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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8024174 | Method and apparatus for training a prosody statistic model and prosody parsing, method and system for text to speech synthesis The present invention provides a method and apparatus for training a prosody statistic model and prosody parsing, a method and system for text to speech synthesis. Said method for training a prosody statistic model with a raw corpus that includes a plurality of sent... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7340466 | Topic identification and use thereof in information retrieval systems A technique to determine topics associated with, or classifications for, a data corpus uses an initial domain-specific word list to identify word combinations (one or more words) that appear in the data corpus significantly more often than expected. Word combination... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7321852 | System and method for transcribing audio files of various languages System, method and program product for transcribing an audio file included in or referenced by a web page. A language of text in the web page is determined. Then, voice recognition software of the language of text is selected and used to transcribe the audio file. I... | 01/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7266387 | Communication terminal unit capable of receiving a message and method for identifying a message sender in the same A communication terminal unit capable of identifying a message sender by comparing a source address attached to a received message with an address registered in a memory of the unit in advance, which can identify the message sender even if the source address has an ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7195409 | Apparatus, method and program for producing small prints An apparatus, method and program produce small print including character string information in a plurality of languages together with a logo. A language converting function converts an input character string into another language. A multi-language printing function ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7181387 | Homonym processing in the context of voice-activated command systems A method is disclosed from constructing a grammar. The grammar is configured to be processed by a speech recognition engine in the context of a voice-activated command system. The method includes receiving a database containing a plurality of terms. From the plurali... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7167720 | Communication terminal unit capable of receiving a message and method for identifying a message sender in the same A communication terminal unit capable of identifying a message sender by comparing a source address attached to a received message with an address registered in a memory of the unit in advance, which can identify the message sender even if the source address has an ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7149680 | System and method for providing language-specific extensions to the compare facility in an edit system An extension of any n-file compare and/or merge utility in an edit system includes services provided by a parser attached to the edit system for the particular file type. A compare command in the edit system is enabled by an extension-registration process to query, ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7136806 | Sentence segmentation method and sentence segmentation apparatus, machine translation system, and program product using sentence segmentation method To provide a highly accurate sentence segmentation process in natural language processing by estimating parts of speech of words in text to be processed. Dictionary data is used to perform a sentence segmentation process on a text to be processed. If it cannot be de... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7100108 | Software program utility that isolates translatable english text from machine code and merges the text into one file for review purposes The foregoing objects are achieved as is now described. A data processing system reviews an instruction data structure to isolate comment text items. After these comment text items are translated, translations are copied from a translated text data structure and the... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7085707 | Foreign language teaching tool The present invention, foreign language teaching tool (FLTT), is a language translation tool that slowly introduces the student to different words in the foreign language while the student is reading a familiar text. The preferred embodiment of FLTT is on an e-book,... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7039629 | Method for inputting data into a system The invention relates to a method for inputting data into a system. In order to make it easier for users to input data, the invention provides that, in response to an input by a user, one or more terms which are as appropriate as possible for this input are determin... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7016700 | Communication terminal unit capable of receiving a message and method for identifying a message sender in the same A communication terminal unit capable of identifying a message sender by comparing a source address attached to a received message with an address registered in a memory of the unit in advance, which can identify the message sender even if the source address has an ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6965857 | Method and apparatus for deriving information from written text A method and apparatus for deriving information from a textual representation of a sentence are provided, the sentence having a plurality of words. The apparatus comprises an input, a processing unit and an output. The input is for receiving data elements indicative... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963839 | System and method of controlling sound in a multi-media communication application A method for customizing a voice in a multi-media message created by a sender for a recipient is disclosed. The multi-media message comprises a text message from the sender to be delivered by an animated entity. The method comprises presenting an option to the sende... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6954750 | Method and system for facilitating the refinement of data queries Refining a current query. Receiving information regarding the relevancy of documents retrieved from a document collection in response to a current query. Ranking the retrieved documents in accordance with the relevancy information. Forming a candidate query based on... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6857022 | Translation ordering system A method of ordering a translation of an electronic communication, such as a web page or an email, using a one-click translation component displayed on the web page or in the email. Clicking the one-click translation component automatically requests a translation of... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6539116 | Information processing apparatus and method, and computer readable memory therefor The structure of entered document image data is analyzed and a character string in a text block that has been analyzed is subjected to pattern recognition. Synonyms and equivalents of words obtained as results of language analysis are extracted and words ... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6366759 | System and method for computer-based automatic essay scoring A method of grading an essay using an automated essay scoring system is provided. The method comprises the automated steps of (a) parsing the essay to produce parsed text, wherein the parsed text is a syntactic representation of the essay, (b) using the p... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6285978 | System and method for estimating accuracy of an automatic natural language translation A computer system and method for natural language translation uses a translation process to translate a source natural language segment (e.g. English) of one or more source words/elements into a target natural language (e.g. German) segment of one or more... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6181909 | System and method for computer-based automatic essay scoring A method of grading an essay using an automated essay scoring system is provided. The method comprises the automated steps of (a) parsing the essay to produce parsed text, wherein the parsed text is a syntactic representation of the essay, (b) using the p... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6081773 | Translation apparatus and storage medium therefor A translation apparatus is provided which comprises: an inputting section for inputting a source document in a natural language; a layout analyzing section for analyzing layout information including cascade information, itemization information, numbered i... | 06/27/2000 |
| 5560037 | Compact hyphenation point data A data structure for use in hyphenation is created by including hyphen codes at the acceptable hyphenation points of words and then collapsing the words into a minimal state determinized FSM data structure. The transitions of the data structure are sorted... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5111398 | Processing natural language text using autonomous punctuational structure A technique for processing natural language text uses a data structure that includes structure data in the text data. The structure data indicates an autonomous punctuational structure of the text, a punctuational structure that is independent of the lexi... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5088039 | System for translating adverb phrases placed between two commas through a converter using tree-structured conversion rules A method of translating a sentence including an adverb phrase put between two commas by using a translating apparatus which includes a dictionary look up and morpheme analyzer for looking up each word constituting an input sentence of a source language in... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5075851 | System for translating a source language word with a prefix into a target language word with multiple forms A translating apparatus includes: a prefix table for storing a prefix and a plurality of translated words of the prefix such that the translated words of the prefix are, respectively, composed of different kinds of characters of a target language. There i... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5065318 | Method of translating a sentence including a compound word formed by hyphenation using a translating apparatus A method of translating a sentence including a compound word formed by hyphenation by using a translating apparatus which includes a dictionary look up and morpheme analyzer for looking up each word constituting an input sentence of a source language in a... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5023786 | Language translator which recognizes and indicates prepositional or indefinite phrases and relative clauses A translating apparatus including a morphological analysis portion for dividing an inputted sentence of a source language into a string of morphemes; a syntactic analysis portion for analyzing a construction of the string of the morphemes; a conversion po... | 06/11/1991 |
| 5001633 | Computer assisted language translating machine with sentence extracting function A computer assisted language translating machine receives source language text from a communication appliance, such as a telex machine, and serially stores the text in a first storage unit. After a predetermined time, character data is read out from the f... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4964044 | Machine translation system including semantic information indicative of plural and singular terms To translate Japanese having no morphological distinction between singular and plural forms into English having a morphological distinction between the two, for instance, the dictionary unit includes semantic information indicative of the plural number, a... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4964030 | Apparatus for translating sentences containing punctuation marks A translation system for translating a sentence of an original language into a sentence of a target language utilizes a computer which pre-treats insertion marks. These insertion marks can be quotation marks, colons, semicolons or parentheses found in the... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4962452 | Language translator which automatically recognizes, analyzes, translates and reinserts comments in a sentence A machine translation system is capable of automatically and correctly analyzing a sentence having an inserted comment of a first language by means of a specific dictionary. The dictionary includes a first dictionary in accordance with which the inserted ... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4860206 | Translation system allowing user designation of postpositional words A translation system for translating a first language into a second language having at least one user's dictionary into which individual words in the first language desired and equivalent words in the second language can be registered according to user's ... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4821230 | Machine translation system A machine translation system has an input unit for inputting an original sentence, a dictionary section for storing language information used in translation processing, a translation processor for translation-processing the original sentence with referenc... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4611995 | Electronic language learning machine An electronic language learning machine is disclosed which comprises a memory having words stored therein, a sub-memory having sub-data relating to the words stored therein, a control circuit connected to the memory and sub-memory to derive the stored wor... | 09/16/1986 |
| 4542478 | Electronic dictionary and language interpreter of searching and indicating a part of speech and other index information of a specific word A word information storage device is adapted to retrieve symbols for explaining the context of literal forms of translated words in a second language corresponding to a specific word in a first language. The symbols are preliminarily stored in a memory su... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4460973 | Electronic translator for marking words or sentences An electronic translator of the type having an input device for inputting words and directing the output of selected words in which a first word or words represented in a first language are retrieved in response to a second word or words represented in a ... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4420817 | Word endings inflection means for use with electronic translation device A control circuit of the present invention comprises a first memory for storing entry words, a second memory for storing a certain number of rule patterns according to which the endings of the entry words may be inflected, and an inflection control device... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4373192 | Display device of an electronic language interpreter An electronic language interpreter is characterized by having a display device for displaying second words represented in a second language equivalent to a first word in a first language. When the data length of the second words exceeds the capacity of di... | 02/08/1983 |
