Resource authoring incorporating ontology

• US 20060206303A1
• Filed: 04/29/2005
• Published: 09/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Wu, Wei, El-Gammal, Mohammed, Kohlmeier, Bernhard, Mola Marti, Jordi, Nelson, Jan Anders, Bennett, Julie D., Brownell, Lori A., Ye, Shenghua (Ed)
• Granted Patent: US 7,653,528 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation

Abstract

The present invention provides a system for processing data.

Claims

1. A localization platform operably coupled to an operating system, comprising:

a plurality of localization components providing localized data that is localized to one or more distinct markets;

an ontology store storing ontology information; and

a translation matching component configured to receive a localization request corresponding to input data to be localized, to access the plurality of localization components and the ontology store based on the localization request, and to select and output localized data from one or more of the plurality of localization components based on predetermined criteria.

2. The localization platform of claim 1 wherein the translation matching component is configured to access the ontology store to disambiguate the input data to be localized.

3. The localization platform of claim 2 wherein the translation matching component is configured to receive the input data from an authoring component.

4. The localization platform of claim 2 wherein the translation matching component is configured to receive the input data from a resource manager that is coupled to an application.

5. The localization platform of claim 1 wherein the localization components, the ontology store and the translation matching component are integrated with an operating system.

6. The localization platform of claim 1 wherein the localization components provide confidence scores associated with localized data, given the input data and wherein the translation matching component is configured to select the localized data based on the confidence scores.

7. The localization platform of claim 1 wherein the localization components comprise:

a plurality of data stores storing data localized to one or more distinct markets.

8. The localization platform of claim 1 wherein the localization components comprise:

at least one machine translation system.

9. The localization platform of claim 1 wherein the localization platform is configured to provide localization as a service to a separate operating system.

10. A method of localizing data, comprising:

receiving a request indicative of information to be localized;

accessing a plurality of localization components that provide localized data, based on the request;

accessing an ontology store based on the request; and

selecting localized data from one or more of the plurality of localization components based on predetermined criteria.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein selecting comprises:

disambiguating the information to be localized based on ontology data in the ontology store.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein receiving comprises:

receiving the request from an authoring component.

13. The method of claim 10 wherein receiving comprises:

receiving the request from a resource manager that is configured to receive the information to be localized based on a request from an application.

14. The method of claim 10 wherein the steps of receiving a request, accessing a plurality of localization components, accessing an ontology store and selecting localized data are performed by an operating system.

15. The method of claim 10 wherein the steps of receiving a request, accessing a plurality of localization components, accessing an ontology store and selecting localized data are performed by a service in response to a call from an operating system.

16. The method of claim 10 wherein the localization components provide confidence scores associated with localized data, given the input data and wherein selecting comprises:

selecting the localized data based on the confidence scores.

17. The method of claim 10 wherein the localization components comprise a plurality of data stores storing data localized to one or more distinct markets and a data service component coupled to the translation matching component and wherein selecting comprises:

accessing the data stores through the data service component.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein the localization components comprise at least one machine translation system and wherein selecting comprises:

accessing the at least one machine translation system.