Kenji Satoh

Automatic Interpretation System Integrating Free-Style Sentence Translation and Parallel Text Based Translation

This paper proposes an automatic interpretation system that integrates freestyle sentence translation and parallel text based translation. Free-style sentence translation accepts natural language sentences and translates them by machine translation. Parallel text based translation provides a proper translation for a sentence in the parallel text by referring to a corresponding translation of the sentence and supplements free-style sentence translation. We developed a prototype of an automatic interpretation system for Japanese overseas travelers with parallel text based translation using 9206 parallel bilingual sentences prepared in task-oriented manner. Evaluation results show that the parallel text based translation covers 72% of typical utterances for overseas travel and the user can easily find an appropriate sentence from a natural utterance for 64% of typical travelers tasks. This indicates that the user can benefit from reliable translation based on parallel text for fundamental utterances necessary for overseas travel.

Documentation know-how sharing by automatic process tracking

Some groupware products support office jobs by providing cooperative functions such as workflow management. However, they cannot support documentation jobs because the jobs need individual creativity which is difficult to share. This paper proposes a ‘Know-how Sharing Agent’ which allows individual creativity used for documentation jobs to be shared. The Know-how Sharing Agent supports document creation by preparing the most exemplary document and its documentation operations. The documentation operations were also saved by the agent automatically when the document was created. This type of agent thus promotes documentation activities by sharing the know-how needed for documentation.

An Interactive Translation Support Facility for Non-Professional Users

We present an interactive translation method to support non-professional users to write an original document. The method, combining dictionary lookup function and user-guided stepwise interactive machine translation, allows the user to obtain clear result with an easy operation. We implemented the method as an English writing support facility that serves as a translation support front-end to an arbitrary application.

TWP: how to assist English production on Japanese word processor

We propo~;e the l.]drd type of translation ..rapport system in this lm.per, which ena.l)le>~ users to mI.ioy simulta.neously both la.rge m;ut-hour reductioi, p r o vided ])y the conventiona,l autom~tic ln;u:hine tr~tn.ql~tion syS~el l l ) ~bl,(l COliti!lltlil(*.llt w i t h t h e f l u t e , i o n s I)rought by tit(, dictiolia.ry refl~rence and gra.nim;rt.ical consulta.tion. Our new system possesses tit, fbllowing fet~tures[4, 5, 6]: