Patent ID: 9317501
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: G06F,G10L

Claim Text:
1. A method for translating a natural-language text document, the method comprising: a computer system receiving the natural-language text document for translation; the computer system dividing each of a plurality of sentences in the document into a plurality of portions based on a set of rules that specify how to divide up each of the plurality of sentences based on content of the plurality of sentences; the computer system translating the portions of each of the plurality of sentences to form initially translated first portions, using a translation engine; the computer system sending the initially translated first portions to a plurality of respective, human translators, for correction, wherein none of the plurality of human translators is sent any of the plurality of translated sentences in its entirety; and responsive to receiving translation corrections from the plurality of human translators for the initially translated first portions, the computer system combining the translations for the respective portions with the translation corrections received from the plurality of human translators to form consolidated translations for each of the plurality of sentences, and updating at least one model used by the translation engine based on the translation corrections received from the plurality of human translators.