Multilingual Translation Database System and An Establishing Method Therefor

• US 20090094017A1
• Filed: 12/11/2008
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology
• Original Assignee: National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology
• Inventors: Chiang, Chuan-Wen, Chang, Cheng-Sung, Chen, Shing-Lung
• Application Number:
  US12/332,453
• Publication Number:
  US 20090094017A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/45 Example-based machine translation; Alignment

Abstract

A method for building a multilingual translation database system includes the steps of: providing a plurality of multilingual sentence pairs or multilingual sentence-fragment pairs in a translation database, each of the multilingual sentence pairs or the multilingual sentence-fragment pairs formed with a source language and a target language; selecting repeated sentence structures or repeated sentence fragments from the multilingual sentence pairs or the multilingual sentence-fragment pairs; and defining or qualifying at least one repeated key sentence or key sentence fragment of the repeated sentence structures or the repeated key sentence-fragment structures with a predetermined degree of repeat frequency.

Claims

1. An establishing method for a multilingual translation database system, comprising the steps of:

collecting multilingual texts via Internet by using an agent system, wherein the multilingual texts contain a plurality of multilingual sentence pairs or multilingual sentence-fragment pairs, each of the multilingual sentence pairs or the multilingual sentence-fragment pairs formed with a source language and a target language;

converting the multilingual texts from a first format to a second format;

classifying the multilingual texts according to particular or predetermined fields;

analyzing the classified multilingual texts to select multilingual sentence pairs or multilingual sentence-fragment pairs from the classified multilingual texts, and to define a set of repeated key sentences or key sentence fragments of the repeated sentence structures or the repeated key sentence-fragment structures with a predetermined degree of repeat frequency;

revising the repeated key sentences or the key sentence fragments;

adding the repeated key sentences or the key sentence fragments to the translation database; and

testing the translation database to check the correctness of the repeated key sentences or the key sentence fragments.

2. A method for building a multilingual translation database system, comprising the steps of:

providing a plurality of multilingual sentence pairs or multilingual sentence-fragment pairs in a translation database, each of the multilingual sentence pairs or the multilingual sentence-fragment pairs formed with a source language and a target language;

selecting repeated sentence structures or repeated sentence fragments from the multilingual sentence pairs or the multilingual sentence-fragment pairs;

defining at least one repeated key sentence or key sentence fragment of the repeated sentence structures or the repeated key sentence-fragment structures with a predetermined degree of repeat frequency.

3. The method as defined in claim 2, further comprising the step of:

collecting the multilingual sentence pairs or the multilingual sentence-fragment pairs via Internet by using a computer program.

4. The method as defined in claim 2, further comprising the step of:

converting a first format of the multilingual sentence pairs or the multilingual sentence-fragment pairs into a second format by using recognition software.

5. The method as defined in claim 2, further comprising the step of:

revising the repeated key sentence or the repeated key sentence fragment, and adding the repeated key sentence or the repeated key sentence fragment to the translation database.

6. A multilingual translation database system, comprising:

a translation database;

a plurality of multilingual sentence pairs or multilingual sentence-fragment pairs provided in the translation database;

a plurality of repeated sentence structures or repeated sentence-fragment structures selected from the multilingual sentence pairs or the multilingual sentence-fragment pairs;

a plurality of repeated key sentences or repeated key sentence fragments retrieved from the repeated sentence structures or the repeated sentence-fragment structures;

wherein each of the repeated key sentences or the repeated key sentence fragments has a predetermined degree of repeat frequency.

7. The multilingual translation database system as defined in claim 6, wherein the multilingual sentence pairs or the multilingual sentence-fragment pairs are collected via Internet by using a computer program.

8. The multilingual translation database system as defined in claim 6, wherein the multilingual sentence pairs or the multilingual sentence-fragment pairs are converted from a first format of into a second format by using recognition software.

9. The multilingual translation database system as defined in claim 6, wherein the repeated key sentences or the repeated key sentence fragments are revised and added to the translation database.