JPH08194710A - Machine translation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To designate the usage of a participle as a pre-editing function so as to make translation work efficient by translating the original stored in an original/ translated sentence storage part through the use of a translation dictionary and a participle translation part. CONSTITUTION: A translation control part 8 checks whether the usage information of the participle is stored in the original/translated sentence information storage part 3 or not. When the usage of the participle is stored, the translation control part 8 operates the participle translation part 4 through a translation execution part 6 and translates the participle and the original. When it is not stored, an existed translation processing is started. The translation execution part 6 translates the original stored in the original/translated sentence information storage part 3 by using the participle translation part 4 and the translation dictionary 5. The participle is translated in the process of the translation of the original. For translating the participle, a participle translation rule stored in the participle translation part 4 and the translation dictionary 5 is extracted from the usage of the participle stored in the original/translated sentence information storage part 3 so as to execute translation by using the rule. A translated sentence after translation is stored in the original/translated sentence information storage part 3 and is displayed on a display part 7 by the translation control part 8.

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 for converting a language input 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 to another. However, with the current machine translation technology, it is difficult to perform automatic translation, and a sentence that is difficult for the machine translation device to translate,
That is, in the case of not only the syntactic information but also the sentence whose semantic interpretation and context must be taken into account, the translation is performed with the intervention of the user.

For example, in the English sentence He is living., There is a part of speech of "living" as a verb and adjective. Both parts of speech are syntactically correct 1) "living" is a verb ... "is living" and is in progressive form, and the sentence pattern is the Ith sentence pattern.

2) "living" is an adjective ... "living" is B
It is a complement of the e verb, and the sentence pattern is the second sentence pattern. The following interpretation holds. Both 1) and 2) are syntactically correct, but the translated text changes greatly as follows.

1) The verb "living" is ... he lives. 2) "living" is an adjective ... he is alive. Therefore, the user is asked to determine which part of speech is used and specify the part of speech of “living”. The machine translation device employs a method of translating with a designated part of speech and outputting a translated sentence.

In addition to the above, the machine translation apparatus is provided with a number of pre-editing functions such as designating a phrase contact and a phrase range.

[0007]

However, in the pre-editing function provided to the existing machine translation device, for example, the pre-editing function for successfully translating the English sentence I found my aunt sitting children at a table. Does not exist. That is, there is no pre-editing function that specifies the usage of participles.

The English participle has several uses, as follows: 1) Participle syntax 2) Prepositional participle 3) Postpositional participle 4) Verb noun To make these usage decisions, it is not possible only from the syntactic information, and it is necessary to analyze the semantic level. . However, it is difficult to analyze the semantic level at the current technical level of machine translation, and there is a high possibility that a translation error will occur. Such a translation error must be manually corrected by the user.

The user of the machine translation device uses the machine translation device not only to improve the efficiency of the translation work but also to unify the vocabulary and notation of the machine translated document.
If the translation is manually corrected every time a translation error occurs, the efficiency of the translation work will deteriorate. In addition, when there are a plurality of English sentences including participle in one document, the user must manually correct the translated sentence one sentence at a time, and it is difficult to unify the vocabulary and notation in the document. Will.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above conventional problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a machine translation device capable of designating the use of participle as a pre-editing function and improving the efficiency of translation work.

[0011]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention comprises an input unit for inputting an original sentence, a position specifying unit for a user to specify a position of a participle in the original sentence, and a usage of the participle. The original sentence input from the input unit and the translated sentence that is the translation result are stored in association with each other, and the original sentence translation storage unit that stores the participle in the original sentence and the usage of the participle is also stored. The participle translation unit that stores patterns and a translation dictionary that stores vocabulary / grammar information and translation information of words in the source language necessary for translation, and the original sentence that is stored in the original sentence translation storage unit are the translation dictionary. , The translation execution unit for translating using the participle translation unit, the original sentence stored in the original sentence translated sentence information storage unit and the translated sentence are displayed in association with each other, and when the user gives a participle usage designation instruction, the participle translation unit List of participle usages And a translation control unit that controls the operation of the translation execution unit, the original sentence position of the original sentence, the translated sentence, and the original sentence position of the participle, the storage control of the usage, and the display control unit on the display unit. The machine translation device is configured as follows.

[0012]

According to the present invention, in the above configuration, the user specifies the usage of the participle in the pre-editing process, so that the possibility of a translation error of the participle is reduced, and the user is less likely to correct the translation error. That is, the efficiency of translation work is improved.

Further, since translation errors are reduced,
The user can use the machine-translated sentence as a translated sentence. The machine-translated sentences have the same vocabulary and notation. In other words, it is possible to unify the vocabulary and notation of the translated text.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A machine translation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a machine translation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As components, 1 in the figure is an input of an original sentence, an input unit for making a translation request, and 2 is a participle in the original sentence by a user. Position, and the usage specification part that specifies the usage of participle,
Reference numeral 3 denotes an original sentence translation information storage unit that stores the original sentence input from the input unit 1 in association with a translated sentence that is a translation result, and stores the participle in the original sentence and the usage of the participle in association with each other. A participle translation unit that stores the translation pattern according to the usage, 5 is a translation dictionary that stores vocabulary / grammar information and translation information of the words in the source language necessary for translation, and 6 is stored in the original sentence translation storage unit 2. A translation execution unit that translates the translated original sentence using the translation dictionary 5 and the participle translation unit 4, and 7 displays the original sentence and the translated sentence stored in the original sentence translated sentence information storage unit 2 in association with each other,
When the user gives a participle usage specification instruction, the display part 8 displays a participle usage list from the participle translation part 4, 8 is an operation control of the translation execution part 6, the original sentence, the translated sentence, the original sentence position of the participle, and the usage. Is a translation control unit that controls the storage of, and the display control on the display unit 7.

FIG. 2 is a circuit block diagram of the machine translation apparatus of the present embodiment. As components, 9 is a keyboard, 10 is a mouse, 11 is a central processing unit (hereinafter abbreviated as CPU), and 12 is a cathode ray tube. A display (hereinafter abbreviated as CRT) 13 is a read-only memory (hereinafter R).
Abbreviated as OM. ) And 14 are random access memories (hereinafter abbreviated as RAM).

Input section 1 and usage designation section 2 in FIG.
2 is a keyboard 9 and a mouse 10 shown in FIG. 2, a display unit 7 is a CRT 12, a participle translation unit 4, a translation dictionary 5 is a ROM 13, and an original sentence translated text information storage unit 3 is a RAM 14.
As a result, the CPU 11 of the translation execution unit 4 and the translation control unit 6 is R
It is realized by executing a program stored in the ROM 13 while exchanging data with the OM 13 and the RAM 14.

The operation of the English-Japanese machine translation apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention having the above-mentioned components will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, in step 1, the user inputs an original sentence using the input unit 1. Here, it is assumed that I found my aunt sitting children at a table. Has been input.

The input original sentence is stored in the original sentence translated sentence information storage unit 3 by the translation control unit 8 and displayed on the display unit 7. The state of the original translated text information storage unit 3 at this time is shown in FIG.
The state of the screen of the display unit 7 is shown in FIG.

In step 2, the user specifies the usage of the participle. To specify the participle usage, the user selects the participle in the original sentence displayed on the display unit 7 using the participle usage specification unit 2 (FIG. 6),
It is started by further pressing the participle setting button (FIG. 7). When the participle setting button is pressed, the translation control unit 8 displays the translation pattern of the participle stored in the participle translation unit 4 (FIG. 8) via the translation execution unit 6 on the display unit 7 (FIG. 9). The user specifies the usage of the participle in the original sentence from this translation pattern. FIG. 10 shows the state of the screen when "participle syntax" is selected as the usage of the participle. The usage specified by the user for the selected participle is stored in the original sentence translated text information storage unit 3 by the translation control unit 8. FIG. 11 shows the state of the original translated text information storage unit 3 at this time.

In step 3, the user uses the input unit 1 to make a translation request for the original sentence. If there is a translation request, the translation control unit 8 activates the translation execution unit 6 to start translation processing. If there is no request, the translation process ends.

Specifically, the mouse 10 is used for the CRT 12
The translation process is started by pressing the translation button. The appearance of the screen at this time is shown in FIG.

In step 4, the translation control unit 8 checks whether or not the participle usage is stored in the original sentence translated text storage unit 3. If the usage of the participle is stored, the translation control unit 8 operates the participle translation unit 4 via the translation execution unit 6 to translate the participle and the original sentence.

If not stored, the process proceeds to step 6 to start the existing translation process. In step 5, the translation execution unit 6 uses the participle translation unit 4 and the translation dictionary 5 to translate the original sentence stored in the original sentence translated sentence information storage unit 3. The participle is translated in the process of translating the original sentence. To translate a participle, from the usage of the participle stored in the original translated text information storage unit 3,
The participle translation rules stored in the participle translation unit 4 and the translation dictionary 5 are extracted, and translation is performed using the extracted rules. The translated sentence after translation is stored in the original translated text information storage unit 3 by the translation control unit 8 and displayed on the display unit 7.

FIG. 13 shows an example of the participle translation unit. In step 2, if the participle usage is specified as "participle syntax", the translated sentence is "I sat my child at the table and looked at my aunt."

FIG. 14 shows the state of the original sentence translated text information storage unit and FIG. 15 shows the state of the display unit at this time. Similarly, in step 2, if "prefix" is specified as the usage of the participle, the translated sentence becomes "I found my aunt a child sitting at the table."

In step 2, if "postfix modifier" is specified as the participle usage, the translated sentence is "I saw an aunt who has a child sitting on the table."

In step 2, if "gerund" is specified as the participle usage, the translated sentence becomes "I saw my aunt sitting a child on the table."

In step 6, the original sentence translation executing unit 6 uses the translation dictionary 5 to translate the original sentence according to the procedure defined by the system. The translated sentence after translation is stored in the original translated text information storage unit 3 by the translation control unit 8 and displayed on the display unit 7.

That is, the usage of the participle is selected according to the participle syntax in the translation device, the prefix modification, the suffix modification, and the priority order of the gerund. For example, if the prefix was the highest priority participle usage in the translator, the translation would be "I found my aunt a child sitting at the table."

[0031]

As described above, according to the present invention, since the user can specify the usage of the participle and obtain the translation of the participle desired by the user, translation errors in the usage of the participle are reduced. Therefore, since the user does not need to correct the translation error, the efficiency of the translation work is improved. Also, since the user does not have to manually correct the translation error,
There should be no correction errors by the user.

[Brief description of drawings]

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 machine translation device.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an outline of the operation of the machine translation device.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a state of an original translated text information storage unit of the machine translation apparatus.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a state of a screen of the machine translation device.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a state of a screen of the machine translation device.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a state of a screen of the machine translation device.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a state of a participle translation unit of the machine translation device.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a state of a screen of the machine translation device.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a state of a screen of the machine translation device.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a state of an original translated text information storage unit of the machine translation device.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a state of a screen of the machine translation device.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a state of a participle translation unit of the machine translation device.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a state of an original text translated text information storage unit of the machine translation device.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a state of a screen of the machine translation device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Input Section 2 Usage Designation Section 3 Original Text Translation Information Storage Section 4 Participle Translation Section 5 Translation Dictionary 6 Translation Execution Section 7 Display Section 8 Translation Control Section 9 Keyboard 10 Mouse 11 CPU 12 CRT 13 ROM 14 RAM

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An input unit for inputting an original sentence, a position specifying participle in the original sentence, and a usage specifying unit for specifying usage of a participle, and a translated sentence which is an original sentence and a translation result input from the input unit. For translation, the original sentence translation storage unit stores the participle in the original sentence and the usage of the participle in association with each other, and the participle translation unit stores the translation pattern according to the usage of the participle. A translation dictionary that stores vocabulary / grammar information and translation information of necessary source language words, and a translation execution unit that translates the original sentence stored in the original sentence translated sentence storage unit using the translation dictionary and the participle translation unit. A display unit that displays the original sentence and the translated sentence stored in the original sentence translated sentence information storage unit in association with each other and displays a usage list of the participle from the participle translation unit when the user gives a participle usage designation instruction; Operation system of the translation execution unit In addition, textual translation, original position of the participle, storage control usage, further, the machine translation apparatus, characterized in that it and a translation controller for controlling the display of the display unit.