimiter-attached phrase has been described, but "," (comma, comma), ":" (colon), ";" (semicolon), "." It can be applied even if there are multiple words within the delimiter, separated by punctuation marks such as. In this case, it is determined whether the translation result of the word immediately before the delimiter matches or does not match the translation result of each of the plurality of words in the delimiter, and the translation results of the plurality of words in the delimiter are used with each other. The match and mismatch of are also judged.

If the phrase within the delimiter is not separated by punctuation marks, the entire phrase not separated by the punctuation mark is treated as one phrase, and the translation result matches the phrase immediately before the delimiter. , It is the same as the above-mentioned first embodiment that the discrepancy is determined.

Then, when all of the translation results of the word immediately before the delimiter and each of the plurality of words in the delimiter match, the translation result of the delimiter and the plurality of words in the delimiter is automatically translated. Try to remove it.

Also, if the translation result of the word immediately before the delimiter does not match the translation result of multiple words in the delimiter, but the translation results of multiple words in the delimiter match each other, the delimiter is used. It is left as a translation result, and one matching translation result is left in the delimiter.

Furthermore, if the translation result of the phrase immediately before the delimiter and the translation result of multiple words in the delimiter match, but not all, but a part of the translation result of multiple words in the delimiter, the delimiter is used. The symbol should be left as the translation result, and the matching translation result should be removed in the delimiter.

A specific example will be given for further explanation. For example, in the first embodiment, when automatic translation is performed for "Patent (patent)" without performing redundancy removal processing, the verbatim translation result is "Patent (Patent, Patent)", which is a delimiter. All of the translation results of the immediately preceding phrase and each of the multiple phrases in the delimiter match. Therefore, when the redundancy removal process is performed, the "Patent" in the delimiter phrase, the "," between the two "Patents", and the delimiter () are removed, that is, (Patent, Patent) is removed. It becomes "Patent". In the second embodiment, when there are a plurality of words in the delimiter, for example, according to Note 1 in FIG. 7, it becomes "Patent (Patent * 3, Patent * 4)" and is referred to as Note 2. Then, it becomes "Patent (Patent [translation 3], Patent [translation 4])".

Further, for example, in the case of automatic translation (literal translation) of "LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)" without performing redundancy removal processing, "LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)" or "LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)" or "LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)" or "LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)". LCD (Liquid Crystal Display; LCD) ". On the other hand, when the redundancy removal process of the present invention is performed, in the former case, since a plurality of words in the delimiter become "Liquid Crystal Display" with each other, a match is determined, duplication is avoided, and the translation result becomes one. The translation result is "LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)" by removing "Liquid Crystal Display" and the punctuation mark ";" from the translation result of the word in the delimiter. In the latter case, the match between the phrase immediately before the delimiter and a part of multiple phrases in the delimiter is determined, and the matching delimiter phrases "LCD" and ";" are removed, and the translation result is It becomes "LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)".

Further, as another example, in the case of automatic translation of "Platon (427 BC-347 BC)" without redundancy removal processing, "Platon (Platon, BC427-B.). C.347) ”, but when the redundancy removal process is performed, it becomes“ Plato (BC427-BC347) ”.

In the above-described embodiment, the case where the first language is Japanese has been described, but it goes without saying that the first language is not limited to Japanese, and English, French, German, and Spanish. It may be in Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Korean, or the like. The second language is not limited to English, and may be Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Korean, or the like.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the existence of a delimiter phrase is assumed, but by inserting another typeface such as an italic font into a normal typeface, the delimiter phrase is used even if there is no delimiter. You can also get the same effect as. In this case, another typeface itself, such as italics, can be regarded as a delimiter-attached phrase.

The automatic translation device and automatic translation program according to the present invention are not only applied to mobile phone terminals such as personal computers, tablet terminals, and smartphones, but also watch-type terminals, eyeglass-type terminals, car navigation systems, ticket vending machines, and guidance. Of course, it is also applied to boards, electronic bulletin boards, electronic menus, digital signage, various display devices, and the like.

101 ... Control unit, 106 ... Original text memory, 107 ... Translation condition reception unit, 108 ... Morphological analysis unit, 109 ... Translation execution unit, 110 ... Translation dictionary storage unit, 111 ... Translation result memory, 112, 112A ... With delimiter Word processing unit, 113 ... Word attribute judgment unit with delimiter,

Claims (19)

An automatic translation device that translates from a first language to a second language.
A detection means for detecting a delimiter-attached phrase enclosed in a delimiter from the original text of the first language,
An attribute determination means for determining the attribute of the phrase in the delimiter with respect to the phrase immediately preceding the delimiter, and
The translation result of the phrase immediately before the delimiter and the translation result of the phrase in the delimiter are output, and at least the translation result of the phrase in the delimiter is determined by the attribute determination means. A translation method that adds annotations according to the attributes of words and phrases in the delimiter and outputs them.
An automatic translation device equipped with. The automatic translation device according to claim 1, wherein the translation result includes words and phrases as they are in the original text as the translation result. The attribute determined by the attribute determination means is classified into a plurality of attributes in advance.
The automatic translation apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the annotation is a display mode indicating which classification of the attribute it belongs to, and is added to the translation result and output. A storage unit for storing table information indicating the correspondence between the annotation and each of the plurality of classified attributes is provided.
A claim comprising a means for indicating what the corresponding attribute is based on the table information of the storage unit when the annotation displayed added to the translation result is selected. The automatic translation device according to 3. The automatic translation device according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the commentary is a translation of each of the plurality of classified attributes into the second language. Claim 3 to claim 5, wherein the commentary comprises a word meaning a translation of the second language and a number for distinguishing each of the plurality of classified attributes. The automatic translation device described in either. The automatic translation device according to any one of claims 3 to 6, wherein the commentary comprises a combination of a symbol and a number for distinguishing each of the plurality of classified attributes. The commentary includes a translation of each of the classified attributes into the second language and / or a word meaning a translation of the second language, and the classification of the plurality. A first comment consisting of a number for distinguishing each of the attributes and a second comment consisting of a combination of symbols and numbers for distinguishing each of the plurality of classified attributes are selected. Is used for
The automatic translation apparatus according to any one of claims 3 to 7, further comprising means for accepting the selection of which of the first comment and the second comment is to be added. The first language is Japanese, and the second language is a foreign language other than Japanese.
The automatic translation according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the phrase immediately before the delimiter is a Chinese character, and the attribute of the phrase in the delimiter is a phonetic spelling of the kanji. Device. The first language is Japanese, and the second language is a foreign language other than Japanese.
The word according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the phrase immediately before the delimiter is the foreign language, and the attribute of the phrase in the delimiter is a Japanese translation of the foreign language. Automatic translation device. The first language is Japanese, and the second language is a foreign language other than Japanese.
6. Automatic translation device. The first language is Japanese, and the second language is a foreign language other than Japanese.
The automatic according to any one of claims 1 to 11, wherein the phrase immediately before the delimiter is a Chinese character, and the attribute of the phrase in the delimiter is a foreign language translation of the kanji. Translation device. The attribute determination means also determines the attribute of the word immediately preceding the delimiter.
The translation means is characterized in that the translation result of the word immediately before the delimiter is added with a comment corresponding to the attribute of the word immediately before the delimiter determined by the attribute determination means and output. The automatic translation apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 12. A reception means for receiving an instruction by the user as to whether or not to add an annotation to the delimiter-attached phrase is provided.
When the receiving means accepts the designation that the delimiter-attached phrase is to be processed, the translation means outputs at least the translation result of the phrase immediately preceding the delimiter with a comment added. The automatic translation apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 13. When the designation that no annotation is added to the delimiter-attached phrase is accepted, the phrase immediately before the delimiter and the delimiter-attached phrase are translated verbatim according to the original text of the first language. The automatic translation device according to claim 14. The automatic translation device according to any one of claims 1 to 15, wherein a phrase having a different typeface from a predetermined typeface is used as the phrase with a delimiter to perform the translation. It is characterized by being applied to any of personal computers, tablet terminals, mobile phone terminals, watch terminals, eyeglass terminals, car navigation systems, ticket vending machines, information boards, electronic bulletin boards, electronic menus, digital signage, and display devices. The automatic translation device according to any one of claims 1 to 16. It is determined whether or not the translation result of the phrase immediately before the delimiter and the translation result of the phrase in the delimiter match, and if it is determined that they do not match, the translation of the phrase in the delimiter is performed. The automatic translation apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 17, wherein no comment is added to the result. To translate from the first language to the second language,
A detection means for detecting a delimiter-attached phrase enclosed in a delimiter from the original text of the first language.
Attribute determination means for determining the attribute of the phrase in the delimiter with respect to the phrase immediately preceding the delimiter,
The translation result of the phrase immediately before the delimiter and the translation result of the phrase in the delimiter are output, and at least the translation result of the phrase in the delimiter is determined by the attribute determination means. A translation method that adds annotations according to the attributes of words and phrases in the delimiter and outputs them.
An automatic translation program to function as.

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