Abstract: A machine translation system having an idiom processing function is disclosed, which includes a keyboard for inputting a word sequence of a first language; a dictionary memory for storing therein idioms of the first language including at least two fixed portions and a variable portion interposed therebetween as headers and translated expressions in a second language corresponding to the respective headers; and a control processor for performing a registration process for newly or additionally registering a header of the first language and translated expressions in the second language corresponding to the header into the dictionary memory, a dictionary lookup process for retrieving a header corresponding to an idiom included in the word sequence of the first language input by means of the keyboard from the headers stored in the dictionary memory by comparing the word sequence of the first language with each of the headers, and an idiom processing process for normalizing an arrangement of fixed portions in a wo

Abstract: In a machine translation system, a default translation flag for indicating a default equivalent word is set in a dictionary in a memory. A normal equivalent-word selector of a translation module executes semantic analysis on a case structure tree determined by a dictionary-lookup morpheme analyzing part, a syntax analyzer, and a tree structure transforming unit. If the case structure tree has failed in the semantic analysis, a special equivalent-word selector executes a default translation processing to adopt the default equivalent word indicated by the default translation as an optimum equivalent word such that the case structure tree is passed. Thus, even if the case structure tree has failed in the semantic analysis due to strict semantic restrictions, a translation can be securely generated. Further, if the case structure tree has not failed in the semantic analysis, a high-accuracy translation can be generated.

Abstract: A translation machine is arranged to derive two or more syntaxes from one original sentence, determine which of the syntaxes is the most approximate according to a syntax priority rule given by a user or a manufacturer and output a translated sentence based on the most approximate syntax. The translation machine includes a memory, a translating module and a main CPU as main components. The memory serves to store a partial structure of each syntax and a syntax priority rule containing a numerical value indicating a priority of the partial structure and an incidental condition of the syntax. The translating module serves to collide the syntax priority rule stored in the memory with the syntax of the original sentence and giving a proper evaluating value to the syntax of the original sentence. The main CPU serves to output the translated sentences on the syntaxes derived from the original sentence according to their larger evaluating values.

Abstract: An apparatus for aiding adding to a dictionary words which take various forms such as irregular verbs, phrasal expressions, etc. includes: a unit for obtaining the original form of a target word which a user desires to add to the dictionary; a unit for receiving variants of the target word input by the user from a prescribed input region; a manually operable input unit for editing, at a cursor position, a character string displayed on the input region; a unit for displaying the original form on the input region and positioning the cursor at a character location with the highest possibility that the original form and a variant form are different, prior to receiving the variant; and a unit for storing the original form and the variant in association with each other into a user dictionary. A language processing apparatus including such an apparatus for aiding adding to a dictionary is also disclosed.

Abstract: A translation module applies an original having a sign string inserted through a keyboard to carry out a translation process of the original while interpreting the sign string in the original based on a corresponding information for supporting the translation process stored in a memory. The sign string stored in memory which is referred to at the time of translation process can be defined arbitrarily by a user of an electronic translating apparatus. Therefore, even if the sign string already exists in the original, it can be avoided that the sign string in the original is misidentified as the sign string supporting the translation process. Conversely, since a delimiter sign already existing in the original is interpreted as a sign string supporting the translation process, the load of inserting the sign string into the original can be lightened.

Abstract: A translation machine capable of translating a sentence in a source language with an ambiguous parallel disposition of words and/or phrases into an accurate sentence in a target language includes a unit (151) for looking-up dictionaries and for analyzing morphological of the sentence in the source language input to the translation machine so as to provide a part of speech of the analyzed morphological, a unit (152) connected to the dictionary look up and morphological analyzing unit (151) for analyzing a syntactic of the sentence based on the obtained parts of speech of the morphological by using grammatical rules stored in the dictionary look up and morphological analyzing unit (151), a unit (153) connected to the syntactic analyzing unit (152) for transforming the analyzed syntactic into a syntactic in a target language, and a unit (154) connected to the transforming unit (153) for generating a translated sentence in the target language in accordance with the transformed syntactic in the target language.

Abstract: A translation machine which is capable of analyzing a syntactic of a sentence having a complicated or an ambiguous modifying structure of the words composing the sentence includes a dictionary consulting and morpheme analyzing unit (151) for consulting dictionaries and for analyzing morphemes of a sentence in a source language input to the translation machine so as to provide a part of speech of the analyzed morpheme, a syntactic analysis unit (152) connected to the dictionary consulting and morpheme analyzing unit (151) for analyzing a syntactic of the sentence based on the obtained parts of speech of the morphemes by using grammatical rules stored in the dictionary consulting and morpheme analyzing unit (151), a transforming unit (153) connected to the syntactic analysis unit (152) for transforming the analyzed syntactic into a syntactic of a target language, a translated sentence creating unit (154) connected to the transforming unit (153) for creating a translated sentence of the target language, and a br