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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7418387 | Generic spelling mnemonics A system and method for creating a mnemonics Language Model for use with a speech recognition software application, wherein the method includes generating an n-gram Language Model containing a predefined large body of characters, wherein the n-gram Language Model in... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418443 | Question answering system, data search method, and computer program A question answering system includes a question answering unit, an analysis unit, a tree structure generation unit, a feature extraction unit, an evaluation unit and a re-ranking unit. The question answering unit executes search processing based on an input question... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418653 | System and method for data publication through web pages A system and a method for publishing a newspaper page or other data through a Web page, such that the information can be made available more easily through a network such as the Internet. The data is automatically converted to the Web page format by first rendering ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415405 | Database script translation tool A method for translating the string literals in a database script from a source language (i.e. English) into a target language (i.e. Chinese). The invention comprises a Conversion Program (CP) and a Field Expansion Program (FEP). The CP copies a database script in a... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415101 | System, method and software for a speech-enabled call routing application using an action-object matrix A system, method and software for facilitating a speech-enabled call routing application using an action-object matrix is disclosed. In operation, a natural language user utterance may be evaluated to identify an action and object available in an action-object matri... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415106 | Network-based voice activated auto-attendant service with B2B connectors In a particular embodiment, a method of processing enterprise information system data for use by a voice activated auto-attendant service network is disclosed. The method includes provisioning a network-based voice activated auto-attendant service via a web interfac... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415406 | Speech recognition apparatus, speech recognition method, conversation control apparatus, conversation control method, and programs for therefor An automatic conversation apparatus includes a speech recognizing unit receiving a speech signal and outputting characters/character string corresponding to the speech signal as a recognition result; a speech recognition dictionary storing unit storing a language mo... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412385 | System for identifying paraphrases using machine translation The present invention obtains a set of text segments from a cluster of different articles written about a common event. The set of text segments is then subjected to textual alignment techniques to identify paraphrases from the text segments in the text. The inventi... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412388 | Language-enhanced programming tools Statements of a computer program expressed using a first source natural language are made meaningful to a programmer familiar with a second target natural language. The first source natural language of the computer program is determined from the programmer, or throu... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412391 | User interface design apparatus and method A user interface design apparatus which reduces the load associated with input operation by an author is provided. When a speech recognition grammar including a semantic structure generating rule is acquired, at least one semantic structure is extracted from the sem... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412440 | Information search system, information search supporting system, and method and program for information search To enable a user to perform, by using an ontology, an information search utilizing a meaning given to information on a network by Semantic Web without being required to perform complicated operations for forming an inquiry sentence in conformity with the ontology. | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412441 | Predictive phonetic data search Predictive phonetic data search is described. In an embodiment, a search request to locate a term is received, where the term can be a word, a group of words, and/or any combination of characters and numbers. A numeric index is then searched to locate a number that ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409348 | Language listening and speaking training system and method with random test, appropriate shadowing and instant paraphrase functions A language listening and speaking teaching system and method that utilize a random tests function to provide full-scale and various language training subjects and enable a learner to set up the listening and speaking training process according to his/her preference ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409381 | Index to a semi-structured database A method and apparatus for generating an index entry for a record in a semi-structured database involves analysing each field to identify an entry within each field and to identify a sequence of characters having a format corresponding to a predetermined format. The... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409334 | Method of text processing A method of text processing by receiving textual units. Then, select a language and a textual unit. Identify the selected textual unit's stem and suffix. Search a rules database for the suffix. If a base suffix is found in the rules database, combine it with the ste... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409335 | Inferring informational goals and preferred level of detail of answers based on application being employed by the user A system and method for inferring informational goals and preferred level of details in answers in response to questions posed to computer-based information retrieval or question-answering systems is provided. The system includes a query subsystem that can receive a... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409336 | Method and system for searching data based on identified subset of categories and relevance-scored text representation-category combinations A method and system for analyzing natural language text to identify a set of categories of data in a knowledge base associated with the natural language text and selecting a category from the set of categories is provided. The method and system further provides auto... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409324 | Design support system The design support system regarding the present invention comprises a node data storage means that stores node data to generate functional models which present a group of function nodes which are functions divided from performance function of apparatus which is an o... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409337 | Natural language processing interface The present invention provides an interface and associated object model that exposes a comprehensive set of natural language processing features to an application developer. In one embodiment, the features include lexicon management services and proofing services. | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406456 | Construction of trainable semantic vectors and clustering, classification, and searching using trainable semantic vectors An apparatus and method are disclosed for producing a semantic representation of information in a semantic space. The information is first represented in a table that stores values which indicate a relationship with predetermined categories. The categories correspon... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406416 | Representation of a deleted interpolation N-gram language model in ARPA standard format A method and apparatus are provided for storing parameters of a deleted interpolation language model as parameters of a backoff language model. In particular, the parameters of the deleted interpolation language model are stored in the standard ARPA format. Under on... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403890 | Multi-dimensional method and apparatus for automated language interpretation A method and apparatus for natural language interpretation are described. The invention includes a schema and apparatus for storing, in digital, analog, or other machine-readable format, a network of propositions formed of a plurality of text and/or non-text objects... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403891 | Apparatus and method for recognizing biological named entity from biological literature based on UMLS The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for recognizing biological named entity from biological literature based on united medical language system (UMLS). The apparatus and the method receives metathesaurus from the UMLS, constructs a concept name d... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403971 | Information processing system, method for message communications, recording medium, and computer program An information processing apparatus is capable of translating semantic contents of a received message and entering a schedule specified by such a message into a scheduler. A user terminal on the sending side makes a list of words or phrases in a data table and accep... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7401016 | Communication support system, communication support method, and computer program In the invention, words in f-structure are represented as illustrations that can be understood by any persons regardless of what languages they use, whereby it is made possible to make the f-structure completely language-independent representation. Accordingly, two ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398196 | Method and apparatus for summarizing multiple documents using a subsumption model A method and apparatus for parsing a plurality of documents, selecting paragraphs from the documents through subsuming relation calculation, and rewriting the selected paragraphs into a summary is disclosed. ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398468 | Bidirectional network language support A method and apparatus for displaying bi-directional text using a browser program on a computer (20) coupled to drive a display (22) and having an operating system such that the computer normally writes text to the display in a default language in a fi... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398210 | System and method for performing analysis on word variants A computer-readable medium stores a first lexicon data structure for lexicon words. The first data structure includes a host form variant field containing a host form variant such as a clitic host form variant, a host form field containing the host form of the host ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398201 | Method and system for enhanced data searching Methods and systems for syntactically indexing and searching data sets to achieve more accurate search results and for indexing and searching data sets using entity tags alone or in combination therewith are provided. Example embodiments provide a Syntactic Query En... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398262 | Method and system for referencing, archiving and retrieving symbolically linked information The present invention provides a method and system for the reference, archival and retrieval of symbolically linked information despite idiosyncratic symbol usage. A master symbol database stores a plurality of master symbols, wherein each master symbol is formatted... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398202 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method and information processing program The invention makes it possible to detect the characteristics of text data, and to analogize potential hidden meaning in the text data. A word-cutting unit 3 performs a word-cutting process on the text data input from the input unit 1, a syntax-... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398200 | Token stream differencing with moved-block detection Methods and apparatus implementing systems and techniques for differencing token streams and detecting moved blocks of tokens. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: obtaining a first token stream and a second token stream, comparing the first an... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398203 | Linguistically intelligent text compression A text processor processes text in a message. The text processor generates a plurality of compressed forms of components of the message. The processor performs a linguistic analysis on the body of text to obtain a linguistic output indicative of linguistic component... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395201 | 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... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395203 | System and method for disambiguating phonetic input A system and method for inputting Chinese characters using Pinyin without requiring the entry of a delimiter key between Pinyin entries in a reduced keyboard is disclosed. The system searches for all possible single or multiple Pinyin spellings based on the entered ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392173 | Method and system of presenting a document to a user A method and system for presenting a document to a user. The method comprises the steps of providing a plurality of documents having one or more language translations; specifying a preferred order of languages for the user; and when the user requests a search term, ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392174 | Natural-language processing system using a large corpus A computer-parsing system using vectors (lists) to represent natural-language elements, providing a robust, distributed way to score grammaticality of an input string by using as a source material a large corpus of natural-language text. The system uses recombining ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392175 | Evaluating commonality of documents using segment vector, co-occurrence matrix, and common co-occurrence matrix In evaluating commonality of documents, each sentence is represented by a binary vector whose components indicate the presence or absence of corresponding terms, whereupon the concept of a common vector among documents is introduced. One sentence vector is derived f... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392519 | Localization cataloguing tool A code arrangement for facilitating the localization of an information source comprising a collector module for collecting information units to be localized from the information source and for causing a copy of the information units to be localized, a synchronizatio... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392326 | Method for text entry in an electronic device A method for text entry in an electronic device is disclosed. As a user enters text, such as a URL, into a handheld device the entered text is matched to previously visited URLs and these matched URLs are displayed in a list. The entered text may also be matched to ... | 06/24/2008 |
