Abstract: When it accepts an input sentence, the present apparatus divides the input sentence into substrings through morpheme analysis and obtains a candidate word group for translation of the substrings from a machine translation dictionary. It then obtains information on occurrence of each candidate word in the candidate word group within a bilingual example sentence database and calculates their priorities based on the occurrence information. Then, it grants priority as translation to each of the candidate words to generate a prioritized candidate word group and sorts the candidate words in descending order of priority for output.

Abstract: A translator support device consists of a display device, an input device, and a main body to which these devices are connected. The main body has a CPU, a DRAM, a MD, and a HDD built-in. A translator support software is installed in the HDD. The translator support software consists of a program group and a data group that operate a computer as a device to support a translator. The translator support software includes a machine translation module, a dictionary database, a translation-memory-retrieval module, and a translation example database. When a translated phrase displayed on the display device is corrected, the translator support device retrieves units that include the correction portion from the database, reflects the correction to each of all the retrieved units.

Abstract: A translation support program that makes association between words or phrases in an original sentence and a corresponding translation sentence easy. A similar translation example retrieval section extracts similar translation examples similar to an input sentence and rearranges the similar translation examples in order according to their similarity degrees. When a search result display section displays search results, first a word association section performs association between words or phrases in a first language sentence in a first language and a second language sentence in a second language included in each similar translation example by the use of a bilingual dictionary. The similar translation examples are displayed in order of similarity degree. Combinations of three sentences, that is to say, of the input sentence and a first language sentence in the first language and a second language sentence in the second language included in each similar translation example are displayed.

Abstract: A translation system having a translation receiving device that receives a source document to be translated, divides the source document into specified units of text, produces translation control information corresponding to the respective specified units and requests translation of the text. A translation device receives the text from the translation receiving device, and translates the text using the translation control information.