Abstract: A moving object navigation apparatus includes an input section, a map information memory section, a database, a coordinate retrieval section, a route calculation section, and an output section. The input section inputs institution names indicating the present location of a moving object and a destination by using a natural language. The map information memory section stores a map including information of roads and institutions. The database stores the relationship between the institution names on the map stored in the memory and position indexes. The coordinate retrieval section retrieves the institution names indicating the present location and the destination, which are input by the input section, from the database, and outputs corresponding position indexes. The route calculation section obtains the shortest route between the position indexes of the present location and the destination, which are output from the coordinate retrieval section, by referring to the map stored in the memory.

Abstract: A system for helping the production of a desired translation by aiding the operator to make revisions within the text results of each stage of the translation process. The system achieves this goal by receiving text inputted by the operator and conferring IDs to each character of text, and for this text, successively proceeding through morphological analysis, conferring of equivalents to content words, and conversion of sentence structure to that of the target language while referring to a dictionary/grammar section and conferring IDs to corresponding language units. Text corresponding to each stage is stored and moreover, the stage to which translation has advanced is detected, and upon receiving a designation as to which translation stage the operator wishes to have displayed, outputted text of the translation process designated by the operator is copied from the corresponding buffer if the most advanced translation process at that time is beyond the designated translation stage.