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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 07, 1998
Yasutsugu Morimoto, Kokubunji, JP;
Junichi Matsuda, Kodaira, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus connected to a network to translate a document using a translation knowledge cost-effectively is provided with a dictionary; an inquiry device for transmitting, during a time translating a sentence written in a first language, an inquiry for inquiring the translation knowledge for translating a syntactic unit of the sentence written in the first language containing an unknown word and a correct grammar to the network, after translating other words of the sentence into a second language, when the unknown word that cannot be translated into the second language is recognized during translation of the document; and a translation device for estimating a part of speech for the unknown word to apply a hypothesis-setting rule during translation of the sentence, and for continuing translation of a syntax following the syntactic unit of the sentence, wherein the syntactic unit is translated by using an answer to replace the translation of the sentence when the answer to the inquiry is received.