JP2918114B2 - Translation display device - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a translation display device for displaying a translation result in a machine translation system.

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, a machine translation system has been developed in which a translated sentence can be automatically obtained simply by inputting a key of an original sentence. As a method of displaying the translation result in this case, there is a translation display method for making it easy to compare the original sentence and the translated sentence. For example, Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 61-223978 discloses a bilingual display system in which an original sentence and a translated sentence are displayed in fixed left and right areas on a screen.

In recent years, with the advancement of functions of a display device, a display mode using the concept and method of a window (display area) has been generalized. For example, an original sentence and a translated sentence are displayed one by one using a window. This is indicated by, for example, "Japanese semantic analysis of machine translation system LUTE" in "Natural Language Processing 33-6 (1982.10.22)".

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, there is a difference in the amount of information per character in each language and the like, and according to the bilingual display method of the above publication, the display contents on both the right and left screens are apt to be shifted. Therefore, since the original sentence and the translated sentence are managed in units of sentences, and are displayed while maintaining a correspondence such as aligning the display start line position, there is a disadvantage that the control is troublesome.

As a result, the scroll method of the screen display content is also a scroll method in which the original sentence and the translated sentence are synchronized. Therefore, the original sentence and the translated sentence are used for scrolling.
It is necessary to manage two pieces of information, and the trouble of control is increased, and the scroll speed is slow. In particular, in this type of system, when a large amount of translation is performed, there is an inherent requirement that the entire original or translated sentence be viewed on the screen, but such a display method cannot respond to such a request. .

In addition, when considering the original sentence and the translated sentence, there is usually a difference in the amount of information per character. Therefore, when displaying a bilingual translation, it is necessary to change the layout on the screen every time both displayed languages change. Occurs. At this time, if the display widths of the two are incorrectly distributed, the number of blank lines for associating the two becomes large, resulting in a very unnatural bilingual display.

Furthermore, according to the conventional bilingual display method, it is common to display in translation units, that is, in units of one sentence. However, for the user, it is often easier to understand that the translated sentence is displayed in paragraph units, and it is also easier to understand the correspondence with the original sentence. However, in the conventional bilingual display method, paragraph information is missing, which is very inconvenient when processing a large number of translated sentences.

On the other hand, according to the window method, the scroll speed is high, and the difference in the amount of information between the two languages can be absorbed by the window. However, in the case of the window system, the display in both windows is performed independently, and there is basically a disadvantage that the correspondence between the original sentence and the translated sentence becomes unclear. There is no devising about paragraph processing.

As a result, the conventional translation display method is not always easy to use and understand for the user, and is still insufficient.

Means for Solving Problems First, the input original text is translated based on a translation dictionary,
In a translation display device for displaying a translated translation along with the original text on a display unit, a synchronous scroll display means for synchronizing and scrolling the translated original text and the translated text, and asynchronously synchronizing the translated text with the translated text. Asynchronous scroll display means that scrolls the original text or translated text asynchronously, and associates with the original text or translated text that scrolled the translated text or original text that is no longer displayed as needed after this scrolling. A corresponding display means for displaying by a parallel translation display, and a display mode switching means for appropriately switching between a parallel translation display in a synchronous display mode by a synchronous scroll display means and an independent translation or original display in an asynchronous display mode by an asynchronous scroll display means. Was provided.

Secondly, a display area width changing means for selectively changing the width of the original sentence display area and the width of the translated sentence display area on the display unit is provided, and the original sentence and the translated sentence are displayed in parallel.

Third, a paragraph-by-paragraph display means is provided which has paragraph information of a translated sentence corresponding to the paragraph of the original sentence, and displays the translated sentence collectively for each paragraph in accordance with the paragraph information.

Operation First, when a large amount of translation or the like is performed, for example, if a translation scroll is instructed, only the translation screen is scrolled, and the translation result can be generally viewed. This is the same on the original side. In any case, it is a single scroll, there is no need to maintain a correspondence relationship with the other, etc., it becomes a high speed scroll, its control is simple, and furthermore, one of the translated texts does not move as needed after scrolling In addition, since it has a function of redisplay processing that moves the original text so as to display a bilingual display in correspondence with the moved original text or translated text, even if the original text or translated text is scrolled alone, it can easily return to the normal bilingual display be able to.

Also, when translating, in the corresponding original-translation,
In many cases, the information amount of the original sentence and the information amount of the translated sentence are not the same ratio. In such a case, by changing the width of each display area according to the amount of each information and the number of characters that can be displayed, a display state that is easy to see is obtained.

Furthermore, by focusing on the paragraphs and displaying them collectively for each paragraph, the bilingual relationship with the original text can be more easily seen.

Embodiment An embodiment of the invention described in claim 1 will be described as a first embodiment.
A description will be given with reference to FIGS.

First, the concept or procedure of the machine translation system used in the present invention will be described by a third method using a general syntax transfer method.
This will be described with reference to the algorithm shown in FIG. This is, for example, an English-Japanese machine translation system. After inputting an original sentence, a morphological analysis for the spell check is selectively performed. Then, a general morphological analysis is performed. This is an analysis in units of words, and is an analysis process that focuses on, for example, special characters such as hyphens. Next, syntax analysis is performed. This is a syntactic analysis to know the structure of a sentence. After performing an English structure identification process such as eliminating semantically incorrect analysis from the result of the syntax analysis to create an English intermediate structure, a syntax conversion process is performed. That is, the intermediate structure is converted from an intermediate structure based on English expressions into an intermediate structure that can easily express Japanese expressions. Then, Japanese language generation is performed. That is, in order to generate a natural Japanese sentence from the intermediate structure of Japanese, first, syntax generation is performed, and then morpheme generation for adjusting the arrangement order of particles and auxiliary verbs is performed. Thereafter, a translated sentence, for example, Japanese is finally output.

Here, a morphological analysis is performed on the input original text, and the result is fed back to the user for pre-editing, or a translation result is displayed bilingually to be edited after editing to the user's desired one. -Has a post-edit function.

The translation display method according to the present embodiment relates to post-editing processing during such processing.
It does not depend on the translation method as in the above example.

In this embodiment, in the bilingual display of the original sentence and the translated sentence, the screen scroll is controlled so as to take various modes as shown in FIG. That is, there are basically two types of scrolling: synchronous scrolling, original text scrolling, and translated text scrolling, which are selected by a user's command input. Here, the synchronous scrolling is a method of synchronizing and scrolling the translated and displayed original text and the translated text, and is a conventional scroll method itself known from the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 61-223978. (It is well known and details are omitted).

In the original sentence scroll, only the original sentence side is scrolled without moving the translated sentence side with respect to the original sentence and the translated sentence displayed in the bilingual display. That is, the original text scrolls asynchronously with respect to the translated text. The translated sentence scroll is the opposite, in which only the translated sentence is scrolled, and the translated sentence scrolls asynchronously with respect to the original sentence. In general, if you translate a lot,
I often look at the translation results in general. In such a case, the translation sentence scroll may be input and specified as a command. For example, FIG. 1A shows an initial display state in which original sentences 1 to 4 and translated sentences 1 to 4 are bilingually displayed on the screen of the display unit 1, and FIG. 1B shows such an initial display state. From the translation side screen based on the translation scroll from 1
The upper part of the screen is scrolled to show a state where the translations 5 to 7 are displayed. Furthermore, if you scroll, translated sentences 8-
Are scrolled and displayed one after another, so that the entire translation can be viewed. In this case, as can be seen from FIG. 1 (b), the translated sentence scroll-displayed does not correspond to the original sentence. However, such an asynchronous scroll movement that does not require a correspondence between the two enables easy control and a high scroll speed. This applies to the case where original text scrolling is performed.

By the way, if you do such a scrolling of the translation only (or scrolling of the original text only) and find a translation that you are interested in, or if you want to review it from the beginning,
Again, a bilingual display in which the correspondence between the original sentence and the translated sentence is required is required. Therefore, in the present embodiment, a left-right synchronization mode is provided in preparation for such a case. FIG. 1 (c) shows the original sentences 5-7 corresponding to the translated sentences 5-7 which are synchronized in the horizontal direction in the translated sentence scroll state as shown in FIG. 1 (b).
Is displayed. In other words, if the original sentence has been scrolled, the corresponding translated sentence may be displayed again at a required position, and if the translated sentence is scrolled, the corresponding original sentence may be displayed again at a required position. Of course, when the synchronous scrolling is performed, such a redisplay process is not necessary since the correspondence is maintained from the beginning.

Note that the present embodiment is an example of a completely corresponding bilingual display method as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 61-223978. However, the present invention is not limited thereto. The same applies to a method in which only the correspondence of the translated sentence is taken and the correspondence between the original sentence and the translated sentence is not secured in other places, or a window method.

Next, an embodiment of the invention described in claim 2 will be described with reference to FIG. 4 and FIG. In this embodiment,
For example, in the post-editing processing during the processing by the syntax transfer method in FIG. 3, it is not particularly affected by the translation method. First, a general bilingual display process related to this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. By setting the number of lines of the _i- th original sentence in O _i and setting the number of lines of the i-th translated sentence in Ti, the number of lines required for sequentially displaying the original and translated sentences is calculated. And after displaying both,
The display line of the next sentence is shifted by the larger number of lines and one blank line.

Here, in calculating the required number of rows, of course,
The width of the display area that regulates the number of characters that can be displayed becomes a problem. That is, for the number of characters c of the displayed line and the number of displayable characters ω, the required number of lines 1 is 1 = [c / ω] +1 (where []
Is obtained by the Gaussian symbol).

Therefore, it is apparent that the display processing control itself does not become particularly complicated even if the number of displayable characters ω is changed.

By the way, as a variable input method of the width of the display area, a method of designating the number of characters that can be displayed on one line of one area, a method of inputting the width of both areas as a ratio of two, a direct pointing device, A method of designating the break position, etc. can be considered. What is ultimately needed is the number of characters that can be displayed in both areas, which can be easily obtained by either input method.

FIG. 5 shows a specific example of a bilingual display on the display unit 1. That is, the ratio of the same figure (a) is original display area width W _O and target display area width W _T of 1: 1 shows a case, FIG. (B) is W _O and W _T
7 shows a display example in the case where the ratio to is changed to 2: 3.

By appropriately setting the width of each display area in this way, the number of blank lines does not increase unnecessarily, the appearance of the bilingual display is improved, and the operability of post-editing and the like is improved.

Further, an embodiment of the invention described in claim 3 will be described with reference to FIG. This embodiment is also, for example, in post-editing processing during processing by the syntax transfer method shown in FIG. 3, but is not particularly affected by the translation method. In any case, the present embodiment focuses on paragraphs, and the translating unit recognizes the paragraph information of the original sentence, and inserts this paragraph information in a specific format into the translated sentence.

First, when displaying a translation, one translation is usually taken out.
The display line n of the translated sentence is calculated based on the screen line number L, the double-sided width W, and the line number l, and if necessary, a blank line is added after the translated sentence display. During such translation display processing, the paragraph information of the translation corresponding to the paragraph of the original text is always checked, and each sentence is displayed while inserting a blank line each time the paragraph information is encountered.

At this time, there are a method of displaying a plurality of sentences in a paragraph by connecting them like general Japanese, and a method of displaying one line at a time. In any case, since it is clearly indicated for each paragraph, the display form is easy to read (has good readability). In particular, by aligning the display line positions of the original sentence and the translated sentence for each paragraph (for this reason, blank lines are inserted as necessary), it is extremely easy to see and the correspondence between the two is easy to understand.

In addition, by applying such a display method in consideration of a paragraph to various methods for displaying a bilingual display, the display can be more easily understood and used. In this case, in the above-described connected display method, the correspondence between the left and right can be taken for each paragraph, and the correspondence can be emphasized by a cursor indicating the corresponding sentences in the left and right regions in synchronization. In the latter display method for each line, in addition to the correspondence with the paragraph word, it is possible to emphasize the correspondence by using the correspondence with the word in the paragraph.

In addition, instead of the method of indicating paragraph breaks with blank lines,
For example, a delimiter method of changing the display attribute for each paragraph may be used.

In addition, by applying the window method, one window may be assigned to each paragraph, and the left and right positions of the windows may be aligned to make the display positions of the original sentence and the translated sentence correspond. Further, only the currently focused paragraph may be displayed left-right aligned, while the other parts may simply be displayed ignoring the correspondence. Also in these cases, a linked cursor may be placed at the left and right positions to indicate the corresponding sentence.

Note that, in these embodiments, English-Japanese examples are described as horizontal display examples, but vertical display examples such as those between Chinese and Japanese can be similarly applied.

Advantageous Effects of the Invention As described above, the present invention scrolls the original text or the translated text asynchronously with the translated text or the original text displayed on the same display unit, and after this movement, the translated text or the translated text that is no longer displayed as needed. The original text is moved so as to display a corresponding translation, or the width of the original text display area and the width of the translated text display area on the display unit are selectively changed to display the original text and the translated text in parallel, or Has the paragraph information of the translated sentence corresponding to the paragraph of, and according to this paragraph information, the translated sentence is displayed collectively for each paragraph, so that one of the independent scrolling, the corresponding bilingual display with good appearance, the paragraph corresponding display, etc. Therefore, it is possible to take one form of the bilingual display which is extremely easy to understand, and to improve post-editing workability and the like.

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FIG. 1 is a front view of a display example showing an embodiment of the invention described in claim 1, FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing scroll control, FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing a syntax transfer method, FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing an embodiment of the invention described in claim 2, FIG. 5 is a front view of a display example, and FIG. 6 is an embodiment of the invention described in claim 3. It is a flowchart which shows an example.

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Shuntaro Shimada 2-9 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Inside System Planning Institute, Inc. (72) Inventor Yoshiyuki Usui 2-9 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo System Inside Planning Institute (72) Inventor Masato Hori 2-9 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Inside System Planning Institute, Inc. (56) References JP-A-61-223978 (JP, A) Richard Stulmun, Ikuo Takeuchi GNU Emacs Manual, translated by Ryoji, Kyoritsu Shuppan (1988-2-15) p88-91

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A translation display device for translating an input original sentence based on a translation dictionary and displaying a translated translation along with the original sentence on a display unit, wherein the translated original sentence and the translated sentence are synchronized and scrolled. Synchronous scroll display means, Asynchronous scroll display means for asynchronously scrolling the original and translated text displayed bilingually, Asynchronously scrolling the original or translated text, and after this scrolling, the corresponding text will not be displayed as necessary Corresponding display means for displaying the translated text or the original text in a bilingual display in correspondence with the scrolled original text or translated text, and bilingual display in the synchronous display mode by the synchronous scroll display means and asynchronous display mode by the asynchronous scroll display means Display mode switching means for appropriately switching between independent translation or original display A translation display device comprising: 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a display area width changing means for selectively changing the width of the original sentence display area and the width of the translated sentence display area on the display unit to display the original sentence and the translated sentence in parallel. Translation display device. 3. A paragraph-by-paragraph display means which has paragraph information of a translation corresponding to a paragraph of an original sentence, and displays a translation according to the paragraph information collectively for each paragraph.
Translation display device according to the description.