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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7403889 | Electronic dictionary with example sentences An information display control apparatus capable of searching for an example sentence suitable for words input as a search phrase and displaying the example sentence. The information display control apparatus has: an example sentence storage means for storing an exa... | 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 |
| 7395207 | Document expansion in speech retrieval Methods of document expansion for a speech retrieval document by a recognizer. A database of vectors of automatic transcriptions of documents is accessed and the vectors are truncated by removing all terms that are not recognizable by the recognizer to create trunca... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7389220 | Correcting incomplete negation errors in French language text A computer-implemented grammar checker for French language text corrects negation errors (missing particle “ne/n'”) in French language text. A parser generates a syntax record of a verbal phrase of the text. The syntax record includes records of words in the ver... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386442 | Code, system and method for representing a natural-language text in a form suitable for text manipulation A computer method, system and code, for representing a natural-language document in a vector form suitable for text manipulation operations are disclosed. The method involves determining (a) for each of a plurality of terms selected from one of (i) non-generic words... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386437 | System for providing translated information to a driver of a vehicle A vehicle mounted translation system for providing language translation to a driver of a vehicle. The translation system may be associated with a vehicle navigation system. The translation system includes a translation device and a storage unit for storing language ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386436 | Viewing system that supports multiple electronic document types A method of interpreting electronic documents, e.g., an interactive technical manual, provides an interpreter responsive to at least one global navigational input data of a client user in order to generate a displayable output. The displayable output is generated fr... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383174 | Method for generating and assigning identifying tags to sound files A method of generating and assigning identifying tags to sound files according to standardized criteria that result in substantially unique tags while minimizing differences in sound files that are ideally identical. A number of points in the sound file's unique fre... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376552 | Text generator with an automated decision tree for creating text based on changing input data A method for generating text using a computer system. The method includes selecting a model for generating a text that is based on a decision tree with nodes having one buckets or elements that include a conditional element and a sentence element or a pointer to a c... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373358 | User interface for maintaining categorization schemes A graphical user interface (GUI) tool for maintaining categorization schemes includes a categorization area that displays user-input fields which may be used to define a number of categories and a number of links that form a categorization scheme. The categorization... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373292 | Text-to-scene conversion A system is disclosed for generating a scene description from a set of words. The system includes modules that perform the following functions: performing a linguistic analysis on a set of words to generate a structure representation of semantic relationships betwee... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369998 | Context based language translation devices and methods The invention includes devices and methods for providing phrase-based translation. Devices of the invention have translation modules containing a set of phrases and their translations wherein the set of phrases is selected based on their suitability in the context i... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366654 | Learning translation relationships among words A parallel bilingual training corpus is parsed into its content words. Word association scores for each pair of content words consisting of a word of language L1 that occurs in a sentence aligned in the bilingual corpus to a sentence of language L2 in ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363577 | Techniques for serializing events Techniques are provided for serializing events of a data stream. Meta information defines information unit separators and context for events within the data stream. The data stream is parsed according to the instructions of the meta information and event data associ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359861 | Inter-language translation device A computer system with an appropriate set of instructions to allow the computer system to serve as a translation device for use in a structured interview between an interviewer using a first language and an interviewee in a second language in order to minimize or el... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359942 | Apparatus, method, network system, recording medium and computer program for processing transmitted information An information processing apparatus that executes processing of a message transmitted among a plurality of sites connected via a network. The information processing apparatus includes a message reception part that receives a message to execute a prescribed piece of ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357640 | Lock-In Training system A Lock-In Training system. The Lock-In Training system can include an appropriately programmed Web site and a user computer. The Lock-In Training system can also include an appropriately programmed stand-alone computer. Some embodiments of the invention allow studen... | 04/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7356537 | Providing contextually sensitive tools and help content in computer-generated documents A method and system are provided for creation, implementation, and use of computer-generated “smart” documents to which functionality is attached for providing contextually sensitive tools, controls and help content to users of those documents. Portions of docum... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356457 | Machine translation using learned word associations without referring to a multi-lingual human authored dictionary of content words A method and computer-readable medium are provided that perform a series of steps associated with machine translation. These steps include using a first text in a first language and a second text in a second language, to produce an association list where words in th... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |