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7302394 Front-end device independence for natural interaction platform  
Roughly described, a natural language interpretation system that provides commands to a back-end application in response to user input is modified to separate out user interaction functions into a...
7302382 Generating with lexical functional grammars  
A process for generating with unification based grammars such as Lexical Functional Grammars which uses construction and analysis of generation guides to determine internal facts and eliminate...
7299187 Voice command processing system and computer therefor, and voice command processing method  
When a user issued voice command does not match grammars registered in advance, the voice command is identified as a sentence (step S 305 ). This sentence is compared with the registered grammars...
7299171 Method and system for processing grammar-based legality expressions  
Legality expressions are systematically pre-processed, organized, and stored to achieve faster real-time response, improved predictability, and increased reliability for queries against a large...
7295965 Method and apparatus for determining a measure of similarity between natural language sentences  
Systems and methods for classifying natural language (NL) sentences using a combination of NL algorithms or techniques is disclosed. Each NL algorithm or technique may identify a different...
7295967 System and method of analyzing text using dynamic centering resonance analysis  
A document analysis tool provides a 3-dimensional network representation of temporal evolution of text in a document. First and second portions of text are extracted from one or more documents. The...
7295962 Statistical memory-based translation system  
A statistical machine translation (MT) system may include a translation memory (TMEM) and a decoder. The decoder may translate an input text segment using a statistical MT decoding algorithm, for...
7296015 Apparatus and method for identifying and/or for analyzing potential patent infringement  
An apparatus and method for identifying and/or analyzing potential patent infringement, including a processing device for processing the information regarding the patent, wherein the processing...
7295966 System for normalizing a discourse representation structure and normalized data structure  
The present invention is a system and method for normalizing a discourse representation structure (DRS). The elements of the structure are rewritten and sorted in a way such that structures which...
7295981 Method for building a natural language understanding model for a spoken dialog system  
A method of generating a natural language model for use in a spoken dialog system is disclosed. The method comprises using sample utterances and creating a number of hand crafted rules for each...
7296229 Method and apparatus for providing a central dictionary and glossary server  
A master dictionary or glossary is updated at a server, and the update to the master dictionary or glossary is served to the application on the client to update a local copy of the dictionary or...
7296027 Rhetorical content management with tone and audience profiles  
A content management system including an audience profile is disclosed. The content management system includes a database having a plurality of records. At least one record of the plurality of...
7293229 Ensuring proper rendering order of bidirectionally rendered text  
A method and system are provided for locating specific text in a selection of text and ensuring that the specific text is rendered in the proper order relative to other text in the selection of...
7292987 Integrated multilingual browser  
The disclosed system translates into different languages HTML documents available through the World Wide Web. HTML documents are translated by machine translation software bundled in a browser....
7292878 Radio mobile terminal communication system  
In this radio portable terminal communication system, a service document file is converted into a window-related document file, speech-dialog-related document file, and information sharing document...
7292972 System and method for combining text summarizations  
The method of the present invention discloses: receiving a source text having a set of source text portions; generating a set of source text summarizations, each having a set of summarization...
7289960 System and method for speech activated internet browsing using open vocabulary enhancement  
The invention discloses a system and method for speech-activated navigating or browsing via a speech control interface used in a speech-activated multifunctional communications system. In one...
7289948 Systems and methods for regularly approximating context-free grammars through transformation  
Context-free grammars generally comprise a large number of rules, where each rule defines how a sting of symbols is generated from a different series of symbols. While techniques for creating...
7289607 System and methodology for voice activated access to multiple data sources and voice repositories in a single session  
A system and method and computer program for seamlessly accessing multiple data sources and voice repositories using voice commands in a single phone call session. The system comprises of voice...
7289949 Method for routing electronic correspondence based on the level and type of emotion contained therein  
A system, method, and computer program product for determining the emotional content of an electronic correspondence to route or prioritize the information, to set the expectations of a customer...
7286978 Creating a language model for a language processing system  
A method for creating a language model from a task-independent corpus is provided. In one embodiment, a task dependent unified language model is created. The unified language model includes a...
7283959 Compact easily parseable binary format for a context-free grammar  
A computer-loadable data structure is provided that represents a state-and-transition-based description of a speech grammar. The data structure includes first and second transition entries that...
7283958 Systems and method for resolving ambiguity  
Techniques are provided for resolving ambiguity in natural language speech. Speech is recognized using automatic speech recognition. A theory of discourse analysis is determined and at least one...
7280957 Method and apparatus for generating overview information for hierarchically related information  
A method is provided for digesting the content of hierarchically related information. The method, which obtains relatively short overviews, selects a proportion of representative nodes and then...
7280966 Electronic mail replies with speech recognition  
A method for responding to an electronic mail message with a limited input device such as a phone includes audibly rendering the question and a set of proposed answers typically provided in the...
7281022 System, method, and service for segmenting a topic into chatter and subtopics  
A topic segmenting system segments a topic into chatter and subtopics. The system decomposes a conversation into topics, producing a time-based structure for topics and subtopics in the...
7277846 Navigation system  
A navigation system includes a speech-recognition unit for performing speech-recognition processing on input speech. The system also includes a language-determining unit for determining the...
7277851 Automated creation of phonemic variations  
A method of generating a phonemic transcription for a word using a computer system is described. In one embodiment, an existing pronunciation generation program is applied to generate an initial...
7275029 System and method for joint optimization of language model performance and size  
A method for the joint optimization of language model performance and size is presented comprising developing a language model from a tuning set of information, segmenting at least a subset of a...
7275033 Method and system for using rule-based knowledge to build a class-based domain specific statistical language model  
A method and system for providing a class-based statistical language model representation from rule-based knowledge is disclosed. The class-based language model is generated from a statistical...
7269545 Method for retrieving answers from an information retrieval system  
The invention is a method for retrieving answers to questions from an information retrieval system. The method involves automatically learning phrase features for classifying questions into...
7269544 System and method for identifying special word usage in a document  
A method of identifying potential novel word usage in a document comprises determining a part-of-speech assignment for each word in the document using a first part-of-speech tagger, determining a...
7269546 System and method of finding documents related to other documents and of finding related words in response to a query to refine a search  
A computer-implemented system and method is disclosed for retrieving documents using context-dependant probabilistic modeling of words and documents. The present invention uses multiple overlapping...
7269547 Tokenizer for a natural language processing system  
The present invention is a segmenter used in a natural language processing system. The segmenter segments a textual input string into tokens for further natural language processing. In accordance...
7266492 Training machine learning by sequential conditional generalized iterative scaling  
A system and method facilitating training machine learning systems utilizing sequential conditional generalized iterative scaling is provided. The invention includes an expected value update...
7266491 Statistically driven sentence realizing method and apparatus  
A method of, and system for, generating a sentence from a semantic representation maps the semantic representation to an unordered set of syntactic nodes. Simplified generation grammar rules and...
7263517 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...
7260519 Systems and methods for dynamically determining the attitude of a natural language speaker  
Systems and methods for analyzing speech containing at least one lexical item, said analysis to determine an attitude of a speaker towards an entity, comprising determining at least one actual...
7257529 Apparatus and method for an automated grammar file expansion tool  
An apparatus and method for an automated grammar file expansion tool are described. The method includes the receipt of a source grammar file. Once received, one or more grammar rules within the...
7257533 Database searching and retrieval using phoneme and word lattice  
A data structure is provided for annotating data files within a database. The annotation data comprises a phoneme and word lattice which allows the quick and efficient searching of data files...
7257537 Method and apparatus for performing dialog management in a computer conversational interface  
A dialog management system functions to manage the dialog between a user of a computer system and one or more speech enabled software applications. The user provides spoken input to a microphone...
7254527 Computer-aided reading system and method with cross-language reading wizard  
A computer-aided reading system offers assistance to a user who is reading in a non-native language, as the user needs help, without requiring the user to divert attention away from the text. In...
7254529 Method and apparatus for distribution-based language model adaptation  
A method and apparatus are provided for adapting a language model to a task-specific domain. Under the method and apparatus, the relative frequency of n-grams in a small training set (i.e....
7254528 Tool for defining verbs and adverbs in a fault injection test creation environment  
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for defining verbs and adverbs. The method includes creating at least one of a verb and adverb, wherein the at least one of a verb and adverb...
7254530 System and method of generating dictionary entries  
A system for automatically generating a dictionary from full text articles extracts <term, definition> pairs from full text articles and stores the <term, definition> pairs as...
7254539 Bi-directional natural language system for interfacing with multiple back-end applications  
A system and method for servicing natural language requests with a plurality of remote host systems. The system utilizes a computer program that comprises: (1) an input system for inputting an NL...
7251600 Disambiguation language model  
A language model for a language processing system such as a speech recognition system is constructed from training corpus formed from associated characters, word phrases and context cues. A method...
7251595 Dialogue-type information providing apparatus, dialogue-type information providing processing method, and program and recording medium for the same  
The invention makes it possible to avoid an increase in the number of confirmation sentences and response sentences output to the user which gives dissatisfaction for the user by the increase that...
7251781 Computer based summarization of natural language documents  
A system and method for summarizing the contents of a natural language document provided in electronic or digital form includes preformatting the document, performing linguistic analysis, weighting...
7249013 Named entity translation  
Translating named entities from a source language to a target language. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: generating potential translations of a named entity from a source...