Selective machine translation with crowdsourcing

• US 10,679,016 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2017
• Issued: 06/09/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Ni, Jian, Sakrajda, Andrzej, Wan, Hui, Wu, Cheng, Caskey, Sasha P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Spooner, Lamont M
• Application Number:
  US15/466,531
• Publication Number:
  US 20170192963A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,175 Days
• Field of Search: 704 2- 8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/49 using very large corpora, e.g. the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation

Abstract

A method of translating information using crowdsourcing includes evaluating a metric related to a content to be translated, determining a priority for the content, queuing the content for the crowdsourcing based on the priority determined from the metric, and translating the information from a language to another language using the crowdsourcing.

Claims

1. A method of translating information using crowdsourcing, the method comprising;

evaluating, by a processor of a computer, a metric related to a content to be translated;

determining a priority for the content based on the metric related to the content;

queuing the content for the crowdsourcing based on the priority of the content determined from the metric;

translating the information from a language to another language using the crowdsourcing;

updating weights attached to the content to determine the priority of the content during a time period by counting a number of times a sentence is submitted for translation in the time period to determine a score for the sentence with regard to the priority of the content,

wherein, in the updating the weights, the score for the sentence is reset after the time period is passed; and

adjusting the score for the sentence based on a marking of a text of the sentence to override the score for the sentence such that the text of the sentence is allocated a priority of translation compared to sections of the sentence other than the text of the sentence.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the metric includes a number of requests for translation during the time period.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the time period is based on a predetermined condition.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising collecting the metric related to the content to be translated based on a request for translation.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the metric includes a date of the request for translation.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the metric includes a user entered element.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the metric includes a translator expertise requirement.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising assigning the content from the queue to a translator based on the priority.

9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising assigning the content from the queue to a translator based on an expertise of the translator.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the metric includes a target language.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein, in said updating the weights, the weights are constantly updated during the time period.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein, in said updating the weights, the weights are constantly updated during the time period based on a current need of the content to he translated.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by an apparatus to perform a method of translating information using crowdsourcing, the method comprising:

evaluating a metric related to a content to be translated;

determining a priority for the content based on the metric related to the content;

queuing the content for crowdsourcing based on the priority of the content determined from the metric;

translating the information from a language to another language using the crowdsourcing;

updating weights attached to the content to determine the priority of the content during a time period by counting a number of times a sentence is submitted for translation in the time period to determine a score for the sentence with regard to the priority of the content,

wherein, in the updating the weights, the score for the sentence is reset after the time period is passed; and

adjusting the score for the sentence based on a marking of a text of the sentence to override the score for the sentence such that the text of the sentence is allocated a priority of translation compared to sections of the sentence other than the text of the sentence.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 13, wherein the metric includes a number of requests for translation during the time period.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 13, further comprising collecting the metric related to the content to be translated based on a request for translation.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 15, wherein the metric includes a date of the request for translation.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 13, wherein the metric includes a user entered element.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 13, wherein the metric includes a translator expertise requirement.

19. A translation system, comprising:

a processor of a computer adapted to receive content to he translated, the processor being configured so as to track a metric related to the content to be translated, and

a crowdsourcing data selector processor adapted to receive the content to be translated from the processor and queue the content to be translated based on the metric related to the content; and

a translation server that translates information from a language to another language based on results of crowdsourcing performed by the crowdsourcing data selector processor,

wherein weights attached to the content to determine the priority of the content are updated during a time period by counting a number of times a sentence is submitted for translation in the time period to determine a score for the sentence with regard to the priority of the content,

wherein, when the weights are updated, the score for the sentence is reset after the time period is passed, and

wherein the score for the sentence is adjusted based on a marking of a text of the sentence to override the score for the sentence such that the text of the sentence is allocated a priority of translation compared to sections of the sentence other than the text of the sentence.

20. The translation system according to claim 19, further comprising:

a translation buffer configured to store a human translation of the content to he translated; and

a crowdsourcing buffer configured to store the content to be translated,

wherein the crowdsourcing data selector processor is configured so as to assign the content to be translated based on the metric and characteristic data of a user,

wherein the processor is configured so as to receive a priority of the content by the user, and

wherein the metric comprises the priority of the content by the user.