JPS5848172A - Multilanguage translating device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To facilitate the translation of a document with plural variable parts, and to obtain the translation with careful expressions by providing variable- part order codes, which correspond to plural variable parts, in an intermediate language sentence in a character correspondence memory. CONSTITUTION:For each language, a language sentence buffer 5, a character string separation/composition part 6. a sentence correspondence memory 10, a variable-part correspondence memory 11, an intermediate language buffer 12, an intermediate expression composition/separation part 13, a sentence correspondence memory access part, a variable-part crrespondence memory access part, etc., are provided. Further, variable-part order codes which correspond to plural variable parts are provided in an intermediate language sentence id in the memory 10 to obtain a processing function for intermediate language word rearrangement which rearranges the contents of intermediate language words id which correspond to said variable part order codes during translation between the 1st and 2nd languages.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] A multilingual translation device, in particular, is configured to have a function of mutually converting between sentences in each language and expressions in an intermediate language. In the intermediate language sentence ID in the sentence correspondence memory, variable part order codes are created that are associated with a plurality of town structure parts, and the intermediate language word (-) corresponding to the variable part order code is configured so that the content of the - can be replaced. hand,
The present invention relates to a multilingual translation device that facilitates the translation of sentences with m variable parts and enables the translation of detailed expressions.

Conventionally, in obtaining a translation device between S types of languages,
Instead of creating a translation function for 5csjiri.

Mutual translation between one language and an intermediate language - ability to prepare 0
It is contemplated that the above-mentioned translation device may be constructed with a certain translation function.

Figure 1 (AJβ) explains this concept, for example OII! I(A) Regarding the Japanese sentence l shown by FIA, “-
Please separate the language sentence J and the variable part j, and in the representation of intermediate language 2, the former is associated with the intermediate language sentence id rlJ, and the latter is associated with the intermediate language word tt r8J. Ru.

When "this" corresponding to the variable part changes to "that", the variable part "that" is associated with the intermediate language word 4ar9J, as shown in Figure 1 (6).

The intermediate language representation r1.9J is obtained. Of course.

Intermediate language expressions r1.8J, rl, and 9J are made to correspond to 0 Japanese sentence 1, English sentence 3, and so on.

The above concept provides an extremely favorable method.For example, expressions such as ``I start from my intuition'' cannot express more detailed content. It is desirable to be able to translate sentences that have multiple variable parts, such as "I'm leaving for a visit."

And when I try to translate a sentence like this.

The problem is how to express the existence of multiple variable parts in an intermediate language. Also, for example, Il'1n1-
The order of generation of 豐-Nap (as in ta @t l Q jalaak', variable part) may change, and it is necessary to take measures to prevent this. Even more as possible.

It is desirable that the mutual translation mechanism between each language and the intermediate language representation have the same hardware configuration.

The present invention aims to solve the above problems.
The multilingual translation device of the present invention converts sentences in each of a plurality of languages into expressions in a common intermediate language,
In a multilingual translation device that synthesizes sentences in other languages based on expressions in the intermediate language, the contents of the language sentence variation and German language sentence buffers are separated into a language sentence part and a variable part for each of the above languages. /or a string separation/synthesis unit that synthesizes a linguistic sentence based on the language sentence part and the variable part; a sentence correspondence formed by associating and storing a sentence example in the language and an intermediate language sentence 4d corresponding to the sentence example; a memory, a memory corresponding to a variable part in which a variable part word example of the language and an intermediate language word 4- corresponding to the word example are stored in correspondence; Intermediate language sentence (d
and intermediate language word (-) and/or an intermediate expression synthesis/segment S section that separates and/or synthesizes the intermediate language sentence U and the intermediate language word 4-.

The sentence correspondence memory is accessed from both the contents of the language sentence section and the intermediate language sentence (d) and the contents of the sentence correspondence memory are read out. and intermediate language 4- above to read out the contents of the memory corresponding to the variable part. The content of the intermediate language word 4d corresponding to each variable part order code in the translation between the original language and the second language is The main feature of this system is that it has an intermediate language buffer replacement processing function that performs the replacement process.This will be explained below with reference to the drawings.

Figure 22 shows Japanese sentence to intermediate language expression translation in the present invention.
FIG. 23 also shows the structure of an embodiment of the English sentence to intermediate language expression translation mechanism.

In the yr2 diagram, 4 is a translation mechanism section, 5 is a language sentence buffer, and 6 is a character string separation/synthesis section, which is a language sentence variation section 5.
7 is a language sentence, 8 is an example of a word in a variable part, and 9 is a second example of a variable part word. Variable part word example, 10 is sentence correspondence memory, 11 is variable part correspondence memory,
12 is an intermediate language buffer, and 13 is an intermediate expression synthesis/separation unit which separates the contents of the intermediate language buffer into an intermediate language sentence 4d and an intermediate language word 4d, or vice versa. -Those that synthesize with 4,
Reference numeral 14 indicates a sentence buffer, in which the sentence correspondence memory IO is searched based on its contents, or vice versa, a sentence example read from the memory IO is set; , te sentence correspondence mesosu lO
or vice versa, the central language sentence 4- read out from the memory lO is set, 16 is the variable part buffer, and the variable part correspondence method 11 is searched based on its contents. or vice versa, the variable part word example read from the message 11 is set.

Reference numeral 17 indicates the variable part 4-buff table, in which the variable part corresponding memory 11 is searched based on the contents thereof, or vice versa, the intermediate language word U read from the memory 11 is searched, and 18 is the intermediate language word U read from the memory 11. Represents the language buffer exchange circle function part i.

In the case shown, in order to make it easier to translate a sentence with multiple variable parts, there are a few examples of sentences such as (- to □).
Give a 1d number such as "90" to the example sentence,
Additionally, the presence of multiple variable parts should be indicated.

Furthermore, on the sentence corresponding memory lO, "I will depart from □ at □"
Considering the sentence example ``90.■, ■J'' and the order of occurrence of variable parts from the reference language, which will be described later, in the case shown in the figure, the intermediate language sentences ``90.■, ■J (d) are stored in pairs.

On the variable part correspondence memory 11, the intermediate language word 4d is appended with "80" and stored as a pair in correspondence with each variable part word example, for example, "rlO.time". Furthermore, in the illustrated case, the intermediate language representation is set on the intermediate language buffer 12 to facilitate the translation of sentences with multiple variable parts.

■ ■ For example, as shown in r90.80.103J, a variable part order code ■ is added corresponding to each intermediate language word -d such as "80" and rl 03J.

In FIG. 2, when translating the contents of the language sentence buffer 5 into an intermediate language expression, processing is performed as follows.

(1) The contents of the language sentence buffer 5 are separated into one string in the character string separation/formation section 6, and the variable part word examples 8 and 2 of the language sentence 7
It is separated into variable part word example 9 of 2.

(2) The linguistic sentence 7 is set in the sentence buffer 14, and the sentence corresponding message is searched using the sentence buffer 14.
In this case, intermediate language sentence 4ar90. ■,■'' are read out to the sentence 44 buffer 15.

(3) Also, the variable part word example 8 of OI is set in the variable part buffer 16, and the variable part corresponding memo 1jll is searched by the variable part buffer 164. In this case, the intermediate language word 44 r80J is set in the variable part buffer 16. /(Set to latte■.

(4) Similarly, based on the second variable part word example 9 -
1, the intermediate language word tt rl, 03J is set in the variable part 4d/kutsufuchi ■.

(5) Each of these 44 is the intermediate representation synthesis/separation unit 1
3, the intermediate language sentence tar90. The variable part 4d is arranged in correspondence with the variable part order code "■,
■ Set as 80.103J.

The above explanation (the content of the language sentence buffer γ5 is the intermediate language)
It is converted into the contents of 9 files and 12 files. Based on the contents of the intermediate language buffer 12, when conversion into an English sentence is performed, the order of occurrence of the variable parts changes between the Japanese sentence and the English sentence. In consideration, the intermediate language may be any hypothetical language that it consists of, or any one language may be the reference language.

This corresponds to the contents of the language sentence buffer 5 shown in FIG. In the case of Japanese as shown in Figure 2.

It is assumed that the order of occurrence of the variable parts in the reference language is the same as that in Japanese. In the case of the above English sentence, the order of occurrence of variable parts is different from the order of occurrence of the variable parts in the above reference language.

For this reason, on the sentence correspondence memo 910 shown in FIG.
,■'' are stored (of course, the variable part is 3
Even if there are more than 90
．． ■.

■, ■'', and on the other hand, if the order of occurrence of the variable parts in English is ■, ■, ■, then the sentence correspondence shown in Figure 3 above -7 vl
It is sufficient to store "r9G, ■゛, ■, ■" on O.

Ru.

(7) The intermediate representation synthesis/separation unit 13 converts the intermediate language sentence (
d ■ r90. ■,■'' and intermediate language word id r80''.

■ Separate into r103J and set in buffer y15.17 respectively.

(8) Based on the contents of the four buffers 15 and 17.

Sentence correspondence memo 910 and variable part correspondence memory ll are searched and 0
Language sentence example 7 on sentence buffer completion 14 ie r I'jj! A
...-11-Mushi'' is set, and variable part word examples 8 and 9, ie 'r l Om'alk, are set on the variable part buffer 16.
ak J and rNaritmJ are 4y)#.

(9) The character string separation/synthesis unit 6 receives each sentence example and word example and analyzes it.
ies at l O・−1・−1” is generated and set in the language sentence buffer 5.

In the above explanation, based on the occurrence of the variable part I[ in the reference language, the intermediate language words 1d such as the sentence correspondence method 10 explained with reference to FIG.
'', the order was changed and stored. this is,
In order to make the hardware configuration of the translation mechanism unit 4 simple and simple, the information written to the 0-sentence memory IO is devised.

If necessary, a memory for rearranging the order of the above-mentioned variable portions may be prepared to perform order conversion in accordance with each language.1 The present invention naturally does not require technical technical assistance to do this. It can be considered that it is included in the range.

Although the translation operation from a Japanese sentence to an English sentence has been explained with reference to FIGS. Needless to say, it is possible to freely translate an English sentence into a Japanese sentence by using the intermediate language expression. It is something that can be done at will.

In addition, for the separation idea in the 0 character string separation/synthesis section 6, a grammar dictionary corresponding to each language is prepared and this is used as follows.
Needless to say, they will be put to good use.

As explained above, according to the present invention, sentences with multiple variable parts can be freely translated, and detailed expressions can be freely used. In addition, translation am corresponding to each language
The parts can be completely constructed using the same hardware.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1) is an explanatory diagram explaining the concept of translation between multiple languages, Figure 2 is an example configuration of the Japanese sentence to intermediate language expression translation mechanism of the present invention, and Figure 3 is the same as the English sentence. An example configuration of an intermediate language expression translation mechanism is shown. In the figure, 4 is the translation mechanism section, 5 is the language sentence/(tufa), 6 is the string separation/synthesis section, 10 is the sentence correspondence memory. 11- is the variable part correspondence memo 9. 13 is the intermediate expression synthesis/separation section, 12 is an intermediate language buffer, 14.15°16.17
Each represents a buffer. Patent applicant: Hiroshi Mori, Patent Attorney, Fujitsu Limited 1)

Claims (1)

[Claims] For each of a plurality of languages, all sentences in the language are converted into a common intermediate language expression, and based on the expression in the intermediate language,
Multilingual translation that synthesizes sentences from other languages! In the installation, for each of the above languages, a language sentence buffer, a character string that separates the contents of the language sentence buffer into a language sentence part and a variable part and/or synthesizes a language sentence based on the language sentence part and the variable part. a separation/synthesis unit, a sentence correspondence memory in which a sentence example in the language and an intermediate language sentence 4d corresponding to the sentence example are stored in association with each other, an intermediate language unit corresponding to the variable part word example and the current word example in the language; @it and a variable part pair group memory that stores the above intermediate language buffer in association with each other, the above intermediate language buffer, the contents of the intermediate language buffer are separated into an intermediate language sentence 4d and an intermediate language word 4d, and/or the above intermediate language sentence 4d An intermediate expression synthesis/separation unit that synthesizes and intermediate language word ゛ (sei) accesses the sentence correspondence memory from both the contents of the language sentence section and the intermediate language sentence 4d and reads the contents of the sentence correspondence memory. a statement-compatible memory access unit; a variable-part compatible memory access unit for accessing the variable-part compatible memory from both the variable unit and the intermediate language 4- and reading out the contents of the variable-part compatible memory; , - a variable part order hood associated with a plurality of variable parts is provided in the intermediate language sentence 4d on the sentence correspondence memory, and when translating between the first language and the second language. A multilingual interlingual translation device characterized in that it has a function of replacing the contents of the intermediate language words 4d corresponding to each of the variable part order hoods in the intermediate language sentence 4d.