Translation leveraging

• US 20070010991A1
• Filed: 09/19/2006
• Published: 01/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mark Hastings, Sergey Parievsky, Shu Lei
• Original Assignee: Mark Hastings, Sergey Parievsky, Shu Lei
• Inventors: Hastings, Mark, Parievsky, Sergey, Lei, Shu
• Granted Patent: US 7,970,599 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/47 Machine-assisted translation, e.g. using translation memory

Abstract

An application archive is searched for an existing translation for a text string in an application to be localized. The text string is associated with context information that identifies a location of the text string in the application. If an existing translation is found that matches the text string, and all, or alternately part of, the context information, the existing translation is logically linked to the text string. In one aspect, the existing translation is selected from multiple matches based on number of occurrences. In another aspect, the existing translation is submitted to a manual validation process.

Claims

1. A computerized method of leveraging existing translations for localization of applications comprising:

searching an application archive for an existing translation in a target language for a text string using context information for the text string that identifies a location of the text string in an application.

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