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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...