Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a translation system capable of preventing translation accuracy from being decreased by an increase of new phrases or the like.

Abstract: A translation method reduces the time required for display of the translation of a web page. Based on a translation request, a translation service server requests a translation engine translate an HTML document. The translation service server also extracts image tags from the HTML, and transmits the dummy tags to the browser based on the image tags. The browser requests image data based on the image tags, and obtains image data. The translation service server receives the translation from the translation engine, and transmits it to the browser. During the display rendering process for the HTML document based on the translation, the browser employs image data that has already been.

Abstract: In a machine translation environment, a context-specific domain directory must sometimes be selected to provide a proper translation in context. A database for trigger patterns associated with specific domains is prepared. When a resource is to be translated, appearances of the pattern within the resource are detected. If appearance frequency for at least one domain exceeds a threshold value, the appearance frequency for that domain is compared to the appearance frequency for other domains. If the appearance frequency for the one domain is found to be significantly higher, the dictionary for that domain is selected for the translation.

Abstract: To provide a highly accurate sentence segmentation process in natural language processing by estimating parts of speech of words in text to be processed. Dictionary data is used to perform a sentence segmentation process on a text to be processed. If it cannot be determined through a user of the dictionary data whether the text should be broken into sentences, the parts of speech of words constituting the text are estimated and a further sentence segmentation process is performed based on the result of the estimation.