Language translation system with means to distinguish between phrases and sentence and number discrminating means

摘要

A machine translation apparatus is disclosed which includes a number discriminator which distinguishes whether or not the first morpheme to appear in the sentence separated by a morpheme analyzer is a number, and a memory control which, when the number discriminator identifies the morpheme at the beginning to be a number, stores data which identifies the number as a sentence beginning adverb so that the number is added to the beginning of the translated sentence converted to the target language, thus enabling the distinguishable translation between the ordinary sentence and the itemized sentence which begin with a number. The machine translation apparatus further includes a heading specifying step which specifies the words stored in a buffer to be a heading if a word continuing after the word stored in the buffer is a last word and is other than a period, a question mark and an exclamation mark, thus enabling the distinguishable translation between the ordinary sentence and the heading.