371 results about "Automatic translation" patented technology

A system and method for a highly interactive style of speech-to-speech translation is provided. The interactive procedures enable a user to recognize, and if necessary correct, errors in both speech recognition and translation, thus providing robust translation output than would otherwise be possible. The interactive techniques for monitoring and correcting word ambiguity errors during automatic translation, search, or other natural language processing tasks depend upon the correlation of Meaning Cues and their alignment with, or mapping into, the word senses of third party lexical resources, such as those of a machine translation or search lexicon. This correlation and mapping can be carried out through the creation and use of a database of Meaning Cues, i.e., SELECT. Embodiments described above permit the intelligent building and application of this database, which can be viewed as an interlingua, or language-neutral set of meaning symbols, applicable for many purposes. Innovative techniques for interactive correction of server-based speech recognition are also described.

The present invention allows subscribers to an online information service to participate in real-time conferencing or chat sessions in which a message originating from a subscriber in accordance with a first language is translated to one or more languages before it is broadcast to the other conference areas. Messages in a first language are translated automatically to one or more other languages through language translation capabilities resident at online information service host computers. Access software that subscribers use for participating in conference is integrated with speech recognition and speech generation software such that a subscriber may speak the message he or she would like to share with other participants and may hear the messages from the other participants in the conference. Speech-to-speech translation may be accomplished as a message spoken into a computer microphone in accordance with a first language may be recited by a remote computer in accordance with a second language.

Embodiments of the invention relate to computerized systems and methods for automatically translating text between natural languages. Text for translation may be broken into segments, which may themselves be templates including placeholders. If an exact match for a segment is found in a translation database, the segment may be matched with its translation from the database. Otherwise, alternate source language text, corresponding to the segment, for which an exact translation is available, may be identified and presented to the user for selection. Text selected by the user may replace the original segment and be matched with its translation.

Translation of a segment may be influenced by other translated segments. Additionally, translations may be modified as the user interactively enters and edits text.

Disclosed herein is a method for an automatic translation of input characters in the field of information input, which solves the low-efficiency problem in existing technologies for translating input characters. This method comprises: obtaining a translation command to translate characters entered in a first language; based on the language setting of the input interface for receiving first language input characters, determining a second language; and translating the characters entered in the first language into corresponding characters in the second language. By automatically determining the target language based on the input interface for receiving first language characters, the present invention allows for a rapid translation of input characters, a reduction in user operations, enhanced translation efficiency and improved user experiences.

A system and method to facilitate the translation of Command Line Interface (CLI) configuration scripts associated with a device into the corresponding equivalent CLI configuration scripts of another device. The system includes a translator and one or more data dictionaries. The translator includes a user interface module, a translator logic module to enable the translation, and a current data dictionary module for retaining a selected data dictionary. Each of the data dictionaries includes common syntax generated for a variety of CLI script types. A particular data dictionary is referenced based upon initial input from a network administrator. The translator then generates the automated translation of corresponding scripts from those scripts associated with an original device into a device having differing script requirements.

A user-interactive automatic translation device for a mobile device, includes: a camera image controller for converting an image captured by a camera into a digital image; an image character recognition controller for user-interactively selecting a character string region to be translated from the digital image, performing a character recognition function on the selected character string region based on an optical character reader (OCR) function and character recognition information to generate a text string; and user-interactively correcting errors included in the text string. Further, the user-interactive automatic translation device includes a text transmission controller for transmitting the error-corrected text string; and an automatic translation controller for receiving the error-corrected text string from the text transmission controller, performing a morpheme analysis, tagging, a structure analysis, a structure conversion, and a vocabulary conversion on the text string to generate a translation of the text string based on a grammar of a target language.

A translation system of the type with a connecting structure with intercommunicating net/internet:, whose net includes a plurality of interconnected servers, includes: at least one net-communicator microprocessor user-apparatus for net communication which includes a connection to the net and/or via net/internet, and at least one net-service-server connected to the intercommunicating net/internet including an indefinite number of servers. The net service-server includes or connects to at least one netservice database. The system also includes a plurality of translator computers and/or translator-servers including at least one automatic translation system inside for a plurality of languages in various combinations.

An apparatus and method for automatic translation of patent documents are provided. Translation knowledge customized for the patent domain is extracted and used. The method includes the steps of: extracting a number of technical terms from a patent document and assigning translated terms for the extracted technical terms; extracting expressions frequently used in patent documents, not in a document in a general domain, and constructing translated expressions; using the translation knowledge constructed in this way, applying a sentence pattern to extraordinarily long sentences in a patent document, dividing the sentence by recognition of parallel structure and syntax clues; and extracting translation units available for parsing and performing structure analysis.

Disclosed are a hybrid automatic translation method and apparatus employing a combination of a rule-based method and a translation pattern method, and a computer readable medium thereof, which is capable of solving an ambiguity problem of the conventional rule-based method and a pattern generation and coverage problem of the translation pattern method. The hybrid automatic translation apparatus includes: a morpheme analyzing block for analyzing a morpheme of an inputted source sentence and determining parts of speech; a syntactic structure analyzing block for parsing the tagging result to output a parsing tree; a construction pattern generating block for extracting only a chunking result of phrases belonging to sub-category from the parsing tree to generate a construction pattern; a construction pattern translating block for translating the construction pattern by using a translation pattern; a clause structure analyzing block for analyzing a clause unit structure of the if the translation pattern matching of the construction pattern fails; and a partial pattern translating block for performing a pattern translation of partial construction pattern according to the result of the clause structure analysis to output a final translation result.

A system and method predict the translation quality of a translated input document. The method includes receiving an input document pair composed of a plurality of sentence pairs, each sentence pair including a source sentence in a source language and a machine translation of the source language sentence to a target language sentence. For each of the sentence pairs, a representation of the sentence pair is generated, based on a set of features extracted for the sentence pair. Using a generative model, a representation of the input document pair is generated, based on the sentence pair representations. A translation quality of the translated input document is computed, based on the representation of the input document pair.

A method and system for providing social media ecosystem searching services. Cascading searching is used to locate a desired person in a social media ecosystem. Plural related micro-levels are created in cascading searching lists. The plural related micro-levels include one or more cross-connections between the plural cascading merged lists including cross-connections between the search categories, search subcategories or search keywords in the search categories and search subcategories. The cascading searching provides micro-level searching for a desired person in the social media ecosystem at a level not available with other searching techniques. The system includes voice search requests and automatic translation of search requests and communication requests once a desired person is located into plural different languages. The social media search ecosystem cascading searching services are provided on a cloud communications network for mobile and non-mobile devices.

A method for automatic translation from a first language to a second language, according to the invention, comprising the steps of:

• • a) acquiring an initial sentence or text to be translated;
  • b) selecting one or more automatic translation techniques;
  • c) generating a plurality of translations of the initial sentence or text from the first language to the second language by means of the selected translation technique or techniques;
  • d) for each one of the translations into the second language, generating a back-translation from the second language to the first language;
  • e) comparing said back-translations into the first language with the initial sentence or text in the first language and generating a corresponding index of deviation;
  • f) selecting, among the translations into the second language, the translation that corresponds to the back-translation for which the index of deviation is lowest or nil.

A mobile terminal of the invention includes a language translation unit and stores in advance a language used in the mobile terminal. When the mobile terminal calls or receives a call, the mobile terminal recognizes a country ID corresponding to a people who is called by the mobile terminal or who calls the mobile terminal, by using a telephone number, notification information of a base station, or a control signal from the mobile terminal. Then, the mobile terminal performs language translation by using a translation pattern determined based on the language used in the mobile terminal and the country ID.