JP2001318918A - Translation device and its method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a translation device capable of executing accurate translation with simple constitution. SOLUTION: A Japanese original to be translated is inputted from an input part 13. A processing control part 11 displays the original to be translated on a 1st window of a display part 14, translates the original to an English sentence and displays the translated English sentence on a 3rd window of the display part 14. The control part 11 retranslates the translated English sentence to a Japanese sentence and displays the translated result on a 2nd window of the display part 14. A user compares the Japanese original displayed on the 1st window with the retranslated Japanese sentence displayed on the 2nd window, and when there is a difference between both the sentences, corrects the original displayed on the 1st window. The correction is reflected to the translated sentence on the 3 rd window and the retranslated sentence on the 2nd window in real time. When the contents of the original on the 1st window coincide with the contents of the retranslated Japanese sentence on the 2nd window, the English sentence is adopted as a translated sentence.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] The present invention relates to a translation apparatus.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With the spread of the Internet, opportunities to refer to foreign language homepages have increased and opportunities to translate one's homepage into foreign languages have also increased. For this reason, a demand for a simple translation device is increasing.

[0003]

However, although the conventional translator can translate, for example, Japanese to English and English to Japanese, there is no guarantee that the translation is correct. For this reason, for example, when Japanese was translated into English, it was sometimes translated into English whose meaning was actually unknown.

[0004] The present invention has been made in view of the above situation, and has as its object to provide a translation apparatus and a translation method that allow a user to confirm that translation has been performed correctly. Another object of the present invention is to provide a translation device and a translation method capable of performing accurate translation.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a translation apparatus according to the present invention comprises: an input unit for inputting an original sentence of a first language to be translated; Translation means for translating into a translation in two languages;
Retranslation means for translating the translation translated by the translation means into a translation in a first language; display means for displaying the original text in the first language and the translation in the first language in association with each other; , Is provided.

According to this structure, the original sentence in the first language and the translated sentence in the first language, which are once translated into the second language, are displayed on the display means in association with each other. If translated correctly, the original sentence of the first language and the translated sentence of the first language should almost match, and if they match, the translated sentence of the second language is almost correct ( The translation reflects the user's intention). On the other hand, if the translation in the first language is different from the content that the user originally wants to convey, it is considered that the translation in the second language does not reflect the user's intention,
It shows that the original text needs to be corrected and corrected to make it clearer and easier to translate.

[0007] The display means may display a translated sentence in the second language.

[0008] For example, the input unit includes means for correcting the original sentence to be translated, the translation means translates the corrected original sentence, and the re-translation means translates the corrected original sentence into a second language. By translating a sentence and displaying the corrected original sentence and the translated sentence translated by the retranslator, the correction of the original sentence can be reflected in the retranslated sentence substantially in real time. You may do so.

In order to achieve the above object, a translation method according to the present invention translates an original sentence in a first language to be translated into a translation in a second language, and further translates the original in a second language. Translate the sentence back into the first language translation, and
The translation of the first language is displayed in association with the translation of the first language, and the translation of the first language is reflected in real time in the translation of the first language. Is characterized in that it is possible to guess whether or not the translated sentence is correct.

[0010] All or a part of a program necessary for causing a computer or a group of computers to function as the above-described device or to execute the above-described steps is stored in a recording medium (ROM, floppy (registered trademark) disk, hard disk, It may be recorded on a CD-ROM, MO, CD-R, flash memory, etc. and distributed / distributed.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a translation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described.

As shown in FIG. 1, the translation apparatus 1 of this embodiment includes a processing control unit 11, a storage unit 12, and an input unit 1.
3, a display unit 14, a database (DB) 15, and a communication control unit 16.

The processing control unit 11 is composed of a microprocessor or the like, and translates an original sentence (in this example, Japanese) input from the input unit 13 into English using a dictionary stored in the DB 15. Then, it is stored in the storage unit 12. Further, the English translation is translated into Japanese and stored in the storage unit 12. Further, the processing control unit 11 causes the display unit 14 to display the input original sentence, the English translation, and the Japanese retranslation (reverse translation) in association with each other.

The storage unit 12 is composed of a semiconductor memory or the like, and stores translation programs (Japanese-English translation programs and English-Japanese translation programs) executed by the processing control unit 11. Any commercially available translation program can be used. The storage unit 12 stores the input original sentence to be translated, the translated English translation of the second language, and the retranslated Japanese sentence.

The input unit 13 includes a keyboard, a pointing device such as a mouse, and the like, and inputs instructions and original texts to be translated.

The display unit 14 includes a display device, a video memory, and the like, and displays various images under the control of the processing control unit 11. In particular, in this embodiment, the display unit 14 divides the screen into three areas as illustrated in FIG. 2 and displays the original text, the Japanese reverse translation, and the English translation in association with each other. .

The DB 15 stores a Japanese-English dictionary and an English-Japanese dictionary.

The communication control section 16 communicates with an external device under the control of the processing control section 11, and receives and captures, for example, an original to be translated or transmits a translation result.

(Operation) Next, the operation of the translation apparatus according to this embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings. In the following, an example in which a Japanese original sentence input from a keyboard constituting the input unit 13 is translated into English will be described.

First, a user activates a translation program, and inputs an original text to be translated according to a prompt.
Input sequentially. The processing control unit 11 temporarily stores the sequentially input original text in the storage unit 12 and displays the original text in the first window 141 of the display screen in FIG.

The processing control unit 11 checks the input original text, determines whether or not a reading point “.” Has been input, and when detecting a reading point “.”, Reads the current reading point “.” From the previous reading point “.”. . "As a translation target. Then, by using the Japanese-English translation software stored in the storage unit 12, D
It translates into English using the Japanese-English dictionary stored in B15. The processing control unit 11 stores the translated English sentence in the storage unit 12 and stores the translated English sentence in the third window 14 of the display screen of FIG.
3 is displayed.

The processing control section 11 further re-translates the current translation into Japanese using the English-Japanese dictionary stored in the DB 15 by the English-Japanese translation software stored in the storage section 12. (Reverse translation). The processing control unit 11 stores the translated Japanese in the storage unit 12 and displays the translated Japanese in the second window 142 of the display screen of FIG.

At this time, the processing control unit 11
In order to allow the user to recognize that the three sentences correspond to each other, for example, the three sentences may have the same color different from the colors of the preceding and following sentences, or another document may be temporarily displayed on the display screen. , So that only these three documents are displayed.

The user refers to the translated Japanese sentence displayed in the second window 142 and determines whether or not the content matches the content that he / she wants to convey. Here, attention is paid not to the expression itself but to the contents, and if the contents match, the next original text to be translated is input.

On the other hand, if the content of the translated Japanese sentence displayed in the second window 142 does not match the content that the user wants to convey, the user determines the cause of the expression. By guessing, the cursor is moved to an arbitrary position in the original sentence displayed in the first window 141, and an arbitrary character or character string is corrected.

The processing control unit 11 converts the corrected original text (the character string from the reading point “.” Including the corrected character example to the reading point “.”) Into English again using the dictionary stored in the DB 15. The translation is performed, and the English sentence stored in the storage unit 12 is updated, and the English sentence displayed in the third window 143 is updated.

The processing control unit 11 stores the translated text
Translated into Japanese using the dictionary stored in No. 15,
The translated Japanese is stored in the storage unit 12 and displayed in the second window 142 of the display screen of FIG.

The user repeats such an operation until the Japanese sentence displayed in the second window 142 becomes a sentence of the content intended by the user. When the input and correction of the original sentence are completed, the first and second windows 141 and 142 display a Japanese sentence having substantially the same contents, and the third window 143 displays an English sentence having substantially the same contents. The user can store the original sentence and the English sentence or the English sentence and the translated Japanese sentence in association with each other.

The above operation will be described based on a specific example.
For example, suppose that in the middle of a series of sentences, a person who is talking about entered "Japanese came to the company today" to indicate that he / she came to the company today. This sentence (original sentence) is displayed in the first window 141, and as a corresponding translated sentence,
For example, “Today came to the office.” Is displayed in the third window 143, which is translated and translated as “Today came to the company.” And displayed in the second window 142. I do.

In this case, since the content of the Japanese sentence displayed in the second window 142 is different from the intended content, the user corrects the original sentence displayed in the first window 141.

Here, for example, the first window 141
Was revised to "I came to the company today." And translated, and "Today, it came to the offic"
e. "is displayed in the third window 143, and in the second window 142," It came to the company today. "
Suppose it was translated.

The user is displayed in the first window 141, "I came to the office today." And displayed in the second window 142, "It came to the office today."
And understands that "it" displayed in the second window 142 should be corrected to "he", and corrects the original text to "he came to the company today." Then, "Today, he came to the office." Is displayed on the third window 143.
And the second window 142 displays "He came to the company today." At this stage, it is determined that the original sentence and the translated Japanese sentence substantially match, and the processing for this input sentence ends.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, but can be variously modified and applied. For example, in the above-described embodiment, an example in which a document sequentially input from the input unit 13 is sequentially translated has been described, but a document created in advance is read from the floppy disk via the input unit 13 or a communication is performed. The data may be captured by transmission from the control unit 16 and may be translated collectively. Also in this case, the original sentence, the translated sentence, and the translated sentence of the translated sentence may be associated with each other, and when the original sentence is modified, the corresponding translated sentence and the translated sentence of the translated sentence may be modified and displayed. .

The display method of the original, translated, and retranslated sentences is arbitrary. Also, the case of translating from Japanese to English has been described as an example, but the original language and the translated language are optional.

All or a part of a program necessary for causing a computer to function as the above-described translation device or to execute the above-described steps is stored in a recording medium (ROM, floppy disk, hard disk, CD-ROM, M-ROM).
O, CD-R, flash memory) etc.
It may be distributed.

[0036]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Can be translated relatively accurately.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a translation device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a display screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 translation apparatus 11 processing control unit 12 storage unit 13 input unit 14 display unit 15 database 16 communication control unit

Claims (5)

[Claims] An input unit for inputting an original sentence in a first language to be translated; a translation unit for translating the original sentence input by the input unit into a translated sentence in a second language; The translated text in the second language
A translation device, comprising: retranslation means for translating into a translation in a first language; and display means for displaying an original in the first language and a translation in the first language. 2. The translation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said display means further comprises means for displaying a translated sentence in said second language. 3. The input unit comprises means for correcting an original sentence, wherein the translating means translates the original sentence corrected by the input unit, and wherein the retranslating means comprises a second language of the corrected original sentence. Translating the translated sentence into a first language, wherein the display means displays the corrected original sentence and the translated sentence of the first language translated by the retranslating means, thereby substantially correcting the original sentence in real time. The translation device according to claim 1, wherein the translation is reflected in a translation in a first language. 4. The translation of an original sentence in a first language to be translated into a translation in a second language, and the translation in a second language is translated back into a translation in a first language. Displaying the original sentence and the translation of the first language in association with each other, and reflecting the correction of the original sentence in real time on the translation of the first language, thereby comparing the original sentence with the translation of the first language. A translation method characterized in that it is possible to guess whether the translated sentence of the second language is correct. 5. An input unit for inputting an original sentence in a first language to be translated, a translation unit for translating an original sentence input by the input unit into a translated sentence in a second language, and A translating unit that translates the translated sentence into a translated sentence of a first language; and a display unit that displays the original sentence of the first language and the translated sentence of the first language in association with each other. A computer-readable recording medium recording a program for causing the computer to function.