Prioritized Incremental Asynchronous Machine Translation of Structured Documents

An apparatus for presenting translated text in a structured document, the apparatus comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• at least one processor coupled to the memory and operative:
• (i) to receive the structured document including text to be translated;
• (ii) to translate to a specific language at least one portion of the text to be translated into at least one representation of translated text in accordance with a prioritization schedule, wherein the at least one representation of translated text is provided by at least first and second servers, the first server independently providing the at least one representation of translated text of a first quality and the second server independently providing the at least one representation of translated text of a second quality, the first quality being different than the second quality;
• and (iii) to present the at least one representation of translated text immediately when available.

An article of manufacture for presenting translated text in a structured document, the article comprising a computer readable storage medium containing one or more computer programs, which when executed implement the steps of:

• receiving the structured document including text to be translated;
• translating to a specific language at least one portion of the text to be translated into at least one representation of translated text in accordance with a prioritization schedule, wherein the at least one representation of translated text is provided by at least first and second servers, the first server independently providing the at least one representation of translated text of a first quality and the second server independently providing the at least one representation of translated text of a second quality, the first quality being different than the second quality;
• and
• presenting the at least one representation of translated text immediately when available.

A system for presenting translated text in a structured document, the system comprising:

• a first server;
• at least a second server;
• and
• at least one processor operatively coupled to the first and at least second servers, the processor being operative:
• (i) to receive the structured document including text to be translated;
• (ii) to translate to a specific language at least one portion of the text to be translated into at least one representation of translated text in accordance with a prioritization schedule, wherein the at least one representation of translated text is provided by at least first and second servers, the first server independently providing the at least one representation of translated text of a first quality and the second server independently providing the at least one representation of translated text of a second quality, the first quality being different than the second quality;
• and (iii) to present the at least one representation of translated text immediately when available.