APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR COMPUTER AIDED TRANSLATION

• US 20120022852A1
• Filed: 05/23/2011
• Published: 01/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Western Standard Publishing Company, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Western Standard Publishing Company, Inc.
• Inventors: Tregaskis, Richard, Wells, Scott, Clegg, Caden
• Granted Patent: US 9,767,095 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/47 Machine-assisted translation, e.g. using translation memory

Abstract

An apparatus for assisting a human translator includes a source text module, a translator workspace module, a parsing module, a selection module, and a glossary module. The source text module receives source text in a source language. The translator workspace module displays a translator workspace field that is editable by a user. The parsing module parses the source text received by the source text module into separate portions. The selection module selects a first portion (first selected portion) of the separate portions for translation. The glossary module displays a term for term translation of the first selected portion of source text in a target language.

Claims

1. An apparatus for assisting a human translator, the apparatus comprising:

a computer readable storage medium storing computer readable program code executable by a processor, the computer readable program code comprising;

a source text module configured to receive source text, the source text in a source language;

a translator workspace module configured to display a translator workspace field, the translator workspace field editable by a user;

a parsing module configured to parse the source text received by the source text module into separate portions;

a selection module configured to select a first portion (first selected portion) of the separate portions for translation; and

a glossary module configured to display a term for term translation of the first selected portion of source text in a target language.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the term for term translation in the target language is displayed in a term order of the source text.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein a term for term translation comprises a first term in the target language, the first term corresponding to a second term in the source language, the first term a translation of the second term, wherein one or more of the first term and the second term comprise two or more words.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the parsing module is configured to parse the source text into one or more of:

one or more sentences; and

one or more terms.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the parsing module is configured to parse the source text into one or more terms based on terms found in one or more resources.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a context module configured to display a context field, the context field containing text providing context for the currently selected portion.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the source text module is further configured to display a source text field, the source text field displaying a portion of the source text.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a resource module configured to dynamically display information corresponding to the source text.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the selection module is further configured to select a second portion (second selected portion) of source text and wherein the resource module is configured to dynamically display information corresponding to the second selected portion.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a conglomeration module configured to display one or more fields, operations, and functions at substantially the same time on one or more displays, comprising displaying the fields, operations, and functions provided by one or more of the source text module, the workspace module, the parsing module, the selection module, and the glossary module.

11. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a term management module configured to manage hierarchical resources, the hierarchical resources comprising at least a first resource and a second resource, the first resource having a higher priority than the second resource.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein managing the hierarchical resources comprises one or more of searching the hierarchical resources according to their priority and providing features allowing the editing of one or more of the hierarchical resources.

13. A computer program product for assisting a human translator, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code configured to;

receive source text, the source text in a source language;

display a translator workspace field, the translator workspace field editable by a user;

parse the source text received by the source text module into separate portions;

select a first portion (first selected portion) of the separate portions for translation; and

display a term for term translation of the first selected portion of source text in a target language.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the term for term translation in the target language is displayed in a term order of the source text.

15. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein a term for term translation comprises a first term in the target language, the first term corresponding to a second term in the source language, the first term a translation of the second term, wherein one or more of the first term and the second term comprise two or more words.

16. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein parsing comprises parsing the source text into one or more terms based on terms found in one or more resources.

17. A method for deploying a computer program product, comprising integrating computer readable program code into a computing system, wherein the code in combination with the computing system performs the following:

receives source text;

displays a translator workspace field, the translator workspace field editable by a user;

parses the source text received by the source text module into separate portions;

selects a first portion (first selected portion) of the separate portions for translation; and

displays a term for term translation of the first selected portion of source text in a target language.

18. The method for deploying a computer program product of 17, wherein the term for term translation in the target language is displayed in a term order of the source text.

19. The method for deploying a computer program product of 17, wherein a term for term translation comprises a first term in the target language, the first term corresponding to a second term in the source language, the first term a translation of the second term, wherein one or more of the first term and the second term comprise two or more words.

20. A system for assisting a human translator, the system comprising:

one or more displays;

one or more input devices;

one or more resources, the one or more resources including information about one of a source language and a target language; and

a translation apparatus, the translation apparatus comprising

a source text module configured to receive source text, the source text in a source language,

a translator workspace module configured to display a translator workspace field, the translator workspace field editable by a user,

a parsing module configured to parse the source text received by the source text module into separate portions;

a selection module configured to select a first portion (first selected portion) of the separate portions for translation, and

a glossary module configured to display a term for term translation of the first selected portion of source text in a target language.