Abstract: According to one embodiment, a reading aloud support apparatus includes a reception unit, a first extraction unit, a second extraction unit, an acquisition unit, a generation unit, a presentation unit. The reception unit is configured to receive an instruction. The first extraction unit is configured to extract, as a partial document, a part of a document which corresponds to a range of words. The second extraction unit is configured to perform morphological analysis and to extract words as candidate words. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire attribute information items relates to the candidate words. The generation unit is configured to perform weighting relating to a value corresponding a distance and to determine each of candidate words to be preferentially presented to generate a presentation order. The presentation unit is configured to present the candidate words and the attribute information items in accordance with the presentation order.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a reading aloud support apparatus includes a reception unit, a first extraction unit, a second extraction unit, an acquisition unit, a generation unit, a presentation unit. The reception unit is configured to receive an instruction. The first extraction unit is configured to extract, as a partial document, a part of a document which corresponds to a range of words. The second extraction unit is configured to perform morphological analysis and to extract words as candidate words. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire attribute information items relates to the candidate words. The generation unit is configured to perform weighting relating to a value corresponding a distance and to determine each of candidate words to be preferentially presented to generate a presentation order. The presentation unit is configured to present the candidate words and the attribute information items in accordance with the presentation order.

Abstract: An input unit receives an input sentence in a source language. A translation generating unit generates a translation in a target language with respect to a word included in the input sentence and likelihood of the translation in the target language. A correspondence-information creating unit creates correspondence information, in which the word is associated with the translation. A determining unit determines whether the likelihood generated with respect to the translation in the target language included in the correspondence information is larger than a predetermined threshold value. A learning-data creating unit creates learning data in which a word included in the input sentence is associated with the correspondence information including the translation in the target language having the likelihood larger than the threshold value.

Abstract: An apparatus for analyzing Chinese according to one aspect of the present invention includes a dependency structure analyzer analyzing a dependency relationship between words by extracting a parent word being a dependency destination of each of the words and a child word being a dependent from each of the words. The words are obtained by dividing a Chinese sentence. The apparatus also includes a lihe-word processor referring to lihe-word information that includes a first word and capable of being a part of a lihe-word and a second word forming the lihe-word with the first word. The lihe-word processor detects the first word and the second word from the words analyzed, and then changes a dependency destination of a word depending on both the first word and the second word to the lihe-word formed by combining the first word with the second word.

Abstract: A Japanese-to-Chinese machine translation apparatus includes, a translation dictionary memory that stores a Japanese-to-Chinese translation dictionary; a thesaurus memory that stores a Japanese thesaurus; a translation dictionary searching unit that searches the Japanese-to-Chinese translation dictionary for a Chinese word associated with an input Japanese word; a thesaurus searching unit that searches the Japanese thesaurus for the synonym associated the input Japanese word when plural Chinese words are hit as a result of search, a similarity calculating unit that calculates a degree of similarity between the synonym and the plural Chinese words for each Chinese word, and a translation selecting unit that selects a Chinese word with a highest degree of similarity as a translation of the input Japanese word.

Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus includes a document input unit configured to input a document including a reference term which a user refers to; a vocabulary storage unit configured to store a vocabulary list including a group of notation information, reading information and part of speech; a hypernym hyponym relation storage unit configured to store a hypernym hyponym relation tree on a concept between terms; a hypernym acquisition unit configured to search a hypernym of the reference term from the hypernym hyponym relation tree and to acquire the notation information and the part of speech of the hypernym from the vocabulary list; a correspondence storage unit configured to store a correspondence list showing correspondence between the hypernym and the reference term; a display unit configured to display the hypernym; a speech input unit configured to input speech, including the hypernym of the reference term, which the user speaks from the display unit; a speech recognition unit configured to convert the sp

Abstract: A word sequence storage unit correspondingly stores Japanese word sequences and Japanese parts-of-speech of the words in the Japanese word sequences. A part-of-speech correspondence storage unit correspondingly stores Japanese parts-of-speech and Chinese parts-of-speech. A translating unit translates an input Chinese word sequence into a Japanese word sequence. A searching unit searches in the word sequence storage unit for Japanese parts-of-speech respectively corresponding to the words in the translated Japanese word sequence. The determining unit determines that the Chinese parts-of-speech stored in the part-of-speech correspondence storage unit in correspondence with the Japanese parts-of-speech found in the search are the parts-of-speech of the Chinese words translated into the Japanese words of which the parts-of-speech were found in the search.

Abstract: An input unit receives an input sentence in a source language. A translation generating unit generates a translation in a target language with respect to a word included in the input sentence and likelihood of the translation in the target language. A correspondence-information creating unit creates correspondence information, in which the word is associated with the translation. A determining unit determines whether the likelihood generated with respect to the translation in the target language included in the correspondence information is larger than a predetermined threshold value. A learning-data creating unit creates learning data in which a word included in the input sentence is associated with the correspondence information including the translation in the target language having the likelihood larger than the threshold value.

Abstract: A Japanese-to-Chinese machine translation apparatus includes, a translation dictionary memory that stores a Japanese-to-Chinese translation dictionary; a thesaurus memory that stores a Japanese thesaurus; a translation dictionary searching unit that searches the Japanese-to-Chinese translation dictionary for a Chinese word associated with an input Japanese word; a thesaurus searching unit that searches the Japanese thesaurus for the synonym associated the input Japanese word when plural Chinese words are hit as a result of search, a similarity calculating unit that calculates a degree of similarity between the synonym and the plural Chinese words for each Chinese word, and a translation selecting unit that selects a Chinese word with a highest degree of similarity as a translation of the input Japanese word.

Abstract: A Japanese-to-Chinese machine translation apparatus includes an unregistered word determining unit that determines whether a Japanese word of a Japanese sentence is an unregistered word not registered in a Japanese-to-Chinese translation dictionary. The Japanese-to-Chinese translation dictionary contains Japanese words into which the Japanese sentence is divided, associated with Chinese words. The apparatus also includes an unregistered-word translation generating unit that, when the unregistered word determining unit determines that the Japanese word is the unregistered word, divides the unregistered word into a hiragana string and a non-hiragana string, generates a translation of the non-hiragana string, and does not generate a translation of the hiragana string.

Abstract: An apparatus for analyzing Chinese according to one aspect of the present invention includes a dependency structure analyzer analyzing a dependency relationship between words by extracting a parent word being a dependency destination of each of the words and a child word being a dependent from each of the words. The words are obtained by dividing a Chinese sentence. The apparatus also includes a lihe-word processor referring to lihe-word information that includes a first word and capable of being a part of a lihe-word and a second word forming the lihe-word with the first word. The lihe-word processor detects the first word and the second word from the words analyzed, and then changes a dependency destination of a word depending on both the first word and the second word to the lihe-word formed by combining the first word with the second word.

Abstract: A communication support apparatus comprises an acquisition unit configured to acquire source-language information represented in a first language, a first determination unit configured to determine a level of importance of the source-language information, a setting unit configured to set, based on the level of importance, an accuracy of translation with which the source-language information is translated into corresponding language information represented in a second language, and a translation unit configured to translate the source-language information into the corresponding language information with the accuracy.