Japanese-English Pattern-Based Machine Translation

The conventional Japanese-English pattern-based translation method is as follows [5].

Step 1

Prepare Japanese-English translation patterns and Japanese-English word pairs.

Step 2

Input an Japanese sentence.

Step 3

Search for a Japanese translation pattern that matches the input of Step 2.

Step 4

Output an English translation pattern corresponding to the English translation pattern made in Step 3.

Step 5

Generate a English sentence by using the Japanese-English word pairs and English translation patterns.

Table 1 shows an example of Japanese-English pattern translation, and Table 2 shows examples of Japanese-English word pairs.

Table 1: Example of Japanese-English Pattern Translation

Input sentence	図９はそのときの特性図である。
Japanese pattern	X1 X2はそのときのX3図である。
English pattern	X1 X2 shows a X3 of a time.
Output sentence	Fig. 9 shows a characteristic of a time.

Table 2: Example of Japanese-English Word Dictionary

図	Fig.
９	9
特性	characteristic