JP2947686B2 - Search result display method in translation support system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a search result display method in a translation support system for editing and creating a translated document using information searched by a linguistic expression information search function such as a dictionary search or an example sentence search. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a computer is used to specify a search keyword or the like, and language search information such as a dictionary search or an example sentence search is used to search for language data such as a dictionary or a bilingual example sentence to obtain necessary information. Therefore, a translation support system used for editing and creating a translated document has been developed. In these translation support systems, various methods are adopted to obtain a linguistic expression such as a translated word or an example sentence that serves as a reference for translation and to support creation of a translated document.

[0005] For example, FIG. 9 shows a display method in a conventional English text creation support apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1-41067. In FIG. 9, the English letter creation area 4
A part of the text is designated as a range, a search is performed for a character string in the range specified by the English-Japanese, Japanese-English dictionary menu 42, and the search result is displayed in a display area 43;
The displayed contents can be transferred to the English letter creating area 41 and taken in.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 1-15867 discloses that
A method of displaying an example sentence that highlights a translation in the example sentence is described. Further, in the conventional search result display method of a bilingual example sentence disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2-112065, a bilingual example sentence is analyzed in advance, and a translated word pair is analyzed using pattern matching between the sentence and the input sentence analysis result. What you will find.

[0005]

The search result display method of the conventional translation support system is configured as described above.
For example, in the case of JP-A-1-41067, a dictionary search result is displayed in a display area 43 different from the document editing area (window) 41, so that a display device having a small screen like a personal computer is used. In, the search result is displayed in the document editing area (window) 41.
In order to capture the data, it was necessary to give an instruction to switch the area (window) in addition to the normal editing work.

In the conventional bilingual example sentence search result display method disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1-15867, when an example sentence in a word dictionary is displayed, a word in an example sentence that matches a dictionary entry is highlighted. Is what you do. Therefore, when referring to an example sentence using another translated word, it is necessary to change the dictionary heading, and it has been difficult to simultaneously refer to example sentences having different translated words.

Further, in the method disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1-15867, it is necessary to analyze a bilingual example sentence in advance and store correspondence between words as information, which complicates data addition work. , The data amount also increases. Also,
Since the input sentence is analyzed and pattern matching is performed, a long search time is required, and if the analysis is erroneous, there is a problem that the translated word cannot be handled.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problem. In a dictionary search, a dictionary search is performed without an operation of switching between a search result display window and a document editing window. The results can be imported into the document editing window, and in the parallel translation example sentence search, even when referring to an example sentence using another translation, the example sentences with different translations can be referred to at the same time without changing the dictionary heading. It is an object of the present invention to provide a search result display method of a translation support system capable of speeding up a display operation and efficiently performing a translated document creation operation with a consistent operation.

[0009]

According to the present invention , a search result display in a translation support system having a plurality of windows to be paired and displaying search results of a dictionary on the windows is provided.
About the method.

Further , the present invention provides the above-described window
C has a dictionary menu for instructing dictionary search
A translation pair in one of said paired windows
After specifying the elephant, use the dictionary menu to
When a translation is made, a dictionary search is
In the dictionary menu in the other window
Import the heading item corresponding to the translation target, and
Is selected in the other window
Is displayed, displays the imported heading item,
When an item is selected, the translation corresponding to this entry is
Displays the translation and selects it when the displayed translation is selected.
The selected translation is imported into the document being edited and displayed.
It is .

[0011]

According to the dictionary search result display method of the present invention configured as described above, when a dictionary search is instructed in one of a plurality of windows to be translated , the translation pair is displayed .
Performs a dictionary search as an item heading the elephant language, captures the heading items in the other eye New <br/> over item.

Then, in the other window to be paired,
Display heading items by selecting menu items
The translated word is displayed by selecting the heading item,
The dictionary search result can be easily incorporated into the document being edited .

[0013]

【Example】

Embodiment 1 FIG. An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a translation support device that executes the search result display method according to the present invention. As shown in the figure, the translation support device includes a dictionary search unit 11 as a means for performing a dictionary search, an example sentence search unit 12 as a means for performing a bilingual example sentence search, and an editing function as a means for performing other editing processing. An execution unit 13 is provided.
Further, an input device 14 such as a keyboard, a mouse, a pen, an OCR (optical character reading device) or the like; an input control unit 15 for controlling the input device 14; An edit control unit 16 that controls the editing process of the document, and an external storage control unit 17 that controls the external storage of the edited document file
And an external storage device 18 for storing language data such as document files, dictionaries, and example sentences. Further, a display control unit 19 for controlling the display of the original text and the translated text in a plurality of windows, a print control unit 20 for controlling the printing of the edited document, and the contents designated by the print control unit 20 are displayed. The printing apparatus includes a printing device 21 for printing and a display device 22 that is controlled by the display control unit 19 and displays contents specified by the display control unit 19.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing the basic operation of the main processing of the editing function of the translation support apparatus that executes the search result display method according to the present invention. As shown in the figure, the editing main processing according to the present embodiment selects individual functions by an editing function selection 1,
It is realized by repeating execution and displaying the execution result. Editing function selection 1 includes dictionary search function 2,
A bilingual example sentence function 3 and other editing functions 4 are provided. When the dictionary search function 2 is selected, each step of the dictionary search function execution 5 and the dictionary search result display 6 is executed. When the bilingual example sentence function 3 is selected, the steps of an example sentence search function execution 7 and an example sentence search result display 8 are executed. When other editing function 4 is specified,
Each step of other editing function execution 9 and other editing function execution result display 10 is executed.

FIG. 3 shows a translation support system according to this embodiment.
As shown in FIG. 6, a plurality of document editing windows that make a pair, that is, a Japanese window 23 and an English window 24, are provided in the Japanese window 23 and the English window 24 as the document editing windows, respectively. Menu bars 26 and 27 are provided. Selection of items in the menu bar 26 and 27, a keyboard which is not shown, a mouse, Oh Rui a pointing device such as a pen, is made possible by various input devices 14.

Next, the detailed configuration and operation of the document editing windows 23 and 24 will be described. In FIG. 3, which is a display example of the document editing screen of the present embodiment, a Japanese window 2
When a part of the character string 25 of the sentence displayed in 3 is designated and the menu item [Dictionary] 28 on the menu bar 26 in the Japanese language window 23 is selected, a pull-down menu 29 is displayed. When an item [pull] 30 is selected from the pull-down menu 29, a dictionary search is performed on the character string 25, and a search result corresponding to the character string 25 is obtained.
Is searched. Then, the searched headword is stored in the information storage location 31 of the menu item secured in the pull-down menu.

Next, as shown in FIG. 4, a menu item [dictionary] 33 in the menu bar 27 of the English window 24 is displayed.
When is selected, a pull-down menu 34 is displayed.
At this time, the title item “method” 35 of the detection result is displayed in the pull-down menu 34. When the item 35 is selected, as shown in FIG. 5, a submenu 36 in which the translated word corresponding to the heading is an item is displayed. For example,
When you select an item 37 in the sub-menu 36, the character string "meth to the current cursor position 38 of the English window 24
“od” is inserted, and the state shown in FIG. 6 is obtained.

In the above description, an example in which a simple structure dictionary including a heading and a translation is used has been described. However, the dictionary information includes information other than the translation, and the information is displayed in a display item. The same operation can be expected even if specified as follows.

In the above embodiment, the case where a Japanese-English dictionary is used has been described. However, a dictionary other than the Japanese-English dictionary may be used, and the menu rewriting function is effective even in a single window.

Embodiment 2 FIG. FIGS. 7 and 8 are operation display screens showing additional functions according to the present invention, in which bilingual example sentence search and translation word estimation are performed by character string level analysis. In the process of searching for a bilingual example sentence in a plurality of languages, for example, English and Japanese, when a search condition is entered in the editable area 51 and a search start button 52 is pressed, the search is started. First, it is determined which language of the bilingual example sentence is related to the search condition, and only the language data is set as a search target. In the example of FIG. 7, Japanese and English bilingual example sentence data are used, and the search condition is Japanese. Therefore, only Japanese data is to be searched.

The search results are displayed in a list box 53. At this time, if the number of parallel translation example sentences in the search result exceeds a certain number, the search is interrupted at that point, and the results up to that point are displayed in the list box 53. At this time, if the search is still in progress, the meter 54 displays the extent of the search. The overall length 55 of the meter 54 indicates the entire size of the search target, and the scale 56 at the tip of the meter 54 indicates the size of the search target that has already been searched, that is, the position where the search was interrupted.

If the search start button 52 is pressed in this state, the search is restarted, and a search target area that has not been searched yet is searched. On the other hand, when the search condition of the editable area 51 is changed, the meter 54 is reset, the initialization is executed, and when the search start button 52 is pressed next, the search starts from the head of the search target.

In the second embodiment, when a plurality of search results are obtained, a character string commonly appearing in a plurality of sentences on the translated sentence side is extracted and highlighted. In the example sentence data of Japanese and English in the example of FIG. 8, the translation is an English sentence because the search condition is Japanese. Of the multiple translations obtained here,
Character strings “show1d” and “must” common to a plurality of English sentences are highlighted. However, predetermined character strings such as personal pronouns and articles are not highlighted even if they appear in common in a plurality of sentences. Instead of highlighting, other character decorations such as underlining, shading, sack characters, and coloring may be used.

[0025]

As described above, according to the present invention,
In dictionary search, even on a display screen with a small area such as a personal computer screen, a simple operation is performed without opening a new window to search for language data,
In addition, the result can be displayed in a format that is easy to operate across a plurality of windows in an easily understandable manner. Therefore, a translation document creation operation can be efficiently and easily performed by a persistent operation. In the bilingual example sentence search,
The search time is reduced by not outputting a large amount of search results at one time, and the progress of the search is displayed on the meter, and the search is automatically switched between continuation of search and new search. It is possible to easily grasp the progress of the search and determine the next search operation. In addition, the search speed can be improved by narrowing down the search target, and the features of the search result can be easily visually recognized by highlighting the character strings shared by a plurality of translated sentences. Furthermore, when adding the example sentence data, there is no need to store the correspondence of each word in advance and there is no need to store extra information, so that the operation of adding the example sentence data is simplified, and The amount of storage can be suppressed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing a basic operation of an editing process of a translation support system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a translation support system according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a document editing screen showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a document editing screen showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of a document editing screen showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a document editing screen showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of an operation screen showing a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of a display screen showing Embodiment 2 of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of a document editing screen by a conventional device.

[Explanation of symbols]

23 Japanese window 24 English window 25 Character string 26, 27 Menu bar 28 Menu item 29 Pull down menu in Japanese window 36 Submenu in English window 51 Editable area for inputting search conditions 52 Search start button 53 for instructing start of search List box displaying search results 54 Meter displaying search process 55 Meter length indicating search target size 56 Meter scale indicating the position where search was interrupted

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] [Claim 1 further comprising a plurality of windows forming a pair, in the search result display method in the translation support system for displaying search results of the dictionary in this window, the dictionary menu for the window forming the pair is to instruct the dictionary search To
One odor have respectively, a pre-Symbol pair window
Use the dictionary menu to specify the translation target
When a translation is instructed, search the dictionary for the translation target
The dictionary menu in the other window
In the header item corresponding to the translation target,
In the other window of this pair, the dictionary menu
When selected, displays the stored heading items, and
When a heading item is selected, it corresponds to this heading item
Display the translated word to be displayed, and if the displayed translated word is selected,
Selected language is displayed in the document being edited.
Search results display method in the translation support system, characterized in that that.