Patent ID: 7346488

Claim:
An automatic translator, comprising: original inputting means for inputting an original character string to be translated; morphological analyzing means for dividing a sequence of morphemes from the original character string inputted by the original inputting means; converting means for converting the morphemes to conceptual categories to be output; typical sentence verifying means for verifying whether a string of predetermined typical conceptual categories exists in a sequence of the conceptual categories outputted from the converting means; and replacing means for generating a pattern of a predetermined translated sentence corresponding to the string of the conceptual categories to replace the pattern of the predetermined translated sentence with translated words corresponding to original morphemes of the conceptual categories constituting the pattern of the translated sentence when the string of predetermined typical conceptual categories is determined to exist in the sequence of the conceptual categories by the typical sentence verifying means, wherein the converting means has a vocabulary information file that defines a relationship between the conceptual categories and the morphemes contained therein, the typical sentence verifying means has a first table that stores a pair of the string of the predetermined conceptual categories and the pattern of the predetermined translated sentence corresponding to the string, and the replacing means has a second table that stores a pair of the morpheme constituting the pattern of the translated sentence and the predetermined translated word corresponding to the morpheme.