JP2000020525A - Program annotation machine translation device and recording medium recording program for operating this device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Problem] Only the annotation part of the program is mechanically translated,
Outputs a program that can be used as is without changing the logic. SOLUTION: A program reading means 12 is an external storage device.
Read program from 11 and store program before translation
13 and the program language designation means 17 notifies the annotation extraction means 18 of the type of the program language. Annotation extraction means 18
Extracts the annotation part from the logic part and the annotation part constituting the program stored in the pre-translation program storage means and stores it in the annotation storage means 19. The machine translation means 14 translates the annotation held in the annotation storage means from the written language to another specified language, and stores it in the annotation storage means. The translated comment is incorporated into the program by the comment incorporating means 191 and stored in the program storage means 15 after translation. The translated program storage means writes the program into the external storage device 11 by the program writing means 16.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a program annotation machine translator for translating a language describing a program annotation into another language, and a recording medium storing a program for operating the device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a program is annotated in a language used in a country where the program is developed. However, maintenance and modification of the program may be performed by a person other than the engineer who developed the program, and there may be a person in a language sphere different from the language in which the engineer writes annotations.

As one of measures to cope with such a case, an annotation at the time of program development is annotated in a universal language, for example, English. Maintenance is also conducted in English. In this case, the technicians need English skills. In addition, it is possible to remodel a program in which annotations are described in a local language that is not universal to the world.

When a technician does not have the ability to speak another language such as English, and remodels a program in which annotations are described in that language, the translators may rewrite the annotations or operate on a computer. A general-purpose machine translation means is used as a program annotation machine translation apparatus, and thereby translates the annotation part of the program. FIG. 21 is a block diagram showing such a program annotation machine translation apparatus.

[0005] The program annotation machine translation device 1 reads a program from an external storage device 11 by a program reading means 12.
Pre-translation program storage means 13 for holding the read program, machine translation means 14 for translating the program as a sentence, post-translation program storage means 15 for holding the translated program, and external storage of the program. It comprises a program writing means 16 for writing to the device.

The conventional program annotation machine translation apparatus shown in FIG. 21 performs translation without distinguishing between a logic part and an annotation part. Therefore, the pre-translation program storage means 13 is described with a mixture of a logic part and an annotation part. The annotation part is distinguished from the logic part according to the specification of each programming language. However, as shown in FIG. 22, the program annotation machine translator regards the entire program as one sentence without making any distinction. Translate.

FIG. 22 shows an example of translating an English annotation program into a Japanese annotation program.
ton is translated as "button". In this way, if the logic part happens to have the same character as the language, it is translated, and the translated program does not function as the logic part. Further, since the logic part and the annotation part cannot be distinguished from each other, the program annotation machine translator cannot accurately determine the context and cannot expect the accuracy of the translation result.

[0008]

As described above, in the prior art, machine translation in which a logic part and an annotation part of a program are distinguished from each other cannot be performed, and the annotation part is manually translated by a human system, or general-purpose translation is performed. Could translate only the rewritten not only the annotation part but also the logic part.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and a program annotation machine translation apparatus for mechanically translating only an annotation portion of a program and outputting a program which can be utilized as it is without changing a logic portion. It is an object of the present invention to provide a recording medium on which a program for operating this device is recorded.

[0010]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a program translation machine translation device, comprising: a program reading unit for reading a software program operating on an electronic computer from an external storage device; Pre-translational program storage means for storing the program, annotation extraction means for extracting the annotation part from the program out of the logic part and the annotation part constituting the program, and program language designation means for giving the annotation extraction means a program language type And an annotation storage means for holding the extracted annotations, a machine translation means for translating the extracted annotations from the written language to another language, and incorporating the annotations translated into other languages into the program. Annotation incorporation means, a post-translation program storage means for holding a program into which the post-translation annotation has been incorporated, and And a writing program writing means in the external storage device program.

In the invention of claim 1, the program reading means reads the program from the external storage device and stores it in the pre-translation program storage means. The program language designation means notifies the annotation extraction means of the type of the program language.
The annotation extracting means is a logic part and an annotation part constituting the program held in the pre-translation program storage means.
The annotation part is extracted and stored in the annotation storage means. The machine translation means translates the annotation held in the annotation storage means from the written language to another specified language, and stores the translation in the annotation storage means. Translated annotations are translated by annotation
It is incorporated in the program and stored in the program storage means after translation. The translated program storage means is written into the external storage device by the program writing means.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a program annotation machine translation apparatus according to the first aspect, wherein the annotation incorporation means includes a post-translation machine stored in the annotation storage means. Judge the number of characters in the comment, compare the number of characters with the comment part of the pre-translation program in the pre-translation program storage means, and if the number of characters in the post-translation comment is large, add another line to the post-translation program storage means. An annotation incorporation means for creating a line was provided.

[0013] In the invention of claim 2, the annotation embedding means determines the number of characters of the translated comment stored in the comment storage means, and determines the number of characters between the comment part of the pre-translation program in the pre-translation program storage means. If the number of characters of the comment after translation is larger than that of, another line is created in the program storage means as a comment line, and the width of one line of the program is made uniform.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a program annotating machine translating apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention, wherein the annotation managing information storing means and the pre-translation annotation are replaced with the annotation storing means. A sentence storage means and a post-translation comment storage means are provided. The comment management information storage means stores the position of the comment sentence. The pre-translation comment storage means and the post-translation comment storage means use text which can be handled by a computer. By storing in the form of a file, a general-purpose machine translation unit is used as the machine translation unit.

In the invention according to claim 3, the annotation extracting means extracts the annotation part from the logic part and the annotation part constituting the program stored in the pre-translation program storage means, and extracts the text which can be handled by the computer. It is stored in the pre-translation comment storage means in the form of a file, the position of the comment sentence is stored in the comment management information storage means, and is stored in the pre-translation comment storage means by general-purpose machine translation means operating on a computer. The comment sentence is translated, and the result is stored in the comment storage means after translation.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a program annotation machine translation apparatus according to the first aspect, wherein the machine translation means translates the annotation language into another language. And a translation range instructing means for designating a translation range by an operator.

In the invention according to claim 4, the annotation range designating means receives an instruction of a range to be subjected to the annotation conversion of the program and an instruction of its language in accordance with an instruction from the human system, and the annotation extracting means receives the instruction from the annotation range designating means. Extract annotations according to the passed annotation range.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a program annotating machine translation apparatus according to the first to fourth aspects, wherein the annotation extracting means converts the annotation to be translated. At the time of extraction, a stylized pattern of an annotation that does not need to be translated is recognized, and an annotation sentence including the pattern is not extracted as a translation target.

In the invention of claim 5, when extracting the annotation to be translated, the annotation extracting means recognizes a stylized pattern of the annotation that does not need to be translated, such as a revision symbol, and excludes it as a translation target. Instead, other annotations are written to the annotation storage means. Since the machine translation means translates only the annotation stored in the annotation storage means, it translates only the annotation to be translated.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a program annotating machine translation apparatus according to any one of the first to fifth aspects, wherein the machine translating means translates the annotation. At this time, by constructing and storing untranslatable words, a material for maintenance of the machine translation means is created.

According to the invention of claim 6, the machine translation means translates the annotation held in the annotation storage means from the written language to another specified language, and stores it in the annotation storage means. In addition, the non-translatable words are stored in the non-translatable word storage means.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided a program annotating machine translation apparatus according to the first to sixth aspects, wherein the language of the annotation is translated into another language. At this time, when the machine translation means has a comment that cannot be translated, an interactive annotation correction means for correcting the annotation by input from a human system is provided.

In the invention of claim 7, the machine translation means translates the annotation held in the annotation storage means from the written language to another specified language and stores it in the annotation storage means. The annotation modification function displays the annotation before translation and the annotation after translation to a human system, and accepts the modification of the annotation before translation. After the correction of the pre-translation annotation by the human system, the translation is executed again by the machine translation means, and the re-translated annotation is stored in the annotation storage means. The translated annotation is incorporated into the program by the annotation incorporating means, and is stored in the program storage means after translation.

The recording medium according to claim 8 of the present invention is:
A function of executing a program reading means for reading a program from an external storage device, a function of executing a pre-translation program storing means for holding the read program, and a comment part of a logic part and a comment part constituting the program. A function for executing an annotation extracting means for extracting from a program, a function for executing a program language designating means for giving a type of a programming language to the annotation extracting means, a function for executing an annotation storing means for holding the extracted annotation, Executing the machine translation means for translating the written annotation from the written language into another language, executing the annotation incorporation means for incorporating the annotation translated into another language into a program, A function for executing a post-translation program storing means for holding a program in which the annotations are incorporated, and an external storage device for storing the translated program. Recording a program for realizing the function of executing the writing program writing means.

[0025]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a program annotation machine translation apparatus. In FIG.
The same parts as in FIG. In the figure, what is newly added is a program language designation means 17, an annotation extraction means 18, an annotation storage means 19,
Annotation embedding means 191.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the flow of the processing in the embodiment of FIG. The program reading means 12 reads the program from the external storage device 11 and stores it in the pre-translation program storage means 13 (S21). As shown in FIG. 3, the pre-translation program storage means 13 simultaneously holds the logic part 32 and the number of lines 31 of each program at the time of reading.

The reason why the number of lines 31 is retained is that the language is converted before and after the translation and the number of characters of the annotation is different.
The number of lines in the comment before and after translation may be different. Therefore, since the number of lines at which the annotation is incorporated may change, the translated annotation is used as a mark of the integration destination when the annotation is incorporated by the annotation incorporating means 191.

The program language specifying means 17 determines the type of the program language according to an instruction from a human system, and notifies the annotation extracting means 18 of the type. In general, the extension of the program name is determined by its language. Therefore, when there is no instruction from a human system, the language of the program is determined from the extension of the program.

The annotation extracting means 18 extracts annotations from the program stored in the pre-translation program storage means 13 based on the rules of the program language specified by the program language specifying means 17 (S22).

FIG. 4 shows an algorithm for extracting comments of a program described in the C language. In the case of other languages, for example, in the case of FORTRAN, a description sandwiched between symbols is used. In the case of JAVA, the description is the same as that of the C language, or a line beginning with "//" is a comment. And the rules for separating the annotation part are defined, and it can be realized in languages other than C language.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the processing contents of the annotation extracting means. In FIG. 4, the pre-translation program storage means
The following processing is repeated in a loop for the number of program lines stored in 13 (S41). Starting from the first line, the program corresponding to the number of lines is sequentially extracted, and the number of extracted lines is counted up (S42).

If there is a start symbol ("/ *" in the case of C language) in the extracted program (S43), the terminal symbol (C
Until "* /" is found in the language (S44), one line is fetched, processed, and the number of fetched lines is counted up (S45). Annotate between the found start and end (S4
6) The data is stored in the annotation storage means 19 together with the number of lines (S47).
The extracted annotation is stored in the annotation storage unit 19.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a configuration example of the annotation storage means. As shown in FIG. 51,
It is composed of a comment line 52, a comment sentence 53 which is a text of the comment, and a translated comment sentence 54. The comment line 52 indicates the line number position in the program before the comment extraction. By saving the number of rows,
After translation by the machine translation means 14, it can be returned to the original position on the program.

The machine translation means 14 is a comment sentence stored in the comment storage means 19
The respective annotations 53 are read, translated into the designated language, and stored in the translated annotation 54 (S23). Annotation embedding means
191 creates the translated program storage means 15 from the post-translation annotation 54 and the pre-translation program storage means 13 by the algorithm shown in FIG. 6 (S24).

In the annotation embedding means 191, the number of annotation lines stored in the annotation storage means 19, that is, the series No. The following processing is repeated in a loop for the maximum number of 51 (S61). Annotation storage means 19
Of each series No. The comment line 52 (= M) of the line (N) is sequentially fetched (S62), the Mth program line is fetched from the pre-translation program storage means 13 (S63), and the corresponding annotation is fetched into the program. Incorporation (S64). Next, the result is written into the translated program storage means 15 (S65).
The program writing means 16 writes the translated program into the external storage device (S25).

According to the present embodiment, a program such as the example shown in FIG. 7 in which only the annotation part is translated without changing the logic part can be created. FIG. 8 is a conceptual diagram of the effect of the present embodiment. By giving the English annotation program to the program annotation machine translation device of the present embodiment,
A program for Japanese annotations is automatically created. By using this device, regardless of the language skills of engineers,
It is possible to maintain programs written in other languages and develop programs between multiple countries.

FIG. 9 is a flow chart showing the processing contents of another embodiment of the annotation embedding means. Note that the hardware configuration is the same as that of FIG. In the present embodiment, the annotation incorporation means 191 determines the number of characters of the translated annotation stored in the annotation storage means 19 in comparison with the embodiment of FIG. If the number of characters in the comment after translation is larger than the number of characters in the comment part of the translation, the next line of the translated program storage means 15 is newly created as a comment line, and the width of one line of the program is reduced. They are aligned.

Annotation incorporation means 191 creates post-translation program storage means 15 from post-translation annotation 54 and pre-translation program storage means 13 using the algorithm shown in FIG. In the annotation incorporation means 191, the number of annotation lines stored in the annotation storage means 19, that is, the series No. The following processing is repeated in a loop for the maximum number of 51 (S91). Each series No. of the annotation storage means 19 (N)
The comment lines 52 (= M) of the line are sequentially taken out (S92),
The Mth program line is fetched from the pre-translation program storage means 13 (S93).

The number of characters that can be used for the annotation of the program on the M-th line taken out is determined (= P). The number of characters is compared with the number of annotation characters after translation. At this time, based on the number of comment characters after translation, the number of consecutive blank characters replaced with one blank is compared. If the number of commentary characters after translation is smaller than P (S95), a post-translation commentary statement in which continuous blank characters are replaced with one blank is incorporated into the program on the Mth line.

On the other hand, if the number of commentary characters is larger than P (S95), a post-translation commentary statement in which continuous blank characters are replaced with one character is incorporated into the program on the M-th line.
The excess characters are added to the (M + 1) -th line following the M-th line of the program (S97). The reason for replacing consecutive blank characters with one blank character is that the comment part before translation is blank characters and the number of horizontal lines is aligned, so if the number of blank characters is not reduced after translation, the number of characters in one line can be easily changed Is exceeded. Next, the result is written into the translated program storage means 191 (S98).

FIG. 10 shows an example of the translation result according to the present embodiment. The comment sentence “display SS ske” on the second line is shown in FIG.
"ton2" is translated over two lines as a result of translation. In this way, it is possible to perform machine translation with one line width of the program.

FIG. 11 is a configuration diagram showing still another embodiment. 11, the same parts as those in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description will be omitted. In the present embodiment, instead of the annotation storage unit 19 of FIG. 1, the pre-translation annotation storage unit 192, the post-translation annotation storage unit 193, and the annotation management information storage unit 194 that store in the form of a text file that can be handled by a computer.
General-purpose machine translation means 14 instead of the machine translation means 14
1 is provided.

The difference between the machine translation means 14 in FIG. 1 and the general-purpose machine translation means 141 according to the present embodiment is that the input and output of the machine translation means 14 are the annotation storage means 19 on the main storage device, As shown in FIG. 5, the storage means 19 has information other than the comment text, so that general-purpose machine translation means cannot be used. In the present embodiment, the comment text and other information are separated, and the comment text is stored in a text file. The point is that the general-purpose machine translation means 141 can be used to hold in the format of.

As described above, the annotation extracting means 18
Extracts an annotation from the program stored in the pre-translation program storage means 13 based on the rules of the programming language in which the program is described. The annotations extracted here are stored in the pre-translation annotation storage unit 192, and the positions of the annotations are stored in the annotation management information storage unit 194. In addition,
FIG. 12 shows a configuration example of the annotation management information storage means 194.

The pre-translation comment storage means 192 is stored in the form of a text file on a computer and can be translated by the general-purpose machine translation means 141. General-purpose machine translation means
141 translates the pre-translation comment storage 192 into the specified language and stores it in the post-translation comment storage 193.

Annotation incorporation means 191 is a post-translation annotation sentence storage means.
The post-translation program storage unit 15 is created from the 193, the annotation management information storage unit 194, and the pre-translation program storage unit 13. According to the present embodiment, unlike the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, a general-purpose machine translation unit can be used instead of the machine translation unit 14.

FIG. 13 is a configuration diagram showing still another embodiment. In FIG. 13, the same parts as those in FIG. 13, the translation range designating means 195 which allows the operator to specify the translation range, the translation range storage means 196, and the translation range An annotation extracting means for extracting an annotation according to the storage means 196 is provided.

The translation range indicating means 195 is
7 and receives the translation target instruction from the translation range storage means 196.
To save. FIG. 14 shows the translation range storage means 196. The annotation extracting means 18 is a translation start line 142 of the translation range designating means 195.
Then, an annotation is extracted from the pre-translation program storage means 13 with reference to the translation end line 143 and stored in the annotation storage means 19.

FIG. 15 is a configuration diagram showing still another embodiment. 15, the same components as those in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description will be omitted. Generally, in program annotations, there are annotations of a fixed phrase written in English such as “Rev”, and there is a demand to exclude them from translation.

In order to cope with this, this embodiment differs from the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 in that a stylized pattern in an annotation is recognized and a comment line including the pattern is excluded from translation. An annotation extracting unit 18 that does not extract, but writes only the other annotation lines into the annotation storing unit 19;
A non-translatable pattern storage unit 151 that stores a pattern that is not to be annotated, and an annotated sentence that includes not only a stylized pattern but also a character to be translated other than the pattern, the corresponding annotated sentence is regarded as a translation target. An annotation extraction method designation means 152 for setting whether or not to extract is provided.

FIG. 16 is a diagram for explaining the translation target pattern storage means. Registration in the non-translatable pattern storage means
It is performed by a human system in advance. Series No. 161 is a series No. assigned to the non-translatable pattern sentence 162. And
The non-translation target pattern stores a pattern that is not to be translated.

The annotation extraction means 18 is not excluded from the translation target from the program stored in the pre-translation program storage means 13 based on the rules of the programming language in which the program is described and referring to the non-translation target pattern storage means 151. Extract annotations while confirming that FIG. 17 shows an algorithm for extracting comments of a program described in C language.

In the flowchart of FIG. 17, the following processing is repeated in a loop for the number of program lines stored in the pre-translation program storage means 13 (S171). Starting from the first line, the program corresponding to the number of lines is sequentially extracted, and the number of extracted lines is counted up (S172). If there is a start symbol ("/ *" in the case of C language) in the extracted program (S173)
), Until a terminal symbol ("* /" in the case of C language) is found (S174), one-line fetching processing and counting of the number of fetched lines are performed (S175).

An annotation is made between the found start end and end end (S176). Then, the series of translation target patterns No. 161
Is repeated up to the maximum number of times (S178), it is checked whether or not a word that matches the pattern is included.

At this time, when there is a word that matches the pattern, and when another word that does not match the pattern is included in the same annotation sentence, it is specified that the extraction is not to be performed by the annotation extraction method instruction means. If so, the comment sentence is not stored in the comment storage means 19 (S178). According to the present embodiment, it is possible to perform machine translation of an annotation that does not translate a fixed pattern of an annotation such as a revision symbol that does not need to be translated.

FIG. 18 is a configuration diagram showing still another embodiment. 18, the same parts as those in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description will be omitted. In the present embodiment, the annotation held in the annotation storage means 19 is compared with the embodiment of FIG.
A machine translation means 14 for translating the written language into another specified language and storing it in the annotation storage means 19, and for storing a non-translatable word in the non-translatable word storage means, Untranslatable word storage means 187 for storing various words
Was prepared.

The machine translation means 14 translates the annotation held in the annotation storage means 19 from the written language to another specified language. It is stored in the possible word storage means 181.

According to the present embodiment, words that cannot be translated are stored. Therefore, the operator of this apparatus creates a program by referring to the words stored in the non-translatable word storage means, thereby performing translation. A possible program can be created.

FIG. 19 is a block diagram showing still another embodiment. In FIG. 19, the same parts as those in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals and description thereof will be omitted. This embodiment differs from the embodiment shown in FIG.
In the case where 53 exists, an interactive annotation correcting means 171 for correcting the annotation 53 based on input from a human system is provided. FIG. 20 shows an example of a table displayed by the annotation correction means 171 on the display 173 for a human system.

The comment sentence 53 before translation may be untranslatable or may be incorrectly translated by the machine translation means 14 due to spelling errors, grammatical errors, or the use of special words. The human system compares the comment text 53 before translation with the comment text 54 after translation, and corrects the comment text 53 before translation by the man-machine device 172.

After correcting the annotation sentence 53 before translation by a human system,
The translation is executed again by the machine translation means 14 and stored in the annotation storage means 19 in the post-translation annotation sentence 54 after the re-translation. The translated annotation is incorporated into the program by the annotation incorporating means 191 and is stored in the translated program storage means 15. According to the present embodiment, it is possible to correct a comment that cannot be translated by the machine translation means 14 according to an instruction from a human system.

The method described in each of the above descriptions is as follows.
As a program that can be executed by a computer, the program can be written in a recording medium such as a magnetic disk, an optical disk, or a semiconductor memory and applied to various devices, or transmitted to a communication medium and applied to various devices. . The computer reads the program recorded on the recording medium, and executes the above-described processing by controlling the operation of the program.

[0063]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to output a program in which only the annotation is translated without changing the logic of the program with respect to the program in which the annotation is described in an arbitrary language. Maintenance and development of programs between languages becomes easy.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a program annotation machine translation device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the processing contents of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of a pre-translation program storage unit of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing processing contents of an annotation extracting unit in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram of an annotation storage unit in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the processing contents of the annotation embedding means of FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a program after translation in FIG. 1;

FIG. 8 is a conceptual diagram of the effect of the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing processing contents of an annotation embedding unit according to another embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a translation result in the embodiment of FIG. 9;

FIG. 11 is a configuration diagram showing still another embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a configuration diagram of an annotation management information storage unit in FIG. 11;

FIG. 13 is a configuration diagram showing still another embodiment.

FIG. 14 is a configuration diagram of a translation range storage unit in FIG. 13;

FIG. 15 is a configuration diagram of still another embodiment.

FIG. 16 is a configuration diagram of a non-translation target pattern storage unit in FIG. 15;

FIG. 17 is a flowchart showing the processing content of the annotation extraction unit in FIG. 15;

FIG. 18 is a configuration diagram showing still another embodiment.

FIG. 19 is a configuration diagram showing still another embodiment.

FIG. 20 is a configuration diagram of an annotation correction unit in FIG. 19;

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing a conventional technique.

FIG. 22 is an explanatory diagram of a translation result according to the related art.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Computer 11 External storage device 12 Program reading means 13 Pre-translation program storage means 14 Machine translation means 15 Post-translation program storage means 16 Program writing means 17 Program language designation means 18 Annotation extraction means 19 Annotation storage means 191 Annotation embedding means 31 Number of rows 32 Logic part 51 52 Annotation line 53 Annotation sentence 54 Annotation sentence after translation 141 General-purpose machine translation means 192 Annotation sentence storage means before translation 193 Annotation sentence storage means after translation 194 Annotation management information storage means 195 Annotation range indicating means 196 Annotation range storage means 197 Man-machine device 151 Non-translatable pattern storage means 152 Annotation extraction method designation means 181 Non-translatable word storage means 171 Annotation correction means

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A program reading means for reading a software program operating on a computer from an external storage device, a pre-translation program storage means on a main storage device for holding the read program, and a logic part constituting the program An annotation extracting unit for extracting an annotation portion from the program, a program language specifying unit for giving the type of a programming language to the annotation extracting unit, an annotation storage unit for holding the extracted annotation, Machine translation means for translating the comment from the written language to another language, comment incorporating means for incorporating the comment translated into another language into the program, and a program incorporating the translated comment. And a program writing means for writing the translated program into an external storage device. A machine translation device for program annotation. 2. The comment embedding means judges the number of characters of the translated comment stored in the comment storage means, and compares the number of characters with the comment part of the pre-translation program in the pre-translation program storage means. 2. The program annotation machine translation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the number of characters of the translated annotation is large, another line is created as an annotation line in the translated program storage means. 3. The annotation storage means includes an annotation management information storage means, a pre-translation annotation sentence storage means, and a post-translation annotation sentence storage means, and the annotation management information storage means stores a position of the annotation sentence. The pre-translation comment storage means and the post-translation comment storage means use a general-purpose machine translation means as the machine translation means by storing them in a text file format that can be handled by a computer. 1. The program annotation machine translation device according to 1. 4. The program annotation according to claim 1, wherein said machine translation means includes a translation range designating means capable of designating a translation range by an operator when translating the language of the annotation into another language. Machine translation device. 5. When extracting an annotation to be translated, the annotation extracting unit recognizes a stylized pattern of an annotation that does not need to be translated, and does not extract an annotation sentence including the pattern as a non-translation target. 5. The program annotation machine translation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: 6. The machine translation means stores a list of untranslatable words when translating an annotation,
6. The program annotation machine translation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a material for maintenance of the machine translation means is created. 7. The machine translation means, wherein when translating the language of the annotation into another language, if there is an untranslatable annotation, the conversational annotation modification means for modifying the annotation by input from a human system. 7. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:
The described program annotation machine translation device. 8. A function for executing a program reading means for reading a program from an external storage device, a function for executing a pre-translation program storage means for holding the read program, and a logic part and a comment part constituting the program. Executing an annotation extracting means for extracting an annotation part from a program, executing a program language designating means for giving a type of a programming language to the annotation extracting means, and executing an annotation storing means for holding the extracted annotation Executing the machine translation means for translating the extracted annotations from the written language to another language, and executing the annotation incorporation means for incorporating the annotations translated into other languages into the program A function for executing a post-translation program storing means for holding a program in which a post-translation annotation is incorporated, and a post-translation program And a computer readable storage medium storing a program for realizing a function of executing a program writing unit for writing the program into an external storage device.