JPH0589169A - Machine translation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve correction efficiency. CONSTITUTION:An original sentence and a translated sentence are set in a buffer P so that they become printing images as they are, and the number of the lines is stored in a variable Nbu (S5). When printing is sequentially executed on paper, the size of the number of the lines for one page in a printer Lpr is compared (S10) with that of the sum of the number of printed lines Nct, the number of blank lines Lbl and the number of the lines Nbu in a buffer P. When the number of the lines Lpr for one page in the printer is judged to be larger than the latter, the original sentence and the translated sentence are not recorded in one page. Thus, a printer page-feed signal is outputted and a content in the buffer P is transmitted to the printer and printed (S15, S16, S6, S7 and S8).

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,
In particular, it relates to a machine translation device capable of printing an original sentence and a translated sentence corresponding to the original sentence in a corresponding format.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional machine translation device, when a translated sentence or a sentence in a corresponding format of an original sentence and a translated sentence is printed, a page is printed every time a predetermined number of lines per page is reached as a function of the printing device. There was a break. Therefore, there are many cases where pages are divided in the middle of one sentence.

In the case where a printing method in which each sentence is divided into paragraphs and printed to facilitate correction after translation is used, when one sentence contains a sentence having two or more lines. However, there is a possibility that pages may be separated in the middle of one sentence and one sentence may be printed over a plurality of pages.

In addition, a so-called bilingual translation format is used in which one sentence of an original sentence and one sentence of a translated sentence are identified so that the correspondence between them can be understood and each sentence is divided and printed. If the text is printed in either the original text or the translated text, even if measures are taken to prevent the printing of a single text over multiple pages as described above, the corresponding 1 Since both sentences do not always have the same number of lines, one sentence in the language of the side that did not take such measures may be printed over multiple pages, resulting in one sentence in the original sentence. In some cases, a sentence and a translated sentence corresponding to the sentence and a bundle of the sentences were printed over a plurality of pages.

In order to print a set of one sentence of the original sentence and one sentence of the translated sentence corresponding thereto in one page without being spread over a plurality of pages. , The sentence output by the translation device is used as input to a separately prepared word processor or typesetting software, and the user sets the layout for printing using the word processor or typesetting software, and then those word processors or typesetting software, etc. It was necessary to print using the print function of.

Even when a translation device having such a word function and typesetting function is used, the user must set the layout in order to print with a layout different from the standard setting of the device. The operation was complicated.

[0007]

Conventionally, a user of a machine translation device prints on a piece of paper a sentence in a corresponding format of an original sentence and a translated sentence output by the translation device in order to obtain a good translation result. In some cases, the printed text is corrected on paper before it is used. At that time, in the printed output, the original sentence and the translated sentence are clearly separated into sentences, and each sentence of the original sentence and each sentence of the translated sentence are clearly associated with each other. Needless to say, if a so-called parallel translation is used for each sentence, it is extremely convenient for correction and the correction efficiency is improved.

However, in the conventional translation apparatus, even when such a bilingual format is printed for each sentence, as described above, one sentence of the original sentence and one of the translated sentences corresponding to the original sentence are printed at the page breaks. A set of one sentence may be printed over two pages. In order to solve this, as mentioned above, it was very difficult to use a word processor and typesetting software. If there is such a portion, it is necessary to view a plurality of pages at the same time to correct one sentence, which is a complicated work, and there is a problem that the correction efficiency is reduced.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a machine translation device with improved correction efficiency.

[0010]

According to the present invention, a machine translation device for translating an original sentence using a dictionary and grammatical rules and outputting the translated sentence is provided with a printing means for printing characters and an original sentence using the printing means. And a translated sentence corresponding to the original sentence are simultaneously printed, and when the simultaneous printing is designated, the original sentence and the translated sentence corresponding to the original sentence are printed as a set, and the simultaneous printing means is used. When there is a designation, the judgment means that judges whether the combination of the original sentence and the corresponding translated sentence can be printed on the same page, and if the judgment means cannot print on the same page, the original sentence And a control means for controlling the printing means so as to print a set with the corresponding translation on the next page.

[0011]

[Function] When the original sentence and the corresponding translated sentence are printed as a set at the same time and it is determined that the set is printed over different pages, the set is printed on the next page. To be done. Therefore, the set of the translated sentence corresponding to the original sentence is always printed on the same page.

[0012]

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a machine translation apparatus of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, a machine translation device includes a main CPU (central processing unit) 1, a main memory 2, a CRT (cathode ray tube) 3, a keyboard 4, a translation module 5, and a dictionary / grammar for translation. Memory 6 storing rules, tree structure conversion rules, etc.
And a printer 7, which are connected to each other through a bus 8.

When the source language is input, the translation module 5 translates the source language and outputs the target language. That is, the source language input from the keyboard 4 is translated into the translation module 5 under the control of the main CPU 1.
Sent to. The translation module 5 translates the input source language into a target language as described in detail later using a dictionary, a grammar rule, a tree structure conversion rule, etc. stored in the memory 6. As a result, the data is temporarily stored in the main memory 2, displayed on the CRT 3, and printed on a piece of paper by the printer 7 if necessary. The main memory 2 is also used as a register memory and a display buffer during execution of various programs.

For the sake of explanation, the operation of printing a translated sentence according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 2 to 9 using an original sentence as a source language as an English sentence and a translated sentence as a target language as a Japanese sentence. explain.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for printing a translated sentence according to this embodiment. First, the translation process will be described.
First, the original text to be translated is read using an OCR or the like (not shown). The read English sentence is divided into sentences and stored in the buffer S as shown in FIG. 3 before being translated. This includes the main memory 2 shown in FIG.
Is partly allocated. In FIG. 3, the symbol “□” is a control symbol indicating a sentence break. Next, for the English sentence stored in the buffer S, the translation module 5 in FIG. 1 refers to the dictionaries and tables in the memory 6 with the portion delimited by the symbol “□” as one unit, and the translation process is performed. Is given. The translation result is stored in the buffer T as shown in FIG. A part of the main memory 2 of FIG. 1 is also allocated to this. Here, the symbol “□” is a control symbol indicating the same sentence break as in the case of FIG. 2, and the unit separated by “□” in the buffer S and the unit separated by “□” in the buffer T are sentences. It corresponds in order from the whole head. For example, in the buffer S, the fourth unit “Th” separated by “□” is
e first languageis hieroglyphics which is the trad
The translation of "Itional language of Egypt." into Japanese is the fourth unit, which is also separated by "□" in buffer T. "The first language is hieroglyph, which is a traditional Egyptian language. There is. " FIG. 7 to FIG. 9 are those in which such correspondences are printed, and an object of the present invention is to improve the printing method in such a case.

The input procedure of the original sentence and the translation process are completed as described above, and the processing procedure instructed to print the original sentence and the translated sentence in the bilingual format for each sentence will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, in step S1 of FIG. 2, the variable Nct is set to 0. Here, the variable Nct is a variable for storing the number of lines that have already been printed in the page currently being printed. Next, in step S2, it is determined whether or not the printing of the contents of the buffers S and T is completed. At the beginning of printing, printing is not completed, so NO is determined, and the process proceeds to step S3. Step S
In 3, the buffer memory P for printing is cleared. Next, in step S4, one sentence separated by "□" is picked up from each of the buffer S and the buffer T,
It is set in the buffer P. The buffer P has a two-dimensional structure as shown in FIG. 5, and one horizontal line corresponds to one line on the printing paper. When the information of one sentence in each of the buffer S and the buffer T is set in the buffer P, the number of characters in one line in each of the English column and the Japanese column on the printing paper is taken into consideration. Characters (for example, word wraparound, hyphenation, kinsoku processing, etc.) are also taken into consideration to properly divide the lines, and the first half of each line of buffer P in English 1
One line in Japanese is set in the latter half of the line so that the contents of the buffer P are as shown in the print image. Then, the number of lines of the contents set in the buffer P in step S5 is stored in the variable Nbu. In the case of FIG. 5, since the English side has 3 lines and the Japanese side has 2 lines, 3 lines are required as a whole, so 3 is set in Nbu.

Next, in step S6, it is determined whether or not the variable Nct exceeds 0. Here, Nct being 0 means that a new page has not been printed yet. In this case, the process proceeds to step S7, the contents of the buffer P are sent to the printer, and the contents of the buffer P are printed in step S8. Then, in step S9, a new N is obtained by adding Nbu to Nct.
ct. This means that the number Nct of lines already printed in the current page is increased by the number Nbu of lines now printed in step S8. Thus, the process returns to step S2.

If the variable Nct exceeds 0 in step S6, the process proceeds to step S10. In step S10,
It is determined whether the value obtained by adding the variable Lbl and the variable Nbu to the variable Nct does not exceed the constant Lpr. Here, the constant Lbl is the number of blank lines inserted between one sentence and the next sentence on the print sheet. 7-9, Lbl
Is shown as one line, but the number is not limited to this, and may be any suitable number of lines for easy viewing. The constant Lpr is the maximum number of lines that can be printed on one page. That is, up to this point, Nct lines have been printed on the current page, but after this, it is possible to add an Lbl line interval and then add a parallel translation of Nbu lines within the current page. It is step S10 that determines whether or not
Is.

If the value obtained by adding Lbl and Nbu to Nct does not exceed Lpr, it means that printing can be performed within the current page. In this case, the process advances to step S11, and the printer first feeds Lbl lines to produce blank lines of Lbl. Step S1
In step 2, the contents of the buffer P are sent to the printer, and the contents of the buffer P are printed in step S13. Then, in step S14, a new Nct is obtained by adding Nbl and Nbu to Nct. This means that the number of lines Nct already printed in the current page is increased by the number of lines Nbl sent in step S11 and the number of lines Nbu printed in step S13. is doing. The program then returns to step S2.

As described above, the first sentence after printing is started, and the first sentence of each page, that is, "The Rosetta Stone" and "Rosetta Stone" in FIG.
For the combination of and, S2 → S3 → S4 → S5 → S in FIG.
It is printed by going through the loop of 6 → S7 → S8 → S9 → S2. For the second and subsequent sentences, S2 → S in FIG.
3 → S4 → S5 → S6 → S10 → S11 → S12 → S1
Printing is performed by going around the loop of 3 → S14 → S2. FIG. 7 shows the printing paper at the time when the fifth sentence is printed in this way.

Next, the printing of the sixth sentence will be described. Here, if the present invention is not applied, the English sentence side of the sixth sentence will be printed over two pages as shown in FIG.

At this point, if the process proceeds from steps S2 to S3 and S4, the sixth sentence is set in the buffer P as shown in FIG. Then, in step S5, the row number 4 is stored in the variable Nbu. In the next step S6, since Nct exceeds 0, the process proceeds to step S10. Here, the value obtained by adding the constant Lbl and the variable Nbu to the variable Nct exceeds the constant Lpr. This means that if the contents of the buffer P are printed without changing the page as it is, it will span two pages. Therefore, in this case, the process proceeds to step S15, the printer is controlled to perform a page break operation, and Nct is set to 0 in step S16. Then, the process returns to step S6. In step S6,
Since Nct is 0, that is, it is indicated that a new page has started, the process advances to step S7 to send the contents of the buffer P to the printer as they are without printing the Lbl line and print the contents. FIG. 9 shows the printing paper at the time when the sixth sentence is printed in this way. Unlike the case of FIG. 8 to which the present invention is not applied, the page of the sixth sentence is not changed in the middle.

As described above, the printing of the contents of the buffers S and T is continued, and when the printing of all the contents of the buffers S and T is completed, the printing is ended by the judgment in step S2.

The following may be considered as a modified embodiment of the present invention. (i) The present invention can be applied not only when the original sentence and the translated sentence are arranged as shown in FIGS. 7 to 9 but also when the arrangement is made as shown in FIG. 10, for example.

(Ii) In FIGS. 7 to 10, the printing paper is shown as a continuous form paper, but it may be a single form paper.

(Iii) In the present embodiment, a buffer memory for holding a set of bilingual sentences is provided, and 1 is stored in this buffer memory.
When a set of bilingual sentences is set, it is determined whether to print on the current page or the next page, and one set of bilingual sentences is printed immediately, but the processing method is not limited to this. Not a thing. For example, a method may be adopted in which a buffer memory for printing one page is provided, printing information for one page is set therein, and then one page is printed at a time.

(Iv) In the present embodiment, when a value or bilingual printing is instructed, a set of bilingual sentences is printed to prevent the bilingual sentences from extending over a plurality of pages. It is not limited to. The user may select whether or not to prevent a set of bilingual sentences from straddling a plurality of pages by bilingual printing.

[0030]

As described above, according to the present invention, when an original sentence and a translated sentence corresponding to the original sentence are printed at the same time as a set, whether the set is printed over different pages. It will be judged. When it is determined that the set is printed over different pages, the set is printed on the next page. Therefore, the set of the translated sentence corresponding to the original sentence is always printed on the same surface. As a result, it is possible to provide a machine translation device with improved correction efficiency.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a printing process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of contents of a buffer in which an input original sentence is stored.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of contents of a buffer in which a sentence obtained by a translation process is stored.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of contents of a buffer in which a character string to be printed is stored.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of contents of a buffer in which a character string to be printed is stored.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a printing example of a general printer in a bilingual format for each sentence.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a print example of a printer in a parallel translation format for each sentence when the present invention is not applied.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a printing example of a printer in a bilingual format for each sentence when the present invention is applied.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a printing example of a printer in a bilingual format for each sentence according to a modified example of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Main CPU 2 Main Memory 3 CRT 4 Keyboard 5 Translation Module 6 Memory 7 Printer S, T, P Buffer

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Ichiko Sada 22-22 Nagaike-cho, Abeno-ku, Osaka

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. The original text is translated using a dictionary and grammar rules,
A machine translation device for outputting the translated text, wherein a printing means for printing characters, and a simultaneous printing designation means for instructing to simultaneously print the original sentence and a translated sentence corresponding to the original sentence by using the printing means And when the simultaneous printing is designated, the original sentence and a translated sentence corresponding to the original sentence are printed as a set, and when designated by the simultaneous printing designation means, the original sentence and the original sentence correspond to each other. When the determination means determines whether the set with the translated text can be printed on the same page and the determination means cannot print on the same page, the set of the original text and the translated text is A machine translation device, comprising: a control unit that controls the printing unit to print on a page.