JPH01234976A - Block display method on translation display device - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a block display method in a translation display device such as an English-Japanese machine translation system.

PRIOR ART In general, in this type of translation system, parts of the input original text surrounded by quotation marks, parentheses, etc., such as relative pronoun clauses, can be identified as a group due to their morphology and can be analyzed independently. A block is called a block and is treated as a unit of syntax analysis.

Here, in the pre-editing and post-editing stages of the translation processing process, such blocks may be clearly indicated in the original text displayed on the display screen. but,
Looking at conventional block display examples, there are some that display a special column indicating that it is a block, such as ¥(Q' (Eσi¥)).However, with this display method, it is difficult for general users to is difficult to understand.

In addition, there is also a method in which block parts are displayed with different attributes, such as inverted display. However, some blocks have a nested relationship that partially overlaps, such as a block surrounded by double quotation marks and a block surrounded by single quotation marks within that block. In some cases. Conventional display methods such as simple inverted display cannot handle cases where blocks are nested.

Purpose The present invention was made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide a block display method in a translation display device that can easily display block nesting etc. when displaying morpheme analysis results and translated original texts. shall be.

Structure In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is characterized in that when there are blocks in the original text that have overlapping parts, the attributes of each block are displayed differently from the attributes of other parts.

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described based on the drawings. First, the concept or procedure of the machine translation system used in the present invention will be explained with reference to the algorithm shown in FIG. This is, for example, an English-Japanese machine translation system that selectively performs morphological analysis for spell checking after human translation of the original text.

Then, morphological analysis is performed. This is word-by-word analysis, and is an analysis process that focuses on special characters such as hyphens, commas, and periods, and differences in case and lowercase letters. As a result, items that can be identified as a single unit, such as those enclosed between quotation marks, can be identified as a block.

Next, parse the syntax. This is a syntactic analysis to understand the structure of a sentence, such as the structure of phrases, modification relationships, subject-predicate relationships, etc. From this parsing result,
After performing English structure identification processing, such as eliminating semantically incorrect analysis, and creating an English intermediate structure, syntactic conversion processing is performed. That is, an intermediate structure based on English phrases is converted into an intermediate structure that easily represents Japanese phrases.

Then, Japanese is generated. That is, in order to generate natural Japanese sentences from Japanese intermediate structures, syntax is first generated, and then morphemes are generated to arrange the order of particles and auxiliary verbs. After this, the translated text, for example, Japanese, is finally output.

In such a translation system, the input original text is subjected to morphological analysis, and the results are fed back to the user for pre-editing, or the translation results are displayed in bilingual terms and used for post-editing, allowing the user to modify the text as desired. etc., before/
Some have post-editing functions. In this example,
At this stage of pre-editing or post-editing, block display is handled when the original text is displayed on a CRT screen or the like.

Here, a concrete example of block display will be considered.

For example, as shown in Figure 3(a), in the original text displayed on CRT screen 1, there is an
I would like to go to the ho
tel and'5tay the room'al
l night,” block■ and this block■
rs contained within (duplicate) and enclosed in single quotes '7'
There may be a block ``tay the roomJ''. When displaying such a sentence, it is conceivable to change the character attributes of block ■■ from other parts. However, if both blocks ■ and ■ have the same attributes, they cannot be distinguished.

In this regard, it is conceivable to change the attributes of each block for each type of block, such as quotation marks, parentheses, phrases, and clauses, but nesting of the same type is also possible, which is not realistic.

However, when considering nesting in blocks, in reality, in most cases there are at most a few nests. Therefore, in this embodiment, attention is paid to the fact that the blocks are nested in a number of blocks at most, and the block display is devised by paying attention only to such nested portions. For areas that are not nested, a normal display method such as simple inversion may be used, or the method of this embodiment may be extended.

Here, when displaying blocks, it is possible to assign different attributes to each block, and this is often sufficient in practice. However, considering that the original text is long and has many blocks, or that the text corresponds to a block specifically designated by the user, it is insufficient to simply assign different attributes to each block. Therefore, in this embodiment, the attributes of such blocks are changed only for blocks that have overlapping parts, such as nested blocks, so that the distinguishing indications do not overlap.

For example, in the display example shown in FIG. 3(a), the attributes of the block ■ and the attributes of the block ■ (excluding the block 0 portion) may be changed and displayed.

Furthermore, since there are differences in the types of attributes that can be handled, such as display type, depending on the display device such as a CRT, it is possible to handle the problem by using only one type of attribute, such as reverse display, without using various attributes. In this case, as shown in the flowchart shown in FIG.
Change the attributes of only one block, and after a certain period of time, change the attributes to the next block (or the block specified by the user)
All you have to do is change the attributes and display it. That is, it is sufficient to periodically and sequentially change the blocks whose attributes are to be changed.

For example, in the case of FIG. 3(a), the display of block 2 (including block 2) may be displayed in reverse at a certain timing, and only block 2 may be displayed in reverse at a different timing.

In this way, according to the block display method of this embodiment, the block display becomes easy to see.

In addition, for example, in the fraudulent example shown in Figure 3(b), 2
““I would have 1ike” enclosed in quotation marks.
t.

g(+ the hotel”) block ■ and [
“Would like to go the hote
l″ and 5tayed the roomall
When we consider blocks (2) designated by users night and J, it is possible to easily detect illegal overlaps by displaying different attributes of each block, and it is also easy to designate blocks that will not result in illegal overlaps.

Although this embodiment has been described using an example of English-Japanese translation, the present invention is applicable to translation between any other languages, not just these languages.

Effects As described above, the present invention focuses on the fact that there is little nesting of blocks, and when there are blocks that overlap each other in the original text, such as nested blocks, the attributes of each block are different from the attributes of other parts. Since the blocks are displayed in parallel, the block display during display of the original text becomes extremely easy to see.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 1 is a flowchart, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an outline of a machine translation algorithm, and FIG. 3 is a front view showing an example of a displayed original text.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A method for displaying blocks in a translation display device, characterized in that when blocks having mutually overlapping parts exist in an original text, the attributes of each block are displayed differently from the attributes of other parts.