JPH1185757A - Mail translator and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Problem] Even if you receive mail from overseas,
To provide a mail translation device and a computer-readable recording medium recording a mail translation processing program, which can easily create a reply mail as well as mail in Japan and shorten the time for creating a reply mail. SOLUTION: A CPU 20 receives an English mail transmitted via a communication line (S27) and translates the English mail into a Japanese mail (S29). When the reply mail is created (S33), when replying the reply mail, the CPU 20 translates the mail in Japanese as the reply mail into a mail in English (S36), and the translated mail is sent. Reply a mail in English (S3
8).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention records a mail translation apparatus and a mail translation processing program for translating a mail in a language of a predetermined country, which is transmitted via a communication line, into a language other than the country and returning it. The present invention relates to a computer-readable recording medium.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when e-mails from abroad are received via a communication line, the e-mails are usually described in a foreign language such as English. ) Does not understand the foreign language, the content of the email is translated using an email translator equipped with translation software for translating the foreign language,
The translated contents are displayed on a display device such as a CRT.

Recently, a mail translator has been proposed which automatically reads a header portion of a mail when the mail is received, and translates the mail into a mail in a language used by a user.

[0004]

However, when a mail is received, a reply mail is usually sent to the mail in many cases.

In a conventional mail translator, first,
After translating the received e-mail written in a foreign language into the language used by the user, the user checks the translated e-mail on the display device and creates a reply e-mail based on the confirmed e-mail. .

In this case, the user generally creates a reply mail in the foreign language, and returns the created reply mail to the original sender.

[0007] That is, the user must always create a reply mail in the language used by the original sender, and there has been a problem that the labor and time required for creating the reply mail are enormous. In particular, this problem was remarkable when the size of the reply mail was large.

[0008] The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problem. In the case where a mail is received from abroad, a reply mail can be easily created in the same manner as a domestic mail, and a reply mail can be created. It is an object of the present invention to provide a mail translation device and a computer-readable recording medium in which a mail translation processing program is recorded, in which the time required for the translation is reduced.

[0009]

In order to achieve this object, a mail translating apparatus according to claim 1 of the present invention provides a mail translating apparatus for transmitting a message from a first language, which is a language of a predetermined country, transmitted through a communication line. Receiving means for receiving an e-mail, e-mail storing means for storing e-mail in the first language received by the e-mail receiving means, and e-mail in the first language stored in the e-mail storing means A first mail translating means for translating the mail into a mail in a second language other than the first language, and a mail in the second language translated by the first mail translating means. In particular, when the reply mail is returned by the mail reply means, whether the reply message is in the second language as the reply mail. The composed email includes a second mail translation means for translating the email comprising a first language, and wherein the reply mail formed of the second first language which is translated by the mail translation means.

[0010] In the mail translating apparatus according to claim 1 of the present invention, the mail receiving means receives a mail in a first language, which is a language of a predetermined country, transmitted through a communication line. The mail storage means stores the mail in the first language received by the mail reception means, and the first mail translation means stores the mail in the first language stored in the mail storage means in the first language. Is translated into a mail in a second language that is a language of a country other than.
Here, when the user confirms the mail in the second language translated by the first mail translating means and creates a reply mail to the mail, the mail replying means transmits the mail by the first mail translating means. A reply mail is returned to the translated mail in the second language.

When the reply mail is returned by the mail reply means, the second mail translation means translates the mail in the second language as the reply mail into a mail in the first language. Reply a mail in the first language translated by the second mail translation means.

Further, in the mail translating apparatus according to the present invention, the mail replying means may include the mail in the first language stored in the mail storing means and the second mail.
The reply mail translated by the mail translating means is sent back.

3. The mail translating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the mail replying means is a reply mail translated by the second mail translating means together with the mail in the first language stored in the mail storing means. Is transmitted, the transmitted mail is returned as it is, and it is not necessary to translate, and it is possible to prevent mistranslation due to re-translation.

[0014] A computer-readable recording medium storing the mail translation processing program according to claim 3 receives a mail in a first language, which is a language of a predetermined country, transmitted through a communication line. Receiving program, a mail storing program for storing the mail in the first language received by the mail receiving program in the storage means, and the first language stored in the storage means by the mail storing program. Is a second language in a language other than the first language.
A first mail translation program for translating into a mail in a language, and a mail reply program for replying to the mail in the second language translated by the first mail translation program. In particular, when the reply mail is returned by the mail reply program, the second
A second mail translation program for translating a mail in a language into a mail in a first language is provided, and the mail in the first language translated by the second mail translation program is returned.

[0015] In a computer-readable recording medium recording the mail translation processing program according to claim 3 having the above configuration, by executing the program using the recording medium, the mail receiving program can
The first language, which is the language of the given country transmitted via the communication line
Receiving a mail in a language, the mail storage program stores the mail in the first language received by the mail reception program in a storage means, and the first mail translation program stores the mail in the mail storage program by the mail storage program. Of the first language stored in the first language is translated into a second language mail that is a language of a country other than the first language. Here, when the user confirms the mail in the second language translated by the first mail translation program and creates a reply mail to the mail,
The mail reply program returns a reply mail to the mail in the second language translated by the first mail translation program.

[0016] The second mail translation program is:
When replying a reply mail by the mail reply program, the mail in the second language as the reply mail is translated into a mail in the first language, and the mail reply program is translated by the second mail translation program. Reply a mail in one language.

Further, in the computer-readable recording medium recording the mail translation processing program according to claim 4, the mail reply program is stored in the storage means by the mail storage program.
A reply mail translated by the second mail translation means is returned together with the mail in the language.

[0018] In a computer readable recording medium having the mail translation processing program according to claim 4 having the above configuration, the mail reply program is executed by executing the program using the recording medium.
Since the reply mail translated by the second mail translation means is returned together with the mail in the first language stored in the storage means by the mail storage program, the transmitted mail is returned as it is and does not need to be translated. In addition, mistranslation due to re-translation can be prevented.

[0019]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a schematic configuration of a mail translation device according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, a mail translating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a personal computer 10 connected to a general telephone public line (hereinafter, simply referred to as a public line) and a display installed on the personal computer 10. Monitor 50 and a keyboard 60.

The main body 10 of the personal computer has
The apparatus includes a CPU 20 serving as a mail receiving unit, a first mail translating unit, a second mail translating unit, and a mail replying unit for controlling the entire apparatus, and a storage device such as a hard disk 30.

The hard disk 30 has a line connection program 31 for connecting the personal computer 10 and the public line to receive mail from the public line, a mail reception program 32 which is a mail reception program and a mail storage program, and a received mail. Incoming mail storage area 33 as a mail storage means, an English-Japanese translation program 34 as a first mail translation program, a Japanese-English translation program 35 as a second mail translation program, Mail description program 3 for describing
6, a reference mail storage area 37 for storing a reference mail, a reply mail to be edited, and a new mail; and a citation insertion program 38 for inserting the translated contents of the received mail into the translated reply mail. Outgoing mail storage area 40 for storing the mail described by the quote replacing program 39 and the mail description program 36
And a mail transmission program 41 which is a mail reply program for transmitting mails existing in the transmission mail storage area 40, and a line disconnection program 42 for disconnecting a line from the public line.

In the present embodiment, the hard disk 30 is provided inside the personal computer 10, but may be connected outside the personal computer 10.

The program stored in the hard disk 30 may be stored in a storage element such as a read-only ROM or a readable / writable RAM.

Next, the flow of the mail translation processing program according to the present embodiment will be described.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the flow of a mail translation processing program according to the present embodiment.
It is a figure showing the example of a display of the mail reference screen of the mail translation device in this embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display example of a reply mail creation screen of the mail translator according to the present embodiment. FIG. 5 is a table showing a mail transmission confirmation screen of the mail translator according to the present embodiment. It is a figure showing an example.

In the present embodiment, the translation from English to Japanese will be described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to this. It can be applied to e-mail translation in any language such as Japanese to French.

In FIG. 2, first, when the user activates the mail translating apparatus, the personal computer body 10 is connected to the public line (step 21 <hereinafter, step is referred to as S).
The other steps are also similar>). Usually, it is connected to a mail server existing in an Internet service company called a provider, that is, a system provided for managing mail. Then, the mail translation processing program of the present embodiment executes Step 2 unless the user operates it.
The determinations from 2 to S24 are repeatedly executed as a main routine (S22: No, S23: No, S2
4: No). That is, in S22, it is determined whether or not the user checks the mail received via the public line. In S23, it is determined whether to transmit the mail. In S24, a series of mail translations is performed. It is determined whether to end the processing program.

For example, when the user selects "check" for the received mail (S22: Yes), it is checked whether or not there is any mail that has arrived at the user (S22).
26), if the mail does not exist (S26: N)
o), the process returns to S22 of the main routine, and if a mail exists (S26: Yes), after receiving the mail, the mail is stored in the incoming mail storage area 33 (S27),
By checking the header information and the like of the mail, it is determined whether the mail is described in English (S28). S28
When it is determined that the mail is in English (S28:
Yes), the English mail stored in the incoming mail storage area 33 is translated into Japanese (S29).

If the mail is not described in English in S28, that is, if it is determined that the mail is in Japanese (S28: No), the mail is not translated.

If the mail is described in English, the contents of the mail translated into Japanese and the contents of the received mail in English are written in Japanese. The contents of the Japanese sentence mail as it is are stored in the reference mail storage area 37, and the stored contents are displayed on the display monitor 50 (S30). FIG. 3 shows a display example at this time.

In the present embodiment, the contents of the English mail are displayed on the display monitor 50, but need not be displayed.

Next, when the user makes a request to describe a reply mail with respect to the contents of the mail displayed on the display monitor 50 (S 31: Yes), the mail stored in the reference mail storage area 37. In other words, if the received mail is written in English, the contents of the mail translated into Japanese will be converted to the contents of the Japanese mail as it is if the received mail is English. A quotation is specified for this. Specifically, a symbol such as “>” is inserted at the beginning of the line of the mail displayed as shown in FIG.
Then, the user describes and creates a reply mail with respect to the contents of the mail specified in the quote, and the processing for that is executed (S33). Since this process is a normal editing process itself, a detailed description is omitted here.

If the user does not make a request to describe the reply mail in S31 (S31, No),
The process returns to S26 to read the next mail again.

Next, it is determined whether or not the description of the received mail is in English (S34). If it is determined that the description is in English (S34: Yes), a quote exchange process is performed. (S35). Here, the Japanese sentence designated as the quote is replaced with the received original English sentence. In this process, the Japanese-English translation process is not performed, and the incoming mail storage area 33 is used.
, The quotes (for example, “>”) are added to the beginning of each line, and the email with the quotes is stored in the outgoing mail storage area 40.

Then, newly described in S33,
Japanese-English translation processing is performed on the text stored in the reference mail storage area 37 (for example, the text of “Yes, I am in a good mood. Thank you.” In FIG. 4), and the text translated into English is obtained. It is stored in the outgoing mail storage area 40 (S
36). FIG. 5 shows the contents of the mail stored in the outgoing mail storage area 40 at this time.

Next, the contents of the mail stored in the outgoing mail storage area 40 are transmitted as mail via a public telephone public line (S38), and the process returns to S26.

If it is determined in S34 that the description of the received mail is in Japanese (S34:
No), the content of the received Japanese text mail and the content of the Japanese text mail newly described as the reply mail are stored in the outgoing mail storage area 40 as they are, and transmitted via a general telephone public line (S38). .

When the user instructs a simple mail transmission (S23: Yes), a mail description program 36 for newly writing a mail is executed, and the user writes and creates a mail by the program. (S3
7) The e-mail with the description is transmitted via a general telephone public line (S38).

If the user instructs the end of the processing (S24: Yes), the system is terminated after disconnecting the connection to the general telephone public line (S25).

In the present embodiment, the user can read the mail more easily because the received mail described in English displays the original original sentence and the translated Japanese sentence as shown in FIG. be able to.

In this embodiment, the received English-language e-mails are collectively replaced as quotes.
After the English mail is divided into units of one sentence, it may be translated into English and Japanese in units of one sentence, and may be cited as a quotation in units of one sentence. In this case, the correspondence between the English sentence and the Japanese sentence becomes easy, and even if the user divides the quotation part by an arbitrary line, the quotation part exchange processing of S35 can be easily realized.

[0044]

As is clear from the above description, according to the mail translating apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention, the second
When the mail translating means returns a reply mail by the mail reply means, the mail translating means translates the mail in the second language as the reply mail into the mail in the first language, and the mail reply means translates the second mail Replying mail in the first language translated by means, even if you receive mail from overseas, you can easily create reply mail as well as domestic mail, and shorten the time for creating reply mail it can.

According to the mail translating apparatus of the present invention, the mail replying means is a reply mail translated by the second mail translating means together with the mail in the first language stored in the mail storing means. Is transmitted, the transmitted mail is returned as it is, and it is not necessary to translate, and it is possible to prevent mistranslation due to re-translation.

According to a computer-readable recording medium on which the mail translation processing program described in claim 3 is recorded, when the second mail translation program returns a reply mail by the mail reply program, The mail in the second language as mail is translated into the mail in the first language, and the mail reply program returns the mail in the first language translated by the second mail translation program. Even in the case of reception, a reply mail can be easily created in the same manner as a domestic mail, and the time for creating a reply mail can be reduced. In addition, the programs can be provided by being recorded on a recording medium suitable for a mail translator from various recording media such as a floppy disk and a CD-ROM.

Further, according to a computer-readable recording medium on which the mail translation processing program according to claim 4 is recorded, by executing the program using the recording medium, the mail reply program becomes a mail storage program. The reply mail translated by the second mail translation means is returned together with the mail in the first language stored in the storage means, so that the transmitted mail is returned as it is, and it is not necessary to translate. In addition, mistranslation due to re-translation can be prevented. In addition, the above programs are stored on a floppy disk or C
It can be provided by being recorded on a recording medium suitable for a mail translator from various recording media such as a D-ROM.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a mail translation device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a flow of a mail translation processing program according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display example of a mail reference screen of the mail translator according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display example of a reply mail creation screen of the mail translator according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display example of a mail transmission confirmation screen of the mail translation device in the present embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 20 CPU 30 Hard disk 32 Mail receiving program 33 Incoming mail storage area 34 English-Japanese translation program 35 Japanese-English translation program 41 Mail transmission program

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A mail receiving means for receiving a mail in a first language, which is a language of a predetermined country, transmitted via a communication line, and comprising the first language received by the mail receiving means. Mail storage means for storing mail; and first mail for translating the mail in the first language stored in the mail storage means into mail in a second language other than the first language. A mail translating device comprising: a mail translating means; and a mail replying means for returning a reply mail to the mail in the second language translated by the first mail translating means. A second mail translating means for translating the reply mail in the second language into a mail in the first language when replying the reply mail; Mail translation and wherein the reply mail formed of first language which is translated by the mail translation means. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said mail reply means is configured to reply the reply mail translated by said second mail translation means together with the mail in the first language stored in said mail storage means. The e-mail translation device according to claim 1, wherein: 3. A mail receiving program for receiving an e-mail in a first language, which is a language of a predetermined country, transmitted via a communication line, and the first language received by the e-mail receiving program. A mail storage program for storing a mail in a storage unit, and a mail in the first language stored in the storage unit by the mail storage program in a second language other than the first language. An e-mail translation processing program comprising: a first e-mail translation program for translating into e-mail; and an e-mail reply program for replying to the e-mail in the second language translated by the first e-mail translation program In the recorded computer-readable recording medium, the return by the mail return program When replying the mail, the mail of a second language as a reply mail with a second mail translation program to translate the mail made of a first language, is translated by the second mail translator 1
A computer-readable recording medium on which a mail translation processing program for returning a mail in a language is recorded. 4. The mail reply program returns a reply mail translated by the second mail translation means together with the mail in the first language stored in the storage means by the mail storage program. A computer-readable recording medium on which the mail translation processing program according to claim 3 is recorded.