Abstract: An apparatus supports input of a translation text that corresponds to an original text, using a database in which original words in a first language and translation words respectively corresponding to the original words in a second language are associated. The apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a retrieving unit, a receiving unit, an extracting unit, and a displaying unit. The acquiring unit acquires plural original words by decomposing the original text. The retrieving unit retrieves translation words that are associated, in the database, with the acquired original words. The receiving unit receives input of a character string in the second language. The extracting unit extracts, from the retrieved translation words, translation words that match with and relate to the character string in the second language, as candidates. The displaying unit displays the candidates on a display.

Abstract: A confirmation link edition unit receives a confirmation link specified by a user. A paragraph correlation unit respectively divides an English text and a Japanese text into a plurality of paragraphs according to the specified confirmation link. A segment correlation calculation unit correlates an English segment to a Japanese segment for each paragraph. A correlation edition unit provides a user the correspondence obtained by the segment correlation calculation unit, and edits the correspondence according to a correction instruction from the user if any.

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: 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: An interface unit issues input/output instructions regarding an input of a translation target sentence, an output of a translated sentence, and a translation control. A machine translating apparatus translates a document in a certain language into a document in another language. A translation memory device translates a sentence by searching an original/translation database in which sentences in a certain language and original/translation sentences in another language corresponding thereto have been accumulated. A data compatible processing unit makes original/translation information translated by the machine translating apparatus and original/translation information translated by the translation memory device common, thereby enabling them to be fetched mutually as original/translation information.

Abstract: A confirmation link edition unit receives a confirmation link specified by a user. A paragraph correlation unit respectively divides an English text and a Japanese text into a plurality of paragraphs according to the specified confirmation link. A segment correlation calculation unit correlates an English segment to a Japanese segment for each paragraph. A correlation edition unit provides a user the correspondence obtained by the segment correlation calculation unit, and edits the correspondence according to a correction instruction from the user if any.

Abstract: A translation support device for supporting a process of translating an original sentence in a language into another language, comprising a partial expression setting unit, a dummy head setting unit, an original sentence replacement unit, a translated sentence obtaining unit, and a translated sentence replacement unit.

Abstract: A translation apparatus translates a translation target sentence in a source language into a translation sentence in a target language. Source words in sample sentences in the source language and a translation word that represents translation of the corresponding source word in the target language are stored in correlated form. For a given translation target sentence, translation words that correspond to each word in the translation target sentence are extracted as translation candidate words from the stored contents. The translation words extracted are displayed along with a specific word in the translation target sentence.

Abstract: When a keyword described in Japanese is input, the input keyword is converted from Japanese into English. Thus, a retrieval keyword described in English is generated based on the input keyword described in Japanese. Documents that are described in English and that contain the retrieval keyword described in English are retrieved from a database. The retrieved documents are translated from English into Japanese. The documents translated into Japanese are compared with the input keyword described in Japanese. Thus, the validity of the results retrieved from the database is evaluated. Thus, even if the language of a database from which the data is retrieved is different from the language of the input keyword, retrieved results exactly based on the input keyword can be output.

Abstract: When data is converted between a first data and a second data, a relevant information conversion unit performs a process of the first data also on a third data associated with the first data, and outputs the third data associated with the first data as having the same data type as the second data. Thus, original information and the relevant information can be displayed as the same data type.

Abstract: If a context process range extending unit cannot obtain context information required by a context processing unit, from a range to be translated, it extends the context process range. Then, the context processing unit performs a context process, and passes extracted context information to a translation processing unit in order to perform translation, based on the extended context process range.

Abstract: An interface unit issues input/output instructions regarding an input of a translation target sentence, an output of a translated sentence, and a translation control. A machine translating apparatus translates a document in a certain language into a document in another language. A translation memory device translates a sentence by searching an original/translation database in which sentences in a certain language and original/translation sentences in another language corresponding thereto have been accumulated. A data compatible processing unit makes original/translation information translated by the machine translating apparatus and original/translation information translated by the translation memory device common, thereby enabling them to be fetched mutually as original/translation information.

Abstract: If a context process range extending unit cannot obtain context information required by a context processing unit, from a range to be translated, it extends the context process range. Then, the context processing unit performs a context process, and passes extracted context information to a translation processing unit in order to perform translation, based on the extended context process range.

Abstract: When data is converted between the first data and the second data, a relevant information conversion unit performs a process of the first data also on the third data associated with the first data, and outputs the third data associated with the first data as having the same data type as the second data. Thus, original information and the relevant information can be displayed as the dame data type.

Abstract: When a keyword described in Japanese is input, the input keyword is converted from Japanese into English. Thus, a retrieval keyword described in English is generated based on the input keyword described in Japanese. Documents that are described in English and that contain the retrieval keyword described in English are retrieved from a database. The retrieved documents are translated from English into Japanese. The documents translated into Japanese are compared with the input keyword described in Japanese. Thus, the validity of the results retrieved from the database is evaluated. Thus, even if the language of a database from which the data is retrieved is different from the language of the input keyword, retrieved results exactly based on the input keyword can be output.

Abstract: If a context process range extending unit cannot obtain context information required by a context processing unit, from a range to be translated, it extends the context process range. Then, the context processing unit performs a context process, and passes extracted context information to a translation processing unit in order to perform translation, based on the extended context process range.

Abstract: An information searching apparatus converts an input key-term into key-terms for searching the database by at least two times of expansions using a related-term dictionary and a translation dictionary, and stores the history of the expansions in the form of a tree structure. Then, a part or the whole of the thus-stored tree structure is displayed on a screen. A searcher designates appropriate terms among the thus-displayed information as key-terms for searching.

Abstract: If a context process range extending unit cannot obtain context information required by a context processing unit, from a range to be translated, it extends the context process range. Then, the context processing unit performs a context process, and passes extracted context information to a translation processing unit in order to perform translation, based on the extended context process range.

Abstract: A deformable cap for scalp cooling is provided. The cap contains a cap member obtained by discharging air inside a hollow ball made of flexible material and a plurality of small pieces of high water content hydrogel contained in the cap member. The hydrogel is prepared by casting an aqueous solution of polyvinyl alcohol into a mold, cooling the cast aqueous solution to -10.degree. C. or lower to obtain a cooled frozen mass followed either by thawing the cooled frozen mass and one to seven additional cooling and thawing operations or by partially dehydrating the cooled frozen mass in vacuum.