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| 8185375 | Word alignment with bridge languages Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for statistical machine translation. In some implementations a method is provided. The method includes receiving multi-lingual parallel text associating a source language, a target language, and one or mor... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180625 | Multi language exchange system The invention discloses a multi language exchange system which includes a communication device having an input screen on which a message in a first language is to be translated into a second language. The input screen displays a programmable grid or list having at l... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180624 | Fast beam-search decoding for phrasal statistical machine translation Improved systems, methods and apparatuses are provided for fast beam-search decoding for phrasal statistical machine translation. The provided techniques incorporate a front-loaded distortion penalty estimate for future estimated distortion penalty and/or early prun... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8160865 | Systems and methods for managing coordinate geometry for a user interface template A method for managing coordinate geometry information for a user interface template to be applied to multiple languages is described. Strings of text in a file are translated from a first language to a pseudo language. Data field sizes associated with a first user i... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155946 | Computerized method and system for searching for text passages in text documents A method is disclosed for searching for text passages in text documents. The method uses computerized prediction-based and ontology-based semantic language processing. Both the text passages that are to be located, as well as the text of the documents that are searc... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8145473 | Deep model statistics method for machine translation In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for machine translation of a source document in an input language to a target document in an output language, comprising generating translation options corresponding to at least portions of each sentence in the inpu... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8131735 | Rapid automatic keyword extraction for information retrieval and analysis Methods and systems for rapid automatic keyword extraction for information retrieval and analysis. Embodiments can include parsing words in an individual document by delimiters, stop words, or both in order to identify candidate keywords. Word scores for each word w... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126700 | Computer-assisted comprehension of texts A solution is proposed for the data-handling system-assisted comprehension of texts (particularly, when they are written in a foreign language). For this purpose, a difficulty index is associated with each known word (for example, according to its frequency of use i... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121829 | Method and apparatus for constructing translation knowledge The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for constructing translation knowledge to be used in a translator. According to the invention, a source-language sentence and a target-language sentence are converted by receiving the source-language sentence a... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112268 | 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.â... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108203 | Translation system, translation program, and bilingual data generation method A translation system including: a bilingual data storage section, a plurality of pieces of first language simple sentence data and a plurality of pieces of second language simple sentence data being stored in the bilingual data storage section while being associated... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103499 | Disambiguation of telephone style key presses to yield Chinese text using segmentation and selective shifting To enter Chinese text, a user enters the corresponding phonetic spelling via telephone style keypad. Some or all keys represent multiple phonetic letters. In disambiguating entered key presses to yield a valid phonetic spelling, a computer divides the key presses in... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8060359 | Apparatus, method and computer program product for optimum translation based on semantic relation between words A machine translation apparatus includes a identification information detection unit that detects information identifiable to a designated object; a receiving unit that receives a source language sentence; a word dividing unit that divides the source language senten... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8041700 | Content item retrieval based on a free text entry A method and apparatus for textual searching of a database is provided herein. During operation a user will input a letter into a search engine. The search engine will score words based on the letter and display results of the highest-scored words. Another letter wi... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8005664 | System, method to generate transliteration and method for generating decision tree to obtain transliteration The transliteration scheme developed as the present invention is contingent upon two languages, namely the keyboard language and the target language. While the invention is independent of the actual languages in question, save to the extent that they must be phoneti... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001135 | Search support apparatus, computer program product, and search support system A search support apparatus estimates, based on a document and a specific phrase (keyword) in the document, a theme of the document, a site type of a website that provides the document, and a content type of the document, and selects a search condition corresponding ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991760 | Constructing a domain-specific ontology by mining the web A method, apparatus, and program product is provided for constructing a domain-specific ontology for interpreting a policy. A phrase assumed to be associated with a policy is received. An indefinite term in the phrase is identified. Internet searches are performed o... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7979265 | Machine translation system, method and program for translating text having a structure Machine translation system includes storage unit configured to store interpretation data items each including first expression element representing first expression of first language, word set element including first expression, and second expression element represe... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974831 | Communication support apparatus and computer program product for supporting communication by performing translation between languages A communication supporting apparatus includes a supplemental example storing unit that stores a source language interpretation which is an interpretation of a semantic content of a source language sentence to be translated, and a supplemental example sentence which ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7945437 | Systems and methods for using automated translation and other statistical methods to convert a classifier in one language to another language Systems and methods for using automated translation and other statistical methods to convert a classifier in one language to another language are provided. In one embodiment of the invention, a method preferably includes marking target language examples of passages ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7890521 | Document-based synonym generation One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that automatically generates synonyms for words from documents. During operation, this system determines co-occurrence frequencies for pairs of words in the documents. The system also determines closeness sco... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885807 | Text analysis, transliteration and translation method and apparatus for hieroglypic, hieratic, and demotic texts from ancient Egyptian A system for translating a body of text in an initial language into a target language, that comprises an input device for imputing a body of text comprising a plurality of elements, a first analyzer for analyzing said text and identifying one or more possible charac... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7865354 | Extracting and grouping opinions from text documents Opinions about a topic are extracted from a corpus of text documents. Opinions are extracted based on rules defining regular expressions for parts-of-speech tags. Opinions are grouped based on their semantic orientation as favorable, unfavorable or neutral. A balanc... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860706 | Knowledge system method and appparatus A method and apparatus for automating the acquisition, reconstruction, and generation of knowledgebases of associated ideas and using such knowledgebases in many applications including machine translation of human languages, search and retrieval of unstructured text... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860707 | Compound word splitting for directory assistance services A computer-implemented method is disclosed for improving the accuracy of a directory assistance system. The method includes constructing a prefix tree based on a collection of alphabetically organized words. The prefix tree is utilized as a basis for generating spli... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7848916 | System, method and program product for bidirectional text translation A system, method, and program product for translating text. The invention provides a bidirectional translation corpus that is used to translate phrases from a first language to a second language and vice versa. The bidirectional translation corpus has multiple entri... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7809550 | System for reading chinese characters in seconds A method by which a user (who needs no knowledge of character configuration or Pinyin spelling) brings to an electronic device an unknown, user-chosen Chinese or other Oriental character/characters. The method is comprised of entering one or more easy-to-remember sy... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7801720 | Translation requesting method, translation requesting terminal and computer readable recording medium A translation requesting device has a first replacing unit, a translating unit and a second replacing unit. The first replacing unit replaces an original phrase to a substitute phrase. The translating unit translates the substitute phrase. The second replacing unit ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7797148 | Systems and methods for fast and memory efficient machine translation using statistical integrated phase lattice A phrase-based translation system and method includes a statistically integrated phrase lattice (SIPL) (H) which represents an entire translational model. An input (I) is translated by determining a best path through an entire lattice (S) by performing an efficient ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7774193 | Proofing of word collocation errors based on a comparison with collocations in a corpus Collocation errors can be automatically proofed using local and network-based corpora, including the Web. For example, according to one illustrative method, one or more collocations from a text sample are compared with a corpus such as the content of the Web. The co... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7747428 | Visibly distinguishing portions of compound words A method and apparatus for displaying a compound word is provided. According to one aspect, data that specifies a first form of a component word is received. Within the compound word, a second form of the component word that differs from the first form of the compon... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7742911 | Apparatus and method for spoken language understanding by using semantic role labeling An apparatus and a method are provided for using semantic role labeling for spoken language understanding. A received utterance semantically parsed by semantic role labeling. A predicate or at least one argument is extracted from the semantically parsed utterance. A... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7739286 | Topic specific language models built from large numbers of documents Forming and/or improving a language model based on data from a large collection of documents, such as web data. The collection of documents is queried using queries that are formed from the language model. The language model is subsequently improved using the inform... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7725306 | Efficient phrase pair extraction from bilingual word alignments A method is provided for identifying phrase alignment pairs between a source sentence and a target sentence. Boundaries for a phrase in the source sentence are identified by requiring that a source word be aligned with at least one target word in a target sentence i... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7720856 | Cross-language searching Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, related to cross-language searching. Input characterizing search criteria in a first language may be received and a search may be performed on a database having records in a second language. The search may ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7711544 | System and method for generating markup language text templates A method of generating a markup language text template comprises identifying a variable text element in a source language text string and assigning a first predefined symbol to the variable text element, identifying a grammatical rule for the variable text element a... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7681127 | Dynamic localization for documents using language setting A method, for dynamic document localization, includes issuing a request for locale-neutral content, the request having a locale-neutral identifier. The locale-neutral content is received responsive to the request. Localized language content is built by applying a la... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7676358 | System and method for the recognition of organic chemical names in text documents This invention provides a method, a system and a computer program for recognizing technical terms. In the preferred embodiment the technical terms are chemical names, and in a most preferred embodiment the technical terms are organic chemical names. A computer progr... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672831 | System and method for cross-language knowledge searching A system and method for cross-language knowledge searching. The system has a Semantic Analyzer, a natural language user request/document search pattern/semantic index Generator, a user request search pattern Translator and a Knowledge Base Searcher. The system also ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7664628 | Electronic dictionary with illustrative sentences When two or more retrieval words are entered through an entry unit of an information display control device, illustrative sentences containing all the retrieval words are extracted from an illustrative sentence data table and illustrative sentences corresponding to ... | 02/16/2010 |
