Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology

Sung Kwon Choi

Chang Hyun Kim

Ki Young Lee

Young Kil Kim

Oh Woog Kwon

Seong Il Yang

Sang Kyu Park

Yoon Hyung Roh

Young Ae Seo

Eun Jin Park

Yun Su Jin

Ying Shun Wu

Jinxia Huang

Changhao Yin

Young-Ae Seo

Yoon-Hyung Roh

Young-Sook Hwang

Cheol Ryu

Mun Pyo Hong

Chang-Hao Yin

Jin Ha Kim

Ki-Young Lee

Jong Hun Shin

Hong Gun Sung

Jang Pyo Hong

Sa Young Hong

Suk Kyu Cho

In Bo Park

Sang Keun Jung

Seung Il Yang

Seong Ii Yang

Eunjin Park

Seung Hoon Na

Young Ao Seo

Yingshun Wu

Yeonguk Won

Chang Hao Yin

Young-Sik Kim

Mun-Pyo Hong

Young Kii Kim

Young Sook Hwang

The present invention provides an inertia test apparatus for a model ship that mimics a pitching inertia radius of an actual ship by reciprocating a model ship. The apparatus includes a base frame providing a supporting force, vertical frames integrally fixed at both sides of the base frame and having a hinge shaft on an upper end, a swing including a pair of fixing members rotatably hung on the hinge shafts of the vertical frames and a bed integrally formed at a lower ends of the fixing members, and providing a pitching inertia radius of the model ship by reciprocating about the hinge shafts, with the model ship seated on the bed, and a centering adjuster seating the model ship on the bed of the swing and matching a center of gravity of the model ship with a center of the swing by allowing the model ship to move.

Inertia test apparatus for model ship

The present invention relates to a spoken dialog system and method based on dual dialog management using a hierarchical dialog task library that may increase reutilization of dialog knowledge by constructing and packaging the dialog knowledge based on a task unit having a hierarchical structure, and may construct and process the dialog knowledge using a dialog plan scheme about relationship therebetween by classifying the dialog knowledge based on a task unit to make design of a dialog service convenient, which is different from an existing spoken dialog system in which it is difficult to reuse dialog knowledge since a large amount of construction costs and time is required.

Spoken dialog system based on dual dialog management using hierarchical dialog task library

A foreign language writing service method includes: recognizing, when a mixed text of foreign language portions and mother tongue portions is entered by a learner, the mother tongue portions from the mixed text; translating the mother tongue portions; combining a mother tongue translation result with the foreign language portions of the mixed text to generate a combined text; and providing the learner with the combined text of the mother tongue translation result and the foreign language portions of the mixed text.

Foreign language writing service method and system

A method for automatically detecting errors in machine translation using a parallel corpus includes analyzing morphemes of a target language sentence in the parallel corpus and a machine-translated target language sentence, corresponding to a source language sentence, to classify the morphemes into words; aligning by words and decoding, respectively, a group of the source language sentence and the machine-translated target language sentence, and a group of the source language sentence and the target language sentence in the parallel corpus; classifying by types errors in the machine-translated target language sentence by making a comparison, word by word, between the decoded target language sentence in the parallel corpus and the decoded machine-translated target language sentence; and computing error information in the machine-translated target language sentence by examining a frequency of occurrence of the classified error types.

Method and apparatus for detecting errors in machine translation using parallel corpus

A user-interactive automatic translation device for a mobile device, includes: a camera image controller for converting an image captured by a camera into a digital image; an image character recognition controller for user-interactively selecting a character string region to be translated from the digital image, performing a character recognition function on the selected character string region based on an optical character reader (OCR) function and character recognition information to generate a text string; and user-interactively correcting errors included in the text string. Further, the user-interactive automatic translation device includes a text transmission controller for transmitting the error-corrected text string; and an automatic translation controller for receiving the error-corrected text string from the text transmission controller, performing a morpheme analysis, tagging, a structure analysis, a structure conversion, and a vocabulary conversion on the text string to generate a translation of the text string based on a grammar of a target language.

User-interactive automatic translation device and method for mobile device

A post-editing apparatus for correcting translation errors, includes: a translation error search unit for estimating translation errors using an error-specific language model suitable for a type of error desired to be estimated from translation result obtained using a translation system, and determining an order of correction of the translation errors; and a corrected word candidate generator for sequentially generating error-corrected word candidates for respective estimated translation errors on a basis of analysis of an original text of the translation system. The post-editing apparatus further includes a corrected word selector for selecting a final corrected word from among the error-corrected word candidates by using the error-specific language model suitable for the type of error desired to be corrected, and incorporating the final corrected word in the translation result, thus correcting the translation errors.

Post-editing apparatus and method for correcting translation errors

A hybrid translation apparatus includes a source language input unit for generalizing an input source language sentence for each node; a statistics-based translation knowledge database(DB) for storing learning data generalized for each node to be acquired; a first translation result generating unit for transforming the source language sentence generalized for each node into a node expression using the statistics-based translation knowledge to generate a first translation result; and a second translation result generating unit for repeatedly performing the generation of a target word for each node on the first translation result using pattern-based knowledge to generate a second translation result as target words for the respective nodes. Further, the hybrid translation apparatus includes a pattern-based translation knowledge DB for using in the pattern-based translation; and a translation result combining unit for combining the first translation result and the second translation result to output a target language sentence.

Hybrid translation apparatus and method thereof

Provided are a device and method for interactive machine translation. The device includes a machine translation engine having a morphological/syntactic analyzer for analyzing morphemes and sentences of an original text and generating original text analysis information, and a translation generator for generating a translation and translation generation information on the basis of the original text analysis information, and a user interface module for displaying sentence structures of the original text and the translation, and a relationship between the original text and the translation to a user on the basis of the original text analysis information and the translation generation information, and for receiving corrections to the original text or the translation from the user. The device and method provide a user interface whereby the user can effectively recognize and correct a mistranslated part and a cause of the mistranslation, and rapidly provides a re-translated result according to the correction. Thus, it is possible to perform high-quality translation which satisfies the user.

Device and method for interactive machine translation

The present invention provides a Korean-English hybrid automatic translation method for providing translation from Korean to English, includes: performing a morpheme analysis and a syntactic analysis on a Korean input source text; segmenting the Korean input source text into at least two source text segments, based on the results of the morpheme analysis and the syntactic analysis; and generating a PBMT (pattern-based machine translation) translated text segment and a SMT (statistical machine translation) translated text segment with respect to each of the source text segments. Further, the method includes determining, as final translation result, one of the PBMT translated text segment and the SMT translated text segment with respect to each source text segment, based on predetermined weight information; and composing the translated text segments with respect to the source text segments of the Korean input source text into one English translated text by using the determined final translation results.

Method and apparatus for providing hybrid automatic translation

A machine-translation apparatus using multi-level verbal-phrase patterns includes: a simple sentence generation unit for generating an input simple sentence; a basic verbal-phrase pattern-matching unit for trying a match of a semantic code of each case component of the input simple sentence with basic verbal-phrase patterns; a default verbal-phrase pattern matching unit for trying a match of a size and case prepositions of the input simple sentence with default verbal-phrase patterns having a verb identical to that of the input simple sentence; a default word-order matching unit for trying a match of a word-order of the input simple sentence with default word-order verbal-phrase patterns having a case component structure identical to that of the input simple sentence; and a default preposition matching unit for generating a target sentence of an input sentence with default preposition patterns having a context identical to that of the input simple sentence.

Machine-translation apparatus using multi-stage verbal-phrase patterns, methods for applying and extracting multi-stage verbal-phrase patterns

A translation-memory application method for automatic translation includes: generating TM-expanded forms by applying TM expansion rules respectively to source sentences whose morphemes have been analyzed; storing in an expanded TM database translated sentences corresponding to the generated TM-expanded source sentences; analyzing morphemes if an input sentence does not match any of the source sentences stored in basic TM database; generating a TM-expanded form by applying pertinent ones among the TM expansion rules to the input sentence whose morphemes have been analyzed; and producing, if the TM-expanded input sentence matches one of the TM-expanded source sentences stored in the expanded TM database, a translated output corresponding to the matched TM-expanded source sentence.

Method and apparatus for applying translation memory in automatic translation system

A domain-adapted portable machine translation device for closed captions using dynamic translation resources and a method thereof are provided. The device and method improve translation performance with respect to various specialized domains by automatically recognizing style and domain of a caption sentence, dynamically constructing specialized translation module and knowledge, and performing automatic translation with optimal translation resources suitable for a corresponding sentence. Not only does the domain-adapted portable machine translation device for closed captions exhibit improved translation performance for sentences in various domains, but it can also be freely linked with various media devices through input/output terminals.

Domain-adaptive portable machine translation device for translating closed captions using dynamic translation resources and method thereof

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for constructing translation knowledge to be used in a translator. According to the invention, a source-language sentence and a target-language sentence are converted by receiving the source-language sentence and the target-language sentence corresponding to the source-language sentence and attaching a prototype, a part-of-speech, relative position information, and syntactic information in a base phrase to each morpheme of the source-language sentence and the target-language sentence. Then, word alignment and syntactic alignment are performed in the converted source-language sentence and target-language sentence, thereby extracting translation knowledge on words and syntaxes, translation knowledge on a subcategory of a bilingual inflected-word, and translation knowledge on a bilingual sentence pattern based on the results of the word and syntactic alignment.

Method and apparatus for constructing translation knowledge

Disclosed is a machine translation method for a PDF file. A machine translation device extracts source language text and non-text from the input source language PDF file through image transformation, corrects the extracted source language text by using the source language text extracted from text information, restores a part that is contextually separated by the non-text from among the extracted source language text, generates a source language XML/HTML file by rearranging the extracted text and non-text so as to satisfy the contextual flow of the source language PDF file, separates source language text from a tag of the source language XML/HTML file, generates target language text by using translation knowledge and a transformation engine specified for the technical field corresponding to the source language PDF file, inserts the translated target language text other than source language text into XML/HTML file, and transforms the generated target language XML/HTML file into a target language PDF file to be output.

Machine translation method for PDF file

A translation system is provided, which comprises: a translation server comprising guidelines for writing original text that serve as criteria for determining whether errors exist in the original text, an original text controller determining whether the original text conforms to the guidelines for writing original text, and a translation engine translating the original text with reference to at least one of a basic dictionary and a plurality of user dictionaries; a user interface comprising an original text processing part receiving and transmitting the original text to the translation server, a translated text processing part outputting the received translated text from the translation server and transmitting a result about whether to approve the corresponding translated text to the translation server, and a user dictionary editing part modifying contents of the user dictionary; and a user community server comprising an original text writing method shared database and a user dictionary shared database.

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Sung Kwon Choi