JPH0830625A - Machine translation device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] By registering various information necessary for translating the first language into the second language in the second dictionary together with the registration date, the contents of the user dictionary are searched based on the registration date. To provide a machine translation device capable of performing. [Constitution] In the user dictionary 26b, headwords given in a first language and various information (parts of speech, meaning classification) about the headwords, converted words given in a second language, and various information related to the converted words ( Part of speech, article, main noun, and pronunciation of the head) are stored in a corresponding relationship. In addition, the registration date is stored together with the respective information. This registration date is set by the user in the user dictionary 26.
When a registration instruction to b is issued, the system is configured to automatically store the information.

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 for translating a translated sentence in a first language into a translated sentence in a second language.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a machine translation device of this type,
For example, in the case of a machine translation device from Japanese to English, basically a Japanese sentence that is an input sentence is morphologically analyzed and divided into predetermined processing units such as words and phrases, and after parsing such as dependency , An English sentence which is an output sentence is obtained by searching the basic dictionary or the user dictionary for each processing unit, determining the corresponding English translation, and combining them according to a predetermined translation generation rule. . Here, the basic dictionary is a dictionary that is registered in advance in the device, and the user dictionary is a dictionary that the user can freely register.

[0003]

However, in the conventional machine translation apparatus, when registering in the user dictionary, the registration date is not stored together with the registration content, so that the registration date is not stored. The contents of the user dictionary could not be searched based on the above. Therefore, for a user dictionary registered by the user himself, the contents of the user dictionary are searched based on the date of registration, and a certain process is collectively performed on the searched results or when combining a plurality of user dictionaries. There is a problem in that it is extremely inconvenient to use because it is not possible to perform processing such as prioritizing new ones on the registration date.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and various information necessary for translating a first language into a second language is registered in the second dictionary together with its registration date. An object of the present invention is to provide a machine translation device capable of searching the contents of the user dictionary based on the registration date.

[0005]

In order to achieve this object, the machine translation apparatus of the present invention has a heading, a parallel translation, and grammatical information necessary for translating a first language which is a translated sentence into a second language. In a machine translation device including a first dictionary in which various kinds of information such as the meaning information and the semantic information are fixedly registered in advance, and a second dictionary in which a user can arbitrarily register the various kinds of information, a registration date of the various kinds of information. It is also configured to register with the second dictionary.

Further, it is desirable to provide a search means for making it possible to search the contents registered in the second dictionary based on the registration date.

[0007]

In the machine translation apparatus of the present invention having the above-described structure, the first dictionary contains the first language, which is the translated sentence, and the second language.
Various information such as headings, parallel translations, grammatical information, and semantic information necessary for translating into a language is fixedly registered in advance, and when the user arbitrarily registers the various information in the second dictionary. , Will be registered with the registration date attached.

Further, since the search means searches the contents registered in the second dictionary based on the registration date, the search function can be improved and the processing capacity can be improved.

[0009]

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

In this embodiment, the case where the first language is Japanese and the second language is English will be described as an example.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram functionally showing the hardware configuration of the machine translation apparatus of this embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1, the machine translation device 10 includes a data processing unit 12 including a CPU, an input unit 14 including a keyboard, and C.
The display unit 16 includes an RT and the like, and the printing unit 18 includes a scanning printer and the like.

In the data processing unit 12, the input unit 1
4 is stored in a hard disk or an optical disk or the like, a pre-editing unit 20 that edits the input sentence input from 4 into an appropriate form, a translation unit 24 that receives the input sentence from the pre-editing unit 20 and translates it into a second language A dictionary unit 26, a search unit 27 that searches the contents of the dictionary 26, and a post-editing unit 28 that edits the translation result sentence obtained by the translation unit 24 are incorporated as software-achievable. .

The dictionary unit 26 is provided with a basic dictionary 26a in which a predetermined number is fixedly registered in advance and a user dictionary 26b arbitrarily registered by the user.

The search unit 27 of this embodiment constitutes the search means of the present invention, and the basic dictionary 26a constitutes the first dictionary of the present invention and the user dictionary 26b constitutes the second dictionary of the present invention. There is.

Further, in the translation unit 24, the pre-editing unit 20
Is stored in the morphological analysis unit 30 that divides the input sentence from the sentence into predetermined processing units such as words and phrases, the syntax analysis unit 32 that collects words into phrases and performs syntax analysis such as dependency analysis, and the dictionary unit 16. A syntactic conversion unit 34 that applies a translated word to each word by referring to various information stored therein, and converts Japanese into an English structure based on the result of the syntactic analysis by the syntactic analysis unit 32. A syntax generation unit 36 that generates a correct syntax and a morpheme generation unit 38 that generates a morpheme such as a word form change are provided.

Next, FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the registration status of the user dictionary 26b. As shown in FIG. 2, in the user dictionary 26b, an entry word given in the first language and various information (part of speech, meaning classification) about the entry word, and the second
The conversion word given in the language and various information (part of speech, article, main noun, and pronunciation of the head) regarding the conversion word are stored in a corresponding relationship. In addition, the registration date is stored together with the respective information. The registration date is configured to be automatically stored on the system side when the user issues a registration instruction to the user dictionary 26b.

Next, with reference to the flow chart shown in FIG. 3, the user dictionary search processing based on the registration date will be described. It is assumed that the current registration status in the user dictionary 29 is as shown in FIG.

First, with the user displaying a list of user dictionaries 29 on the display unit 16, the user selects "user dictionary search" from a plurality of search items also displayed on the display unit 16. Then (step 1, hereinafter abbreviated as S1; the same applies to other steps), a message for instructing to specify what key is used for the search is displayed on the display unit 16.
Displayed above. Here, when the user designates the search by "designated date" (S2), next, the search of the user dictionary registered on the designated date, the search of the user dictionary registered before the designated date, or the designation is performed. A message instructing to select whether to search the user dictionary registered after the date is displayed on the display unit 16.

Here, for example, the user "after the designated date"
Is selected (S3), and then the designated date is input in a predetermined format (S4), the search unit 27 in the data processing unit 12 is selected.
Performs a search in the user dictionary 26b according to the search condition (S5). If the designated date entered by the user is "94-02-01", the search condition is 19
It will be registered after February 1, 1994. Since the current registration status of the user dictionary 26b is as shown in FIG. 2, the entry words are “die casting” and “access time”.
And "Japan" correspond to the search conditions, and they are displayed on the display unit 16
It is displayed above (S6). Here, the user can also save the information retrieved and displayed on the display unit 16 in a file.

If it is desired to end the "user dictionary search" (S7: No), select "End search" from the menu items displayed on the display unit 16 and continue the search with another search item. In the case, the process returns to S1 and waits until the next search item is selected.

As described above, in the machine translation apparatus of this embodiment, when the various types of information are registered in the user dictionary 26b, the information is stored together with the registration date. Therefore, the search is performed based on the registration date. For example, by searching for user dictionaries registered before a certain date, the dictionary information of those user dictionaries can be collectively reviewed and corrected, or user dictionaries registered after a certain date can be searched. With respect to, it is possible to collectively review the translation.

In the present embodiment, the search of the user dictionary based on the registration date has been described, but it is possible to search using a combination of other user dictionary creation information of the registrant or the like and the registration date as a search condition. It may be configured. As a result, the search function can be further improved.

[0023]

As described above in detail, according to the machine translation apparatus of the present invention, various information necessary for translating the first language into the second language is registered in the second dictionary together with the registration date. With this configuration, the contents of the user dictionary can be searched based on the registration date, and the search function can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a machine translation device of this embodiment.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of an internal structure of a user dictionary of this embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a user dictionary search process.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 machine translation device 26 dictionary 26a basic dictionary 26b user dictionary 27 search unit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A first dictionary in which various kinds of information such as headings, parallel translations, grammatical information, and semantic information necessary for translating a first language, which is a translated sentence, into a second language are fixedly registered in advance, A machine translation device comprising a second dictionary in which a user can arbitrarily register the various information, and a machine translation device configured to register the various information in the second dictionary together with a registration date. apparatus. 2. The contents registered in the second dictionary are
The machine translation device according to claim 1, further comprising a search unit that enables a search based on the registration date.