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MACHINE TRANSLATION-DRIVEN AUTHORING SYSTEM AND METHOD

  • US 20140207439A1
  • Filed: 01/21/2013
  • Published: 07/24/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An authoring method comprising:

  • generating an authoring interface configured for assisting a user to author a text string in a source language for translation to a target string in a target language;

    receiving source text comprising initial text entered by a user through the authoring interface in the source language;

    with a processor, selecting a set of source phrases from a stored collection of source phrases, each of the set of source phrases including at least one token of the initial source text as a prefix and at least one other token as a suffix, the selection of the set of source phrases being based on a translatability score, wherein the translatability score, for each of a stored set of source phrases, is a function of statistics of at least one biphrase in which the source phrase occurs in combination with a corresponding target phrase in the target language, each biphrase being one of a collection of biphrases;

    proposing a set of candidate phrases for display on the interface, the candidate phases each comprising the suffix of a respective one of the source phrases in the set of source phrases;

    providing for receiving a user'"'"'s selection of one of the candidate phrases in the set of candidate phrases and, where one of the candidate phrases in the set of candidate phrases is selected by the user, appending the selected one of the candidate phrases to the source text; and

    optionally, repeating the receiving, selecting, proposing and providing to generate the text string in the source language, wherein in the repeating, the received text comprises the initial source text and previously appended text.

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