Machine translation system, machine translation method, and storage medium storing program for executing machine translation method

• US 20010029443A1
• Filed: 03/26/2001
• Published: 10/11/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Miyahira, Tomohiro
• Application Number:
  US09/818,360
• Publication Number:
  US 20010029443A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/242 Dictionaries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/268 Morphological analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/55 Rule-based translation

Abstract

A first aspect of the present invention provides a machine translation system comprising: input means for inputting an original text in a first language to be translated; translation processing means for performing translation processing, including parsing, on the inputted original text and generating a translation in a second language; dictionary storage means for storing various dictionaries for use in said translation processing; and output means for outputting said translation; wherein said translation processing means creates new phrase structure rules by synthesizing related phrase structure rules during said parsing and generates said translation based on said new phrase structure rules. A second aspect of the present invention provides a machine translation method comprising the steps of: inputting an original text in a first language to be translated; performing translation processing, including parsing, on the inputted original text with reference to a given dictionary to generate a translation in a second language; and outputting said translation; wherein said translation processing step creates new phrase structure rules by synthesizing related phrase structure rules during said parsing and generates said translation based on said new phrase structure rules. A third aspect of the present invention provides a computer-readable program storage medium which stores a program for performing the machine translation method of the second aspect.

Claims

1. A machine translation system comprising:

input means for inputting an original text in a first language to be translated;

translation processing means for performing translation processing, including parsing, on the inputted original text to generate a translated text in a second language;

dictionary storage means for storing various dictionaries for use in said translation processing; and

output means for outputting said translated text, wherein said translation processing means creates new phrase structure rules by synthesizing related phrase structure rules during said parsing and generates said translation based on said new phrase structure rules.

2. The machine translation system according to

claim 1

, wherein said related phrase structure rules contain an overlapping word.

3. The machine translation system according to

claim 2

, wherein two phrase structure rules of said first language and said second language are synthesized if the beginning of one of the phrase structure rules of said first language coincides with the end of the other phrase structure rule and if the beginning of one of the corresponding phrase structure rules of said second language coincides with the end of the other phrase structure rule.

4. The machine translation system according to

claim 1

, wherein said related phrase structure rules are accompanied by a coordinate conjunction.

5. The machine translation system according to

claim 4

, wherein if a rule matches either side of the coordinate conjunction, a part of the rule is added to the other side of the coordinate conjunction to check for a matching rule, and if there exists said matching rule, a rule joined by the coordinate conjunction is newly created.

6. A machine translation method comprising the steps of:

inputting an original text in a first language to be translated;

performing translation processing, including parsing, on the inputted original text with reference to a given dictionary to generate a translation in a second language; and

outputting said translation, wherein said translation processing step creates new phrase structure rules by synthesizing related phrase structure rules during said parsing and generates said translation based on said new phrase structure rules.

7. The machine translation method according to

claim 6

, wherein said related phrase structure rules contain an overlapping word.

8. The machine translation method according to

claim 7

, wherein two phrase structure rules of said first language and said second language are synthesized if the beginning of one of the phrase structure rules of said first language coincides with the end of the other phrase structure rule and if the beginning of one of the corresponding phrase structure rules of said second language coincides with the end of the other phrase structure rule.

9. The machine translation method according to

claim 6

, wherein said related phrase structure rules are accompanied by a coordinate conjunction.

10. The machine translation method according to

claim 9

, wherein if a rule matches either side of the coordinate conjunction, a part of the rule is added to the other side of the coordinate conjunction to check for a matching rule, and if there exists said matching rule, a rule joined by the coordinate conjunction is newly created.

11. A computer-readable program storage medium which stores a program for executing a machine translation method comprising the steps of:

inputting an original text in a first language to be translated;

performing translation processing, including parsing, on the inputted original text with reference to a given dictionary to generate a translation in a second language; and

outputting said translation, wherein said translation processing step creates new phrase structure rules by synthesizing related phrase structure rules during said parsing and generates said translation based on said new phrase structure rules.

12. The computer-readable program storage medium according to

claim 11

, wherein said related phrase structure rules contain an overlapping word.

13. The computer-readable program storage medium according to

claim 12

, wherein two phrase structure rules of said first language and said second language are synthesized if the beginning of one of the phrase structure rules of said first language coincides with the end of the other phrase structure rule and if the beginning of one of the corresponding phrase structure rules of said second language coincides with the end of the other phrase structure rule.

14. The computer-readable program storage medium according to

claim 11

, wherein said related phrase structure rules are accompanied by a coordinate conjunction.

15. The computer-readable program storage medium according to

claim 14

, wherein if a rule matches either side of the coordinate conjunction, a part of the rule is added to the other side of the coordinate conjunction to check for a matching rule, and if there exists said matching rule, a rule joined by the coordinate conjunction is newly created.