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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| 8086441 | Efficient string search Some embodiments of an efficient string search have been presented. In one embodiment, a string of bytes representing content written in a non-delimited language is received, wherein the content has been classified into a predetermined category. In a single pass thr... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082143 | Extracting treelet translation pairs In one embodiment of the present invention, a decoder receives a dependency tree as a source language input and accesses a set of statistical models that produce outputs combined in a log linear framework. The decoder also accesses a table of treelet translation pai... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073679 | Aligning hierarchial and sequential document trees to identify parallel data A set of candidate parallel pages is identified based on trigger words in one or more pages downloaded from a given network location (such as a website). A set of document trees representing each of the candidate pages are aligned to identify translationally paralle... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8046212 | Identification of chemical names in text-containing documents A method and computer software for rapid searching of text-containing documents and identifying and isolating chemical names and common chemical expressions from surrounding text. The chemical names are returned to the user in a list which is arranged in descending ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041557 | Word translation device, translation method, and computer readable medium A word translation device stores a first-language word search TRIE structure (100), a second-language word search TRIE structure (200), a first-language word information record (110), a second-language word information record (210) in a b... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041558 | Text creating and editing device and computer-readable storage medium with dynamic data loading Exemplary embodiments are directed to a device and a computer-readable storage medium for creating and editing documents or messages by dynamically loading the required data on the computing device as the documents or messages are being created or edited. These exem... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8024175 | Computer program, apparatus, and method for searching translation memory and displaying search result A translation memory system enabling the user to not only narrow down the view range of search result, but also view a surrounding context of a retrieved text. Stored parallel texts include sentence-class and segment-class parallel texts. Parallel texts relevant to ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8024320 | Query language Novel methods for expressing paths contained in queries are provided. The path expressions are composed from tokens selected from the group consisting of object identifiers, attribute identifiers, a relationship operator, and path qualifiers. Path expressions can be... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8014997 | Method of search content enhancement Whenever a document is going to be included into the textual database, a semantic binder is used to associate the document with one or more semantic nodes which are defined in a semantic taxonomy. When a search is performed, a search application looks through a sema... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7974832 | Web translation provider A web translation server discovers a document address for a document. The document is accessed and parsed for text data in a first language. The parsed text data is translated into text data in a second language and stored in a database. A client accesses the docume... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7958103 | Incorporated web page content Including search result based content in a webpage is disclosed. One or more search criteria and an indication that a search result based content associated with the search criteria is to be included in a web page are received. A computer script or code configured t... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949514 | Method for building parallel corpora A method for identifying documents for enriching a statistical translation tool includes retrieving a source document which is responsive to a source language query that may be specific to a selected domain. A set of text segments is extracted from the retrieved sou... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7941310 | System and method for determining affixes of words A computer system and a method for analyzing text in one or more electronic documents are disclosed. The computer system comprises one or more system interfaces; and an affix process that determines one or more affixes of one or more words in one or more of the docu... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937262 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for machine translation A first recognizing unit recognizes a first-language speech as a first-language character string, and outputs a first recognition result. A second recognizing unit recognizes the first-language speech as a most probable first-language example from among first-langua... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7925496 | Method for summarizing natural language text A method includes the steps of comparing a first body of text with a user-created summary of the first body of text, creating rules based on the comparison of the first body of text with the user-created summary of the first body of text, selecting one or more summa... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7899827 | System and method for the indexing of organic chemical structures mined from text documents Disclosed is a method, a computer program product and a system for processing documents that contain chemical names. The system has a unit to partition document text and to assign semantic meaning to words; a unit to recognize any substructures present in the chemic... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7805289 | Aligning hierarchal and sequential document trees to identify parallel data A set of candidate parallel pages is identified based on trigger words in one or more pages downloaded from a given network location (such as a website). A set of document trees representing each of the candidate pages are aligned to identify translationally paralle... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7788084 | Labeling of work of art titles in text for natural language processing A parser for parsing text includes a tokenizing module which divides the text into an ordered sequence of linguistic tokens. A morphological module associates parts of speech with the linguistic tokens. A detection module identifies candidate titles of creative work... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7769579 | Learning facts from semi-structured text A method and system of learning, or bootstrapping, facts from semi-structured text is described. Starting with a set of seed facts associated with an object, documents associated with the object are identified. The identified documents are checked to determine if ea... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7752032 | Apparatus and method for translating Japanese into Chinese using a thesaurus and similarity measurements, and computer program therefor A Japanese-to-Chinese machine translation apparatus includes, a translation dictionary memory that stores a Japanese-to-Chinese translation dictionary; a thesaurus memory that stores a Japanese thesaurus; a translation dictionary searching unit that searches the Jap... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7711547 | Word association method and apparatus A method for creating and using a cross-idea association database that includes a method for associating words and word strings in a language by analyzing word formations around a word or word string to identify other words or word strings that are equivalents or ne... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7707026 | Multilingual translation memory, translation method, and translation program A translation memory adapted to sentence-based translation includes a first retrieval dictionary of a first language having a first dictionary TRIE structure and a first index TRIE structure, and a second retrieval dictionary of a second language having a second dic... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7584089 | Method of encoding and decoding for multi-language applications An architecture for universal data communication between a network client and a web server. A web server receives a character string from the network client for storing. The web server encodes and then stores the string. Any character that is not a 7 bit ASCII chara... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7577562 | Extracting treelet translation pairs In one embodiment of the present invention, a decoder receives a dependency tree as a source language input and accesses a set of statistical models that produce outputs combined in a log linear framework. The decoder also accesses a table of treelet translation pai... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7574347 | Method and apparatus for robust efficient parsing The present invention provides a method for improving the efficiency of parsing text. Aspects of the invention include representing parse tokens as integers where a portion of the integer indicates the location in which a definition for the token can be found. In a ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7558726 | Multi-language support for data mining models An analytical application provider may provide certain middleware functionality that includes updating model output to include textual descriptions of the data mining model and the data fields in a language selected by a front-end application. Certain implementation... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7548845 | Apparatus, method, and program product for translation and method of providing translation support service An apparatus selects from among a plurality of translation records a translation record for use in translation of a newly received text. Each of the translation records stores with respect to past translation results at least one pair of a source-language text, bein... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7519529 | System and methods for inferring informational goals and preferred level of detail of results in response to questions posed to an automated information-retrieval or question-answering service 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... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7512533 | Method and system of creating and using chinese language data and user-corrected data Unique identifiers for each of a plurality of Chinese Pinyin syllables are generated and stored in an array of identifiers. A plurality of Hanzi character candidate lists is also generated, each list including Hanzi character candidates associated with a Pinyin syll... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7478035 | Verbal classification system for the efficient sending and receiving of information A verbal classification system and method for the efficient sending and receiving of desired information is described. Web-site proprietors (314) and Internet marketers provide a host server (320) with descriptive data about their web-sites and message... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7464021 | Computer system for translating medical test results into plain language A method for translating medical test results into plain language is provided. The method includes receiving a medical test result for a type of medical test and, after making a threshold determination whether the medical test result will initially be automatically ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7451076 | Information display control apparatus, server, and program which display example sentences with respect to input or selected words and addition words An information display control apparatus includes: an example sentence storing unit for storing example sentences each including words; a word inputting unit for inputting a word; a list display control unit for controlling a search for example sentences each includ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7451075 | Compressed speech lexicon and method and apparatus for creating and accessing the speech lexicon A compressed lexicon is built by receiving a word list, which includes word-dependent data associated with each word in the word list. A word is selected from the word list. A hash value is generated based on the selected word, and the hash value identifies an addre... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7437284 | Methods and systems for language boundary detection Disclosed are methods and systems for detecting boundaries between areas of different languages in a body of text. ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430505 | Inferring informational goals and preferred level of detail of answers based at least on device used for searching 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... | 09/30/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7412374 | Method to dynamically determine a user's language for a network A portal system identifies a language in which content can be displayed to the user. Possible languages can be determined from one or more of identity information for the user, a container for the user's directory entry, and the user's location. The determined langu... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409400 | Applications of an appliance in a data center In various embodiments, an appliance may be used to implement various functions. In some embodiments, an appliance may be used with a DBMS server. The appliance may generate a request, and the DBMS server may generate a result. The appliance may transform the result... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409349 | Servers for web enabled speech recognition A markup language for execution on a client device in a client/server system includes instructions to unify at least one of recognition-related events, GUI events and telephony events on non-display, voice input based client device and a multimodal based client for ... | 08/05/2008 |
