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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7130790 | System and method for closed caption data translation A system and method is disclosed for translating closed caption data from a source language to a target language during a broadcast. The system and method are fully automated to provide accurate and timely translations of closed caption data. The system and method i... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130801 | Method for speech interpretation service and speech interpretation server A speech interpretation server, and a method for providing a speech interpretation service, are disclosed. The server includes a speech input for receiving an inputted speech in a first language from a mobile terminal, a speech recognizer that receives the inputted ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127393 | Dynamic semantic control of a speech recognition system A method and apparatus are provided for automatically recognizing words of spoken speech using a computer-based speech recognition system according to a dynamic semantic model. In an embodiment, the speech recognition system recognizes speech and generates one or mo... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7124130 | Word string collating apparatus, word string collating method and address recognition apparatus The present invention is directed to an address recognition apparatus for recognizing a written address. The apparatus includes an input device that receives a scanned image of the written address and transforms the image into digital data, a character recognizing s... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124074 | Method and apparatus for providing improved HMM POS tagger for multi-word entries and factoids A method of calculating trigram path probabilities for an input string of text containing a multi-word-entry (MWE) or a factoid includes tokenizing the input string to create a plurality of parse leaf units (PLUs). A PosColumn is constructed for each word, MWE, fact... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124073 | Computer-assisted memory translation scheme based on template automaton and latent semantic index principle A new, more efficient memory translation algorithm facilitating the acquisition of a most appropriate translation in a target language from among those of nearly narrowed-down candidates of translation by separately applying the so-called dimension reducing function... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120869 | Enhanced mechanism for automatically generating a transformation document A transformation document generation mechanism (TDGM) for automatically generating a transformation document given a source document and a target document is disclosed. The TDGM analyzes each document and builds a pattern dictionary for each that records the pattern... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7117487 | Structural equivalence of expressions containing processes and queries A program that includes expressions written in a process-based language for representing protocol-based applications as processes is disclosed. The process kernel executes a set of equational laws governing structural equivalence of expressions written in the proces... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117223 | Method of interpretation service for voice on the phone An interpretation service for voice based on sentence template retrieval allows a translation database to be customized without burdening users and enables sentences needed by users to be accurately interpreted. A sentence to be stored in a translation database for ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117198 | Method of researching and analyzing information contained in a database A method (100) of researching and analyzing information contained in documents that belong to a first database (200) and are organized according to a first set of fields (210) for an electronic search and retrieval by a computer (850). Th... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113903 | Method and apparatus for providing stochastic finite-state machine translation A method and apparatus for stochastic finite-state machine translation is provided. The method may include receiving a speech input and translating the speech input in a source language into one or more symbols in a target language based on stochastic language model... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113960 | Search on and search for functions in applications with varying data types A method and system for conducting a web search. The method comprises the steps of receiving a language selection and a web page selection from a user; and translating said web page into said language, including translating a pull-down list of searchable fields, and... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113880 | Video testing via pixel comparison to known image Methods and systems provide automated testing of computer-generated displays. The proper functionality of a memory storage device on a computer video card and the proper functionality of software for generating computer-generated displays may be tested by storing a ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110938 | E-services translation portal system A portal for translating data is provided wherein users upload text to be translated. The text may be in the form of Web pages, in the form of hypertext mark-up language (HTML) files, or other formats. The portal at least partially translates the data and facilitate... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110939 | Process of automatically generating translation-example dictionary, program product, computer-readable recording medium and apparatus for performing thereof A process of creating a translation-example dictionary for an Example-based Machine Translation is provided. The process of the invention includes the steps of: a) comparing first translation-example information and another first translation-example information to d... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110937 | Translation leveraging An application archive is searched for an existing translation for a text string in an application to be localized. The text string is associated with context information that identifies a location of the text string in the application. If an existing translation is... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107204 | Computer-aided writing system and method with cross-language writing wizard A computer-aided writing system offers assistance to a user writing in a non-native language, as the user needs help, without requiring the user to divert attention away from the entry task. The writing system provides a user interface (UI) that integrates writing a... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106905 | Systems and methods for processing text-based electronic documents Systems and methods for processing text-based electronic documents are provided. Briefly described, one embodiment of a method for processing a text-based electronic document comprises the steps of: comparing at least one word in a text-based electronic document to ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7107215 | Determining a compact model to transcribe the arabic language acoustically in a well defined basic phonetic study In the development of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, an extensive study of the basic phonetic alphabet is performed to collect information regarding phonology and phonetics of the language or dialect in question (modern standard Arabic or MSA in this ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7107206 | Language conversion system A system is disclosed which allows communication between various kinds of languages. The conversion processing portion (300) rewrites components of the representation in the natural language constructing given natural language representation to universal lang... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7107205 | Method and apparatus for aligning ambiguity in finite state transducers A method prepares a functional finite-state transducer (FST) with an epsilon or empty string on the input side for factorization into a bimachine. The method creates a left-deterministic input finite-state automation (FSA) by extracting and left-determinizing the in... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103607 | Business vocabulary data retrieval using alternative forms Techniques for responding to a request for data about an enterprise include storing a set of names for a single entity associated with the enterprise as a first set of corresponding concepts in a database. The database stores descriptions of entities associated with... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103534 | Machine learning contextual approach to word determination for text input via reduced keypad keys Determination of a word input on a reduced keypad, such as a numeric keypad, by entering a key sequence ambiguously corresponding to the word, by taking into account the context of the word via a machine learning approach, is disclosed. Either the left context, the ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103173 | System and method for preemptive goals based routing of contact records A method and system is provided for the preemptive goals based distribution of contact records. This method and system includes devices receiving contact records and providing customer contacts to one or more agents. Interfaced with the device is a distribution modu... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103532 | System and method for evaluating character in a message An evaluator system accepts input textual messages in unknown languages and assesses which character sets, corresponding to languages, matches that message. Textual messages whose individual characters are encoded in 16 bit Unicode or other universal format are pars... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103531 | 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 tec... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7100108 | Software program utility that isolates translatable english text from machine code and merges the text into one file for review purposes The foregoing objects are achieved as is now described. A data processing system reviews an instruction data structure to isolate comment text items. After these comment text items are translated, translations are copied from a translated text data structure and the... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099809 | Modeling system Disclosed herein are techniques for generating textual descriptions of a graphic model and vice-versa. The techniques may be used, for example, in conjunction with a scheme that models objects and processes as independent entities. The techniques have a wide variety... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7096425 | Dictionary apparatus for preparing and displaying form with keyword entries from entered word string An information entry apparatus and an information entry system provided with that apparatus which enable the efficient entry of required information in real time in a plurality of corresponding fields of a screen by an information entry operation of a level of simpl... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095513 | Method and apparatus for language translation of production job output A method and apparatus for control of a multiple copy print job involving documents in multiple languages. The method and apparatus prompt a document user to specify any languages other than that of the original document. The apparatus causes the translation of the ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092738 | Navigation of interactive voice response application using a wireless communications device graphical user interface A method and machine readable storage for facilitating communications between a user and an interactive voice response (IVR) application. The method includes the step of configuring to be displayed on a wireless communications device having a graphical user interfac... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7089559 | Method, apparatus, and program for chaining server applications A mechanism is provided for chaining server applications. A chaining module is provided that receives a series of server applications and chains them together passing the output of one to the input of the next. The series of server applications may be passed to the ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7089493 | Method, system and program for associating a resource to be translated with a domain dictionary In a machine translation environment, a context-specific domain directory must sometimes be selected to provide a proper translation in context. A database for trigger patterns associated with specific domains is prepared. When a resource is to be translated, appear... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085707 | Foreign language teaching tool The present invention, foreign language teaching tool (FLTT), is a language translation tool that slowly introduces the student to different words in the foreign language while the student is reading a familiar text. The preferred embodiment of FLTT is on an e-book,... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7080320 | Translation apparatus and method A translation apparatus translates article information in a first language including an article body and a related headline as a summary of the article body. A decision unit discriminately identifies the article body and the headline in the article information. A tr... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7080002 | Bi-lingual system and method for automatically converting one language into another language A bi-lingual conversion system and method which automatically converts an unrecognizable character stream of one language into another language based on the respective list rule and the pronunciation rule. The bi-lingual conversion method includes storing an incomin... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079147 | System and method for cooperative operation of a processor and coprocessor A disclosed coprocessor receives a user-defined command during execution of an instruction including the user-defined command, and performs a predetermined function in response to the user-defined command. The user-defined command includes multiple ordered bits havi... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076422 | Modelling and processing filled pauses and noises in speech recognition A speech recognition system recognizes filled pause utterances made by a speaker. In one embodiment, an ergodic model is used to acoustically model filled pauses that provides flexibility allowing varying utterances of the filled pauses to be made. The ergodic HMM m... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072941 | System and method for chat based communication multiphase encoded protocol and syncrhonization of network buses A system and method for providing chat group services to wireless mobile terminals is disclosed. The chat forum permits integrated voice and text messaging. The system includes plural mobile terminals, each being capable of running a chat client application. A serve... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072880 | Information retrieval and encoding via substring-number mapping A finite-state network that supports substring-number mapping is compiled from a grammar that includes a plurality of classes of substrings. Each of the plurality of classes of substrings has a finite number of substrings. In applying the network to an input string,... | 07/04/2006 |
