Translating apparatus

• US 4,774,666 A
• Filed: 05/14/1986
• Issued: 09/27/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Hitoshi, Tokunaga, Shinji, Kugimiya, Shuzo, Takiguchi, Yasuhiro, Asano, Hazime, Miyao, Kouji
• Primary Examiner(s): Shaw, Gareth D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mills, III, John G.
• Application Number:
  US06/863,018
• Time in Patent Office: 867 Days
• Field of Search: 364/200 MS File, 364/900 MS File, 364/300, 364/419, 340/723
• US Class Current: 704/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/211 Syntactic parsing, e.g. based on context-free grammar [CFG] or unification grammars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/247 Thesauruses; Synonyms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/289 Phrasal analysis, e.g. finite state techniques or chunking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/55 Rule-based translation

Abstract

A translating apparatus comprising a synonym display device for displaying synonyms related to a certain translated term in a translated sentence, and a replacing arrangement for replacing the certain translated term with an appropriate synonym selected among the synonyms displayed by the display device, whereby a more suitable translated term or terms can be selected through consultation of a dictionary contained in the apparatus.

Claims

1. An electronic language translator comprising:

memory means for storing character information related to a plurality of terms in a first language and a like plurality of groups of translated terms in a second language, each group including synonyms corresponding to a separate one of the individual terms in said first language;

input means for entering character information constituting a sentence containing individual terms in said first language;

address means responsive to the input means for addressing the memory means to identify the address in said memory means at which selected individual terms are stored;

translator means responsive to said address means for retrieving from said memory means said group of translated terms in said second language corresponding to said individual terms in said first language; and

means for selecting one of said translated terms in said sentence, display means for displaying said synonyms of said selected translated term, and replacing means for replacing a selected translated term with a synonym selected from said synonyms displayed by said display means.