US 9,519,639 B2Granted

Community translation of user-generated content

AssigneeFacebook, Inc.

InventorsJames M. Leszczenski, Hao Xu, Javier Olivan Lopez

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Abstract

Translations for items of user-generated content are received from one or more users associated with a social networking system and/or one or more machine-generated translations. Each translation may translate a content item from a source or original language to a target language. Votes regarding the suitability of the translations are received from one or more users. In one aspect, the option to provide translations and/or vote on translations is provided to those users that are determined to be competent in the source language of the item of user-generated content. Determination of whether a user is competent in the source language can be based on the user profile of the user, the user-generated content of the user, the language competencies of the user's connections, and/or other social signals.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method comprising:

determining whether a source language of an item of user-generated content is indicated by language competency information for a viewing user;
responsive to a determination that the source language is indicated by the language competency information, providing a translation input element on a display, wherein the translation input element enables the viewing user to provide a user-generated translation of the item of user-generated content;
adding the user-generated translation by the viewing user to a list of user-generated translations for the item of user-generated content received from a plurality of users associated with a social networking system, each user-generated translation having a number of votes indicating a reliability for the user-generated translation;
selecting a user-generated translation for the item of user-generated content from the list, the selection comprising:
upon a determination that a translation from an owner of the user-generated content for the item of user-generated content is in the list, selecting the translation from the owner for the item of user-generated content;
and
upon a determination that a translation from the owner of the user-generated content for the item of user-generated content is not in the list, selecting a user-generated translation having a highest number of votes from the list;
and
providing the selected user-generated translation for display to another viewing user.

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Facts

Application: 13/492,621Filed 8 Jun 2012
Published: US 2013/0332143 A112 Dec 2013
Granted: 13 Dec 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06F 40/47
Data-driven translation: machine-assisted translation, e.g. using translation memory
G06F 40/263
Natural language analysis: language identification
G06F 40/51
Processing or translation of natural language: translation evaluation
G06F 40/58
Processing or translation of natural language: use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for…

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