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8447587 Providing a position-based dictionary  
A computer executable method includes receiving word senses associated with respective definitions, and providing a position-based dictionary that assigns the word senses to respective semantic...
8447602 System for speech recognition and correction, correction device and method for creating a lexicon of alternatives  
In a speech recognition and correction system which comprises at least one speech recognition device (1) to which a spoken text (GT) can be fed, it being possible for said spoken text to be...
8447789 Systems and methods for creating structured data  
A computer system implemented method of creating and using structured data from a textual input, comprising: providing a table for structured data, receiving at least one textual input, dividing at...
8442826 Application-dependent information for recognition processing  
Architecture for integrating application-dependent information into a constraints component at deployment time or when available. In terms of a general grammar, the constraints component can...
8442815 Adaptive recognition dictionary update apparatus for use in mobile unit with a tuner  
An information apparatus for use in mobile unit, which is mounted on a mobile unit, includes a broadcast receiver receiving a signal containing a station name; a recognition dictionary registering...
8438005 Generating modified phonetic representations of indic words  
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including stored computer programs, for generating modified phonetic representations of Indic words. An Indic sequence of Indic character combinations that each...
8433572 Method and apparatus for multiple value confirmation and correction in spoken dialog system  
A method for multiple value confirmation and correction in spoken dialog systems. A user is allowed to correct errors in values captured by the spoken dialog system, such that the interaction...
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....
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...
8433561 Printer  
A tape printing apparatus registers a word string constituting document data to be printed by depression of a print key in a learnt-contents storing region under subscribed conditions. A CPU...
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...
8423354 Speech recognition dictionary creating support device, computer readable medium storing processing program, and processing method  
A device extracts prosodic information including a power value from a speech data and an utterance section including a period with a power value equal to or larger than a threshold, from the speech...
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...
8423348 Pattern generation  
A method and system is disclosed herein for generating a plurality of equivalent sentence patterns from a declared sentence pattern for a specific language. The declared pattern is fed into a...
8423365 Contextual conversion platform  
A contextual conversion platform, and method for converting text-to-speech, are described that can convert content of a target to spoken content. Embodiments of the contextual conversion platform...
8417513 Representation of objects and relationships in databases, directories, web services, and applications as sentences as a method to represent context in structured data  
Systems and methods are disclosed for tagging and translating database objects and relationships into sentences. The successive composition of these sentences form hierarchies which encode...
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...
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,...
8412517 Dictionary word and phrase determination  
Context signals in documents are identified, characters bounded by the context signals are identified, one or more candidate words defined by the characters bounded by the context signals are...
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...
8401847 Speech recognition system and program therefor  
An unknown word is additionally registered in a speech recognition dictionary by utilizing a correction result, and a new pronunciation of the word that has been registered in a speech recognition...
8401841 Retrieval of documents using language models  
Methods of retrieving documents using a language model are disclosed. A method may include preparing a language model of a plurality of documents, receiving a query, processing the query using the...
8401838 System and method for multilanguage text input in a handheld electronic device  
A system provides multilanguage text input in a handheld electronic device. The system includes one or more applications implemented in the handheld electronic device. The applications include a...
8401842 Phrase matching for document classification  
Phrase matching processes for matching phrases comprising a plurality of keywords in document text construct hit lists of the keywords in a document text, and operate on the keywords in either...
8402022 Convergence of terms within a collaborative tagging environment  
Tools and techniques for converging terms within a collaborative tagging environment are described herein. Methods for converging divergent contributions to the collaborative tagging environment...
8396820 Framework for generating sentiment data for electronic content  
Methods, systems, and techniques for generating sentiment data are provided. Example embodiments provide a Sentiment Thesaurus Framework (STF), which provides a sentiment vocabulary meeting a set...
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...
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...
8380493 Association of semantic meaning with data elements using data definition tags  
Technology is described for associating semantic meaning with data elements. The system can include a messaging module configured to receive a message having data elements. A storage module can...
8380505 System for recognizing speech for searching a database  
A system is provided for recognizing speech for searching a database. The system receives speech input as a spoken search request and then processes the speech input in a speech recognition step...
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...
8380488 Identifying a property of a document  
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer program products, for identifying properties of an electronic document. In one aspect, a sequence of bytes representing text in a document is...
8374862 Method, software and device for uniquely identifying a desired contact in a contacts database based on a single utterance  
A single utterance having a name portion and a qualifier portion is received. The name portion represents a spoken name of a desired contact of a contacts database, and the qualifier portion...
8374850 Device incorporating improved text input mechanism  
A device including a display screen for displaying m-words of data, a text entry device for entering data, a processor receiving data from the text entry device and causing it to be displayed on...
8374846 Text input device and method  
The present invention relates to a text input device and a method for inputting text, and a computer program for performing the method. A text input device (200) is provided that comprises: a text...
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...
8370128 Semantically-driven extraction of relations between named entities  
A system and method of developing rules for text processing enable retrieval of instances of named entities in a predetermined semantic relation (such as the DATE and PLACE of an EVENT) by...
8370130 Speech understanding system using an example-based semantic representation pattern  
A speech understanding apparatus includes: a speech recognition unit for recognizing an input speech to produce a speech recognition result; a sentence analysis unit for performing morpheme...
8364485 Method for automatically identifying sentence boundaries in noisy conversational data  
Sentence boundaries in noisy conversational transcription data are automatically identified. Noise and transcription symbols are removed, and a training set is formed with sentence boundaries...
8364470 Text analysis method for finding acronyms  
A list of reference terms can be provided. Text and the list of reference terms can be broken down into tokens. At least one candidate can be generated in the text for mapping to at least one of...
8364469 Natural language enhanced user interface in a business rule management system  
Some embodiments of a natural language enhanced user interface in a business rule management system have been presented. In one embodiment, one or more rule templates in a natural language are...
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...