Customizable machine translation service

摘要

Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for providing a translation service. The method comprises providing a translation interface accessible via a network. The translation interface receives specialized data associated with a domain from a member. A text string written in a source language is received from the member via the translation interface. A domain-based translation engine is selected. The domain-based translation engine may be associated with a source language, a target language, and a domain. The text string is translated into the target language using, at least in part, the selected domain-based translation engine. The translated text string is transmitted to the member via the Internet. In some embodiments, a translation memory is generated based on the specialized data.

主权项

1. A method for providing a translation service comprising:
receiving a text string written in a source language from a member via a translation interface; receiving specialized data associated with:
a domain from the member via the translation interface, andan indication of confidentiality; generating a translation memory using the received specialized data; generating a set of domain-specific parameters for statistical machine translation using the received specialized data; merging the generated set of domain-specific parameters with a generic set of statistical machine translation parameters; generating a domain-based translation engine based on the received specialized data and generic data, the domain-based translation engine associated with a source language, a target language, and the domain; training the domain-based translation engine using the translation memory; receiving a selection of the generated domain-based translation engine from a plurality of domain-based translation engines, the selection received from the member via the translation interface; translating the text string into the target language using, at least in part, the selected domain-based translation engine, the merged parameters and translation memory being used by the domain-based translation engine for translating the text string; and transmitting the translated text string to the member via the translation interface over a network.