Cookpad Inc.

Tomomichi Sumi

Akihisa Kaneko

Masayuki Ioki

Shinya Ohtani

Jun Harashima

A recipe translation server includes circuitry which acquires quantitative recipe information which is made by converting qualitative expressions in recipe information written in a first language into quantitative expressions of numerical values. The quantitative recipe information includes nodes and edges, each node representing information on an ingredient of a dish and each edge provided between nodes and represents information on an action for cooking the dish. The circuitry acquires edge information by translating the edges written in the first language into edges written in a second language and by referring to an edge database. The circuitry then acquires node information by translating the nodes written in the first language into nodes written in the second language and by referring to a dictionary database, and generates translated quantitative recipe information corresponding to the recipe information translated into the second language.

Recipe translation server and control method for recipe translation system

A server apparatus which includes a memory that stores recipe information including a plurality of cooking processes, and circuitry that acquires the recipe information, specifies, in the acquired recipe information, a cooking process described with a qualitative expression, searches the recipe information stored in the memory for the qualitative expression described in the specified cooking process, converts the qualitative expression described in the specified cooking process into a quantitative expression based on a result of the search, and sends, to a user terminal via the internet, quantitative recipe information including the quantitative expression which corresponds to the acquired recipe information, for controlling a cooking appliance based on the quantitative recipe information.

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Tomomichi Sumi