Multilingual conversation assist system
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1. A multilingual conversation assist system for assisting a conversation between users of a plurality of languages, comprising:
- a control means prompting a user to select a conversational situation; and
a database comprising a single basic table, storing common conceptual information about at least two languages available for multilingual conversations, a plurality of tables, one table for each of said at least two languages storing language data for conversations in each language, and a plurality of subdatabases, one subdatabase for each of said at least two languages storing data available to a conversation, said single basic table being divided into a word identification number field, an image display file name field, and a conception field, a word identification number in said word identification number field being common among all of said at least two languages as long as a conception of a word is common, the word identification field serving to specify a primary key, each of said subdatabases including an area for storing data for setting a conversational situation, a control section for storing a control program for said control means for reading the setting data of the conversation situation and displaying language units corresponding to the selected conversation situation, and an area for storing language units that are used for said at least two languages,wherein displaying of a language unit is made effective using multimedia so as each language unit may be represented by a graphic image corresponding to a particular language unit, a language unit presented is in a first language, a phonetic expression of said language unit in second language, and voice output activation corresponding to the language unit presented in the second language.
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A multilingual conversation database has subdatabases set according to a combination of languages different from each other for use in a conversation. Each of the subdatabases has a first area for setting a conversational situation and a second area for storing units of languages likely to be used for respective situations; if the situation in the first area is selected, a language unit in the second area corresponding to the situation is displayed. A multilingual conversation system comprises the multilingual conversation database and a communication facility into which the database is downloaded.
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1. A multilingual conversation assist system for assisting a conversation between users of a plurality of languages, comprising:
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a control means prompting a user to select a conversational situation; and a database comprising a single basic table, storing common conceptual information about at least two languages available for multilingual conversations, a plurality of tables, one table for each of said at least two languages storing language data for conversations in each language, and a plurality of subdatabases, one subdatabase for each of said at least two languages storing data available to a conversation, said single basic table being divided into a word identification number field, an image display file name field, and a conception field, a word identification number in said word identification number field being common among all of said at least two languages as long as a conception of a word is common, the word identification field serving to specify a primary key, each of said subdatabases including an area for storing data for setting a conversational situation, a control section for storing a control program for said control means for reading the setting data of the conversation situation and displaying language units corresponding to the selected conversation situation, and an area for storing language units that are used for said at least two languages, wherein displaying of a language unit is made effective using multimedia so as each language unit may be represented by a graphic image corresponding to a particular language unit, a language unit presented is in a first language, a phonetic expression of said language unit in second language, and voice output activation corresponding to the language unit presented in the second language. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A multilingual conversation assist system for assisting a conversation between users of a plurality of languages, comprising:
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control means for prompting a user to select a conversational situation; a database storing common conceptual information about at least two languages available for multilingual conversations, said database including a single basic table storing a common conception of language to each of the languages, said single basic table being divided into a word identification number field, an image display file name field, and a conception field, a word identification number in said word identification number field being common among all of said at least two languages as long as a conception of a word is common, the word identification field serving to specify a primary key, a plurality of tables for storing language data for conversations in each language, and a plurality of subdatabases for each pair of possible combination of languages available for multilingual conversation, each said subdatabase containing an area for storing data for setting a conversational situation, said area including a second-stage option table and a second-stage option query which includes a language unit connection field of the second-stage option table to indicate whether or not a next language is present; and display means for displaying language units corresponding to selected conversation situation, wherein said control means accesses said database and controls said display means to display each language unit as a graphic image corresponding to a particular language unit, a language unit presented in a first language, a phonetic expression of said language unit is a second language, and voice output activation corresponding to the language unit in the second language. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17)
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