JPH05257975A - Machine translator - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable outputting the Japanese translation of the auxiliary verb desired by a user. CONSTITUTION:An input control part 1 inputs an original sentence. An original sentence analyzing part 3 analyzes an original sentence by referring to a dictionary file 6 and a knowledge base 7 and prepares an intermediate expression expressing the meaning and content of the original sentence. An auxiliary verb generating method designation input part 5 outputs auxiliary verb translated word generation designation information when the Japanese translation corresponding to the meaning of the auxiliary verb is designated. A translated sentence generation part 4 translates the intermediate expression in accordance with a preliminarily fixed translation rule in the knowledge base and the auxiliary verb translated word generation designation information. An output control part 8 outputs the generated translated sentence.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a machine translation apparatus, and more particularly to a machine translation apparatus having a function of allowing a user to selectively specify a translation method of an auxiliary verb.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional machine translation device will be described with reference to FIG.

The original text input via the input control unit 1 is
Passed to the translation control unit 2, referring to the dictionary file 6 and the knowledge base 7, first, the original sentence analysis unit 3 analyzes the grammatical structure of the original sentence, determines the meaning of the constituent elements of the sentence, and expresses the meaning content. Get an intermediate representation. And based on the intermediate representation,
The translation was generated by the translation generation unit 4 and output through the output control unit 8. In addition, this knowledge base 7 includes analysis rules for analyzing the original sentence to obtain an intermediate expression, and generation rules for calculating information of the intermediate expression and generating a Japanese sentence. It is carried out.

[0004]

In the above-mentioned conventional translation apparatus, translation is performed unconditionally and uniformly with a fixed Japanese expression determined by the translation generation unit 4 for one meaning. However, even if several kinds of expressions are possible for one meaning such as auxiliary verb, it is difficult for the current technology to uniquely generate a suitable expression from the intermediate expression. Had the drawback that the translation would not be appropriate.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a machine translation device, comprising an dictionary file and a knowledge base, an input control section for inputting an original sentence, and referring to the dictionary file and the knowledge base to obtain the original sentence. An original sentence analysis unit that analyzes and creates an intermediate expression that represents the meaning and content of the original sentence, and an auxiliary verb generation that outputs an auxiliary verb translation generation specification when a Japanese translation corresponding to the meaning of the auxiliary verb is selected through a selection unit that is provided The method includes a method specification input unit, a translation generation unit that translates the intermediate expression according to a predetermined translation rule in the knowledge base and the auxiliary verb translation generation specification, and an output control unit that outputs the generated translation. It is characterized by

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

The original sentence is input to the input control unit 1 and passed to the translation control unit 2. The translation control unit refers to the dictionary file 6 and the knowledge base 7 and analyzes the original sentence by the original sentence analyzing unit 3 to obtain an intermediate expression representing the meaning content of the original sentence.

When the user wants to translate the Japanese expression of the auxiliary verb into a desired expression, the user can specify the auxiliary verb generation method,
Select the desired Japanese translation for each auxiliary verb meaning,
specify. The specified information is accepted by the auxiliary verb generation method specification input unit 5 and input to the translation generation unit 4 of the translation control unit 2 so that it can be used when the information contained in the intermediate expression is translated according to the translation rule. Then, the desired expression is output via the output control unit 8.

Next, a method for specifying the auxiliary verb generation by the user and a method for generating the specified auxiliary verb will be specifically described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, "possible" expression, "possibility" expression, "guess" expression, etc. can be designated. For example, the auxiliary verb “can (coul
d) ”has the meanings of“ possible ”,“ possibility ”, and“ guess ”in the above, so one generation method can be specified for each meaning. Actually“ possible ”,“ possibility ” ,
An example sentence will be described in association with "guess". If translation is performed without specifying auxiliary verb generation before translation, the translation will be performed as shown in FIG.
swim. I can swim /...Cannot occre .... cannot occur. / ... could buy car .... could have been bought. ) Is obtained as a translation result. For the same example sentence,
Before translation, in a “possible” expression, a. "Uru", "possibility"
In expression, b. "May / may not", "guess"
In expression, a. When “φ (no auxiliary verb is generated)” is specified, the translation process is performed using the translation rule included in the knowledge base 7 based on the specified information, and FIG. You can get a translation result like "/ I could buy. Also, even with the same “possible” expression, can (could)
It is possible to specify a different generation method with may (might). For example, in can (could), a. "sell"
In may (might), c. If you select "you can (if you are a comrade," word stem "+" can "),
As in (can be used. Can be used / may be used. Can be used), the translation result is output by each expression method.

[0012]

As described above, the machine translation apparatus of the present invention can externally generate an expression suitable for a word, such as an auxiliary verb, which can express several kinds of words for one meaning. By making it possible to specify, it is possible to output the Japanese translation desired by the user.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an operation explanatory diagram of the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an operation explanatory diagram of the present embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an example of a conventional technique.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Input control unit 2 Translation control unit 3 Original sentence analysis unit 4 Translation sentence generation unit 5 Auxiliary verb generation method designation input unit 6 Dictionary file 7 Knowledge base 8 Output control unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A machine translation apparatus comprising a dictionary file and a knowledge base, an input control unit for inputting an original sentence, an intermediate unit representing the meaning content of the original sentence by referring to the dictionary file and the knowledge base, and analyzing the original sentence. The source sentence analysis unit that creates an expression, the auxiliary verb generation method specification input unit that outputs an auxiliary verb translated word generation specification when a Japanese translation corresponding to the meaning of the auxiliary verb is selected through a selection unit provided in advance, and the intermediate expression A machine translation device, comprising: a translation generation unit that translates according to a predetermined translation rule in the knowledge base and the auxiliary verb translation generation designation, and an output control unit that outputs the generated translation.