Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Sharp Corporation

Hitoshi Suzuki

Yoji Fukumochi

Shuzo Kugimiya

Ichiko Sata

Tokuyuki Hirai

Shinji Tokunaga

Shinobu Shiotani

Yasuhiro Takiguchi

Kouji Miyao

Syuzo Kugimiya

Hazime Asano

Ichiko Nakamura

Mitsuhiro Hakaridani

Takeshi Kutsumi

Fumio Togawa

Hiroshi Kamada

Takashi Matsui

Yoichi Shimazawa

Noriyuki Koyama

Mikio Osaki

Fusao Makino

Mikio Ohsaki

Kohichi Kakimoto

Yoji Fukumoshi

Yumi Nishida

Tokyuki Hirai

A translation machine is provided with an idiom registering capability. If a header standing for a idiom contains two or more variable parts, these parts are represented by representative symbols. With this representing method, the idiom is allowed to be easily registered and retrieved. This makes it possible to shorten the registering time, reduce the translating toil and prevent increase of information storage capacity. The translation machine includes an input unit, a storing unit, an output unit, an idiom registering unit, and a translating unit for performing a routine translating operation. The idiom registering unit operates to register an idiom header with two or more representative symbols standing for words or word trains sharing a predetermined attribute.

Translation machine having capability of registering idioms

A translation machine is arranged to derive two or more syntaxes from one original sentence, determine which of the syntaxes is the most approximate according to a syntax priority rule given by a user or a manufacturer and output a translated sentence based on the most approximate syntax. The translation machine includes a memory, a translating module and a main CPU as main components. The memory serves to store a partial structure of each syntax and a syntax priority rule containing a numerical value indicating a priority of the partial structure and an incidental condition of the syntax. The translating module serves to collide the syntax priority rule stored in the memory with the syntax of the original sentence and giving a proper evaluating value to the syntax of the original sentence. The main CPU serves to output the translated sentences on the syntaxes derived from the original sentence according to their larger evaluating values.

Translation machine having a function of deriving two or more syntaxes

A translation module applies an original having a sign string inserted through a keyboard to carry out a translation process of the original while interpreting the sign string in the original based on a corresponding information for supporting the translation process stored in a memory. The sign string stored in memory which is referred to at the time of translation process can be defined arbitrarily by a user of an electronic translating apparatus. Therefore, even if the sign string already exists in the original, it can be avoided that the sign string in the original is misidentified as the sign string supporting the translation process. Conversely, since a delimiter sign already existing in the original is interpreted as a sign string supporting the translation process, the load of inserting the sign string into the original can be lightened.

Electronic translating apparatus having pre-editing learning capability

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.

Translation machine

A translation machine having a storing unit for storing information of words and grammer rules, the translation machine being capable of translating sentences described in a source language into a target language includes a unit for dividing input sentence described in the source language into morphologic elements and for generating a mark-inserted sentence by adding a mark which represents an information of the detected morphologic elements, a unit connected to the dividing unit for analyzing a syntax of the morphologic elements in accordance with the information stored in the storing unit, and a unit connected to the analyzing unit for converting a structure of the syntax obtained in the dividing unit into a structure of syntax in the target language so that translated sentence is generated on a basis of the syntax structure in the target language obtained by the converting unit.

A translation machine capable of analyzing a syntax of a sentence described in a source language, converting the syntax in the source language into a syntax in a target language so that a translated sentence is generated in accordance with the syntax in the target language includes a unit for storing an information of predetermined rules of a non translation, a unit connected to the storing unit for controlling a translation of the sentence described in the source language so that a part of the sentence structured on a predetermined grammer rule is inhibited to be translated, and a unit connected to the controlling unit for outputting the part of the sentence which is inhibited of the translation.

Translation machine that inhabits translation of selected portions of a

A translation machine system for translating an input sentence includes a circuit for determining the language to be input depending on the processing status of the translation machine, and a setting circuit to set the input mode corresponding to the input language determined by the circuit.

Translation machine system

A translation system performing translation from a first language into a second language under an interaction mode between said translation system and an operator, includes keys for inputting the original sentence to be translated, means for translating the input sentence of said first language into an output sentence of said second language, wherein the operator inputs information relating to at least one word of the input sentence such as the part of speech or the element of the sentence. The translation is then performed on the basis of said input information.

Translation system

A sentence processing device used in a translation machine comprises sentence number input keys by which a block containing a plurality of sentences to be processed can be designated by inputting the sentence number assigned to the respective source sentences. All of the sentences included only in the designated block can be automatically consecutively processed.

Device for designating a processing area for use in a translation machine

A machine translation apparatus in which the sentence construction of a source language entered by an input device is analyzed in order to generate the corresponding translated text after being converted into a sentence construction in a target language, wherein the machine translation apparatus uses a device for determining whether or not a word string obtained from a sentence construction analysis is a proper noun with an acronym, a device for examining whether or not the number of first letters of each of a certain number of words corresponds to the number of letters of the acronym, and also for examining whether or nor these words are registered in a dictionary, and a device for outputting the corresponding term after it is translated into a target language, when the words are registered in the dictionary, and for outputting directly the words, whose number of first letters corresponds to the number of the letters of the acronym, without translating them, when the words are not registered in the dictionary.

Machine translation apparatus having a process function for proper nouns

A translation machine system capable of displaying the original input sentence and the sentence translated from the original sentence includes a device which optionally splits a sentence into multiple sentences, and a device which connects multiple sentences into a single sentence.

Translation machine system with splitting and combining of sentences

A method of translating a sentence including an adverb phrase put between two commas by using a translating apparatus which includes a dictionary look up and morpheme analyzer for looking up each word constituting an input sentence of a source language in a dictionary and providing a morpheme array of the input sentence from information obtained by looking up the dictionary, syntax analyzer for analyzing a syntactic structure of the morpheme array provided by the dictionary look up and morpheme analyzer with dictionary and grammatical rules, a converter for converting the syntactic structure analyzed by the syntax analyzer into a corresponding syntactic structure of a target language, and a generator for generating a translation in accordance with the syntactic structure of the target language received from the converter referring to the information obtained by looking up the dictionary, in which the adverb phrase is translated firstly, and then the input sentence is translated after the adverb phrase is removed from the input sentence. Finally these two translations are put together.

System for translating adverb phrases placed between two commas through

A translating apparatus includes: a prefix table for storing a prefix and a plurality of translated words of the prefix such that the translated words of the prefix are, respectively, composed of different kinds of characters of a target language. There is in the apparatus a prefix decision device for deciding whether or not one of morphemes obtained by a morphological analysis portion is a basic word combined with the prefix. The apparatus also has a character discriminating device for discriminating, in the case where it has been decided by the prefix decision device that the one of the morphemes obtained by the morphological analysis portion is the basic word combined with the prefix, a kind of characters of a translated word of the basic word. In addition there is a prefix translating device in the apparatus for generating one of the translated words of the prefix from the prefix table such that the one of the translated words of the prefix is composed of characters of the same kind as that of the characters of the translated word of the basic word, which has been discriminated by the character discriminating device.

System for translating a source language word with a prefix into a

A method of translating a sentence including a compound word formed by hyphenation by using a translating apparatus which includes a dictionary look up and morpheme analyzer for looking up each word constituting an input sentence of a source language in a dictionary and providing a morpheme array of the input sentence from information obtained by looking up the dictionary, a syntax analyzer for analyzing a syntactic structure of the morpheme array provided by the dictionary look up and morpheme analyzer with dictionary and grammatical rules, a language converter for converting the syntactic structure analyzed by the syntax analyzer into a corresponding syntactic structure of a target language, and a language generator for generating a translation in accordance with the syntactic structure of the target language received from the language converter referring to the information obtained by looking up the dictionary.

Method of translating a sentence including a compound word formed by

A translating apparatus including a morphological analysis portion for dividing an inputted sentence of a source language into a string of morphemes; a syntactic analysis portion for analyzing a construction of the string of the morphemes; a conversion portion for converting the inputted sentence into a target language; a translation generation portion for generating a translated sentence of the target language; a syntactic decision device which decides whether or not a prepositional or indefinite phrase for modifying a verb or a relative clause of nonrestrictive use accompanied by a comma located immediately before the phrase exists in the string of the morphemes; and a symbol generating device which generates in the translated sentence, first and second symbols indicative, respectively, of a start position and an end position of the relative clause or the prepositional or indefinite phrase found by the syntactic decision device such that a translation of the relative clause or the prepositional or indefinite phrase is inserted between the first and second symbols.

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