Translation method, translation output method and storage medium, program, and computer used therewith

An output method for outputting by a computer a translation made by said computer, comprising the steps of:

• identifying a coined word spelled differently from standard orthography in a source text input into said computer;
• and
• outputting the translation made from said source text containing said coined word;
• wherein
• said step of outputting the translation applies an emphasized representation to a target-language word equivalent to said coined word identified in said identifying step and outputs said translation.

A storage medium on which a program to be executed by a computer is stored in a form readable to said computer, wherein said program causes said computer to perform:

• morphological analysis for extracting from a database referenceable to said computer the parts of speech and attributes of words making up a source text input into said computer;
• syntactic analysis for generating syntactic tree data having a tree structure for the source text based on the result of said morphological analysis;
• a syntax generation process for generating syntactic tree data for a target sentence based on the result of said syntactic analysis;
• and
• a translation generation process for obtaining target-language words equivalent to said words making up said source text from said database and linking said target-language words together based on said syntactic tree data for the target sentence to generate a translation;
• wherein, if said source text contains an unregistered word that is not registered in said database and said unregistered word contains two or more successive identical characters, the number of said successive identical characters is reduced to one or two to generate a modified word and the part of speech and the attribute of said modified word are extracted from said database in place of said unregistered word in said morphological analysis.

A program for causing a computer to perform translation, comprising the steps of:

• extracting an unregistered word that is not registered in a database referenceable to said computer from a source sentence input into said computer;
• changing the number of repeated characters in said unregistered word and, if the changed unregistered word matches a registered word registered in said database, using said registered word in place of said unregistered word to translate said source text;
• and
• displaying a translation in a manner that the part in which said registered word is used in place of said unregistered word can be distinguished from the other parts of said translation.

A computer comprising:

• a database containing data on a plurality of words;
• an input module for inputting data on a source text;
• a translation module for translating said input source text with reference to said database;
• and
• an output module for outputting data on a translation of said source text;
• wherein said translation module reduces the number of successive identical characters contained in an emphasized word to generate a modified word and obtains a target-language word equivalent to said modified word.