JP4036355B2 - Translation result display apparatus and method, and computer readable recording medium storing translation result display program - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
[Industrial application fields]
The present invention relates to a translation result display apparatus and method for machine-translating original text such as English text of a WWW page downloaded from a WWW server on the Internet and displaying it on a WWW browser, and a computer-readable recording medium storing a translation result display program .
[0002]
[Prior art]
Currently, the text of many useful WWW pages viewed with a WWW browser is written in English, which is inconvenient for Internet users other than English-speaking countries or users who are not familiar with English. For this reason, a machine translation application that machine translates the English text of the browsed WWW page and displays the translation result on the WWW browser is utilized.
[0003]
JP-A-10-34052 discloses a method for machine-translating English text in a WWW page downloaded from a WWW server on the Internet.
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, in such a conventional machine translation method for the Internet, there is a problem that the translation result is not displayed and the waiting time is long unless the translation of the downloaded page is completed.
[0005]
In particular, when the WWW page to be translated exceeds the screen size and is displayed in a scrolling manner, the amount of English text data is considerable, so the waiting time becomes very large and the usability is very poor. there were.
[0006]
The present invention provides a machine translation result display apparatus and method capable of utilizing effective data of a WWW page without being aware of a translation waiting time, and a computer-readable recording medium storing a machine translation result display program. With the goal.
[0007]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the principle of the present invention. The present invention is a translation result display device that displays on a browser the result of translating an original text downloaded from a server into a predetermined language. As shown in FIG. 1 (A), the original text is not translated and translated. A separation unit 20 for separating data, a machine translation unit 24 for translating the data to be translated into a predetermined language, and a skeleton HTML 38-1 in FIG. An HTML screen creation unit 22 for additionally displaying a skeleton HTML 38-2 from a paragraph whose translation has been completed by the unit (machine translation engine) 24 is provided.
[0008]
As described above, in the present invention, a source text that needs to be translated, for example, a portion of English text data and a portion of data such as an image or a photograph that is not so separated, and data that does not require translation such as image data is displayed on the display. The embedded skeleton HTML is immediately displayed, and then sequentially displayed from the paragraph where the translation has been completed.
[0009]
For this reason, images and photographs can be seen immediately by the immediate display of the skeleton HTML , and since the paragraphs in which translation has been completed are displayed in the meantime, the user is not aware of the waiting time until all translations are completed. , Can effectively use useful data.
[0012]
Further, the present invention provides a translation result display method for displaying the results of the translation of the original sentence text downloaded from the servers in a given language in the browser.
[0013]
This translation result display method includes the steps of separating the original text into translation target data and non-translation target data, creating a skeleton HTML from the separated non-translation target data and immediately displaying it on the screen, and simultaneously separating the translation target And a step of starting a translation process for translating data into a language, and additionally displaying the data in a skeleton HTML from a paragraph for which translation has been completed.
[0014]
Furthermore, the present invention provides a computer readable recording medium storing translation result display program to be displayed on the browser to translate the original sentence text downloaded to a predetermined language from servers.
[0015]
The HTML screen creation unit program stored in the recording medium includes a step of separating the original text into translation target data and non-translation target data, a step of configuring the separated non-translation data skeleton HTML and immediately displaying it on the screen, It is characterized in that it comprises a step of starting translation by passing the data to be translated separated simultaneously to a machine translation program, and a step of additionally displaying in a skeleton HTML from a paragraph whose translation has been completed by the machine translation program.
[0017]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the translation result display apparatus according to the present invention, taking as an example a case where it is installed in a WWW client as a machine translation application program.
[0018]
In FIG. 2, a WWW client 10 is realized in an operating environment such as a personal computer of a user, and can download a WWW page 14 from a WWW server 12 on the Internet 16 and display the page contents on a display screen by a WWW browser 30. it can.
[0019]
The WWW page 14 downloaded by the WWW client 10 uses, for example, English text as the original text, and the user of the WWW client 10 uses the function of the machine translation application unit 18 provided by the present invention for the English text. Then, for example, the text is translated into Japanese text, and the translation result is displayed on the display by the WWW browser 30.
[0020]
The machine translation application unit 18 provided in the WWW client 10 includes a separation unit 20, an HTML screen creation unit 22, and a machine translation engine 24. The separating unit 20 separates the HTML sentence of the WWW page 14 downloaded from the WWW server 12 into English text data that is data to be translated and data such as images and photographs that are not to be translated.
[0021]
The English text data which is the data to be translated separated by the separation unit 20 is given to the machine translation engine 24, and machine translation from English to Japanese is performed. Further, non-translational data such as images and photographs separated by the separation unit 20 is given to the HTML screen creation unit 22.
[0022]
The HTML screen creation unit 22 creates a skeleton HTML based on the HTML sentence data that is not to be translated including the images and photographs received from the separation unit 20, and the skeleton HTML is displayed on the display by the WWW browser 30 via the skeleton HTML composition unit 28. Display the HTML screen.
[0023]
The machine translation engine 24 outputs the translation result to the skeleton HTML synthesizing unit 28 in units of paragraphs for which translation has been completed for the English text data to be translated received from the separation unit 20 and synthesizes the translation result on the display of the WWW browser 30 The displayed skeleton HTML is sequentially displayed.
[0024]
In order to sequentially display the skeleton HTML screen obtained by synthesizing the translation result in the unit of the paragraph where the translation is completed from the machine translation engine 24, the HTML screen creation unit 22 embeds the function of the refresh timer 26 in the WWW browser 30 in the present invention. It is out.
[0025]
The WWW browser 30 counts the refresh timer 26, and when the time is up at a preset time interval, the skeleton HTML obtained by synthesizing the translation result of the skeleton HTML synthesizing unit 30 is displayed on the display, and at the same time, the refresh timer 26 is reset. Start again and repeat this until the end of translation.
[0026]
FIG. 3 shows the flow of data processing by the machine translation application unit 18 of FIG. The WWW page 14 downloaded from the WWW server 12 includes non-translation target data 34-1 and 34-2 such as images and photographs and translation target data 36-1 and 36-2 such as English text.
[0027]
Therefore, the separating unit 20 in FIG. 2 separates the non-translation target data 34-1 and 34-2 and the translation target data 36-1 and 36-2 from the downloaded WWW page 14, and the non-translation target data 34- 1 and 34-2 are supplied to the HTML screen creation unit 22 to create a skeleton HTML screen 38-1 having an HTML screen composed of only the non-translatable data 34-1 and 34-2 and display it on the display.
[0028]
The translation object data 36-1 and 36-2 separated by the separation unit 20 are transferred to the machine translation engine 24, and translation is started in the background in parallel with the skeleton HTML screen creation / display processing by the HTML screen creation unit 22.
[0029]
For example, when the translation of the first non-translation data 36-1 is completed, the machine translation engine 24 outputs the translation result of the translation target data 36-1 to the skeleton HTML synthesis unit 28 and synthesizes it. The skeleton HTML obtained by synthesizing the translation result by the skeleton HTML synthesizing unit 28 is read when the refresh timer 26 embedded in the WWW browser 30 is up, and the translation result 40-1 of the translation target data 36-1 is obtained. The synthesized skeleton HTML screen 38-2 is displayed.
[0030]
At the time when the next set time of the refresh timer 26 is up, the translation of the translation target data 36-2 is completed and synthesized. Therefore, the translation result 40-2 of the translation target data 36-2 from the machine translation engine 24 is obtained. A skeleton HTML screen 38-2 is displayed.
[0031]
When the translation by the machine translation engine 24 is completed, a skeleton HTML screen 38-2 obtained by synthesizing the final translation result may be displayed at the time when the set time of the refresh timer 26 is up. The skeleton HTML screen 38-2 obtained by synthesizing the final translation result may be displayed without waiting for the set time to be up.
[0032]
FIG. 4 shows how the page screen is displayed when a WWW page with a large amount of data that can be effectively used by the translation result display function of the present invention is downloaded.
[0033]
In FIG. 4, it is assumed that, for example, a WWW page 14 including English text having a large amount of data that does not fit on the display screen of the display 42 is downloaded to the WWW client 10.
[0034]
When the downloaded WWW page 14 is displayed on the screen by the WWW browser 30, only the top page portion 14a can be displayed corresponding to the screen area of the display 42, and the remaining pages are displayed as a broken line page 14b. Instead, it is displayed on the display 42 by a scroll operation.
[0035]
In this way, when the WWW page 14 having a data amount that requires scroll display is downloaded, the translation result is not displayed until the translation of the English text of all pages is completed by the conventional machine translation method, and it is very waiting. The time will be longer.
[0036]
On the other hand, according to the machine translation application unit 18 of the present invention shown in FIG. 2, as soon as the WWW page 14 is downloaded, a skeleton HTML screen is displayed with non-translatable data such as images and photos, and the user translates. Even if the result is not displayed, the outline of the downloaded WWW page can be fully grasped from the image and the photograph without the detailed content.
[0037]
In parallel with the immediate display of the skeleton HTML screen, translation of the English text to be translated is started in the background, and the paragraphs that have been translated at the timing determined by the set time of the refresh timer 26 are sequentially displayed on the skeleton HTML screen. Therefore, the user can see useful display contents of WWW pages that require scrolling with little awareness of the waiting time for machine translation performed in the background. .
[0038]
FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the translation result display process of the present invention by the machine translation application unit 18 of FIG. First, in step S1, the downloaded HTML data of the WWW page is separated into translation target data such as English text and non-translational data such as photographs and images.
[0039]
In step S2, the data to be translated is passed to the machine translation engine 24 to start translation. In step S3, a skeleton HTML is created by the HTML screen creation unit 22 based on the non-translatable data, and a refresh timer 26 is embedded in the WWW browser 30, and then the created skeleton HTML screen is displayed on the display in step S4. indicate.
[0040]
Subsequently, at step S5, the arrival of the set time of the refresh timer 26 is checked. When the refresh time is reached, the skeleton HTML that combines the translation data at the stage of translation completed by the machine translation engine 24 at step S6 is converted into the skeleton HTML synthesis unit. 28 and displayed on the WWW browser 30.
[0041]
Subsequently, in step S7, the WWW browser 30 resets and restarts the refresh timer 26, and repeats the processing from step S5 until all translations are completed in step S8. Until the refresh timer 26 reaches the refresh time, the processing in steps S6 and S7 is skipped, and it is checked in step S8 whether all translations are completed.
[0042]
Therefore, when all the translations are completed in the machine translation engine 24 before the refresh timer 26 reaches the refresh time, the process proceeds to step S9 at that time, and the skeleton HTML skeleton to which the translation data up to the last paragraph for which translation is completed is added. Is obtained from the HTML composition unit 28 and displayed.
[0043]
Note that the display of the screen on which the final translation result when the translation is completed may be displayed after the refresh time of the refresh timer 26 after the translation is completed.
[0044]
FIG. 6 is a specific example of a WWW page 14 having a downloaded English text structure processed by the machine translation application unit 18 of FIG. The WWW page of this English text structure is created based on the HTML sentence of FIG. The HTML sentence includes an English sentence displayed on the page screen, and the machine translation engine 24 translates the English sentence into a Japanese sentence.
[0045]
FIG. 8 is a skeleton HTML screen created from non-translation target data after downloading a WWW page with an English text structure and separating the data into translation target data and non-translation target data.
[0046]
Although the contents of the English text in Fig. 6 are not displayed on this skeleton HTML screen, the original page contents are displayed as they are for the other images and photos, and the details are unknown. It can be grasped roughly whether it is the contents of a page.
[0047]
FIG. 9 is a skeleton HTML sentence separated from the original HTML sentence of FIG. 9 to display the skeleton HTML screen of FIG.
[0048]
FIG. 10 is a skeleton HTML screen in which a translated paragraph is additionally displayed on the skeleton HTML screen of FIG. The screen display with the addition of the Japanese paragraph for which translation has been completed is performed at every interval determined by the set time of the refresh timer.
[0049]
For example, by setting a time of about 1 second as the setting time of the refresh timer, the translation results are displayed successively and sequentially with little awareness of the user.
[0050]
In particular, in the case of a WWW page 14 that requires scroll display as shown in FIG. 10, the translation result added to the portion that appears on the display 42 by scrolling will be seen for the first time when the user scrolls. Since the translation is almost complete at the stage, the waiting time is almost unaware of the translated part to be scrolled.
[0051]
Next, an embodiment of a computer-readable recording medium storing the translation result display program of the present invention will be described. The program for realizing the function as the translation result display device of the present invention includes a separation unit 20, an HTML screen creation unit 22 for embedding a refresh timer 26 in the WWW browser 20, and a machine translation, like the machine translation application unit 18 of FIG. For example, it is created as an application program having the function of the engine 24 and running on Windows.
[0052]
Thus, the translation result display program for realizing the functions of the present invention is stored in a portable recording medium such as a CD-ROM, floppy disk, DVD, magneto-optical disk, IC card, or using a modem or a LAN interface. Installed from a database or other computer system.
[0053]
The installed translation result display program of the present invention is input to a computer system and executed as a translation tool of a WWW client, for example. In this case, the translation result display program of the present invention installed in the computer is stored in the hard disk HDD and executed by the CPU using a RAM or the like.
[0054]
In the above embodiment, the case where a WWW page including English text is downloaded and the English text is machine-translated into Japanese is taken as an example. However, other than this, a WWW page created in an appropriate language The same can be applied to the case of machine translation into other languages.
[0055]
Moreover, this invention is not limited to said embodiment, The appropriate deformation | transformation which does not impair the objective and advantage is included. Furthermore, the present invention is not limited by the numerical values shown in the above embodiments.
[0056]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, when the original text of a WWW page downloaded from a WWW server on the Internet is translated and displayed, a skeleton HTML screen based on images and photographs that do not require translation is immediately displayed. Then, since the paragraphs that have been translated are displayed in succession, the user is almost aware of the waiting time for translation even when downloading a page with a data amount that takes a very long time to complete all the translations. Therefore, the useful data of the page contents can be efficiently utilized from the immediate display of the skeleton HTML screen of the WWW page and the sequential display of the translation result following this.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the principle of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration according to the present invention. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a data processing flow according to the present invention. FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the processing operation of the present invention. FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a specific HTML screen of an English sentence WWW page to be processed by the present invention. FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of an HTML sentence that displays the screen of FIG. FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of a skeleton HTML screen that is immediately displayed in the present invention. FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of a skeleton HTML sentence that displays the screen of FIG. 8. FIG. 10 is an additional display of a paragraph that has been translated. Illustration of the skeleton HTML screen [Fig. 11] Illustration of the skeleton HTML sentence that displays the screen of Fig. 10 [Explanation of symbols]
10: Client 12: WWW Server 14: WWW Page 16: Internet 18: Separation Unit 20: HTML Screen Creation Negative 24: Machine Translation Encin (Machine Translation Unit)
26: WWW browsers 34-1, 34-2: Data not subject to translation (images, etc.)
36-1, 36-2: Data to be translated (English data, etc.)
38-1: Skeleton HTML screen (initial screen)
38-1: Skeleton HTML screen (additional display screen)
40-1, 40-2: Translation results (Japanese data, etc.)
42: Display

Claims (3)

In the translation result display device that translates the original text downloaded from the server into a predetermined language and displays it in the browser,
A separation unit for separating the original text into data to be translated and data to be translated;
A machine translation unit for translating the data to be translated into the language;
An HTML screen creation unit that configures a skeleton HTML from the non-translation data and displays it immediately, and additionally displays the skeleton HTML from a paragraph that has been translated by the machine translation unit;
A translation result display device characterized by comprising: In the translation result method, the original text downloaded from the server is translated into a predetermined language and displayed on the browser.
A separation step of separating the original text into translation target data and non-translation target data by a separation unit ;
A display step of forming a skeleton HTML from the separated non-translatable data by the display unit and immediately displaying it on the screen;
An additional display step for starting a translation process for translating the data to be translated simultaneously separated into the language by the additional display unit, and additionally displaying the translation completed paragraph on the skeleton HTML;
A translation result display method characterized by comprising: In a computer- readable recording medium storing a translation result display program for translating original text downloaded from a server into a predetermined language and displaying it on a browser,
On the computer,
A separation procedure for separating the original text into data to be translated and data to be translated;
A display procedure for constructing a skeleton HTML from the separated non-translatable data and immediately displaying it on the screen;
A translation procedure for simultaneously transferring the data to be translated to a machine translation program and starting translation processing into the language;
An additional display procedure for additionally displaying in the skeleton HTML from the paragraph that has been translated by the machine translation program;
The computer-readable recording medium which recorded the program for performing this .

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