Dynamic translation memory using statistical machine translation

A translation system comprising:

• a statistical machine translation (SMT) system configured to generate a proposed translation in a target language for a source language text segment based on a statistical model comprising bi-phrase translation probabilities;
• a translation memory (TM) including a database of source language-target language text segment translation pairs;
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• a dynamic translation system configured to invoke the SMT system to generate a proposed translation in the target language for an input source language text segment based on the statistical model enriched by enriching source language-target language translation information that is (i) extracted from the TM and (ii) assigned high statistical probability as compared with the bi-phrase translation probabilities of the statistical model of the SMT system.

A storage medium storing instructions executable by a digital processor to perform translation of an input source language text segment using a statistical machine translation (SMT) system and a translation memory (TM), the method comprising:

• retrieving at least one translation pair from the TM that has a fuzzy match with the input source language text segment;
• extracting at least one bi-phrase from the at least one translation pair;
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• translating the input source language text segment using the SMT system with a statistical model of the SMT system enriched by the extracted at least one bi-phrase.