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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7953593 | 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... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7945552 | System of effectively searching text for keyword, and method thereof A system of the present invention stores: a first index which designates lists of keywords contained in texts from identifications of the respective texts; a second index which designates lists of texts containing keywords from identifications of the respective keyw... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941312 | Dynamic mixed-initiative dialog generation in speech recognition Disclosed are a method (500), apparatus (100) and computer program product for generating a mixed-initiative dialog to obtain information for dialog slots. A composite grammar dependent upon a set of unfilled slots is constructed (501). A prompt... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937263 | System and method for tokenization of text using classifier models The present invention pertains to a system and method for the tokenization of text. The featurizer may be configured to receive input text and convert the input text into tokens. According to one aspect of the invention, the tokens may include only one type of chara... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937264 | Leveraging unlabeled data with a probabilistic graphical model A general probabilistic formulation referred to as ‘Conditional Harmonic Mixing’ is provided, in which links between classification nodes are directed, a conditional probability matrix is associated with each link, and where the numbers of classes can vary from ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937265 | Paraphrase acquisition Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, to acquire potential paraphrases from textual input. In one aspect, textual input is received, a first map is generated, where the key of the first map is an ngram identified in the textual inpu... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933766 | Method for building a natural language understanding model for a spoken dialog system A method of generating a natural language model for use in a spoken dialog system is disclosed. The method comprises using sample utterances and creating a number of hand crafted rules for each call-type defined in a labeling guide. A first NLU model is generated an... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933843 | Media-based computational influencer network analysis The methodology draws from three disciplines, namely public relations, social network analysis and computer-based information extraction. The analysis permits the visualization of how various people, organizations, products, subjects, key messages etc. are linked/fo... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930168 | Natural language processing of disfluent sentences An advanced model that includes new processes is provided for use as a component of an effective disfluency identifier. The disfluency identifier tags edited words in transcribed speech. A speech recognition unit in combination with a part-of-speech tagger, a disflu... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930169 | Methods and systems for generating natural language descriptions from data The invention is directed to a natural language generation (NLG) software system that generates rich, content-sensitive human language descriptions based on unparsed raw domain-specific data. In one embodiment, the NLG software system may include a data parser/norma... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925498 | Identifying a synonym with N-gram agreement for a query phrase One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that identifies a synonym with N-gram agreement for a query phrase. During operation, the system receives a candidate synonym for the query phrase. Then, for each term in the query phrase, the system determin... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921091 | System and method for providing a natural language interface to a database A system and method for providing a natural language interface to a database or the Internet. The method provides a response from a database to a natural language query. The method comprises receiving a user query, extracting key data from the user query, submitting... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917354 | Conceptual world representation natural language understanding system and method A Natural Language Understanding system is provided for indexing of free text documents. The system according to the invention utilizes typographical and functional segmentation of text to identify those portions of free text that carry meaning. The system then uses... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917353 | Hybrid text segmentation using N-grams and lexical information A hybrid n-gram/lexical analysis tokenization system including a lexicon and a hybrid tokenizer operative to perform both N-gram tokenization of a text and lexical analysis tokenization of a text using the lexicon, and to construct either of an index and a classifie... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912703 | Unsupervised stemming schema learning and lexicon acquisition from corpora Illustrated embodiments provide a computer implemented method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for unsupervised stemming schema learning and lexicon acquisition from corpora. In one illustrative embodiment, the computer implemented method obtains a corp... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912704 | 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... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912705 | System and method for extracting information from text using text annotation and fact extraction A fact extraction tool set (“FEX”) finds and extracts targeted pieces of information from text using linguistic and pattern matching technologies, and in particular, text annotation and fact extraction. Text annotation tools break a text, such as a document, int... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912868 | Advertisement placement method and system using semantic analysis An advertisement placement method and system for relating an advertisement to a dataset based on a trainable semantic vector (TSV) associated with the dataset and respective semantic representations of the advertisements. The trainable semantic vector associated wit... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912700 | Context based word prediction Context-based word prediction is provided. A software application utilizes words contained in an application document to provide context-based word prediction in the same or a related document. The software application creates an application defined data source and ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912701 | Method and apparatus for semiotic correlation A method for a computer system includes receiving an input source comprising a plurality of sentences, determining a set of semiotic relationships from the plurality of sentences, performing a contextual correlation in response to the set of semiotic relationships a... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912699 | System and method of lattice-based search for spoken utterance retrieval A system and method are disclosed for retrieving audio segments from a spoken document. The spoken document preferably is one having moderate word error rates such as telephone calls or teleconferences. The method comprises converting speech associated with a spoken... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912702 | Statistical language model trained with semantic variants An intelligent query system for processing voiced-based queries is disclosed, which uses a combination of both statistical and semantic based processing to identify the question posed by the user by understanding the meaning of the user's utterance. Based on identif... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908260 | Source editing, internationalization, advanced configuration wizard, and summary page selection for information automation systems A source manager includes an editor program that can be used to edit an existing source record via a graphical user interface (GUI). Test Action and Test Source functions allow a user to test enter a query and to test a source expeditiously. A conversion tool conver... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908132 | Writing assistance using machine translation techniques A system is configured to provide writing assistance within a monolingual input environment based on statistical machine translation techniques typically utilized to translate from an input language to a different target language. ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908274 | Data disambiguation systems and methods Various embodiments provide a state-based, regular expression parser in which data, such as generally unstructured text, is received into the system and undergoes a tokenization process which permits structure to be imparted to the data. Tokenization of the data eff... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904451 | Rhetorical content management with tone and audience profiles A content management system including an audience profile is disclosed. The content management system includes a database having a plurality of records. At least one record of the plurality of records includes a plurality of fields storing a plurality of grammatical... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899666 | Method and system for automatically extracting relations between concepts included in text A method and system for automatically extracting relations between concepts included in electronic text is described. Aspects the exemplary embodiment include a semantic network comprising a plurality of lemmas that are grouped into synsets representing concepts, ea... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895032 | System and method to modify text entry A system and method to modify entry of text is provided. The system includes an input device, a display device, and a processor configured to store a correlation between at least one word with at least one candidate phrase; receive at least one word into the input d... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7895031 | Language model sharing The sharing of language models is disclosed. In one embodiment, a language model service is provided that is shareable among handlers for input devices. The service includes a pre-processing mode of operation, and a correction mode of operation. In the former mode, ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890318 | Informing troubleshooting sessions with device data A method for troubleshooting a problem with a device includes acquiring device data for the device, receiving a user's query concerning a device in a natural language, presenting possible refinements to at least a portion of the user's query for defining a problem s... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7881924 | System and method for computer analysis of computer generated communications to produce indications and warning of dangerous behavior The present invention is a system and method for computer analysis of computer generated communications to produce indications and warnings of dangerous behavior. A method of computer analysis of computer generated communications in accordance with the invention, in... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877403 | System and method for database searching using fuzzy rules An apparatus and method for database searching using fuzzy rules is presented. The apparatus and method may accept a word or word phrase such as a persons name and returns fuzzy rules for database searching. Applicable search rules are selected and word or word phra... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873509 | Memory system for storing and retrieving experience and knowledge with natural language utilizing state representation data, word sense numbers, function codes, directed graphs, context memory, and/or purpose relations A memory system for storing and retrieving experience and knowledge with natural language through methods and apparatus is disclosed. The primary components of this memory system include syntactic processes, function word processes, ellipsis processes, morphology pr... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7873654 | Multimodal natural language query system for processing and analyzing voice and proximity-based queries The present invention 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 in... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7873657 | Method and system for processing, by an information retrieval system, user input modifying the information retrieval system In a method and system for hosting a programming environment and processing user input within an information retrieval system, a definition of an expression is received from a user, during a first session between the user and an information retrieval system, the def... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869989 | Methods and apparatus for understanding machine vocabulary Configurations herein provide a language processing mechanism operable to define a machine vocabulary and identify a machine language version of the words that preserves context and identifies the proper definition of the words by identifying and preserving context ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865357 | Shareable filler model for grammar authoring A method of forming a shareable filler model (shareable model for garbage words) from a word n-gram model is provided. The word n-gram model is converted into a probabilistic context free grammar (PCFG). The PCFG is modified into a substantially application-independ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7865356 | Method and apparatus for providing proper or partial proper name recognition A method of proper name recognition includes classifying each word of a word string with a tag indicating a proper name entity category or a non-named entity category, and correcting the tag of a boundary word of the word string. ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860872 | Automated media analysis and document management system A web-based media analysis system, consisting of automated media analysis and document management tools, which processes news articles by parsing the news contents or documents and assigning, relating, and extracting information from the news contents for media anal... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7856350 | Reranking QA answers using language modeling In a QA (Question/Answer) system, candidate answers in response to a question received are ranked by probabilities estimated by a language model. The language model is created based on an ordered centroid created from the question and information learned from an inf... | 12/21/2010 |
