TransAid: a writer´s aid system for translating Japanese into English

This paper describes a writer´s aid system that helps the Japanese write sound English sentences. Our system takes as input a Japanese writing and its English translation produced by a commercial machine translation system. It then extracts, from the Internet Corpus, English sentences and expressions usable for correcting and/or polishing the translation to suit our specific purpose. An experiment for writing correspondences in conferences and others shows that the system is easy to use and improves the writings by machines or humans considerably in effort, style, and content.