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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| 20100235164 | QUESTION-ANSWERING SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON SEMANTIC LABELING OF TEXT DOCUMENTS AND USER QUESTIONS A question-answering system for searching exact answers in text documents provided in the electronic or digital form to questions formulated by user in the natural language is based on automatic semantic labeling of text documents and user questions. The system performs... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100235163 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENCODING CHINESE WORDS A Chinese character or word encoding system and method for encoding a Unicode Differentiation Index (UDI) into the least significant 3 bits of one of the three component color of the foreground color of the RTF Chinese text. This encoded UDI value allows the correct ide... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100235165 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC SEMANTIC LABELING OF NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXTS Systems and methods for automatic semantic labeling of natural language documents provided in electronic or digital form include a semantic processor that performs a basic linguistic analysis of text, including recognizing in the text semantic relationships of the type ... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100235313 | Media information analysis and recommendation platform A hybrid approach for personalized recommendation of subject matter description is described, comprising: inputting the description into an analyzing engine, the analyzing engine performing the steps of: extracting at least one of metadata, ID and Title from the descrip... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100235341 | Methods and Systems for Searching Using Spoken Input and User Context Information Systems and methods for searching using spoken input and user context information are disclosed. In systems and methods according to embodiments of the invention, continuous speech natural language queries are accepted from a user using a client device. Speech processin... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100235854 | Audience Response System An audience response system (ARS) includes an audience response server, an instructor provided with a terminal, and audience members, either individually or in groups, provided with response devices. The instructor may ask open-ended questions, and students may respond ... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100229108 | Computational Delivery System for Avatar and Background Game Content Data defining an avatar is received, over a network. The data defining the avatar is stored to a computer readable medium. A sprite sheet comprising a plurality of sprites is created, using at least one computing device, using the data defining the avatar. Each sprite c... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100228538 | COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS An apparatus and corresponding method are disclosed for selecting and managing morphological, syntactic and semantic information found in natural languages using a reduced instruction set grammar (RISG). The apparatus and corresponding method 1) convert natural language... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100228539 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PSYCHOMOTOR AND PSYCHOLINGUISTIC PREDICTION ON TOUCH BASED DEVICE A method (300 or 400) of key press prediction on a touch-based device or an apparatus (501) can entail registering (302, 402) a position of a touch press attempt on an icon among a plurality of icons presented on the touch-base device, calcul... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100228540 | Methods and Systems for Query-Based Searching Using Spoken Input Systems and methods for query-based searching using spoken input are disclosed. In systems and methods according to embodiments of the invention, continuous speech natural language queries are accepted from a user using a client device. Speech processing tasks are divid... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100228695 | Computer system in which a received signal-reaction of the computer system of artificial intelligence of a cyborg or an android, an association of the computer system of artificial intelligence of a cyborg or an android, a thought of the computer system of artificial intelligence of a cyborg or an android are substantiated and the working method of this computer system of artificial intelligence of a cyborg or an android A computer system in which a received signal-reaction of the computer system of Artificial Intelligence of a cyborg or an android, an association of the computer system of Artificial Intelligence of a cyborg or an android, a thought of the computer system of Artificial ... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100223273 | DISCRIMINATING SEARCH RESULTS BY PHRASE ANALYSIS A statistical analysis parses documents for phrases in the documents. Each document is analyzed with a phrase analysis engine to determine a key phrase that frequently occur throughout each document. One or more documents are grouped together based a corresponding stati... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100223074 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING INTERACTION-BASED SERVICES A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a syntactic component for retrieving records corresponding to an individual and analyzing the records to assess a condition for the individual; a user interface for capturing intera... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100223051 | Method and System for Determining Text Coherence A method and system for determining text coherence in an essay is disclosed. A method of evaluating the coherence of an essay includes receiving an essay having one or more discourse elements and text segments. The one or more discourse elements are annotated either man... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100217583 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING ONLINE READING INTERACTIONS An online reading processing system and method for providing interactive messages to users at end computer devices are provided, which include storing online reading information in a data storage medium; setting the online reading information with a head mark and a tail... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100211380 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An information processing apparatus includes: an acquiring unit acquiring text data as data associated with plural contents; a separating unit separating the text data acquired by the acquiring means into words of a predetermined unit in accordance with attributes; a co... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100211379 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE COMMUNICATION WITH A COMPUTER A system for natural language communication with a computer, comprising a database configures to store at least one table the table configured to store associations between concepts in a text string and associated concept identifiers; and a builder interfaced with the d... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100211378 | MODULAR APPROACH TO BUILDING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Methods for building arbitrarily large language models are presented herein. The methods provide a scalable solution to estimating a language model using a large data set by breaking the language model estimation process into sub-processes and parallelizing computation ... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100204983 | Method and System for Extracting Web Query Interfaces A computer program product being embodied on a computer readable medium for extracting semantic information about a plurality of documents being accessible via a computer network, the computer program product including computer-executable instructions for: generating a ... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100204982 | System and Method for Generating Data for Complex Statistical Modeling for use in Dialog Systems Embodiments of a dialog system that utilizes grammar-based labeling scheme to generate labeled sentences for use in training statistical models. During the process of training data development, a grammar is constructed manually based on the application domain or adapted... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100204984 | VIRTUAL PET SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIRTUAL PET CHATTING A virtual pet system includes: a virtual pet client, adapted to receive a sentence in natural language and send the sentence to a Q&A server; the Q&A server, adapted to receive the sentence, process the sentence through natural language comprehension, generate a... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100205180 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING AND CLASSIFYING QUERY INTENT Linguistic analysis is used to identify queries that use different natural language formations to request similar information. Common intent categories are identified for the queries requesting similar information. Intent responses can then be provided that are associat... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100198581 | Incorporation of Variables Into Textual Content Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for incorporating variable values into textual content. In one embodiment, an abstract phrase including a text phrase and a variable at a particular position in the text phrase is received. The abstract phrase may include ... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100198583 | INDICATING METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM The present invention relates to an indicating method for speech recognition system, comprising a multimedia electronic product and a speech recognition device. The steps of this method include: users enter voice commands into a voice input unit and convert these comman... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100198584 | SERVER FOR AUTOMATICALLY SCORING OPINION CONVEYED BY TEXT MESSAGE CONTAINING PICTORIAL-SYMBOLS A server is disclosed for computing a score of an opinion that a message in a text file is expected to convey regarding a subject to be evaluated, wherein the message is written using literal strings and pictorial symbols. In this server, by the use of a pictorial-symbo... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100191520 | TEXT AND SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM USING NAVIGATION INFORMATION A system and method are provided for recognizing a user's speech input. The method includes the steps for detecting the user's speech input, recognizing the user's speech input by comparing the speech input to a list of entries using language model statistics to determi... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100191521 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING SEMANTIC PROXIMITY Methods and apparatus to evaluate the semantic proximity between reference free-form text entry and a candidate free-form text request.... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100191519 | TOOL AND FRAMEWORK FOR CREATING CONSISTENT NORMALIZATION MAPS AND GRAMMARS A runtime framework and authoring tool are provided for enabling linguistic experts to author text normalization maps and grammar libraries without requiring high level of technical or programming skills. Authors define or select terminals, map the terminals, and define... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100185436 | Arabic poetry meter identification system and method The Arabic poetry meter identification system and method produces coded Al-Khalyli transcriptions of Arabic poetry. The meters (Wazn, Awzan being forms of the Arabic poems units Bayt, Abyate) are identified. A spoken or written poem is accepted as input. A coded transcr... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100185437 | PROCESS OF DIALOGUE AND DISCUSSION A method for effecting a dialogue with an emulated brain. The method includes the step of receiving a query in the form of a semantic string. The semantic string is then parsed into basic concepts of the query. The basic concepts are then clumped into a clump concept. I... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100182325 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT ANIMATION OF BELIEVABLE SPEAKING 3D CHARACTERS IN REAL TIME An apparatus for animating a moving and speaking enhanced-believability, character in real time, comprising a plurality of behavior generators, each for defining a respective aspect of facial behavior, a unifying scripter, associated with the behavior generators, the sc... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100183125 | CUSTOMER MESSAGING SERVICE A messaging and alerting service is described. An implementation includes enrolling a customer in the messaging and alert service, storing a list of businesses selected by the customer, storing a customer contact hierarchy list, and contacting the customer according to ... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100179804 | Natural Language Assertion Processor A method of processing natural language assertions (NLAs) can include identifying an NLA and then translating that NLA into a verification language assertion (VLA) using a natural language parser (NLP) and synthesis techniques. This VLA can be translated into an interpr... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100179805 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ONE-STEP CORRECTION OF VOICE INTERACTION A one-step correction mechanism for voice interaction is provided. Correction of a previous state is enabled simultaneously with recognition in a current or subsequent state. An application is decomposed into a set of tasks. Each task is associated with the collection o... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100174526 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF INFORMATION IN NATURAL LANGUAGE CONTENTS A method is disclosed for quantitatively assessing information in natural language contents related to an object name. The method includes identifying a sentence in a document, determining a subject and a predicate in the sentence, and retrieving an object-specific data... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100174527 | DICTIONARY REGISTERING SYSTEM, DICTIONARY REGISTERING METHOD, AND DICTIONARY REGISTERING PROGRAM There is provided a dictionary registration system which makes it possible to register a word into a user dictionary while minimizing an adverse effect that the word may have on natural language processing, if any. The dictionary registration system performs natural lan... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100169075 | ADJUSTMENT OF TEMPORAL ACOUSTICAL CHARACTERISTICS Embodiments may be a standalone module or part of mobile devices, desktop computers, servers, stereo systems, or any other systems that might benefit from condensed audio presentations of item structures such as lists or tables. Embodiments may comprise logic such as ha... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100169076 | Text-to-Scene Conversion The invention relates to a method of converting a set of words into a three-dimensional scene description, which may then be rendered into three-dimensional images. The invention may generate arbitrary scenes in response to a substantially unlimited range of input words... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100169077 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR CORRECTING OCR RESULT Disclosed is a method, system and computer readable recording medium for correcting an OCR result. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for correcting an OCR result, the method including performing character recogniti... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100169078 | Style-checking method and apparatus for business writing The method is software-based, and carried out on a computer system and cooperating apparatus. It checks written text for problems impairing clarity, conciseness and reader comfort in business documents. One embodiment includes routines for checking writing style in sent... | 07/01/2010 |
