MACHINE TRANSLATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate the translation of an appropriate phrase according to the context information or field information of a document when performing translation using a translation example.

SOLUTION: A translation example which is the same or similar to an original for translation is searched by a translation example search means 32 from a translation example database 29 by using an original for translation as a search key. A difference associating means 33 makes a phrase in the translation of a translation example in which editing is required to a difference part of the original of the searched translation example and the original for translation associated with the phrase in the original for translation. A difference phrase translation obtaining means 34 obtains a word used for translation according to the context or the field in the original for translation using information other than the phrase in the original for translation to the phrase in the original for translation associated with the phrase in the translation of the translation example. The translation is completed by replacing the phrase in the translation of the translation example which requires editing with the obtained word used in translation.

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