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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120035910 | METHOD OF GENERATING A TRANSLITERATION FONT The method of generating a transliteration font allows for the generation and display of a word in a transliteration font, the word including at least one character displayed in an alphabet of a first language, and the transliteration font including at least one embedde... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20110238406 | MESSAGING SYSTEM WITH TRANSLATION AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF A method of operation of a messaging system includes: receiving a source message; identifying a phrase of the source message; searching a translation hierarchy for the phrase, the translation hierarchy having multiple dictionaries in a priority order; and translating a ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20100223049 | MACHINE LANGUAGE TRANSLATION WITH TRANSFER MAPPINGS HAVING VARYING CONTEXT A computer-implemented machine translation system translates text from a first language to a second language. The system includes a plurality of mappings, each mapping indicative of associating a dependency structure of the first language with a dependency structure of ... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100114558 | Automatic Translation Method The present invention relates to an automatic translation method. When a sentence in a source language is translated into a sentence in a target language, the method comprises:
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| 20100106484 | NAMED ENTITY TRANSLITERATION USING CORPORATE CORPRA A document in a first language and an additional document in a second language may be reviewed. It may be determined if the additional document is sufficiently similar to the document. If the additional document is determined sufficiently similar to the document, a name... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20090216522 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMING PARTS-OF-SPEECH IN CHINESE A word sequence storage unit correspondingly stores Japanese word sequences and Japanese parts-of-speech of the words in the Japanese word sequences. A part-of-speech correspondence storage unit correspondingly stores Japanese parts-of-speech and Chinese parts-of-speech... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090070099 | METHOD FOR TRANSLATING DOCUMENTS FROM ONE LANGUAGE INTO ANOTHER USING A DATABASE OF TRANSLATIONS, A TERMINOLOGY DICTIONARY, A TRANSLATION DICTIONARY, AND A MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for translating a document in an input language into an output language comprising: a) for each document fragment for which a translation is readily available, translating said document fragment based on said readily av... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20080195376 | Conceptual communication via real-time translation on portable electronic devices Effective communication between people that speak different languages can be easily facilitated via a portable electronic device, such as a cell phone, that has a translation program and a set of words in both languages that are selected to convey a wide range of univer... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080154577 | Chunk-based statistical machine translation system Traditional statistical machine translation systems learn all information from a sentence aligned parallel text and are known to have problems translating between structurally diverse languages. To overcome this limitation, the present invention introduces two-level tra... | 06/26/2008 |
| 20080133217 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LEARNING ENGLISH VOCABULARY AND COMPUTER ACCESSIBLE STORAGE MEDIUM TO STORE PROGRAM THEREOF A method and an apparatus for learning the English vocabulary are provided. First a vocabulary database is provided in the present invention. A word is selected from the database to be taken apart into other alphabet strings. Then, the alphabet strings taken apart from ... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080133245 | Methods for speech-to-speech translation The present invention disclose modular speech-to-speech translation systems and methods that provide adaptable platforms to enable verbal communication between speakers of different languages within the context of specific domains. The components of the preferred embodi... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080133218 | EXAMPLE BASED MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM The present invention performs machine translation by matching fragments of a source language sentence to be translated to source language portions of an example in example base. When all relevant examples have been identified in the example base, the examples are subje... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080120087 | Translation Information Segment A method and apparatus for using translation information segment to provide seamless translation of a communication in a network environment. The communication contains a readable translation information segment that includes global translation parameters to obtain tran... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080086298 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSLATING SENTENCES BETWEEN LANGAUGES A method and computer system for translating sentences between languages from an intermediate language-independent semantic representation is provided. On the basis of comprehensive understanding about languages and semantics, exhaustive linguistic descriptions are used... | 04/10/2008 |
| 20080059147 | Methods and apparatus for context adaptation of speech-to-speech translation systems A technique for context adaptation of a speech-to-speech translation system is provided. A plurality of sets of paralinguistic attribute values is obtained from a plurality of input signals. Each set of the plurality of sets of paralinguistic attribute values is extract... | 03/06/2008 |
| 20070239428 | VoIP contextual information processing A method and system for processing contextual information relating to an exchange of a conversation over a communication channel is provided. Several users, and/or service providers are allowed to specify a set of rules relating to a conversation channel. Contextual inf... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070050185 | Methods and apparatus for constructing graphs, semitic object networks, process models, and managing their synchronized representations The primary component of the present invention is an automated method for transforming any suitably well-formed textual description of a process into a series of diagrammatic representations of that process. The secondary component of this invention is an automated meth... | 03/01/2007 |
| 20070033002 | Second language writing advisor A writing advisor program (20) receives a proposed text in an author's second language (L2) and determines at least one candidate replacement word for a selected word based on a determined language model (p(c)) and a determined corruption model (p(r|c)). T... | 02/08/2007 |
| 20070016399 | Method and apparatus for detecting data anomalies in statistical natural language applications Techniques for detecting data anomalies in a natural language understanding (NLU) system are provided. A number of categorized sentences, categorized into a number of categories, are obtained. Sentences within a given one of the categories are clustered into a number of... | 01/18/2007 |
| 20060282256 | TRANSLATION METHOD UTILIZING CORE ANCIENT ROOTS A new method of translating, which is suggested for translations of ancient languages based upon new general rules for ancient language translation comprising the steps of: identifying every single core ancient root and associated ancient root family and correlating it ... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060206308 | Method and apparatus for improving statistical word alignment models using smoothing A method of iteratively re-estimating translation probabilities using smoothing. In the method, initial values for the translation probabilities are determined. The values of the translation probabilities are then iteratively re-estimated while using a smoothing techniq... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20060200340 | Grammatically correct contraction spelling suggestions for french A method and product are provided that identify properly spelled words from an input string. Separate lexical entries are identified for different parts of an input word. Grammatical information associated with one of the lexical entries is examined to determine if it s... | 09/07/2006 |
| 20060200341 | Method and apparatus for processing sentiment-bearing text The present invention provides a system for identifying, extracting, clustering and analyzing sentiment-bearing text. In one embodiment, the invention implements a pipeline capable of accessing raw text and presenting it in a highly usable and intuitive way. ... | 09/07/2006 |
| 20060173671 | Localizing tool for client software A localizing tool which converts the language of a first document data file which stores character information of character strings to be displayed in an original language in a printer driver to another language comprises an information storage section, a printer driver... | 08/03/2006 |
| 20060106593 | Pre-translation testing of bi-directional language display A method for testing the display of bi-directional language script prior to translation in an application under test can include using unidirectional glyphs with shaping indicators to simulate right-to-left characters. The using step can include reversing an ordering of... | 05/18/2006 |
| 20060100848 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING LANGUAGE SPECIFIC DIACRITICS FOR DIFFERENT LANGUAGES USING A SINGLE KEYBOARD LAYOUT A diacritic chording system uses a single standard keyboard layout to generate diacritical characters used, for example, by Latin-based languages or languages based on a Roman character set, providing a universal keyboard The key combination required to select a diacrit... | 05/11/2006 |
| 20060041421 | Method and system for processing grammar-based legality expressions Legality expressions are systematically pre-processed, organized, and stored to achieve faster real-time response, improved predictability, and increased reliability for queries against a large volume of legality expressions. Exponential improvements in both the time to... | 02/23/2006 |
| 20060015322 | Method and apparatus for improving statistical word alignment models using smoothing A method of iteratively re-estimating translation probabilities using smoothing. In the method, initial values for the translation probabilities are determined. The values of the translation probabilities are then iteratively re-estimated while using a smoothing techniq... | 01/19/2006 |
| 20060015321 | Method and apparatus for improving statistical word alignment models A method and computer-readable medium determine word association scores for word pairs. Each word association score is converted into a translation probability using a normalization value that reserves probability mass for unseen data. ... | 01/19/2006 |
| 20050234705 | Statistically driven sentence realizing method and apparatus A method of, and system for, generating a sentence from a semantic representation maps the semantic representation to an unordered set of syntactic nodes. Simplified generation grammar rules and statistical goodness measure values from a corresponding analysis grammar a... | 10/20/2005 |
| 20050222838 | Chinese romanization The invention disclose: Chinese spelling scheme, Chinese alphabetic writing and Phonetic Symbols scheme. The Chinese spelling scheme which is used English letters to mark the tones, it is reduced to 5 sound symbols of the monosyllabic words from 6 spelling letters of ot... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050216253 | System and method for reverse transliteration using statistical alignment The present invention obtains a set of word pairs. Each word of the set of word pairs is broken into its component characters, or clusters of commonly co-occurring characters, and using a conventional statistical machine translation algorithm, transliteration models are... | 09/29/2005 |
| 20050203729 | Methods and apparatus for replaceable customization of multimodal embedded interfaces According to certain aspects of the invention a mobile voice communication device includes a wireless transceiver circuit for transmitting and receiving auditory information and data, a processor, and a memory storing executable instructions which when executed on the p... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050154578 | Method of identifying the language of a textual passage using short word and/or n-gram comparisons A method and system identifying the language of a textual passage is disclosed. The method and system includes parsing the textual passage into n-grams and assigning an initial weight to each n-gram, and adjusting the weight initially assigned to a word or n-gram parsed... | 07/14/2005 |
| 20050149317 | Apparatus and method for linguistic scoring In embodiments of the invention, a system receives selections from a user based on a list of pre-defined monitoring categories and/or optionally receives custom category definitions from the user. The option for custom category definitions may be advantageous due to the... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050137851 | Verb pattern automatic extension and verification apparatus and method for use in Korean-Chinese machine translation system The present invention relates to a verb pattern automatic extension and verification apparatus for use in a Korean-Chinese machine translation system. The verb pattern automatic extension and verification apparatus automatically extracts the verb pattern source part tha... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050137846 | On-demand creation of Java locale source A method, system, program product and signal bearing medium are provided for creating a specific Java style locale source file on demand in a computer suitable for application use. In particular the method comprises receiving a request submitted for the specific Java st... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050102132 | Language phonetic system and method thereof A phonetic system having vowel phonetic symbols separated into full sound symbols and half sound symbols, and consonant phonetic symbols. The full sounds symbols are represented by letters in the English alphabet. The half sound symbols are represented by letters in the... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050091033 | System and method for performing analysis on word variants A computer-readable medium stores a first lexicon data structure for lexicon words. The first data structure includes a host form variant field containing a host form variant such as a clitic host form variant, a host form field containing the host form of the host form... | 04/28/2005 |
| 20050080612 | Spelling and encoding method for ideographic symbols The present invention relates to a spelling and encoding method for ideographic symbols, such as Chinese characters. The spelling method can provide first and second components for identifying first and second groups of ideographic symbols, wherein the two groups can ha... | 04/14/2005 |
