Translation Support System for Standardizing Terminology
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current translation support systems face challenges in managing simultaneous translations by multiple translators, leading to inefficiencies, inconsistencies, and difficulties in maintaining standardization, especially under tight deadlines. These systems often require cumbersome operations and may fail to accurately reproduce the original text's meaning, particularly in contexts involving multiple technical fields.
Innovation Solution
A translation support system that enables communication between a server and multiple clients, allowing for approval requests and notifications of translation words, ensuring consistency through a centralized approval process, and providing tools for translators to manage and update translation lists efficiently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If translation-prohibiting identifier marks are added to terms to ensure standardization, then translation standardization is improved, but numerous yet-to-be-translated terms remain causing prolonged translation time
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically adding translation-prohibiting identifier marks to terms that should not be translated before the translation process begins. This preliminary marking prevents translators from wasting time on terms that require standardization, allowing them to focus only on terms that need translation while ensuring consistent terminology throughout the document.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary component (translation-prohibiting identifier marks) that mediates between the original text and the translation process. These marks act as signals to the translation support system to automatically handle certain terms, replacing them with standardized translations from a terminology database while leaving other terms for manual translation.
2Manufacturing precision
If translation-prohibiting identifier marks are used to standardize terms, then translation consistency is improved, but it becomes difficult to confirm specific translation words during the translation process
Solution Approach 1:
The translation support system provides feedback to translators by displaying information about terms with translation-prohibiting identifier marks, including suggested standardized translations from the terminology database. This feedback mechanism allows translators to confirm whether automatic replacements are appropriate or to override them when context requires different translations, maintaining both consistency and flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables translators to self-verify translation decisions by providing access to the terminology database and translation suggestions directly within the translation interface. Translators can independently check whether a term should be standardized or translated manually without requiring external confirmation, maintaining translation consistency while preserving translator autonomy.
3Productivity
If multiple translators simultaneously translate different parts of the same original text, then translation productivity is improved, but maintaining translation standardization becomes extremely cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the standardization management function into a centralized translation support system that all translators access simultaneously. The system consolidates the terminology database and translation-prohibiting identifier mark management in one central location, allowing multiple translators to work on different parts of the text while automatically maintaining consistent terminology across all translations through real-time coordination.
Solution Approach 2:
The translation support system performs multiple functions simultaneously: it manages the terminology database, adds translation-prohibiting identifier marks, performs automatic translations, and coordinates between multiple translators. This multi-functional system eliminates the need for separate standardization management processes, making it easy to maintain translation consistency while multiple translators work concurrently.
4Manufacturing precision
If a single translator creates a translation word list for the entire document, then translation standardization is improved, but other translators cannot proceed until the list is complete
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically analyzing the original text and identifying terms that should have translation-prohibiting identifier marks added, creating an initial terminology list without requiring a translator to manually review the entire document first. This allows the system to prepare standardization rules in advance while translators can simultaneously begin working on their assigned sections.
Solution Approach 2:
The translation support system enables continuous useful action by allowing multiple translators to work simultaneously on different parts of the document while the system continuously manages terminology standardization in the background. The system updates the terminology database and translation-prohibiting identifier marks in real-time as translators work, eliminating idle waiting time while maintaining translation consistency throughout the document.
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AI summary
A translation support system and the like are provided that is capable of preventing wasteful tasks due to simultaneous operations by more than one person and preventing inconsistent translation of translation words even in a case where a number of persons are simultaneously involved in the translation operations. The translation support system includes: a transfer unit transferring translation word approval request information to an approver terminal of an approver, the translation word approval request information including an original word or phrase received from a request-source terminal requesting to the approver an approval of a translation word of a particular original word or phrase; an approval request information storage unit storing translation word approval result information including at least approve-or-reject information corresponding to the translation word approval request information received from the approver terminal and an approved translation word corresponding to the original word or phrase; a notification storage unit storing notification message corresponding to the approve-or-reject information; a notification determination unit determining, in accordance with the approve-or-reject information, the necessity of notification to the terminals other than the request-source terminal and determine which piece of the notification message should be notified to each of the terminals; and a notification transmission unit transmitting notification information to terminals for which notification or respective notifications have been determined to be necessary, the notification information including the notification message in accordance with the determination by the notification determination unit, the original word or phrase, and the approved translation word.