Automatic translating machine
First Claim
1. An automatic translating machine, comprising:
- analyzing means for producing a plurality of parsing trees possible for a sentence in a prescribed first language;
means for producing translated sentences in a prescribed second language different from said first language, based on the parsing trees produced by said analyzing means in said first language;
manually operable means for designating an arbitrary first constituent in the sentence in said first language;
manually operable first selection means for selecting an arbitrary one of a plurality of second constituents of said sentence in the first language, each second constituent including said first constituent,said second constituent being analyzed into a plurality of parsing subtrees by said analyzing means, wherein each parsing subtree represents a different interpretation of said second constituent as a result of an ambiguity present in the translated sentences from the sentence in said first language; and
manually operable second selection means or selecting an arbitrary one of a plurality of constituents of a translated sentence in said second language produced by said producing means form the plurality of parsing subtrees corresponding to said selected second constituent.
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Abstract
An automatic translating machine includes a module for producing a plurality kinds of parsing trees possible for a sentence in a first language, a module for producing translated sentences in a second language based on the parsing trees, a device for designating an arbitrary word in the sentence in the first language, and a first selection device for selecting arbitrary one of a plurality of constituents of the sentence in the first language each including the word such as a verbal phrase and a noun phrase. A verbal phrase and a noun phrase can be analyzed into a plurality of subtrees due to ambiguity present in a sentence in the first language. The automatic translating machine further includes a device for selecting arbitrary one of a plurality kinds of constituents of a translated sentence in the second language (such as a verbal phrase and a noun phrase in the second language) produced based on each of the plurality of subtrees of the parsing tree corresponding to the selected constituent.
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1. An automatic translating machine, comprising:
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analyzing means for producing a plurality of parsing trees possible for a sentence in a prescribed first language; means for producing translated sentences in a prescribed second language different from said first language, based on the parsing trees produced by said analyzing means in said first language; manually operable means for designating an arbitrary first constituent in the sentence in said first language; manually operable first selection means for selecting an arbitrary one of a plurality of second constituents of said sentence in the first language, each second constituent including said first constituent, said second constituent being analyzed into a plurality of parsing subtrees by said analyzing means, wherein each parsing subtree represents a different interpretation of said second constituent as a result of an ambiguity present in the translated sentences from the sentence in said first language; and manually operable second selection means or selecting an arbitrary one of a plurality of constituents of a translated sentence in said second language produced by said producing means form the plurality of parsing subtrees corresponding to said selected second constituent. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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