JPH0816911B2 - Chinese to Japanese translation method - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial application] The present invention relates to a method for translating a Chinese sentence into Japanese in response to a combination input of phonetic symbols and tone symbols and outputting a Japanese sentence.

[Conventional technology]

In the past, this type of translation was being developed for translation from Japanese to English or from English to Japanese, but there was no translation method for translation from Chinese to Japanese.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

The above-mentioned conventional translation from Chinese to Japanese has a drawback that it cannot be translated because there is no Chinese translation dictionary file.

[Means for solving problems]

According to the present invention, in order to sequentially input a phonetic symbol in the alphabet corresponding to a phonetic symbol and then a tone in a number corresponding to a tone symbol in units of the word character pattern of each word constituting a Chinese word character pattern. Keyboard means, numbers corresponding to the alphabet and tone corresponding to the pronunciation of each word constituting the Chinese word character pattern, and a Japanese word character pattern and Japanese corresponding to this Chinese word character pattern Dictionary file means for storing a set of part-of-speech parts, numbers corresponding to phonetic symbols and tone symbols from the keyboard means, and alphabets and tone symbols corresponding to phonetic symbols from the dictionary file means And a comparison means for comparing the numbers to be compared in units of Chinese word character patterns, and the Chinese from this comparison means. The word character pattern is displayed, and when there are a plurality of Chinese word character patterns for the same tone with the same phonetic symbol, the desired Chinese word character pattern is selected from among them, and the comparison means In response to the Chinese word character pattern and the desired Chinese word character pattern, the Japanese word character pattern and the Japanese part of speech are read from the dictionary file means, and the Japanese grammar is based on the Japanese part of speech. And rearranging means for rearranging the Japanese word character patterns according to the above, and particle adding means for adding a Japanese particle to the Japanese word character patterns rearranged by the rearranging means according to Japanese grammar.

〔Example〕

 Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

Referring to FIG. 1, which illustrates an embodiment in accordance with the principles of the present invention, a phonetic symbol, a tone symbol and a display (CRT).
Keyboard (KB) 2 for inputting numbers for selecting Chinese words displayed in 1, 2, Display (CRT) 1, and information for displaying Chinese words matching phonetic symbols and tone symbols input from keyboard 2 A Japanese processing terminal 4 consisting of a Kanji line printer (KLP) 3 that outputs Japanese sentences translated by the processing system, an information processing system 5 that performs translation work, and a dictionary file that converts Chinese into Japanese. 6, a work file 7, and a grammar file 8 for creating a Japanese sentence.

Next, an example of a translation method from a Chinese sentence into a Japanese sentence using the dictionary and file of the present invention will be specifically described.

When translating a Chinese sentence, phonetic symbols and tone symbols are input in word units from the keyboard (KB) 2. Here, a method of inputting a tone symbol will be described. There are the following four types of tones, but since the tone symbols themselves cannot be entered from the keyboard (KB) 2, they are converted into numbers and entered. For example, Is.

First, when "WEI4 △ LE4," is input from the keyboard (KB) 2, the phonetic symbols of the dictionary file 6 and the contents of the tone symbols are compared by the comparing means 9 in units of word character patterns, and the matched ones are found. Taken out. An example of the structure of this dictionary file 6 is shown in the table below. Those that match "WEI4 △ LE4," are Chinese words And the Japanese word “for” and the part-of-speech “conjunction”, and the Chinese word Is displayed on the display (CRT) 1, and the Japanese word and part of speech “for (contact)” are filed in the work file 7.

When the Chinese word displayed on the display (CRT) 1 has a plurality of the same phonetic symbols and the same tones, a plurality of Chinese words are displayed and selected by the keyboard (KB) 2.

For example, in the case of "WEI4 △ LE4," the display (CRT)
Display on 1 Is displayed and if you enter "1" from the keyboard (KB) 2, Is selected.

 Thereafter, the input is made as shown in Table 2.

When the above input operation is completed, the display (CRT) 1
above Is displayed, and in the work file 7, it is filed as "(contact) celebrate for (passive) everyone (alternative) body (na) healthy (na. Auto) toast (na. Auto)" When the Japanese directly translated into words stored in File 7 is sorted by the sorting means 10 based on the part-of-speech by using the grammar of the Japanese grammar file, “All of you celebrate for your health, toast. Then, according to the rules of the grammar file, a particle in the table of the grammar file (not shown) is added to this sentence by the particle adding means 11, "Celebrate for your physical health, toast. However, this sentence is a written word, and when you use the grammar file to convert it into a spoken word and convert it with the conversion means 12, it becomes “celebrating your health and cheers”. KLP) 3. In this way, Chinese sentences can be translated into Japanese sentences by using the information processing system.

For the Japanese normalization method using the Japanese grammar file, refer to the publication "Information Processing VOL.26 NO.10" published by the Information Processing Society of Japan in October 1985.

Also, when creating a dictionary file I refer to the dictionary of (Jilin People's Edition) and the dictionary of Meiji Kokugo (Sanseido Publishing), but the dictionary file needs more than 55,000 words.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, a Chinese sentence can be translated into a Japanese sentence only by adding the dictionary file of the present invention to the conventional Japanese language processing system including the Japanese language processing terminal, the information processing system and the Japanese grammar file. There is an effect.

Further, by miniaturizing each of the constituent elements of the present invention, there is an effect that it can be used as a Chinese translator.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. 1 ... CRT, 2 ... KB, 3 ... KLP, 4 ... Japanese processing terminal, 5 ... information processing system, 6 ... dictionary file, 7
…… Work file, 8 …… Grammar file, 9 …… Comparison means, 10 …… Japanese word rearranging means, 11 …… Particle attaching means, 12 …… Writing to spoken language converting means.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A phonetic symbol in an alphabet corresponding to a phonetic symbol and then a tone in a number corresponding to a tone symbol of each word constituting a Chinese word character pattern are sequentially input in units of the word character pattern. Keyboard means for performing the above, a number corresponding to the alphabet and tone corresponding to the pronunciation of each word constituting the Chinese word character pattern, and a Japanese word character pattern and Japanese corresponding to this Chinese word character pattern Dictionary file means for storing a set of part-of-speech parts, numbers corresponding to phonetic symbols and tone symbols from the keyboard means, and alphabets and tone symbols corresponding to phonetic symbols from the dictionary file means The comparison means for comparing the numbers to be compared in units of Chinese word character patterns, and the Chinese from this comparison means When there are a plurality of Chinese word character patterns for the same tone with the same phonetic symbol, a desired Chinese word character pattern is selected from among them, and the comparison means is used. In response to the Chinese word character pattern and the desired Chinese word character pattern, the Japanese word character pattern and the Japanese part of speech are read out from the dictionary file means, and the Japanese part is based on the Japanese part of speech. A rearrangement means for rearranging the Japanese word character patterns according to the grammar; and a particle addition means for adding a Japanese particle to the Japanese word character patterns rearranged by the rearrangement means according to the Japanese grammar. The translation method from Chinese to Japanese.