Dynamic Translation Substitution

• US 20170220560A1
• Filed: 04/21/2017
• Published: 08/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2012
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Mulsow, Jennifer D., Chen, Guoyou, Huber, William B., Liu, Su
• Granted Patent: US 10,289,682 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/10 Text processing natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/242 Dictionaries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/263 Language identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/40 Processing or translation of natural language natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30
• 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

Abstract

Mechanisms are provided for translating messages output by processes associated with the data processing system. Language based user activities occurring via a data processing system are tracked and automatically analyzed to determine a relative priority ordering of one or more languages used by a user performing the user activities. A sequence of preferred language translation substitutions is generated for outputting messages based on results of the analysis and is automatically applied to a received message from a process associated with the data processing system to generate a translated message using one of the preferred language translation substitutions in the sequence of preferred language translation substitutions. The translated message is output via an output device of the data processing system.

Claims

1-22. -22. (canceled)

23. A data processing system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

automatically track language based user activities occurring via the data processing system to at least one other data processing system via a communication connection;

automatically analyze the language based user activities to determine a relative priority ordering of one or more languages used by a user performing the user activities;

automatically generate a sequence of preferred language translation substitutions for outputting messages based on results of the analysis, wherein the sequence comprises two or more preferred language translation substitutions for outputting the messages;

automatically apply the sequence to a received message from a process associated with the data processing system to generate a translated message using one of the preferred language translation substitutions in the sequence of preferred language translation substitutions, wherein the sequence is automatically applied to the received message from the process by overriding a user defined sequence of preferred translation substitutions and giving priority to the automatically sequence and wherein the instructions to automatically apply the sequence to the received message further cause the processor to;

traverse in a sequence order, the preferred language substitutions of the sequence;

for each preferred language translation substitution in the sequence order;

determine whether a source of the received message has a translation catalog file corresponding to the first preferred language translation substitution in the sequence order, wherein each translation catalog file comprises a translation in an associated language;

responsive to a failure of the sauce of the received message having the translation catalog file corresponding to the first preferred language translation substitution in the sequence order, determine whether the source of the received message has a translation catalog file corresponding to the next preferred language translation substitution in the sequence order; and

responsive to the source of the received message having the translation catalog file corresponding to the next preferred language translation substitution in the sequence order, select the next preferred language translation substitution as a preferred language translation substitution to use in generating the translated message; and

generate the translated message using the selected preferred language translation substitution to translate the received message into a different language from a language in which the received message is received; and

output the translated message via an output device of the data processing system.

25. The data processing system of claim 23, wherein the instructions cause the processor to automatically track language based user activities occurring via the data processing system by at least one of:

tracking the user'"'"'s accessing of content on one or more data networks and determining the languages of the content accessed by the user;

determining language selections made by the user'"'"'s input to one or more sources of content on one or more data networks;

determining corresponding counts, for a plurality of languages, of a number of sources of content accessed by the user that provide content in the particular language; and

determining, for the plurality of languages, an amount of time the user spends viewing content in the particular language.

26. The data processing system of claim 23, wherein the instructions cause the processor to automatically generate a sequence of preferred language translation substitutions by modifying an existing static translation substitution based on the results of the analysis.

27. The data processing system of claim 23, wherein the output device is a display device, the received message is a message to be displayed on the display device, and the translated message is a translated message displayed on the display device.

28. The data processing system of claim 23, wherein the output device is an audio output device, the received message is a message to be audibly output by the audio output device, and the translated message is a translated message audibly output by the audio output device.

29. The data processing system of claim 23, wherein the instructions cause the processor to generate the translated message by utilizing the translation catalog file associated with the source of the received message which matches the selected preferred language translation substitution.

30. The data processing system of claim 23, wherein the received message is received from one of an operating system of the computing device or an application executing on the data processing system.

24. (canceled)