Document preparation method and machine translation device

• US 6,691,279 B2
• Filed: 05/29/1998
• Issued: 02/10/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Tumbleweed Holdings LLC (Equitable IP Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoden, Naoyuki, Yumura, Takeshi, Ohi, Kouzou
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen S.
• Application Number:
  US09/077,431
• Publication Number:
  US 20020007383A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,083 Days
• Field of Search: 707/501, 707/513, 707/515, 707/516, 707/523, 707/532, 704/1, 704/2-10, 345/340, 345/171, 715/501.1, 715/513, 715/516, 715/523, 715/532
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/137 Hierarchical processing, e.g. outlines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/242 Dictionaries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/47 Machine-assisted translation, e.g. using translation memory
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/55 Rule-based translation

Abstract

A method for processing a document wherein, on the transmission side, information is stored in the document for specifying an element of the document whose contents should be changed if necessary according to the conditions of a communication destination. A document processed according to the conditions of the transmission side is analyzed to extract the element of the document to be changed, and information indicating that the extracted element is the element whose contents are to be changed is attached to the extracted element and a document transmission is made. On the receiving side, information is stored for specifying an element whose contents should be changed if necessary according to the conditions of the receiving side and corrective information included with the contents is stored, so that the received document is analyzed and the element is extracted, and based on the stored corrective information the contents of the extracted element are changed according to the communication destination conditions. Furthermore, a machine translation apparatus is included which processes an HTML document that includes hyperlinks between translated sentences, words, etc. and the corresponding original sentences, words, etc. and/or the corresponding dictionary data.

Claims

1. A machine translation apparatus for generating a translated document by analyzing an original set of text while referring to a dictionary data base including at least one selected word suitable for constituting a translation from an original word, comprising:

a link document generator generating a document including a link between at least one original word and at least one translated word;

a display displaying a part of the original set of text and a part of the translated document; and

a display control accepting input for designating at least one translated word and at least one original word, wherein upon receiving input designating the at least one translated word, the display control causes the display to display a part of the original set of text including at least one original word which the designated, translated word is a translation from, and upon receiving input designating the at least one original word, the display control causes the display to display a part of the translated document including at least one translated word which is a translation from the designated original word.

2. The machine translation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the document contains a link between the at least one original word and dictionary data corresponding to the at least one original word;

the display displays the at least one original word and the dictionary data corresponding to the at least one original word; and

the display control accepts input for designating at least one original word, wherein upon receiving input designating the at least one original word the display control causes the display to display the dictionary data corresponding to the at least one original word.

3. The machine translation apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the display control causes the display to display the at least one original word designated as input to the display control and the at least one corresponding translated word, or the display control causes the display to display the at least one original word designated as input to the display control and the corresponding dictionary data, by dividing the display viewing area into at least two separate regions.

4. A method for generating a translated document by analyzing an original set of text in a first language while referring to a dictionary database including at least one selected word suitable for constituting a translation from an original word, comprising the steps of:

generating a document that includes a link between at least one original word or phrase and at least one translated word or phrase; and

displaying a part of the original set of text and a part of the translated document,

wherein input is accepted for selecting at least one translated word or phrase in order to display a part of the original set of text including original word or phrase which the selected, translated word or phrase is a translation from, and input is accepted for selecting at least one original word or phrase in order to display a part of the translated document including at least one translated word or phrase which is a translation from the selected original word or phrase.

5. The method for generating a translated document according to claim 4, wherein the document contains a link between the at least one original word and dictionary data corresponding to the at least one original word or phrase.

6. The method for generating a translated document according to claim 4, further comprising the step of displaying the at least one original word or phrase and its corresponding dictionary data.

7. The method for generating a translated document according to claim 4, further comprising the step of accepting input for selecting at least one original word or phrase in order to display its corresponding dictionary data.

8. The method for generating a translated document according to claim 4, further comprising the step of displaying the at least one selected original or translated word or phrase and the at least one corresponding translated word in a divided viewing area, wherein the divided viewing area is divided into at least two viewing regions.

9. The method for generating a translated document according to claim 4, further comprising the step of displaying the at least one selected original word or phrase and the at least one corresponding dictionary data in a divided viewing area, wherein the divided viewing area is divided into at least two viewing regions.