Patent Document ID: 5442546
Application ID: 07983147

Base Claim:
1. A method of automatically generating a translation template in a system for automatically processing sentences in at least a first language and a second language, said method comprising the steps of: reading a sentence in said first language and in said second language; identifying correspondence between words of said first language sentence and said second language sentence which are read in said sentence reading step by referring to a bilingual dictionary between said first and second languages; and generating a pair of a first language template and a second language template by selecting an optional subset from the set of word correspondences identified in said word correspondence identification step and replacing a corresponding word in both said first language sentence and said second language sentence with an identical variable for each correspondence belonging to the above subset, said translation templates include a pair of templates of a sentence in said first language and a sentence in said second language which are respective translations of a same sentence, both of said pair of templates include a sentence including at least one variable which can be replaced with at least one of phrases or words.

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Claim 2:
2. A translation template generating method according to claim 1, said method further comprising the step of: displaying the pair of said first language sentence and said second language sentence, which are the source of said generated translation template, in a format that parts which are replaced with variables and other parts are distinguished from each other.