JPH04268965A - Machine translator - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce burden on the initial work of dictionary setting by providing a dictionary setting storage part which stores a technical term dictionary and dictionary priority, and a dictionary setting registration part which registers technical term dictionary setting designated when the technical term dictionary is set on the dictionary setting storage part. CONSTITUTION:The dictionary setting registration part 6 registers technical term dictionary setting information instructed by an input means 1 on the dictionary setting storage part 5, and a user selects the dictionary priority. In the case, since the dictionary setting information designated last time is stored in the dictionary setting storage part 5, a translation execution part 8 referes to the content of the dictionary setting storage part 5 and selects a dictionary as an available terchnical term dictionary even without performing the dictionary setting by the user, and the technical term dictionary setting can be automatically performed. Therefore, the translation execution part 8 can execute translation and output a translation result even without performing the dictionary setting by the user who utilizes the same dictionary setting as that last time when a machine translation system is rerun.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a machine translation device for translating sentences written in one language into another language.

0002

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, machine translation devices have been widely used as devices for translating from one language to another. For example, in the case of an English-Japanese machine translator that translates from English to Japanese, the original text According to the archi
When inputting ve, to instruct translation, the translation result is displayed according to the record.

[0003] In conventional machine translation machines, it is possible to specify technical term dictionary settings, such as which technical term dictionary to specify and in what order of priority, depending on the content of the text to be translated.

[0004] For example, as a technical term dictionary, "electronic engineering"
If there are three dictionaries, ``Information Engineering'' and ``Mechanical Engineering,'' the user can select the ``Information Engineering'' dictionary as the dictionary with the highest priority and the ``Mechanical Engineering'' dictionary with the second priority.

[0005]

[Problem to be Solved by the Invention] Conventional machine translators do not have a function to memorize the technical terminology dictionary settings specified by the user, so if the machine translator system is terminated, the same technical terminology as before is used. Even when dictionary settings are used repeatedly, there is a problem in that the user has to respecify the technical term dictionary settings when starting machine translation.

[0006] For example, as a technical term dictionary, "electronic engineering"
There are three dictionaries: "Information Engineering" and "Mechanical Engineering", and the user selects the "Electronic Engineering" dictionary as the first priority dictionary and the "Mechanical Engineering" dictionary as the second priority dictionary and executes the translation. do. However, once the machine translation system is terminated, all of the dictionary setting information disappears because conventional translation machines do not have a mechanism to remember the previous technical term dictionary settings. Therefore, even if the user wants to translate using the same dictionary settings as last time, the user has had to reconfigure the dictionary settings again.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a machine translator that solves these conventional problems and reduces the burden of initial dictionary setting work.

[0008]

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a dictionary setting storage unit that stores a technical term dictionary used during translation and a dictionary priority order, and a dictionary setting storage unit that stores a technical term dictionary used during translation and a dictionary priority order. The present invention is configured to include a dictionary settings registration section that registers terminology dictionary settings in the dictionary settings storage section.

[0009]

[Operation] The previously designated technical term dictionary selection and dictionary priority are stored in the dictionary setting storage section by the dictionary setting registration section, and the same settings are automatically made initially the next time it is used. By adding this learning function, the user no longer needs to configure the same technical term dictionary every time the translation system is started, which reduces the user's workload. Furthermore, since there is no need to set the dictionary except when changing the dictionary settings, mistranslations due to mistakes in the technical term dictionary settings are reduced.

0010

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a machine translator according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is an input means for inputting an original text, translating the original text into a translated text, and instructing the setting of a technical term dictionary; 2 is an input sentence storage unit that stores the original text input from the input means 1; 3 is a general 4 is a basic dictionary storing specialized words; 4 is at least one set of specialized term dictionaries storing specialized terms for each specialized field; 5 is a basic dictionary storing specialized terms;
is the technical terminology dictionary used during translation and the dictionary priority order (
6 is a dictionary setting storage unit that stores technical terminology dictionary settings (hereinafter referred to as technical terminology dictionary settings), 6 is a dictionary setting registration unit that registers technical terminology dictionary settings specified by the user at the time of setting the technical terminology dictionary in the dictionary setting storage unit 5, and 7 is the A translation control section 8 controls translation execution based on instructions inputted from the input means 1; a translation execution unit 9 that executes translation on the original text stored in the input sentence storage unit 2 while referring to it, and outputs the translation result to the output sentence storage unit 9;
10 is an output sentence storage unit that stores the translation result output from the translation execution unit, and 10 is a display unit that displays the output sentence stored in the output sentence storage unit 9.

FIG. 2 is a circuit block diagram of the machine translator of this embodiment, in which 11 is a keyboard, 12 is a central processing unit (
Hereinafter, it will be abbreviated as CPU. ), 13 is a cathode ray tube display (hereinafter abbreviated as CRT display), 14 is a read-only memory (hereinafter abbreviated as ROM),
15 is a random access memory (hereinafter abbreviated as RAM).

The input means 1 shown in FIG. 1 is a keyboard 11.
Accordingly, the input sentence storage section 2, dictionary setting storage section 5, and output sentence storage section 9 are stored in the RAM 15, the basic dictionary 3 and the technical term dictionary 4 are stored in the ROM 14, the dictionary setting registration section 6, the translation control section 7, and the translation execution section 8. The CPU 12 is the ROM 14 and RAM
By executing the program stored in the ROM 14 while exchanging data with the display means 1
0 is realized by the CRT display 13.

FIG. 3 shows the translation operation and dictionary setting storage operation of the machine translator configured as described above.
This will be explained according to the flowchart. In addition, as an example of a specialized terminology dictionary, "electronic engineering", "information engineering", "
The explanation will be given using three dictionaries from the "Mechanical Engineering" dictionary as examples.

First, in step A, the translation control section 7 stores the original text input from the input means 1 in the input sentence storage section 2 and the output sentence storage section 9, and displays it on the display means 10. Next, in step B, the translation control section 7 determines whether or not the input means 1 instructs the setting of a technical term dictionary. If an instruction to set up a technical term dictionary has been given, the process proceeds to step C; otherwise, the process proceeds to step D.

In step C, the dictionary setting registration section 6 registers the technical term dictionary setting information instructed from the input means 1 in the dictionary setting storage section 5, and the process proceeds to step D. In this example, it is assumed that the user selects two technical term dictionaries: "electronic engineering" as the dictionary priority number 1 and "mechanical engineering" as the dictionary priority number 2. The dictionary setting registration section 6 registers the technical term dictionary codes shown in FIG. 4 in the dictionary setting storage section 5 in priority order for the technical term dictionary setting information inputted from the input means 1. Note that the dictionary code uniquely corresponds to a technical term dictionary. The contents of the dictionary setting storage section 5 at this time are shown in FIG.

Next, in step D, the translation execution section 8 refers to the dictionary setting information currently registered in the dictionary setting storage section,
Determine the technical terminology dictionary to be used and the dictionary priority order. In this example, the dictionary settings registered in the dictionary setting storage section 5 earlier, that is, "electronic engineering" and "
The "Mechanical Engineering" dictionary is ranked first in the dictionary priority order.
Decide on the ``electronic engineering'' dictionary and the second ``mechanical engineering'' dictionary. Next, in step E, the translation execution unit 8 translates the original text stored in the input sentence storage unit 2 according to the technical term dictionary settings determined in step D, and outputs the translation result to the output sentence storage unit 9. . In step F, the translation control unit 7 determines whether to end the translation process. If not completed, return to step A.

The manner in which the translation execution section 7 refers to the dictionary setting information registered in the dictionary setting storage section 5 and determines the technical term dictionary to be used and the priority order of the dictionaries will be explained with reference to FIGS. 6 to 10.

FIG. 6 shows an example of basic dictionary contents. Figure 7 shows
An example of dictionary contents for "electronic engineering" is shown below.

FIG. 8 shows an example of the contents of the "mechanical engineering" dictionary. FIG. 9 shows an example of an input original text.

FIG. 10 shows an example of a translation result output when no technical terms are set. FIG. 11 shows an example of a translation result output when technical terms are set.

[0022] Once the machine translation system is terminated, dictionary setting information is lost in conventional machine translation machines. Therefore, in this example, when the user re-executes the machine translation system, the same technical term dictionary and dictionary priority as before are read from the dictionary setting storage unit 5, and the technical term dictionary to be used is "electronic engineering" and "mechanical engineering". Select a dictionary and set the dictionary priority to the ``electronic engineering'' dictionary with the first priority and the ``mechanical engineering'' dictionary with the second priority. If this is not done, the translation execution unit 8 will only refer to the basic dictionary shown in FIG. 6 for the input original text shown in FIG. 9, and will output a translation result as shown in FIG. 10. Therefore, the user had to make the same dictionary settings again as before.

On the other hand, by adding the dictionary setting registration section 6 and the dictionary setting storage section 5 to the conventional machine translation machine, the dictionary setting information specified by the user is not lost. In this example, the dictionary setting information specified last time is stored in the dictionary setting storage unit 5, so even if the user does not make dictionary settings, the translation execution unit 8 refers to the contents of the dictionary setting storage unit 5 shown in FIG. ``electronic engineering'' and ``electronic engineering'' as a dictionary of technical terms used.
``Mechanical Engineering'' dictionary is selected, and the technical term dictionary setting is automatically determined such that the dictionary priority is set as the ``Electronic Engineering'' dictionary with the first priority and the ``Mechanical Engineering'' dictionary with the second priority. Therefore, when re-running the machine translation system, a user who uses the same dictionary settings as last time can use the "electronic engineering" dictionary shown in FIG. 7 and the "mechanical engineering" dictionary shown in FIG. engineering"
Translation is performed using the dictionary as a technical term dictionary, and the translation result shown in FIG. 11 can be output for the input original text shown in FIG. 9.

[0024]

[Effects of the Invention] The present invention provides a dictionary settings storage unit that stores a technical term dictionary and dictionary priority used during translation, and registers technical term dictionary settings specified by the user at the time of setting the technical term dictionary in the dictionary settings storage unit. By providing a dictionary settings registration section that allows users to use the machine translation system again even after they have finished using it, it is often possible to avoid having to make the same technical term dictionary settings as before. Reduce work burden. Moreover, the number of incorrect settings during each use can be reduced, and the number of mistranslations can also be reduced.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

[Fig. 1] Functional block diagram of a machine translation device in an embodiment of the present invention

[Figure 2] Device circuit block diagram of the embodiment

[Figure 3] Flowchart diagram showing the operation of the embodiment

[Figure 4]
Explanatory diagram showing an example of a technical term dictionary and dictionary code in the embodiment

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing the contents stored in the dictionary setting storage unit in the embodiment.

[Fig. 6] Explanatory diagram showing the contents of the basic dictionary in the embodiment

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Figure 7: Explanatory diagram showing the contents of the “electronic engineering” technical term dictionary in the example

[Figure 8] Explanatory diagram showing the contents of the "mechanical engineering" technical term dictionary in the example

[Figure 9] Explanatory diagram showing an example of input original text

[Figure 10] Explanatory diagram showing an example of machine translation results when no technical term dictionary is set

[Figure 11] Explanatory diagram showing an example of machine translation results when a technical term dictionary is set

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Input means 2 Input sentence storage unit 3 Basic dictionary 4　Special term dictionary 5 Dictionary settings storage section 6 Dictionary settings registration section 7 Translation control section 8 Translation execution part 9 Output statement storage section 10 Display means

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An input means for inputting an original text, translating the original text into a translated text, and instructing setting of a technical term dictionary; an input sentence storage section for storing the original text input from the input means; and a general word. a basic dictionary storing specialized terms; at least one set of specialized term dictionaries storing respective specialized terms for each specialized field; a dictionary setting storage unit storing the specialized term dictionaries and dictionary priority used during translation; a dictionary setting registration unit that registers technical terminology dictionary settings specified at the time of terminology dictionary setting in the dictionary setting storage unit; a translation control unit that controls translation execution based on instructions input from the input means; a translation execution unit that translates the original text stored in the input sentence storage unit while referring to dictionary setting information stored in the dictionary setting storage unit and outputs the translation result to an output sentence storage unit to be described later; A machine translation machine comprising: an output sentence storage unit that stores the translation result output from the translation execution unit; and a display unit that displays the output sentences stored in the output sentence storage unit.