System including means to translate only selected portions of an input sentence and means to translate selected portions according to distinct rules
US5005127A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 25, 1988 |
| Grant date | Apr 2, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 25, 2008 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F40/55
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A machine translation apparatus includes a morpheme analyzer having a dictionary for analyzing a source sentence into morphemes and for obtaining part of speech and other information using the dictionary, a syntax analyzer having grammatical rules for analyzing the structure of the morphemes identified by the morpheme analyzer using the dictionary and grammatical rules, a convertor for converting the structure obtained by the syntax analyzer to a structure of the target language, and a translated sentence generator for generating a translated sentence according to the structure of the target language obtained by the convertor. The translation apparatus further includes a marker entry for entering a no-conversion start marker and a no-conversion end marker in the input sentence, so that during the generation of the target language, the words between the no-conversion start and end markers are developed without being translated. Furthermore, a distinct translation phrase marker is used to separate the entered source sentence, so that the translation can be separately carried out between the separated sections.
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