Terminology proposal engine for determining target language equivalents

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019171719-A1
Application number	US-201715831395-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 5, 2017
Priority date	Dec 5, 2017
Publication date	Jun 6, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

An input terminology is received in a source language to determine a target language proposal. In a proposal engine when a configuration profile is available the following steps are performed. A set of target language equivalents are determined by applying a user-defined set of approaches to the input terminology. Statistics is computed corresponding to the set of target language equivalents. A target language proposal from the set of target language equivalents is determined based on the computed statistics. The target language proposal along with the computed statistics is displayed in a graphical user interface.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium to store instructions, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations comprising:
receive an input terminology in a source language to determine a target language proposal; in a proposal engine, when a configuration profile is available:
determine a set of target language equivalents by applying a user-defined set of approaches to the input terminology;
compute statistics corresponding to the set of target language equivalents;
based on the computed statistics, determine the target language proposal from among the set of target language equivalents; and
display the target language proposal along with the computed statistics in a graphical user interface.

2 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprises instructions which when executed by the computer further cause the computer to:
in a proposal engine, when the configuration profile is not available:
determine a set of target language equivalents by applying a pre-defined set of approaches to the input terminology;
compute statistics corresponding to the set of target language equivalents;
based on the computed statistics, determine the target language proposal from among the set of target language equivalents; and
display the target language proposal along with the computed statistics in a graphical user interface.

3 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprises instructions which when executed by the computer further cause the computer to:
upon determining that a term data is available, use multi-lingual term data to verify the term data on a multi-channel approach; and upon determining that the term data is not available, use linguistic feature to determine the target language proposal.

4 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the user-defined set of approaches to determine the target language proposal include using calque, and using a reference language as an intermediate language.

5 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprises instructions which when executed by the computer further cause the computer to:
record a user action corresponding to the displayed target language proposal recognize a pattern corresponding to the user action; and implicitly modify the configuration profile based on the recognized pattern.

6 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprises instructions which when executed by the computer further cause the computer to:
receive configuration parameters in a configuration user interface corresponding to the configuration profile; and save the configuration profile in a configuration and statistical database.

7 . The computer-readable medium of claim 6 , further comprises instructions which when executed by the computer further cause the computer to:
determine the target language proposal based on a plurality of configuration profiles, wherein a plurality of configuration parameters is defined in a configuration user interface corresponding to the configuration profiles.

8 . A computer-implemented method of determining target language equivalents, the method comprising:
receiving an input terminology in a source language to determine a target language proposal; in a proposal engine, when a configuration profile available:
determining a set of target language equivalents by applying a user-defined set of approaches to the input terminology;
computing statistics corresponding to the set of target language equivalents;
based on the computed statistics, determining a target language proposal from among the set of target language equivalents; and
displaying the target language proposal along with the computed statistics in a graphical user interface.

9 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
in a proposal engine, when the configuration profile is not available:
determining a set of target language equivalents by applying a set of pre-defined approaches to the input terminology;
computing statistics corresponding to the set of target language equivalents;
based on the computed statistics, determining the target language proposal from the set of target language equivalents; and
displaying the target language proposal along with the computed statistics in a graphical user interface.

10 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
upon determining that a term data is available, use multi-lingual term data to verifying the term data on a multi-channel approach; and upon determining that the term data is not available, using linguistic feature to determine the target language proposal.

11 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the user-defined set of approaches to determine the target language proposal include using calque, and using a reference language as an intermediate language.

12 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
recording a user action corresponding to the displayed target language proposal recognize a pattern corresponding to the user action; and implicitly modifying the configuration profile based on the recognized pattern.

13 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
receiving configuration parameters in a configuration screen corresponding to the configuration profile; and saving the configuration profile in a configuration and statistics database.

14 . The method of claim 13 , further comprising:
determining the target language proposal based on a plurality of configuration profiles, wherein a plurality of configuration parameters is defined in a configuration user interface corresponding to the configuration profiles.

15 . A computer system for determining target language equivalents, comprising:
a computer memory to store program code; and a processor to execute the program code to: receive an input terminology in a source language to determine a target language proposal: in a proposal engine, when a configuration profile available:
determine a set of target language equivalents by applying a user-defined set of approaches to the input terminology;
compute statistics corresponding to the set of target language equivalents;
based on the computed statistics, determine a target language proposal from among the set of target language equivalents; and
display the target language proposal along with the computed statistics in a graphical user interface.

16 . The system of claim 15 , wherein the processor further executes the program code to:
upon determining that configuration data is not available; in a proposal engine:
determine a set of target language equivalents by applying a pre-defined set of approaches to the input terminology;
compute statistics corresponding to the set of target language equivalents;
based on the computed statistics, determine a target language proposal from among the set of target language equivalents; and
display the target language proposal along with the computed statistics in a graphical user interface.

17 . The system of claim 15 , wherein the processor further executes the program code to:
upon determining that a term data is available, use multi-lingual term data to verify the term data on a multi-channel approach; and upon determining that the term data is not available, use linguistic feature to determine the target language proposal.

18 . The system of claim 15 , wherein the user-defined set of approaches to determine the target language proposal include using calque, and using a reference language as an intermediate language.

Assignees

• Sap Se

Inventors

• Vasiltschenko Michail
• Schork Benjamin
• Childress Mark
• Berger Annika
• Miklosch Yvonne
• Kliche Thomas Alcantara
• Smaadahl Hanne
• Zou Ying

Classifications

• G06F40/157 Primary

  using dictionaries or tables · CPC title

• G06F40/131

  Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces · CPC title

• G06F40/263

  Language identification · CPC title

• G06F16/3337

  Translation of the query language, e.g. Chinese to English · CPC title

• G06F40/242

  Dictionaries · CPC title