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7624005 Statistical machine translation  
A method includes detecting a syntactic chunk in a source string in a first language, assigning a syntactic label to the detected syntactic chunk in the source string, mapping the detected...
RE41002 Telephone for the deaf and method of using same  
An electronic communications system for the deaf includes a video apparatus for observing and digitizing the facial, body and hand and finger signing motions of a deaf person, an electronic...
7620542 Structured natural language query and knowledge system  
A structured natural language query and knowledge system is provided to allow a user who lacks programming skills to enter a database query or a rule in the form of a structured natural language...
7620539 Methods and apparatuses for identifying bilingual lexicons in comparable corpora using geometric processing  
Various methods formulated using a geometric interpretation for identifying bilingual pairs in comparable corpora using a bilingual dictionary are disclosed. The methods may be used separately or...
7607085 Client side localizations on the world wide web  
A method of providing an electronic file, such as a Web document in HTML format, over the Internet from a server to a client is disclosed. Each word and/or phrase in the Web document is assigned an...
7593843 Statistical language model for logical form using transfer mappings  
A method of decoding an input semantic structure to generate an output semantic structure. A set of transfer mappings are provided. A score is calculated for at least one transfer mapping in the...
7593842 Device and method for translating language  
A device and method for translating language is disclosed. In one embodiment, for example, a method for providing a translated output signal derived from a speech input signal, comprises receiving...
7587306 Method and device for a source language to be understood by a listener mastering a target language  
The invention concerns a method for source language comprehension designed for a listener mastering a target language, which consists in causing the listener to listen to a statement, consisting of...
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...
7584092 Unsupervised learning of paraphrase/translation alternations and selective application thereof  
A computer-implemented method is disclosed for applying a given paraphrase alternation pattern to an input string. The method includes generating a language model and applying the language model to...
7577561 System and method for generating a target language markup language text template  
A system and method of generating a target language markup language (ML) text template comprise translating one or more words in a source language ML text template to one or more words in the...
7574348 Processing collocation mistakes in documents  
A sentence is accessed and at least one query is generated based on the sentence. At least one query can be compared to text within a collection of documents, for example using a web search engine....
7562006 Dialog supporting device  
A dialog supporting device supporting improved dialog by reducing the number of utterances resulting from misunderstandings and hasty conclusions. The dialog supporting device includes: an example...
7548848 Method and apparatus for semantic processing engine  
A method for evaluating contents of a message is provided. The method initiates with characterizing a message segment. Then, the message is scanned to define tokens associated with the message...
7546235 Unsupervised learning of paraphrase/translation alternations and selective application thereof  
A system is disclosed for selectively applying a paraphrase alternation pattern to a textual input. The system includes a pattern identification component for processing a collection of data and...
7546234 Semantic processing engine  
A processor configured to identify message contents is provided. The processor includes a message characterization block configured to characterize a message through analysis of header information...
7536295 Machine translation using non-contiguous fragments of text  
A machine translation method for translating source text from a first language to target text in a second language includes receiving the source text in the first language and accessing a library...
7536293 Methods and systems for language translation  
A translation service is disclosed, the service being provided to a wireless mobile device through a selective downloading of information from a server. The downloaded information includes a...
7533013 Machine translation techniques  
Machine translation decoding is accomplished by receiving as input a text segment in a source language to be translated into a target language, generating an initial translation as a current target...
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...
7526461 System and method for temporal data mining  
A system, method, and apparatus for signal characterization, estimation, and prediction comprising an integrated search algorithm that cooperatively optimizes several data mining sub-tasks, the...
7505895 Translation apparatus and method  
A translation apparatus translates article information in a first language including an article body and a related headline as a summary of the article body. A decision unit discriminately...
7502732 Compressing messages on a per semantic component basis while maintaining a degree of human readability  
A text message is first parsed into its constituent semantic components such as header fields and body components. Then, different compression methods may be performed on each semantic component...
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...
7487082 Apparatus for developing a transfer dictionary used in transfer-based machine translation system  
Generating a transfer dictionary used in a transfer-based translation machine system. A pair of source/target language sentences are received. The source language sentence comprises at least one...
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...
7475015 Semantic language modeling and confidence measurement  
A system and method for speech recognition includes generating a set of likely hypotheses in recognizing speech, rescoring the likely hypotheses by using semantic content by employing semantic...
7464020 Visibly distinguishing portions of compound words  
A method and apparatus for displaying a compound word is provided. According to one aspect, a component word is located within a compound word. The compound word is displayed with the component...
7461078 Interface system for accessing data in a database  
An interface system for accessing data stored in corresponding storage elements includes at least a zone ( 2 ) for storing data proper and a zone ( 3 ) for storing a data dictionary defining...
7457808 Method and apparatus for explaining categorization decisions  
Feature selection is used to determine feature influence for a given categorization decision to identify those features in a categorized document that were important in classifying the document...
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...
7451125 System and method for compiling rules created by machine learning program  
A system, a method, and a machine-readable medium are provided. A group of linear rules and associated weights are provided as a result of machine learning. Each one of the group of linear rules is...
7451076 Information display control apparatus, server, and program which display example sentences with respect to input or selected words and addition words  
An information display control apparatus includes: an example sentence storing unit for storing example sentences each including words; a word inputting unit for inputting a word; a list display...
7444324 Search query processing to identify search string corrections that reflect past search query submissions of users  
A search engine process predicts the correct spellings of search terms within multiple-term search queries. In one embodiment, when a user submits a multiple-term search query that includes a...
7440890 Systems and methods for normalization of linguisitic structures  
A text passage is analyzed to determine whether it contains a “be” verb or a “have” verb. If so, syntactic dependencies are obtained from the text passage, a direct object relation...
7421386 Full-form lexicon with tagged data and methods of constructing and using the same  
A lexicon stored on a computer readable medium and used by language processing systems. The lexicon can store word information in a plurality of data fields associated with each entered word. The...
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...
7392174 Natural-language processing system using a large corpus  
A computer-parsing system using vectors (lists) to represent natural-language elements, providing a robust, distributed way to score grammaticality of an input string by using as a source material...
7389225 Method and mechanism for superpositioning state vectors in a semantic abstract  
State vectors representing the semantic content of a document are created. The state vectors are superpositioned to construct a single vector representing a semantic abstract for the document. The...
7379941 Method for efficiently checking coverage of rules derived from a logical theory  
The method is used in a computer and includes the steps of providing a logical theory that has clauses. A rule is generated that is a resolvent of clauses in the logical theory. An example is...
7376551 Definition extraction  
A method of identifying definitions in documents includes receiving text units as an input. Which of the text units includes a cue phrase is then identified. For text units identified as including...
7373291 Linguistic support for a recognizer of mathematical expressions  
The present invention provides a new source of information, linguistic models, to improve the accuracy of mathematical recognition. Specifically, the present invention is an extension of linguistic...
7370275 System and method for providing context to an input method by tagging existing applications  
An improved system and method for providing context information of executable code to an input method is provided. Advanced text input methods may be made aware of the type of text expected to be...
7359849 Translation techniques for acronyms and ambiguities  
In general, the invention is directed to translation techniques for acronyms and ambiguities. In one embodiment, translation of a source text into a target language includes identifying a potential...
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...
7349924 Colloquium prose interpreter for collaborative electronic communication  
A method, system and apparatus for processing colloquialisms in message text. A method of processing colloquialisms in message text can include detecting a colloquialism in message text, locating a...
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...
7346489 System and method of determining phrasing in text  
A system analyzes text, determines phrasing and, in an exemplary embodiment, reformats the text to establish optimal spacing and related features for readability, reader comprehension and...
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