NETWORKED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A networked language translation system and method allowing access by a distributed network of human and machine translators that communicate electronically to provide for the translation of material. The system and method provide a way to aggregate the resources of a large number of intermittently available, mixed competency translators, human or machine, in order to provide high-quality translations.

主权项

1. A networked language translation system for translating a source file comprising:
a cloud networked server allowing access by a plurality of translators and a plurality of customers connected to the cloud network through the internet; a user interface to facilitate the uploading of the source files by the plurality of customers to the language translation system and receiving information in the form of suggested translations and glossaries; a segmentation module to break the source file into a plurality of logical segments and sending the logical segments to the plurality of translators for translating the segments; a translation memory database to store translated logical segments and search for similar segments; a morphological dictionaries to store words in different forms and associated metadata, including frequency data and find them in the source and target text of the segments; a glossaries module to store glossary terms and find them in the source and target text of the segments; a matching unit to match the segments to the segments in translation memory database, determining similarity and terminology similarity, and suggesting a set of data for machine translation engines customization; a word-by-word alignment module to align words in the source and target text of the parallel sentence; a processing module to select the best machine translation on a segment-by-segment level and aggregate these translations; a module to define a set of recommended human translators/editors/proofreaders based on their workflow history and human quality metrics assigned to the translated documents; a module receiving human translators inputs and respective metadata on the actions they take through the web-based user interface; a processing module to assemble the result translation generated by machine translation engines and the plurality of human translators, to generate the translation of source file.