Apparatus, system, and method for computer aided translation

• US 9,767,095 B2
• Filed: 05/23/2011
• Issued: 09/19/2017
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Sharma, Neeraj
• Application Number:
  US13/113,862
• Publication Number:
  US 20120022852A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,311 Days
• Field of Search: 704 2, 704 3, 704 4, 704 5, 704 8, 704 9, 704 10, 704246, 715236, 715264, 715703, 707771, 348468
• 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. A system comprising a computing device and at least one program module that are together configured for performing the actions comprising:

receiving a source text to be translated, the source text in a source language;

parsing the source text into separate portions;

displaying on a graphical user environment (“

GUE”

), in response to the parsing, the separate portions in a translator workspace field, the translator workspace field editable by a human translator;

selecting a portion of the separate portions for translation in response to a selection by the human translator, wherein the selection by the human translator results in changes to the GUE;

displaying the selected portion;

receiving a translation for the selected portion;

displaying a term for term translation of the selected portion in a target language, the selected portion, and the translation for the selected portion in the translator workspace field, wherein the term for term translation in the target language is displayed in a term order of the source text, a first term in the source text comprises a first format different from a second format of a second term in the source text, the first and second terms being adjacent to one another, a third term in the target language comprising the first format, the third term being the translation for the first term, and a fourth term in the target language comprising the second format, the fourth term being the translation for the second term, the first and second format comprise one or more of highlighted text, non-highlighted text, bolded text, non-bolded text, underlined text, non-underlined text, and text color, the human translator selectively applies the second format to the second term in the source text, and the second format is applied to the fourth term in response to the human translator selectively applying the second format to the second term; and

enabling the human translator to override the translation for the selected portion by updating the translation for the selected portion with changes via the translator workspace field and displaying the updates on the GUE.

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

3. The system of claim 1, the actions further comprising further parsing the source text into one or more of:

one or more sentences;

or

one or more terms.

4. The system of claim 1, the actions further comprising further parsing the source text into one or more terms based on terms found in one or more resources.

5. The system of claim 1, the actions further comprising displaying a context field configured for providing context for the selected portion.

6. The system of claim 1, the actions further comprising displaying a source text field, the source text field displaying the selected portion.

7. The system of claim 1, the actions further comprising dynamically displaying information corresponding to the source text.

8. The system of claim 7, the actions further comprising dynamically displaying information corresponding to the selected portion.

9. The system of claim 1, the actions further comprising displays one or more fields, operations, and functions at substantially the same time on one or more displays.

10. The system of claim 1, the actions further comprising managing 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.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the managing the hierarchical resources comprises one or more of searching the hierarchical resources according to their priority or providing features allowing the editing of one or more of the hierarchical resources.

12. A computer storage device storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform actions comprising:

receiving a source text in a source language;

parsing the source text into separate portions;

displaying on a graphical user environment (“

GUE”

) of the computing device, in response to the parsing, the separate portions in a translator workspace field, the translator workspace field editable by a human translator;

selecting a portion of the separate portions in response to receiving a selection from the human translator indicative of one of the separate portions, wherein the selection from the human translator results in changes to the GUE;

displaying a translation of the selected portion in a target language, a term for term translation of the selected portion in the target language, and the selected portion in the translator workspace field, wherein the term for term translation in the target language is displayed in a term order of the source text, a first term in the source text comprises a first format different from a second format of a second term in the source text, the first and second terms being adjacent to one another, a third term in the target language comprising the first format, the third term being the translation for the first term, and a fourth term in the target language comprising the second format, the fourth term being the translation for the second term, the first and second format comprise one or more of highlighted text, non-highlighted text, bolded text, non-bolded text, underlined text, non-underlined text, and text color, the human translator selectively applies the second format to the second term in the source text, and the second format is applied to the fourth term in response to the human translator selectively applying the second format to the second term; and

enabling the human translator to override the translation for the selected portion by updating the translation for the selected portion with changes via the translator workspace field and displaying the updates on the GUE.

13. The computer storage device of claim 12, wherein the term for term translation comprises a first term in the target language, the first term corresponding to a second term in the source language, wherein the first term is a translation of the second term, and wherein one or more of the first term and the second term comprise two or more words.

14. The computer storage device of claim 12, wherein the parsing comprises parsing the source text into one or more terms based on terms found in one or more resources.

15. A method performed on at least one computing device, the method comprising:

receiving a source text in a source language;

parsing the source text into separate portions;

displaying on a graphical user environment (“

GUE”

), in response to the parsing, the separate portions in a translator workspace field, the translator workspace field editable by a the human translator;

selecting a portion of the separate portions in response to receiving a selection from the human translator indicative of one of the separate portions, wherein the selection from the human translator results in changes to the GUE;

displaying a translation of the selected portion in a target language, a term for term translation of the selected portion in the target language, and the selected portion in the translator workspace field, wherein the term for term translation in the target language is displayed in a term order of the source text, a first term in the source text comprises a first format different from a second format of a second term in the source text, the first and second terms being adjacent to one another, a third term in the target language comprising the first format, the third term being the translation for the first term, and a fourth term in the target language comprising the second format, the fourth term being the translation for the second term, the first and second format comprise one or more of highlighted text, non-highlighted text, bolded text, non-bolded text, underlined text, non-underlined text, and text color, the human translator selectively applies the second format to the second term in the source text, and the second format is applied to the fourth term in response to the human translator selectively applying the second format to the second term; and

enabling the human translator to override the translation for the selected portion by updating the translation for the selected portion with changes via the translator workspace field and displaying the updates on the GUE.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the 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 being a translation of the second term, wherein one or more of the first term and the second term comprise two or more words.