JP2928515B2 - Translated word output device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention extracts individual words of an input original document, searches for translations of each word included in the original text, and translates these translations into the original document. And a translated word output device that outputs the translated word in correspondence with. 2. Description of the Related Art Conventional desk translators and the like employ a method in which a spelling of a foreign language word whose meaning is incomprehensible is input from an alphabet key or the like, and the translated word is displayed on a liquid crystal display or the like. [Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, such a system has the following problems when it is used instead of a dictionary when reading a text in a relatively long foreign language. (1) It is difficult to use for those who do not know the keyboard layout of the alphabet key very well, and it takes time to enter the spelling of a word. (2) Considering the case where the translation of the word is once read and the translation is forgotten, etc., it is convenient if the translation which has been read once remains, but it is usually only displayed and the processing is shifted to other processing. Disappeared, and humans had to write down each of these translations, which was very troublesome. The present invention has been made in view of the above conventional example, and has as its object to provide a translated word output device that can obtain a translated word for a word having a specific attribute among words in an original sentence by a simple operation. . [Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the translated word output device of the present invention has the following configuration. Input means for optically reading and inputting a sentence in a first language on a print recording medium; analyzing means for performing morphological analysis of the sentence input from the input means; Specifying means for specifying the degree of difficulty of a word in one language, dictionary means for storing a word in the first language as a headword and translation of the headword in a second language and difficulty level, and referring to the dictionary means. An identification means for identifying the difficulty level of each word obtained by the analysis by the analysis means; and if the difficulty level of the word identified by the identification means is equal to or higher than the difficulty level designated by the designation means, Extraction means for extracting, from the dictionary means, a headword for a word and a translation of the headword in a second language; and extracting all headwords extracted by the extraction means as headlines. Selecting means for selecting whether the output format of the translated word collection in which the words are arranged is an output format included in the same page as the input text or an output format independent of the input text, Output means for outputting the translated word collection in an output format selected by the selection means. [Operation] In such a configuration, the original sentence of the first language is input, the input original sentence of the first language is subjected to morphological analysis, the difficulty level of each obtained word is identified, and all of the words having the specified difficulty level or higher are identified. For each of the words in the above, a translation collection in which each word is a headword and the translations of each headword are arranged in an output format that is included on the same page as the input text, or an output format that is independent of the input text To output. Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. [Explanation of Functional Block Diagram (FIG. 1)] FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of the translator according to the present embodiment. In the figure, reference numeral 100 denotes an original text input unit for reading an original text photoelectrically and inputting it as image image data. Digital image data input from the original text input unit 100 is stored in a storage unit 101. Reference numeral 102 denotes a morphological analysis unit that analyzes the input original sentence of the storage unit 101 and divides the input sentence into word units. Each word decomposed in word units is stored in the analysis result holding unit 103. Reference numeral 104 denotes a menu selection unit for selecting how much a translation is to be displayed and output. Here, as will be described later, a part of speech (noun, verb, etc.) of a word to be output as a translated word, a difficulty level of the word, and the like are designated and designated. The translated word of the word that matches the specified condition is displayed and output. Reference numeral 105 denotes each word divided by the morphological analysis unit 102, referring to the dictionary file 107 to check the attribute (part of speech, inflection, etc.) of the word, and as a result, based on the condition selected by the menu selection unit 104, a translation word collection Is created and stored in the search result holding unit 106. Reference numeral 108 denotes an edit instructing unit for designating an edit format such as a translated word collection and original text. An editing unit 109 performs editing in a format instructed by the editing instruction unit 108, and an output unit 110 such as a printer, for example, that displays and outputs the edited document or a collection of translated words. [Description of Configuration of Translator (FIGS. 2 to 7)] FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the translator of the embodiment. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a document reading unit provided with a CCD sensor and the like, which photoelectrically reads the original of a document placed on a document table and inputs a digital signal. 2 is a control unit for controlling the entire apparatus,
For example, it is used as a CPU such as a microprocessor, a ROM for storing a control program and various data of the CPU shown in the flowchart of FIG. 8, and a work area of the CPU.
A RAM for temporarily storing various data is provided. Reference numeral 3 denotes a dictionary file that stores the grammatical attributes and the like of each word in association with the association information between the image data and each character and the spelling of the word. Reference numeral 4 denotes a printer that prints out the edited original text and translated word collection and the like. First, the operator places, for example, an English document as shown in FIG. Next, the menu selection section
The menu is selected by 104. FIG. 3 shows an example of items in this menu. In FIG. 3, reference numeral 30 denotes an example of classification of English words according to the degree of difficulty. For example, according to the classification of the English-Japanese dictionary by Kenkyusha, indicates the basic vocabulary level of junior high school, indicates the basic vocabulary level of high school, and indicates other levels. Is shown. Numeral 31 indicates classification by part of speech, and items such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives are shown as shown in the figure. Reference numeral 32 denotes an item for selecting whether or not to display and output the original sentence together with the translated word list when outputting the edited result. Now, it is assumed that the operator selects the "verb" of the part of speech classification and selects the difficulty level for the junior high school basic vocabulary with a further simpler difficulty level, since it is not necessary to search the dictionary. In this way, the dictionary search is executed for the “verb” having the above difficulty level. When the reading of the original text is started after the menu selection is completed, the original text is stored in the storage unit 101 and sent to the morphological analysis unit 102. In the morphological analysis unit 102, “V
oyager "," accomplish ",..." flight "... (in the case of a verb, the original word) and the result is stored in the analysis result holding unit 103. FIG. The words are arranged in alphabetical order, and their spelling, meaning, part of speech, difficulty level, etc. are stored in correspondence with each word.
A word corresponding to the menu selected by the menu selection unit 104 (for example, in this embodiment, a verb having a difficulty level higher than the above) is selected. Thus, “refuel”, “certify”,... Are searched. The searched result is stored in the search result holding unit 106 and becomes a translation word collection. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an editing instruction in the editing instruction unit 108. The editing instruction unit 108 specifies an output format of the original sentence and the translated word collection to the output unit 110 as an editing format. In FIG. 4, it is possible to instruct whether to output the original sentence and the translated word collection by dividing it into left and right or by dividing it vertically. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of the original sentence and the translated word collection printed out in this way. In this way, the user only has to read the English sentence on the left side while referring to the translated word collection printed on the right half. Here, as shown in the dictionary example of FIG. 5, the word 70 (refu
eling) and 71 (certified) are selected and printed. In this embodiment, the original sentence is printed on the left side and the translated sentence is printed on the right side. However, the original sentence may already be printed as an upper and lower part. If it is good, the menu selection unit 104 may indicate whether the original text is necessary or unnecessary. [Explanation of Operation (FIG. 8)] FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation of the control unit 2 of the translator according to the present embodiment. First, in step S1, the original sentence is input as image data, and in step S2, a morpheme is analyzed and divided into words. In step S3, the grammatical attribute of each word is checked with reference to the dictionary, and the inflected form such as a verb is returned to the original form. In step S4, it is determined whether the word matches the menu selected condition.If the condition is not met, the process proceeds to step S6.If the condition is satisfied, the translation word is read from the dictionary in step S5 and the search result is retrieved. To be stored. In step S6, it is determined whether the processing has been completed for one page of the original text, and it is determined whether the processing has been completed. If the processing has not been completed, the process returns to step S4 to execute the above-described processing. In step S7, it is checked whether or not the output of the original text is unnecessary. If not, in step S9, only the translated word is printed out.
If the output of the original text has been instructed, the original text and the translated word collection are printed in the specified editing format in step S8. As shown in FIG. 7, when printing the original text, the number of characters in one line may be changed from that of the original text, so it goes without saying that "-" or a line feed is appropriately inserted. Although the present embodiment has been described in the case of Japanese and English, the present invention is not limited to this, and can be applied to translation between any two languages by changing the dictionary. As described above, according to the present embodiment, since a troublesome key input operation is eliminated, the burden on the operator can be reduced and the operation can be simplified. Further, by printing out the searched translation, the translation remains on the paper, so that even if the translation is forgotten, there is no need to search for the same translation again. [Effect of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, the first input
Morphological analysis of the original sentence of the language, the difficulty of each obtained word is identified, and for all words equal to or higher than the specified difficulty,
Translated words in which each word is a headword and the translations of each headword are arranged are output in either an output format included on the same page as the input text or in an output format independent of the input text. With a simple operation, a translation of difficulty level that needs to be translated in a given sentence,
There is an effect that a note on the same page as the sentence or a word book independent of the sentence is output, and the sentence can be appropriately referred to when reading the sentence.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of the translator of the present embodiment, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of the translator of the embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of menu selection items. Fig. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an editing format, Fig. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a dictionary file, Fig. 6 is a diagram showing an example of an input original sentence, and Fig. 7 is an original sentence and a translation in this embodiment. FIG. 8 is a flow chart showing the operation of the control unit of the translator of the embodiment. In the drawing, 1... Reading section, 2... Control section, 3... Dictionary file, 4... Printer, 100... Original text input section, 101... Storage section, 102. Result Holder, 10
4 Menu selection section, 105 Dictionary search section, 106 Search result holding section, 107 Dictionary, 108 Editing instruction section, 109
... An editing unit, 110... An output unit.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] Input means for optically reading and inputting a sentence in a first language on a print recording medium; analyzing means for performing morphological analysis of the sentence input from the input means; and a first language for which a translation in a second language is to be obtained Specifying means for specifying the degree of difficulty of the word, dictionary means for storing a translation of the headword in a second language and the difficulty level of the headword as a headword, and referring to the dictionary means, Identification means for identifying the difficulty level of each word obtained by the analysis means; and if the difficulty level of the word identified by the identification means is equal to or higher than the difficulty level designated by the designation means, Extracting means for extracting, from the dictionary means, headwords and translations of the headwords in a second language; and using headwords extracted by the extracting means as headings, the extracted translated words of each headword are arranged in parallel. Selecting means for selecting whether the output format of the translated word collection is an output format included in the same page as the input text or an output format independent of the input text, Output means for outputting the output in the output format selected by the selection means. 2. When an output format included in the same page as the input sentence is selected as an output format of the translated word collection,
The apparatus further includes an arrangement specifying unit that specifies an arrangement of the translated word collection and the text, and the output unit outputs the translated word collection and the text based on the arrangement specified by the arrangement specifying means. 2. The translated word output device according to claim 1, wherein: