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7617200 Displaying context-sensitive ranked search results  
Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and...
7617199 Characterizing context-sensitive search results as non-spam  
Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and...
7617093 Authoring speech grammars  
A method and apparatus are provided for automatically forming a grammar. Example text strings are received and N-grams are formed based on the text strings. A rule in the grammar is then generated...
7617091 Method and apparatus for processing natural language using tape-intersection  
Operations for weighted and non-weighted multi-tape automata are described for use in natural language processing tasks such as morphological analysis, disambiguation, and entity extraction.
7613723 Configurable framework for storing and retrieving arbitrary information from a database  
A system, apparatus and method are provided that enable the receipt of answers to questions from users and to make those answers persistent within a generalized database schema. A set of one or...
7613610 Transcription data extraction  
A computer program product, for performing data determination from medical record transcriptions, resides on a computer-readable medium and includes computer-readable instructions for causing a...
7610382 System and method for marking content  
Method and apparatus for programmatically substituting synonyms into distributed text content. A synonym substitution mechanism may programmatically replace selected words in textual data with...
7610279 Filtering context-sensitive search results  
Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and...
7610194 Dynamic database reordering system  
A dynamic database reordering system provides a linguistics database that contains words that are ordered according to a linguistics model that dictates the order in which words are presented to a...
7610193 Document based character ambiguity resolution  
Methods and apparatus for document based ambiguous character resolution. An application searches a document for words that do not contain ambiguous characters and adds them to a dictionary, then...
7610188 Ranking parser for a natural language processing system  
A natural language parse ranker of a natural language processing (NLP) system employs a goodness function to rank the possible grammatically valid parses of an utterance. The goodness function...
7603269 Speech recognition grammar creating apparatus, control method therefor, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program  
A speech recognition grammar creating apparatus, which is capable of eliminating complex labor associated with preparing all rules by taking into account changes of the order of component elements...
7603268 System and method for determining and controlling the impact of text  
A computer program that indicates lexical impact of various words and phrases in a text, measures the overall lexical impact of the text, and suggests alternatives for various words and phrases of...
7599830 Handheld electronic device with reduced keyboard and associated method of providing quick text entry in a message  
An improved handheld electronic device having a reduced keyboard provides facilitated language entry by making available to a user certain words that a user may reasonably be expected to enter. In...
7599829 Phonetic searching using partial characters  
Some spoken languages can be written, for example, by using a single character to represent a single word. The word can comprise a plurality of phonetic codes. A character from a datastore can be...
7593846 Method and apparatus for building semantic structures using self-describing fragments  
A method and apparatus for identifying a semantic structure from text includes processing the input text to identify self-describing fragments of the input text based on a hierarchical schema...
7590608 Electronic mail data cleaning  
A cascaded processing approach is used to clean noisy electronic mail or other text messaging data. Non-text filtering is first performed on the noisy data to filter out non-text items in the data....
7590603 Method and system for classifying and identifying messages as question or not a question within a discussion thread  
A method and system for classifying messages of a discussion thread as questions is provided. A classification system generates a classifier to classify messages of discussion threads as question...
7587309 System and method for providing text summarization for use in web-based content  
A system and method for providing text summarization for use in Web-based content is presented. Text is determined responsive to an executed query. Phrases within the text are identified, and words...
7584204 Fuzzy lookup table maintenance  
An exemplary computer-implementable method includes providing a trigger that executes a script upon receipt of change information for changing reference information or an instruction associated...
7584093 Method and system for generating spelling suggestions  
A computer implemented method of suggesting replacement words for words of a string. In the method, an input string of input words is received. The input words are then matched to subject words of...
7584091 Process and device for devising an abridged form of any term that is used in an alarm message intended to be displayed on a screen of the cockpit of an aircraft  
A system for devising an abridged form of any term that is used in an alarm message intended to be displayed on a screen of the cockpit of an aircraft. The system includes a database having a set...
7583205 Handheld electronic device with disambiguation of compound word text input  
A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound word text input. The device provides output in...
7580831 Dynamic dictionary and term repository system  
A dictionary system provides a term repository supporting the operation of an enterprise, which dynamically updates its content in response to system use. An input processor acquires transaction...
7580429 System and methods for improving data compression  
An improved data compression system and method is disclosed. The data compression method uses smaller fixed bit words to represent streams of digital data. The fixed bit words are sent instead of...
7573404 Handheld electronic device with disambiguation of compound word text input employing separating input  
A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound word text input. The device provides output in...
7571183 Client-based generation of music playlists via clustering of music similarity vectors  
A “Music Mapper” automatically constructs a set coordinate vectors for use in inferring similarity between various pieces of music. In particular, given a music similarity graph expressed as...
7567896 Corpus-based speech synthesis based on segment recombination  
A system and method generate synthesized speech through concatenation of speech segments that are derived from a large prosodically-rich corpus of speech segments including using an additional...
7567895 Method and system for prioritizing communications based on sentence classifications  
A method and system for prioritizing communications based on classifications of sentences within the communications is provided. A sentence classification system may classify sentences of...
7565368 Data disambiguation systems and methods  
Various embodiments provide a state-based, regular expression parser in which data, such as generally unstructured text, is received into the system and undergoes a tokenization process which...
7565281 Machine translation  
A computer natural language translation system inputs source language text and outputs target language text. The target language text is generated from the source language text using stored...
7562082 Method and system for detecting user intentions in retrieval of hint sentences  
A method of constructing a confusion set database for use in detecting user query intentions includes obtaining a bilingual database having aligned word pairs in first and second languages. Second...
7562017 Active labeling for spoken language understanding  
An active labeling process is provided that aims to minimize the number of utterances to be checked again by automatically selecting the ones that are likely to be erroneous or inconsistent with...
7562011 Intentional-stance characterization of a general content stream or repository  
Starting with a dictionary including concepts and chains, a subset of the chains is selected as intentional stance basis chains (ISBCs). Concepts in the dictionary are chosen and mapped to state...
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...
7558725 Method and apparatus for multilingual spelling corrections  
A system and method for multilingual spelling corrections employs a lexicon builder, which uses a metadata build process that extracts all words from the data source, along with their frequencies,...
7555428 System and method for identifying compounds through iterative analysis  
A system and method for identifying compounds through iterative analysis of measure of association is disclosed. A limit on a number of tokens per compound is specified. Compounds within a text...
7555427 Providing a topic list  
A computer executable method includes receiving word senses represented as semantic positions in a semantic space. The word senses are grouped into clusters based on semantic positions of the word...
7555426 Method and apparatus for dynamic grammars and focused semantic parsing  
The present invention provides a dialogue system in which semantic ambiguity is reduced by selectively choosing which semantic structures are to be made available for parsing based on previous...
7552120 Method for indexing and identifying multimedia documents  
The method of indexing multimedia documents comprises the following steps: a) for each document identifying and extracting terms t i constituted by vectors characterizing properties of the; b)...
7548849 Method for generating text that meets specified characteristics in a handheld electronic device and a handheld electronic device incorporating the same  
Incoming e-mails, instant messages, SMS, and MMS, are scanned for new language objects such as words, abbreviations, text shortcuts and, in appropriate languages, ideograms, that are placed in a...
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...
RE40731 System and method for linking streams of multimedia data to reference material for display  
A system for indexing displayed elements that is useful for accessing and understanding new or difficult materials, in which a user highlights unknown words or characters or other displayed...
7542903 Systems and methods for determining predictive models of discourse functions  
Techniques are provided for determining predictive models of discourse functions based on prosodic features of natural language speech. Inter and intra sentential discourse functions in a training...
7542895 Front of screen, user interface, and national language support by downloading bitmaps from a PC to a companion device  
A computing system includes a companion computing device having a display and a controller for transmitting a request to a host computing device; a host computing device for providing a user...
7539611 Method of identifying and highlighting text  
The present invention is a method of identifying and highlighting textual units of interest using a computer. Text is received and tokens therein are identified. Prefixes, suffixes, and roots are...
7536297 System and method for hybrid text mining for finding abbreviations and their definitions  
This present invention matches one or more abbreviations to one or more definitions. The invention has an abbreviation pattern generation process that generates one or more abbreviation patterns...
7529658 Method for specifying equivalence of language grammars and automatically translating sentences in one language to sentences in another language in a computer environment  
A method for specifying equivalence of language grammars and automatically translating sentences in one language to sentences in another language in a computer environment. The method uses a...
7529657 Configurable parameters for grammar authoring for speech recognition and natural language understanding  
A method for authoring a grammar for use in a language processing application is provided. The method includes receiving at least one grammar configuration parameter relating to how to configure a...
7529656 Translating method, translated sentence outputting method, recording medium, program, and computer device  
A translation method for properly recognizing and automatically translating a sentence containing an emphasized word including two or more successive identical characters. First, words in a source...