JPS59214979A - Language converting system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To accommodate a user by identifying a character string indicating a quantity and converting this character string in accordance with units of weights and measures expressed in the second language. CONSTITUTION:When data of an English-language sentence consisting of words is inputted from a keyboard 8, a processor 1 looks up individual words in a dictionary. For example, an English-Japanese dictionary 3 where information of heading words, attributes of heading words, translated words corresponding to heading words, etc. are stored is referred to take out a character string, which consists of an optional combination of character strings indicating units, numbers, and numerals and indicates a quantity, from data of the English-language sentence. A processor 2 stores character strings indicating units and corresponding translated words in a storage area. A numeral conversion table 5 is referred to convert character strings indicating numerals to numerical data, and results are stored. Character string data indicating numbers are converted to numerical values as they are.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Application of the Invention] The present invention provides a method for converting character strings representing quantities written in a first language into
The present invention relates to a language conversion method for converting into a character string representing a quantity in a second language.

[Background of the invention]

Conventionally, in the so-called machine translation method that converts a first language into a second language, the corresponding translation for each word (or idiom) is stored in a dictionary. Even with advanced judgment, only one of several translation possibilities was selected. Furthermore, the stem itself is not changed based on the information on the inflection of the ending, and there is no way to display the results of calculations.

On the other hand, it is customary to use a calculator etc. to convert units of weights and measures, but with this method, if 1 dollar is 200 yen, the user stores the number 200 in a register in advance, and then There is only one that allows the user to perform calculations, but there is no one that allows the user to input ``100 dollars'' and output ``20,000 yen'' without any calculation instructions. Ta.

[Purpose of the invention]

The purpose of the present invention is to convert a character string representing a quantity written in a first language into a character string representing a quantity expressed in a second language,
Furthermore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method for converting into a character string using units in a second language.

[Summary of the invention]

In order to achieve this purpose, the present invention recognizes parts indicating quantities and weights and measures from a character string (speech string) written or said in a first language, and stores this in advance in a storage device etc. By calculating according to the conversion method (or magnification factor) and displaying it in the units of metrology of the second language, it is possible to improve the convenience of the user.

, [Embodiments of the invention] Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained in detail using examples.

Here, in the process of automatically translating from a first language to a second language, in which the effects of the present invention are considered to be particularly significant, character string data containing a character string representing a quantity written in the first language is translated into a second language. The processing method for converting into character string data by language is
I will give one example of this. Also, for convenience of explanation, the first language is English and the second language is Japanese.

In FIG. 1, 1 is a translation processing processor, 2 is a number processing processor, 3 is an English-Japanese dictionary memory, 4 is a storage area, and 5
is the English number word table, 6 is the Japanese number word table, 7
is a variant comparison table, 8 is an input device such as a keyboard, 9 is
represents a display device. Further, FIGS. 2 to 6 show examples of specific contents stored in 3 to 7 in FIG. 1. In the figure, the string surrounded by "" is
Indicates that the string is in English, and a string surrounded by “ ” indicates that it is in Japanese. Others indicate numerical data or characters representing explanations of the contents. FIG. 7.8 is a flowchart diagram for explaining processing in one embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, steps 1 to 6 will be explained according to the flowchart in Figure 7.8.
The operation of the embodiment will be explained using figures.

When English data consisting of words is input through the keyboard 8, the processor 1 performs a dictionary lookup for each word.
With reference to the English-Japanese dictionary 3 that stores information such as attributes 32 of headwords and translations 33 corresponding to headwords, quantities consisting of arbitrary combinations of character strings indicating units and numbers and numerals are calculated from English data. Extracts the character string. (701
) Then, the processor 2 stores the character string indicating the unit in the storage area 45 and the corresponding translated word in the storage area 44. (702) FIG. 4 shows a part of the English numeral conversion table 5.

It is assumed that numerical words 51 and corresponding numerical values 52 are stored in the table in descending order of numerical values. With reference to this table, the character string representing the number word extracted by the processor 2 is converted into numerical data and stored in the storage area 411.

(703) Character string data indicating numbers is converted directly into numbers. (704) Next, the result of multiplying the numerical data stored in the storage areas 411 and 412 is stored in the storage area 413. (705) FIG. 5 is a part of the Japanese numeral conversion table 6. It is assumed that numerical words 61 and corresponding numerical values 62 are stored in the table in descending order of numerical value. Storage area 41
The values stored in 3 are compared in order from the smallest value 62 in the table, and when the latter exceeds the former value for the first time, the value in the table compared one before is compared again. If the former and latter have the same value, that value is stored in the storage area 414. Further, character strings 61 indicating the corresponding numerals in the table are stored in the storage area 43 in order from the top. (706) The value stored in the storage area 413 is transferred to the storage area 41.
4, and after converting the resulting quotient part from a numerical value to a character string, it is stored in the storage area 42 in order from the top, and the remainder is newly stored in the storage area 413. (7
08) Thereafter, processes 706 to 7 are performed until the remainder in process 708 becomes 0 or smaller than the minimum value of the number conversion table 6.
Repeat step 09. Finally, in process 706, the first value 62 of the number conversion table 6 has already been stored in the storage area 4.
If the value exceeds the value stored in storage area 413, convert the value stored in storage area 413 into a character string,
Similarly to the processing of the quotient part in processing 708, the storage area 4
2, and the process ends there. (707,710
) Finally, the strings stored in storage areas 42 and 43 are concatenated in the order of 421, 431, 422, 432, 423, 433, etc. from the top until the stored strings are exhausted. At the end, the Japanese translation of the character string indicating the unit stored in the storage area 44 is concatenated. (711) In the manner described above, the character string representing the quantity extracted by the processor 2 is converted from English to Japanese.

Furthermore, for example, with reference to the variant comparison table 7 as shown in FIG.
Compare with 2. In the case of a match, the corresponding conversion ratio 7:3 and the three values stored in the storage areas 411 and 412 are combined, and the result is newly stored in the storage area 413. (801) Hereinafter, the processing for number words and numbers is the same as the preprocessing. (802-806) Finally, after concatenating the character strings stored in the storage areas 42 and 43 in the same way as in the preprocessing, a character string indicating the Japanese unit is stored in the storage area 46 at the end. Concatenate. (80
7) In the above manner, the quantity expression expressed in US units is converted into a character string of the quantity expression as a result of conversion into Japanese units.

Through the above processing, the processor 1 can process the English data, for example, translate the entire sentence, using the converted character string.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, a character string representing a quantity written in a first language can be converted into a character string representing a quantity expressed in a second language by referring to a number conversion table. I can do it. For example, when automatically translating the data shown in Figure 9 as input English data, in the conventional method, when converting a character string representing a quantity, in English-Japanese automatic translation, even if word order conversion is performed,
@500m1llionJ was translated as 1,500 million dollars, but according to the method according to the present invention,
It can be converted into a character string representing a quantity expressed in Japanese, such as "500 million dollars." In this way, by having a numeral conversion table for each country, it is possible to convert a character string representing a quantity using a numeral that differs from country to country into a character string using a numeral expression for each country.

Further, according to the present invention, by referring to the variant comparison table, it is possible to convert a character string representing a quantity expressed using units of a first language into characters representing a quantity using units of a second language. It can be converted to a column.

For example, if the variation table stores exchange ratios as shown in Figure 6, then "$5mlionJ"
100 billion yen".

In this way, by having a table that compares the variant units of each country, it is possible to convert the value converted to the unit of each country into a non-character tax.

Similarly, in the present invention, especially if the first language is the same as the second language, unit conversion within the same language can be performed. In other words, for the input "500 million dollars", "
100 billion yen” will be obtained.

Furthermore, set multiple languages as second languages, and
If the user makes an instruction using a key or the like, the weights and measures conversion can be performed without instructing the calculation process. For example, "l-1ooo billion yen" will be displayed.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of an embodiment using a character string processing method including numerals according to the present invention. Fig. 2 shows the contents of the English-Japanese dictionary for explaining the present invention in detail, Fig. 3 shows the contents of the storage area, Fig. 4 shows the contents of the English number conversion table in the embodiment of the invention, and Fig. 5 shows the contents of the Japanese-Japanese dictionary. Figure 6 shows the contents of the metrology comparison table of the present invention. Further, FIG. 7.8 shows a flowchart for explaining an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 9 shows an example of input data used in the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a translation processing processor, 2 is a number processing processor, 3 is an English-Japanese dictionary memory, 4 is a storage area, 5 is an English number table, 6 is a Japanese number table, 7 is a variant comparison table, and 8 is a keyboard etc. 2nd part '43 % 4- Figure 5 Figure Z Figure x 7 ¥18 Trouble 9th

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Identifying a character string representing a quantity in information expressed in a first language and converting the character string according to the units of metrology expressed in a second language. A language conversion method for converting from a first language to a second language. 2.; The language conversion method according to item 1, characterized in that a plurality of second languages are used and quantitative conversion is performed between the multiple languages.