JPS63314676A - Text display method for mechanical translation system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve correcting efficiency by providing a 1st memory area storing a 1st text together with a 2nd memory area storing a 2nd text in response to each sentence of the 1st text and displaying simultaneously the sentence of both texts opposite to each other on the same screen of a display device. CONSTITUTION:For instance, the English and the Japanese are defined as 1st and 2nd languages respectively. A memory device 3 includes an English text area 31, a Japanese text area 32 and an area storing various parameters 33. An English text display start address P1 and a Japanese text display start address P2 stored in the device 3 show the address in the text areas of the head parts of both texts to be displayed on a CRT5. The screen of the CRT5 is divided into an English text display part and a Japanese text display part. When one of both texts is scrolled, the other text is also scrolled and the parts corresponding to each other are always displayed. Thus the result of translation can be corrected with high efficiency.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a text display proofreading method in a system for automatically translating text in a first language (eg, English) into a second language (eg, Japanese).

In a computer-based automatic translation system, it is essential to check and proofread the computer-generated translation results. Conventionally, general-purpose terminal devices or word processors have been used, but since they do not have functions that fully take into account the characteristics of translation work, there has been a problem in that the efficiency of proofreading work is extremely low.

An object of the present invention is to provide a display proofreading method that has functions suitable for a translation system. Specifically, (1
) A function for simultaneously displaying texts in both languages on the same screen; and (2) a function for interlocking scrolling of texts in both languages.

To achieve the above objectives, the method according to the invention deals with text separated into phrase elements. IDs are assigned to phrase elements, and text is stored and processed as a series of phrase element data consisting of IDs and character strings.

By giving the same ID to corresponding phrase elements in both texts, the correspondence between both texts is maintained.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below. For convenience of explanation, the first five words are English and the second Pogo words are Japanese. As shown in FIG. 1, a terminal device 1 according to the present invention includes a processing device 2. Storage device 3.Character generator 4. CRT5.
It consists of a keyboard 6 and is connected to the central computing 1% 9 via a modem 7 and a communication line 8. The automatic translation process is executed in the central computer 9, and the English text and the translated Japanese text are sent to the terminal device 1. English text and Japanese text are displayed simultaneously on the terminal device 1, and the user modifies the Japanese text. The modified text is sent to the central computer 9 and stored in a file.

In the automatic translation process in the central computer 9, an English text is analyzed and divided into elements (referred to as phrase elements) that have certain syntactic and semantic roles.

Japanese text is generated by assigning translation 1 (5) to each phrase element and arranging the phrase elements in an appropriate order for Japanese.
fication (hereinafter abbreviated as ID), and transmits data as exemplified in FIG. 2 to the terminal device. The next byte of the ESC code in the data is the phrase search ID. Note that an ESC code and a sentence number are added to the beginning of the sentence. Since the sentence number is sandwiched between the ESC codes, it can be distinguished from the phrase element ID. By adding a sentence number, the phrase element ID only needs to be unique within one sentence. Therefore, the phrase element ID can be represented by several bits.

The storage device 3 consists of an English text area 31, a +'1 Japanese text area 32, and an area for storing various parameters 33. The English text area has 9 bits per word, and the Japanese text area has 17 bits per word, each with 1, 2, 3, etc. It is addressed as... Figure 3(a) shows the words in the English text area. The content represented by the word differs depending on whether the first bit D1 in the word is 0 or 1. When the first bit D1 is O, the second to ninth bits are codes representing characters in the text. When the first bit is 1, the third to ninth pins represent phrase element IDs or sentence numbers. Whether it is a phrase element ID or a sentence number can be easily determined from the first order. That is, when there are two consecutive words in which the first bit D1 is 1, only the first word is the sentence number. The second bit 1]2 of the word representing the phrase element ID is used as a flag indicating whether or not the phrase element has been modified. The words in the Japanese text area are shown in FIG. 3(b). The content expressed by the word differs depending on the first bit D1, as in the case of the English text area.

FIG. 4 shows the stored contents of the text area for the data in FIG. 2.

Various parameters stored in the storage device 3 are shown in FIG. 3(c).
Shown below. English text display start address PL, l] The real text display start address P2 is the CRT of each text.
5 shows the address in the text area of the top part of the display. The cursor position flag P3 is set to 1 when the cursor is on English text and O1 is on Japanese text. The cursor address P4 indicates the address of the cursor on the text.

The screen of the CRT 5 is divided into an English text display section 51 and a Japanese text display section 52, as shown in FIG. mt (character/line) Xn1 (line), m- (character/line), respectively.
row) Xn2 (row) can be displayed. Through the process described below, when one text is scrolled, the other text is also scrolled in conjunction with it, so that the corresponding portion is always displayed.

The keyboard 6 has character keys 601 as shown in FIG.
In addition, various function keys 602 to 617 are provided.

The functions of the processing device 2 include (1) processing of writing the transmission text from the central computer 9 into the storage device 3;
(3) processing to change the display range as the cursor moves, etc.

These will be explained below.

(1) Process of writing the text sent from the central computer 9 into the storage device 3 FIG. 7 shows a flowchart of the process of writing the English text sent from the central computer 9 into the English text area of the storage device 3. The same is true for Japanese text. In the figure, K is an index indicating the address of the English text area, and A (K) indicates the word at the address of the English text area. First, after setting K to an initial value of 1 (101), the transmitted data is read one byte at a time (102). If the data is not the end (103), it is determined whether it is an ESC code (104), and if it is an ESC code, the next 1 byte is the sentence number or phrase element ID, so this is read (104).
5) Write a word in which the first bit is 1, the second bit is 0, and the third to ninth bits are the sentence number or phrase element ID (lO6). If it is not an ESC code, it is a character code, so a word in which the first bit is O1 and the second to ninth bits are this character code is written (107). In either case, after writing to A (K), add 1 to K and (
108) Proceed to read next byte (102).

(2) Process for displaying text in storage device 3 on CRT 5 FIG. 8 shows a flowchart of text display processing. Only the display portion of the English text will be shown in detail, and the Japanese text will be omitted since it is the same as the English text. First, set the text display start address P11 display end address P L + mIX n in J and JMAX, respectively (202 and 2
03). It is determined whether word A (, J) at address J is a character code (204), and if it is a character code, this code is sent to the character generator 4 and displayed on the CRT 5 (204).
6). On the other hand, if A (J) is a sentence number or phrase element ID, it will be displayed as blank on the CRT screen (
215). After displaying A (J), add 1 to J (2
16) If J is within the display range (217), the process proceeds to the next word. If J exceeds the display range, the process moves to display processing for one Japanese text (218).

(3) Processing for changing the display range as the cursor moves. The cursor movement keys shown in FIG. 6 are available. Now, if the cursor position flag P3 is O, that is,
The case where the cursor is on English text will be explained. The same applies when the cursor position flag is 1.

When the key 605 is pressed, the cursor address P4 is set to 1.
decrease only. However, if P4 is (multiple of ml) +1, no change is made. When the key 606 is pressed, 1 is added to P4.

However, if P4 is a multiple of ml, no change is made. When key 604 is pressed, P4 is decreased by ml. When the key 607 is pressed, ml is added to P4. Further, when the key 608 is pressed, the English text area is scanned in the reverse direction from the current address of P4 to search for the word that is the phrase element ID. (Phrase element ID that appears in the second
address)+1 is set in P4. When the key 609 is pressed, the English text area is scanned forward from the current address of P4 to search for the word that is the phrase element ID. (Address of first phrase element ID) +
Set 1 to P4. Furthermore, when the key 610 is pressed, the cursor position flag P3 is inverted and set to 1, and at the same time, the Japanese text is scanned and the same ID as the phrase element pointed to by the cursor address set in P4 is set.
The phrase element is searched and the address of its first character is set to the cursor address P4.

When the cursor is moved, it becomes necessary to scroll the screen, so the parameter P stored in the storage device 3 is
L and P2 are also updated. A flowchart of this process is shown in FIG. The diagram is.

This applies when the cursor is over English text. If the cursor address P4 is smaller than the English text display start address P1 (301), Pl is subtracted by one line (302), and 1) 4 is English,! ? ) Text display path J' address P 1 + m4X If larger than nl (303
), Pl is increased by one line (304).

Furthermore, the same ID as the phrase element pointed to by cursor address P4
Find the address Z of the phrase element in the Japanese text (30
6) If Z is smaller than Japanese text 1 to display start address P2, subtract (307) - 1) 2 by one line (308)
, if Z is greater than the English text display end address P2+m2Xn2 (309), set P2 to 1
Increment by rows (310).

According to the present invention, there are the following effects.

(1) Comparison display of text in the first language and text translated into the second language, interlocking scrolling function, dynamic display function of correspondence between texts (phrase element unit) by moving the cursor, etc., make translation possible. The results can be calibrated efficiently.

(2) To store the correspondence between the two texts necessary to realize the above function, it is only necessary to add one bit to each word in the refresh memory.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the overall configuration of a machine translation system 1 according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a text sent from a central computer to a terminal device, and FIG. (b) and (C) are diagrams showing the configuration of words and various parameters of the storage device, FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the storage contents of the text storage device, FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of text display, and FIG.
The figure is a diagram of the keyboard, Figure 7 is a flowchart of the process of writing text sent from the central computer directly to the storage device, Figure 8 is a flowchart of the process of displaying text in the storage device on a CRT, and Figure 9 is a flowchart of the process of writing the text sent from the central computer directly to the storage device. 2 is a flowchart of a process for updating the contents of a storage device in response to an input. 1000 3 Figure (2) <
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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A first text written in a first natural language is
In a system for translating into a second text written in a natural language, a first storage area stores the first text, and a second storage area stores the second text in correspondence with each sentence of the first text. 1. A method for displaying text in a machine translation system, characterized in that each sentence of the first and second texts is displayed simultaneously on the same screen of a display device in correspondence with each other on the same screen of a display device. 2. In the method described in item 1, when the display range of one text on the display screen is changed, the displayed part of the other text corresponding to the changed display area is displayed in conjunction with the other text part. A text display method in a machine translation system.