System, method, and product for dynamically aligning translations in a translation-memory system
US6345244B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 27, 1998 |
| Grant date | Feb 5, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 27, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F40/47
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A computer-implemented system, method, and product associate words, phrases, or other characters (“words”) to be translated with previous translations of such words, if a previous translation exists. The words to be translated, and their identifying attributes (such as, for example, formatting information), are extracted from one or more source files. The previous translations, and their identifying attributes, are extracted from one or more target files. If a previous translation does not exist, the words to be translated, and their attributes, are copied to create a pseudo-previous translation, with attributes. Each word to be translated is associated with a corresponding previous translation based upon commonalities of their attributes. Such words may also be associated based upon their respective locations in their respective files. Each word to be translated, and its attributes, may be stored with a previous translation in a source-target pair record of a source-target pair database. Each source-target pair record may include a propagation flag identifying whether the previous translation stored in the source-target pair record is to be propagated to other occurren…
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