System and method for translating languages using an intermediate content space

• US 20040158561A1
• Filed: 02/04/2004
• Published: 08/12/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Becket & Lee LLC
• Original Assignee: Becket & Lee LLC
• Inventors: Gruenwald, Bjorn J.
• Application Number:
  US10/770,391
• Publication Number:
  US 20040158561A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/55 Rule-based translation

Abstract

A system and method for translating languages using an intermediate content space is provided. Content included in a language stream expressed in a first language is transformed into corresponding content expressed in a second language by transforming the content included in the language stream expressed in the first language into intermediate content in a content space, and transforming said intermediate content in the content space into the corresponding content expressed in the second language. In one embodiment, the content space is language agnostic.

Claims

1. A method for translating content included in a language stream expressed in a first language into corresponding content expressed in a second language comprising:

transforming the content included in the language stream expressed in the first language into intermediate content in a content space; and

transforming said intermediate content in the content space into the corresponding content expressed in the second language.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising converting one or more terms in the language stream into a numeric value.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising forming a numeric vector from a plurality of said numeric values, each of said plurality of numeric values corresponding to one or more terms in the language stream.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising forming a list vector from the language stream expressed in the first language.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising forming an numeric list vector from the language stream expressed in the first language.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising building at least one MMX file associated with said numeric vector.

7. The method of claim 4, further comprising building at least one MMX file associated with said list vector.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising building at least one MMX file associated with said numeric list vector.

9. A method for translating an object in a first language space to the object in a second language space comprising:

transforming the object in the first language space to the object in a language agnostic space; and

transforming the object in the language agnostic space to the object in the second language space.

10. A method for managing content comprising:

transforming an object in a first language space to the object in a language agnostic space; and

manipulating the object in the language agnostic space.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

transforming the object in the language agnostic space to the object in the first language space.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

transforming the object in the language agnostic space to the object in a second language space.