JPH0475168A - Machine translation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To perform efficient translating operation without spoiling corrected contents by performing translation again by mistake by displaying a mark which shows 'This sentence has its translation corrected by a user' for the sentence whose translation result is already corrected by the user. CONSTITUTION:The device is provided with an input means 1 and a source sentence and translation pair control table 2 stored with information indicating whether or not the translation result of the source sentence inputted by the input means 1 while the source sentence and translation result are made to correspond to each other. Further, the device is provided with a translation information part 3, an editing control part 4, and a display means 5. Then the source sentence and translation pair storage table is provided with a correction storage area for showing 'Whether the user corrects the translation or not.' to show 'Which sentence is corrected.' to the user. Consequently, the user can confirm whether the translation is already corrected by the user or not, so the correction result of the translation is prevented from being spoiled by mistake.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a machine translation device that converts input in one language into another language.

(Prior 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 translation device, two windows are displayed, and the user selects "saw a girl with a" from the English text editing window.
When the user inputs "telescope" and instructs translation, the translation result is displayed in the translation editing window as "I saw a girl with a telescope."

Furthermore, if the user wishes to modify this translated text, he or she can modify the translation result as shown below on the translated text correction screen by operating a key such as a screen switching key.

``I saw a girl through a telescope.'' (Problem to be solved by the invention) However, with the conventional machine translation device described above,
“Which original text did the user modify the translation result for?”
For example, if the user mistakenly instructs the user to retranslate the original text that has already been modified, all the modifications made by the user will be invalidated, and in the above example, " I saw a girl with a telescope.'' The result returns to the translation. An object of the present invention is to solve this conventional problem and provide a machine translation device that can perform efficient translation.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a correction flag "indicating whether the user has made corrections to the translated text" in the source/translation pair storage table of the conventional machine translation device. A storage area is provided so that the user can clearly see which sentence has been modified.

(Operation) With the above configuration, the user can check on the screen whether the translated text has already been corrected by the user, so that the corrected translation results will not be wasted by mistake as in the above example.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example of an English-Japanese machine translation device that converts an English sentence into a Japanese sentence will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a machine translation device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and 1 indicates input of an original text, correction of a translated text, instructions for translation from an original text to a translated text, and instructions for selecting input of an original text or correction of a translated text. The input means 2 associates the original text inputted from the input means 1 with the translation result, and further stores information (correction flag) indicating whether or not the translation result has been corrected by the user. 3 is a translation execution unit that translates the original text stored in the original text/translation pair management table 2; 4 is the original text input by the user, the translation result output by the translation execution unit, and the translation by the user. If you have modified the results of
An editing control unit 5 associates the original text and the translated text stored in the original/translated text pair management table 2, and further informs the user of any modifications made to the translation result by the user. It is a display means for displaying in the form of

FIG. 2 is a circuit block diagram of the machine translation device of this embodiment, where 6 is a keyboard, 7 is a central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as CPU).
It is abbreviated as. ), 8 is a cathode ray tube display (hereinafter referred to as C
It is abbreviated as RT display. ), 9 is a read-only memory (hereinafter abbreviated as ROM), and 10 is a random access memory (hereinafter abbreviated as RAM).

The input means 1 shown in FIG. By executing this, the display means 5 is realized by the CRT display 8.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an outline of processing in an embodiment of the present invention.

First, in step (3-1), the user selects what to do from now on using the input means 1.

In other words, if the user wants to input English text, the "English human power" mode is used, if the user wants to specify a certain English text and translate it, the "translation" mode is used, and if the user wants to make corrections to the translation result, the user uses the "English human power" mode. If you want to end all processing in "Translation correction" mode, select "End".

With this selection operation, if the user selects "End", all processing will be finished, and if the user selects anything else, there will be three modes: "English human power" mode, "Translation" mode, and "Translation correction" mode. transition to one state.

When the user completes the work to be done in each state, the process returns to step (3-1).

The operation of the English-Japanese machine translation apparatus in one embodiment of the present invention configured as described above will be explained below based on the flowchart of FIG. 4.

First, in step (4-1), when the user instructs to input English text, the mode becomes "English writing skills" mode.

FIG. 5<a) is a flowchart in the "English literary skill" mode. In step (5-1), the user inputs English text from input means 1.In step (5-2)
), the contents are written into the original text/translation pair management table 2 via the editing control unit 4. Next, step (5-3
), the editing control section 4 refers to the original text/translation pair management table 2 and displays it on the display means 5.

If the user selects [I saw a girl with a t
The contents of the original text/translation pair management table 2 when elescope and J are input are shown in FIG. 5(b). Further, the state of the editing screen at this time is shown in FIG. 5(c).

This completes the process in the "English language skills" mode, so the process proceeds to step (4-2) in FIG. 4.

In step (4-2), the user instructs translation, and the mode becomes "translation".

FIG. 6(a) is a flowchart in the "translation" mode.

First, in step (6-1), when the user specifies the original text to be translated using the input means 1 using a pointing device such as a cursor key or mouse, or by specifying a sentence number, in step (6-2), The editing control unit 4 refers to the contents of the original text/translation pair management table 2 and passes the original text to the translation execution unit 3. The translation execution unit 3 receives the original text and returns the translation result to the editing control unit 4.

In the above example, ``I saw a girl with a telescope.'' The following translation result is obtained.

In step (6-3), the editing control unit 4
The receiver writes the obtained translation result into the original/translated text pair management table 2. At this time, information indicating that the user has not made any modifications to the translation result for this original text (hereinafter referred to as modification flag=off) is also written.

Next, in step (6-4), the editing control section 4 refers to the original text/translation pair management table 2 and displays the result on the display means 5.

FIG. 6(b) shows the contents of the original/translated sentence pair management table 2 when the user instructs translation of the above example sentence. Further, the state of the editing screen at this time is shown in FIG. 6(c).

Since the processing in the "translation" mode is thus completed, the process proceeds to step (4-3) in FIG. 4.

In step (4-3), the user selects correction, and the mode becomes "translation correction" mode.

FIG. 7(a) is a flowchart in the "translation correction" mode.

First, in step (7-1), the user corrects the translated text using the input means 1. For example, the translation obtained above, ``I saw a girl with a telescope,'' can be modified as follows.

[I saw the girl through the telescope. ” Next, in step (7-2), the editing control unit 4 writes the content of the correction to the original text/translation pair management table 2. moreover,
In step (7-3), information that the user has modified this translation (hereinafter referred to as modification flag -on) is written into the original-translation pair management table 2.

Next, in step <7-4), the editing control unit 4 refers to the original text/translation pair management table 2 and displays it on the display means 5.

FIG. 7(b) shows the contents of the original text/translation pair management table at this time, and FIG. 7(c) shows the state of the editing screen. The symbol ■ in FIG. 7(c) indicates that the translated text has been corrected.

(Effects of the Invention) As explained above, in the present invention, a mark saying "This sentence has been modified by the user" is displayed on a sentence that the user has corrected in the translation result, so that it may be difficult to read the sentence by mistake. It is possible to carry out efficient translation work without wasting the contents of corrections during translation.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a machine translation device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a circuit block diagram of the same device, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a processing outline of the operation of an embodiment of the present invention. Figure 4 is a flowchart showing the steps of the user's work, Figure 5 (a) is a flowchart in the "English Human Power" mode, and Figure 5 (b) is the original text translation pair management table when English Human Power is completed. Figure 5(c) is an explanatory diagram showing the state of the editing screen at the time when English writing is completed, Figure 6(a) is a flowchart in "translation" mode, Figure 6(c) is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of Figure (b) is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of the source/translation pair management table at the time the translation is completed, Figure 6(c) is an explanatory diagram showing the state of the editing screen at the time the translation is completed, and Figure 7 (a) is a flowchart in the "translation correction" mode, Fig. 7 (b) is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of the original/translation pair management table at the time when translation correction is completed, and Fig. 7 (c) is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of the translation text pair management table. FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing the state of the editing screen at the time when the modification is completed. Input means Original text translation pair management table Translation execution section Editing control section Display means Keyboard PU RT OM AM Patent application Agent Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1) Input means for inputting an original text to be translated, correction of the translated text, translation instruction from the original text to the translated text, and selection instruction of inputting the original text or inputting correction of the translated text; an original text/translation text pair management table that stores the input original text and the translated text in association with each other, and also stores information indicating whether or not the translated text has been corrected in response to correction input; a translation execution unit that translates the input original text; an editing control unit that reflects the input original text, the translation result output by the translation execution unit, and the contents of the modified translation results in the source-translation pair management table; , display means for displaying the original text and the translated text stored in the original text/translation pair management table in association with each other, and further for clearly displaying that the original text has been corrected as a result of the translation. A machine translation device featuring: