Apparatus, system, method, and computer program product for resolving ambiguities in translations
First Claim
1. A machine translation apparatus comprising:
- a document receiving unit configured to receive an input of a source language document described in a source language;
a first translating unit configured to translate the source language document into a translated document described in a target language in a first translation process, and to identify a document ambiguous portion that is a word or a sentence, for which a plurality of candidate translations occurs during the first translation process;
a storing unit configured to store the translated document and the document ambiguous portion;
a speech receiving unit configured to receive a speech in the source language;
a recognition unit configured to recognize the speech received by the speech receiving unit and to create text of a source language speech sentence as a recognition result;
a second translating unit configured to translate the text of the source language speech sentence into the target language;
an extracting unit configured to extract a source language document sentence relating to the source language speech sentence from the source language document;
an updating unit configured to;
select, when the extracted source language document sentence includes the document ambiguous portion, a translated portion of the source language speech sentence corresponding to the document ambiguous portion of the extracted source language document sentence, the translated portion of the source language speech sentence being obtained by a type of ambiguity identification that is the same type of ambiguity identification as was used in the first translation process that identified the document ambiguous portion;
retranslate the source language document using the selected translated portion of the source language speech sentence, and the extracted source language document sentence relating to the source language speech sentence; and
update the translated document stored in the storing unit using the retranslated source language document; and
a display control unit configured to display the updated translated document on a display unit.
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Abstract
A machine translation apparatus includes a translating unit that translates a source language document into a translated document described in a target language, and creates an ambiguous portion that is a word or a sentence having an ambiguity occurred during translation; a storing unit that stores the translated document and the ambiguous portion; a speech receiving unit that receives a speech in the source language; a recognition unit that recognizes the speech received and creates a source language speech sentence as a recognition result; a translation updating unit that updates the translated language document by retranslating a part of a speech content of the source language speech sentence to which the ambiguous portion corresponds, when the source language document includes the ambiguous portion; and a display control unit that displays the updated translated document on a display unit.
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11 Claims
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1. A machine translation apparatus comprising:
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a document receiving unit configured to receive an input of a source language document described in a source language; a first translating unit configured to translate the source language document into a translated document described in a target language in a first translation process, and to identify a document ambiguous portion that is a word or a sentence, for which a plurality of candidate translations occurs during the first translation process; a storing unit configured to store the translated document and the document ambiguous portion; a speech receiving unit configured to receive a speech in the source language; a recognition unit configured to recognize the speech received by the speech receiving unit and to create text of a source language speech sentence as a recognition result; a second translating unit configured to translate the text of the source language speech sentence into the target language; an extracting unit configured to extract a source language document sentence relating to the source language speech sentence from the source language document; an updating unit configured to; select, when the extracted source language document sentence includes the document ambiguous portion, a translated portion of the source language speech sentence corresponding to the document ambiguous portion of the extracted source language document sentence, the translated portion of the source language speech sentence being obtained by a type of ambiguity identification that is the same type of ambiguity identification as was used in the first translation process that identified the document ambiguous portion; retranslate the source language document using the selected translated portion of the source language speech sentence, and the extracted source language document sentence relating to the source language speech sentence; and update the translated document stored in the storing unit using the retranslated source language document; and a display control unit configured to display the updated translated document on a display unit. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A machine translation system comprising:
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a display apparatus that displays a source language document described in a source language; and a machine translation apparatus that translates the source language document into a translated document described in a target language as a translation result, and that is connected to the display apparatus via a network, wherein the machine translation apparatus includes; a document receiving unit that receives an input of the source language document; a first translating unit that translates the source language document into the translated document in a first translation process and identifies a document ambiguous portion that is a word or a sentence, for which a plurality of candidate translations occurs during the first translation process; a storing unit that stores the translated document and the document ambiguous portion; a speech receiving unit that receives a speech in the source language; a recognition unit that recognizes the speech received by the speech receiving unit and creates text of a source language speech sentence as a recognition result; a second translating unit that translates the text of the source language speech sentence into a translated sentence described in the target language; an extracting unit that extracts a source language document sentence relating to the source language speech sentence from the source language document; an updating unit that, when the extracted source language document sentence includes the document ambiguous portion; selects a translated portion of the source language speech sentence corresponding to the document ambiguous portion of the extracted source language document sentence, the translated portion of the source language speech sentence being obtained by a type of ambiguity identification that is the same type of ambiguity identification as was used in the first translation process that identified the document ambiguous portion; retranslates the source language document using the selected translated portion of the source language speech sentence, and the extracted source language document sentence relating to the source language speech sentence; and updates the translated document stored in the storing unit using the retranslated source language document; a first display control unit that displays the updated translated document on a first display unit; and a transmitting unit that transmits the document ambiguous portion stored in the storing unit to the display apparatus, wherein the display apparatus includes; a receiving unit that receives the document ambiguous portion from the machine translation apparatus; and a second display control unit that displays the source language document on a second display unit, the source language document including information for indicating occurrence of the document ambiguous portion where the ambiguity occurs based on the document ambiguous portion received by the receiving unit.
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10. A machine translation method comprising:
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receiving, by a document receiving unit configured to receive, an input of a source language document described in a source language; first-translating, by a first translating unit configured to translate, the source language document into a translated document described in a target language in a first translation process, and identifying a document an ambiguous portion that is a word or a sentence, for which a plurality of candidate translations occurs during the first translation process; storing, by a storing unit configured to store, the translated document and the document ambiguous portion in the storing unit; receiving, by a speech receiving unit configured to receive, a speech in the source language; recognizing, by a recognition unit configured to recognize, the speech and creating text of a source language speech sentence as a recognition result; second-translating, by a second translating unit configured to translate, the text of the source language speech sentence into a translated document sentence described in the target language; extracting, by an extracting unit configured to extract, a source language document sentence relating to the source language speech sentence from the source language document; selecting a translated portion of the source language speech sentence corresponding to the document ambiguous portion of the extracted source language document sentence, the translated portion of the source language speech sentence being obtained by a type of ambiguity identification that is the same as the type of ambiguity identification as was used in first translation process that identified the document ambiguous portion; retranslating the source language document using the selected translated portion of the source language speech sentence, and the extracted source language document sentence relating to the source language speech sentence; updating the translated document stored in the storing unit using the retranslated source language document; and displaying, by a display control unit configured to display, the updated translated document on a display unit.
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11. A computer program product having a non-transitory computer readable medium including programmed instructions for machine translation, wherein the instructions, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform:
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receiving an input of a source language document described in a source language; first-translating the source language document into a translated document described in a target language in a first translation process, and identifying a document ambiguous portion that is a word or a sentence, for which a plurality of candidate translations occurs during the first translation process; storing the translated document and the document ambiguous portion in a storing unit; receiving a speech in the source language; recognizing the speech and creating text of a source language speech sentence as a recognition result; second-translating the text of the source language speech sentence into a translated sentence described in the target language; extracting a source language document sentence relating to the source language speech sentence from the source language document; selecting a translated portion of the source language speech sentence corresponding to the document ambiguous portion of the extracted source language document sentence, the translated portion of the source language speech sentence being obtained by a type of ambiguity identification that is the same type of ambiguity identification as was used in the first translation process that identified the document ambiguous portion; retranslating the source language document using the selected translated portion of the source language speech sentence, and the extracted source language document sentence relating to the source language speech sentence; updating the translated document stored in the storing unit using the obtained retranslation of the source language document; and displaying the retranslated document on a display unit.
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