METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY TRANSLATING COMPOUND NOUNS USING CO-OCCURRENCE INFORMATION AND PROBABILITY INFORMATION OF LEXICAL WORDS AT AN EXISTING ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY

摘要

A method and a device for automatically generating a compound noun translation using translation co-occurrence/probability information of a translation dictionary are provided to solve semantic disambiguation and synonymous translations by automatically extracting the translation co-occurrence/probability information from the dictionary and selecting the translation based on the extracted information. A translation co-occurrence and probability information extractor(107,108) respectively extracts the translation co-occurrence and probability information from the translation database(106). A compound noun extractor(102) extracts and dissolves the compound noun into words of a noun unit. A context-based translation selector(103) selects the highest context probability translation for each word based on the translation co-occurrence information. A probability-based translation selector(104) selects the highest probability translation for each word based on the translation probability information. A compound noun translation generator(105) generates the translation of the extracted compound noun by combining the selected translations.