JPH10307822A - Machine translation system and computer readable recording medium recording machine translation processing program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a machine translation system capable of reducing the load of user's editing work by previously storing a position delimited by limitation to the number of characters at the time of reading out document data, and moving the position by a cursor in accordance with user's instruction. SOLUTION: When an original language sentence is delimited by limitation to the number of characters in one original language sentence set up by the system side in the case of reading out document data to be translated, the value of a position pointer indicating the initial character of the delimited sentence is stored. When a user selects a delimiting position to which a cursor is to be moved (S401) and specifies the movement of the cursor (S403), the value of the position pointer stored as the delimiting position is referred to (S405), a character having the value of the position pointer is retrieved (S407) and the cursor is moved to the character indicated by the value of the position pointer (S409).

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 translating a source language sentence provided as a source language into another language sentence as a target language, and a computer-readable recording medium storing a machine translation processing program. Things.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a machine translator for translating a source language into a desired other language, that is, a target language, when a source language document to be translated already exists as document data, it is used for translation. A function to read document data is provided. With this function to read document data,
You can read each sentence separately. For example, when the source language is Japanese, the Japanese document data is read by separating each period. In this way, since the subsequent translation processing is performed one sentence at a time, the translation processing is not complicated, and is more efficient than translating a plurality of sentences at a time.

Further, if the length of one sentence is very long, the translation process becomes complicated and the translation result tends to be deteriorated. Therefore, the number of characters in one source language sentence may be limited.
For example, if one sentence of Japanese as a source language has 100 characters, but if the number of characters in one sentence of the source language of the system is limited to 50 characters, when reading a Japanese sentence, 2
It will be divided into sentences. As described above, generally, a translation process is performed by dividing a document into units suitable for the translation process.

[0004] As described above, when a document is delimited by the number of characters, a method for indicating to the user which sentence has been delimited is realized.

[0005]

However, if the document is divided according to the number of characters as described above, a part that is not suitable as a delimiter may be delimited. For example, when the source language is Japanese, the document to read is, "I heard that her condition was not so good, but when I went to the hospital yesterday, my complexion looked very good and I seemed fine, I was relieved. "
This sentence consists of 64 characters. If the number of characters in one sentence is limited to 50 in the system, it is read in two sentences. As a result, the first sentence ranges from "She's manner" to "She looks good and well" and the second sentence is "I was relieved because I was sorry."

[0006] This break position is not appropriate for Japanese, and the result is reflected in the translation result. That is, when a Japanese sentence is decomposed for each part of speech registered in the dictionary for translation, the last part of the first sentence is divided into the nouns "Genki" and "So". “So” is an unregistered word that is not registered in the dictionary. Thus, even if a sentence segmented at an incorrect position is morphologically analyzed, a correct morphological analysis result cannot be obtained, and even if the result is translated, a correct translation result cannot be obtained.

[0007] Therefore, in such a case, the user must himself correct the data in a form suitable for translation. For example, in the case of the above example, if the first sentence is “up to a good complexion” and the second sentence is “because it looks fine”, a correct morphological analysis result can be obtained.

In order to search for a sentence requiring such a correction, the user checks the source language sentence read and divided into sentence units one sentence at a time, or separates the source language sentences according to the character limit indicated by the system. The user had to remember the sentence.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problem. When reading source language document data, if one of the documents is long and the documents are separated due to the limitation of the number of characters, the separation is performed. An object of the present invention is to provide a machine translation apparatus that allows a user to efficiently perform a work of correcting a document by providing a function of moving a cursor to a sentence.

[0010]

In order to achieve this object, a machine translator according to the present invention is required to translate a source language sentence provided as a source language into another language sentence as a target language. A translation dictionary storing information, a translation processing unit storing grammar rules for translating to a target language while referring to the information stored in the translation dictionary, and inputting and editing a source language sentence or a translation result sentence Input means for giving various instructions, display means for displaying a source language sentence, a translation result sentence, etc., and a source document prepared by dividing source language document data prepared in advance into units suitable for translation. Reading means for reading as an original document while dividing the data into units suitable for reading and translation, wherein at least one of the conditions delimited by the reading means is limited in the number of characters, If the reading means when reading the source language document data, original document separated by said character limits, storage means for storing a position of delimited text,
Moving means for moving a cursor to a position stored by the storage means.

According to the machine translation apparatus of the present invention having the above configuration, when reading the source language document data to be translated into another language sentence as the target language by the reading means, the number of characters of one source language sentence is required. When the original document is separated by the restriction, the position of the separated sentence is stored by the storage unit. Then, the cursor is moved to the position stored by the storage means by the moving means.

[0012] A computer-readable recording medium storing the machine translation processing program according to claim 2 reads the source language document data prepared in advance as an original document while dividing it into units suitable for translation. In particular, the source language document data is read for a reading program in which at least one of the delimiting conditions is limited to the number of characters and a source language sentence given as a source language to be translated into another language as a target language. At this time, when the original document is divided by the character number limitation, a storage program for storing the positions of the divided sentences and a moving program for moving a cursor to the position stored by the storage program are stored.

According to the computer-readable recording medium storing the machine translation processing program of the present invention having the above configuration, by executing the program using this recording medium, the program is translated into another language sentence as the target language. When the source program is read by the reading program, if the source document is separated by the character limit of one sentence of the source language sentence, the position of the separated sentence is stored by the storage program. Then, the cursor is moved to the position stored by the storage program by the moving program.

[0014]

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

Here, an example of a Japanese-English machine translator for translating a Japanese sentence as a source language into an English sentence as a target language will be described.

First, with reference to FIG. 1, the configuration of the entire Japanese-English machine translation apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described.

As shown in FIG. 1, a Japanese-English machine translation apparatus according to the present embodiment comprises an input device 10, an output device 50, a CPU 2
0, a RAM 30, a ROM 40, and an external storage device 60.

The CPU 20 is a central processing unit for controlling the entire apparatus.
0, RAM 30, ROM 40 and external storage device 60,
Each is connected to the CPU 20.

The input device 1 as input means of the present invention
Reference numeral 0 denotes a keyboard or the like for inputting a Japanese sentence to be translated and various instructions.

The output device 50 as a display means of the present invention comprises a CRT or the like, and displays an input Japanese sentence and a translation result.

The RAM 30 comprises an input buffer area 31 for storing an input Japanese sentence, an output buffer area 32 for storing a translated English sentence, and a work area 33.

The ROM for storing programs, dictionaries, etc.
40 is a control program 41 for performing various processes;
A dictionary section 43 as a translation dictionary of the present invention, which stores a dictionary prepared in advance by the system for translating a given Japanese sentence, and a book, which stores grammatical rules for proceeding translation while referring to dictionary information. And a grammar unit 44 as a translation processing unit of the invention.

The control program 41 includes a Japanese reading section 45 as a reading means or a reading program of the present invention, a delimiter position storing section 46 as a storing means or a storing program of the present invention, a moving means of the present invention, And a break position display section 47 as a moving program.

Further, the external storage device 60 stores a technical term dictionary prepared by the user as desired, a user dictionary created by the user to reflect the translation result, and the like.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an outline of processing when reading Japanese document data to be translated in the Japanese-English translation apparatus of the present embodiment. At the time of reading Japanese document data in the present embodiment, the Japanese reading section 45 separates the document into punctuation marks, and when one sentence is composed of 50 characters or more, reads the sentence with 50 characters. It is assumed that it is configured to be Further, when the original document is separated by the character number limitation, the first five characters of the separated sentence are displayed to the user.

Here, the flow of processing in this embodiment when reading original text data in which one sentence includes Japanese characters of 50 characters or more will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

When an instruction to read document data is issued (step 201; steps are abbreviated as S hereinafter).
The character number counter that counts the number of characters is 0, the initial value.
Is set to (S202). Thereafter, when the Japanese reading unit 45 reads one character (S204), one value of the character number counter is added (S206). Since the value of the character number counter indicates the number of characters read, when the value of the character number counter is 50, it indicates that the character is the 50th character.

Further, one value of the position pointer indicating the position of each character when displaying the original document is added (S208), and the value is stored as the attribute of the character.

When reading the text data of the original document into a new file, the position pointer has an initial value of 0, and the position pointer of the first character read becomes 1.
When reading to an arbitrary position in an existing file, the value of the position pointer of the character immediately before the read position becomes the initial value.

The read character is not a punctuation mark (S210:
NO), if it is not the 50th character (S212: NO),
The next character is read (S204). If the character is a period (S210: YES), the character up to the period is separated as one sentence and stored in the input buffer area 31 (S218).

Further, if there is no character behind (S
220: NO), the reading process ends, and if there is a character behind (S220: YES), the value of the character number counter is set to the initial value 0 (S202), and then the characters are read one by one again (S204).

When the read character is the 50th character (S21
2: YES), the characters up to that character are separated into one sentence and stored in the input buffer area 31 (S213). At the same time, the character string of the first five characters of the sentence is set as a display character string indicating the separated sentence Also, the value of the position pointer of the character at the beginning of the sentence is stored in the delimiter position storage unit 46 as the position of the delimited sentence (S214, 216).

As shown in FIG. 5 (a), the Japanese sentence text data to be read is, for example, "A friend has been hospitalized. I heard that her condition was not so good, but when I went to the hospital yesterday, I was relieved because my complexion looked very good and I was fine. "Then, in S213, from" her "to" genkiso "is separated as one sentence. At this time, the delimiter position storage unit 4
FIG. 3A schematically shows the delimiter position information stored by No. 6. The position pointer indicates the value of the position pointer of "he" when the reading is started with the initial value 0.

When the above processing is completed and there are more characters behind (S220: YES), the counter is returned to the initial value 0 again (S202), and the characters are read one by one while counting the number of characters (S204, 206). The processing shown in the flowchart of FIG. 2 continues.

When the reading of the text data is completed,
The Japanese sentence in FIG. 5A is divided into three sentences. The state at that time is schematically shown in FIG. In FIG. 5B, the numbers shown below each character are the position pointer values that each character has as an attribute. At this time, only the character data is displayed on the CRT, and the value of the position pointer is not displayed.

When the reading process is completed, the user is presented with the character string stored in the delimiter position storage unit 46 as a sentence delimited by the number of characters. The screen image at this time is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 3A, the display character string is displayed to the user among the information of the separation positions stored, and the value of the position pointer of each display character string is not displayed.

Here, when the user instructs to move the cursor to the break position in order to confirm and correct the break position, the break position is displayed by the break position display unit 47, and the sentence separated by the character limit is displayed. Will be displayed.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of the processing by the break position display section 47.

As shown in FIG. 4, first, the user selects a sentence to which the cursor is to be moved from among the divided sentences shown in FIG. 3B (S401), and instructs the cursor to be moved. (S403). Then, the value of the position pointer stored as the position of the selected statement is referred to (S
405), a character having the position pointer value is searched (S407), and the cursor is moved to the character indicated by the position pointer value (S409). In FIG. 3B,
Since it is known that the sentence starting with "her mode" is separated in the middle, if the user instructs to move the cursor to this position (S403), the value of the position pointer of the sentence "her mode" is referred to (S403). S405). As shown in FIG. 3A, since the value of the position pointer of the sentence of "her state" is 9, a character having the value of the position pointer of 9 is searched in the read original text (S407). . As can be seen from FIG. 5B, since the character whose position pointer value is 9 is "he", the cursor moves to "he" (S40).
9). The screen image at this time is shown in FIG.

At this point, the user confirms the separated sections, and edits the Japanese sentence, for example, as shown in FIG. 5C so that the subsequent translation processing can be performed correctly.

Thereafter, a translation process is executed.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the flow of the translation process. When the translation is instructed, the morphological analysis (S61) and the Japanese analysis (S6) are performed for each sentence as shown in FIG.
2) Japanese-English conversion (S63) and English generation (S64) are sequentially performed to generate an English sentence as a translation result. However, since this processing is a known technique, a detailed description is omitted.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various changes can be made without departing from the scope of the invention.

For example, the number of characters to be read as one sentence and the number of characters to be displayed when separated are not limited to the number of characters in the above-described embodiment.

Further, in the present embodiment, there is one delimited sentence. However, the sentence may be plural. In this case, a plurality of display character strings and position pointers are stored in pairs as the delimiter position information shown in FIG. 3A, and a plurality of display character strings are displayed also in FIG. 3B. Will be.

A sentence number is given to the read original text,
The delimited sentence may be displayed by the sentence number, or the cursor may be moved to the sentence number.

Further, the user does not select the position to move the cursor, but only sets the movement key, and moves the cursor to the position of the stored position pointer, for example, sequentially from the beginning of the document. You may do it.

In the above-described embodiment, the position pointer that is stored as a delimiter position and that is the destination of the cursor is the value at the beginning of the delimited sentence. May be moved to the end of the sentence.

In the machine translation apparatus of the present embodiment, the read program, the storage program, and the transfer program are stored in the ROM 40 in advance, but the present invention is not necessarily limited to this. For example, a program in which these programs are stored in a floppy disk, CD-ROM, or the like can be read by a reading device, installed, and operated. In addition, a program can be read and operated from an external information processing device using a wired or wireless line. In this case, the recording medium of the present invention comprises the floppy disk, the CD-ROM, and the memory storing the corresponding program of the external information processing device.

[0049]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the machine translation apparatus of the present invention, when the original document is read due to the limitation of the number of characters when reading the original document, the position of the separated sentence is determined. By moving the cursor to, the work load when the user corrects the original document can be reduced.

According to a computer-readable recording medium on which the machine translation processing program described in claim 2 is recorded, each program is suitable for a machine translation apparatus from various recording media such as a floppy disk and a CD-ROM. Can be stored in a recording medium. Then, by executing the program using this recording medium, when the original document is read, if the original document is separated due to the limit on the number of characters, the cursor is moved to the position of the separated sentence so that the user can read the original document. The work load when modifying a document can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a machine translation device according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of processing for reading a Japanese document according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of an original document to be translated;
(A) is a diagram schematically showing a state in which the positions of delimited sentences are stored, and (b) and (c) are screen images at each stage of the present embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of a process of moving a cursor to a break position according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram schematically showing a state of Japanese at each stage of the present embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of a translation process according to the present embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Input device 30 RAM 31 Input buffer area 32 Output buffer area 40 ROM 43 Dictionary part 44 Grammar part 45 Japanese reading part 46 Break position storage part 47 Break position display part 50 Output device

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A translation dictionary storing information necessary for translating a source language sentence given as a source language into another language sentence as a target language, and referring to the information stored in the translation dictionary. A translation processing unit that stores grammar rules for translating to the target language, input means for inputting and editing source language sentences and translation result sentences, and giving various instructions, source language sentences and translation result sentences And reading means for reading source language document data prepared in advance as a source document while dividing the data into units suitable for translation. At least one of the conditions delimited by the reading means In the machine translation device having a limited number of characters, when the reading unit reads the source language document data,
When the original document is divided by the character number limitation, storage means for storing the position of the separated sentence, and movement means for moving a cursor to the position stored by the storage means apparatus. 2. A reading program in which at least one of the conditions for separating the source language document data prepared in advance into units suitable for translation as a source document while limiting the number of characters is given as a source language, and When reading the source language document data on a computer-readable recording medium storing a machine translation processing program for translating the obtained source language sentence into another language as a target language, the source document is separated by the character limit. If stored, a storage program for storing a position of a delimited sentence, and a movement program for moving a cursor to a position stored by the storage program are stored. Computer readable recording medium.