JP5571112B2 - Translation control apparatus, translation control method, and translation control program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a translation control device, a translation control method, and a translation control program.

  Conventionally, a shopping site for buying and selling goods via a network such as the Internet has been used. In recent years, there is a need for users who want to use not only shopping sites operated in their home country but also shopping sites operated in foreign countries. For example, when the user is a Japanese user, the user may want to use a shopping site operated in China, the United States, etc. in addition to the shopping site operated in Japan.

  Given these needs, it is considered that advanced services can be provided by translating shopping sites operated in foreign countries into their native languages. However, since the shopping site is formed by a huge amount of web pages and there are a huge number of shopping sites themselves, it is not realistic to manually translate all shopping sites. For this reason, when translating foreign shopping sites, it is conceivable to use a translation system that performs translation processing mechanically.

JP 2009-053761 A JP 2007-172060 A

  However, in the conventional technology using the above translation system, it is not always possible to provide the user with accurate information written on a foreign shopping site. Specifically, the translation system does not always have high translation accuracy, and may translate a foreign language written web page into an incorrect Japanese written web page. For this reason, in the above-described conventional technology, accurate product information or the like may not be provided to the user, which may lead to a decrease in sales at the translated shopping site.

  This application is made in view of the above, and makes it a subject to improve the translation accuracy of a web page.

  A translation control device according to the present application includes a translation control unit that translates a plurality of original pages, which are web pages written in a first language, into a second language notation by controlling a plurality of translation processing units, and the translation control. Providing means for providing a user with a translated sentence page translated by control by the means, calculating means for calculating an evaluation value of user behavior with respect to the translated sentence page provided by the providing means, and evaluation calculated by the calculating means And adjusting means for adjusting the translation processing unit translated into a translated sentence page having a higher value so that the amount of the original sentence page controlled to be translated by the translation control means is increased.

  The translation control device, the translation control method, and the translation control program according to the present application have an effect that the translation accuracy of the web page can be improved.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a network system according to the first embodiment. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a translation ratio storage unit according to the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a sales storage unit according to the first embodiment. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a translation control procedure by the translation control device according to the first embodiment. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a network system according to the second embodiment. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a translation ratio storage unit according to the second embodiment. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a translation control procedure by the translation control device according to the second embodiment.

  Hereinafter, embodiments for implementing a translation control device, a translation control method, and a translation control program according to the present application (hereinafter referred to as “embodiments”) will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. The translation control device, the translation control method, and the translation control program according to the present application are not limited by this embodiment.

(First embodiment)
A first embodiment of a translation control device, a translation control method, and a translation control program according to the present application will be described with reference to FIGS. In the first embodiment, an example will be described in which a user who is located in Japan is provided with a Chinese-language shopping site provided in China after being translated into Japanese.

[1-1. System configuration〕
First, the network system 1 according to the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a network system 1 according to the first embodiment. As illustrated in FIG. 1, the network system 1 according to the first embodiment includes client devices 10 ₁ to 10 _n and a translation control device 100. The client devices 10 ₁ to 10 _n and the translation control device 100 are connected via the network 20 so that they can communicate wirelessly or by wire. In the following, when it is not necessary to distinguish the client devices 10 ₁ to 10 _n , they may be collectively referred to as “client device 10”.

  The client device 10 is an information processing device used by a user. For example, the client device 10 is a desktop PC (Personal Computer), a tablet PC, a notebook PC, a mobile phone, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), or the like.

  The client device 10 according to the first embodiment receives a web page that forms a shopping site provided by the translation control device 100 and displays the received web page on a predetermined display unit (display). Such a web page is originally translated into Chinese, but is translated into Japanese by the translation control device 100. As a result, the user of the client device 10 can purchase a product sold on a Chinese shopping site using a shopping site written in Japanese.

  The translation control device 100 translates a web page group (original text page group) that forms a shopping site in a foreign language into Japanese, and provides the translated web page group (translated text page group) to the client device 10. Specifically, the translation control apparatus 100 according to the first embodiment translates a source page page in Chinese notation using a plurality of translation engines, and provides a translated sentence page in Japanese notation to the user. An evaluation value (for example, sales, the number of times of requesting materials, the number of page browsing, etc.) of the user behavior with respect to the translated sentence page is calculated. And the translation control apparatus 100 adjusts so that the amount of the original text page group to translate increases so that the translation engine translated into the translation text page with high evaluation value. Here, since the total amount of original pages to be translated changes dynamically, the translation control apparatus 100 determines the translation ratio of each translation engine to the total amount of original pages (the ratio of the amount of original pages translated by each translation engine). Will be calculated. Thereby, since the translation control apparatus 100 uses a translation engine with high evaluation of user action preferentially, it can provide the translation sentence page which translated the original sentence page group with high precision. As a result, the translation control device 100 can provide the user with accurate information on the product described in the Chinese shopping site, and can improve the sales of the product.

[1-2. Configuration of translation control apparatus 100]
As illustrated in FIG. 1, the translation control device 100 includes an original text storage unit 110, a translation text storage unit 120, translation engines 131 to 133, a translation ratio storage unit 140, a control unit 150, and Web control. Section 160 and sales storage section 170.

  The original text storage unit 110 stores a web page group expressed in a foreign language. The original text storage unit 110 according to the first embodiment stores an original text page group, which is a web page group in Chinese notation that forms a shopping site operated in China. The translated sentence storage unit 120 stores a translated sentence page group that is a web page group in which the original sentence page group is translated into Japanese under the control of the control unit 150.

  The translation engines 131 to 133 are translation processing units such as a translation system that performs machine translation. The translation engines 131 to 133 according to the first embodiment can translate Chinese into Japanese. These translation engines 131 to 133 execute translation processing using different logics. That is, the translation results by the translation engines 131 to 133 are often different.

  More specifically, there are a large number of translation engines that perform machine translation, each translation engine has its own personality, and translation accuracy is not perfect with any translation engine. That is, there is not one translation engine with high translation accuracy in all fields, and translation engines are not good at each field (fashion, electrical appliances, sports, etc.). For this reason, there is a need to operate using the characteristics of multiple translation systems to the maximum. Then, although mentioned later for details, the translation control apparatus 100 which concerns on 1st Embodiment determines the translation ratio of the original page which the translation engines 131-133 translate for every field in such a condition. Enable operation that maximizes the characteristics of multiple translation systems.

  In addition, although the example which the translation control apparatus 100 has the three translation engines 131-133 was shown in FIG. 1, it is not restricted to this example. For example, the translation control apparatus 100 may have two translation engines or may have four or more translation engines. Further, the translation control device 100 may not include the translation engine itself. Specifically, the translation control apparatus 100 may use a translation engine mounted on the translation server by accessing a translation server (not shown) or the like via the network 20.

  The translation ratio storage unit 140 stores a translation ratio indicating the amount of the original page group to be translated by the translation engines 131 to 133 out of the original page group stored in the original sentence storage unit 110. The translation ratio stored in the translation ratio storage unit 140 is updated by the adjustment unit 152 of the control unit 150 described later. The translation ratio storage unit 140 will be described in detail later.

  The control unit 150 includes a translation control unit 151 and an adjustment unit 152. The control unit 150 is realized by an integrated circuit such as an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) or a field programmable gate array (FPGA). Further, for example, the control unit 150 executes a computer program stored in a storage unit (not shown) using a RAM (Random Access Memory) as a work area by a CPU (Central Processing Unit), an MPU (Micro Processing Unit), or the like. Is realized.

  The web control unit 160 is a control unit that causes the translation control apparatus 100 to operate as a web server. For example, the Web control unit 160 transmits an HTML (HyperText Markup Language) file, image data, and the like to the client apparatus 10 in response to an HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) request received from the client apparatus 10. The web control unit 160 realizes processing by the providing unit 161 and the calculating unit 162 by executing a computer program by a CPU, an MPU, or the like, for example.

  The sales storage unit 170 stores sales when a product is purchased on the translated text page provided by the translation control device 100. The sales stored in the sales storage unit 170 is updated by the calculation unit 162 of the Web control unit 160 described later. The sales storage unit 170 will be described in detail later.

  Although illustration is omitted in FIG. 1, the translation control apparatus 100 includes a communication unit realized by a NIC (Network Interface Card) or the like. For example, the web control unit 160 communicates with the network 20 via the communication unit.

  In addition, each of the storage units (the original text storage unit 110, the translated text storage unit 120, the translation ratio storage unit 140, and the sales storage unit 170) described above may be a semiconductor memory element such as a RAM or a flash memory, or This is realized by a storage device such as a hard disk or an optical disk.

  Each processing unit included in the translation control apparatus 100 described above realizes or executes the functions and operations of information processing described below.

[1-3. Translation ratio storage unit 140]
Next, the translation ratio storage unit 140 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of the translation ratio storage unit 140 according to the first embodiment. FIG. 2 shows two examples in which the translation ratios stored in the translation ratio storage unit 140 are different. As illustrated in FIG. 2, the translation ratio storage unit 140 indicates, for each “product field”, an engine identifier for identifying the translation engines 131 to 133 and the amount of the original page group to be translated by the translation engine. The translation ratio is stored in association with each other. The engine identifier corresponds to a column described as “translation engine” and is denoted by reference numerals “131” to “133” attached to the translation engine in FIG.

  Here, the “commodity field” indicates a field to which the content described on the web page belongs. In the first embodiment, the shopping site has been described as an example, so the “product field” indicates, for example, the field to which the product sold by the shopping site belongs. FIG. 2 shows an example in which the product field of the translation ratio storage unit 140 is divided into “fashion”, “electric appliances”, “sports”, and the like.

  That is, in the upper part of FIG. 2, out of all original text page groups belonging to the product classification “fashion” stored in the original text storage unit 110, the original text page groups corresponding to the amount of “1/3” are converted into the translation engines 131, 132 and Each of 133 is translated. For example, it is assumed that 999,000 original page groups belonging to the product category “fashion” are stored in the original storage unit 110. In this case, in the example in the upper part of FIG. 2, the translation engine 131 translates 330,000 original page groups W1, and the translation engine 132 causes 330,000 original page pages that do not overlap the original page group W1. This shows that the group W2 is translated and the translation engine 133 translates the remaining 330,000 original page groups W3 (original page groups that do not overlap with the original page groups W1 and W2).

  In the example shown in the upper part of FIG. 2, even if the product field is “fashion”, “electric appliance”, or “sports”, the original text belonging to each product field for each of the translation engines 131-133. The amount of “1/3” of the page group is translated.

  On the other hand, in the lower part of FIG. 2, the source page group corresponding to “4/6 (2/3)” of all original pages belonging to the product field “fashion” is translated by the translation engine 131, and “1 / 6 shows an example in which the original page group corresponding to “6” is translated by the translation engine 132 and the original page group corresponding to “1/6” of the entire original page is translated by the translation engine 133.

[1-4. Sales storage unit 170]
Next, the sales storage unit 170 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of the sales storage unit 170 according to the first embodiment. As illustrated in FIG. 3, the sales storage unit 170 associates, for each “product field”, an engine identifier for identifying the translation engines 131 to 133 and sales on the translated sentence page translated by the translation engine. Add and remember.

  In the example illustrated in FIG. 3, the sales storage unit 170 stores sales per display page number of times. To explain with a simple example, for example, the translation engine 131 translates 10 original text pages belonging to the product category “fashion”, displays the 10 translated text pages 1000 times, and the like. Assume that the user has purchased items such as clothes and shoes for a total of “30000 yen” in 10 translated pages. In this case, the sales storage unit 170 stores “30 yen” obtained by dividing “30000 yen” by the display count “1000 times” as the sales of the product classification “fashion” in the translation engine 131.

  That is, in the example shown in FIG. 3, the sales of the product classification “fashion” is highest in the translation engine 131 among the translation engines 131 to 133. This is considered that the translated sentence page related to “fashion” translated by the translation engine 131 can provide accurate product information and the like to the user. In other words, it can be said that the translation engine 131 is highly accurate in translating sentences about “fashion” from Chinese into Japanese. Similarly, in the example shown in FIG. 3, the sales of the product classification “electrical appliances” are highest in the translation engine 132, so that the translation engine 132 has the accuracy of translating sentences related to “electrical appliances” from Chinese into Japanese. It can be said that it is expensive.

[1-5. Action)
Next, a translation control procedure by the translation control apparatus 100 according to the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a translation control procedure by the translation control apparatus 100 according to the first embodiment.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the translation control unit 151 of the control unit 150 converts the source text page group stored in the source text storage unit 110 based on the translation ratio stored in the translation rate storage unit 140 into the translation engines 131- 133 is translated (step S101).

  For example, it is assumed that various types of information stored in the translation ratio storage unit 140 are in the state illustrated in the upper part of FIG. In such a case, the translation control unit 151 divides the original page group belonging to the product classification “fashion” into three equal parts from the original page groups in Chinese notation stored in the original text storage unit 110, and divides the original page group into three equal parts. The original page group is translated into a translated sentence page group in Japanese notation for each of the translation engines 131 to 133. Similarly, the translation control unit 151 also divides the original text page group belonging to the product classification “electric appliances” and “sports” into three equal parts and translates them into each of the translation engines 131 to 133. At this time, the translation control unit 151 randomly assigns the original pages to the translation engines 131 to 133 so as not to cause a bias such as assigning only the original pages related to the high-end brand with a large amount of sales to a specific translation engine. In this case, the translation control unit 151 may assign the original page related to the brand A bag in the predetermined shopping site to the first translation engine and assign the original page related to the brand B clock to the second translation engine.

  The control unit 150 holds correspondence information between the translated sentence page stored in the translated sentence storage unit 120 and the translation engine translated into the translated sentence page. The control unit 150 may store correspondence information in the translated sentence storage unit 120 in association with the translated sentence page. In the first embodiment, the product classification to which the original text page stored in the original text storage unit 110 belongs is set in advance. Then, the control unit 150 may use the product classification of the original text page as the product classification of the translated text page translated from the original text page, and store the product classification in association with the translated text page in the translated text storage section 120. .

  Then, the translation control unit 151 stores the translated sentence page group translated by the translation engines 131 to 133 in the translated sentence storage unit 120. That is, the translated sentence storage unit 120 stores a web page translated from Chinese notation into Japanese notation.

  Then, when the providing unit 161 of the web control unit 160 receives a web page viewing request from the client device 10, the providing unit 161 provides the web page corresponding to the viewing request to the client device 10 (step S102). Here, it is assumed that the providing unit 161 provides the client device 10 with a translated sentence page that forms a shopping site stored in the translated sentence storage unit 120.

  At this time, the providing unit 161 accumulates the number of times the translated text page for the shopping site is provided to the client device 10 as a browsing history (PV: Page View) for each translated text page. Furthermore, when a product is purchased on the translated text page provided to the client device 10, the providing unit 161 accumulates sales for each translated text page as a purchase history. The providing unit 161 waits until a predetermined time (for example, one day, one week, one month, etc.) elapses (step S103, No), and when the predetermined time has elapsed (step S103, Yes), The browsing history and purchase history accumulated until a predetermined time elapses are output to the calculation unit 162.

  Then, the calculation unit 162 calculates sales for each translation engine based on the browsing history and the purchase history input from the providing unit 161 (step S104). Specifically, the calculation unit 162 separates the sales of each translated sentence page included in the purchase history for each translation engine that has translated the translated sentence page and for each product category to which the translated sentence page belongs. The calculation unit 162 can perform such classification processing based on the correspondence information and the product classification corresponding to each translation page described above. Then, the calculation unit 162 calculates the total sales amount in each translated sentence page for each sorted translation engine and each product category. Then, based on the browsing history, the calculation unit 162 divides the total sales amount of each translation engine by the number of times of browsing the translated sentence page translated by the translation engine. In this way, the calculation unit 162 calculates the sales per browsing count as an example of the evaluation value of the user action for the translated text page for each translation engine and each product category.

  For example, it is assumed that a translated sentence page belonging to the product classification “fashion” translated by the translation engine 131 is viewed a total of 1000 times within a predetermined time, and the total sales amount is “30000 yen” among the viewed 1000 times. . In this case, the calculation unit 162 calculates “30 yen / once” as the sales of the product classification “fashion” in the translation engine 131 by dividing the total sales “30000 yen” by the number of browsing times “1000 times”. . Then, the calculation unit 162 stores the sales calculated in this way in the sales storage unit 170.

  Subsequently, based on the sales stored in the sales storage unit 170, the adjustment unit 152 of the control unit 150 translates it into a translated sentence page having a high user action evaluation value (“sales” in the first embodiment). The translation ratio stored in the translation ratio storage unit 140 is adjusted so that the amount of the original page group to be translated increases as the translation engine increases (step S105). Specifically, the adjustment unit 152 compares the sales for each product category stored in the sales storage unit 170, calculates the translation ratio “π” of the translation engine with the highest sales by the following formula (1), The translation ratio “π” of other translation engines (translation engines other than the translation engine with the highest sales) is calculated by the following formula (2), and then the total of the translation ratio “π” of each translation engine is “1”. Normalization is performed so that the translation ratio after normalization becomes a new translation ratio of each translation engine.

π = π ₀ + β (1-π ₀ ) (1)

π = π ₀ + β (0−π ₀ ) (2)

In the above formulas (1) and (2), “π” indicates a new translation ratio before normalization, and can take values of “0” to “1”. “Π ₀ ” indicates the current translation ratio stored in the translation ratio storage unit 140, and can take values of “0” to “1”. Further, “β” determines the fluctuation range of the translation ratio, and can take a value greater than “0” and equal to or less than “1”. The value of “β” is set in advance by a manager or the like.

  For example, it is assumed that various information stored in the translation ratio storage unit 140 is in the state illustrated in the upper part of FIG. 2 and various information stored in the sales storage unit 170 is in the state illustrated in FIG. Here, it is assumed that “β” in the above formulas (1) and (2) is “1/2”.

  In such a case, the adjustment unit 152 determines that the sales of the translation engine 131 is the highest among the translation engines 131 to 133 for the product classification “fashion”. Then, the adjusting unit 152 calculates the translation ratio “π” = “1/3 + (1/2) · (1-1 / 3)” = “4/6” of the translation engine 131 using the above formula (1). To do. Then, as illustrated in the lower part of FIG. 2, the adjustment unit 152 updates the translation ratio of the translation engine 131 corresponding to the product category “fashion” in the translation ratio storage unit 140 to “4/6”. Further, the adjustment unit 152 calculates the translation ratio “π” = “1/3 + (1/2) · (0−1 / 3)” = “1/6” of the translation engines 132 and 133 according to the above equation (2). Is calculated. Then, as illustrated in the lower part of FIG. 2, the adjustment unit 152 updates the translation ratios of the translation engines 132 and 133 corresponding to the product classification “fashion” in the translation ratio storage unit 140 to “1/6”. After this, each translation ratio is normalized so that the total translation ratio of the translation engines 131 to 133 is “1” (in this example, the total translation ratio is “1”. Translation percentage value does not change).

  Similarly, the adjustment unit 152 also updates the translation ratios of the translation engines 131 to 133 corresponding to the product categories “electric appliances” and “sports”. If there is no difference in sales among the translation engines 131 to 133 as in the example of the product classification “sports” illustrated in FIG. 3, the adjustment unit 152 performs translation as illustrated in the lower part of FIG. 2. The translation ratio in the ratio storage unit 140 is not updated.

  As described above, the adjustment unit 152 according to the first embodiment increases only the translation ratio of the translation engine with the highest sales by a predetermined value by using the above formulas (1) and (2). The predetermined value is evenly distributed and reduced from the translation ratio of other translation engines other than the translation engine with the highest.

  Then, returning to the processing in step S101, the translation control unit 151 converts the source page group stored in the source text storage unit 110 into the translation engine 131 based on the translation rate of the translation rate storage unit 140 updated by the adjustment unit 152. -133 are newly translated (step S101). The translation control unit 151 causes the translation engines 131 to 133 to translate only the original text page that needs to be newly translated.

  For example, in the state shown in the upper part of FIG. 2, the translation engine 131 translates 330,000 original page groups W1, the translation engine 132 translates 330,000 original page groups W2, and the translation engine 133 converts 330,000 original sentences. It is assumed that the page group W3 is translated. After this, it is assumed that the translation ratio stored in the translation ratio storage unit 140 is updated from the upper level to the lower level in FIG. At this time, for example, the translation control unit 151 causes the translation engine 131 to translate 670,000 original page groups W4, the translation engine 132 translates 160,000 original page groups W5, and the translation engine 133 receives 160,000. Assume that the original document page group W6 is translated.

  In this case, since the translation engine 131 has already translated 330,000 original page groups W1 by the translation engine 131, the translation control unit 151 includes 170,000 original page groups included in the original page group W2 and the original page group W3. The translation engine 131 causes the translation engine 131 to newly translate 170,000 original text page groups included in. Also, the translation control unit 151 can cause the translation engine 131 to translate 670,000 original document page groups W4. Also, the translation control unit 151 out of the 330,000 original page groups W2 that have already been translated by the translation engine 132, excludes 160,000 original page groups that have been newly translated by the translation engine 131. Source page group W5. Similarly, the translation control unit 151 excludes 160,000 original page groups newly translated by the translation engine 131 from the 330,000 original page groups W3 that have already been translated by the translation engine 133. The original document page group W6. That is, in this example, the translation control unit 151 does not cause the translation engines 132 and 133 to newly translate the original text page.

  However, not limited to the above example, the translation control unit 151 does not translate only the original text page that needs to be newly translated, but resets the combination of the translated text page and the translation engine once, and the original text page Original pages may be assigned to each translation engine at a new translation ratio at random again with respect to the whole.

[1-6. effect〕
As described above, in the translation control apparatus 100 according to the first embodiment, the translation control unit 151 controls the translation engines 131 to 133 that are a plurality of translation processing units, so that the first language is Chinese. A plurality of original pages to be written are translated into Japanese notation as a second language. Also, the providing unit 161 provides the user with the translated sentence page translated under the control of the translation control unit 151. In addition, the calculation unit 162 calculates sales as an example of an evaluation value of user behavior with respect to the translated text page provided by the providing unit 161. In addition, the adjustment unit 152 increases the amount of the original page controlled to be translated by the translation control unit 151 as the translation engine translated into the translated sentence page with high sales, which is the evaluation value calculated by the calculation unit 162. Adjust to.

  As a result, the translation control apparatus 100 according to the first embodiment can preferentially use a translation engine that translates into a translated sentence page that increases sales, thereby improving the translation accuracy of the web page. it can. As a result, the translation control device 100 according to the first embodiment can improve the sales of products on a shopping site operated in a foreign country.

  Moreover, in the translation control apparatus 100 according to the first embodiment, the calculation unit 162 calculates sales as an example of an evaluation value of the user action for the translated sentence page for each product field to which the translated sentence page belongs. Further, the adjustment unit 152 adjusts for each product field so that the translation engine translated into the translated sentence page with high sales increases the amount of the original sentence page to be translated.

  Thereby, the translation control apparatus 100 according to the first embodiment can cause each translation engine to translate an original page in a field where each translation engine is good at translation. That is, the translation control device 100 can preferentially use a translation engine that translates into a translated sentence page that increases sales for each field of the original sentence page, and sales of products on shopping sites operated in foreign countries. Can be improved.

  Further, in the translation control apparatus 100 according to the first embodiment, the adjustment unit 152 increases the amount of the original text page to be translated by the translation engine translated into the translated text page having the highest sales among the plurality of translation engines. , Decrease the amount of the increased amount from the amount of the original page to be translated by other translation engines.

  Thereby, the translation control apparatus 100 which concerns on 1st Embodiment can narrow down to the translation engine which translates into a translation sentence page that sales become high.

(Second Embodiment)
In the first embodiment, the example in which the amount of the original page group to be translated is adjusted for each translation engine has been described. In the second embodiment, an example of adjusting the amount of the original page group to be translated for each combination of a dictionary that stores a translation word in association with each phrase and a translation engine that performs translation processing with reference to the dictionary. explain.

[2-1. Constitution〕
First, the network system 2 according to the second embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of the network system 2 according to the second embodiment. In addition, below, the detailed description is abbreviate | omitted as attaching | subjecting the same code | symbol to the site | part which has a function similar to the already shown component part. As illustrated in FIG. 5, the translation control apparatus 200 according to the second embodiment includes dictionary storage units 231 to 233, a translation ratio storage unit 240, a control unit 250, and a sales storage unit 270.

  The dictionary storage units 231 to 233 store, for each predetermined word (word or sentence), a dictionary in which a translated word of the word is associated. The dictionary storage units 231 to 233 according to the second embodiment store a dictionary in which a Chinese word and a Japanese translation corresponding to the word are associated. These dictionary storage units 231 to 233 store different dictionaries.

  The translation ratio storage unit 240 is an amount of the original page group to be translated into a combination of any of the translation engines 131 to 133 and any of the dictionary storage units 231 to 233 among the original page groups stored in the original storage unit 110. The translation ratio indicating is stored. The translation ratio storage unit 240 is realized by, for example, a semiconductor memory device such as a RAM or a flash memory, or a storage device such as a hard disk or an optical disk.

  The control unit 250 includes a translation control unit 251 and an adjustment unit 252. The control unit 250 is realized by an integrated circuit such as an ASIC or FPGA, for example. Further, for example, the control unit 250 is realized by a computer program stored in a storage unit (not shown) being executed using the RAM as a work area by a CPU, an MPU, or the like.

[2-2. Translation ratio storage unit 240]
Next, the translation ratio storage unit 240 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of the translation ratio storage unit 240 according to the second embodiment. As illustrated in FIG. 6, for each “product field”, the translation ratio storage unit 240 includes a combination of an engine identifier and a dictionary identifier, and a translation ratio indicating the amount of the original page group to be translated into the combination. Store in association with each other. The dictionary identifier is information for identifying the dictionary storage units 231 to 233, and is assumed to be reference numerals “231” to “233” attached to the dictionary storage unit in FIG. Further, the translation ratio storage unit 240 in FIG. 6 stores information in the column “translation engine” in the “engine identifier / dictionary identifier” format as information indicating a combination of the translation engine and the dictionary storage unit. . For example, the translation engine “131/231” indicates a combination of the translation engine 131 and the dictionary storage unit 231.

  In other words, in FIG. 6, “1/9” of the combination of the translation engine 131 and the dictionary storage unit 231 among all the original page groups belonging to the product classification “fashion” stored in the original storage unit 110. This indicates that the original page group corresponding to the amount is translated. Similarly, in FIG. 6, the product classification “fashion” is also applied to the other eight combinations (combination of translation engine 131 and dictionary storage unit 232, combination of translation engine 131 and dictionary storage unit 233, etc.). It shows that the amount of “1/9” of all the original text page groups to which it belongs is translated.

  Here, although illustration is omitted, the sales storage unit 270 according to the second embodiment performs a combination of an engine identifier and a dictionary identifier for each “product field” and a translated sentence translated into such a combination. The sales on the page are stored in association with each other.

[2-3. Action)
Next, a translation control procedure by the translation control apparatus 200 according to the second embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a translation control procedure by the translation control apparatus 200 according to the second embodiment.

  As illustrated in FIG. 7, the translation control unit 251 of the control unit 250 selects any of the translation engines 131 to 133 and any of the dictionary storage units 231 to 233 based on the translation ratio stored in the translation ratio storage unit 240. For each combination of heels, the original page group stored in the original storage unit 110 is translated (step S201). Then, the translation control unit 251 stores the translated sentence page group translated by the translation engines 131 to 133 in the translated sentence storage unit 120. For example, when the translation control unit 251 translates the combination of the translation engine 131 and the dictionary storage unit 231, the translation engine 131 refers to the dictionary storage unit 231 and reads the original text page allocated by the translation control unit 251. translate.

  Note that the control unit 250 holds correspondence information between the translated sentence page stored in the translated sentence storage unit 120 and the combination of the translation engine and the dictionary storage unit translated into the translated sentence page. The control unit 250 may store the correspondence information in the translated sentence storage unit 120 in association with the translated sentence page.

  When the providing unit 161 of the web control unit 160 receives a web page browsing request from the client device 10, the providing unit 161 obtains a translated text page corresponding to the browsing request from the translated text storage unit 120 and acquires the translated text. The page is provided to the client device 10 (step S202). The providing unit 161 waits until a predetermined time (for example, one day, one week, one month, etc.) elapses (step S203, No), and when the predetermined time has elapsed (step S203, Yes), The browsing history and purchase history accumulated until a predetermined time elapses are output to the calculation unit 162.

  Then, the calculation unit 162 calculates the sales for each combination of the translation engine and the dictionary storage unit based on the browsing history and purchase history input from the providing unit 161 (step S204). Then, the calculation unit 162 stores the calculated sales in the sales storage unit 270.

  Subsequently, based on the sales stored in the sales storage unit 270, the adjustment unit 252 of the control unit 250 translates it into a translated sentence page having a high user action evaluation value (“sales” in the first embodiment). The translation ratio stored in the translation ratio storage section 240 is adjusted so that the amount of the original page group to be translated increases as the combination of the translation engine and the dictionary storage section increases (step S205). Specifically, the adjustment unit 152 compares the sales for each product category stored in the sales storage unit 270, and calculates the translation ratio “π” in the combination of the translation engine and the dictionary storage unit with the highest sales by the above formula ( The value is changed to the value calculated by 1), and the translation ratio “π” of the other translation engines is changed to the value calculated by the above equation (2).

  Then, returning to the processing in step S201, the translation control unit 251 performs the original text storage unit for each combination of the translation engine and the dictionary storage unit based on the translation rate of the translation rate storage unit 240 updated by the adjustment unit 252. The original page group stored in 110 is newly translated (step S201). The translation control unit 251 translates only the original text page that needs to be newly translated for each combination of the translation engine and the dictionary storage unit.

[2-4. effect〕
As described above, in the translation control apparatus 200 according to the second embodiment, the translation control unit 251 refers to the dictionary storage units 231 to 233 that store a translation word in association with each phrase and the dictionary storage unit. The original page is translated using a plurality of combinations with translation engines 131 to 133 that perform translation processing. Further, the adjustment unit 252 adjusts so that the amount of the original page to be translated increases as the combination of the translation engine translated into the translated sentence page with high sales, which is the evaluation value, and the dictionary storage unit.

  Thereby, the translation control apparatus 200 which concerns on 2nd Embodiment can perform the translation control which performs the translation which leads to a sales improvement by verifying sales for every combination of a translation engine and a dictionary memory | storage part. .

(Third embodiment)
The translation control apparatus, the translation control method, and the translation control program according to the present application may be implemented in various different forms other than the first embodiment described above. In the third embodiment, another embodiment will be described.

[3-1. Evaluation value)
In the above embodiment, the calculation unit 162 has been described as an example of calculating the sales per 1 PV as an example of the evaluation value of the user action for the translated sentence page. However, the evaluation value calculated by the calculation unit 162 is the sales per 1 PV. Not limited. For example, the calculation unit 162 may use “total sales”, “number of times the user has requested a document on the translated text page”, “number of purchases”, “total number of browsing”, “ “Gross profit”, “Number of page transitions within shopping site”, “Number of purchases / total number of browsing”, “Total number of browsing / number of translated pages”, “Total profit / total number of browsing”, etc. . However, “sales”, “number of document requests”, and the like are preferably used as evaluation values for user behavior. This is because conversion rates such as “sales” and “number of document requests” not only allow users to view translated pages, but also take some action on translated pages for product purchases and document requests. This is because the credibility of the translation is high in that it has been done.

[3-2. (Translation ratio calculation)
In the above embodiment, the example in which the adjustment unit 152 calculates the translation ratio using the above formulas (1) and (2) has been described. However, the translation ratio technique calculated by the adjustment unit 152 is described in this example. Not limited. For example, the adjustment unit 152 performs weighting according to “sales per 1 PV”, increases the amount of the original page group to be translated as the translation engine with higher evaluation among the translation engines 131 to 133, and translates with a lower evaluation engine. The amount of the original page group to be translated may be reduced.

[3-3. language〕
Moreover, although the translation engine 131-133 demonstrated the example which translates the original sentence page of Chinese notation into the translation sentence page of Japanese notation in the said embodiment, a translation aspect is not restricted to this example. For example, the translation engines 131 to 133 may translate an original page written in English into a translated page written in Japanese, or translate an original page written in Japanese into a translated sentence page written in Chinese or English. Also good.

  In the above embodiment, an example has been described in which a web page written in the first language (Chinese in the embodiment) is translated into a web page written in the second language (Japanese in the embodiment). However, the web page written in the first language (Chinese in the embodiment) is a web page written mainly in the first language (Chinese in the embodiment), and is English (for example, “Copyright ( C) ”,“ Corporation ”,“ All Rights Reserved ”, etc.) are not out of the technical scope. Similarly, a web page written in the second language (Japanese in the embodiment) is not out of the technical scope even if it is a web page in which other languages other than Japanese are mixed.

[3-4. Web page〕
Moreover, in the said embodiment, although demonstrated taking the case of the web page which forms a shopping site, it is not restricted to this example. Specifically, the translation control devices 100 and 200 according to the above-described embodiment can also be applied when translating a web page such as a news site that is not intended for sale of merchandise. In such a case, the evaluation value of the user action for the translated sentence page is the number of times of browsing.

[3-5. Embodiment]
In the above embodiment, the translation control device 100 may cause the translation engines 131 to 133 to translate the original text page at a certain translation ratio for each browse request of the translated text page from the client device 10. That is, the translation control apparatus 100 may perform translation processing in real time and change the translation ratio in real time. In this case, the translation control device 100 may change the translation ratio by translating the same original text page into different translation engines 131 to 133.

[3-6. Others]
As described above, some of the embodiments of the present application have been described in detail with reference to the drawings. However, these are merely examples, and various modifications, including the aspects described in the disclosure section of the invention, based on the knowledge of those skilled in the art, It is possible to implement the present invention in other forms with improvements.

  Further, the translation control apparatus 100 described above may be realized by a plurality of server computers, and depending on functions, an external platform or the like may be realized by calling an API (Application Programming Interface) or network computing. Can be changed flexibly.

  Further, the “means” described in the claims can be read as “section (module, unit)” or “circuit”. For example, the translation control means can be read as a translation control unit or a translation control circuit.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Network system 10 Client apparatus 100 Translation control apparatus 110 Original sentence storage part 120 Translation sentence storage part 131 Translation engine 140 Translation ratio storage part 151 Translation control part 152 Adjustment part 161 Provision part 162 Calculation part 170 Sales memory part 231 Dictionary storage part

Claims (7)

Translation control means for translating a plurality of original pages that are web pages in a predetermined website represented in a first language into a second language by controlling a plurality of translation processing units;
Providing means for providing a translated sentence page translated by the control by the translation control means to the user;
Calculating means for calculating an evaluation value of user behavior for the translated text page provided by the providing means;
An adjusting means for adjusting the translation processing unit translated into the translated sentence page having a high evaluation value calculated by the calculating means so as to increase the amount of the original sentence page controlled to be translated by the translation control means;
A translation control apparatus comprising: The calculating means includes
For each field to which the translated sentence page belongs, an evaluation value of user behavior for the translated sentence page is calculated,
The adjusting means includes
The translation control device according to claim 1, wherein adjustment is performed so that the amount of the original page to be translated increases as the translation processing unit translated into the translated sentence page having a high evaluation value for each field. The translation control means includes
Translate the original page related to product sales to the translation processing unit,
The calculation unit includes:
The sales of the product in the translated text page translated by the translation processing unit is calculated as the evaluation value,
The adjusting means includes
The translation control device according to claim 1, wherein the translation processing unit that has been translated into a translated sentence page with high sales calculated by the calculating unit is adjusted so that the amount of the original sentence page to be translated increases. The adjustment unit is
Among the plurality of translation processing units, the translation processing unit translated into the translated sentence page having the highest evaluation value increases the amount of the original text page to be translated, and the increased amount is translated into other translations other than the translation processing unit. The translation control device according to claim 1, wherein the translation control device reduces the amount of the original page to be translated by the processing unit. The translation control means includes
Translating the original page using a plurality of combinations of a dictionary storage unit that stores a translation word in association with each phrase and a translation processing unit that performs translation processing with reference to the dictionary storage unit,
The adjusting means includes
The adjustment is made so that the amount of the original page to be translated increases as the combination of the translation processing unit translated into the translated sentence page having a high evaluation value calculated by the calculating unit and the dictionary storage unit. 4. The translation control device according to any one of 4 above. A translation control method executed by a translation control device,
A translation control step of translating a plurality of original pages that are web pages in a predetermined website represented in a first language into a second language by controlling a plurality of translation processing units;
A providing step of providing a user with a translated sentence page translated by the control by the translation control step;
A calculation step of calculating an evaluation value of user behavior for the translated text page provided by the providing step;
An adjustment step of adjusting the translation processing unit translated into the translated sentence page having a high evaluation value calculated by the calculating step so that the amount of the original page controlled to be translated by the translation control step is increased,
A translation control method comprising: A translation control procedure for translating a plurality of original pages that are web pages in a predetermined website represented in a first language into a second language by controlling a plurality of translation processing units;
A providing procedure for providing a translated sentence page translated by the control by the translation control procedure to the user;
A calculation procedure for calculating an evaluation value of user behavior for the translated text page provided by the providing procedure;
An adjustment procedure for adjusting the translation processing unit translated into the translated sentence page having a high evaluation value calculated by the calculation procedure so that the amount of the original sentence page controlled to be translated by the translation control procedure is increased,
A translation control program for causing a computer to execute.

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