Patent ID: 8805669
Filing Date: 2014-08-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A translation system for translating source text from a first language to target text in a second language, the system comprising: at least one processor; and at least one nontransitory processor-readable medium that stores processor executable instructions and information, which includes: a translation memory (TM) module storing translation segments; the TM module being operable to generate a TM target text output in response to the source text, a statistical machine translation (SMT) module configured to generate translations on the basis of statistical models, the statistical models each having a respective number of parameters derived from the analysis of bilingual text corpora; the SMT module being operable to generate a SMT target text output in response to the source text, the at least one processor communicatively coupled to the at least one nontransitory processor-readable medium and which in response to the execution of the processor executable instructions implements: an extractor configured to extract system independent features from the TM target text output and the SMT target text output, a vector generator configured to generate a vector with a unified feature set derived from the extracted features and features obtained directly from each of the SMT module and the TM module, and a recommender operable to read the vector and determine whether the TM target text output or the SMT target text output is optimum for post editing.