Translation machine

• US 5,329,446 A
• Filed: 01/14/1991
• Issued: 07/12/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• 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, Sata, Ichiko, Fukumochi, Yoji, Hirai, Tokuyuki, Kugimiya, Shuzo
• Primary Examiner(s): Envall, Jr., Roy N.
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHUNG TRANS, XUONG MY
• Application Number:
  US07/641,732
• Time in Patent Office: 1,275 Days
• Field of Search: 364/419, 364/419.02, 364/419.04, 364/419.05
• US Class Current: 704/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/55 Rule-based translation

Abstract

A translation machine capable of translating one or more sentences described in a source language into a target language, the translation machine having a storing unit which stores dictionaries and predetermined rules, the translation machine includes unit for dividing a sentence described in the source language into morphologic elements so as to analyze a syntax structure of each of the morphologic elements in accordance with the dictionaries and the predetermined rules, a unit connected to the dividing unit for converting the syntax structure of the source language into a syntax structure of the target language so as to generate a translated sentence in the target language on a basis of the syntax structure of the target language, and a unit connected to the converting unit for moduling a result of the translated sentence generated by the generating unit so as to create a user dictionary.

Claims

1. A translation machine capable of translating one or more sentences described in a source language into a target language, said translation machine having a storing unit which stores dictionaries and predetermined rules, said translation machine comprising:

means for dividing a sentence described in said source language into morphologic elements so as to analyze a syntax structure of each of said morphologic elements in accordance with said dictionaries and said predetermined rules; and

means connected to said dividing means for converting said syntax structure of said source language into a syntax structure of said target language so as to generate a resultant translated sentence in said target language on a basis of said syntax structure of said target language;

said dividing means including

a determining means for determining whether or not a character located at a proper spot of the character series composing said target language equivalent is a pre-specified one and

a presuming means for presuming the inflection of the translated word depending on the predetermined rules based on the determining result output by said determining means and for registering a presumed result in a user dictionary.

2. A translation machine according to claim 1, wherein each of said morphologic elements has an information which includes a title, a part of speech an inflection and a translated sentence equivalent to each of said morphologic elements, and a part of speech and an inflection of said translated sentence.

3. A translation machine according to claim 1, wherein said source language is English and said target language is Japanese.

10. A translation machine according to claim 1, wherein said determining means determines whether the last character or the second character from the last of a said character series is a pre-specified character when said target language equivalent is a verb for registration as a new word in the user dictionary.

4. A translation machine capable of translating one or more sentences described in a source language into a target language, said translation machine having a translation module linked with a storing unit which stores dictionaries, a user dictionary, grammatical rules and tree structure converting rules, said translation machine comprising:

means for dividing a sentence described in said source language into morphologic elements so as to obtain information of each of said morphologic elements in accordance with said dictionaries and said user dictionary;

means connected to said dividing means for analyzing a syntax structure of each of said morphologic elements obtained by said dividing means in accordance with said dictionaries and said grammatical rules;

means connected to said analyzing means for converting said syntax structure obtained by said analyzing means into a syntax structure of said target language; and

means connected to said converting means for generating a translated sentence in said target language on a basis of said syntax structure of said target language obtained by said converting means,

said dividing means including a means for determining whether or not a predetermined symbol is assigned to said translated sentence corresponding to a title comprising one or more of said morphologic elements in said user dictionary.

5. A translation machine according to claim 4, wherein said dividing means further includes a means for outputting said title of each of said morphologic elements as said translated sentence in a case that said predetermined symbol is assigned as said translated sentence equivalent to each of said morphological elements.

6. A translation machine according to claim 5, wherein said output means serves to output a title of said English word or phase converted into said English word or phrase on a basis of JIS code.

7. A translation machine according to claim 4, wherein said information of said each of morphologic elements obtained in said dividing means includes a title, a part of speech, an inflection and a translated sentence equivalent to each of said morphologic elements, and a part of speech and an inflection of said translated sentence.

8. A translation machine according to claim 7, wherein said source language is English and said target language is Japanese.

9. A translation machine according to claim 8, wherein said user dictionary serves to register said Japanese equivalent to English word or phrase on a basis of ASCII code having said predetermined symbol.