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 10:
10. The machine translation apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a rule storage unit that stores a rule in which a third word in a source language is set in correspondence with a second word in a target language, the third word depending on the semantic class grammatically or semantically, wherein the translation unit acquires, from the rule storage unit, the second word corresponding to the third word which depends on the semantic class attached to the deixis and which is included in the source language sentence, and translates the third word into the second word.