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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6275789 | Method and apparatus for performing full bidirectional translation between a source language and a linked alternative language System with apparatus to improve international and other communication, and to provide easier access to data, especially digitized data, by means of linked alternative languages generated from a source language. As taught by the present invention, a linke... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6266665 | Indexing and searching across multiple sorted arrays Indexing and searching across multiple sorted arrays. In one embodiment, a method. First, for a plurality of arrays, each array having a plurality of elements indexable by a pointer for the array, finding a smallest element of a set of elements comprising... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6260051 | Recording medium and character string collating apparatus for full-text character data All two-character chains including two general characters and all three-character chains including one special character between two general characters are detected from a registration character string in which a large number of special characters not hav... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6233546 | Method and system for machine translation using epistemic moments and stored dictionary entries A source signal embodying knowledge is decomposed into a simple and regular internal representation of a decomposition of epistemic instances of the knowledge. An epistemic instance is a fundamental semantic structure that expresses a transformation of tw... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6208956 | Method and system for translating documents using different translation resources for different portions of the documents A system and method for translating a document from one language to another language using different translation resources depending on the document or portion of the document being translated. The original document which is to be translated contains info... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6182027 | Translation method and system A machine translation method and system for improving the accuracy of the selection of appropriate words, without incurring any deterioration of the processing efficiency, includes registering, during the translation of a document by using a compound word... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6173251 | Keyword extraction apparatus, keyword extraction method, and computer readable recording medium storing keyword extraction program Disclosed is a keyword extraction apparatus and method capable of overcoming a problem in the conventional automatic keyword extraction wherein character strings in a sentence to be processed are employed, as they are, to assign a document with an index i... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6169999 | Dictionary and index creating system and document retrieval system A high-speed document retrieval system creates a regular expression dictionary and a word index on the basis of a retrieval document and a word dictionary to conduct retrieval to a document through the regular expression dictionary and the word index at a... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6167366 | System and method for enhancing human communications Provided is a system and method for enhancing human communications. A user selected first language is translated to other languages, using translation rules. A language may be a visual representation, audio representation, and/or a physical form represent... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6161083 | Example-based translation method and system which calculates word similarity degrees, a priori probability, and transformation probability to determine the best example for translation A translating apparatus and a translating method wherein a first language sentence is divided into syntax units consisting of predetermined units of sentence structure such as clauses and phrases in stages from large syntax units into small syntax units a... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6131082 | Machine assisted translation tools utilizing an inverted index and list of letter n-grams A translation memory for computer assisted translation based upon an aligned file having a number of source language text strings paired with target language text strings. A posting vector file includes a posting vector associated with each source languag... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6122606 | System and method for enhancing human communications Provided is a system and method for enhancing human communications. A user selected first language is translated to other languages, using translation rules. A language may be a visual representation, audio representation, and/or a physical form represent... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6104989 | Real time detection of topical changes and topic identification via likelihood based methods A method is disclosed for detecting topical changes and topic identification in texts in real time using likelihood ratio based methods. In accordance with the method, topic identification is achieved by evaluating text probabilities under each topic, and... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6092036 | Multi-lingual data processing system and system and method for translating text used in computer software utilizing an embedded translator A multi-lingual data processing system can operate in a source language and one or more target languages by automatically translating text, such as application text and system message text. The multi-lingual data processing system includes computer softwa... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6067510 | Machine interpreter which stores and retrieves translated sentences based on variable and invariable sentence portions A machine interpreter and method provides a structure in which words are sorted and hierarchically displayed as candidates for substitution in particular order by the display. The words are prestored in variable and invariable word groups. The words of a ... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6064951 | Query transformation system and method enabling retrieval of multilingual web documents A query transformation system and method capable of not only solving an ambiguousness of words involved in the transformation of queries from one language to another language, but also executing its processing independently of the processing of an informa... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6041293 | Document processing method and apparatus therefor for translating keywords according to a meaning of extracted words A document processing apparatus and method extracts, from document data, both a first word, whose translation is to be determined, and a second word that is either the preceding word or the subsequent word of the first word. Then a keyword is extracted ba... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6014615 | System and method for processing morphological and syntactical analyses of inputted Chinese language phrases Phonetic Chinese (Pinyin and BPMF) is entered into a computer system and accurately converted into the Hanzi form. The system has a novel keyboard with diacritic keys (and corresponding ASCII coding) that permit the user to annotate each entered phonetic ... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5974372 | Graphical user interface (GUI) language translator A method of translating screen displays of a user application program from a first base language to a user-selectable second language. The method is driven by program software which intercepts the messages created by a presentation manager of a WINDOWS op... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5924105 | Method and product for determining salient features for use in information searching A method and product are provided for generating a word set for use in locating a document having a type similar to a type of document in a document collection. The method includes selecting multiple documents from the document collection, each document s... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5913209 | Full text index reference compression A system and method for compressing a text index. The method includes determining which indexed items have been deleted, and forming a new index which does not contain references to deleted indexed items. Portions of the index are regenerated to eliminate... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5907821 | Method of computer-based automatic extraction of translation pairs of words from a bilingual text For each word occurring in Japanese text, a set of words co-occurring with it and their co-occurrence frequencies are extracted, where two words are regarded as co-occurring with each other when they occur in the same sentence. Likewise, for each word occ... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5884247 | Method and apparatus for automated language translation Language translation is accomplished by representing natural-language sentences in accordance with a constrained grammar and vocabulary structured to permit direct substitution of linguistic units in one language for corresponding linguistic units in anot... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5870702 | Word converting apparatus utilizing general dictionary and cooccurence dictionary to display prioritized candidate words A word converting apparatus displays converted results and cooccurrent examples in a candidate selection menu for allowing the user to easily and definitely select converted results of words in a cooccurrent relationship. A cooccurrence recognizer 15 reco... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5867812 | Registration apparatus for compound-word dictionary A registration apparatus for a compound-word dictionary automatically and suitably determines whether a combination of character strings must be registered as one entry word in a compound-word dictionary. The registration apparatus comprises a character s... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5854997 | Electronic interpreter utilizing linked sets of sentences An electronic interpreter for interpreting sentences between a first person and a second person. The electronic interpreter includes a memory for storing sentence data in a data structure having a plurality of sets of sentences including translations of t... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5835912 | Method of efficiency and flexibility storing, retrieving, and modifying data in any language representation The present invention is a method of storing, retrieving, and modifying data in a database by creating data records in a user-definable language representation, where each data record has an identifier, where each data record includes data fields and attr... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5832478 | Method of searching an on-line dictionary using syllables and syllable count The present invention is a method of searching an on-line dictionary in any language representation using syllables and syllable count and an on-line dictionary, where the on-line dictionary includes a primary headword field, a segmented primary headword ... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5826220 | Translation word learning scheme for machine translation A translation word learning scheme for a machine translation capable of learning translation words for each lexical rule separately and easily. In this scheme, a translation word for each original word is obtained by a machine translation using a translat... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5812964 | Multi-valued localized strings A computer-implemented method for making a data item available to a user program and a source program. The method includes providing a user interface for the user program to gain access to the data item for reading or writing, providing a source interface... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5812840 | Database query system A database query system includes a query assistant that permits the user to enter only queries that are both syntactically and semantically valid (and that can be processed by an SQL generator to produce semantically valid SQL). Through the use of dialog ... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5802539 | Method and apparatus for managing text objects for providing text to be interpreted across computer operating systems using different human languages Text objects having a primary data portion in which is stored text characters and associated encoding information, and an annotation portion in which is stored attribute information such as style and language identifiers, is described. The encoding inform... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5794237 | System and method for improving problem source identification in computer systems employing relevance feedback and statistical source ranking Objects or files are created containing problem source identification information. The database of problem source identification methods is provided to the user through a computer user interface with statistical ranking according to the problem symptom pr... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5787421 | System and method for information retrieval by using keywords associated with a given set of data elements and the frequency of each keyword as determined by the number of data elements attached to each keyword The system and method of this invention provides an approach for automatically indicating what property a current set of documents possesses, and an approach for retrieving a set of similar documents by specifying a document rather than a keyword. First, ... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5778362 | Method and system for revealing information structures in collections of data items In analyzing a collection of data items to determine data structures, the collection of data items is treated as a two-dimensional map. A query vector with elements of interest is composed with the map to form a result vector. A profile vector formed from... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5768603 | Method and system for natural language translation The present invention is a system for translating text from a first source language into a second target language. The system assigns probabilities or scores to various target-language translations and then displays or makes otherwise available the highes... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5760770 | System and method for defining a view to display data Views and view controls are used to display and access data created from multiple applications. Namespaces, folders, items, views and view control objects are used to abstract the data type of the data, contained in items. Therefore, data can be displayed... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5737734 | Query word relevance adjustment in a search of an information retrieval system A method for performing a search of a database in an information retrieval system in response to a query having at least one query word with a query word weight and for applying the query word to the database and selecting information from the information... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5724593 | Machine assisted translation tools A translation memory for computer assisted translation based upon an aligned file having a number of source language text strings paired with target language text strings. A posting vector file includes a posting vector associated with each source languag... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5713033 | Electronic equipment displaying translated characters matching partial character input with subsequent erasure of non-matching translations Electronic equipment includes a memory containing first information such as KANA characters and second information such as KANJI characters corresponding to the first information, a key input device for inputting the first information, a display for displ... | 01/27/1998 |
