Phrase-based dictionary extraction and translation quality evaluation
In one embodiment, a translator quality assurance system may rate a translation using a mapping chart. A data interface 150 may access a translation dictionary matching a source language to a target language. A processor 120 may map automatically a sentence pair having a source sentence 310 in a source language and a target sentence 320 in a target language at a linguistic level using the translation dictionary. A user output device 170 may display a translation quality report of the target sentence 320.
1. A machine-implemented method, comprising:
maintaining, in a translation quality assurance system, a translation dictionary matching a source language to a target language;
mapping automatically with the translation quality assurance system a sentence pair having a source sentence in the source language and a target sentence in the target language at a linguistic level using the translation dictionary;
identifying an unmapped word as a compound word if an unmapped source word has a translation that is a prefix of the compound word; and
generating automatically with the translation quality assurance system a translation quality report describing a translation quality of the sentence pair.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
mapping a source word of the source sentence to a target element of the target sentence.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
mapping a source phrase of the source sentence to a target element of the target sentence prior to mapping a source word.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
identifying a noisy word for deferred matching.
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
using fuzzy matching to map an unmatched element.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
mapping the compound word to matching elements using fuzzy matching.
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
importing the translation dictionary from a dictionary source.
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
updating the translation dictionary based on a user correction.
9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
maintaining a specialty translation dictionary.
10. A tangible computer-readable storage device having a set of instructions detailing a method stored thereon that when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform the method, the method comprising:
maintaining a translation dictionary matching a source language to a target language;
mapping automatically a sentence pair having a source sentence in the source language and a target sentence in the target language at a linguistic level using the translation dictionary;
identifying an unmapped word as a compound word if an unmapped source word has a translation that is a prefix of the compound word; and
generating automatically a translation quality report describing a translation quality of the sentence pair.
11. The tangible computer-readable storage device of claim 10 , wherein the method further comprises:
mapping a source phrase of the source sentence to a target element of the target sentence prior to mapping a source word.
12. The tangible computer-readable storage device of claim 10 , wherein the method further comprises:
identifying a noisy word for deferred matching.
13. The tangible computer-readable storage device of claim 10 , wherein the method further comprises:
using fuzzy matching to map an unmatched element.
14. The tangible computer-readable storage device of claim 10 , wherein the method further comprises:
mapping the compound word to matching elements using fuzzy matching.
15. A translation quality assurance system, comprising:
a data storage that accesses a translation dictionary matching a source language to a target language;
a processor that maps automatically a sentence pair having a source sentence in the source language and a target sentence in the target language at a linguistic level using the translation dictionary, identifies an unmapped word as a compound word if an unmapped source word has a translation that is a prefix of the compound word, and generates a translation quality report describing a translation quality of the sentence pair; and
a user output device that displays the translation quality report of the sentence pair.
16. The translation quality assurance system of claim 15 , wherein the processor calculates a translation confidence score for the sentence pair.
17. The translation quality assurance system of claim 15 , wherein the translation quality report displays a mapping chart between the target sentence and the source sentence.
18. The translation quality assurance system of claim 17 , wherein the translation quality report color codes the mapping chart.
19. The translation quality assurance system of claim 15 , wherein the processor produces the translation quality report in realtime.
20. The translation quality assurance system of claim 15 , wherein the processor maps the compound word to matching elements using fuzzy matching.