Systems and methods for providing context based definitions and translations of text

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2015161115-A1
Application number	US-201414563584-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 8, 2014
Priority date	Dec 9, 2013
Publication date	Jun 11, 2015
Grant date	—

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for translating a phrase block and presenting meanings and translations of the phrase block. Consistent with certain embodiments, computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for identifying parts of speech of the phrase block, determining definitions of the phrase block in the source language corresponding to the parts of speech, and determining usage examples corresponding to the definitions. Additionally, systems and methods are provided for translating the phrase block from the source language to translated text and for ranking the parts of speech based on usage. Consistent with certain embodiments, computer-implemented systems and methods are also provided for determining usage based on a user's location, based on a corpus of documents, and/or based on content stored by the user. Systems and methods are also provided for displaying the phrase block, definitions and usage examples of the phrase block, and/or translations of the phrase block according to the ranking.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A server system for translating a phrase block, the system comprising:
a memory device that stores a set of instructions; and one or more processors that execute the instructions to:
receive a request for translation, the request comprising a phrase block;
identify parts of speech of the phrase block;
determine definitions of the phrase block, corresponding to the identified parts of speech, in the source language;
determine usage examples for the phrase block, corresponding to the definitions, in the source language;
translate, the phrase block from the source language to translated text in the target language, the translated text comprising one or more translations of the phrase block
rank the parts of speech in a first rank order based on usage of the parts of speech in the source language;
generate display groups, each group including a part of speech selected from the parts of speech, one or more definition corresponding to the part of speech, and one or more usage examples corresponding to the definitions;
determine the order for the display groups based on the first rank order; and
transmit information sufficient for a device to render the display groups in the order and the translated text.

2 . The server system of claim 1 , wherein to generate the display groups the server:
ranks the definitions corresponding to the part of speech in a second rank order based on usage of the definitions in the source language; and arranges the definitions in the each display group according to the second rank order.

3 . The server system of claim 2 , wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors of the server to:
determine a location of the client; and determine the usage of the definitions based on the location.

4 . The server system of claim 2 , wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors of the server to:
retrieve textual content containing the phrase block stored on the client; and determine, in the textual content, frequencies of use of the phrase block according to the definitions; and rank the definitions based on the frequencies of use.

5 . The server system of claim 2 , wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors of the server to:
rank items in the translated text, corresponding to the part of speech, in a third rank order based on usage of the items in the target language; and arrange the items according to the third rank order.

6 . The server system of claim 5 , wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors of the client to:
display a ranking graphic representing a rank of an item in the translated text as determined in the third rank order.

7 . The server system of claim 6 , wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors of the client to:
display the display groups in a first window of the display; and display the translated text in a second window of the display.

8 . The server system of claim 7 , wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors of the client to:
display a first graphical arrow in the first window; display a second graphical arrow in the second window; unfold the first window to reveal more display groups when the user accesses at least one of the first graphical arrow and the second graphical arrow.

9 . A computer-implemented method of translating a phrase block, the method comprising the following operations performed by one or more processors:
receiving, from a client device, a phrase block for translation from a source language to a target language; identifying a part of speech for the phrase block; determining a definition of the phrase block in the source language, the definition corresponding to the part of speech; determining a usage example for the phrase block in the source language, the usage example corresponding to the definition; translating the phrase block from the source language to translated text in the target language, the translated text corresponding to the part of speech; and generating a display of the phrase, the part of speech, the definition, the usage example, and the translated text.

10 . The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , wherein the definition is a first definition, the usage example is a first usage example, and the method further includes:
determining a second definition of the phrase block in the source language, the second definition corresponding to the part of speech; determining a second usage example for the phrase block in the source language, the second usage example corresponding to the second definition; ranking the first definition and the second definition in a first rank order based on usage of the phrase block in the source language; and displaying the first definition, the first usage example, the second definition, and the second usage example based on the first rank order.

11 . The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , further including:
determining a location of the client device; and determining the usage of the definitions based on the location.

12 . The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , further including:
retrieving textual content containing the phrase block from content stored on the client device; and determining the usage of the definitions based on the textual content.

13 . The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , wherein determining usage includes:
accessing content from a corpus; identifying target content containing the phrase block in the corpus; determining a first frequency of use of the phrase block, in the target content, according to the first definition; determining a second frequency of use of the phrase block, in the target content, according to the second definition; and ranking the first definition and the second definition based on the first frequency and the second frequency.

14 . The computer-implemented system of claim 13 , wherein the corpus includes at least one of documents, search logs, web pages, and social network content.

15 . The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , wherein:
ranking further includes: generating a first display group including the first definition, and the first usage example; generating a second display group including the second definition, and the second usage example; and displaying further includes:
displaying the first display group and the second display group based on the first rank order.

16 . The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , further including:
determining definitions of the phrase block in the source language, the definitions corresponding to the part of speech; determining usage examples for the phrase block in the source language, the usage examples corresponding to the definitions; ranking the definitions in a first rank order based on usage of the definitions in the source language; generating display groups, each display group including:
a definition selected from the definitions; and
a usage example selected from the usage examples, the usage example corresponding to the definition; and
displaying the display groups based on the first rank order.

17 . The computer-implemented method of claim 16 , further including:
ranking items in the translated text in a second rank order based on usage of the translated text in the target language; displaying the items based on the second rank order.

18 . The computer-implemented method of claim 17 , further including displaying two display groups on the disp

Assignees

• Google Inc

Inventors

• Cuthbert Alexander Jay
• Tian Chao
• Denero John
• Stevens Keith
• Nguyen Sarah

Classifications

• G06F40/242 Primary

  Dictionaries · CPC title

• G06F40/47 Primary

  Machine-assisted translation, e.g. using translation memory · CPC title

• G06F17/289 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic