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8442835 Methods, systems, and products for measuring health  
Methods, systems, and products measure health data related to a user. A spoken phrase is received and time-stamped. The user is identified from the spoken phrase. A window of time is determined...
8433560 Rule based apparatus for modifying word annotations  
A rule based apparatus and method for modifying word annotations in an annotated text base is described. The apparatus includes an index creator component for creating an index of word annotations....
8433556 Semi-supervised training for statistical word alignment  
A system and method for aligning words in parallel segments is provided. A first probability distribution of word alignments within a first corpus comprising unaligned word-level parallel segments...
8433558 Methods and systems for natural language understanding using human knowledge and collected data  
Disclosed herein are systems and methods to incorporate human knowledge when developing and using statistical models for natural language understanding. The disclosed systems and methods embrace a...
8428934 Prose style morphing  
This invention is a method for incrementally and multi-dimensionally adjusting prose style in the following steps: creating a database of sets of phrase synonyms; assigning rankings and/or values...
8428935 Neural network for classifying speech and textural data based on agglomerates in a taxonomy table  
A speech and textual analysis device and method for forming a search and/or classification catalog. The device is based on a linguistic database and includes a taxonomy table containing variable...
8423351 Speech correction for typed input  
A method, computer program product, and system are provided for correcting one or more typed words on an electronic device. The method can include receiving one or more typed words from a text...
8423353 Sharable distributed dictionary for applications  
Architecture for providing and processing a dictionary in a universal format such as XML, for example. The dictionary can be authored while in the universal format, designated for use with multiple...
8423350 Segmenting text for searching  
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for segmenting text for searching are disclosed. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes receiving...
8423526 Linguistic assistance systems and methods  
System and Methods determine a linguistic preference between two or more phrases. Each of the phrases is submitted to at least one search engine as a search string. Search results are retrieved...
8423347 Natural language personal information management  
A PIM application provides a single page natural language interface for entering and managing PIM data. The natural language interface may receive a natural language entry as a text character...
8417530 Accent-influenced search results  
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating search results. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a transcription of a...
8417514 System and method for finding the most likely answer to a natural language question  
Automated question answering is disclosed that relates to the selection of an answer to a question from a pool of potential answers which are manually or automatically extracted from a large...
8417512 Method, used by computers, for developing an ontology from a text in natural language  
The invention relates to a method, used by computers, for developing an ontology (70) of a text (10) in natural language, comprising the steps of: receiving text data from the text (10);extracting...
8412693 System and method for providing a natural language interface to a database  
A system and method for providing a natural language interface to a database or the Internet. The method provides a response from a database to a natural language query. The method comprises...
8412514 Method and apparatus for compiling and querying a QA database  
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for responding to an inquiry from a client via a network. The method and apparatus receive the inquiry from a client via a network. Based on the inquiry,...
8412516 Document analysis, commenting, and reporting system  
A document analysis, commenting, and reporting system provides tools that automate quality assurance analysis tailored to specific document types. As one example, the specific document type may be...
8397157 Context-free grammar  
In one embodiment, a method comprising accessing a first data object and a second data object of a data structure representing electronic content, the second data object being associated with the...
8392183 Character-based automated media summarization  
Methods, devices, systems and tools are presented that allow the summarization of text, audio, and audiovisual presentations, such as movies, into less lengthy forms. High-content media files are...
8392175 Phrase-based document clustering with automatic phrase extraction  
Meaningful phrases are distinguished from chance word sequences statistically, by analyzing a large number of documents and using a statistical metric such as a mutual information metric to...
8392174 Method and apparatus for lexical analysis using parallel bit streams  
One embodiment of the present invention is a method for lexical analysis of a character stream including: (a) generating one or more parallel property bit streams in response to the character...
8386262 System and method of spoken language understanding in human computer dialogs  
A system and method are disclosed that improve automatic speech recognition in a spoken dialog system. The method comprises partitioning speech recognizer output into self-contained clauses,...
8386236 Method for prompting by suggesting stroke order of chinese character, electronic device, and computer program product  
A method for prompting by suggesting the stroke order of a Chinese character, an electronic device, and a computer program product are provided. The electronic device includes a database for...
8386238 Systems and methods for evaluating a sequence of characters  
A sequence of characters may be evaluated to determine the presence of a natural language word. The sequence of characters may be analyzed to find a subsequence of alphabetical characters. Based on...
8386240 Domain dictionary creation by detection of new topic words using divergence value comparison  
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, to identify topic words in a collection of documents that includes topic documents related to a topic are disclosed. A...
8386241 Systems and methods for an automated personalized dictionary generator for portable devices  
A system and method for automated dictionary population is provided to facilitate the entry of textual material in dictionaries for enhancing word prediction. The automated dictionary population...
8380492 System and method for text cleaning by classifying sentences using numerically represented features  
A method and system for cleaning an electronic document are provided. The method comprises: identifying at least one sentence in the electronic document; numerically representing features of the...
8380485 Device for and method of language processing  
The present invention is a device for and method of language processing that includes a communication database of communications, a transcription database of transcripts for the communication, an...
8380512 Navigation using a search engine and phonetic voice recognition  
A method and apparatus for incorporating voice recognition into a search engine is provided. The phonetic voice recognition system lacking grammar and spell checking is used. The output of the...
8380484 Method and system of dynamically changing a sentence structure of a message  
A method (50) of dynamically changing a sentence structure of a message can include the step of receiving (51) a user request for information, retrieving (52) data based on the information...
8380491 System for rating constructed responses based on concepts and a model answer  
A concept rater module is utilized to automatically grade or score constructed responses based on a model answer. The concept rater module may be configured to accept a model answer as input. The...
8374848 System and method for using data and derived features to automatically generate a narrative story  
A system and method for automatically generating a narrative story receives data and information pertaining to a domain event. The received data and information and/or one or more derived features...
8374844 Hybrid system for named entity resolution  
A method for named entity resolution includes parsing an input text string to identify a context in which an identified named entity of the input text string is used. The identified context is...
8370125 Handheld electronic device and method for disambiguation of text input providing artificial variants comprised of characters in a core alphabet  
A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting...
8370131 Method and system for providing convenient dictionary services  
A method for providing a dictionary service to a terminal, includes: providing a dictionary service window in or near a web browser for displaying a webpage through a screen of the terminal if a...
8370156 Editing suggestions in different formalisms  
Exemplary embodiments enable generating and propagating editing suggestions for system representations implemented in different formalisms. Exemplary embodiments enable representation of one or...
8364468 Typing candidate generating method for enhancing typing efficiency  
For relieving typing burdens caused by incorrect spellings, typing errors, unknown spellings, and characters with diacritical marks, and for enhancing a typing efficiency of a typist with some...
8364467 Content-based classification  
A classifier may include logic to parse incoming content and to compare a key term in the content to stored content related to multiple prior messages, where the stored content is classified with...
8359191 Deriving ontology based on linguistics and community tag clouds  
In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving a tag cloud including tags that hyperlink to web content. The method can also comprise separating the tags into different linguistic categories,...
8355903 System and method for using data and angles to automatically generate a narrative story  
A system and method for automatically generating a narrative story receives data and information pertaining to a domain event. The received data and information and/or one or more derived features...
8355904 Apparatus and method for detecting sentence boundaries  
Provided are an apparatus and a method for detecting sentence boundaries. The apparatus includes a sentence boundary candidate extracting unit, a document context analyzing unit, a sentence...
8355902 Semantic unit recognition  
A semantic locator determines whether input sequences form semantically meaningful units. The semantic locator includes a coherence component that calculates a coherence of the terms in the...
8355918 Method and arrangement for managing grammar options in a graphical callflow builder  
A method (10) in a speech recognition application callflow can include the steps of assigning (11) an individual option and a pre-built grammar to a same prompt, treating (15) the individual option...
8355905 Mapping of relationship entities between ontologies  
Methods, apparatus and systems, including computer program products, for reducing an error rate when mapping entities between a first ontology and a second ontology. One or more of a general...
8352247 Statistical stemming  
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating suffix rewriting rules. A method includes obtaining a plurality of canonical...
8346541 Method for constructing Chinese dictionary and apparatus and storage media using the same  
A method for constructing a Chinese dictionary is disclosed, including determining a probability for nominalization of a Chinese term with a given collocation term according to a determination rule...
8346533 Compiling word usage frequencies  
A system for assisting a user who is learning a language to prioritize words to be learned in order of usage frequency is disclosed. A frequency determination program running on a computer...
8346540 Deep tag cloud associated with streaming media  
In some embodiments, a method for providing access to media segments using a tag cloud comprises receiving a request to play streaming media, identifying deep tags associated with the streaming...
8346532 Managing the creation, detection, and maintenance of sensitive information  
A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product for managing information within an electronic file are provided. A plurality of information sets within an electronic...
8346534 Method, system and apparatus for automatic keyword extraction  
The present invention provides a method and a system for automatic keyword extraction based on supervised or unsupervised machine learning techniques. Novel linguistically-motivated machine...