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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2012
Satoshi Kamatani, Yokohama, JP;
Akiko Sakamoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Satoshi Kamatani, Yokohama, JP;
Akiko Sakamoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a machine translation apparatus includes a speech recognition unit, a translation unit, a detection unit and an addition unit. The speech recognition unit performs speech recognition of speech. The translation unit translates the plurality of source language strings into target language strings in a chronological order. The detection unit detects ambiguity in interpretation of the speech corresponding to a first target language string of the target language strings. The addition unit adds, an additional phrase being one of words and phrases to interpret uniquely a modification relationship, to the first target language string if ambiguity is detected.