Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110307243 | MULTILINGUAL RUNTIME RENDERING OF METADATA Translated versions of metadata are provided to a user at runtime based on a working language selection. Translated versions of metadata in secondary languages are associated with an original version in a primary language as properties instead of being separate items wi... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110282648 | Machine Translation with Side Information A method of identifying and using side information available to statistical machine translation systems within an enterprise setting, the method including extracting user-specific interaction and non-interaction-based information from at least one corresponding database... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282647 | Translation System and Method A system for translating text from a source language to a target language comprising a user client program component running over a local PC of a user, from which a translation request is sent; a server program component running over a server workstation; and a translat... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110231181 | WEB TRANSLATION PROVIDER A web translation server discovers a document address for a document. The document is accessed and parsed for text data in a first language. The parsed text data is translated into text data in a second language and stored in a database. A client accesses the document a... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110184722 | TRANSLATION QUALITY QUANTIFYING APPARATUS AND METHOD A system for automating the quality evaluation of a translation. The system may include a computer having a processor and memory device operably connected to one another. A source text in a first language may be stored within the memory device. A target text comprising ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110077935 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USER GENERATED TRANSLATION Disclosed are methods and apparatus for enabling user communities around the world to engage in translation of web properties while using such web properties. In certain embodiments, a translation interface is provided with a served web property to allow users to submit... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110022381 | ACTIVE LEARNING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RAPID PORTING OF MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS TO NEW LANGUAGE PAIRS OR NEW DOMAINS Systems and methods for active learning of statistical machine translation systems through dynamic creation and updating of parallel corpus. The systems and methods provided create accurate parallel corpus entries from a test set of sentences, words, phrases, etc. by ca... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100324885 | INDEXING MECHANISM (Nth PHRASAL INDEX) FOR ADVANCED LEVERAGING FOR TRANSLATION An inventive indexing scheme to index phrases and sub-phrases for advanced leveraging for translation is presented. The scheme provides ways to match at various levels, and allows approximate matches. The system and method comprises an index structure comprising at leas... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100324886 | PARALLEL TRANSLATION INFORMATION GENERATION DEVICE, PARALLEL TRANSLATION INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD AND PROGRAM A parallel translation information generation device includes a bilingual dictionary storage portion in which are stored three or more types of bilingual dictionaries that link all two-language combinations of a first language, a second language, and a third language; a... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100318346 | SECOND LANGUAGE PRONUNCIATION AND SPELLING The invention has as its objective to aid an individual proficient in a first language in learning the pronunciation and spelling of a second language. To achieve this objective, a language teaching device comprises a processor, a memory, a presentation screen, an audio... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100286978 | ALIGNING HIERARCHIAL AND SEQUENTIAL DOCUMENT TREES TO IDENTIFY PARALLEL DATA A set of candidate parallel pages is identified based on trigger words in one or more pages downloaded from a given network location (such as a website). A set of document trees representing each of the candidate pages are aligned to identify translationally parallel co... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100241416 | ADAPTIVE PATTERN LEARNING FOR BILINGUAL DATA MINING Embodiments for the adaptive learning of translation layout patterns to mine bilingual data are disclosed. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the adaptive learning of patterns to mine bilingual data includes processing a bilingual web page into a Document Objec... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100217582 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MAINTAINING SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION IN THE FIELD A field maintainable class-based translation system and apparatus with components that ease use by linguistically untrained users is disclosed. The apparatus includes modules for recovering errors, extending and customizing language coverage and increasing the speed of ... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100204980 | Real-time translation system with multimedia display function and method thereof A real-time translation system with a multimedia display function and a method thereof are provided for solving the problem that a word meaning cannot be understood quickly, in which an explanation of a word is displayed in real time through a floating block, and meanwh... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100174525 | ANALYZING WEB SITE FOR TRANSLATION A system, method and computer readable medium for synchronizing web content is disclosed. The method includes retrieving a first web content in a first language from a web site, the first web content corresponding to a second web content wherein the second web content i... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100138214 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING TRANSLATION MEMORY IN AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION SYSTEM A translation-memory application method for automatic translation includes: generating TM-expanded forms by applying TM expansion rules respectively to source sentences whose morphemes have been analyzed; storing in an expanded TM database translated sentences correspon... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100131261 | INFORMATION RETRIEVAL ORIENTED TRANSLATION METHOD, AND APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIA USING THE SAME An information retrieval translation apparatus for translating a plurality of Chinese terms including a first Chinese term and a second Chinese term is disclosed. The information retrieval oriented translation apparatus includes a first language database, a second langu... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100121630 | LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS Embodiments of the present disclosure include an electronic translation system employing a language-independent central representation of language to be translated. The system may include a language parser to translate to the language-independent representation, and a r... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100106704 | CROSS-LINGUAL QUERY CLASSIFICATION The subject matter disclosed herein relates to cross-lingual query classification.... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100088085 | STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION APPARATUS AND METHOD A statistical machine translation apparatus and method reflecting linguistic information are provided. In the process of generating a translation model based on statistical information on source language sentences and target language sentences during word alignment, the... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100070262 | ADAPTING CROSS-LINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL FOR A TARGET COLLECTION A method and system for generating a bilingual dictionary that maps words of the source language to words of a target language is provided. A Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (“CLIR”) system accesses a parallel collection that is comprised of a parallel source co... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100057439 | PORTABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING TRANSLATION SUPPORT PROGRAM, TRANSLATION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND TRANSLATION SUPPORT METHOD A portable storage medium storing a translation support program supporting translation of an original document being document data containing Japanese and a foreign language for expressing a word of one language in another language includes: correcting the correction ta... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100049752 | Dynamic word translation system and method thereof A dynamic word translation system and the method thereof are provided. By simulating key-in for duplication operations, a word is extracted to a buffer area for translation and management. This solves the problem that word translations are often interfered with window s... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100030550 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF WEB SITE CONTENT BETWEEN LANGUAGES A system, method and computer readable medium for synchronizing web content is disclosed. The method includes retrieving a first web content in a first language from a web site, the first web content corresponding to a second web content wherein the second web content i... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090326917 | Computer-Implemented Translation Tool A computer-implemented language translation tool with a database capable of storing a plurality of source words expressed in a source language and corresponding target words expressed in a target language. The tool generates source concatenations of words expressed in t... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090319257 | TRANSLATION OF ENTITY NAMES Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, related to entity name translation. In general, a set of data records including one or more names of one or more entities in a source language is received and candidate translations are generated for the names ... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090276207 | HOST GREETING CARD Disclosed is a bilingual greeting card where the bilingual card has text in the language of the host country and in the immigrant's language of their foreign country and may celebrate the immigrant's Holiday.... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090254334 | TRANSLATION METHOD, TRANSLATION OUTPUT METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM, PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER USED THEREWITH A translation method for properly recognizing and automatically translating a sentence containing an emphasized word including two or more successive identical characters. First, words in a source text to be translated are looked up in a dictionary (step S201) to... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090248395 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUILDING A NATIVE LANGUAGE PHONEME LEXICON HAVING NATIVE PRONUNCIATIONS OF NON-NATIE WORDS DERIVED FROM NON-NATIVE PRONUNCIATONS Systems and methods are provided for automatically building a native phonetic lexicon for a speech-based application trained to process a native (base) language, wherein the native phonetic lexicon includes native phonetic transcriptions (base forms) for non-native (for... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090204389 | Translation on Demand A translation on demand (“TOD”), in one embodiment, receives a search request with a search term from a user in a native language across the Internet. The search term is translated into at least one foreign language using automatic translation software (“ATS”) a... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090171654 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RENDERING MULTILINGUAL INFORMATION ON AN OUTPUT DEVICE The present invention is directed to systems and methods for rendering multilingual information encoded in human-readable and machine-readable format on an output device. A typical system according to the present invention can include a system data store (SDS) and a sys... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090157381 | WEB TRANSLATION PROVIDER A web translation server discovers a document address for a document. The document is accessed and parsed for text data in a first language. The parsed text data is translated into text data in a second language and stored in a database. A client accesses the document a... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090099837 | LANGUAGE-UNDERSTANDING TRAINING DATABASE ACTION PAIR AUGMENTATION USING BIDIRECTIONAL TRANSLATION Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and system for augmenting a training database of an automated language-understanding system. In one embodiment, a training example in a first language is received from the training database. The first language-trai... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090055161 | TECHNOLOGY FOR SUPPORTING MODIFICATION OF MESSAGES DISPLAYED BY PROGRAM The present invention aims at improving the efficiency of the work of changing or modifying a message displayed by a program and provides a system comprising: a memory unit which stores a message read and displayed by the execution of a program, associating it with a la... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090012776 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION A concept obtaining unit obtains, for each example set stored in an example storage unit, a first concept of a phrase included in an example in the first language and a second concept of a phrase included in an example in the second language from a concept storage unit.... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080306728 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION A receiving unit receives an input sentence in a source language. An example translation candidate translated from the input sentence into a target sentence and a first likelihood of the example translation candidate are obtained. A generating unit translates the input ... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080300859 | System and Method for Automatic Natural Language Translation of Embedded Text Regions in Images During Information Transfer Image or graphic elements such as pictures, icons and clip art, are intercepted during transfer from a computer source to a computer destination, such as during a cut-and-paste operation. Embedded text within the intercepted element is optically recognized, and encoded ... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080162114 | TRANSLATION PROCESSING USING A TRANSLATION MEMORY System and method for tracking and processing of text translations for online use. Translation tasks are submitted along with language and schedule information for translation of primary language text into other languages for use on other language versions of the primar... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080162115 | Computer program, apparatus, and method for searching translation memory and displaying search result A translation memory system enabling the user to not only narrow down the view range of search result, but also view a surrounding context of a retrieved text. Stored parallel texts include sentence-class and segment-class parallel texts. Parallel texts relevant to a gi... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080077391 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for machine translation A first recognizing unit recognizes a first-language speech as a first-language character string, and outputs a first recognition result. A second recognizing unit recognizes the first-language speech as a most probable first-language example from among first-language e... | 03/27/2008 |
