Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Ichiko Nakamura

Hitoshi Suzuki

Shuzo Kugimiya

Yoji Fukumochi

Tokuyuki Hirai

Takashi Matsui

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 includes a morpheme analyzer having a dictionary for analyzing a source sentence into morphemes and for obtaining part of speech and other information using the dictionary, a syntax analyzer having grammatical rules for analyzing the structure of the morphemes identified by the morpheme analyzer using the dictionary and grammatical rules, a convertor for converting the structure obtained by the syntax analyzer to a structure of the target language, and a translated sentence generator for generating a translated sentence according to the structure of the target language obtained by the convertor. The translation apparatus further includes a marker entry for entering a no-conversion start marker and a no-conversion end marker in the input sentence, so that during the generation of the target language, the words between the no-conversion start and end markers are developed without being translated. Furthermore, a distinct translation phrase marker is used to separate the entered source sentence, so that the translation can be separately carried out between the separated sections.

System including means to translate only selected portions of an input

A computer assisted language translating machine receives source language text from a communication appliance, such as a telex machine, and serially stores the text in a first storage unit. After a predetermined time, character data is read out from the first storage unit and transferred to a second storage unit. A discriminating device determines whether the character data read out of the first storage unit is a period, and whether a space follows the period. In the event a period and space are detected, the sentence associated with the period is translated.

Computer assisted language translating machine with sentence extracting

A machine translation apparatus is disclosed which includes a number discriminator which distinguishes whether or not the first morpheme to appear in the sentence separated by a morpheme analyzer is a number, and a memory control which, when the number discriminator identifies the morpheme at the beginning to be a number, stores data which identifies the number as a sentence beginning adverb so that the number is added to the beginning of the translated sentence converted to the target language, thus enabling the distinguishable translation between the ordinary sentence and the itemized sentence which begin with a number. The machine translation apparatus further includes a heading specifying step which specifies the words stored in a buffer to be a heading if a word continuing after the word stored in the buffer is a last word and is other than a period, a question mark and an exclamation mark, thus enabling the distinguishable translation between the ordinary sentence and the heading.

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