Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190424 | Computer-implemented system and method for prospecting digital information through online social communities A home evergreen index and frontier evergreen indexes are maintained. The indexes cover topically-limited subject areas, which include digital information. Each index defines a hierarchy of topics. Each index further matches a topic model to the topic hierarchy's to... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190422 | Semantic cognitive map A semantic cognitive map created by associating each of a multitude of dictionary entries with a point among a multitude of points in a metric space, each of the dictionary entries associated with at least one onym, the at least one onym including at least one synon... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190423 | Word sense disambiguation using emergent categories Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for word sense disambiguation in a natural language sentence. The natural language sentence is parsed for identifying possible parts of speech for each term and identifying possible phrase structures. Term... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185379 | Handheld electronic device with reduced keyboard and associated method of providing quick text entry in a message An improved handheld electronic device having a reduced keyboard provides facilitated language entry by making available to a user certain words that a user may reasonably be expected to enter. In some situations, certain words can be stored, for example, in a tempo... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185377 | Diagnostic evaluation of machine translators A system for evaluating translation quality of a machine translator is discussed. The system includes a bilingual data generator configured to intermittently access a wide area network and generate a bilingual corpus from data received from the wide area network. Th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185378 | Method and system for determining text coherence A method and system for determining text coherence in an essay is disclosed. A method of evaluating the coherence of an essay includes receiving an essay having one or more discourse elements and text segments. The one or more discourse elements are annotated either... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180628 | Apparatus and method for expanding natural language query requirement The present invention provides an apparatus for expanding a query requirement, comprising: a query requirement understanding device which generates an explicit query requirement according to a user query request; and a query requirement expanding device which genera... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180627 | Method and an apparatus for clustering process models The invention relates to an apparatus for clustering process models each consisting of model elements comprising a text phrase which describes in a natural language a process activity according to a process modeling language grammar and a natural language grammar, w... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180629 | Automatic pattern generation in natural language processing Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system of generating declared patterns from components of a sentence. Parts of speech in the sentence are tagged for identifying parts of speech of each word and phrase in the sentence. Sentence chunking is then ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175865 | Method and apparatus of generating text script for a corpus-based text-to speech system A method of text script generation for a corpus-based text-to-speech system includes searching in a source corpus having L sentences, selecting N sentences with a best integrated efficiency as N best cases, and setting iteration k to be 1; for each case n of the N b... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170868 | Extracting lexical features for classifying native and non-native language usage style A corpus is provided of language usage by non-native users of the language. Characteristics of the corpus are measured and used to create a language usage classifier for indicating non-native usage of the language. Once the language usage classifier is created, a na... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170867 | System for extracting information from a natural language text In the method of extraction, the words of the text are encoded by comparing them with the contents of a lexicon of tool words (essentially articles, prepositions, conjunctions, and verbal auxiliaries), and nominal groups are then identified by searching subsets of t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170869 | Method to detect and assist user intentions with real time visual feedback based on interaction language constraints and pattern recognition of sensory features A language model back-off system can be used with a user interface employing one or more language models to constrain navigation of selectable user interface input components. A user input interpretation module receives user input and interprets the user input to de... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165869 | Learning word segmentation from non-white space languages corpora Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for learning word segmentation from non-white space language corpora. In one illustrative embodiment, the computer implemented method receives text input characte... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166078 | Design process recording Description of works such as “requirement”, “definition”, and “confirmation” in the narrow sense in a design process is made possible. A design work recording unit (22a) records in a data storage device (6) an inputted “design work... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161041 | 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... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160867 | System and method for computerized psychological content analysis of computer and media generated communications to produce communications management support, indications and warnings of dangerous behavior, assessment of media images, and personnel selection support At least one computer-mediated communication produced by or received by an author is collected and parsed to identify categories of information within it. The categories of information are processed with at least one analysis to quantify at least one type of informa... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155949 | Geodesic search and retrieval system and method of semi-structured databases A knowledge-based decision support system that allows for communication and learning to occur using natural language is presented. The system has a capability to automatically extract features from the natural language using symmetric reductions and random search. T... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155948 | System and method for user skill determination A system comprises a user interface configured to receive natural language input from a user. An input module couples to the user interface and is configured to process the received natural language input for selected words and phrases. A user skill determination mo... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150680 | Method and system for candidate matching A method and system for candidate matching, such as used in match-making services, assesses narrative responses to measure candidate qualities. A candidate database includes self-assessment data and narrative data. Narrative data concerning a defined topic is analyz... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150679 | Apparatus, and associated method, for detecting fraudulent text message An apparatus, and an associated method, detects spam and other fraudulent messages sent to a recipient station. The textual portion of a received message is analyzed to determine whether the message includes errors made by non-native language speakers when authoring... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150872 | Multimodal natural language query system for processing and analyzing voice and proximity-based queries The present disclosure provides a natural language query system and method for processing and analyzing multimodally-originated queries, including voice and proximity-based queries. The natural language query system includes a Web-enabled device including a speech i... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145474 | Computer mediated natural language based communication augmented by arbitrary and flexibly assigned personality classification systems The present invention is directed, in one embodiment, to an system that lexically analyzes a behavior-descriptive input stream to provide a tokenized equivalent, syntactically parses the tokenized equivalent to provide a parser output, semantically analyzes the pars... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140323 | Method and system for extracting information from unstructured text using symbolic machine learning A method (and structure) of extracting information from text, includes parsing an input sample of text to form a parse tree and using user inputs to define a machine-labeled learning pattern from the parse tree. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135578 | Creation and use of application-generic class-based statistical language models for automatic speech recognition A method of creating an application-generic class-based SLM includes, for each of a plurality of speech applications, parsing a corpus of utterance transcriptions to produce a first output set, in which expressions identified in the corpus are replaced with correspo... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135577 | Braille support Methods and apparatuses to provide improved Braille support are described herein. A connection to a Braille device is received, and a Braille caption panel that includes a Braille code is displayed to simulate an output to the Braille device. The Braille caption pan... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135580 | Multi-language relevance-based indexing and search Indexing and querying in multiple languages is accomplished using an ordered chain of filters and/or other such components. When receiving information to be indexed or for a query, the information can be tokenized and typed based at least in part on the language of ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135579 | Method of analyzing conversational transcripts Analyzing transcripts of conversation between at least two users by receiving input information from a first user via a voice call, creating conversational transcripts from the information received from the first user, selecting at least one defined situation from a... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135576 | System for enterprise knowledge management and automation The present invention is directed to a system for managing business knowledge expressed as statements, preferably sentences using a vocabulary, where such statements may be automated by the generation of programming language source code or computer program instructi... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131538 | Phoneme decoding system and method The invention disclosed herein relates generally to a phoneme communication system. More specifically, the invention relates to a phoneme communication system utilizing entertaining phoneme symbols that have a one-to-one correspondence with a phoneme. The invention ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131540 | Method and system for extending keyword searching to syntactically and semantically annotated data Methods and systems for extending keyword searching techniques to syntactically and semantically annotated data are provided. Example embodiments provide a Syntactic Query Engine (“SQE”) that parses, indexes, and stores a data set as an enhanced document index w... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131539 | Search-based word segmentation method and device for language without word boundary tag The present invention discloses a search-based segmentation method and device for a language without a word boundary tag. The inventive method includes the steps of: a. providing at least one search engine with a segment of a text including at least one segment; b. ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131741 | Construction, manipulation, and comparison of a multi-dimensional semantic space A directed set can be used to establish contexts for linguistic concepts: for example, to aid in answering a question, to refine a query, or even to determine what questions can be answered given certain knowledge. A directed set includes a plurality of elements and... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131769 | Processing drug data Computer-assisted methods and systems of processing a drug information source. Characterizing the drug by the set comprising: syntax-parsed drug rule elements, adverse event data, mapped terms, and metadata. A method includes: creating a drug rule syntax; extracting... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8117022 | Method and system for machine understanding, knowledge, and conversation A system for storing knowledge in a speakable, formal class of languages and allowing querying and retrieving of that knowledge is provided. The system further allows the users to input data, instructions, questions, and queries without structure or rules over and a... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117024 | System and method for automatically processing candidate resumes and job specifications expressed in natural language into a normalized form using frequency analysis Systems and methods for automatically processing candidate resumes and job specifications expressed in natural language into a normalized form using frequency analysis. A database of elements is provided in which each element is expressed in natural language and at ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117023 | Language understanding apparatus, language understanding method, and computer program This language understanding apparatus includes a storage section, a phrase interpreter, and a bidding section. The bidding section reads information on a slot of a semantic frame corresponding to a concept indicated by an information read by the phrase interpreter a... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117025 | Method and apparatus for determining text passage similarity According to one embodiment of the invention, a method classifying a number of noun phrases in a first text passage and a second text passage into a number of classifications. The method also includes determining a similarity between a noun phrase from the first tex... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112269 | Determining utility of a question A question search system provides a collection of questions having words for use in evaluating the utility of the questions based on a language model. The question search system calculates n-gram probabilities for words within the questions of the collection. The n-... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108206 | Auto-generated to-do list Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing an auto-generated to-do list are described. Text is received in an instant messenger conversation, wherein the text comprises a task sender, a task body, and a task date, and an input is received selecting ... | 01/31/2012 |
