Foreign language writing support apparatus and method
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorHirokazu SUZUKI
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, a foreign language writing support apparatus includes following units. The input unit receives input of a sentence in a foreign language including a word in another language. The dictionary search unit performs a dictionary search for the word to acquire a translated word. The candidate generation unit generates one or more foreign language sentence candidates including a first foreign language sentence candidate generated by replacing the word in the other language with the translated word. The display unit displays the foreign language sentence candidates together with the machine translation results.
Claims18
A foreign language writing support apparatus comprising:
- an input unit configured to receive input of a sentence in a foreign language including a word in another language;
- a dictionary search unit configured to perform a dictionary search for the word in the other language and to acquire a translated word which is a word in the foreign language corresponding to the word in the other language;
- a candidate generation unit configured to generate one or more foreign language sentence candidates including a first foreign language sentence candidate generated by replacing the word in the other language with the translated word;
- a machine translation unit configured to generate one or more machine translation results by applying machine translation to the one or more foreign language sentence candidates;
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- a display unit configured to display the one or more foreign language sentence candidates together with the one or more machine translation results.
A foreign language writing support method comprising:
- receiving input of a sentence in a foreign language including a word in another language;
- performing a dictionary search for the word in the other language and acquiring a translated word which is a word in the foreign language corresponding to the word in the other language;
- generating one or more foreign language sentence candidates including a first foreign language sentence candidate generated by replacing the word in the other language with the translated word;
- a machine translation unit configured to generate one or more machine translation results by applying machine translation to the one or more foreign language sentence candidates;
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- a display unit configured to display the one or more foreign language sentence candidates together with the one or more machine translation results.
A non-transitory computer readable medium including computer executable instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
- receiving input of a sentence in a foreign language including a word in another language;
- performing a dictionary search for the word in the other language and acquiring a translated word which is a word in the foreign language corresponding to the word in the other language;
- generating one or more foreign language sentence candidates including a first foreign language sentence candidate generated by replacing the word in the other language with the translated word;
- a machine translation unit configured to generate one or more machine translation results by applying machine translation to the one or more foreign language sentence candidates;
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- a display unit configured to display the one or more foreign language sentence candidates together with the one or more machine translation results.
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