JPH0528187A - Dictionary registration device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the dictionary registration device capable practical use of a translated term. CONSTITUTION:This dictionary registration device is provided with an input means 1 inputting a direction starting word registration in a dictionary and a term, a part of speech, and its equivalent term in translation in Japanese of language to be translated to a dictionary, a word dictionary 2 storing grammatical information on words of the language to be translated, a translation language term for this word, and the word of the translation language and its grammatical information, a translation language analysis dictionary 3 storing the grammar and words of the translation language and its grammatical information, a translation language analysis part 4 analyzing the stored translation term by referring to the word dictionary 2 and the translation language analysis dictionary 3 and discriminating of what words a translation term is composed, a dictionary registration control part 5 controlling the dictionary registration of a user, a display means 6 displaying the display of an input request for smooth registration in the case the user registers a word and the input result.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a dictionary registration device used in a machine translation device or the like for converting 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 (translated language) to another language (translated language).

For example, in the case of the English-Japanese machine translation device, two windows are displayed, and when the user inputs "He is clever." From the window for editing the English sentence to instruct translation, the window for editing the translated sentence is displayed. The translation result is displayed as "He is smart."

Such a machine translation device is generally equipped with a dictionary registration device for registering an unregistered word or a word that the user wants to specially translate. For example, if the user does not have the word "popular" in the dictionary,
Select the dictionary registration function and select "Popular" as the translation word.
By registering part-of-speech = "Godan la line", it becomes possible to translate "He is popular." To the input sentence "He is popular."

[0005]

However, in the conventional dictionary registration device described above, in contrast to the above example "popular", the dictionary information "the word" popular "is a noun Since the user does not have the means to express the information "and is a word formed in the form of the subject + predicate by the case particle" ga "and the auxiliary verb" arru ", the translation word that the user can register is Japanese. It was very limited to one word.

Therefore, since a translated word composed of a plurality of words, such as "popular", cannot be registered as it is, only the ending of the word is noted so that "popular" is one word. There was no choice but to forcefully register as "utilization".

However, in such a registration method, a wrong translated word "he is not popular." Is generated with respect to the input sentence "he is not popular."

It is an object of the present invention to provide a dictionary registration device that solves these problems of the related art and can translate naturally.

[0009]

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the above problems, a method of expanding the user interface so that it is possible to indicate in detail how and what the translated word is composed of can be considered. But with this method,
It is impractical because the translation result is expected to be significantly impaired if the user requires a high degree of knowledge and if the user registers incorrect information. Therefore, in order to solve the above problems, the present invention adds translation language analysis means to the conventional dictionary registration device.

[0010]

With the above configuration, what can be described as a translated word is not limited, so that a more natural translated word can be expected for the word registered by the user. Further, even if the user has no grammatical knowledge about the translated language, the translated word analysis means automatically recognizes the part of speech for the translated word, so that the user does not need to refer to the grammar book or the like to set grammatical information.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A dictionary registration device in an embodiment of the present invention for translating from English into Japanese will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a dictionary registration apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which 1 is an instruction for a user to start word registration in a dictionary, an English word or an English part of speech in the dictionary, and Input means for inputting a translated word, 2 is a grammatical information regarding an English word necessary for the machine translation device to analyze English, a translated word for this English word, and a word storing a Japanese word and its grammatical information A dictionary 3 is a Japanese analysis dictionary that stores Japanese grammar and Japanese words and their grammatical information, and 4 is a reference word that is used to analyze the stored translated words. A Japanese analysis unit for determining "how the word is composed of what kind of word", 5 is a dictionary registration control unit for controlling the user's dictionary registration, and 6 is a user registering the word, Register smoothly Display means for displaying the display and input result of the input request is.

FIG. 2 is a circuit block diagram of the machine translation apparatus of the present embodiment. 7 is a keyboard, 8 is a central processing unit (hereinafter abbreviated as CPU), 9 is a cathode ray tube display (hereinafter abbreviated as CRT). 10 is a read only memory (hereinafter abbreviated as ROM), and 11 is a random access memory (hereinafter abbreviated as RAM).

The input means 1 shown in FIG.
RAM 11 for word dictionary 2 and R for Japanese analysis dictionary 3
It is realized by OM10. In the Japanese analysis unit 4 and the dictionary registration control unit 5, the CPU 8 has a ROM 10 and a RAM 1
The display means 6 is realized by the CRT 9 by executing the program stored in the ROM 10 while exchanging data with 1.

The operation of the dictionary registration apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention configured as described above will be described below with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, in step (3-1), the user gives an instruction to select the dictionary registration function from the input means 1. Then,
The registration control unit 5 displays on the display unit 6 a screen prompting the user to input a word to be registered and grammatical information thereof. FIG. 4 shows a state of the dictionary registration screen.

In step (3-2), the user inputs the English spelling, English part-of-speech, and how to use the input means 1 according to the instruction on the screen of the display means 6. Further, the translation word is input. Here, the English “popular”
The dictionary registration will be described below. The appearance of the screen at this time is shown in FIG.

In step (3-3), the translated word input by the user is analyzed. That is, the registration control unit 5 transfers the translated word string received from the input unit 1 to the Japanese analysis unit 4. Then, the Japanese analysis unit 4 refers to the word information of the Japanese analysis dictionary 3 to decompose the translated word string into word strings, and further,
By referring to the grammatical rules stored in the Japanese analysis dictionary 3, it is determined whether or not the translated word "is composed of what kind of word". In the above example, the Japanese analysis unit 4 says that "popular" is a word composed in the form of subject + predicate by the noun "popular", the case particle "ga", and the auxiliary verb "arru". recognize. The contents of the Japanese analysis dictionary 3 referred to at this time are shown in FIGS.

In step (3-4), step (3-
The registration control unit 5 writes the translated word information recognized in 3) into the word dictionary 2. The contents of the word dictionary 2 at this time are shown in FIG.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention, the translation language analysis unit is provided to analyze the translated word, and the grammatical information for the translated word is set. Therefore, even if the user has no grammatical knowledge of the translated language. It is possible to set correct grammatical information in the word dictionary, and even if the translated word consists of two or more words, the translated word "how and how it is composed" is correctly worded. Can be registered in the dictionary.
Therefore, it is possible to reduce the work load of the user on the dictionary registration, and in the machine translation device that refers to the dictionary information registered by this dictionary registration device, when the dictionary created by the conventional dictionary registration device is referenced. A more natural translation can be expected compared to.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a dictionary registration device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a circuit block diagram of the same embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an outline of the operation of one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a user's dictionary registration screen.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a user's dictionary registration screen.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of the Japanese analysis dictionary referred to in analyzing the translated word.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing another example of the contents of the Japanese analysis dictionary referred to in analyzing the translated word.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing contents of a word dictionary after user registration is completed.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 input means 2 word dictionary 3 Japanese analysis dictionary 4 Japanese analysis section 5 dictionary registration control section 6 display means 7 keyboard 8 CPU 9 CRT 10 ROM 11 RAM

Claims (1)

Claims: 1. An instruction to start word registration in a dictionary, an input means for inputting a word in a translated language, a part of speech, and its Japanese translation into the dictionary, and a grammar for the translated language. Information, a translation language for this word, a word dictionary that stores translation words, and words in the translation language and their grammatical information, and a translation language analysis dictionary that stores the grammar of the translation language and words in the translation language and their grammatical information , A translation language analysis unit for analyzing stored translation words by referring to the word dictionary and the translation language analysis dictionary, and determining what kind of word the translation word is composed of, and user's dictionary registration A dictionary registration control unit for controlling the above, and a display unit for displaying an input request and an input result for facilitating registration when a user registers a word.