Abstract: A communication support apparatus includes an analyzing unit that analyzes an source language sentence to be translated into a target language, and outputs at least one source language interpretation candidate which is a candidate for interpretation of the source language sentence; a detecting unit that, when there are a plurality of the source language interpretation candidates, detects an ambiguous part which is a different part between the respective candidates in the plurality of source language interpretation candidates; a translation unit that translates the source language interpretation candidate except the ambiguous part into the target language.

Abstract: A communication supporting apparatus includes a supplemental example storing unit that stores a source language interpretation which is an interpretation of a semantic content of a source language sentence to be translated, and a supplemental example sentence which is an example of a sentence for supporting the semantic content, in association with each other; an input accepting unit that accepts the source language sentence input by a user; an analyzing unit that analyzes the semantic content of the source language sentence and outputs the source language interpretation; a search unit that searches for the supplemental example sentence associated with the source language interpretation from the supplemental example storing unit; and a translation unit that translates the source language sentence and the supplemental example sentence into a target language.