Method and apparatus for machine translation

摘要

A method and apparatus settles the ambiguity of the meaning of a word having a plurality of meanings in a first language to make source sentences in the first language correspond in the most appropriate way to translated sentences in a second language. Source sentences in the first language to be translated are entered to an input unit. Through the input unit source sentences are entered to a polysemous word settlement unit via an entered sentences analyzing unit. A characteristics table generation part stores a characteristics table in which each meaning is preliminarily associated with each characteristic with respect to polysemous words. A characteristics record generation part generates a characteristics record to compare the characteristics table and the characteristics record, thereby selecting and outputting the meaning of the polysemous word based on the characteristics in the source sentences. Each word whose ambiguity has been settled at the polysemous word settlement unit is translated at a correlative translation processing unit to be output to an output unit.