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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8060357 | Linguistic user interface A system for retrieval of text includes a processor which identifies grammar rules associated with text fragments of a text string that is retrieved from an associated storage medium, and retrieves text strings from the storage medium which satisfy the grammar rules... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055658 | Data creating apparatus and data creating method A data creating apparatus extracts meta data about a topic from a document, the meta data including at least one linguistic expression about a behavior, a plurality of the linguistic expressions having a first modification relation. The data creating apparatus conve... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051061 | Cross-lingual query suggestion Cross-lingual query suggestion (CLQS) aims to suggest relevant queries in a target language for a given query in a source language. The cross-lingual query suggestion is improved by exploiting the query logs in the target language. CLQS provides a method for learnin... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8028226 | Document content analysis technology for reducing cognitive load The present invention provides for analyzing document content for display with reduced cognitive load assists those who are blind, have low vision, or cognitive problems. This present invention also aids those who prefer to receive condensed information orally. Docu... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024173 | Computer processes for detecting and correcting writing problems associated with nominalizations Disclosed are systems and methods for analyzing and improving document readability. For example, a method of text analysis is disclosed that can deal with problems related nominalizations in text. Such a method can include the following steps: ascertaining automatic... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019590 | Computer processes for analyzing and improving document readability Disclosed are systems and methods for analyzing and improving document readability. For example, a writing improvement method is disclosed that can deal with problems related to the word “what” in text. Such a method can include the following steps: detecting wh... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014996 | Computer processes for analyzing and improving document readability by identifying passive voice Disclosed are systems and methods for analyzing and improving document readability. For example, a computer-implementable method of improving authored text is disclosed that can identify passive voice text within authored text by performing the following steps: scan... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7996207 | Bidirectional domain names A multilingual bidirectional domain name is produced by receiving a domain name having characters from at least two character sets with different display orders with just one direction of reading; breaking domain name into labels delimited by a full stop punctuation... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7962323 | Converting dependency grammars to efficiently parsable context-free grammars Dependency grammars are transformed to context-free grammars. The context-free grammars can be used in a parser to parse input sentences and identify relationships among words in the sentence. ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7949513 | Language module and method for use with text processing devices A verbal interface appliance uses an attachable language-specific processing module to perform language-specific tasks. The language module implements an API by which the appliance can submit language-specific processing requests. The appliance submits data represen... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7937260 | Concise dynamic grammars using N-best selection A method and apparatus derive a dynamic grammar composed of a subset of a plurality of data elements that are each associated with one of a plurality of reference identifiers. The present invention generates a set of selection identifiers on the basis of a user-prov... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937411 | Finite-state machine augmented for multiple evaluations of text A process performs multiple evaluations of text simultaneously. There are multiple counters, each with pattern-amount pairs. The pattern-amount pairs are accumulated into a single finite-state machine, with each state having a list of (counter, value) pairs instead ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7860704 | Lexicon-based content correlation and navigation Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that use lexicons in content searching and browsing. Lexicons for a particular subject matter are identified. Groups of content are correlated together based upon the lexicons for the particular subject matter. Upon ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7827025 | Efficient capitalization through user modeling A method of automatically capitalizing text utilizes a capitalization model. The capitalization model is trained from data that is taken from documents associated with a particular user. In particular, documents that are authored by the user such as e-mails, are use... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7809548 | Graph-based ranking algorithms for text processing The present invention provides a method of processing at least one natural language text using a graph. The method includes determining a plurality of text units based upon the natural language text, associating the plurality of text units with a plurality of graph ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805288 | Corpus expansion system and method thereof A system and method for expanding new sample seeds to automatically expand corpora, in which sample seeds are used to collect corpus is provided. The new sample seeds are generated based on the already existed sample seeds and collected corpora; The corpus expansion... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7788082 | Computational linguistic statements for providing an autonomic computing environment A method for autonomic computing using a relational grammar represented in a mark-up language. In response to a system input change, the autonomic relational grammar and the autonomic system input is parsed to form an autonomic derivation tree representing autonomic... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783633 | Display of results of cross language search An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions displaying search results. A query is received in a first language. A snippet in the document containing the word is selected in response to identifying a document in a second language in which the document co... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7774337 | Method for controlling a relational database system A method for controlling a relational database system, with a query statement comprised of keywords being analyzed, with the RTN being formed of independent RTN building blocks. Each RTN building block has an inner, directed decision graph which is defined independe... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7761286 | Natural language database searching using morphological query term expansion The present invention is a method of database searching. First, a language is selected. Next, elements are received. The system is then searched to identify at least one unit number that is associated with a chosen element, the unit number being linked to a data uni... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7761448 | System and method for ranking search results using click distance Search results of a search query on a network are ranked according to an additional click distance property associated with each of the documents on the network. The click distance is measurement of the number clicks or user navigations from a page or pages on the n... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7761287 | Inferring opinions based on learned probabilities An opinion system infers the opinion of a sentence of a product review based on a probability that the sentence contains certain sequences of parts of speech that are commonly used to express an opinion as indicated by the training data and the probabilities of the ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7752193 | System and method for building and retrieving a full text index An indexing engine generates a full text index of English and non-English files provided to the indexing engine. The indexing engine receives an input file for indexing, and normalizes the unique words contained in the input file. The normalizing includes stripping ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7720673 | Method for dynamic context scope selection in hybrid N-GRAM+LSA language modeling A method and system for dynamic language modeling of a document are described. In one embodiment, a number of local probabilities of a current document are computed and a vector representation of the current document in a latent semantic analysis (LSA) space is dete... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7720847 | Apparatus and computerised method for determining constituent words of a compound word An apparatus, a computer program and a computerized method for determining constituent words of a compound word are provided. Constituent words constitute a compound word. When the constituent words comply to split decision criteria then the constituent words can be... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7707023 | Method of finding answers to questions A method and a system for automatically finding one or more answers to a natural language question in a computer stored natural language text database is disclosed. The natural language text database has been analyzed with respect to syntactic functions of constitue... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7698123 | Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation An improved handheld electronic device includes a keypad in the form of a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. As a user enters keystrokes, the device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants from which... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7689404 | Method of multilingual speech recognition by reduction to single-language recognizer engine components In some speech recognition applications, not only the language of the utterance is not known in advance, but also a single utterance may contain words in more than one language. At the same time, it is impractical to build speech recognizers for all expected combina... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7664627 | Inspirational model device, spontaneous emotion model device, and related methods and programs An inspiration model device according to the invention is provided with a spontaneous emotion unit, a knowledge database, and a conception unit. The spontaneous emotion unit prepares, as data, plural emotion states in advance, which are obtained by modeling human em... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7613600 | Unified personalization Methods and apparatus, including computer systems and program products, for personalizing applications. Context information and an identification of a first user interface (UI) element is transmitted to a repository. Personalization information for the first UI elem... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7599828 | 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 ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7580827 | Semantic unit recognition A semantic locator determines whether input sequences form semantically meaningful units. The semantic locator includes a coherence component that calculates a coherence of the terms in the sequence and a variation component that calculates the variation in terms th... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7567895 | Method and system for prioritizing communications based on sentence classifications A method and system for prioritizing communications based on classifications of sentences within the communications is provided. A sentence classification system may classify sentences of communications according to various classifications such as “sentence mode.... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7562005 | System and method for natural language generation A system, method and computer-readable medium for generating natural language utilizes a stochastic process to choose a derivation tree according to a predetermined grammar, such as tree-adjoined grammar (TAG). A word lattice is created from a single semi-specified ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7558725 | Method and apparatus for multilingual spelling corrections A system and method for multilingual spelling corrections employs a lexicon builder, which uses a metadata build process that extracts all words from the data source, along with their frequencies, to build a lexicon file using the data source with which a user will ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7505892 | Multi-personality chat robot A method and system for efficiently incorporating multiple personalities into a robot. The robot acts as a computer server for the purpose of accessing a knowledge base and processing natural language queries. The different personalities are exposed to different use... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7490033 | System for compiling word usage frequencies A system for assisting a user who is learning a language to prioritize words to be learned in order of usage frequency is disclosed. A frequency determination program running on a computer determines the frequency of usage of each word at a list of locations provide... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7475004 | Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood tha... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7464329 | Declarative mechanism for defining a hierarchy of objects Described is a method and data structure that enables an object to be specified declaratively within a markup document. The markup document may be XML-based. In accordance with the invention, the object is written based on a mapping. The mapping includes a URL attri... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7430504 | Method and system for ranking words and concepts in a text using graph-based ranking The present invention is a method and system for identifying words, text fragments, or concepts of interest in a corpus of text. A graph is built which covers the corpus of text. The graph includes nodes and links, where nodes represent a word or a concept and links... | 09/30/2008 |
