SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PRODUCT FOR DYNAMICALLY ALIGNING TRANSLATIONS IN A TRANSLATION-MEMORY SYSTEM

A computer-implemented system, method, and product associate words, phrases, or other characters (“words”) to be translated with previous translations of such words, if a previous translation exists. The words to be translated, and their identifying attributes (such as, for example, formatting information), are extracted from one or more source files. The previous translations, and their identifying attributes, are extracted from one or more target files. If a previous translation does not exist, the words to be translated, and their attributes, are copied to create a pseudo-previous translation, with attributes. Each word to be translated is associated with a corresponding previous translation based upon commonalities of their attributes. Such words may also be associated based upon their respective locations in their respective files. Each word to be translated, and its attributes, may be stored with a previous translation in a source-target pair record of a source-target pair database. Each source-target pair record may include a propagation flag identifying whether the previous translation stored in the source-target pair record is to be propagated to other occurrences of the associated word to be translated in the source-target pair database. Each source-target pair record may also include a pointer to a page of an occurrence book having pages, wherein each page includes pointers to a common word to be translated in records of the source-target pair database.