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6622122 Document retrieving apparatus and document retrieving method  
In a document retrieving apparatus, an audio input section converts a sound into a character pattern. A language model storing section stores likelihood information. A word choosing section obtains...
6616703 Character input apparatus with character string extraction portion, and corresponding storage medium  
An operation such as changing the coordinates of a specified position is performed on a two-dimensional display screen 103 of a display unit 5 by using an input pen 102, a touch-panel, etc.,...
6618697 Method for rule-based correction of spelling and grammar errors  
A computer implemented method which does not require a stored dictionary for correcting spelling errors in a sequence of words comprises storing a plurality of spelling rules defined as regular...
6615111 Methods for automatically focusing the attention of a virtual robot interacting with users  
A virtual robot (or BOT) is disclosed that interfaces and automatically interacts with users desiring to be guided or informed about certain aspects or features of the entity with which they are...
6615172 Intelligent query engine for processing voice based queries  
An intelligent query system for processing voiced-based queries is disclosed. This distributed client-server system, typically implemented on an intranet or over the Internet accepts a user's...
6615178 Speech translator, speech translating method, and recorded medium on which speech translation control program is recorded  
The learning history memory 9 controls, based on the accumulated learning history, the word dictionary memory 6, semantic/syntactic analysis grammar memory 7, and a correction information...
6609087 Fact recognition system  
In accordance with methods and systems consistent with the present invention, an improved fact recognition system is provided that automatically learns from syntactic language examples and semantic...
6609089 Method and apparatus for providing interactive services with multiple interfaces  
Interactive services with multiple interfaces are realized by employing a modular approach to their implementation. Such an approach facilitates supporting natural language understanding...
6602300 Apparatus and method for retrieving data from a document database  
When a keyword described in Japanese is input, the input keyword is converted from Japanese into English. Thus, a retrieval keyword described in English is generated based on the input keyword...
6601026 Information retrieval by natural language querying  
A natural language information querying system includes an indexing facility configured to automatically generate indices of updated textual sources based on one or more predefined grammars and a...
6598018 Method for natural dialog interface to car devices  
A computer-implemented method and apparatus for processing a spoken request from a user to control an automobile device. A speech recognizer recognizes a user's speech input and a speech...
6594658 Method and apparatus for generating query responses in a computer-based document retrieval system  
The present mechanism relates to a method and apparatus for generating responses to queries to a document retrieval system. The system responds to a specific request for information by locating and...
6587819 Chinese character conversion apparatus using syntax information  
The invention provides a Chinese character conversion apparatus using syntax information to obtain a high correct conversion rate by utilizing the speech part attribute of Chinese words. The...
6574792 Dynamically generating expanded user messages in a computer system  
Dynamically generating expanded user messages, in a computer system having a logging tool for creating a log file. The log file comprises log messages produced in response to events occurring...
6571240 Information processing for searching categorizing information in a document based on a categorization hierarchy and extracted phrases  
Processing automatically information in a document to be incorporated into databases to be searched, retrieved and learned. This would significantly enhance categorizing information in the domain...
6567805 Interactive automated response system  
A computerized system responds, not just to a single query issued by a user, but to a query in the context of a dialog with the user. The system, which is referred to as an interactive automated...
6556964 Probabilistic system for natural language processing  
A natural language understanding system is described to provide generation of concept codes from free-text medical data. A probabilistic model of lexical semantics, is implemented by means of a...
6556970 Apparatus for determining appropriate series of words carrying information to be recognized  
An apparatus includes a device for generating plural recognition candidates from a user's utterance including a series of words and a device for screening the candidates to select a few appropriate...
6556963 User state sensitive system and method for nutrient analysis using natural language interface  
An easy to use system and method personalizes dynamic nutritional requirements of a user. A natural language user interface is used to input information to a nutrient analysis system that...
6556973 Conversion between data representation formats  
A method and apparatus for conversion between data representation formats and data including sound and text information are disclosed. Data representation formats include a string of characters in...
6556972 Method and apparatus for time-synchronized translation and synthesis of natural-language speech  
A multi-lingual time-synchronized translation system and method provide automatic time-synchronized spoken translations of spoken phrases. The multi-lingual time-synchronized translation system...
6553385 Architecture of a framework for information extraction from natural language documents  
A framework for information extraction from natural language documents is application independent and provides a high degree of reusability. The framework integrates different Natural...
6553373 METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY DELIVERING CONTENTS ENCAPSULATED WITH CAPSULE OVERVIEWS CORRESONDING TO THE PLURALITY OF DOCUMENTS, RESOLVING CO-REFERENTIALITY RELATED TO FREQUENCY WITHIN DOCUMENT, DETERMINING TOPIC STAMPS FOR EACH DOCUMENT SEGMENTS  
A method for the dynamic presentation of the contents of a plurality of documents on a display is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a plurality of documents and providing a plurality of...
6553341 Method and apparatus for announcing receipt of an electronic message  
A method and apparatus for announcing receipt of an electronic message. When a message including text is received, the message is filtered determine what will be announced. Text from the filtered...
6542888 Content filtering for electronic documents generated in multiple foreign languages  
A system for collecting and categorizing metadata about content provided via the internet or intranet, regardless of the language of generation of the content. The content of each document is...
6539376 System and method for the automatic mining of new relationships  
An automatic mining system that identifies a set of relevant terms from a large text database of unstructured information, such as the World Wide Web with a high degree of confidence. The automatic...
6539348 Systems and methods for parsing a natural language sentence  
A method, computer program product, and apparatus for parsing a sentence which includes tokenizing the words of the sentence and putting them through an iterative inductive processor. The processor...
6537325 Apparatus and method for generating a summarized text from an original text  
A document comprehension support apparatus includes an original text analysis unit which divides an original text into significance paragraphs, the significance paragraphs being separated from each...
6535886 Method to compress linguistic structures  
A method and system for compressing a data structure. A segment is identified within the data structure. Each segment identified is counted for the number of occurrences of the segment within the...
6532444 Network interactive user interface using speech recognition and natural language processing  
A system and method to interact with networked objects, via a computer using utterances, speech processing and natural language processing. A Data Definition File relates networked objects and a...
6529902 Method and system for off-line detection of textual topical changes and topic identification via likelihood based methods for improved language modeling  
A system (and method) for off-line detection of textual topical changes includes at least one central processing unit (CPU), at least one memory coupled to the at least one CPU, a network...
6529864 Interactive connotative dictionary system  
A computerized interactive language reference tool is provided which associates one or more connotative meanings with a denotative context of a given term. A data base stores the denotative context...
6530039 Porting engine for testing of multi-lingual software  
The present invention is a system and method for testing various language versions of an application program using a single test script. An internal dictionary and/or an external dictionary are...
6529865 System and method to compile instructions to manipulate linguistic structures into separate functions  
A grammar programming language (“GPL”) compiler compiles each rule in a natural language grammar into a separate function that can be invoked by a translation system to apply the rule to a...
6523172 Parser translator system and method  
A parser-translator technology allows a user to specify complex test and/or transformation statements in a high-level user language, to ensure that such test and/or transformation statements are...
6523029 System and method for embedded information retrieval in a distributed free-text application environment  
An embedded information retrieval system is provided including a free-text parser, a knowledge-based query generator, a distributed query dispatcher, and a persistent feedback retrieval manager....
6523031 Method for obtaining structured information exists in special data format from a natural language text by aggregation  
A method for obtaining structured information from a natural language text by aggregation. The aggregation includes steps of reading in a natural language text, recognizing sentences and sentence...
6519562 Dynamic semantic control of a speech recognition system  
A method and apparatus are provided for automatically recognizing words of spoken speech using a computer-based speech recognition system according to a dynamic semantic model. In an embodiment,...
6519586 Method and apparatus for automatic construction of faceted terminological feedback for document retrieval  
Iterative information retrieval from a large database of textual or text-containing documents is facilitated by automatic construction of faceted representations. Facets are chosen heuristically...
6513027 Automated category discovery for a terminological knowledge base  
A terminological system automatically generates sub-categories from categories of a knowledge base. The knowledge base includes a plurality of hierarchically arranged categories, as well as terms...
6513002 Rule-based number formatter  
A number translation engine is based on a textual description of the procedure for spelling out a number in any of a variety of languages. The number translation engine comprises an output...
6507829 Textual data classification method and apparatus  
A method and apparatus for classifying textual data is provided. The invention is adapted to automatically classify text. In particular, the invention utilizes a sparse vector framework to evaluate...
6505150 Article and method of automatically filtering information retrieval results using test genre  
A method of filtering according to text genre the results of a topic search of a heterogeneous corpus of untagged, machine-readable texts. Because each text of the corpus has a topic and a text...
6505151 Method for dividing sentences into phrases using entropy calculations of word combinations based on adjacent words  
The process of dividing sentences into phrases is automated. The sentence is divided into sub-sentences using statistical analysis. Then, the sub-sentences are into phrases, using statistical...
6502065 Teletext broadcast receiving apparatus using keyword extraction and weighting  
An information abstracting method and apparatus for extracting and displaying keywords as an information abstract. Given a large number of character string data sets divided into prescribed units,...
6499013 Interactive user interface using speech recognition and natural language processing  
A system and method to interact with a computer using utterances, speech processing and natural language processing. The system comprises a speech processor to search a first grammar file for a...
6493709 Method and apparatus for digitally shredding similar documents within large document sets in a data processing environment  
A method and apparatus are disclosed for comparing an input or query file to a set of files to detect similarities between the query file and the set of files, and digitally shredding files that...
6493662 Rule-based number parser  
A number translation engine is based on a textual description of the procedure for spelling out a number in any of a variety of languages. The number translation engine comprises an output...
6493663 Document summarizing apparatus, document summarizing method and recording medium carrying a document summarizing program  
A document summarizing apparatus generates a comprehensive summary on a group of documents of relatively diverse contents. The structure of documents specified to be processed is analyzed in a...
6484166 Information management, retrieval and display system and associated method  
An information management, retrieval and display system searches through an informational resource, such as a document (e.g., a treaty), a number of individual documents (e.g., Web pages resident...