JPH01207873A - Translation supporting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To promptly obtain a corrected translated sentence with an easy operation by using a known translated sentence and its original sentence and inputting only a part to be changed with the language of the original sentence when a different sentence similar to the original sentence is translated using the translated sentence of the original sentence and the original sentence. CONSTITUTION:When a user inputs a position for a word to be changed through an instruction input part 15, a translated sentence rewriting processing part 18 starts a word segmenting processing part 19. The processing part 19 segments the word in the original sentence from the designated position in the original sentence and segments a word in the translated sentence corresponding to the segmented original word. Next, a translated word determining processing part 21 determines a translated word corresponding to the inputted original word by retrieving a parallel translation dictionary 24. Thereafter, the processing part 18 designates the determined translated word to the position for an original corresponding word in the translated sentence. After that, a translated sentence output part 22 outputs new parallel translation sentences 25 composed of a new original sentence and a new translated sentence. Thus, the corrected translated sentence can be obtained promptly with the easy operation.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Summary] The present invention relates to a translation support device that uses a computer to support the work of translating another sentence similar to the original sentence using a translated sentence and its original sentence.

The object of the present invention is to provide a device that can easily and quickly obtain a corrected translated text by using a known bilingual text and inputting only the changed part in the original language.

A word extraction processing unit that extracts a word in the original text based on a specified position in the original text in the bilingual text, and also cuts out the corresponding word in the translated text, and a change word that inputs a new word to be changed depending on the language of the original text. An input processing unit, a translation determination processing unit that determines a translation corresponding to the input word using a bilingual dictionary, and the determined translation.

and a translated document replacement processing unit that sets the position of the word of the translated sentence extracted by the word extraction processing unit.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention uses a translated text and its original text by a computer,
The present invention relates to a translation support device that supports translation of another sentence similar to an original sentence.

[Conventional technology] A system that supports language translation using a computer.

Register the contents of the so-called "dictionary" in the H calculator.

One is by an electronic dictionary used instead of a dictionary for fortune telling,
When a sentence is manually translated, the system finds words in the text that have previously registered translations and inserts the translated words into the sentence. Alternatively, the main method was to perform a translation search to create a separate translation list I.

On the other hand, a machine translation system is being researched and developed in order to have a computer perform the translation itself.In this type of system, when the original text is input, it refers to a dictionary of words, grammar, and other linguistic knowledge.

Convert the original text into a translated text in the target language.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In conventional systems that support translation using electronic dictionaries and translation search functions, each piece of information searched during the translation process is independent, and the system serves no more than a reference for the user, the translator.

Machine translation, in which a computer performs the translation, requires a lot of dictionary data and a large amount of computer resources.

Additionally, in order to obtain a satisfactory translation result, pre-editing and post-editing of the original text are required, which is currently not fully automated.

When translating a sentence, the results of translations that have already been done,
If you can modify and use similar example sentences from a dictionary, etc., you can not only save yourself the work of retranslating similar sentences.

In sentences that have the same sentence structure, vocabulary, etc.

It is believed that it is possible to efficiently replace different words and obtain a translation result that is the same as a known and satisfactory translated sentence.

The present invention focuses on this point, and aims to provide a device that can easily and quickly obtain a corrected translated text by using a known bilingual text and inputting only the changed part in the original language. The purpose is

[Failure to solve the problem]

FIG. 1 is a diagram explaining the principle of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 10 denotes a processing device including a CPU and memory, and 1 denotes a bilingual sentence consisting of a pair of sentences with the same meaning in the source language and the target language.

12 is the board, 13 is the screen 214
15 is a bilingual input section for inputting the bilingual sentence 11, and 15 is a keyboard.
F' ] 2 is an instruction input unit for inputting instructions, and 16 is a change word input processing unit for inputting words to be changed manually.

17 is a character display section that displays characters on the display 13;
Reference numeral 18 denotes a translated document rewriting processing unit that performs a process of rewriting a translated sentence input for revision, 19 a word extraction processing unit that extracts Qi words to be rewritten from the original and translated sentences of the bilingual sentence 11, and 20 a conjugated form A conjugated form conversion processing unit that performs conversion; 21 is a translation determination processing unit that determines a translation; 22
23 is a translation output unit that outputs a new translation; 23 is a conjugation dictionary in which information about each word and its conjugations is registered;
Reference numeral 24 represents a bilingual dictionary in which bilingual translations of words in the source language and target language are registered, and 25 represents a new target bilingual sentence.

The bilingual text 11 consists of a known original text and a translated text that will be revised and used from now on.

This bilingual sentence 11 is input from a keyboard 12 or an external storage device such as a magnetic disk device.

The instruction input unit 15 inputs the position of the word to be changed in the original text of the bilingual sentence 11, and also inputs the position of the word to be changed in the original text of the bilingual sentence 11.
Enter the word in the source language to be replaced. The character display section 17 performs a process of displaying sentences being processed, candidates for modification, and the like.

When the word position to be changed is input via the instruction input section 15, the translated document replacement processing section 18 activates the word extraction processing section 19. The word extraction processing unit 19 performs a process of cutting out a word in the original text based on a specified position in the original text, and also cutting out the corresponding word in the corresponding translated sentence. When cutting out words and determining translations, the inflection conversion processing section 20 refers to the inflection dictionary 23 in which the original form and inflection information of each word are registered in advance, and performs the process of converting the words into inflections. Provided as necessary.

The translation word determination processing unit 21 determines a translation word corresponding to the input word by searching the bilingual dictionary 24. The translated document replacement processing unit 18 uses the translation word determination processing unit 21 to
The determined translated word is set at the position of the original corresponding word in the translated sentence. The translated text output unit 22 outputs a new bilingual text 25 of the new original text and translated text.

It outputs to the display 13, external storage device, or other output device.

[Effect]

For example, the original sentence ``This is a pen.''

Assume that there is a bilingual sentence in Japanese and English consisting of the translated sentence ``T'l+is is a pen,''.

The bilingual translation input unit 14 inputs such a known bilingual sentence 11.

This translated sentence is displayed on 2 displays 1 by 5 character display section 17.
3.

If another sentence similar to the original text is to be translated, the user inputs the position of the word to be changed in the original text using the keyboard 12 and the instruction input unit 15 by specifying the position of the word to be changed in the original text using a cursor or the like. For example, when the position of "pen" is specified, the word extraction processing unit 19.

The word "pen" is extracted from the original text, and "pen" corresponding to the word "pen" is cut out from the translated text.

Next, when the change word input processing section 16 inputs the word "desk" to be changed, the conjugated form conversion processing section 20 checks the inflected form as necessary, and the translation word determination processing section 21 changes the word "desk" to "desk". The corresponding word "des k" is selected. The translated document replacement processing unit 18 converts “pen” and “
By replacing the words “d e s k”, “
This is a desk. As a translation of the original text of ``
Th1s is a desk.

The translated text is output via the translation output unit 22.

In this way, by simply specifying one position and inputting a new word in the source language to be replaced, it is possible to obtain a translated result with two revisions using a known bilingual sentence and a simple operation.

〔Example〕

Fig. 2 is an example of a Japanese-English translation support device according to an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 3 is an example of the contents of a Japanese word usage dictionary, Fig. 4 is an example of the contents of a Japanese-English bilingual dictionary, and Fig. 5 is an example of the contents of a Japanese-English bilingual dictionary. 6 shows an example of the contents of an English-m word conjugation dictionary, and FIG. 6 shows a processing flow of an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 2, the same reference numerals as those in FIG. 1 correspond to those shown in FIG. 1, and 31 is a Japanese word extraction processing unit that extracts Japanese words from the original text.

32 is an English word extraction processing unit that extracts the corresponding English word from the translated sentence; 33 is a Japanese word conjugation dictionary that stores verb and other conjugation information for each Japanese word; and 34 stores English conjugation information. The English word usage dictionary 35 is a Japanese-English bilingual dictionary that stores bilingual information of Japanese-English words.

Japanese S@Chinese Conjugation @33 1For example, as shown in Figure 3, 2 For each Japanese word, it has conjugation type information indicating its conjugation form and type of conjugation. Here, the conjugated form is the same as the original form and is of type O, but verbs and the like have many types of conjugation type information. These utilization types may be flags or identification numbers as long as they can be distinguished by one. .

The Japanese-English bilingual dictionary 35 has bilingual information for three Japanese words and five English words, as shown in FIG. When one word has multiple meanings in the other language, multiple pieces of bilingual information are registered in advance.

The English word usage dictionary 34 is as shown in FIG.

Contains information on the original form, its conjugated form, and conjugated type for English words. Here, type 0 represents a singular noun, and type 1 represents a plural noun.

Next, using the device shown in Figure 2, the original Japanese sentence ``I have three daughters'' and its translated sentence were read.
An example of changing the Japanese word ``daughter'' to ``son'' based on the bilingual sentences of ``avejhr6e, daughters,'' will be explained.

This bilingual text is inputted from the bilingual translation input section I4 and displayed on the two-character display section 17 via the three-translation document replacement processing section 18. In order to designate "Musume" as a target for modification, the user uses the instruction input unit 15 to designate the beginning position of "Musume" in the Japanese sentence of the bilingual sentence. On the other hand, the 1 Japanese word extraction processing unit 31 uses the 2 Japanese word usage dictionary 33.

Search for words that start with the letters "daughter". Assuming that the contents of this dictionary are as shown in FIG.
The word ``daughter'' is displayed in a highlighted manner by highlighting it or changing its color.

When the user inputs an input to confirm the word "daughter" through the instruction input unit 15, candidates for the English translation of "daughter" are first determined by the translation word determination processing unit 21 using the Japanese-English bilingual dictionary 35. Generated by Assume that the Japanese-English bilingual dictionary 35 is as shown in FIG.

As an English translation, "girl" and lId a u g h t
e r ” is selected. For each of these, the fifth
When searching for bilingual English sentences, including the inflected forms obtained from the English word usage dictionary 34 as shown in the figure.

plural of “daughter”” d a u
ghters'' is found.

This result is displayed on the character display section 17.

The user confirms this via the instruction input unit 15, and then inputs the characters of "son" to be changed. The translation word determination processing unit 21 uses the Japanese-English bilingual dictionary 35.

If you search for the translated word "son", you will find "son".

When this result is displayed and the user confirms it, using the English word conjugation dictionary 34 and focusing on the conjugation type, the plural form ``5on'', which is similar to ``daughterS'', is
s” is generated.

The translated document replacement processing unit 18 uses this.

New English, I have three 5ons,
'' is generated and displayed. When the user inputs confirmation using the instruction input section 15, the translation output section 22 outputs the final result.

An outline of the processing according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. Hereinafter, the explanation will be given according to the flow from ① to [phase] shown in FIG. 6. ② Input a known bilingual sentence.

■ Display the entered bilingual text.

■ Determine whether the rework has been completed based on the user's instruction information. If finished, move to process [phase]. Initially, control is passed to processing ■.

■ Specify the starting position of the part to be changed in the source language sentence by inputting using a cursor or the like.

■ Estimating the word to be changed from the specified position in the source language sentence and displaying it.

■ Check with the user to confirm whether the word was correctly extracted. If the word segmentation is incorrect,
Return to process ■ and start cutting out the words again.

(2) Next, the words in the translation sentence that correspond to the words cut out from the source language sentence are estimated by referring to the bilingual dictionary.

■ Ask the user to confirm whether the corresponding word was selected. If not, control is returned to process (2) and the estimation of the corresponding word in the translated text is repeated.

■ Enter the replacement word in the source language.

[Phase] Search for the translation corresponding to the entered word.

■ Check whether the translation is correct, and if it is not correct, repeat the process [phase].

＠ For the new translated word, use the same conjugation form as the word extracted from the original translation.

■ Check that the conjugation is correct. If correct, move to processing [phase].

■ If the conjugation is not correct, create another conjugation and repeat the process.

■ Rewrite the two original translations using the correct conjugated word. Thereafter, control is returned to process (2) and the process is repeated in the same manner.

[Phase] When it is confirmed that the 9 revisions have been completed by the judgment in process (2), the new translation is output to an output device such as a display or an external storage device.

In the above embodiment, if the dictionary is searched according to the user's specifications and the desired result cannot be obtained because the contents of the dictionary are incomplete in the part where the user checks and selects the results, a message to that effect is displayed on the display. .

It is convenient if the user can directly input the information to be searched by the dictionary so that one task can be performed by NkME.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, efficient re-translation work can be performed for sentences that are similar to already translated sentences and can be used by replacing words, and do not require new translation. becomes possible.

In particular, the following effects are expected.

(al) Since the input for searching the electronic dictionary is realized by simply specifying the word search position, the overhead for dictionary searching is improved.

Since there is no need to manually transcribe the search results of the fbl electronic dictionary, errors caused by transcription can be prevented.

In addition, by providing the translation support device according to the present invention as a part of the machine translation device, it becomes possible to easily modify bilingual sentences that have been mechanically translated. Since the translation result can be almost predicted, it is possible to prevent mistranslations related to two-sentence formats, etc.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a diagram explaining the principle of the present invention. FIG. 2 is an example of a Japanese-English translation support device according to an embodiment of the present invention. Figure 3 shows an example of the contents of a Japanese word usage dictionary. Figure 4 shows an example of the contents of a Japanese-English bilingual dictionary. Figure 5 shows an example of the contents of an English word usage dictionary. FIG. 6 shows a processing flow of an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 110 is a processing device, 11 is a bilingual text, 12 is a keyboard, ) 3 is a display, 14 is a bilingual input section, 15 is an instruction input section, 16 is a changed word input processing section, 17 is a character display section, and 18 is a translation section. Document replacement processing unit; 19, word extraction processing unit; 20, inflection conversion processing unit; 21, translation determination processing unit; 22, translation output unit; 23, inflection dictionary; 24, bilingual dictionary; and 25, new bilingual text. .

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A translation support device that uses a computer to generate another translated sentence based on a bilingual sentence consisting of a pair of a known translated sentence and its original sentence, and a bilingual dictionary, the original sentence in the bilingual sentence. A word extraction processing unit (1) extracts a word in the original text and extracts a corresponding word in the translated text based on a specified position in the text.
9), a changed word input processing unit (16) that inputs a new word to be changed according to the language of the original text, and a translated word determination processing unit (21) that uses a bilingual dictionary to determine a translated word corresponding to the input word. and the determined translation,
A translation support device comprising: a translated document replacement processing unit (18) that sets the position of a word of a translated sentence extracted by the word extraction processing unit.