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6064953 Method for creating a disjunctive edge graph from subtrees during unification  
A method of unifying edge data structures using a processor. The method begins with creation of a first edge data structure and unifying it with a second edge data structure. If during unification...
6047299 Document composition supporting method and system, and electronic dictionary for terminology  
A document composition supporting method and system for the support of document editing or translation use a data-based electronic terminology dictionary which is composed such that terms in...
6023760 Modifying an input string partitioned in accordance with directionality and length constraints  
A processor implemented method of modifying a string of a regular language, which includes at least two symbols and at least two predetermined substrings. Upon receipt of the string, the processor...
6009382 Word storage table for natural language determination  
A language in which a document is written is identified through the use of sets of most frequently used words in each of a plurality of candidate languages. Each set of most frequently used words...
5995934 Method for recognizing alpha-numeric strings in a Chinese speech recognition system  
A recognition method for alpha-numeric strings in a Chinese speech recognition system, uses a special coding scheme to map each of 36 alpha-numeric symbols into an easily remembered Chinese idiom...
5995922 Identifying information related to an input word in an electronic dictionary  
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...
5991712 Method, apparatus, and product for automatic generation of lexical features for speech recognition systems  
Improved word accuracy of speech recognition can be achieved by providing a scheme for automatically limiting the acceptable word sequences. Speech recognition systems consistent with the present...
5983171 Auto-index method for electronic document files and recording medium utilizing a word/phrase analytical program  
An auto-index method enabling to select words used for heading of an index based on an indexing object extraction condition set by a user. In order to generate an index intended for electronic...
5960384 Method and device for parsing natural language sentences and other sequential symbolic expressions  
A parsing method and apparatus for symbolic expressions of thought such as English-language sentences is provided. The basic procedure distinguishes only between symbols for picture-like entities...
5960449 Database system shared by multiple client apparatuses, data renewal method, and application to character processors  
In a database system that connects a plurality of user database apparatus to a host database apparatus, the database system judges whether a data record stored in each user database satisfies a...
5952942 Method and device for input of text messages from a keypad  
A method of text entry into a device by activating keys of a keypad (16), where a key represents various characters. Input is delivered to a processor (30) corresponding to the keys activated. A...
5940624 Text management system  
An first apparatus for searching a collection of words based upon an input word, the first apparatus including means for generating a first set of words containing members that are lexically...
5924059 Document processing method and apparatus for discriminating whether a dictionary memory is present  
A document processing apparatus having a spell checker function for detecting a misspelling of an input word, and informing the operator of the detected misspelling, includes the presence control...
5913185 Determining a natural language shift in a computer document  
Language shift points in a computer document written in a plurality of natural languages are determined. An interval is defined on and moved through a text document in a computer memory, the...
5907821 Method of computer-based automatic extraction of translation pairs of words from a bilingual text  
For each word occurring in Japanese text, a set of words co-occurring with it and their co-occurrence frequencies are extracted, where two words are regarded as co-occurring with each other when...
5903860 Method of conjoining clauses during unification using opaque clauses  
A method of using a processor to conjoin a first clause and a second clause as part of a unification of a first graph. If the first clause is not associated with the first graph, then a third...
5899989 On-demand interface device  
The present invention is intended to provide an on-demand interface device which is capable of retrieving a function corresponding in meaning to an inputted request sentence and easily executing...
5878386 Natural language parser with dictionary-based part-of-speech probabilities  
A natural language parser determines part-of-speech probabilities by using a dictionary or other lexicon as a source for the part-of-speech probabilities. A machine-readable dictionary is scanned,...
5878385 Method and apparatus for universal parsing of language  
A method and apparatus for natural language parsing are described. The invention includes the steps of retrieving an input string, and performing a dictionary look-up for each word in the input...
5870702 Word converting apparatus utilizing general dictionary and cooccurence dictionary to display prioritized candidate words  
A word converting apparatus displays converted results and cooccurrent examples in a candidate selection menu for allowing the user to easily and definitely select converted results of words in a...
5870700 Brazilian Portuguese grammar checker  
A process for checking the Brazilian-Portuguese grammar of original text provided by a user. For each sentence, a token is generated to correspond to each of the words in the sentence. For each...
5870701 Control signal processing method and apparatus having natural language interfacing capabilities  
A signal processing method and apparatus suitable for processing input signals representative, for example, of words or other elemental units of a natural language, which signals fall into a...
5867812 Registration apparatus for compound-word dictionary  
A registration apparatus for a compound-word dictionary automatically and suitably determines whether a combination of character strings must be registered as one entry word in a compound-word...
5844798 Method and apparatus for machine translation  
A method and apparatus settles the ambiguity of the meaning of a word having a plurality of meanings in a first language to make source sentences in the first language correspond in the most...
5845306 Context based system for accessing dictionary entries  
A context-based dictionary entry access system includes selecting and rang an entry based on the part-of-speech assigned to the given word in a sentence. The entries corresponding to the word in...
5842159 Method of and apparatus for analyzing sentence  
A pattern matching rule for recognizing a weakly linked idiom is previously held in a pattern matching section. If a weakly linked idiom which is registered in the pattern matching rule and has...
5835912 Method of efficiency and flexibility storing, retrieving, and modifying data in any language representation  
The present invention is a method of storing, retrieving, and modifying data in a database by creating data records in a user-definable language representation, where each data record has an...
5835893 Class-based word clustering for speech recognition using a three-level balanced hierarchical similarity  
In a word clustering apparatus for clustering words, a plurality of words is clustered to obtain a total tree diagram of a word dictionary representing a word clustering result, where the total...
5835888 Statistical language model for inflected languages  
A statistical language model for inflected languages, having very large vocabularies, is generated by splitting words into stems, prefixes and endings, and deriving trigrams for the stems, ending...
5832480 Using canonical forms to develop a dictionary of names in a text  
Descriptive canonical forms of entity types are created by scanning one or more documents in a database of a computer system to identify one or more proper names that appear in the documents as raw...
5826220 Translation word learning scheme for machine translation  
A translation word learning scheme for a machine translation capable of learning translation words for each lexical rule separately and easily. In this scheme, a translation word for each original...
5819265 Processing names in a text  
Occurrences of proper names in text are identified by scanning one or more documents in a database of a computer system to identify one or more sequences of capitalized words and other specially...
5819210 Method of lazy contexted copying during unification  
A method of unifying edge data structures using a processor. The method begins with creation of a first edge data structure and unifying it with a second edge data structure. If during unification...
5809471 Retrieval of additional information not found in interactive TV or telephony signal by application using dynamically extracted vocabulary  
A method and apparatus is provided to enable a user watching and/or listening to a program to retrieve supplemental information or supplemental entertainment pertaining to an item just seen or...
5805888 Identifier dictionary-generating device  
There is provided an identifier dictionary-generating device for use in a system for reversely producing specifications expressed in a vernacular language from a high-level language program. The...
5797116 Method and apparatus for recognizing previously unrecognized speech by requesting a predicted-category-related domain-dictionary-linking word  
A voice communication method includes the steps of inputting speech into an apparatus, recognizing the input speech using a first dictionary, predicting the category of an unrecognized word...
5794177 Method and apparatus for morphological analysis and generation of natural language text  
This invention improves information retrieval and the precision of language processing by providing an apparatus and method for organizing, utilizing, analyzing, and generating morphological data....
5787386 Compact encoding of multi-lingual translation dictionaries  
A computerized multilingual translation dictionary includes a set of word and phrases for each of the languages it contains, plus a mapping that indicates for each word or phrase in one language...
5781879 Semantic analysis and modification methodology  
A process for analyzing the informational and semantic content of an information source, such as text, a picture, or a video sequence. After compiling a lexicon of information elements, values are...
5778344 Database access using data field translations to find unique database entries  
A database with entries having possibly indistinguishable tuples of fields in one or more related vocabulary is accessed using vocabulary translations of fields to identify unique tuples thereof.
5774834 System and method for correcting a string of characters by skipping to pseudo-syllable borders in a dictionary  
A retrieving unit retrieves an entry of a dictionary which corresponds to an input character string while comparing input characters, one by one, with entries of TRIE tables stored in a dictionary...
5771378 Associative text search and retrieval system having a table indicating word position in phrases  
An associative text search and retrieval system uses one or more front end processors to interacting with a network having one or more user terminals connected thereto to allow a user to provide...
5768451 Character recognition method and apparatus  
A character recognition method is arranged to supplement an erroneously recognized character with a linguistic knowledge. In this method, the extraction of a candidate based on the search of a word...
5742834 Document processing apparatus using a synonym dictionary  
A document processing apparatus uses a synonym dictionary to substitute words and phtrases in a document by other synonymous words and phrases. At this juncture, the frequency of use of the words...
5742926 Method of updating information relating to priorities assigned to conversion candidates  
When an updated version of a document conversion application is installed, comparison is made for each word to be converted between a conversion candidate assigned the first priority corresponding...
5737617 Method and system for English text analysis  
A computer-implemented method and system are provided for English text analysis. A file of a plurality of English sentences is received and submitted to a parser. A unified parse structure is...
5729618 Image forming apparatus for outputting equivalents of words spelled in a foreign language  
An image forming apparatus operable with digital image data and capable of outputting equivalents of words spelled in a foreign language. Characters are recognized out of image data optically read...
5724594 Method and system for automatically identifying morphological information from a machine-readable dictionary  
A method and system for determining the derivational relatedness of a derived word and a base word. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a machine-readable dictionary containing entries...
5715442 Data unit group handling apparatus  
A data unit group handling apparatus which handles a file system for storing a plurality of files defined by different kind of file formats, and at least one of the files is a data unit group which...
5715446 Information searching apparatus for searching text to retrieve character streams agreeing with a key word  
A plurality of characters arranged in a text are numbered in order of occurrence for each character type, and an occurrence number table in which one or more occurrence numbers are listed for each...
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