Patent ID: 8457947

Claim:
A hybrid translation apparatus comprising: a computer system, comprising: a source language input unit for generalizing an input source language sentence for each node; a statistics-based translation knowledge database(DB) for storing learning data generalized for each node to be acquired to utilize the learning data as transformation knowledge for statistics-based translation; a first translation result generating unit for transforming the source language sentence generalized for each node into a node expression using the statistics-based translation knowledge to generate a first translation result; a second translation result generating unit for repeatedly performing the generation of a target word for each node on the first translation result using pattern-based knowledge to generate a second translation result as target words for the respective nodes; a pattern-based translation knowledge DB for using in the pattern-based translation; and a translation result combining unit for combining the first translation result and the second translation result to output a target language sentence, wherein the source language input unit performs the generic transformation for a node expression using all sentence pairs of a pre-constructed parallel corpus, and stores acquired training data in a database of the statistics-based translation knowledge DB.