Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Takashi Katooka

Satoshi Yamauchi

Hideo Ito

Yoshihisa Ohguro

Masayuki Kameda

Phyllis Anwyl

Taisen Hayashi

Masumi Narita

Ayako Oono

Hiroko Yamagata

Sakiko Honma

Hiroshi Tamura

Naoki Tsumura

Shozo Kudo

Naoto Hikichi

Takashi Ezaki

Yoshihisa Ooguro

Chihiro Narumi

A language conversion system converts an original sentence in a source-language into a translated sentence in a target-language. The language conversion system includes a original analysis unit for analyzing the original sentence so as to obtain an intermediate structure of the original, an idea center extraction unit for extracting an idea center from the intermediate structure obtained by the original analysis unit, the idea center being a central expression of an idea to be described by a sentence, an identification unit for identifying a sentence pattern including the idea center extracted by the idea center extraction unit, an information extraction unit for extracting information required by the sentence pattern identified by the identification unit from the intermediate structure of the original sentence, a decision unit for deciding an intermediate structure of a translated sentence based on the sentence pattern and request information extracted by the information extraction unit, and a creation unit for creating a translated sentence in a surface level from the intermediate structure decided by the decision unit.

Language conversion system and text creating system using such

A telecommunication apparatus includes a translation unit for translating a received document from a source language to a target language and discriminates the source language based upon a protocol message transmitted from a remote terminal for setting up a connection.

Telecommunication apparatus having a capability of translation

Growing community of inventors

Yokohama, Japan

Takashi Katooka