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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8073678 | Translation device, translation method, and storage medium A translation device has a dictionary that stores a set of words and their corresponding meanings in plural languages; an input unit that inputs a document; a recognizing unit that recognizes text in the inputted document; an analyzing unit that devides the text rec... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8041556 | Chinese to english translation tool A Chinese to English Translation Tool (CETT) locates pre-existing translations of phrases and increases probabilities for a match by searching independently of proper nouns and Western characters. The CETT comprises an enhancement program, a search program and a dis... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032357 | Phonetic input using a keypad A keypad is used to enter complex characters using a phonetic input method editor (IME). The user may enter complex characters by combining consonants, vowels, mid-vowels and tones by selecting keys on a the keypad instead of using a full size keyboard. Instead of a... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7818164 | Method and system for teaching a foreign language A method and system for teaching a foreign language to a user who has knowledge of a base language is disclosed. The method and system may include assessing the user's proficiency in the target foreign language. The method and system may also include presenting a te... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7769578 | Machine translation system, method and program A translated text creator translates a text in which an unknown word is left in an original language representation without being translated, while known words are translated. Translated text created by the translated text creator is displayed. A link setter sets a ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7734459 | Automatic extraction of transfer mappings from bilingual corpora A method of aligning nodes of dependency structures obtained from a bilingual corpus includes a two-phase approach wherein a first phase comprises associating nodes of the dependency structures to form tentative correspondences. The nodes of the dependency structure... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7711546 | User interface for machine aided authoring and translation A user interface and associated methods for machine aided authoring and translation is provided. The user interface can display strings and associated metadata to assist with authoring and translations. The metadata can be used to mark the strings. The metadata can ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7711545 | Empirical methods for splitting compound words with application to machine translation A statistical machine translation (MT) system may include a compound splitting module to split compounded words for more accurate translation. The compound splitting module select a best split for translation by the MT system. ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7707025 | Method and apparatus for translation based on a repository of existing translations A method of translating an input sentence in a source language to an output sentence in a target language uses a store comprising a plurality of example sentences. A base example sentence is chosen from the store based on a comparison of the input sentence with a pl... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7707024 | Method, system, and apparatus for converting currency values based upon semantically labeled strings A method, system, and apparatus are provided for converting currency values between types of currency. When a string of text is entered into an application program, the string is analyzed to determine whether the string of text includes a currency value. If the stri... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7698125 | Training tree transducers for probabilistic operations Tree transducers can be trained for use in probabilistic operations such as those involved in statistical based language processing. Given sample input/output pairs as training, and given a set of tree transducer rules, the information is combined to yield locally o... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7643986 | Language translation device, method and storage medium for translating abbreviations A translation device for translating a document has an image analysis unit and a translation unit. The image analysis unit determines a word and an abbreviation of the word. The translation unit translates the word and generates a new abbreviation based on the trans... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7562006 | Dialog supporting device A dialog supporting device supporting improved dialog by reducing the number of utterances resulting from misunderstandings and hasty conclusions. The dialog supporting device includes: an example database which holds examples used in the dialog; an utterance receiv... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7475005 | Translation system, dictionary updating server, translation method, and program and recording medium for use therein A translation system limits the reduction in translation accuracy accompanying an increase in new words and phrases. The system is configured to extract a noun phrase from a document and select a category for the noun phrase. The system is further configured to gene... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7444324 | Search query processing to identify search string corrections that reflect past search query submissions of users A search engine process predicts the correct spellings of search terms within multiple-term search queries. In one embodiment, when a user submits a multiple-term search query that includes a non-matching term and at least one matching term, a table is accessed to l... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440890 | Systems and methods for normalization of linguisitic structures A text passage is analyzed to determine whether it contains a “be” verb or a “have” verb. If so, syntactic dependencies are obtained from the text passage, a direct object relation involving the “be” verb or “have” verb is obtained, and a verbal form... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7428487 | Semi-automatic construction method for knowledge base of encyclopedia question answering system In a semi-automatic construction method for knowledge base of an encyclopedia question answering system, concept-oriented systematic templates are designed and important fact information related to entries is automatically extracted from summary information and body... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7409333 | Translation of electronically transmitted messages A communication system for human communication comprises a sending computer system 11, a receiving computer system 21a and a translation web site 31. The sending system 11 is arranged, when sending a communication, to determine a f... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409332 | Method and apparatus for initializing iterative training of translation probabilities A method of estimating translation probabilities includes converting a set of word alignment scores into translation probabilities and modifying the translation probabilities based on a bilingual corpus to produce modified translation probabilities. Under many embod... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406415 | Phonetic searching An improved method and apparatus is disclosed which uses probabilistic techniques to map an input search string with a prestored audio file, and recognize certain portions of a search string phonetically. An improved interface is disclosed which permits users to inp... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7366653 | Methods and apparatuses for string translation Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for translating application strings between entities using a semantical (definition-based) translation scheme. Embodiments of the invention provide the ability to design and create an application user interfac... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359849 | Translation techniques for acronyms and ambiguities In general, the invention is directed to translation techniques for acronyms and ambiguities. In one embodiment, translation of a source text into a target language includes identifying a potential acronym in the source text and presenting a translated acronym to th... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353165 | Example based machine translation system The present invention performs machine translation by matching fragments of a source language sentence to be translated to source language portions of an example in example base. When all relevant examples have been identified in the example base, the examples are s... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353033 | Position-matched information service system and operating method thereof Disclosed is a position-matched information system and operating method thereof that determines a current location of a serviced subject by a position tracking using a mobile terminal of the corresponding service subjects and selectively transmitting one of the prev... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349924 | Colloquium prose interpreter for collaborative electronic communication A method, system and apparatus for processing colloquialisms in message text. A method of processing colloquialisms in message text can include detecting a colloquialism in message text, locating a universal form for the detected colloquialism, and transmitting the ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340702 | Method and apparatus for induction proof Inductive proof can be an improvement to bounded verification. Forward and backward inductive proof methods are disclosed, which can improve the process of verifying properties of circuit designs. An inductive set of one or more states includes passing a first prope... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333927 | Method for retrieving similar sentence in translation aid system The method for retrieving a similar sentence to a source sentence inputted by a user through a translation memory in a translation aid system is provided. An inverted file of an index word and a translation memory from a parallel corpus are constituted. Candidate se... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7318021 | Machine translation system, method and program A translated text creator translates a text in which an unknown word is left in an original language representation without being translated, while known words are translated. Translated text created by the translated text creator is displayed. A link setter sets a ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315809 | Computer-aided reading system and method with cross-language reading wizard A computer-aided reading system offers assistance to a user who is reading in a non-native language, as the user needs help, without requiring the user to divert attention away from the text. In one implementation, the reading system is implemented as a reading wiza... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310605 | Method and apparatus to transliterate text using a portable device A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for a method in a portable device for transliterating text. An image of the text is generated using a camera function in the portable device. The image is sent with an identification of a source language and a target la... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7295963 | Adaptive machine translation A computer-implemented method for providing information to an automatic machine translation system to improve translation accuracy is disclosed. The method includes receiving a collection of source text. An attempted translation that corresponds to the collection of... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295962 | Statistical memory-based translation system A statistical machine translation (MT) system may include a translation memory (TMEM) and a decoder. The decoder may translate an input text segment using a statistical MT decoding algorithm, for example, a greedy decoding algorithm. The system may generate a cover ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292971 | Language phonetic system and method thereof A phonetic system having vowel phonetic symbols separated into full sound symbols and half sound symbols, and consonant phonetic symbols. The full sounds symbols are represented by letters in the English alphabet. The half sound symbols are represented by letters in... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292987 | Integrated multilingual browser The disclosed system translates into different languages HTML documents available through the World Wide Web. HTML documents are translated by machine translation software bundled in a browser. Alternatively, documents are retrieved as needed, translated, and stored... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7290230 | System and method for verifying a digital design using dynamic abstraction A method for verifying a digital system design is provided. A first abstraction of a digital system design is performed to obtain an abstract model of the digital system design. One or more first steps of a multiple-step model checking process are performed using th... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287219 | Method of constructing a document type definition from a set of structured electronic documents A method of generating a definition for a collection of source documents is provided. Patterns common to each source document in the collection of source documents are identified and restrictive general rules based on the identified common patterns are then construc... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281203 | Selecting a DTD for transforming malformed layout expressions into wellformed ones A network client such as a world wide web browser and corresponding method that includes and involves a scanner component that accesses an input content stream via a network connection (e.g., file, document or other content/data source located at a URL via the Inter... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278100 | Translating a non-unicode string stored in a constant into unicode, and storing the unicode into the constant Provided are a method, system, and program for creating a string of Unicode characters stored in a memory of a computer. A constant is created whose data type is a non-Unicode data type, wherein the constant specifies non-Unicode data to convert to Unicode. A string... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7260780 | Method and apparatus for providing foreign language text display when encoding is not available A method and apparatus include referencing a phonetic language database that includes double-byte font entries and associated phonetic representations of the double-byte font entries. At least one of the double-byte font entries is used to obtain a phonetic represen... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7233892 | Method and apparatus for unsupervised training of natural language processing units A method of training a natural language processing unit applies a candidate learning set to at least one component of the natural language unit. The natural language unit is then used to generate a meaning set from a first corpus. A second meaning set is generated f... | 06/19/2007 |
