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7496498 |
Front-end architecture for a multi-lingual text-to-speech system
A text processing system for processing multi-lingual text for a speech synthesizer includes a first language dependent module for performing at least one of text and prosody analysis on a portion...
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7496496 |
System and method for machine learning a confidence metric for machine translation
A machine translation system is trained to generate confidence scores indicative of a quality of a translation result. A source string is translated with a machine translator to generate a target...
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7496230 |
System and method for automatic natural language translation of embedded text regions in images during information transfer
Image or graphic elements such as pictures, icons and clip art, are intercepted during transfer from a computer source to a computer destination, such as during a cut-and-paste operation. Embedded...
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7493250 |
System and method for distributing multilingual documents
A method and apparatus is disclosed for generating and distributing multilingual documents. The multilingual documents are comprised of primary information consisting of human-readable text and...
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7487081 |
Sentence creation apparatus and creation method
A sentence generating method and apparatus for generating a joke sentence set having a dual meaning. A predetermined word in a selected first idiom is stored in a W list. A word of analogous sound...
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7486807 |
Image retrieving device, method for adding keywords in image retrieving device, and computer program therefor
An image retrieving device for classifying and retrieving an image by detecting an object in the image and adding a keyword comprises an image storing section for storing the image which is...
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7480546 |
System and method for providing language translation in a vehicle telematics device
The invention provides a method, a computer usable medium including a program, and a system for providing language translation in a vehicle telematics device. The method includes providing data in...
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7478033 |
Systems and methods for translating Chinese pinyin to Chinese characters
Systems and methods to process and translate pinyin to Chinese characters and words are disclosed. A Chinese language model is trained by extracting unknown character strings from Chinese inputs,...
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7475006 |
Method and apparatus for parsing text using mutual information
A method and parser are provided that generate a score for a node identified during a parse of a text segment. The score is based on a mutual information score that measures the mutual information...
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7467081 |
Language-understanding training database action pair augmentation using bidirectional translation
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and system for augmenting a training database of an automated language-understanding system. In one embodiment, a training example in a first...
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7467085 |
Method and apparatus for language translation using registered databases
A method of providing an interpretation service, is disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving an incoming telephone call from a user, forming a plurality of databases, wherein the...
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7464032 |
Using wildcards in semantic parsing
A method and apparatus perform semantic parsing by designating one or more words in an input text stream as wildcards. Under some embodiments, partially constructed parses formed from other words...
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7457740 |
Method and system for estimating the significance of rare events
The present invention can be used to calculate expected precision for association values between types of items in one class with types of items in another class. The present invention accommodates...
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7454326 |
Phrase to phrase joint probability model for statistical machine translation
A machine translation (MT) system may utilize a phrase-based joint probability model. The model may be used to generate source and target language sentences simultaneously. In an embodiment, the...
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7447624 |
Generation of localized software applications
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture provide a single multi-language source code file and effects single-language executable files from the multi-language source code file. A program...
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7447628 |
Verb pattern automatic extension and verification apparatus and method for use in Korean-Chinese machine translation system
A verb pattern automatic extension and verification apparatus for use in a Korean-Chinese machine translation system automatically extracts the verb pattern source part that is not applied with the...
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7447626 |
Method and apparatus for generating a language independent document abstract
A method of extracting significant phrases from one or more documents stored in a computer-readable medium. A sequence of words is read from the one or more documents and a score is determined for...
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7440888 |
Methods, systems and computer program products for national language support using a multi-language property file
National language support for an application is provided by recording translations of a text string in corresponding different languages in a single property file so as to allow display of the...
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7421394 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method and recording medium, and program
This invention has as its object to save labor time required for correction and adjustments when an error has occurred during either the recognition of input data or the process of the recognition...
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7418390 |
Multi-language system for online communications
An online communications system for converting language. The language conversion is achieved by first storing words and phrases corresponding to a language key and a unique key value in a table at...
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7418378 |
Method and apparatus for training and deployment of a statistical model of syntactic attachment likelihood
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for improving the performance of a natural language parser. During training, natural language inputs are processed such that statistical...
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7409333 |
Translation of electronically transmitted messages
A communication system for human communication comprises a sending computer system 11 , a receiving computer system 21 a and a translation web site 31 . The sending system 11 is arranged,...
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7409332 |
Method and apparatus for initializing iterative training of translation probabilities
A method of estimating translation probabilities includes converting a set of word alignment scores into translation probabilities and modifying the translation probabilities based on a bilingual...
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7409690 |
Application module for managing interactions of distributed modality components
A method for managing application modalities using dialogue states can include the step of asserting a set of activation conditions associated with a dialogue state of an application. Each of the...
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7403889 |
Electronic dictionary with example sentences
An information display control apparatus capable of searching for an example sentence suitable for words input as a search phrase and displaying the example sentence. The information display...
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7403888 |
Language input user interface
A language input architecture receives input text (e.g., phonetic text of a character-based language) entered by a user from an input device (e.g., keyboard, voice recognition). The input text is...
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7401337 |
Managing application interactions using distributed modality components
A method for managing multimodal interactions can include the step of registering a multitude of modality components with a modality component server, wherein each modality component handles an...
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7398198 |
System and method of identifying a translation resource
A system and method of identifying and allocating translation services in response to a user's request for translation of a document. The system and method of the invention is configured to put a...
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7398214 |
Method for translating slide presentations into different languages
The present invention provides a method and system for translating presentation slides from one language to at least one additional language. In this method, text information from one slide can be...
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7389221 |
System and method for interactive translation
The present invention provides an interactive system and method for effective and convenient language translation. The system and method provides a translation window that is opened in conjunction...
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7389234 |
Method and apparatus utilizing speech grammar rules written in a markup language
The present invention provides a method and apparatus that utilize a context-free grammar written in a markup language format. The markup language format provides a hierarchical format in which...
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7389222 |
Task parallelization in a text-to-text system
Parallelization of word alignment for a text-to-text operation. The training data is divided into multiple groups, and training is carried out of each group on separate processors. Different...
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7389474 |
Language or script-based character set conversions per-application program
A system and method that simulate a system locale for non-Unicode application programs having languages that do not correspond to the system locale, to appropriately convert text data via a...
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7385531 |
Entering text into an electronic communications device
In a method of entering text into an electronic communications device by means of a keypad having a number of keys, each key representing a plurality of letters and/or phonetic symbols, entered...
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7375628 |
Message transmission in one or more languages based on one or more personal information component inputs
An information component of an apparatus in one example selects one or more languages for transmission of one or more messages to one or more personal information components based on one or more...
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7376648 |
Computer-implemented methods and systems for entering and searching for non-Roman-alphabet characters and related search systems
A computer-implemented method for selecting a desired Roman or non-Roman-alphabet character or objects from a set of non-Roman characters or objects may include steps of providing an association...
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7373598 |
Method and apparatus for facilitating globalization of voice applications
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that generates voice output for an application. During operation, the system receives a symbolic representation of data to be outputted...
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7369986 |
Method, apparatus, and program for transliteration of documents in various Indian languages
A transliteration mechanism is provided that allows a user to view a text in one Indian language, to highlight a word or phrase, and to easily transliterate the selected word or phrase into a...
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7366653 |
Methods and apparatuses for string translation
Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for translating application strings between entities using a semantical (definition-based) translation scheme. Embodiments of the invention...
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7366654 |
Learning translation relationships among words
A parallel bilingual training corpus is parsed into its content words. Word association scores for each pair of content words consisting of a word of language L 1 that occurs in a sentence aligned...
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7363212 |
Method and apparatus for translating a classification system into a target language
A method and apparatus are provided for translating a classification system in a source language into one or more additional target languages. The classification system employs a sample response...
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7360155 |
Structured datatype expansion framework
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that expands a symbolic representation of a data item into a locale-specific textual representation of the data item. The system operates...
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7356460 |
Claim processing
The disclosure includes a computer-implemented method of processing a claim. The method includes receiving information corresponding to a context free grammar expression of a provision governing...
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7356457 |
Machine translation using learned word associations without referring to a multi-lingual human authored dictionary of content words
A method and computer-readable medium are provided that perform a series of steps associated with machine translation. These steps include using a first text in a first language and a second text...
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7353165 |
Example based machine translation system
The present invention performs machine translation by matching fragments of a source language sentence to be translated to source language portions of an example in example base. When all relevant...
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7349839 |
Method and apparatus for aligning bilingual corpora
A method is provided for aligning sentences in a first corpus to sentences in a second corpus. The method includes applying a length-based alignment model to align sentence boundaries of a sentence...
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7346487 |
Method and apparatus for identifying translations
A method for identifying a translation transforms a representation of context words in a source language into a transformed representation of context in a target language based on multiple...
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7346488 |
Automatic translator and computer-readable storage medium having automatic translation program recorded thereon
An original inputted to an original inputting unit is divided to morphemes. A sequence of the divided morphemes is converted to conceptual categories. A typical sentence verifying unit verifies...
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7346515 |
Dialog supporting apparatus
A dialog supporting apparatus which can support an on-going dialog so that the dialog is smoothly completed. The dialog supporting apparatus includes an utterance receiving unit which receives an...
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7343290 |
System and method of switching between dialog systems with separate dedicated communication units
The invention concerns a method of switching from one original dialog system ( 1 ), which communicates with the user using its own dedicated speech recognition and/or speech output unit ( 6 ), to a...
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