JPS5995672A - Translating and editing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the load on an operator and to improve the efficiency of translating and editing operation in an automatic translating device which uses a computer system by retrieving the correspondence relation among words constituting each sentence and word groups on the basis of analyzed syntax structure. CONSTITUTION:For example, when a word group ''autameni'' in a Japanese translation 13 displayed on a display screen 11 together with an original sentence 12 in English is indicated with a cursor 14, a word group ''to meet'' corresponding to it is retrieved and indicated with a cursor 15. Therefore, an operator only indicates a word or word group to be checked to know the correspondence relation between the original sentence and translation, performing editing and proofreading operation easily.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a translation/editing method that can efficiently translate and edit an original text using a computer system.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems]

Recently, various automatic translation devices using computer systems have been developed. As exemplified in FIG. 1, this type of translation system introduces the original text input through the original human input device 1 to the translation device main body 2, and inputs the translation rules and translation correspondence relationships registered in advance in the translation dictionary 3. The above-mentioned original text is translated according to the dictionary information, and the translated text is outputted through the translated text output device 4. As a result, for example, an original text consisting of English text is translated into Japanese text.

However, although the above translation process is performed according to predetermined rules, the translation is not always linguistically correct. For example, ``I am glad to meet yo.
If the original text u, J is entered internally and a predetermined translation process is performed for each word or word group, the translated text ``I'm happy to meet you.'' may be obtained. This should correctly be translated as "I'm glad to meet you." However, the algorithm that performs all of the above translation processing is complex, and it is extremely difficult to completely perform translation that corresponds to the conventions of the language. Moreover, it often changes depending on the connection relationship between sentences, which is difficult to deal with. For this reason, it is necessary for the operator to find the correspondence between the original text and the translated text layer and to perform correction processing for mistranslations, but this poses a problem in that it places a considerable burden on the operator. This problem was particularly severe when dealing with long texts.

[2.Object of the Invention] The present invention has been made taking all of the above circumstances into consideration, and its purpose is to easily inform the correspondence between words or word groups between the original text and the translated text in translation processing. [Summary of the Invention] The present invention provides a highly practical translation/editing method that can display an original text and a translated text, and display information in the other text that corresponds to a designated word or word group in one text. The search is performed based on the correspondence between the syntactic structures of the original sentence and the translated sentence, and each word or word group is displayed.

〔Effect of the invention〕

Therefore, according to the present invention, even if the original and translated sentences are long, the correspondence between the words or word groups that make up each sentence is searched from the analyzed syntactic structure, so the interpretations, etc. are found and indicated. By doing so, it becomes possible to easily indicate all the words that correspond to that word or word group. Therefore, it is possible to greatly reduce the burden on the operator and improve the efficiency of translation and editing work. [Embodiment of the Invention] Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

The method of the present invention displays an input original sentence and a translated sentence obtained by translating it, as shown in FIG. When a word or group of words is specified in the other sentence that corresponds to the word or word group, it is searched and specified. That is, when the word group ``to meet'' is specified with the cursor 14 among the original English sentence 12 and its translated Japanese sentence 13 displayed on the display screen II shown in FIG. "to mCet J
This is to search for a word group and indicate it with the cursor 15. Note that it is of course possible to explicitly specify words or word groups having these correspondences using means such as plinking or brightness modulation.

Searching for words or word groups having the above-mentioned correspondence relationship is performed as follows. The original text I2 is syntactically analyzed, for example, as shown in FIG. 3, and its syntactic structure is stored in the original text buffer. On the other hand, translated text I obtained by translating the original text 12 above
3 is parsed, for example, as shown in FIG. 4, and its syntactic structure is stored in a translation buffer. The correspondence between the syntactic elements in the syntax analyzed in this way is correlated according to the translation rules, for example, as shown in the following table, and this shows the correspondence between the two syntactic structures.

Now, when the word group "To-VT" in translated sentence 13 is specified, its syntactic structure is examined in the translation buffer, and from the tree structure, the elements of the word group "To-VT" are specified.
It is found that J. Therefore, when we find the element in the original text that corresponds to this element from the above correspondence table, we find “To-VT
, J are extracted, and the corresponding element is collated and searched on the original text buffer. This search results in
The substructure rTOJjrVTJ of "To-VT J" is obtained, and the word group corresponding to this is searched as "to meetJ."

As described above, the word group "to meet" and [to m
The word group eet J will be associated with the word group and will be explicitly displayed on the screen 11.

In other words, an example of these series of processing steps is shown in Figure 5.

As shown, the specified word group detection, its variables (elements)
By extracting , searching in the correspondence table, and detecting word groups corresponding to elements, it becomes possible to find corresponding words or word groups between the original text and the translated text. Therefore, the operator can know the correspondence between the original text and the translated text by simply indicating the word or word group that he or she wants to check, making it possible to easily edit and proofread the text. Further, even if the original text and translated text are long, all of the above processing can be performed without incurring a large burden, and a great practical effect can be achieved.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. For example, it is possible to specify a word or word group in the original text and find a corresponding word or word group in the translated text.

Furthermore, the algorithm for syntactic analysis is not limited to the above-mentioned example, and it is also possible to use concept-dependent structure isophones. Furthermore, a pointer may be directly attached from the original text structure to the translated text structure. In short, the present invention can be implemented with various modifications without departing from the gist thereof.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of the translation system, Figures 2 to 5 are for explaining an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen, and Figure 3 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the configuration of the original text buffer, FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the configuration of the translation buffer, and FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the flow of processing. 12... Original text, 13... Translated text, 14, 15... Cursor. Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue 37 Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) means for translating the input original text; means for displaying the translated text and the original text;
Means for searching for a word or word group in the other sentence that corresponds to a specified word or word group in one of the displayed original or translated sentences; A translation editing method characterized by comprising means for specifying display of word groups. (2) The search for corresponding words or word groups in the original text and the translated text is performed according to the correspondence of syntactic structures obtained by syntactic analysis of the original text and the translated text, respectively. Translation editing method 0