Techniques for performing translation of messages

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving, at a computing device having one or more processors, a message template to be translated from a source language to a target language, the message template including a text portion and one or more template placeholders, whereby the message template is used to generate a customized output message by replacing the one or more template placeholders with customized content;
• parsing, at the computing device, the message template to identify the text portion and the one or more template placeholders;
• generating, at the computing device, one or more non-editable objects, each of the one or more non-editable objects corresponding to one of the one or more template placeholders;
• generating, at the computing device, a display message template by replacing each of the one or more template placeholders with its corresponding non-editable object in the message template, the display message template including the text portion to be translated;
• providing, from the computing device, the display message template to a user device;
• receiving, at the computing device, a translated display message template from the user device, the translated message including a translated text portion and the one or more non-editable objects, the translated text portion being in the target language and corresponding to the text portion of the message template;
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• generating, at the computing device, a translated message template based on the translated display message template, the translated message template including the translated text portion and the one or more template placeholders.

A system comprising:

• a message template datastore that stores a plurality of message templates to be translated;
• a message template retrieval module that retrieves a message template to be translated of the plurality of message templates to be translated from the message template datastore, wherein the message template is to be translated from a source language to a target language, and includes a text portion and one or more template placeholders;
• a parsing module that parses the message template to be translated to identify the text portion and the one or more template placeholders;
• a display message template generation module that generates one or more non-editable objects, each of the one or more non-editable objects corresponding to one of the one or more template placeholders, and generates a display message template by replacing each of the one or more template placeholders with its corresponding non-editable object in the message template, the display message template including the text portion;
• a translator interface module that provides for display at a user device the display message template, and that receives a translated display message template from the user device, the translated message including a translated text portion and the one or more non-editable objects, the translated text portion being in the target language and corresponding to the text portion of the message template to be translated;
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• a message template generation module that generates a translated message template based on the translated display message template and the one or more template placeholders, the translated message template including the translated text portion and the one or more template placeholders.