Patent Document ID: 8060359
Application ID: 11446961

Base Claim:
1. A machine translation apparatus comprising: a central processing unit; an identification information detection unit that detects, from a designated physical object or an attachment thereto, identification information of the designated object; a receiving unit that receives a source language sentence; a word dividing unit that divides the source language sentence into a plurality of first words by morphological analysis; a deixis detection unit that detects, from the first words, a deixis indicating the designated object; a correspondence setting unit that sets a correspondence between the identification information of the designated object and the deixis; a semantic class determining unit executing on the central processing unit that determines a semantic class indicating a semantic attribute of the designated object previously associated with the identification information of the designated object; and a translation unit that translates the source language sentence according to the determined semantic class of the designated object corresponding to the deixis.

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Claim 4:
4. The machine translation apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a communication unit that is connected to a network, transmits the identifier to a semantic class management server, returns the semantic class corresponding to an identifier for identifying the designated object, and receives the semantic class returned from the semantic class management server, wherein the identification information detection unit detects the identification information including the identifier, and the semantic class determining unit transmits the identifier to the semantic class management server through the communication unit, acquires through the communication unit the semantic class returned from the semantic class management server in response to the identifier transmitted, and determines the semantic class as a semantic class of the designated object.