Interlingual communication translation method and system

摘要

In a communication system such as a telephone system and an electronic mail system with language translating function, wherein between a terminal (1) of a first language and a terminal (2) of a second language, sentences inputted from the first-language terminal are translated into the second-language and the translated sentences are outputted to the second-language terminal words appearing in sentences inputted from the second-language terminal are memorized so that the memorized words are preferentially selected when determining equivalents in later translation of sentences inputted from a first-language terminal. In a type of communication system in which translation is achieved in bi-directional manner between the terminals, words appearing in sentences inputted from the first-language terminal are also memorized so that the memorized words are preferentially selected when determining equivalents in later translation of sentences inputted from the second-language terminal. As means for memorizing an occurring word, a sentence number assigned to an input sentence containing the word may be stored in a word dictionary as activation degree information of the word or an occurring word file (115, 215) may be disposed for sequentially storing therein the occurring word. These items may be stored in combination with terminal user IDs. Various types of function allocation method are possible such as a type wherein input sentence is analyzed by an input terminal so as to send the analyzed information to a destination terminal, which then generates a translated sentence from the received information and a type wherein a translated sentence obtained by a terminal of an input side is sent to a terminal of a destination side. IMAGE