Patent ID: 6067510
Filing Date: 2000-05-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A machine interpreter comprising:a parallel translation data base for storing an example sentence of a first language and a corresponding translation of the example sentence of a second language;a variable semantic feature dictionary for designating a variable word group of at least one word corresponding to a particular word group, of at least one word, of the example sentence, and for storing word groups of the first and second languages in pairs;input means for inputting a request for retrieval from the parallel translation data base;retrieving means for retrieving an example sentence and a translated sentence from the parallel translation data base based upon an input retrieval request;display for displaying the example sentence and translated sentence retrieved from the parallel translation data base;control means for arranging words of a variable word group in the variable semantic feature dictionary corresponding to the particular word group of the example sentence, and for causing the display to display the arranged words and a word group corresponding to the arranged words; andsubstituting means for substituting a translated word of the arranged words, equivalent to a word requested by the input means, for the particular word of the example sentence.