JP2727076B2 - Translation support device - Google Patents

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Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a translation support device. 2. Description of the Related Art For example, a machine translation device that creates a corresponding Japanese sentence from a foreign language sentence such as English has been studied because of its necessity, and various devices have been proposed. But,
At this time, the translation results by the machine translation device are not complete, and include things that are difficult to read and mistranslated,
It cannot be used as it is. Although a post-editing device has been proposed to compensate for this drawback, the result is dragged by the sentence obtained by the translating device, and a satisfactory translated sentence cannot be obtained. Therefore, a post-correction operation for correcting the translation by the machine is required. For example, if a commonly used Japanese word processor is used to create a translated sentence in the post-correction, a plurality of homonyms are prepared in the dictionary in the device when performing kana-kanji conversion. The kanji corresponding to a word is not always prioritized, and even if the word processor has a learning function, there is a high possibility that erroneous conversion will be performed if the word to be used has not been learned. Moreover, if the sentence to be translated is different, the kanji to be converted is also different, so that the effect of the learning function of the word processor could not be expected in the creation of the translated sentence in the post-correction. In addition, when a machine translator is used to create a translated sentence in the post-correction, it is difficult to edit the translated sentence because the style itself obtained by the translator is often awkward. Recently, electronic dictionaries have been commercialized,
In this case, since the translated word such as a word is simply displayed on the display device, it cannot be used for creating a translated sentence in the target post-correction. As described above, it has not been possible to obtain a device that can easily perform post-correction of a machine translation device from a foreign language to Japanese. Purpose It is an object of the present invention to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art and to provide a translation support device that can easily perform post-correction in a machine translation device. Configuration In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a translation support device for supporting a translation device for translating a sentence in a first language into a sentence in a second language. ,
Said second language dictionary comprising: a search information dictionary means; a second language dictionary means; an input means capable of inputting a first language sentence and a second language sentence; a search means; The means stores information for converting a character string of one character type of the second language into a character string of a second language that can be mixed with a plurality of character types. The first language dictionary means includes: Search information for searching a character string in a second language corresponding to a character string in the first language from the second language dictionary means in association with the character string in the first language; Is provided for searching a character string in a second language corresponding to the input character string in the first language from the second language dictionary means when the character string in the first language is input from the input means. Search information in the first
From the language dictionary means, and further from the search information, obtains a character string composed of one character type of the second language in the second language dictionary means, and obtains one character type character of the second language. And storing the search information in the search information dictionary means in association with the search information, and the conversion means outputs, from the input means, one character type of a second language corresponding to the character string in the first language. When a character string composed of characters is input, the input character string composed of one type of character in the second language is referred to as a second character string by referring to the search information dictionary means and the second language dictionary means. Is converted into a character string that can be mixed with a plurality of character types of the second language. At this time, a character string composed of one character type character of the input second language is registered in the search information dictionary means. In this case, if the character is of one character type in the second language registered in the search information dictionary means, Is obtained is characterized in that on the basis of the search information corresponding to the character string consisting of performing search and conversion to the second language dictionary means. Hereinafter, a specific description will be given based on an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 shows a functional block diagram of one embodiment of a translation support device in an English-Japanese translation device to which the device according to the present invention is applied. The device of this embodiment is a translation support device of an English-Japanese translation device that translates an English sentence in a first language into a Japanese sentence in a second language, which is a desired language. The apparatus mainly includes an input unit 10, a control unit 12, a dictionary search unit 14,
Kana-Kanji conversion unit 16, English dictionary 18, Kana-Kanji conversion dictionary 20,
It is composed of a translation priority dictionary 22 and a display unit 24. The input unit 10 includes, for example, a keyboard including keys such as alphanumeric characters, hiragana, kana-kanji conversion, symbols, and cursor movement, or an optical reading device (OCR) that reads English or Japanese text recorded on paper. Or an input device such as a file storage device for reading a text stored in a storage medium such as a floppy disk, and an English character string to be translated and a translated Japanese kana character string are input. . The control unit 12 is connected to the input unit 10, the display unit 24, the dictionary search unit 14, and the kana-kanji conversion unit 16, and controls each unit connected in accordance with an instruction input from the input unit 10 by an operator. The English sentence input from the input unit 10 is sent to the dictionary search unit 14 and controlled, and an English dictionary 18 and a kana-kanji conversion dictionary 20 to be described later are searched, and further, the display unit 24 is controlled and input. The displayed English sentence is displayed on the display unit 24. Also,
When a translated Japanese kana character string is input from the input unit 10, the kana character string is sent to the kana-kanji conversion unit 16 and controlled to perform kana-kanji conversion, and the display unit 24 is controlled and converted. The latter kanji / kana mixed sentence is displayed on the display unit 24. The dictionary search unit 14 is connected to the control unit 12, the English dictionary 18, the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 20, and the translation priority dictionary 22, and converts the English sentence from the control unit 12 according to the instruction of the control 12 into the English dictionary. By searching the dictionary 18 and the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 20, the Japanese reading corresponding to the English word or idiom and the address of the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 20 are obtained and registered in the translation priority dictionary 22. The kana-kanji conversion 16 is composed of the control unit 12, the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 2
0, and connected to the priority dictionary for translation 22 and the control unit 1
The kana-kanji conversion dictionary 20 and the translation priority dictionary 22 are searched for the Japanese kana character string sent from the control unit 12 according to the instruction of 2, and the kana-kanji conversion operation based on information such as word reading, notation, and part of speech. , And sends the converted Kanji / Kana mixed sentence to the control unit 12. In the English dictionary 18, as shown in FIG. 2, all the inflected forms of English words (idioms) are registered as separate entries, and for each word (idiom), ) Stores the address information of the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 20 corresponding to ()). It goes without saying that the original form of the word can be registered as an entry and each inflected form can be estimated by some means. As shown in FIG. 3, the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 20 stores word reading information, notation information, and grammatical information such as part-of-speech. Is registered. As shown in FIG. 4, the translation priority dictionary 22 reads Japanese words corresponding to each word (idiom) of the English input sentence searched by the dictionary search unit 14 and the word (idiom).
The address information of the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 20 corresponding to the reading of "." Note that the information stored in the translation priority dictionary 22 is not fixed information, but information of words (idioms) searched by the dictionary search unit 14 is written. The written information is performed by, for example, a Japanese word processor. When the so-called learning process is performed by the kana-kanji conversion unit 16, it is deleted from the translation priority dictionary 22. The display unit 24 includes a display device such as a CRT, and displays an English sentence input from the input unit 10 according to an instruction from the control unit 12 and a sentence mixed with kanji and kana after the conversion process. Next, the operation of the present apparatus will be described with reference to the schematic flow of FIG. For example, "a good advic"
Consider the case where the phrase "e was" is included. First, for example, when an English sentence including the above phrase is input to the input unit 10 by an operator's keyboard operation (50), the control unit
Reference numeral 12 controls the dictionary search unit 14 to search the English dictionary 18 for words and idioms from the beginning of the input English sentence, and obtain the address of the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 20 from the searched word and idiom dictionary information. That is, in the case of “a” in “a good advice was”, searching the English dictionary 18 yields “one” or “one” in Japanese corresponding to “a” as shown in FIG. Then, the address of the same word (idiom) in the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 20 can be obtained. From the obtained address, the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 20 is searched, and the Japanese "one" corresponding to "a" and "one" and "ichi", which are kana readings of "one", are read out and read. The kana reading and the address of the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 20 are registered in the priority dictionary 22 in a form in which the kana reading and the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 20 are arranged by reading as shown in FIG. 4 (52). That is, the translation priority dictionary 22 is registered with the Japanese kana reading corresponding to English “a” and the address of the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 20. At the time of registration in the translation priority dictionary 22, if the same address has already been registered, the registration operation is not performed. Further, the control unit 12 controls the display unit 24,
The English sentence input to the input unit 10 is displayed (54). Next, a kana character string of a Japanese sentence translated by the English-Japanese translator, for example, "one good Kankogaku" is input by the keyboard operation of the input unit 10 by the operator (56). At this time, the display 24 displays an English sentence that is a target sentence for translation. The control unit 12 determines whether or not all the processing on the kana character string input in step 58 has been completed, terminates the processing operation when it is determined to be completed, and determines that the processing has not been completed yet. , The processing operation is continued, and the routine proceeds to the next processing, step 60. The kana-kanji conversion unit 16 converts a kana character string input according to an instruction from the control unit 12 into a kana-kana mixed sentence. In this conversion process, the translation priority dictionary 22 is used for ordinary kana-kanji conversion processing. The search is performed prior to the dictionary (the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 20). When the input kana character string (reading of a word (idiom) to be searched) is registered in the translation priority dictionary 22, information on the word (idiom) registered in the translation priority dictionary 22 is displayed. That is, the kana-kanji conversion process is performed using the address of the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 20 for reading the word (that is, the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 20 is used at this address).
, And a conversion process is performed), and those not registered in the translation priority dictionary 22 are subjected to a normal conversion process using a general dictionary (a kana-kanji conversion dictionary 20). Through the above conversion processing, a kanji mixed kana sentence corresponding to the input kana character string is determined (60). In the kana-kanji conversion process of step 60, when the information of the word (idiom) registered in the priority dictionary for translation 22 is used, the used word (idiom) information is subjected to a generally performed learning process, and after the learning process is completed. It is deleted from the translation priority dictionary 22 (62). A known method may be used for the conversion process from kana to kanji and the learning process, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted. When the control unit 12 determines that all the kana-kanji conversion processing for the kana character string input in step 58 has been completed, the control unit 12 controls
As shown in the figure, the English sentence to be translated and the Kanji / Kana mixed sentence after the Kana / Kanji conversion process are displayed. As described above, according to this embodiment, when an English sentence to be translated is input, the English dictionary 18 and the kana-kanji conversion dictionary are searched for each input English word (idiom).
Since Japanese readings and kanji candidates corresponding to each English word (idiom) are registered in advance in the translation priority dictionary 22,
When a kana character string of a translated sentence is input, a search operation in the kana-kanji conversion process can be performed smoothly, and initial errors such as translation error can be reduced. Therefore, post-processing for an incomplete Japanese sentence translated by the English-Japanese translation device can be easily performed. The present invention can be effectively applied not only to a translation support device of an English-Japanese translation device that translates English into Japanese, but also to a translation support device of a translation device that translates one language into another language. Needless to say, Or the device of the present invention
Although described as a separate device from the translation device, it can be used by connecting to the translation device, and can also be provided in the translation device. Further, the present invention can be applied not only to a translation support device but also to a translation device and a language processing device such as a Japanese word processor. Effects According to the present invention, each word (idiom) of the first language sentence input to the translation support device of the translation device that translates the first language sentence into a second language sentence composed of a plurality of types of characters is provided. ), A search information dictionary for pre-registering search information in the second language corresponding to the second language is provided. Therefore, when a character example including one type of character in the second language is input, the search information dictionary is prioritized. Search, and can be converted into a character string composed of a plurality of types of characters in the second language, so that the search operation in the conversion process can be performed smoothly.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing one embodiment of a translation support device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a registration state of an English dictionary in FIG. FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing an example of a registration state of the kana-kanji conversion dictionary in FIG. 1, FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing an example of a registration state of the translation priority dictionary in FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the translation support apparatus in FIG. 1. FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a display example on the display unit in FIG. Description of Signs of Main Parts 10 Input Unit 12 Control Unit 14 Dictionary Search Unit 16 Kana-Kanji Conversion Unit 18 English Dictionary 20 Kana-Kanji Conversion Dictionary 22 Priority Translation Dictionary 24 ...... Display section

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(57) [Claims] A translation support device for supporting a translation device for translating a sentence in a first language into a sentence in a second language, comprising: a first language dictionary means; a search information dictionary means;
A second language dictionary means, an input means capable of inputting a first language sentence and a second language sentence, a search means, and a conversion means, wherein the second language dictionary means Information for converting a character string of one character type of the second language into a character string of a second language that can be mixed with a plurality of character types, wherein the first language dictionary means stores characters of the first language Search information for searching a character string in a second language corresponding to a column from a second language dictionary means in association with a character string in a first language; and the search means includes: When a character string in a first language is input, search information for searching a character string in a second language corresponding to the input character string in the first language from the second language dictionary means is stored in the first language. Obtained from language dictionary means,
Further, the second information in the second language dictionary means is obtained from the search information.
Obtaining a character string composed of one character type of the second language, storing the character string composed of one character type of the second language in the search information dictionary means in association with the search information, Means for inputting, from the input means, a character string composed of one character type of a second language corresponding to the character string of the first language, the one character type of the input second language; Is converted into a character string that can be mixed with a plurality of character types in a second language with reference to the search information dictionary means and the second language dictionary means. When a character string composed of the input one-character type of the second language is registered in the search information dictionary means, the one-character type of the second language registered in the search information dictionary means is registered. The second language dictionary means is searched based on search information corresponding to a character string composed of characters, and conversion processing is performed. A translation support device characterized in that the translation is performed.