Context enriched application text translation

• US 9,858,272 B2
• Filed: 02/16/2014
• Issued: 01/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bareket, Amit, Parag, Nadav, Ravid, Dan, Riechberg, Tamir, Weiss, Moshe
• Primary Examiner(s): Cordero, Marivelisse Santiago
• Assistant Examiner(s): HARRIS, KEARA S
• Application Number:
  US14/181,702
• Publication Number:
  US 20150234811A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,416 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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

A multilayered context enriched text translation interface includes a simulation layer comprising one or more text objects and a translation layer. The interface displays one or more mimicked views of an application GUI in the simulation layer. Subsequent to a user engaging a text object, the interface displays a prompt for a text translation of the text object within a translation layer. In certain embodiments, the mimicked views are graphical reproductions of the application GUI pages with functionality of one or more text objects of the application GUI disabled. In certain embodiments, the prompt includes an accentuation objects to visually accentuate the text object, a text-editing object to receive the text translation of the text object, and a link object to visually connect the accentuation objects and text-editing object.

Claims

1. A method for multilayered context enriched text translation, the method comprising:

displaying a mimicked view of an application graphical user interface (GUI) in a simulation layer of a multilayered translation interface, wherein the mimicked view is a graphical reproduction of the application GUI with functionality of the one or more text objects of the application GUI disabled, and wherein the simulation layer comprises one or more text objects;

subsequent to a user engaging a text object within the simulation layer, displaying a prompt for a user to enter a text translation of the engaged text object within a translation layer of the multilayered translation interface, wherein the prompt further comprises an accentuation object within the translation layer to visually accentuate the engaged text object;

a text-editing object within the translation layer to receive the text translation of the engaged text objet from the user via a keyboard, and a link object within the translation layer that visually connects the accentuation object and the text-editing object;

receiving the text translation of the engaged text object; and

displaying the text translation within the mimicked view in the simulation layer in place of the engaged text object.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the prompt is displayed outside of the simulation layer such that the prompt does not overlap the simulation layer.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the prompt is displayed within the simulation layer such that the prompt overlaps the simulation layer.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

creating a language resource file within property files of the application, the created language resource file corresponding with the language of translation;

receiving a text translation of the engaged text object to the language of translation within the prompt, and;

saving the text translation of the engaged text object to the created language resource file.

5. A computer program product for multilayered context enriched text translation, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor complex to cause the processor complex to:

display a mimicked view of an application graphical user interface (GUI) in a simulation layer of a multilayered translation interface, wherein the mimicked view is a graphical reproduction of the application GUI with functionality of the one or more text objects of the application GUI disabled, and wherein the simulation layer comprises one or more text objects;

in response to receiving a user engagement of a text object within the simulation layer, display a prompt for the user to enter a text translation of the engaged text object within a translation layer of the multilayered translation interface, wherein the prompt further comprises an accentuation object within the translation layer to visually accentuate the engaged text object;

a text-editing object within the translation layer to receive the text translation of the engaged text objet from the user via a keyboard, and a link object within the translation layer that visually connects the accentuation object and the text-editing object;

receive the text translation of the engaged text object; and

display the text translation within the mimicked view in the simulation layer in place of the engaged text object.

6. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the prompt is displayed outside of the simulation layer such that the prompt does not overlap the simulation layer.

7. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the prompt is displayed within the simulation layer such that the prompt overlaps the simulation layer.

8. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the program instructions further cause the processor complex to:

create a language resource file within property files of the application, the created language resource file corresponding with the language of translation;

receive a text translation of the engaged text object to the language of translation within the prompt, and;

save the text translation of the engaged text object to the created language resource file.