Translation apparatus and method
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1. A translation apparatus for translating article information in a first language including an article body and a related headline into a second language, comprising:
- a decision unit configured to discriminately identify the article body and the headline;
a phrase alignment processing unit configured to respectively extract a noun phrase from the headline and a noun phrase candidate from a head sentence of the article body, to count coincident words between the noun phrase and the noun phrase candidate, and to output the noun phrase and the noun phrase candidate as a phrase alignment result if a coincidence ratio based on the counted value is above a threshold; and
a translation unit configured to translate the article body and the headline into the second language based on the phrase alignment result.
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Abstract
A translation apparatus translates article information in a first language including an article body and a related headline as a summary of the article body. A decision unit discriminately identifies the article body and the headline in the article information. A translation unit respectively translates the article body and the headline into a second language based on identification result of the decision unit.
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1. A translation apparatus for translating article information in a first language including an article body and a related headline into a second language, comprising:
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a decision unit configured to discriminately identify the article body and the headline; a phrase alignment processing unit configured to respectively extract a noun phrase from the headline and a noun phrase candidate from a head sentence of the article body, to count coincident words between the noun phrase and the noun phrase candidate, and to output the noun phrase and the noun phrase candidate as a phrase alignment result if a coincidence ratio based on the counted value is above a threshold; and a translation unit configured to translate the article body and the headline into the second language based on the phrase alignment result. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A translation method for translating article information in a first language including an article body and a related headline into a second language, comprising:
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discriminately identifying the article body and the headline; respectively extracting a noun phrase from the headline and a noun phrase candidate from a head sentence of the article body; counting coincident words between the noun phrase and the noun phrase candidate; outputting the noun phrase and the noun phrase candidate as a phrase alignment result if a coincidence ratio based on the counted value is above a threshold; and translating the article body and the headline into the second language based on the phrase alignment result. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A computer program product, comprising a computer readable program code embodied in said product for causing a computer to translate article information in a first language including an article body and a related headline into a second language, said computer readable program code having:
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a first program code to discriminately identify the article body and the headline; a second program code to respectively extract a noun phrase from the headline, and a noun phrase candidate from a head sentence of the article body; a third program code to count coincident words between the noun phrase and the noun phrase candidate; a fourth program code to output the noun phrase and the noun phrase candidate as a phrase alignment result if a coincidence ratio based on the counted value is above a threshold; and a fifth program code to translate the article body and the headline into the second language based on the phrase alignment result.
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