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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190628 | Phrase generation Aspects directed to phrase generation are provided. A method is provided that includes identifying a plurality of phrase candidates from a plurality of text string entries in a corpus. For each phrase candidate: identifying a plurality of left contexts and a plurali... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185380 | Apparatus for providing information for vehicle A system is provided with a conversation support means. A conversation support means creates a conversation response, and outputs it in a sound, a character, etc. A conversation response is created in a manner that combines words by inserting a reference keyword as ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180630 | Systems and methods for an automated personalized dictionary generator for portable devices A system and method for automated dictionary population is provided to facilitate the entry of textual material in dictionaries for enhancing word prediction. The automated dictionary population system is useful in association with a mobile device including at least... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8165870 | Classification filter for processing data for creating a language model The method and apparatus utilize a filter to remove a variety of non-dictated words from data based on probability and improve the effectiveness of creating a language model. ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155950 | Method and system for providing a personalized electronic dictionary and vocabulary builder A system and method for providing a personalized dictionary and vocabulary building tool whereby data representing an electronic media based version of a document is obtained and at least a portion of the electronic media based version of a document is displayed on ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155952 | Method and system of using information banners to communicate with users of electronic dictionaries In one embodiment, the invention provides a method, comprising: receiving a query from a user computer device; determining what custom messages are applicable based on the query; and delivering any applicable custom messages to the user computer device. The messages... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155951 | Process for constructing a semantic knowledge base using a document corpus Related free-text documents, a corpus, are used to empirically derive a semantic knowledge base through a method in which documents are segmented into unique sentences, and then used to define sentential propositions which are arranged in a knowledge hierarchy. The ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8135581 | Method and system for downloading additional search results into electronic dictionaries In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for a system to provide information based on a query, the method comprising: performing a first search of at least one first source for information responsive to the query; providing a result of said search to a use... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135582 | Keyboard system and method for global disambiguation from classes with dictionary database from first and last letters A reduced keyboard system for text input comprising: a first keyboard having a first plurality of keys, the keys being adapted to be keystroked for input of a word; a virtual keyboard having a plurality of virtual keys, the plurality of virtual keys corresponding re... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8117026 | String matching method and system using phonetic symbols and computer-readable recording medium storing computer program for executing the string matching method A string matching method and system for searching for a representative string for a plurality of strings which are written in different languages and/or in different ways but share the substantially same meaning, and a computer-readable recording medium storing a co... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108208 | Method and an apparatus for requesting a service in a network The invention relates to a method and an apparatus of requesting a service from a communications network. In the method the following steps are to performed: generating an objective statement in a user equipment; communicating the objective statement from the user e... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8086444 | Method and system for grammar relaxation The method and system for modifications of grammars presented in this invention applies to automatic speech recognition systems which take a spoken utterance as input and use a grammar to assign word sequence(s) and, possibly, one or more semantic interpretations to... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086443 | System and method for text tagging and segmentation using a generative/discriminative hybrid hidden markov model A method for sequence tagging medical patient records includes providing a labeled corpus of sentences taken from a set of medical records, initializing generative parameters θ and discriminative parameters {tilde over (θ)}, providing a functional LL−C×Penalty,... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078454 | Two-pass hash extraction of text strings Data compression and key word recognition may be provided. A first pass may walk a text string, generate terms, and calculate a hash value for each generated term. For each hash value, a hash bucket may be created where an associated occurrence count may be maintain... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073683 | 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-... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8055498 | Systems and methods for building an electronic dictionary of multi-word names and for performing fuzzy searches in the dictionary The present invention automatically builds a contracted dictionary from a given list of multi-word proper names and performs fuzzy searches in the contracted dictionary. The contracted dictionary of proper names includes two linked trie-based dictionaries: a first d... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046364 | Computer aided validation of patent disclosures A method and system for analyzing a patent disclosure is disclosed. The method and system comprise a disclosure analysis and a separate claims analysis, such that each analysis may be performed independently. Missing and incorrect reference labels are identified wit... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041560 | System for adaptive multi-cultural searching and matching of personal names An automated name searching system incorporates an automatic name classifier and a multi-path architecture in which different algorithms are applied based on cultural identity of the query name. The name classifier operates with a preemptive list, analysis of morpho... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036878 | Device incorporating improved text input mechanism A device including a display screen for displaying m-words of data, a text entry device for entering data, a processor receiving data from the text entry device and causing it to be displayed on the display screen. Upon activation the processor initializes a precurs... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037086 | Identifying common co-occurring elements in lists One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for detecting correlations between terms. During operation, the system identifies one or more lists contained in one or more documents and identifies two terms co-occurring in the lists. The system further de... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027989 | Retrieving and providing contextual information An electronic dictionary may be created by receiving a data request action for a word appearing in an electronic document, accessing information regarding the context of the word derived from within the electronic document in which the word appears, storing the defi... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027987 | Electronic device having a handwriting input function, and non-transitory medium storing a control program therefor In a state where the entry word “account” retrieved from a dictionary and its explanatory information have been displayed, when the entry memo “Test point to notice” is input in handwritten characters at a handwriting input unit, the entry memo is caused to ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024179 | System and method for improving interaction with a user through a dynamically alterable spoken dialog system Disclosed are systems and methods for dynamically interacting with a user through a spoken dialogue system. A method includes the steps of (1) receiving a user utterance, (2) analyzing the user utterance for a threshold determination of dialect, (3) generating a res... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8010344 | Dictionary word and phrase determination Candidate words in search queries are identified, each candidate word including one or more consecutive characters. For each candidate word, a first count is determined, the first count representing a number of times that the candidate word is the only word in the s... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010343 | Disambiguation systems and methods for use in generating grammars A method and system for addressing disambiguation issues in interactive applications by creating a disambiguation system for generating complex grammars that includes homonym detection and grouping, and provides optimization feedback that eliminates time-consuming a... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006181 | System for handling novel words in a spellchecking module A system for adding words to an online dictionary used for spellchecking is described. A spellchecker module compares words of an electronic document with words in the online dictionary and identifies a word in the electronic document that is missing from the dictio... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001134 | Method for performing an external (disk-based) sort of a large data file which takes advantage of “presorted” data already present in the input A method of externally sorting large files in a computer system is presented. The contents of the input file to be sorted are investigated in order to identify presorted portions thereof. The presorted portions of the input file as thus identified are incorporated a... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7987088 | System and method for automating the generation of an ontology from unstructured documents Systems and methods for the substantially automatic creation of ontologies from unstructured documents identify phrases and core noun phrases from the respective documents. Links can be extracted from the documents. Concepts can be identified from the documents. Ont... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983902 | Domain dictionary creation by detection of new topic words using divergence value comparison Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, to identify topic words in a document corpus that includes topic documents related to a topic are disclosed. A reference topic word divergence value based on the document corpus and the topic docu... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983903 | Mining bilingual dictionaries from monolingual web pages Systems and methods for identifying translation pairs from web pages are provided. One disclosed method includes receiving monolingual web page data of a source language, and processing the web page data by detecting the occurrence of a predefined pattern in the web... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7958124 | System and method for managing bundle data database storing data association structure A bundle database management system comprises a search server including a bundle definition unit for defining a core word and a relevant word connected to the core word, and connection relation between the core and relevant words to generate and store bundle data; a... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7958138 | Method and apparatus for enhancing electronic reading by identifying relationships between sections of electronic text An apparatus, method and article of manufacture of the present invention detects the presence of references to the same concept in separate sections of text, and, with no input required from the reader, presents the reader with information concerning the detected re... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7958123 | System and method for managing bundle data database storing data association structure A bundle database management system comprises a search server including a bundle definition unit for defining a core word and a relevant word connected to the core word, and connection relation between the core and relevant words to generate and store bundle data; a... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957957 | Method and apparatus for discovering and classifying polysemous word instances in web documents A method and apparatus for discovering polysemous words and classifying polysemous words found in web documents. All document corpi in any natural language have words that have multiple usage contexts or words that have multiple meanings. Semantic analysis is not fe... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953594 | Speech recognition method and apparatus using lexicon group tree A method and an apparatus for selecting a vocabulary closest to an input speech from among lexicons stored in memory, wherein a centroid lexicon representing lexicons belonging to a predetermined lexicon group is generated. Two lexicons, having a longest distance th... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7945438 | Automated glossary creation A method and device for creating a glossary includes a processor operable for executing computer instructions for identifying, in at least one information source, at least one glossary item identifying a part or a component, determining at least one glossary item fo... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7917355 | Word detection Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which data from web documents are partitioned into a training corpus and a development corpus are provided. First word probabilities for words are determined for the training corpus, and second... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912706 | On-line predictive text dictionary Disclosed is electronic equipment (e.g., a communication device) and method for acquiring remote dictionary information for use in SMS applications. The electronic equipment includes a processor that executes an application program within memory, the application pro... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912707 | Adapting a language model to accommodate inputs not found in a directory assistance listing A statistical language model is trained for use in a directory assistance system using the data in a directory assistance listing corpus. Calculations are made to determine how important words in the corpus are in distinguishing a listing from other listings, and ho... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908279 | Filtering invalid tokens from a document using high IDF token filtering Systems and methods for filtering tokens from a document for determining whether the document describes substantially similar subject matter compared to another document are described. In one embodiment, a first document is obtained. This document is organized into ... | 03/15/2011 |
