Apparatus for registering private-use words in machine-translation/electronic-mail system

Claim 1

In a machine-translation electronic-mail system having an electronic-mail receiving unit, an electronic-mail transmitting unit and a standard dictionary used in a machine translation process, the improvement comprising the machine-translation electronic-mail system being a private-use-word registering apparatus, comprising: word-definition recognition means for recognizing a word-definition command for defining a private-use word used by a specific user, and extracting a particular word to be registered as said private-use word, said word-definition command existing in an electronic mail containing a document comprising said particular word to be translated, said electronic mail being produced by said specified user and being received by said electronic-mail receiving unit; temporarily-registering means for temporarily storing in a private-use word dictionary said private-use word having been extracted by said word-definition recognition means, said private-use word dictionary being temporarily used in the translation as the private-use word dictionary; and translation means for performing the translation by using said private-use-word dictionary having private-use words registered in it by said temporarily-registering means together with said standard dictionary, to obtain a translation result which is issued to said electronic-mail transmitting unit from which said translation result is delivered to designated users through said electronic mail.