Patent ID: 8244519
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A translation method comprising: retrieving at least one fuzzy match text segment translation pair from a translation memory (TM) for an input source language text segment, the fuzzy match text segment translation pair comprising a fuzzy source language text segment having a fuzzy match to the input source language text segment and a corresponding translated target language text segment, wherein the retrieving comprises: extracting from the at least one fuzzy match text segment translation pair at least one exact match phrase pair comprising a source language phrase that exactly matches a phrase of the input source language text segment and a corresponding translated target language phrase; and invoking a statistical machine translation (SMT) system to generate a proposed translation of the input source language text segment based on a statistical translation model that is enriched by the at least one exact match phrase pair with the at least one exact match phrase pair assigned a high statistical probability; wherein the retrieving, extracting, and invoking operations are performed by a computer.