Machine translation system

• US 4,805,132 A
• Filed: 08/19/1986
• Issued: 02/14/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Okamoto, Toshio, Takeda, Kimihito
• Primary Examiner(s): Shaw, Gareth D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kriess, Kevin A.
• Application Number:
  US06/898,017
• Time in Patent Office: 910 Days
• Field of Search: 364/200 MS File, 364/900 MS File, 364/419, 340/716, 340/717, 340/721, 340/709, 340/706, 340/720
• US Class Current: 704/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/211 Syntactic parsing, e.g. based on context-free grammar [CFG] or unification grammars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/55 Rule-based translation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation

Abstract

A machine translation system has an input section, an original storage section for storing an original sentence input by the input section, a dictionary section storing linguistical information necessary for translation processing, a translation processing section for obtaining a translated sentence from the original sentence with reference to the linguistical information, a translation storage section for storing the translated sentence, a display section for displaying the original and translated sentences on predetermined display regions, respectively, and an edit processing section for performing edit processing for the original and translated sentences displayed on the display section. The edit processing section detects position information of information input by the input section, which indicates an input position on a display screen, and discriminates whether or not the position information corresponds to a predetermined new input region on which a newly input original sentence is displayed. When the position information corresponds to the new input region, the edit processing section stores the input original sentence in the original storage section.

Claims

1. A machine translation system comprising:

input means for inputting at least character string information and control information;

original storage means for storing an original sentence consisting of the character string information input by said input means, said original storage means including a new input buffer for temporarily storing a new input;

dictionary means for storing linguistical information necessary for translation processing of the original sentence;

translation processing means for obtaining a translated sentence consisting of character string information from the original sentence stored in said original storage means with reference to the linguistical information stored in said dictionary means;

translation storage means for storing the translated sentence;

display means for displaying the original and translated sentences at predetermined display regions, respectively; and

edit processing means for performing edit processing for the original and translation displayed on said display means in accordance with information input by said input means,

said edit processing means including;

position detecting means for detecting position information substantially representing an input position of information input by said input means on a display screen of said display means;

region discriminating means for discriminating whether or not the position information corresponds to a predetermined new input region which is within the region of the display screen of said display means where the original sentence is to be displayed and which is not used for displaying any character;

storage control means for storing the information input by said input means in the new input buffer of said original storage means when the position information corresponds to the new input region; and

editing means for editing the original sentence or the translated sentence displayed by said display means in the display region designated by the position information, when said position information corresponds to an input region other than the predetermined new input region.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein said display means has a display screen on which a cursor is moved to a position where input data will be displayed, and said detecting means detects the position of the cursor on the display screen.

3. A system according to claim 1, wherein said region discriminating means comprises means for discriminating, as the new input region, a region which is within the region of the display screen of said display means where the original sentence is to be displayed and which excludes a line or lines where the original sentence has already been input.

4. A system according to claim 1, wherein said display means includes means for displaying the original and translated sentences on original and translation display regions on the display screen, respectively.

5. A system according to claim 1, further comprising means for displaying information indicating the progress of translation processing by said translation processing means on a predetermined region of said display means.

6. A machine translation system comprising:

input means for inputting at least character string information and control information;

original storage means for storing an original sentence consisting of the character string information input by said input means;

dictionary means for storing linguistical information necessary for translation processing of the original sentence;

translation processing means for obtaining a translated sentence consisting of character string information from the original sentence stored in said original storage means with reference to the linguistical information stored in said dictionary means;

translation storage means for storing the translated sentence;

display means for displaying the original and translated sentences at predetermined display regions, respectively; and

edit processing means, which includes;

(a) position detecting means for detecting position information substantially representing an input position of information input by said input means on a display screen of said display means;

(b) region discriminating means for discriminating whether or not the position information corresponds to a predetermined new input region which is within the region where the original sentence is to be displayed and which is not used for displaying the original sentence already input and (c) storage control means for storing the information sentence input by said input means in said original storage means when the position information corresponds to the new input region.