EP0403057A2
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Method of translating sentence including adverb phrase by using translating apparatus
Assignee: Sharp Corp
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Filing: 1990-04-23
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2010-04-23
Abstract
Abstract A method of translating a sentence including an adverb phrase put between two commas by using a translating apparatus which includes a dictionary look up and morpheme analyzer for looking up each word constituting an input sentence of a source language in a dictionary and providing a morpheme array of the input sentence from information obtained by looking up the dictionary, a syntax analyzer for analyzing a syntactic structure of the morpheme array provided by the dictionary look up and morpheme analyzer with dictionary and grammatical rules, a converter for converting the syntactic structure analyzed by the syntax analyzer into a corresponding syntactic structure of a target language, and a generator for generating a translation in accordance with the syntactic structure of the target language received from the converter referring to the information obtained by looking up the dictionary, in which the adverb phrase is translated firstly, and then the input sentence is translated after the adverb phrase is removed from the input sentence. Finally these two translations are put together.
Inventors
- 👤 Shuzo Kugimiya
- 👤 Yoji Fukumochi
- 👤 Ichiko Nakamura
- 👤 Tokuyuki Hirai
- 👤 Hitoshi Suzuki
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
EP
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-26 12:44
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06F; G06F40/00; G06F40/20; G06F40/279; G06F40/289; G06F40/253; G06F40/268; G06F40/30; G06F40/40; G06F40/55
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim
328 words
A method of translating a sentence by using a translating apparatus which includes dictionary look up and morpheme analyzing means for looking up each word constituting an input sentence of a source language in a dictionary and providing a morpheme array of the input sentence from information obtained by looking up the dictionary, syntax analyzing means for analyzing a syntactic structure of the morpheme array provided by said dictionary look up and morpheme analyzing means with dictionary and grammatical rules, converting means for converting the syntactic structure analyzed by said syntax analyzing means into a corresponding syntactic structure of a target language, and generating means for generating a translation in accordance with said syntactic structure of the target language received from said converting means referring to the information obtained by looking up the dictionary, said method comprising the steps of: if it is determined that an adverb phrase put between two commas is present in an input sentence on the basis of the result of looking up the dictionary by said dictionary look up and morpheme analyzing means, storing the number of words between said two commas in a memory as inserted-adverb-phrase information being related to a word just before the former one of said two commas; if it is determined that the word related to said inserted-adverb-phrase information exists by referring to said memory, performing syntactic analysis by said syntax analyzing means after removing words to the number indicated by said inserted-adverb-phrase information following said word related to the said information; if it is determined that the word related to said inserted-adverb-phrase information exists by referring to said memory, generating a first translation of words to the number indicated by said inserted-adverb-phrase information following said word related to the said information; attaching a punctuation mark after said first translation; generating a second translation in accordance with the result of the syntax analysis performed by said syntax analyzing means; and putting said second translation after said first translation.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
328 words
A method of translating a sentence by using a translating apparatus which includes dictionary look up and morpheme analyzing means for looking up each word constituting an input sentence of a source language in a dictionary and providing a morpheme array of the input sentence from information obtained by looking up the dictionary, syntax analyzing means for analyzing a syntactic structure of the morpheme array provided by said dictionary look up and morpheme analyzing means with dictionary and grammatical rules, converting means for converting the syntactic structure analyzed by said syntax analyzing means into a corresponding syntactic structure of a target language, and generating means for generating a translation in accordance with said syntactic structure of the target language received from said converting means referring to the information obtained by looking up the dictionary, said method comprising the steps of: if it is determined that an adverb phrase put between two commas is present in an input sentence on the basis of the result of looking up the dictionary by said dictionary look up and morpheme analyzing means, storing the number of words between said two commas in a memory as inserted-adverb-phrase information being related to a word just before the former one of said two commas; if it is determined that the word related to said inserted-adverb-phrase information exists by referring to said memory, performing syntactic analysis by said syntax analyzing means after removing words to the number indicated by said inserted-adverb-phrase information following said word related to the said information; if it is determined that the word related to said inserted-adverb-phrase information exists by referring to said memory, generating a first translation of words to the number indicated by said inserted-adverb-phrase information following said word related to the said information; attaching a punctuation mark after said first translation; generating a second translation in accordance with the result of the syntax analysis performed by said syntax analyzing means; and putting said second translation after said first translation.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
18 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein said source language is English, and said target language is Japanese.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
24 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein said translating apparatus comprises a memory which stores the dictionary, the grammatical rules and tree-structure conversion rules.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
29 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein said dictionary look up and morpheme analyzing means analyzes at least a part of speech, tense, person and number of each word.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
22 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein said translating apparatus comprises a cathode-ray tube for displaying sentence translated in said target language.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
93 words
A translation apparatus operable to receive a source sentence including an adverb clause, analyze the sentence using a dictionary look-up means and syntax analysis rules, and use the analysis to provide a translation of the sentence, characterised in that the apparatus is arranged to recognise the presence of the adverb clause, to translate the adverb clause so as to provide a first translation, to translate the remainder of the sentence so as to provide a second translation, and to provide a translation of the full sentence by combining the first and second translations.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
93 words
A translation apparatus operable to receive a source sentence including an adverb clause, analyze the sentence using a dictionary look-up means and syntax analysis rules, and use the analysis to provide a translation of the sentence, characterised in that the apparatus is arranged to recognise the presence of the adverb clause, to translate the adverb clause so as to provide a first translation, to translate the remainder of the sentence so as to provide a second translation, and to provide a translation of the full sentence by combining the first and second translations.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
32 words
Apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the apparatus is arranged to provide said first and second translations in response to recognising the presence of an adverb clause positioned between two commas.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
31 words
Apparatus as claimed in claim 6 or claim 7, wherein the apparatus is arranged to provide the translation of the full sentence by putting the second translation after the first translation.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
28 words
Apparatus as claimed in any one of claims 6 to 8, wherein the apparatus is operable to insert a punctuation mark between the combined first and second translations.
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