Customizable and low-latency interactive computer-aided translation

1. A method for computer-aided translation, comprising:

receiving a document comprising one or more sentences to be translated;

generating a suggestion pool of possible translations for each sentence in the document using a processor;

providing a best suggestion from the suggestion pool to a user for a sentence being translated;

updating the suggestion pool based on the user's input of a translation prefix; and

providing an updated best suggestion from the updated suggestion pool to the user for the sentence being translated.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the suggestion pool comprises using general and customized translation models.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the customized model is built using in-domain data for a domain of the document.

4. The method of claim 2 , further comprising updating the customized translation model based on a completed sentence translation.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the suggestion pool is a word lattice that includes a proper subset of possible translations having a likelihood above a threshold.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein updating the suggestion pool comprises removing suggestions that do not match the translation prefix.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

transmitting the suggestion pool to a client device, wherein the suggestion pool is generated at a server device; and

transmitting a request for additional possible translations based on the translation prefix if the prefix deviates from possible translations in the suggestion pool.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the translation prefix comprises translation information entered manually by the user.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the translation prefix comprises an accepted portion of the best suggestion.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the suggestion pool of possible translations for each sentence comprises a pruned translation lattice for each sentence that compactly represents a set of possible phrase translations of a sentence being translated.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein updating the suggestion pool comprises adding new likely translations and pruning translations that are not viable.

12. A method for computer-aided translation, comprising:

receiving a document comprising one or more sentences to be translated;

generating a suggestion pool of possible translations for each sentence in the document at a server device using a processor, based on general and customized translation models having in-domain translation data;

transmitting the suggestion pool to a client device;

providing a best suggestion from the suggestion pool to a user for a sentence being translated;

transmitting a request for additional possible translations based on the translation prefix if the prefix deviates from possible translations in the suggestion pool;

updating the suggestion pool based on the user's input of a translation prefix; and

providing an updated best suggestion from the updated suggestion pool to the user for the sentence being translated.