US 2016/0259781 A1Published application

Language translation for multi-function peripherals

AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.

InventorJayasimha Nuggehalli

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Abstract

An approach provides context-specific language translation services for electronic documents using templates. As used herein, the term “template” refers to a context-specific set of keywords that includes at least a first set of keywords in a first language and a corresponding second set of keywords in a second language that is different than the first language. As used herein, the term “language” refers to a human language and the term “keyword” refers to one or more words or phrases of any length. The context-specific set of keywords may include additional sets of keywords in other languages that correspond to the first and second sets of keywords. A language translation service uses the templates to translate electronic documents. The language translation service also provides capabilities for managing templates and a translation review capability for reviewing translated documents to identify errors. Templates can then be edited to address the translation errors.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

one or more processors;
one or more memories communicatively coupled to the one or more processors;
and
a language translation service executing on the apparatus and configured to:
receive a request to translate an electronic document, wherein the request to translate the electronic document specifies that the electronic document is to be translated from a first language to a second language that is different than the first language, and wherein the request to translate the electronic document further specifies a particular template from a plurality of templates to be used to translate the electronic document from the first language to the second language, wherein each template from the plurality of templates corresponds to a different context and at least two different templates, from the plurality of templates, have, for one or more keywords in a first language, different corresponding keywords in a second language, and wherein the particular template corresponds to a particular context and includes at least a first plurality of keywords in the first language and a corresponding second plurality of keywords in the second language, and
generate a translated electronic document by processing the electronic document using the first plurality of keywords in the first language and the corresponding second plurality of keywords in the second language included in the particular template.

3 more elements

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions which, when processed by one or more processors, cause:

a language translation service executing on an apparatus to:
receive a request to translate an electronic document, wherein the request to translate the electronic document specifies that the electronic document is to be translated from a first language to a second language that is different than the first language, and wherein the request to translate the electronic document further specifies a particular template from a plurality of templates to be used to translate the electronic document from the first language to the second language, wherein each template from the plurality of templates corresponds to a different context and at least two different templates, from the plurality of templates, have, for one or more keywords in a first language, different corresponding keywords in a second language, and wherein the particular template corresponds to a particular context and includes at least a first plurality of keywords in the first language and a corresponding second plurality of keywords in the second language, and
generate a translated electronic document by processing the electronic document using the first plurality of keywords in the first language and the corresponding second plurality of keywords in the second language included in the particular template.

A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by a language translation service executing on an apparatus, a request to translate an electronic document, wherein the request to translate the electronic document specifies that the electronic document is to be translated from a first language to a second language that is different than the first language, and wherein the request to translate the electronic document further specifies a particular template from a plurality of templates to be used to translate the electronic document from the first language to the second language, wherein each template from the plurality of templates corresponds to a different context and at least two different templates, from the plurality of templates, have, for one or more keywords in a first language, different corresponding keywords in a second language, and wherein the particular template corresponds to a particular context and includes at least a first plurality of keywords in the first language and a corresponding second plurality of keywords in the second language, and
generating, by the language translation service executing on an apparatus, a translated electronic document by processing the electronic document using the first plurality of keywords in the first language and the corresponding second plurality of keywords in the second language included in the particular template.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.