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6931428 Method and apparatus for handling requests for content in a network data processing system  
A method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for handling a request for content in a data processing system. The request for content is received. A content source is identified from a...
6928404 System and methods for acoustic and language modeling for automatic speech recognition with large vocabularies  
Systems and methods are provided for generating a language component vocabulary VC for a speech recognition system having a language vocabulary V of a plurality of word forms. One method for...
6910003 System, method and article of manufacture for concept based information searching  
A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for allowing concept based information searching. Textual information is collected utilizing a network. The textual information is parsed to...
6904429 Information retrieval apparatus and information retrieval method  
Character data of a word or phrase in a document is designated. Desired data is retrieved from a predetermined database on the basis of the designated character data. One sentence including at...
6904402 System and iterative method for lexicon, segmentation and language model joint optimization  
A method for optimizing a language model is presented comprising developing an initial language model from a lexicon and segmentation derived from a received corpus using a maximum match technique,...
6879951 Chinese word segmentation apparatus  
A Chinese word segmentation apparatus relates to processing of a Chinese sentence input to a computer. A character-to-phonetic converter of the segmentation apparatus initially converts a Chinese...
6879950 System and method of decoding a packed representation of multiple parses  
A program, system and method for decoding a packed representation of multiple parses that creates an unpacked forest to be read by a semantic interpretation module from a packed representation is...
6876963 Machine translation method and apparatus capable of automatically switching dictionaries  
The present invention provides a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for machine translation capable of performing automatic dictionary switching in a machine translation system using a...
6853971 Two-way speech recognition and dialect system  
A speech-to-text conversion system. The two-way speech recognition and dialect system comprises a computer system, an attached microphone assembly, and speech-to-text conversion software. The...
6845358 Prosody template matching for text-to-speech systems  
A prosody matching template in the form of a tree structure stores indices which point to lookup table and template information prescribing pitch and duration values that are used to add inflection...
6829580 Linguistic converter  
A linguistic analyzer converts words from graphemes to phonemes using a relatively small phonemic dictionary. Words which are not in the dictionary are analyzed by performing one or more...
6826567 Registration method and search method for structured documents  
A registration/search method for structured documents where correspondence data is prepared between a fixed-length-string and a string occurrence position within a structured document for all...
6782510 Word checking tool for controlling the language content in documents using dictionaries with modifyable status fields  
A word processing tool is disclosed for checking the substance and not merely the spelling of words provided by a user. The word checker is capable of identifying potentially inappropriate word...
6778994 Pharmacovigilance database  
A system and method for developing a pharmacovigilance database from source data and reference data. The unedited source data contains verbatim terms. The method includes parsing source data into a...
6757647 Method for encoding regular expressions in a lexigon  
Systems and methods are described for concisely encoding into a lexicon (or dictionary) and decoding from the lexicon regular expressions that can represent certain huge word lists that might...
6735559 Electronic dictionary  
An electronic dictionary that can perform model sentence searches at high speed and can search through a plurality of dictionaries at the same time is obtained by providing dictionary daa having...
6722989 Virtual pet game in which the virtual pet can converse with the player and learn new words and phrases from these conversations  
A portable electronic device is selectively connected to a master. Durring conection, a plurality of conversation scripts and associated dictionay are downloaded to provide a video game comprising...
6721734 Method and apparatus for information management using fuzzy typing  
A technique for analyzing affect in which ambiguity in both emotion and natural language is explicitly represented and processed through fuzzy logic. In particular, textual information is processed...
6714906 Rapid phase identification method  
The invention provides a rapid phrase identification method, especially for Spanish derivatives. The main concern of the present invention is to provide for an electronic Spanish dictionary device...
6678409 Parameterized word segmentation of unsegmented text  
The present invention segments a non-segmented input text. The input text is received and segmented based on parameter values associated with parameterized word formation rules. In one illustrative...
6675169 Method and system for attaching information to words of a trie  
A method and improved data structure for attaching information to words in a trie of nodes. Each node of a trie includes a single tag bit which is interpreted according to information specified in...
6671670 System and method for pre-processing information used by an automated attendant  
The invention concerns method and system for pre-processing entries in a directory listings. An automated attendant or automated directory listings assistant may use the pre-processed entries. A...
6671856 Method, system, and program for determining boundaries in a string using a dictionary  
Disclosed is a system, method, and program for determining boundaries in a string of characters using a dictionary, wherein the substrings in the dictionary may comprise words. A determination is...
6651220 Creating an electronic dictionary using source dictionary entry keys  
A method and system for retrieving information from an electronic dictionary. The system stores all information about words that have the same normalized form into a single entry within the...
6643784 Password generation method and system  
A system and method employs a password rule data provider that provides password generation rule data to a notification device, such as visual display device or audible output device. A password...
6631351 Smart toys  
Talking toys perform simulated conversations with one another. The toys each include a forest of decision graphs. The forest of decision graphs is the same for each toy. Each of the decision graphs...
6626960 Method, system, and program for generating a table to determine boundaries between characters  
Disclosed is a system, method, and program for generating a table for use by a computer in determining a location of a boundary, such as a word boundary, between two characters in text. A first...
6616703 Character input apparatus with character string extraction portion, and corresponding storage medium  
An operation such as changing the coordinates of a specified position is performed on a two-dimensional display screen 103 of a display unit 5 by using an input pen 102, a touch-panel, etc.,...
6615178 Speech translator, speech translating method, and recorded medium on which speech translation control program is recorded  
The learning history memory 9 controls, based on the accumulated learning history, the word dictionary memory 6, semantic/syntactic analysis grammar memory 7, and a correction information...
6602300 Apparatus and method for retrieving data from a document database  
When a keyword described in Japanese is input, the input keyword is converted from Japanese into English. Thus, a retrieval keyword described in English is generated based on the input keyword...
6581034 Phonetic distance calculation method for similarity comparison between phonetic transcriptions of foreign words  
A phonetic distance calculation method for similarity comparison between phonetic transcriptions of foreign words. A system manager defines character element transformation patterns occurrable...
6581056 Information retrieval system providing secondary content analysis on collections of information objects  
An information retrieval system having a secondary content analysis engine for use on collections of documents. Such collections of documents dynamically arise as a result of queries one or more,...
6560559 System and method for detecting and correcting incorrect hand position of a computer user  
A method for detecting and correcting incorrect hand position of a computer user performing the steps of: a) receiving a word having a plurality of characters from an input device; b) comparing the...
6549883 Method and apparatus for generating multilingual transcription groups  
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for generating transcriptions suitable for use in a speech-processing device. The invention provides processing the vocabulary item to derive a...
6542888 Content filtering for electronic documents generated in multiple foreign languages  
A system for collecting and categorizing metadata about content provided via the internet or intranet, regardless of the language of generation of the content. The content of each document is...
6530039 Porting engine for testing of multi-lingual software  
The present invention is a system and method for testing various language versions of an application program using a single test script. An internal dictionary and/or an external dictionary are...
6523001 Interactive connotative thesaurus system  
A computerized interactive thesaurus reference tool is provided which retrieves connotative synonyms from a data base. Connotative synonyms are words or phrases which have the same or a similar...
6513027 Automated category discovery for a terminological knowledge base  
A terminological system automatically generates sub-categories from categories of a knowledge base. The knowledge base includes a plurality of hierarchically arranged categories, as well as terms...
6513010 Method and apparatus for separating processing for language-understanding from an application and its functionality  
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for separating processing for language understanding from an application and its functionality. The application for example contains functionality...
6513006 Automatic control of household activity using speech recognition and natural language  
Speech recognition and natural language parsing components are used to extract the meaning of the user's spoken input. The system stores a semantic representation of an electronic activity guide,...
6507678 Apparatus and method for retrieving character string based on classification of character  
A character string retrieval apparatus classifies a plurality of characters following a prefix of a registration character string into a plurality of groups, and registers those following...
6502064 Compression method, method for compressing entry word index data for a dictionary, and machine translation system  
A n-gram statistical analysis is employed to acquire frequently appearing character strings of n characters or more, and individual character strings having n characters or more are replaced by...
6490548 Multilingual electronic transfer dictionary containing topical codes and method of use  
A multilingual electronic transfer dictionary provides for automatic topic disambiguation by including one or more topic codes in definitions contained the dictionary. Automatic topic...
6490549 Automatic orthographic transformation of a text stream  
A method is given for automatically rewriting orthography of a stream of text words, for example, automatically and properly capitalizing words in the stream. If a word in the stream has an entry...
6473753 Method and system for calculating term-document importance  
A weighting system for calculating the term-document importance for each term within each document that is part of a collection of documents (i.e., a corpus). The weighting system calculates the...
6470347 Method, system, program, and data structure for a dense array storing character strings  
Disclosed is a system, method, and program for generating a data structure in computer memory for storing strings, such as words in a dictionary. Each string includes at least one character from a...
6466902 Method and apparatus for dictionary sorting  
A method and an apparatus for sorting is disclosed. This method of sorting is adapted to sorting textual data in an efficient manner, but could be applied to other types of data with similarly...
6456971 Systems and methods for determinizing and minimizing a finite state transducer for pattern recognition  
A pattern recognition system and method for optimal reduction of redundancy and size of a weighted and labeled graph presents receiving speech signals, converting the speech signals into word...
6453280 Electronic dictionary capable of identifying idioms  
An electronic dictionary having an idiom processing function which can automatically identify idioms included in a present sentence from text of a first language, and which can output corresponding...
6453462 Mock translation system, method, and program using multi-byte placeholder characters to test translatability of software that will display multi-byte languages  
A mock translation system, method, and program is provided which converts single-byte base-language data and performs a mock translation on it to produce internationalization test data, which...
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