TRANSLATION-KNOWLEDGE OBTAINING METHOD, TRANSLA- TION-KNOWLEDGE BASE SYSTEM AND MECHANICAL TRANSLATING METHOD AND APPARATUS

摘要

PURPOSE: To enable the execution of machine translation with which the merit of CBMT is provided and processing efficiency is improved by generalizing knowledge provided from translated examples and using such generalized knowledge for translation processing. CONSTITUTION: In order to find the high-order conception of a word, first of all, it is investigated whether any translation pattern and thesaurus having the same number as its translation pattern description are existent or not and when they are existent, that translation pattern thesaurus is retrieved before the thesaurus. Thus, by searching the generalized translation knowledge, shortest distance generalized translation knowledge is provided. In the case of retrieving the shortest distance generalized knowledge to be applied to inputting, it is not necessary to calculate the degree of similarity.