JPH0332109B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a translation/editing device for translating an original text and editing it.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems]

In recent years, with the development of information processing technology, machine translation devices using electronic computers have been developed. With this translation device, the translated text is not necessarily translated in the manner intended by the original text. Furthermore, if a single word in the original text has multiple meanings, the translation cannot be uniquely determined. Furthermore, there are cases where the user wants to change the translation based on the user's preference even though they have the same meaning, when the user notices that the original sentence was incorrect and corrects it and has the computer redo the translation, or when the user directly corrects the translated sentence. be.

In this way, current machine translation systems require the user to edit the translated text from a computer.

However, in the current system, when displaying the original text and translated text, the translated text that has already been edited, the translated text that is currently being edited, and the translated text that has not been edited at all are displayed in the same display format, which makes it difficult for the user to However, it is difficult to identify which translations can be edited, which has the disadvantage of reducing the efficiency of editing work.

On the other hand, it is common practice to use translation information, that is, information on intermediate results of translation from a translation device, as information for editing support for users. However, this translation information has a large amount of data per sentence, and it is not a good idea from the viewpoint of execution speed and memory efficiency for the system to hold this data for each translated sentence. Therefore, if the user has confirmed the translation, it is efficient to remove the translation information.

Therefore, from this point of view, it is necessary to distinguish and display to the user the unedited translated text that has translation information and the edited translated text that does not have translation information, but conventional systems do not do this. There was no way to display the translated text in different display formats. This has resulted in a drawback that the user's editing work is inefficient.

[Purpose of the invention]

An object of the present invention is to provide a translation editing device that is visually easy to use when a user performs editing work, and improves editing efficiency for the system side.

[Summary of the invention]

The present invention is a machine translation system that converts an original text into a translated text. Based on the editing instruction information input by the user, the present invention can distinguish between a translated text that has already been edited and a translated text that has not yet been edited (or a translated text that is currently being edited). Each display mode is different to clearly distinguish them from each other.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, in a machine translation system,
By displaying the translated text that has already been edited and the translated text that has not yet been edited, the user can see at a glance how far the editing work has progressed, and also use the translation information to see which translated text has been edited. It can be seen at a glance whether or not the translation is possible, which has a great practical advantage when the user edits the translated text.

[Embodiments of the invention]

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
FIG. 3 is a processing flow diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. The embodiment device shown in FIG. 1, for example, translates an original text (English text) consisting of several sentences one by one using a translation device, displays the translated text (Japanese text) and the original text in the display mode described later, and also displays the translated text (Japanese text) and the original text in the display mode described later. The user performs editing work while looking at the display section, also using translation information. In FIG. 1, an input unit 1 consisting of a keyboard etc. is used by the user to input the original text (English text),
Alternatively, an editing instruction signal is input,
These are sent by the input control section 2 to the translation section 4 if it is an original text, and to the editing control section 9 if it is an editing instruction signal (operation signal). (This editing instruction signal is an instruction to confirm the completion of editing, an instruction to start editing work, editing information, etc.) In the translation section 4, when the original text is input from the input control section 2 (step a in Fig. 2), the translation control section 3
According to the instructions, the original text is shaped if necessary and sent to the original text storage section 6 (step b in Fig. 2). Further, the original text is translated using the translation dictionary 5 according to instructions from the translation control unit 3 (step c in FIG. 2). In this way, when the translation work is completed, the translation unit 4 sends the resulting translation to the translation storage unit 7 (step d in Figure 2), and also data generated during the translation process that will be needed later in the editing work (translation information). is sent to the translation information storage section 8 (step e in FIG. 2). (This translation information is stored in the translation information storage unit 8 using the sentence numbers assigned by the editing control unit 9 corresponding to the original text and the translated text as addresses.) On the other hand, the editing control unit 9 stores the sentence numbers in the original text storage unit 6. Check whether the 5th original text has been sent from the translation department 4 (step f in Figure 3), and if so, send this original text to the 4th translation section.
As shown in FIG. 21, the image is displayed at high brightness on the display unit 10 such as a CRT display (step h in FIG. 3).
Similarly, the editing control section 9 stores the translation section 4 in the translation storage section 7.
It is checked whether a translated text has been sent from (step g in Fig. 3), and if there is, this translated text is displayed in high brightness on the display section 10 as shown in Fig. 4 22 (step i in Fig. 3), If necessary, display the message "Translation completed" for the user (see 3rd page).
Figure step j).

When these operations are completed or when the translation is not sent from the translation unit 4 to the translation storage unit 7, the editing control unit 9 receives editing instruction information (signal) from the input unit 1 via the input control unit 2. It is checked whether the original text storage unit 6 and the translated text storage unit 7 are checked (step k in FIG. 3).
If there is, it is checked whether the instruction information is a confirmation instruction (Step 1 in Figure 3). If it is a confirmation instruction, the text (translation, translation,
(original text) reduce the brightness of the part (Figure 3, step m),
If necessary, the translation information stored in the translation information storage unit 8 regarding that sentence is deleted (step n in FIG. 3).

When this series of operations is completed, or when an editing operation instruction signal other than a confirmation instruction is input, the range of the text (original text, translated text) covered by the editing operation instruction is determined, and the range is as shown in Figure 4, 24. Then, the sentence numbers on the display section 10 of the sentences in that range are blinked (step o in FIG. 3). If the editing operation instruction is for the display format of the text, such as inserting, deleting, moving, copying characters, etc., the editing control section 9 sends the instruction to the text editing section 11.
Also, things related to the translation content, such as translation word selection (boy
change the translation from "boy" to "boy"), change the dependency ("I saw a girl with a
``I saw a girl with a telescope'' in the translation ``I saw a girl with a telescope.'' If there is an editing instruction such as changing "I found a hospital" to "I found a hospital," the instruction is sent to the translation editing department 12, and the translation or original text is edited according to the instruction (step p in Figure 3). ).

Note that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above. For example, in the above example, sentences that have been confirmed for editing are displayed in low brightness, but the sentences are connected and displayed as a series of paragraphs, and sentences that have not been confirmed are displayed individually in order to make editing easier. It may also be displayed in a similar format. In other words, as shown in FIG. 5, the verified text may be displayed in paragraph units (FIG. 5, 25), and the text being edited may be displayed in sentence units (FIG. 5, 26). In addition, the present invention can be implemented with various modifications without departing from the gist thereof.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
The figure is a processing flow diagram of the translation control unit in one embodiment.
The figure is a processing flow diagram of the editing control unit, and FIG. 4 is a diagram of an example screen using a display mode according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a view of the screen using a display mode according to another embodiment of the present invention. 1... Input section, 2... Input control section, 3... Translation control section, 4... Translation section, 5... Translation dictionary, 6...
Original text storage unit, 7... Translation storage unit, 8... Translation information storage unit, 9... Editing control unit, 10... Display unit, 1
1... Text editing department, 12... Translation editing department.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. An input means for inputting original texts of a plurality of sentences and editing instruction information for instructing editing of these original texts, a translation means for translating the original texts inputted from this input means, and this translation means a display means for displaying translations of a plurality of sentences obtained by the display means; and an editing control means for editing the translations displayed on the display means according to editing instruction information input from the input means, The control means changes the display mode so that among the translations of the plurality of sentences translated by the translation means, all the translations that have been edited by the editing control means can always be distinguished from the translations that have not been edited. A translation/editing device characterized in that the translation/editing device controls the display unit to display the translated text on the display means.