JPH07262195A - Retrieval display system for translation supporting dictionary - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To omit labor and time to consult a dictionary for the same word by registering the word of an original to which dictionary consultation is applied once on an electronized word dictionary file when the foreign word of language for which no electronized dictionary file exists is translated manually. CONSTITUTION:An original file 16a stores the original of the language for which no dictionary file electronized in advance exists, and a word cutting means 15a performs the segmentation of the word of the original from the original file 16a. A word book dictionary file 16b stores the word of the original and the translation word of it in a pair, and a dictionary retrieval means 15b retrieves the word book dictionary file 16b setting the segmented word of the original as a retrieval word. A retrieval result display means 15c displays the retrieval result by the dictionary retrieval means 15b corresponding to the segmented word of the original. In this way, the number of times to consult the dictionary for an unknown word can be reduced as progressing work, and moreover, the efficiency of the work can be improved.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a translation support dictionary search / display system, and more particularly, when manually translating a foreign language in a language in which an electronic dictionary file does not exist, a document file of the original sentence of the foreign language is handled. The present invention relates to a translation support dictionary search and display system that supports a dictionary drawing work from original words and a word registration work to a computerized word book dictionary file for digitization.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a machine translation system or a machine translation support system has been developed in various forms. Among machine translation systems developed so far, there is a system having a dictionary lookup function, but in order to use the dictionary lookup function in such a machine translation system, the system can be accessed. The dictionary file must exist.

As a conventional technique of this type of machine translation support system, for example, when a machine translation is performed as in "Machine translation device" described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 3-157768, a dictionary search unit translates. The user searches the dictionary and displays the information, and the human selects the necessary information from the information, or selects the unnecessary information, and the user specifies the part of speech or the translation that may be translated. There is a proposal of a machine translation device that performs pre-editing to improve the accuracy of machine translation.

In a machine translation system such as a Japanese-English translation system or an English-Japanese translation system that already has a dictionary file for translation and a dictionary search unit, there is no particular problem because the dictionary lookup function can be used. , For example, in the case of translation between Indonesian and Japanese, if there is no dictionary file for translation in advance digitized, or if there is no dictionary search unit,
When performing the above-mentioned preprocessing, a person has to actually look up the dictionary using a paper dictionary.

Therefore, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2-22761
The "dictionary memory creating device" described in Japanese Patent Publication proposes a device for creating a dictionary memory by automatically registering words that are necessary for creating a document and are not in the dictionary memory. Here, a technique has been proposed in which words that do not exist in the basic dictionary are automatically registered in the personal dictionary, but in the case of a foreign language that does not have a basic dictionary, such a method cannot be used.
When registering a word in the dictionary memory, if the meaning of the word is not registered at the same time, the search results cannot be used for translation.

[0006]

As described above, when performing translation work for a foreign language for which the environment for pre-editing is not complete, such as a dictionary file for translation and a dictionary search unit, a paper dictionary is inevitable. Must be looked up, and at this time, the same word will be looked up in the dictionary many times. Therefore, it is desired to efficiently perform such a dictionary lookup operation.

In addition, when performing machine translation, complicated sentences such as complex sentences and compound sentences cannot be analyzed by the system, so that the sentence to be translated may be cut into short sentences or made into simple sentences beforehand. Editing work is required. In order to perform pre-editing work, it is necessary to understand the meaning of the original text to some extent, so the operation of dictionary lookup is essential. However, if the dictionary file for translation is not maintained or the dictionary search unit does not exist,
You cannot use the dictionary search function for translation.

[0008] When performing a foreign language translation work, in particular, if an environment for translation work such as an electronic dictionary is available, it can be used, but unlike Indonesian language, such environment does not exist. Not available in some cases. In that case, the translator will actually look up the dictionary with one hand, so create a wordbook style dictionary file so that you do not look up the same word multiple times. It is desirable to avoid having to look up a word once it has been looked up in the dictionary. In addition, it is desirable that the word book dictionary of such a dictionary file be recorded in a memorandum such as translated words and reference sentence examples for translation so that they can be referred to later.

By performing such a wordbook dictionary work, the translators other than himself / herself can also refer to the dictionary lookup results, and effectively utilize the data of the dictionary lookup words. be able to. In addition, even if you create a dictionary file of a wordbook dictionary in this way, if you want to preedit or translate a new original sentence, the words of the new original sentence are added to the dictionary file of the already created wordbook dictionary. You must do something to search for. For this reason, it takes time and effort to input each original text word and perform an operation for searching one by one. Therefore, it is also desirable to perform such a searching operation efficiently.

The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to manually translate a foreign language in a language in which an electronic dictionary file does not exist. (EN) It is possible to provide a translation support dictionary search / display system which can handle a document file of an original sentence of a word, and can support a work of registering a word in the original word book dictionary file that performs a dictionary drawing work from the original sentence word and digitization.

[0011]

In order to achieve the above object, the translation support dictionary search and display system according to the present invention is a source text file storing a source text of a language for which a pre-digitized dictionary file does not exist. And a word cutting means for cutting out the original text words from the original text file, and a wordbook dictionary file for storing the original text words and their translated words in pairs.
A dictionary search means for searching the word book dictionary file using the cut-out original word as a search word, and a search result display means for displaying the search result by the dictionary search means in correspondence with the cut-out original word are displayed. When the search result is not appropriate, the word book dictionary file is updated, and the dictionary update means for making the translated word of the pair of the original sentence word corrected content is provided.

[0012]

In the translation support dictionary search / display system of the present invention, the original text file stores the original text of the language in which the pre-digitized dictionary file does not exist, and the word cutting means uses the original text word from the original text file. Cut out. The wordbook dictionary file stores words in the original sentence and their translated words in pairs, and the dictionary search means searches the wordbook dictionary file using the extracted words in the original sentence as search words. Then, the search result display means displays the search result obtained by the dictionary search means in correspondence with the extracted word in the original sentence.

In the early stage of system operation, the wordbook dictionary file does not store a sufficient number of words in the original sentence and their translated words in pairs, and the dictionary search means stores the extracted original sentence words. Even if the wordbook dictionary file is searched as a search word and the search result display unit displays the search result corresponding to the original word that is cut out, the original word that is not stored in the wordbook dictionary file and its pair The search result is not displayed for the translated word. Therefore, as in this case, when the displayed search result is not appropriate, the word of the original sentence and its translated word are instructed as a pair, and the dictionary updating means updates the wordbook dictionary file to obtain the original sentence. Makes the translated content of the pair of translated words for the modified word.

By proceeding with such work, the word book dictionary file can store a sufficient number of types of words of the original sentence and the translated word thereof in pairs, which are displayed as a result of the binding. The content will be adequately appropriate.
As a result, even for an original sentence in a language in which a previously digitized dictionary file does not exist, sufficient translation support is provided by creating a wordbook dictionary file and displaying the search result.

[0015]

Embodiments of the present invention will be specifically described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the system configuration of a translation support dictionary search / display system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Here, a case where the translation support dictionary search / display system is used as a dictionary search / display system for Indonesian preediting will be described as an example. In FIG. 1, 11 is a keyboard, 12 is a mouse, 13 is a data processing device, 14 is a display device, 15 is a program memory, 15a is a word cutting program, 15b is a dictionary search program, 15c is a search result display program, and 15d is a dictionary. An update program, 16 is a data storage device, 16a is an original text file, 16b is a wordbook dictionary file, and 16c is a search result file.

When the system is started by the keyboard 11 or mouse 12, each program (word cutting program 15a, dictionary search program 15b, search result display program 15c, dictionary) in the program memory 15 is controlled by a system program (not shown). The update program 15d) is started, and the translation support dictionary search display system capable of operating the search display processing on the display screen of the display device 14 becomes operable by the control of the graphical user interface. Therefore, the wordbook dictionary file can be searched from the original text data, and the execution result can be confirmed on the display screen of the display device 14.

In the processing of searching and displaying the word book dictionary, the processing function of the word cutting program 15a cuts out the words of the original sentence from the original sentence file, and the dictionary search program 1
By the processing function of 5b, the wordbook dictionary file is searched using the extracted word of the original sentence as a search word. Then, the search result display program 15c displays the search result corresponding to the extracted word in the original sentence by the processing function of the program. Also,
When the displayed search result is not appropriate, the word-book dictionary file is updated by the processing function of the dictionary update program 15d, and the translated word pair of the original word is corrected. By combining these processing functions, the processing functions of the translation support dictionary search / display system are executed as a whole.

The original text file 16a stores the original text data of Indonesian language, which is a language for which no pre-digitized dictionary file exists, and the original text data is processed. As the process here proceeds, the wordbook dictionary file 16b stores pairs of the original word and its translated word. Further, the search result file 16c stores a word of the original sentence cut out from the original sentence file, and also stores a search result corresponding to the word.

Next, the operation of the dictionary search display system for Indonesian preediting having such a system configuration will be described. FIG. 2 is a block diagram for explaining the overall processing flow of the dictionary search display system for Indonesian preediting according to this embodiment. This will be described with reference to FIG. First, the original sentence data 21 is taken out from the original sentence file, and the original sentence data 21 is cut into individual words by the word cutting process 22 of the word cutting program to obtain individual word data 23. This word cutting process 22 is, for example,
Breaks words by detecting whitespace in the string.

Next, the dictionary search processing 25 of the dictionary search program retrieves the cut-out word data 23 one by one, and searches the dictionary data 24 of the original word and its translated word in the word book dictionary file, The data having the same finding as the original text word is taken out, and then the search result display processing 26 of the search result display program causes the retrieved and taken out data to correspond to the extracted word of the original text and to obtain the ligation result. It is displayed as data 27.

For example, the Indonesian word "Perlengkapan"
eksperimen ilum atom. ”is the original text data 21
It is divided into word data 23 consisting of four words rlengkapan, eksperimen, ilum, and atom. Then, the dictionary data 24 is searched for each word. For example, for the first word “perlengkapan”, “perlengkapan” in the dictionary data 24
The data "supply, equipment" is searched. Second "ek
For the word "sperimen", the data "eksperimen experiment" in the dictionary data 24 is searched. Similarly, for the third word "ilum",
The data “ilum scholarship” on the dictionary data 24 is searched.

Then, the data of the pair of each original sentence word and its translated word on the searched dictionary data 24 is displayed and output as the search result data 27 by the search result display processing 26. The search results are numbered in units of words so that the search results are easy to see, and the data retrieved corresponding to the numbers are displayed.

In this case, the dictionary search processing 2
In the case of 5, the fourth word “atom” is also searched in the same manner, but “atom Δ” is displayed on the dictionary data 24.
The data “△” is not registered, and the search result is not output. Therefore, in the search result data 27, "at
The original word is displayed at the corresponding position where “om ΔΔ” is displayed, but the corresponding display position of the translated word is blank.

The translator, looking at the search result data 27 as described above, proceeds with the translation work for the Indonesian original sentence, and next, in the search result data 27, the corresponding translation for the original sentence word. If the word is not displayed, or if the corresponding translated word is not appropriate for the original word and the displayed search result is not appropriate, including adding a new translated word, the wordbook dictionary file The dictionary update processing 26 is performed in order to update the contents of the dictionary data 24 and to make the translated words of the pair of translated words of the original sentence corrected.

That is, in the initial stage of system operation, the dictionary data 24 of the word book dictionary file 16b does not store a sufficient number of word types, ie, pairs of original text words and their translated words. Therefore, the dictionary search processing 25
Thus, the word data 23 of the extracted original sentence is used as a search word to search the dictionary data 24 of the wordbook dictionary file, and the search result display processing 26 displays the search result data 27 in correspondence with the word of the extracted original sentence. The search result is not displayed for the original text word and the pair of translated words that are not stored as the dictionary data 24. Therefore, in this case, since the displayed search result is not appropriate, the translator manually looks up the dictionary, designates the original sentence word and the translated word as a pair, and the dictionary update processing 26 causes the dictionary book file to be stored. The dictionary data 24 is updated so that the translated word pair of the original word has the corrected content.

By sequentially carrying out such an operation, the dictionary data 24 of the word book dictionary file can store a sufficient number of types of original text words and their translated words in pairs. The content displayed as the search result gradually becomes more appropriate. For this reason, even for an original sentence in a language in which a previously digitized dictionary file does not exist, sufficient translation support is provided by creating the electronic dictionary file and searching and displaying it.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining the format of dictionary data in the wordbook dictionary file. here,
As shown in FIG. 3, the wordbook dictionary file 30 is configured as a UNIX standard file, for example, and is created by the UNIX command “vi” command. All dictionary data are character data. Therefore, the format of the dictionary data corresponding to each word is such that a plurality of translated words are separated by ": (colon)" and simply "(headword), (1
The above-mentioned blank characters), (translated word 1: translated word 2: translated word 3: ...: translated word n), and (line feed code) ”are set as one line of data. One line of data of each of the dictionary data in such a format is stored in the wordbook dictionary file in correspondence with the number of the entry words of the original text word.

By configuring the dictionary data in the wordbook dictionary file as a standard file of the UNIX system in this way, it is possible to perform update and search processing for the dictionary data very easily and at high speed. That is, the input operation and the update operation of the dictionary data of the wordbook dictionary file are performed by the "vi" editor of the UNIX system. The name of the wordbook dictionary file used by each translator is decided in advance, and the file with that name is updated by the "vi" editor. The difference between the initial input of dictionary data and the middle input is whether or not there is data in the word book dictionary file.
Input in a format that adds one line of data after the file data.

FIGS. 4 (a) and 4 (b) are views showing an example of the edit screen of the wordbook dictionary file by the "vi" editor of the UNIX system. Display screen 4 of FIG.
0 and the display screen 41 of FIG. 4 (b), the dictionary data of the word book dictionary file has the original text word as a heading word, followed by some blank characters, and then as a pair of data. Text data of a translated word corresponding to the original sentence word is stored. As shown in the figure, the text data of the translated word is data used by the translator as desired, and can be any word for promoting the translation work, such as English words, Japanese characters in kanji or kana characters, and phrases. The word data of can be described and stored. Further, the number of translated words to be stored with respect to the original sentence word is arbitrary, and a sentence to be referred in the translation work, a memo symbol, or the like may be described.

Further, as described above, the dictionary data in the word book dictionary file can handle text data arbitrarily.
Since the word book dictionary is configured as the data of the standard file of the UNIX system, the dictionary data search process uses the “grep” command of the UNIX command for performing the character search.
This is done by executing the system function in the search processing program.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the processing flow of the dictionary search processing. The search processing here will be described with reference to FIG. When the processing is started, first, it is determined whether or not there is dictionary data in the searchable word book dictionary file. Therefore, in step 51, it is determined whether or not the word book dictionary (word book dictionary file) to be searched still remains, and then in step 52, it is judged whether or not the search data still remains. When it is determined by these determination processes that there is data to be searched in the wordbook dictionary, the process proceeds to step 53, and one line of data is retrieved from the wordbook dictionary and searched. Next, in step 54, it is determined whether or not there is a search word in the retrieved data. If there is a search word, the process proceeds to step 55 to output one line of data. If there is no search word, a search process is performed for the next dictionary data in the same wordbook dictionary, so the process returns to step 52 and the process from step 52 is repeated. Also, one of the search words
When the line data is output, next, in order to determine whether or not there is a search word in other dictionary data, similarly, the process returns to step 52 and the process from step 52 is repeated. To do.

If there is no more data to be searched in one wordbook dictionary in the determination in step 52, the process returns to step 51, it is determined whether there is another wordbook dictionary to be searched, and the wordbook dictionary is searched. If there is still left, the same process is repeated, but if not, if all the data have been searched and there remains no wordbook dictionary to be searched, the process is ended.

As described above, in the dictionary search / display system of this embodiment, at least the word division program having a function of automatically dividing the original sentence into words and a plurality of word book dictionary files are designated. Search for a word,
A word search program that outputs the search results and a search result display program that displays the search results corresponding to the search contents are prepared, and the processing functions of these programs are combined to automatically convert the original text into words. The electronic dictionary is searched for each of the divided words, and the search results are displayed according to the search contents.

When translating a foreign language, if there is an unknown word in the original sentence, the dictionary is first looked up in a paper dictionary. At that time, the word and its meaning are paired in a wordbook dictionary file in a wordbook format. Record. In this way, when the work of translating into a foreign language is advanced, it becomes possible to immediately search and display the already-existing words that have already been looked up in the dictionary. Then, when another person is translating or translating a new original sentence, by using the word search program and the word book dictionary file, it is already registered in the word book dictionary file in the original sentence. You will be able to display the meaning of the word that is being displayed.

That is, in this case, the word segmentation program cuts out words from the original sentence, the word search program searches the word book dictionary file already created for each of the words, and the search results are obtained. The display program displays the meaning in pairs with the word. During this process, you should look up the original words that are not yet registered in the wordbook dictionary in the file, but you have to look up the dictionary in a paper dictionary. , Can be reflected in the search results from the next time. As a result, the number of times an unknown word is drawn decreases as the work progresses, and the work efficiency can be further improved.

As described above, the original sentence is automatically divided into words, all the words are searched from the dictionary file, and the result is output in a series of program processing. Can be saved and the time required for preediting or translation work can be shortened.

[0037]

As described above, according to the translation support dictionary search / display system of the present invention, when preediting a foreign language original sentence in a language in which a pre-digitized dictionary file does not exist, the dictionary is used. I translate and understand a foreign language while pulling it, but by registering the original word once dictionary lookup in the electronic word book dictionary file,
When preediting another source text, the meanings of the words that already exist in the wordbook dictionary file are automatically displayed, saving you the trouble and time of looking up the same words, and working efficiently. You can

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of a translation support dictionary search / display system according to an embodiment of the present invention,

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an overall processing flow of a dictionary search display system for Indonesian preediting according to the present embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a format of dictionary data in a wordbook dictionary file,

FIGS. 4A and 4B are views showing an example of an edit screen of a wordbook dictionary file by a “vi” editor of a UNIX system;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a processing flow of dictionary search processing.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 ... Keyboard, 12 ... Mouse, 13 ... Data processing device, 14 ... Display device, 15 ... Program memory, 15a
… Word cutting program, 15b… Dictionary search program,
15c ... Search result display program, 15d ... Dictionary update program, 16 ... Data storage device, 16a ... Original text file, 16b ... Wordbook dictionary file, 16c ... Search result file.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An original text file for storing an original text in a language in which a pre-digitized dictionary file does not exist, a word cutting means for cutting out an original text word from the original text file, and an original text word and its translated word. A wordbook dictionary file stored as a pair, a dictionary search means for searching the wordbook dictionary file using the extracted words of the original sentence as a search word, and a search result displayed by the dictionary search means corresponding to the extracted original word Search result display means for updating the word book dictionary file when the displayed search result is not appropriate, and dictionary update means for making the translated word of the pair of translated words for the original word corrected content. Translation support dictionary search display system.