Patent ID: 8244519

Claim:
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: identifying a sub-set of the source language text segments of the TM that have a highest number of words in common with the input source language text segment without regard to word ordering; and selecting the at least one fuzzy source language text segment from the sub-set as the text segment in the sub-set based on a longest common ordered sub-sequence criterion; 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.