TRANSLATION JUDGMENT DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM

摘要

It is possible to realize a high possibility of obtaining a natural translation as a target language translated from an original language and an appropriate translation of a phrase to be translated in an original sentence. A translation database contains a plurality of natural sentences of the original language, each consisting of a plurality of words and correlated with a translated sentence of the target language. When a phrase to be translated is specified in the original sentence of the original language, a natural sentence containing the phrase to be translated is searched in the translation database (102). If no natural sentence coincide with the original sentence completely (No in 104), the matching degrees between the natural sentences extracted and the original sentences are calculated. The translation of the natural sentence having the maximum matching degree is displayed (108-112). When there are a plurality of natural sentences having the maximum matching degree (Yes in 110), a word having a high correlation and existing in the same sentence as the phrase to be translated is judged and a translation of a natural sentence containing the word of high correlation is displayed (114-118). If there is no natural sentence having a word of a high correlation (No in 116), a word which can replace the word in attention in the original sentence is recognized (120-128) and a translation of the natural sentence in which the word in attention is replaced by the alternative word as compared to the original sentence is displayed.