A Flexible Architecture for CAT Applications

We present an intuitive technical framework for making Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) adaptable and more suitable for rapid application development. The framework is a client-server-based architecture that uses an approach similar to “message passing”, a technique widely used in computer science. We define a “translation object”, a structure holding all necessary data, that is passed to server-like processes via sockets. This method can be easily enhanced in a modular manner where several recipients build a chain, one passing the processed object to the next one. We enhance a state-of-the-art phrase-based translation system with server and interactive generation capabilities and evaluate this prototype on different language pairs.