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7249019 Method and apparatus for providing an integrated speech recognition and natural language understanding for a dialog system  
An apparatus and a concomitant method for natural language understanding. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a new architecture that employs a sophisticated natural language...
7249018 System and method for relating syntax and semantics for a conversational speech application  
A conversation manager processes spoken utterances from a user of a computer. The conversation manager includes a semantics analysis module and a syntax manager. A domain model that is used in...
7243305 Spelling and grammar checking system  
System of correcting misspelled words in input text detects a misspelled word in the input text, determines a list of alternative words for the misspelled word, and ranks the list of alternative...
7239998 Performing machine translation using a unified language model and translation model  
The present invention is a method and apparatus for processing a phrase in a first language for translation to a second language. A plurality of possible linguistic patterns are identified in the...
7236922 Speech recognition with feedback from natural language processing for adaptation of acoustic model  
A speech processing system including a speech recognition unit to receive input speech, and a natural language processing unit. The speech recognition unit performs speech recognition on input...
7236923 Acronym extraction system and method of identifying acronyms and extracting corresponding expansions from text  
An acronym expansion system of the present invention receives electronic documents and extracts acronyms and their corresponding expansions. A part-of-speech tagger decomposes text into string...
7233891 Natural language sentence parser  
A method, computer program product, and apparatus for parsing consecutive sentences which includes tokenizing the words of the sentence and putting them through an iterative inductive processor....
7233892 Method and apparatus for unsupervised training of natural language processing units  
A method of training a natural language processing unit applies a candidate learning set to at least one component of the natural language unit. The natural language unit is then used to generate a...
7231610 Text editing assistor  
A text editing assistor comprises a table storing section storing a candidate table, a candidate displaying section, a character sequence finalization section, an environment information...
7231343 Synonyms mechanism for natural language systems  
Roughly described, a natural language interface to a back-end application incorporates synonyms automatically added to user input to enhance the natural language interpretation. Synonyms can be...
7225132 Method for assigning an identification code  
An identification code is assigned to a user by making a selection from a closed set of possible tokens. The selection is determined algorithmically by user identity data. The format of the...
7225120 Method of extracting important terms, phrases, and sentences  
A computer extracts important terms, phrases or sentences from a document that it segments. The computer generates a square sum matrix from the document segments. The computer determines the...
7225183 Ontology-based information management system and method  
An information management system and method is provided for integrating structured and unstructured data using an ontological approach, and further comprises processes for creating, validating,...
7222066 Unitary language for problem solving resources for knowledge based services  
A unitary machine parsable language for use in data representation and problem solving in knowledge based services having a vocabulary of terms which derive from a natural human language to...
7222067 Finite state dictionary and method of production thereof  
A finite state dictionary ( 200, 780 ) and method of production thereof by providing nodes ( 210–240 ) representing symbols stored in the dictionary; providing links ( 250–290 ) linking...
7222073 System and method for speech activated navigation  
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...
7221933 Messaging system for mobile communication  
A system and method for communicating messages between mobile communication devices. Predefined and customizable messages are provided to the user for selection and transmittal. Customizable...
7219310 Instruction generating system and process via symbolic representations  
Glyph instructions are formed which are understandable by a person following the instructions, irrespective of which written language is understood by the person. The glyph instructions follow...
7219050 Automatic interpreting system including a system for recognizing errors  
An automatic interpreting system, having at least an inputting unit for inputting utterances, an interpreting unit for recognizing the input utterance and interpreting the input utterance into a...
7216066 Method and apparatus for generating and managing a language model data structure  
A method is presented comprising assigning each of a plurality of segments comprising a received corpus to a node in a data structure denoting dependencies between nodes, and calculating a...
7216073 Dynamic natural language understanding  
Methods and systems for dynamic natural language understanding. A hierarchical structure of semantic categories is exploited to assist in the natural language understanding. Optionally, the natural...
7212971 Control apparatus for enabling a user to communicate by speech with a processor-controlled apparatus  
A control apparatus controls the display of text data which includes a speech link that can be activated by spoken command. The shape of a pointing device cursor displayed on a display is then...
7212964 Language-understanding systems employing machine translation components  
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...
7212963 System for distinguishing names in Asian writing systems  
A system for distinguishing names of persons in Chinese, which includes a computer. The computer includes at least an input, an output, a processor, and a memory and storage arrangement. Data is...
7209876 System and method for automated answering of natural language questions and queries  
A method for searching an information repository to find answers to natural language questions by generating an expected answer form based upon the form of the natural language question or query,...
7206738 Hybrid baseform generation  
A method, a computer system and a computer program product for generating baseforms or phonetic spellings from input text are disclosed. The baseforms are initially generated using rules defined...
7200559 Semantic object synchronous understanding implemented with speech application language tags  
A speech understanding system includes a language model comprising a combination of an N-gram language model and a context-free grammar language model. The language model stores information related...
7197449 Method for extracting name entities and jargon terms using a suffix tree data structure  
A method for entity name and jargon term recognition and extraction. An embodiment of the present invention uses a suffix tree data structure to determine frequently occurring phrases. In one...
7197451 Method and mechanism for the creation, maintenance, and comparison of semantic abstracts  
Codifying the “most prominent measurement points” of a document can be used to measure semantic distances given an area of study (e.g., white papers on some subject area). A semantic abstract...
7197450 Translation server, method, and program utilizing an updated translated sentence cache database  
A cache processing unit searches a translated sentence cache file of a header matched with a translating request from a translated sentence cache database and transmits translated sentence cache...
7194406 Method and system for information extraction  
A method and a system for extracting information from a natural language text corpus based on a natural language query are disclosed. In the method the natural language text corpus is analyzed with...
7194405 Method for presenting a natural language comparison of items  
The following application is to describe a method and apparatus for performing a concise and meaningful comparison between an unlimited amount of products, presenting the user with a natural...
7194455 Method and system for retrieving confirming sentences  
A method, computer readable medium and system are provided which retrieve confirming sentences from a sentence database in response to a query. A search engine retrieves confirming sentences from...
7194411 Method of displaying web pages to enable user access to text information that the user has difficulty reading  
Web pages and other text documents displayed on a computer are reformatted to allow a a user who has difficulty reading to navigate between and among such documents and to have such documents, or...
7194403 Apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium for language translation  
An interface unit issues input/output instructions regarding an input of a translation target sentence, an output of a translated sentence, and a translation control. A machine translating...
7194404 Linguistic retrieval system and method  
A system, method and article of manufacture utilize word chunks to enhance word prediction. At least one of selectable words and word chunks are displayed in response to receipt of an input...
7191117 Generation of subtitles or captions for moving pictures  
A method for generating subtitles for audiovisual material received and analyses a text file containing dialogue spoken in audiovisual material and provides a signal representative of the text. The...
7191116 Methods and systems for determining a language of a document  
A system and method for determining the language of an unknown document is provided. For a set of candidate languages, a negative assumption is set for each candidate language that the document is...
7191119 Integrated development tool for building a natural language understanding application  
A method of developing natural language understanding (NLU) applications can include determining NLU interpretation information from an NLU training corpus of text using a multi-pass processing...
7191118 Method for dynamic context scope selection in hybrid N-gram+LSA language modeling  
A method and system for dynamic language modeling of a document are described. In one embodiment, a number of local probabilities of a current document are computed and a vector representation of...
7191131 Electronic document processing apparatus  
On receipt of a tagged file, as a tagged document, at step S 1 , a document processing apparatus at step S 2 derives the attribute information for read-out from tags of the tagged file and embeds...
7188104 Apparatus for retrieving documents  
In an apparatus for retrieving documents, each document and a query character string are divided into a plurality of index keys. A retrieval condition analyzing part analyses a retrieval condition...
7184950 Method and apparatus for improved grammar checking using a stochastic parser  
A method and grammar checking system are provided that generate a stochastic score, or a statistical goodness measure, for each of an input string of text and one or more alternative strings of...
7184949 Basic poetry generation  
A method of analyzing an author's work, including reading a text file, generating an analysis model from the text file and storing the analysis model. The text file may be a poem, the poem...
7184948 Method and system for theme-based word sense ambiguity reduction  
Word sense ambiguity, for “thematic” words in a sentence, is achieved based on thematic prediction. The senses of “thematic” words are disambiguated in a sentence by determining and...
7181451 Processing input text to generate the selectivity value of a word or word group in a library of texts in a field is related to the frequency of occurrence of that word or word group in library  
Disclosed is an automated system, machine-readable storage medium embodying computer-executable code, and method for generating descriptive words and optionally, multi-word groups derived from a...
7181387 Homonym processing in the context of voice-activated command systems  
A method is disclosed from constructing a grammar. The grammar is configured to be processed by a speech recognition engine in the context of a voice-activated command system. The method includes...
7181394 Device setter, device setting system, and recorded medium where device setting program recorded  
A word-device setting information storage part stores multiple device setting information in association with a single voice and a voice recognition part recognizes a voice input through a voice...
7177793 System and method for managing translatable strings displayed on console interfaces  
NLS translations can be provided by extracting translatable strings from the management definition object, such as a CIM MOF file, and writing the strings into one or more translation files. A...
7177797 Linguistic retrieval system and method  
A system, method and article of manufacture utilize word chunks to enhance word prediction. At least one of selectable words and word chunks are displayed in response to receipt of an input...