JPH0631547Y2 - translator - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a translator having a Japanese document editing function and a Japanese-English translation function, for example.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, there is a translator having a function of a Japanese word processor and a function of translating a document input by the function into another language (for example, English) (for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 61-
265673).

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, in the above-mentioned conventional translator, the Japanese input function and the translation function are independent, and whether the input Japanese sentence can be translated into another language or not I don't know until I execute the translation function. Therefore, how many times does the process of creating a document using the Japanese input function → Japanese-English translation using the translation function → finding untranslatable sentences / words → correcting or registering a sentence using the Japanese input function → Japanese-English translation using the translation function It was also necessary to execute, and efficient translation could not be performed.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention aims to solve the above problems, and
As illustrated in the figure, the following configuration was adopted.

That is, the gist of the present invention consists of a character string input means M1, a reference language word corresponding to the character string, a translation language word corresponding to the reference language word, and conversion information. Conversion dictionary M having a set of character string information for each character string
2, a character string conversion means M3 for converting the input character string into a word in a reference language based on the character string information in the conversion dictionary M2 in the reference language input mode, and the conversion in the translation mode. And a language conversion means M4 for converting the word string of the standard language into a word string of the translated language based on the character string information in the conversion dictionary M2 and outputting the word string, and switching between the standard language input mode and the translation mode. In the reference language input mode, the character string conversion means M3
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a translator including a determination unit M5 that determines whether or not the word in the reference language converted by the above can be converted into the word in the translated language based on the character string information in the conversion dictionary M2.

[Operation] In the present invention, first, in the reference language input mode, a character string is input from the input means M1, and the character string conversion means M3 converts this character string into the reference language based on the character string information in the conversion dictionary M2. Convert to words. And when translating, switch from the standard language input mode to the translation mode,
The language converting means M4 converts the word string in the reference language into a word string in the translated language based on the character string information in the conversion dictionary M2, and outputs the word string. That is, the reference language word string is created in advance in the reference language input mode, and then the translation mode is switched to, and the previously created reference language word string is translated into the translation language word string and output.

Then, in the translator of the present invention, in the reference language input mode, the determining means M5 determines whether or not the word in the reference language converted by the character string converting means M3 can be converted into the word in the translation language. It can be determined based on the character string information in M2.

Therefore, when creating the reference language word string in the reference language input mode, it is possible to detect words in the reference language that are inappropriate for translation, and therefore, it is possible to create the reference language word string using words suitable for translation. It becomes easy and efficient translation is possible.

[Embodiment] FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a translator according to an embodiment of the present invention. This translator has a Japanese input mode for creating a Japanese document and a Japanese-English translation mode for translating a Japanese document into English, and has an electronic control circuit 10, a keyboard 20 for inputting characters and various instructions, A display 30 for displaying processing results and the like; a printer 40 for outputting processing results and the like;
A hard disk 50 that stores a dictionary used in the Japanese input mode and Japanese-English translation mode, and a flexible disk drive (FDD) that records a Japanese document or an English document created by this translator on a flexible disk (not shown) as needed. 60 and the like.

The electronic control circuit 10 includes a well-known CPU 10a and ROM 10
b, a RAM 10c, and an input / output port (I / O) 10d, and the CPU 10a is a ROM 10
It operates according to the programs and data stored in b.

The dictionary stored in the hard disk 50 has items of "heading", "notation", "part of speech", and "translation" as shown in the explanatory view of FIG. The "*" added to the "translation" item means that there is no corresponding English word.

The Japanese input mode and Japanese-English translation mode of this translator will be described.

When the Japanese input mode shown in FIG. 4 is started by a predetermined key operation, first, in step S100 (hereinafter simply referred to as S100. The same applies to other steps below), a character string is input. It In the following S110, the input character string is converted into kanji notation by a well-known kana-kanji conversion process. In this kana-kanji conversion processing, a notation having a "heading" corresponding to the input character string is searched from a dictionary stored in the hard disk 50 and made into a Japanese sentence. Highly accurate kana-kanji conversion can be performed by using the part of speech in the dictionary during this conversion.

Next, in S120, it is determined whether or not each word forming the Japanese sentence can be translated into an English word.

Here, when the Japanese sentence meets any of the following conditions, it is determined that the Japanese sentence is inappropriate for Japanese-English translation and cannot be translated.

Condition 1 Independent words have a prefix and a suffix. In this case, the dictionary cannot be searched as an independent word and cannot be translated.

Condition 2 Multiple independent words are consecutive. For example, "acceleration"
Since "acceleration" and "furnace" have different meanings, they cannot be searched as a dictionary notation and cannot be translated.

Condition 3 It is a word that is continuously input with a single Kanji character, regardless of the phrase conversion. Even in this case, it cannot be searched as a dictionary notation and cannot be translated.

Condition 4 There is no translation corresponding to the independent word notation in the dictionary.

When it is determined in S120 that the Japanese sentence matches any of the above conditions and translation cannot be performed, S1 is executed.
Return to 00 to change the character string or call a dictionary registration program (not shown) to perform word registration.

On the other hand, if it is determined that the translation is possible because the above conditions are not met, the sentence converted in S130 is stored as a Japanese document in the predetermined area of the RAM 10c or in the flexible disk or the hard disk 50 as necessary. To do.

When the Japanese-English translation mode shown in FIG. 5 is started by a predetermined key operation, first, in S200, the Japanese document created in the Japanese input mode is called to analyze the document. I do. In this analysis, a Japanese document is divided into bunsetsu units and the dependency between each word is determined. In subsequent S210, the notation of each word of the Japanese sentence divided into the phrase units is translated into English using the dictionary, and the English words are arranged according to the analysis to form an English document. Translate.

In subsequent S220, it is determined whether or not the Japanese-English translation is possible depending on whether or not an unknown word exists, and if the Japanese-English translation is possible, in S230, the translation result is displayed as an English document and displayed. 30, output to the printer 40, etc., and the present process ends. On the other hand, if the Japanese-English translation is not possible, the part that cannot be translated is displayed on the display 30.
The error processing such as displaying on the screen is performed, and this processing ends.

The translator according to the present embodiment configured as described above can detect a Japanese word inappropriate for Japanese-English translation when creating a Japanese document. Therefore, it becomes easy to create a Japanese document using words suitable for Japanese-English translation. As a result, translation failure at the time of translation is reduced, and more efficient Japanese-English translation becomes possible.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to this, and includes various aspects without departing from the scope of the invention.

Further, in the present embodiment, the translator for performing the Japanese-English translation has been described, but a translator for performing the English-Japanese translation, the Japanese-French translation, the French-Japanese translation, the Japanese-German translation, the German-Japanese translation, etc. is also realized in the same manner. be able to.

[Advantage of the Invention] Since the present invention is provided with the determination means for determining whether or not the reference language word converted by the character string conversion means can be converted into the translated language word in the reference language input mode, When creating a reference language word string in the reference language input mode, it is possible to detect words in the reference language that are inappropriate for translation.

Therefore, there is an effect that it becomes easy to create a word string of a reference language using words suitable for translation, less untranslatability in the translation mode, and more efficient translation become possible.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 is a block diagram of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a dictionary used therein, and FIGS. 4 and 5 are flow charts for explaining the operation thereof. Is. M1 ... Input means, M2 ... conversion dictionary, M3 ... Character string conversion means, M4 ... Language conversion means, M5 ... Judgment means 10 ... Electronic control circuit, 20 ... Keyboard, 30 ...
Display, 40 ... Printer, 50 ... Hard disk, 60 ... Flexible disk drive

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A set of character strings composed of a character string input means, a word in a reference language corresponding to the character string, a word in a translation language corresponding to the word in the reference language, and conversion information. A conversion dictionary having information for each character string; and a character string conversion means for converting the input character string into a word in a reference language based on character string information in the conversion dictionary in a reference language input mode, A language conversion means for converting the word string of the converted reference language into a word string of the translated language based on the character string information in the conversion dictionary and outputting the translated word string in the translation mode; In a translator that switches between and uses a translation mode, in the reference language input mode, it is determined whether or not the word in the reference language converted by the character string conversion means can be converted into a word in the translation language. Based on column information Translator, characterized in that it comprises a determination means.