Class 704/245 - Clustering

Subclass of Class 704 - Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression
Definition: Subject matter wherein similar references are placed or
No. of applications: 29
Last issue date: 06/30/2011

Application No.	Application Title	Issue Date
20110161081	Speech Recognition Language Models Methods, computer program products and systems are described for forming a speech recognition language model. Multiple query-website relationships are determined by identifying websites that are determined to be relevant to queries using one or more search engines. Clus...	06/30/2011
20100241430	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING META-DATA DEPENDENT LANGUAGE MODELING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION Disclosed are systems and methods for providing a spoken dialog system using meta-data to build language models to improve speech processing. Meta-data is generally defined as data outside received speech; for example, meta-data may be a customer profile having a name, ...	09/23/2010
20100217593	Program for creating Hidden Markov Model, information storage medium, system for creating Hidden Markov Model, speech recognition system, and method of speech recognition A program for generating Hidden Markov Models to be used for speech recognition with a given speech recognition system, the information storage medium storing a program, that renders a computer to function as a scheduled-to-be-used model group storage section that store...	08/26/2010
20100138223	SPEECH CLASSIFICATION APPARATUS, SPEECH CLASSIFICATION METHOD, AND SPEECH CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM An object of the present invention is to allow classification of sequentially input speech signals with good accuracy based on similarity of speakers and environments by using a realistic memory use amount, a realistic processing speed, and an on-line operation. A speec...	06/03/2010
20090265166	BOUNDARY ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND METHOD A boundary estimation apparatus includes an boundary estimation unit which estimates a first boundary separating a speech into first meaning units, a boundary estimation unit configured to estimate a second boundary separating a speech, related to the speech, into secon...	10/22/2009
20090112588	METHOD FOR SEGMENTING COMMUNICATION TRANSCRIPTS USING UNSUPERVSED AND SEMI-SUPERVISED TECHNIQUES A method is provided for forming discrete segment clusters of one or more sequential sentences from a corpus of communication transcripts of transactional communications that comprises dividing the communication transcripts of the corpus into a first set of sentences sp...	04/30/2009
20090106023	Speech recognition word dictionary/language model making system, method, and program, and speech recognition system A speech recognition word dictionary/language model making system for creating a word dictionary for recognizing a word not appearing in a learning text by selecting a word-generation-model-learning-method-by-word-class according to the word to be added which does not a...	04/23/2009
20080319746	KEYWORD OUTPUTTING APPARATUS AND METHOD A keyword analysis device obtains word vectors represented by the documents by analyzing keywords contained in each of documents input in a designated period. A topic cluster extraction device extracts topic clusters belonging to the same topic from a plurality of docum...	12/25/2008
20080319747	SPOKEN MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE WITH SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION The method of operating a man-machine interface unit includes classifying at least one utterance of a speaker to be of a first type or of a second type. If the utterance is classified to be of the first type, the utterance belongs to a known speaker of a speaker data ba...	12/25/2008
20080126090	Method For Speech Recognition From a Partitioned Vocabulary A is recognized using a predefinable vocabulary that is partitioned in sections of phonetically similar words. In a recognition process, first oral input is associated with one of the sections, then the oral input is determined from the vocabulary of the associated sect...	05/29/2008
20070233481	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVELOPING HIGH ACCURACY ACOUSTIC MODELS BASED ON AN IMPLICIT PHONE-SET DETERMINATION-BASED STATE-TYING TECHNIQUE A system for, and method of, developing high accuracy acoustic models and a digital signal processor incorporating the same. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) an acoustic model initializer configured to generate initial acoustic models by seeding with seed mon...	10/04/2007
20070118376	Word clustering for input data A clustering tool to generate word clusters. In embodiments described, the clustering tool includes a clustering component that generates word clusters for words or word combinations in input data. In illustrated embodiments, the word clusters are used to modify or upda...	05/24/2007
20070088550	Method for predictive maintenance of a machine A method for predictive maintenance of a machine includes collecting feature data for the machine which includes a plurality of feature vectors. At least some of the feature vectors are standardized to facilitate compatibility between different vectors. At least some of...	04/19/2007
20070083368	Document clustering Methods and systems for clustering document collections are disclosed. A system for clustering observations may include a processor and a processor-readable storage medium. The processor-readable storage medium may contain one or more programming instructions for perfor...	04/12/2007
20070073539	Speech recognition method and system A speech recognition method comprising the steps of: storing multiple recognition models for a vocabulary set, each model distinguished from the other models in response to a Lombard characteristic, detecting at least one speaker utterance in a motor vehicle, selecting ...	03/29/2007
20070043565	Systems and methods for providing real-time classification of continuous data streatms Systems and methods are provided for real-time classification of streaming data. In particular, systems and methods for real-time classification of continuous data streams implement micro-clustering methods for offline and online processing of training data to build and...	02/22/2007
20070043564	Parameterization of counting systems A system and method for storing and retrieving the written or spoken equivalents for numbers. In order to handle different representation of numbers, including spoken or written representations, the recurring patterns are expressed based on the radix of the system using...	02/22/2007
20070033035	STRING DISPLAY METHOD AND DEVICE COMPATIBLE WITH THE HINDI LANGUAGE A string display method is disclosed. The method includes: receiving an input string containing a plurality of characters; grouping the characters into a plurality of clusters according to predetermined cluster formation rules; applying predetermined ligature formation ...	02/08/2007
20070005356	Generic visual categorization method and system Generic visual categorization methods complement a general vocabulary with adapted vocabularies that are class specific. Images to be categorized are characterized within different categories through a histogram indicating whether the image is better described by the ge...	01/04/2007
20060212294	Apparatus and method for analysis of language model changes An apparatus, a method, and a machine-readable medium are provided for characterizing differences between two language models. A group of utterances from each of a group of time domains are examined. One of a significant word change or a significant word class change wi...	09/21/2006
20060178883	Method of automatically ranking speech dialog states and transitions to aid in performance analysis in speech applications A method of identifying problems in a speech recognition application is provided and includes the step of obtaining a speech application call log containing log data on question-answer (QA) states and transitions. Then, in accordance with the method, for each of a multi...	08/10/2006
20060178884	Interactive clustering method for identifying problems in speech applications A method of aiding a speech recognition program developer by grouping calls passing through an identified question-answer (QA) state or transition into clusters based on causes of problems associated with the calls is provided. The method includes determining a number o...	08/10/2006
20060129397	System and method for identifying semantic intent from acoustic information In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, unanticipated semantic intents are discovered in audio data in an unsupervised manner. For instance, the audio acoustics are clustered based on semantic intent and representative acoustics are chosen for each c...	06/15/2006
20060085188	Method for Segmenting Audio Signals An input signal is converted to a feature-space representation. The feature-space representation is projected onto a discriminant subspace using a linear discriminant analysis transform to enhance the separation of feature clusters. Dynamic programming is used to find g...	04/20/2006
20060020456	Object oriented acoustic modeling tools and methods Techniques for creating an acoustic model from a finite element mode include strategically partitioning elements of the finite element model into sets, forming composite centroids from the partitioned elements and then calculating the spatial distances between the compo...	01/26/2006
20050228664	Refining of segmental boundaries in speech waveforms using contextual-dependent models A method and apparatus are provided for refining segmental boundaries in speech waveforms. Contextual acoustic feature similarities are used as a basis for clustering adjacent phoneme speech units, where each adjacent pair phoneme speech units include a segmental bounda...	10/13/2005
20050182626	Speaker clustering and adaptation method based on the HMM model variation information and its apparatus for speech recognition A speech recognition method and apparatus perform speaker clustering and speaker adaptation using average model variation information over speakers while analyzing the quantity variation amount and the directional variation amount. In the speaker clustering method, a sp...	08/18/2005
20050049867	Cooccurrence and constructions A method and system for performing automatic text analysis is described. A local ranking for one or more contexts with respect to a word and a global ranking for one or more contexts are generated. The rankings are based on the frequency with which the contexts appear i...	03/03/2005
20050010409	Printable representations for time-based media The system of the present invention allows a user to generate a representation of time-based media. The system of the present invention includes a feature extraction module for extracting features from media content. For example, the feature extraction module can detect...	01/13/2005

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