JPS61264476A - Translation editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the editing efficiency of a user by displaying edited and confirmed translated sentences separately from unedited translated sentences. CONSTITUTION:A translation part 4 sends a translated sentence to a translated sentence storage part 7 and also sends the translation information to a translation information memory part 8 respectively. An editing control part 9 displays the translated sentences if delivered from the part 4 on a display part 10 with high luminance. When these actions are over or no translated sentence is sent to the part 7 from the part 4, the part 9 checks whether or not the editing indication information is sent from an input part 1 via an input control part 2. Then the part 9 reduces the luminance level at the area of the sentence (translated or original sentence) receiving an indication for confirmation as long as the editing indication information sent from the part 1 indicates the confirmation. Furthermore the translation information on the corresponding sentence is deleted out of the part 8 as necessary.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a translation/editing device for translating an original text and editing it.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems]

In recent years, with the development of information processing technology, machine translation devices using electronic computers have been developed. With this translation device, the translated text is not necessarily translated in the manner intended by the original text. Furthermore, if a single word in the original text has multiple meanings, the translation cannot be uniquely determined. Furthermore, there are cases where the user wants to change the translation based on the user's preference even though they have the same meaning, cases where the user notices that the original sentence is incorrect and corrects it and has the computer correct the translation, or cases where the user directly corrects the translation. .

In this way, current machine translation systems require the user to edit the translated text from a computer.

However, in the current system, when displaying the original text and translated text, the translated text that has already been edited, the translated text that is currently being edited, and the translated text that has not been edited at all are all displayed in the same display format, which makes it difficult for the user to This has the disadvantage that it is difficult to identify which translations can be edited, reducing the efficiency of editing work.

On the other hand, it is common practice to use translation information, that is, information on intermediate results of translation from a translation device, as information for editing support for users. However, this translation information requires a large amount of data per sentence, and the system retains this data for each translated sentence due to the speed of execution.
There is no advantage in terms of memory efficiency, so if the user has confirmed the translation, it is efficient to remove the translation information.

Therefore, from this point of view, it is necessary to distinguish and display to the user the unedited translated text that has translation information and the edited translated text that does not have translation information, but conventional systems do not allow for such differences. There was no display mode that displayed the entire translated text. For this reason, there is a drawback that the user's editing work is inefficient.

[Purpose of the invention]

An object of the present invention is to provide a translation editing device that is visually easy to use when a user performs editing work, and improves editing efficiency for the system side.

[Summary of the invention]

The present invention is a machine translation system that converts a full translation of an original text, and based on editing instruction information input by the user, can distinguish between a translated text that has already been edited and a translated text that has not yet been edited (or the translated text that is currently being edited). Each display mode is different to clearly distinguish them from each other.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, in a machine translation system, the translated text that has already been edited and the translated text that has not yet been edited are displayed separately, so that the user can see at a glance how far the editing work has progressed, and the translation information is completely displayed. It is possible to see at a glance which translations can be edited using the software, which has a great practical advantage when a user edits a translated text.

[Embodiments of the invention]

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

Figure 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, Figures 2 and 3
The figure is a processing flow diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. For example, the embodiment device shown in FIG.
is translated one sentence at a time by a translation device, and the translated text (Japanese text) and the original text are displayed in the display mode described below, and the user edits while looking at the display using the translation information derived at the time of translation. be. In FIG. 1, an input section 1 such as a keyboard is used to input original text (English) by the user.

Alternatively, editing instruction signals are input, and these are sent by the input control section 2 to the translation section 4 if it is an original text, and to the editing control section 9 if it is an editing instruction signal (operation signal). (
The editing instruction signals include an editing completion confirmation instruction 1 an editing start instruction 1 editing information, and the like. ) In the translation section 4, when the original text is input from the input control section 2 (step a in FIG. 2), the original text is shaped if necessary according to the instructions from the translation control section 3 and sent to the original text storage section 6 (step a in FIG. 2). b). Also, the original text f
e Translation is performed using the translation dictionary iF5 according to the instructions of the translation control unit 3 (step C in FIG. 2), and when the translation work is completed, the translation unit 4 sends the resulting translation to the translation storage unit 7. (Step d in Figure 2), and data generated during the translation process (translation information) that will be needed later for editing work is sent to the translation information storage section 8 (Step e in Figure 2). and the sentence number assigned by the editing control unit 9 corresponding to the translated sentence are stored in the translation information storage unit 8 as an address.

) On the other hand, in the editing control section 9, the translation section 4 is stored in the original text storage section 6.
Check to see if the original text has been sent (step f in Figure 3), and if so, send the original text to C as shown in Figure 4, 21.
The image is displayed at high brightness on the display unit 10 such as an RT display (step h in FIG. 3). Similarly, the editing control unit 9 checks whether or not a translated text has been sent from the translation unit 4 to the translated text storage unit 7 (step 3 in Figure 3).
2, the display unit 10 should display a message with high brightness (step i) in FIG.
(Step JL in Figure 3) When these operations are completed or when the translated text is not sent from the translation section 4 to the translated text storage section 7, the editing control section 9 displays the message from the input section 1. It is checked whether editing instruction information (signal) has been sent through the input control section 2 (step k in FIG. 3), and if not, the entire process of checking the original text storage section 6 and translation storage section 7 described above is repeated.

If there is, check whether the instruction information is a confirmation instruction (step t in Figure 3), and if it is a confirmation instruction, reduce the brightness of the part of the text (translation, original text) covered by the confirmation instruction, as shown in Figure 4, 23. Figure 3 step m).

If necessary, delete the translation information stored in the translation information storage unit 8 for that sentence (Step n in Figure 3).
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When this series of operations is completed, or when an editing operation instruction signal that is not a confirmation instruction is input, the range of the text (original text, translated text) covered by the editing operation instruction is determined, and the fourth
As shown in FIG. 24, the sentence numbers on the display section 10 of the sentences in that range are linked (step O in FIG. 3), and the editing operation instruction content is for the display format of the sentence, such as inserting characters, etc. In the case of deletion, movement, copying, etc., instructions are sent from the editing control section 9 to the text editing department engineer 1.

Also, things related to the translation content, such as selecting the translation (changing the translation of "boy" to "boy"), changing the translation ([-a firl with a telescope)
eJ's S false W Change the translation from "I am the girl with the telescope" to "I am the girl with the telescope"), another interpretation ("I fou
If there is an editing instruction such as changing ``I will establish a hospital'' to ``I have found a hospital'' in the translation of ``nd the hospital'', the instruction is sent to the translation editing department 12,
The translation or original text is edited according to the instructions (Fig. 3 Stellar pull).

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiment.1 For example, in the above embodiment, a sentence that has been edited is displayed in low brightness, but five sentences can be connected and displayed as a series of paragraphs. , Unconfirmed sentences may be displayed in a format where each sentence is displayed independently to facilitate editing work, as shown in Figure 5.
Confirmed sentences may be displayed in paragraph units (Fig. 5, 25) and sentences being edited in single sentence units (Fig. 5, 26). It can be executed with various modifications.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a processing flow diagram of a translation control unit of an embodiment, Fig. 3 is a processing flow diagram of an editing control unit, and Fig. 4 is a diagram of the invention. FIG. 5 is a diagram of an example screen using a display mode according to another embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example screen using a display mode according to another embodiment of the present invention. 1... Input section 2... Input control section 3... Translation control section 4... Translation section 5... Translation dictionary 6... Original text storage section 7... Translation storage section 8... Translation information storage unit
9...Editing control section 10...Display section 11...Text editing section 12...Translation editing section

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) An input means for inputting the original text and editing instruction information, a translation means for translating the original text inputted from this input means, a display means for displaying the translated text obtained by this translation means, and this display means editing control means for editing the translated text displayed on the screen according to the editing instruction information inputted from the input means, and the editing control means edits the translated text that has been edited and the translated text that has not been edited based on the editing instruction information. A translation/editing device characterized in that the display means displays the images in different display modes. (2) The editing control means mutually controls the display mode of a translated text that has been confirmed to have been edited based on the editing instruction information, a translated text that has received at least one editing instruction but has not been edited, and a translated text that has not received any editing instructions. 2. The translation editing device according to claim 1, wherein the translation and editing device is configured to display each on the display means in a distinguished manner.