13. The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the human and machine translators in the translation network communicate with the language translation system using a translation client interface program, wherein the translation client interface program is implemented differently for some of the translators but that adheres to a standard interface or protocol for communication and information exchange that does not distinguish between a human or a machine.
13. The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the human and machine translators in the translation network communicate with the language translation system using a translation client interface program, wherein the translation client interface program is implemented differently for some of the translators but that adheres to a standard interface or protocol for communication and information exchange that does not distinguish between a human or a machine. 14. The system of claim 13 , where the translation client interface program uses a variety of user-interface methods to maximize information exchange with human translators, including: use of fonts, color, shading, line-weight, grayscale, flashing, animation, and sound to display or otherwise communicate a translation status and/or other metadata of the source text and the translation confidence and/or other metadata of translated text fragments and alerts; use of fonts, color, shading, line-weight, grayscale, flashing, animation, and sound to provide real time feedback, as a translation fragment is entered by the translator; use of touch-sensitive screens; use of speech synthesis and automatic voice recognition; and use of instant messaging, text-messaging (SMS, etc.), and/or e-mail.