US 7,321,850 B2 | ||
Language transference rule producing apparatus, language transferring apparatus method, and program recording medium | ||
Yumi Wakita, Nara (Japan) | ||
Assigned to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka (Japan) | ||
Filed on Jan. 31, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/344,027. | ||
Application 11/344027 is a continuation of application No. 09/701921, granted, now 7,072,826, previously published as PCT/JP99/02954, filed on Jun. 02, 1999. | ||
Claims priority of application No. 10-155550 (JP), filed on Jun. 04, 1998; application No. 11-039253 (JP), filed on Feb. 17, 1999; and application No. 11-041186 (JP), filed on Feb. 19, 1999. | ||
Prior Publication US 2006/0129381 A1, Jun. 15, 2006 | ||
Int. Cl. G06F 17/21 (2006.01) |
U.S. Cl. 704—10 [704/277] | 12 Claims |
1. A language transferring apparatus characterized in that said apparatus comprises:
storing means of storing language rules which are obtained by training grammatical or semantic restriction rules for a word
or a word string from a training database including a parallel translation corpus in which a source language sentence that
is input in a form of speech or text, and that has undergone a corresponding target language transference, is automatically
paired with a target language sentence comprising the source language sentence that has undergone the corresponding language
transference;
a speech recognizing section which performs speech recognition on input speech by using the stored language rules, and which
outputs a result of the recognition in a form of a sentence that is a target language transference;
a language transferring section which transfers the sentence that is the target language transference, into a transferred
sentence that has undergone language transference, by using the same language rules as that used in said speech recognizing
section; and
a speech synthesizing section configured to aurally output a translation resultant sentence, based on the transferred sentence,
wherein said speech recognizing section and said language transferring section perform each processing by dealing with one
bundle defined by a style-independent phrase as a common language processing unit.
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