Generate the Japanese Translation Sentence

We generate Japanese translation sentences by using the English-Japanese word dictionary and the English-Japanese translation patterns.
The Japanese translation sentences are made as follows.

Step 1

Select English translation patterns corresponding to the input English sentence.

Step 2

Find the variables in the English translation patterns and obtain the English words corresponding to the variables.

Step 3

Obtain the Japanese translation patterns corresponding to the English translation patterns.

Step 4

Find the variables in Japanese translation patterns and search for the Japanese words corresponding to the variables.

Step 5

Replace variables in Japanese translation patterns with the Japanese word in Step 4.

Step 6

Japanese translation sentence calculates the likelihood(β) by using Japanese word tri-gram. The likelihood(β) means the sum of Japanese word tri-gram scores with based 10 logarithm. Japanese word tri-gram are calculated from the English-Japanese sentence pairs.

Step 7

If the result of step 5 generates multiple Japanese translation sentences, select only one sentence with the highest likelihood(β).

Figure 2 shows an example of generating a Japanese translation sentence.