Systems and methods for multi-user multi-lingual communications

摘要

Various embodiments described herein facilitate multi-lingual communications. The systems and methods of some embodiments may enable multi-lingual communications through different modes of communications including, for example, Internet-based chat, e-mail, text-based mobile phone communications, postings to online forums, postings to online social media services, and the like. Certain embodiments may implement communications systems and methods that translate text between two or more languages (e.g., spoken), while handling/accommodating for one or more of the following in the text: specialized/domain-related jargon, abbreviations, acronyms, proper nouns, common nouns, diminutives, colloquial words or phrases, and profane words or phrases.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, using one or more processors, an initial message of a first user in a first language from a first chat client system; querying, using the one or more processors, a data store for a first corresponding message in a second language, the first corresponding message being based on the initial message in the first language; determining, using the one or more processors, that the data store does not include the first corresponding message and, based thereon:
selecting, using the one or more processors, an order for a plurality of different transformation modules based on the initial message, wherein each transformation module accepts as respective input a portion of a message and provides as respective output a transformed version of the respective input in the first language, and wherein the order is selected based on at least one of (i) precedence, (ii) a priority of transformation operations, (iii) a transformation operation that is most likely to generate a transformed message suitable for translation, and (iv) a transformation operation that generates a most formal transformed message;for each of one or more portions of the initial message, providing, using the one or more processors, the portion as input to a first transformation module in the order and providing the respective output of each transformation module as the respective input to a following transformation module in the order;selecting, using the one or more processors, the respective output of the last transformation module in the order as the transformed message in the first language; andquerying, using the one or more processors, the data store for a second corresponding message in the second language, the second corresponding message being based on the transformed message in the first language.