Abstract: A dialogue control system that uses an ontology that systematically expresses domain knowledge representing concepts and relationships between concepts to determine questions for a user and implements the questions, and implements a dialogue in accordance with received user answers. One or more dimension-classified ontologies and a basic ontology are stored, a concept from a user response is specified as a condition, and one or a plural number of the dimension-classified ontologies that meet the specified condition are fetched. The content of the fetched dimension-classified ontology/ies is overwritten on the basic ontology, in order according to dimension priorities from the dimension-classified ontology with the lowest dimension priority, and a multidimensional ontology is generated. The dialogue control system uses this multidimensional ontology to control the dialogue.

Abstract: A dialogue control system that uses an ontology that systematically expresses domain knowledge representing concepts and relationships between concepts to determine questions for a user and implements the questions, and implements a dialogue in accordance with received user answers. One or more dimension-classified ontologies and a basic ontology are stored, a concept from a user response is specified as a condition, and one or a plural number of the dimension-classified ontologies that meet the specified condition are fetched. The content of the fetched dimension-classified ontology/ies is overwritten on the basic ontology, in order according to dimension priorities from the dimension-classified ontology with the lowest dimension priority, and a multidimensional ontology is generated. The dialogue control system uses this multidimensional ontology to control the dialogue.

Abstract: A user speech analyzing component poses, to a user, question sentences for respective ones of a plurality of attributes, and analyzes an attribute value for each of the attributes from an answer sentence from the user to the sentence question. A user data holding component, as a result of analysis, holds user data that allows the plurality of attributes, and respective user attribute values for the attributes to correspond to one another. A matching component, when an acquisition ratio of the attribute values from the user with respect to all of the attributes is a predetermined value or greater, selects at least one target data candidate that matches each of the attributes and each of the attribute values of the user data, from a plurality of target data. A dialogue control component outputs each of the target data candidates selected, to the user's side.

Abstract: A Web browser obtains a document in which a pointer indicative of an address in a translating unit has been defined among documents from an HTTP server unit. When translation is instructed by the user, the Web browser transmits a translation request message together with a URL of the document to the translating unit. The translating unit obtains the document corresponding to the supplied URL and transmits a translation result to the Web browser. A document whose translation is not permitted is prevented from being translated.

Abstract: In order to realize an alignment system for multilingual documents as efficiently aligns sentences among the documents of the same contents formed of a plurality of languages, an alignment system for multilingual documents according to the present invention comprises morphological analysis means for dividing the documents in n sorts of languages (: n being a natural number of at least 2), every word, means for selecting two of the n sorts of languages of the documents, means for computing an evaluation function for the documents in the two selected sorts of languages, and means for aligning the documents in the n sorts of languages in accordance with evaluated results.

Abstract: A natural-language processing system such as a machine-translation system employs a tree structure of increasingly specialized system dictionaries and attaches user dictionaries to individual system dictionaries in the tree, or helps users edit their user dictionaries by displaying lists of unknown words encountered in translations, or uploads processing programs such as translation engines to a dictionary server to make dictionary access more efficient, or combines a source document and a machine translation thereof into a single document in such a way that the reader of the translation can conveniently see the original source text, or automatically converts contact information in a source document to contact information more suitable for inclusion in a machine translation of the document.

Abstract: The dictionaries which each of translators made are registered in translator dictionary database (11) of translation mediate server (4) being divided into each special field where corresponding translators belong. And, the client requesting for translation sends document to be translated, from for example, client terminal (1A) to translation mediate server (4). There, automatic translating means (10) reads out translation dictionary corresponding to this document field of translator dictionary database (11). And, it performs automatic translation of the document by using this dictionary. This translation result is sent to client terminal (1A), for the client requesting for translation to select the best translator. The selected translator is informed of translation request at his or her terminal, for example, translator terminal (2A).

Abstract: An electronic bulletin board system (BBS) having a translation function is provided.

Abstract: A Web browser 34 obtains a document in which a pointer indicative of an address in a translating unit 12 has been defined among documents from an HTTP server unit 43. When translation is instructed by the user, the Web browser transmits a translation request message together with a URL of the document to the translating unit 12. The translating unit 12 obtains the document corresponding to the supplied URL and transmits a translation result to the Web browser 34. It is prevented that the document whose translation is not permitted is translated.