摘要 |
PURPOSE:To facilitate reading and understanding of object language by selecting and presenting only information on target language of a part of speech and a translated word, etc. CONSTITUTION:An input document 31 is inputted by an OCR 32, etc. In that case, not only the contents of the document, but also information (font, multiple column, etc.) related to a format of the document are stored simultaneously. The inputted document is divided into morphemes by a morpheme analysis processing, and allowed to consult a dictionary. To a part of speech of the divided morpheme, a part-of-speech estimation processing is performed, based on part-of-speech connection probability, and an optimal part of speech is determined with respect to each morpheme. In accordance with the determined optimal part of speech, information (translated word, etc.) of second language is retrieved. A first language sentence and information of second language are allowed to correspond to each other, and in accordance with format information stored previously, an output form in shaped. In the end, a parallel translation document is outputted by a printer, etc. |