SYSTEM FOR TRANSLATING A SOURCE LANGUAGE WORD WITH A PREFIX INTO A TARGET LANGUAGE WORD WITH MULTIPLE FORMS

摘要

A translating apparatus includes: a prefix table for storing a prefix and a plurality of translated words of the prefix such that the translated words of the prefix are, respectively, composed of different kinds of characters of a target language. There is in the apparatus a prefix decision device for deciding whether or not one of morphemes obtained by a morphological analysis portion is a basic word combined with the prefix. The apparatus also has a character discriminating device for discriminating, in the case where it has been decided by the prefix decision device that the one of the morphemes obtained by the morphological analysis portion is the basic word combined with the prefix, a kind of characters of a translated word of the basic word. In addition there is a prefix translating device in the apparatus for generating one of the translated words of the prefix from the prefix table such that the one of the translated words of the prefix is composed of characters of the same kind as that of the characters of the translated word of the basic word, which has been discriminated by the character discriminating device.