JPH0635965A - Machine translation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve efficiency for post-editing by referring to the grammar information of a second language in the case of performing post-editing to the translated result on an editing picture. CONSTITUTION:A first language sentence inputted from an input part 11 is edited into a suitable form at need, by an editing part 12 and sent to a translation part 13 later. For the first language sentence sent to the translation part 13, morpheme analysis is performed by a morpheme analysis part 13a, further, syntax analysis is performed, and it is sent to a transformation part 13c. At the transformation part 13c, transformation from the analyzed first language sentence to a second language sentence is performed. The second language sentence transformed by the transformation part 13c is generated into a correct syntax by a syntax generation part 13d based on the grammar rule of the second language sentence and afterwards, the translation is completed by changing word forms at a morpheme generation part 13e. The obtained translated result sentence is freely edited by the editing part 12 and displayed on a display part 15 or outputted as a hard copy by a printing part 16.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a machine translation device having a function of translating a language sentence into a second language sentence that is a translation target language and editing the sentence as necessary.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Since a current machine translation apparatus does not always translate a correct result, post-editing after translation is essential. Therefore, in the conventional machine translation device, in order to improve the post-editing efficiency of the user, various dictionary information can be referred to on the editing screen to provide the user with necessary information.

However, since grammatical explanations cannot be viewed on the editing screen by the conventional machine translation device, the user prepares a commercially available reference book and refers to each of them when performing post-editing. While doing the editing work.

[0004]

However, in actual translation, word-level information alone is not sufficient, and it often happens that one wants to refer to a grammatical explanation and its example sentence.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and when the translation result is edited by the editing means, the grammatical information of the second language can be referred to so that The aim is to save time and effort, to eliminate post-editing errors, and to obtain grammatically correct translation results.

[0006]

In order to achieve this object, a machine translation apparatus of the present invention comprises an input means A for inputting a sentence to be translated and a translation means D for translating the input sentence into a target sentence.
And a display unit H for displaying the translation result sentence, and an editing unit C for editing the input sentence and the translation result sentence.
The grammatical information storage means F storing the grammatical information about the second language, the instruction means B for instructing the retrieval thereof, the retrieval means E for retrieving the corresponding item of the grammatical information storage means by the instruction, and the retrieval contents thereof And a display control means F for displaying on the display means.

[0007]

The machine translation apparatus of the present invention having the above-mentioned configuration is
In response to the instruction from the instruction means, the search means searches the grammar information storage means that stores the grammatical information about the second language, and the display control means displays the search contents on the display means. The editing means edits with reference to the retrieved content.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram functionally showing the hardware configuration of the machine translation apparatus of this embodiment. As shown in the figure, the machine translation apparatus 1 is composed of a data processing unit 10 composed of a computer, an input unit 11 composed of a keyboard (composing input means), a CRT and the like. The display unit 15 (which constitutes display means) and the printing unit 16 configured by a scanning printer or the like are roughly configured.

The data processing unit 10 includes an editing unit 12 for editing an input sentence or a translation result sentence as needed.
(Constituting editing means), translation unit 1 for executing translation processing
3 (which constitutes an editing means), a dictionary 14 and a grammar book 17 (grammar information storage means) stored in a hard disk, an optical disk or the like are incorporated. The translation unit 13 divides the input sentence into morphemes, a morphological analysis unit 13a, a syntactic analysis unit 13b that clarifies the syntactic structure of the input sentence, a conversion unit 13c that converts the input sentence into a target language sentence, and a structure of the target language sentence. And a morpheme generation unit 13e that morphologically arranges the target language sentence.

Next, the basic operation of this machine translation device will be briefly described.

The first language sentence input from the input unit 11 is
The data is edited into an appropriate form by the editing unit 12 if necessary, and then sent to the translation unit 13.

The first language sentence sent to the translation unit 13 is morphologically analyzed by the morpheme analysis unit 13a, further parsed and sent to the conversion unit 13c.

The converting unit 13c converts the analyzed first language sentence into a second language sentence.

The second language sentence converted by the conversion unit 13c is generated by the syntax generation unit 13d into a correct syntax based on the grammatical rules of the second language sentence, and then the morpheme generation unit 13e.
The translation is completed by changing the word form.

The processing in the translation unit 13 described above is performed on the basis of word information stored in the dictionary 14.

Further, the obtained translation result sentence is edited by the editing unit 1.
2 is freely edited and displayed on the display unit 15 or is output as a hard copy by the printing unit 16.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing the flow of processing in the editing unit 12 of the embodiment, and FIG. 4 is a screen display example in the editing unit.

Here, a case where the user views information about English collective nouns will be described as an example with reference to the flowchart of FIG. When the user selects a grammar book reference item from the operation items in the screen display example of FIG. 4 (constituting an instruction means), the determination in S31 of FIG. 3 is YE.
Then, the process proceeds to S, and the process proceeds to S32 to display selectable parts of speech.
FIG. 5 is an example of a screen display of part-of-speech classification. Furthermore, S33
When the user selects a part-of-speech, the determination in S33 becomes YES, and the process proceeds to S34, in which it is determined whether the part-of-speech is finely classified. If there is a detailed classification, the determination in S34 is Y.
It becomes ES, and the process proceeds to S35 to display the part-of-speech subclassification.
FIG. 6 is a screen display example of the part-of-speech subclassification of a noun when a noun is selected in S33. If there is no sub-classification, the determination in S34 becomes NO, the process proceeds to S37, the contents of the corresponding grammar book are searched (constitutes a search unit), and is displayed on the edit screen (configures a display control unit).

On the other hand, if the process proceeds to S36, it is determined whether or not the part-of-speech subclassification is selected. When the user selects the sub-classification, the determination in S36 is YES and S37
Go to and display the contents of the grammar book on the edit screen. Figure 7
Is a one-screen display example displaying the search contents of the grammar book when a collective noun is selected in the determination of S36.

The judgments in S31, S33 and S36 are N.
When it is O, this process ends.

As described above, the retrieved result can be freely referred to and edited by the user in the editing unit 12. That is, the user refers to the information about the collective noun shown in FIG.
The translation result shown in Figure 4 is "I bought a furniture ye.
sterday. "is a mistake," I bought a piece of furn
It can be corrected grammatically correctly as "iture."

As described above in detail, in the present embodiment, the editing section can refer to the grammar book storing the grammatical information, so the user must prepare commercially available reference books and the like. There is no need to search, saving the user's effort and improving the efficiency of post-editing.

Unlike the commercially available reference books, this grammar book describes in detail the problems that are likely to occur in machine translation, and is therefore very effective in post-editing the translation results.

Further, this grammar book is not fixed, and the user can freely add a description as needed, so that a grammar book effective for each user can be constructed.

The search items are not limited to the above-mentioned part-of-speech and part-of-speech classification. It is also conceivable to construct sentences such as compound sentences and compound sentences, or to search using a specific term as a key such as special syntax such as emphasis and extrapolation.

[0027]

As is apparent from the above description,
According to the machine translation apparatus of the present invention, since the grammatical information of the second language can be referred to when post-editing the translation result on the edit screen, the user's trouble can be saved and the post-editing efficiency can be improved. In addition, grammatical errors in post-editing are eliminated and correct translation results can be obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram functionally showing a hardware configuration of a machine translation device according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a processing flow in an editing unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of one screen display in post-editing according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a screen display example of part-of-speech classification according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a screen display example of part-of-speech subclassification according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a screen display example of a grammar book according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Machine translation device 11 Input part 12 Editing part 13 Translation part 14 Dictionary 15 Display part 17 Grammar book

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An input unit for inputting a translation target sentence, a translation unit for translating an input first language sentence into a second language sentence which is a target language sentence, a translation result sentence and other necessary information. In a machine translation apparatus comprising a display means for displaying and a means for editing the input sentence and the translation result sentence, a grammatical information storage means for storing grammatical information relating to a second language, and an instruction means for instructing the retrieval thereof. And a search means for searching the corresponding item of the grammar information storage means by the instruction,
A machine translation device, comprising: display control means for displaying the search content on the display means, wherein the editing means edits using the search content.