Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Tsutomu Kawada

Kimihito Takeda

Miwako Doi

Seiji Miike

Akira Kumano

Hiroyasu Nogami

Hisahiro Adachi

Toshio Okamoto

Isamu Iwai

Shin-ya Amano

Noriko Yamanaka

Shinya Amano

Tatsuji Kusumoto

Shigemi Nakasato

Hiroyoshi Saito

A machine translation system includes a translation processor, a display, and a display controller. The display has original and translated sentence display sections. The display controller has a display managing section and a display format controller. The translation processor translates a given original sentence by accessing a dictionary. The translated and original sentences are displayed in the translated and original sentence display sections, i.e., right and left display sections of the display. The original and translated sentences are managed by the display magaging section in predetermined units of translation processing. The display format controller controls the original and translated sentences such that start lines of a given group thereof are horizontally aligned with each other.

Machine translation system including separated side-by-side display of

A language expression data base is adapted to store expression data of an input sentence of a first language to be translated into a second language and the expression data stored in the language expression data base is renewed under the control of an expression data input unit. An input basic form sentence structure data extracted from the input sentence of the first language is translated into a basic form sentence structure data of the second language at the sentence structure transfer unit. A basic form sentence of the second language is obtained on the basis of the basic form sentence structure data of which an expression is then modified according to the expression data stored in the language expression data base, and a modified sentence of the second language is displayed on a display through an output unit.

System for translating a language having polite expressions

A machine translation processor according to the present invention includes an input section having a keyboard with a partial translation command key, a translation processing section having dictionaries for performing translation of an original sentence, a time measuring section for measuring the actual translation time performed in the translation processing section, a memory for storing both the original and translation sentences, a dividing section for dividing the original sentence into phrases in accordance with a predetermined rule for division, and a control section for controlling the translation of the original sentence such that when the partial translation command key is operated or the actual translation time measured reaches a predetermined maximum translation time, the original is divided into phrases by the dividing section and the phrases are translated by the translation processing section. Overall translation time is reduced by dividing the difficult original sentence into phrases that may easily translated.

Processing method and processor for machine translation

In a machine translation system, a translated-sentence possibility corresponding to an input original sentence is obtained by a translation processing section with reference to a dictionary, and is displayed to be divided by a division display control section into processing units in the translation processing section. When some portions of the original sentence have other translated-word possibilities in addition to the displayed translated-word possibilities, display control is performed by an identifying display control section so that the portions having other translated-word possibilities can be distinguished from portions having no such other translated-word possibilities and that classes of portions having the other translated-word possibilities are identified. Classes of the other translated-word possibilities are displayed in accordance with a predetermined priority order.

Machine translation system

An input processing system inputs character string data including kanji characters and corresponding to phonetic data by entering phonetic data. An input device sequentially inputs phonetic data and sentence end data. A conversion section includes a conversion processor, a syntactic analyzer, and a priority order alterator. The conversion processor sequentially converts character string data in a predetermined conversion unit. If single phonetic data includes a plurality of conversion possibilities in the predetermined conversion unit, character string data is selected according to a predetermined priority order, thereby obtaining character string data (including kanji characters) corresponding to input phonetic data. The syntactic analyzer performs syntactic analysis of a sentence consisting of the character string data in response to sentence end data. The priority alterator alters the priority orders of the conversion possibilities corresponding to identical phonetic data for the conversion processor according to syntactic analysis results, and alters the already selected possibilities as needed. The character string data from the conversion processor in the conversion section is displayed on a diplay.

Phonetic data-to-kanji character converter with a syntax analyzer to

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Tsutomu Kawada