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Data Processing: Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, Language Translation, And Audio Compression/decompression > Linguistics > Translation Machine Translation MachineTranslation Machine patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.11/30/06 - 20060271350 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for supporting communication through translation between languages A communication support apparatus includes a speech recognizer that recognizes a first speech of a source language as a first source language sentence, and recognizes a second speech of the source language following the first speech as a second source language sentence; a determining unit that determines whether the second ... 11/30/06 - 20060271349 - Seamless translation system A method and system for providing automatic translation of an electronic communication from a source language to one or more target languages. A source language is determined using a translation identifier or a language identifier means. A user profile is read to determine the target language. The target language and ... 11/09/06 - 20060253272 - Voice prompts for use in speech-to-speech translation system Techniques for employing improved prompts in a speech-to-speech translation system are disclosed. By way of example, a technique for use in indicating a dialogue turn in an automated speech-to-speech translation system comprises the following steps/operations. One or more text-based scripts are obtained. The one or more text-based scripts are synthesizable ... 10/26/06 - 20060241934 - Apparatus and method for translating japanese into chinese, and computer program product therefor A Japanese-to-Chinese machine translation apparatus includes, a translation dictionary memory that stores a Japanese-to-Chinese translation dictionary; a thesaurus memory that stores a Japanese thesaurus; a translation dictionary searching unit that searches the Japanese-to-Chinese translation dictionary for a Chinese word associated with an input Japanese word; a thesaurus searching unit that ... 10/26/06 - 20060241933 - Predictive conversion of user input Systems and methods for predictive conversion of user text input in one language or character set to another language or character set are disclosed. The method may generally include converting a partial user input in a non-target language or character set to a converted partial user input in a target ... 10/26/06 - 20060241932 - Translation previewer and validator A method and system for format checking a translated text in which the method includes displaying the translated text on a graphical user interface, determining whether the translated text is visually acceptable based on the displaying, and validating the translated text. The system includes a graphical user interface, a storage ... 10/05/06 - 20060224378 - Communication support apparatus and computer program product for supporting communication by performing translation between languages A communication support apparatus includes an analyzing unit that analyzes an source language sentence to be translated into a target language, and outputs at least one source language interpretation candidate which is a candidate for interpretation of the source language sentence; a detecting unit that, when there are a plurality ... 09/28/06 - 20060217960 - Translation device, translation method, and storage medium A translating device has: an input unit that inputs a document; a unit that specifies a target language; a unit that translates the inputted document into the translated document written in the target language; a memory that stores a set of condition data and advertisement data assigned to the condition ... 09/28/06 - 20060217959 - Translation processing method, document processing device and storage medium storing program In a translation processing method, a document is input; characteristic information is extracted from the input document; a translation style is selected according to the characteristic information; and the input document is translated using the selected translation style. ... 09/28/06 - 20060217958 - Electronic device and recording medium The invention provides an electronic device that has an identification unit that performs character recognition processing on image data representing a text written in a first language and identifies candidate character strings representing results of the character recognition processing for each of structural units of the text, a decision unit ... 09/28/06 - 20060217957 - Translation device, translation method, and storage medium A translation device for translating a document has an image analysis unit and a translation unit. The image analysis unit determines a word and an abbreviation of the word. The translation unit translates the word and generates a new abbreviation based on the translated word. ... 09/28/06 - 20060217956 - Translation processing method, document translation device, and programs A translation processing method comprising: registering a type of annotation with a corresponding translation rule in a table; identifying a text to be processed; extracting a type of annotation and character information from the text identified at the identifying step; identifying a text element to which the annotation extracted at ... 09/28/06 - 20060217955 - Document translation method and document translation device A document translation method having extracting a term from a document, executing a substitute process and outputting the term in a predetermined manner. The process of executing a substitute process on the term is performed in a translating process when the term from the document matches a term predetermined by ... 09/28/06 - 20060217954 - Translation device, image processing device, translation method, and recording medium A translation device comprises a character recognition unit that recognizes text data in a text region of an input image; a translator that translates the text data in the text region; and a layout configuration processor that generates data containing the translated text data in the text region and graphics ... 09/14/06 - 20060206305 - Translation system, translation method, and program A translation system comprises an image reading unit that optically reads an image of a manuscript and generates image data; an inputting unit that inputs a translation target language; a character recognizing unit that generates an original text by performing a character recognition process on the image data generated by ... 09/14/06 - 20060206304 - Multilingual translation memory, translation method, and translation program A translation memory adapted to sentence-based translation includes a first retrieval dictionary of a first language having a first dictionary TRIE structure and a first index TRIE structure, and a second retrieval dictionary of a second language having a second dictionary TRIE structure and a second index TRIE structure. The ... 09/14/06 - 20060206303 - Resource authoring incorporating ontology The present invention provides a system for processing data. ... 09/07/06 - 20060200335 - Device and method for outputting translated text A device for outputting translated document has a document input part that inputs document data to be translated; a translation part that translates the document data inputted by the document input part; an output destination specifying part that specifies an output destination of the translated document for each target language; ... 08/31/06 - 20060195312 - Integer programming decoder for machine translation A machine translation (MT) decoder may transform a translation problem into an integer programming problem, such as a Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). The decoder may invoke an integer program (IP) solver to solve the integer programming problem and output a likely decoding based on the solution. ... 08/24/06 - 20060190242 - Method and system for automated item development for language learners A method of developing a translation exercise is disclosed. A grammatical structure may be received. Each of one or more text segments in a first language may be translated into a corresponding text segment in a second language. Each text segment in the first language may include one or more ... 08/24/06 - 20060190241 - Apparatus and methods for aligning words in bilingual sentences Methods are disclosed for performing proper word alignment that satisfy constraints of coverage and transitive closure. Initially, a translation matrix which defines word association measures between source and target words of a corpus of bilingual translations of source and target sentences is computed. Subsequently, in a first method, the association ... 08/17/06 - 20060184352 - Enhanced chinese character/pin yin/english translator A method for the rapid, dynamic conversion of Pin Yin words is disclosed. The present invention comprises a web-based computer program. The user identifies an input which may be a hybrid or unaccented Pin Yin word. The character is translated dynamically into an accented Pin Yin word, a Simplified Chinese ... 08/10/06 - 20060178866 - Directory-oriented electronic document batch translation processing method and system A directory-oriented electronic document batch translation processing method and system is proposed, which is designed for use in conjunction with a computer platform for the purpose of providing a directory-oriented batch translation processing function for translating a batch of user-desired document files from a first specified language to a second ... 07/27/06 - 20060167675 - 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 text to be translated are looked up in a dictionary (step S201) to determine whether the text includes an unregistered word (step S203). ... 07/13/06 - 20060155527 - Mobile terminal and system providing multilingual support A mobile terminal and system providing multilingual support, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the system includes a server configured to store fonts of different languages of countries, a mobile terminal configured to download a multilingual software module from the server through a wireless network, and/or to receive a multilingual ... 06/22/06 - 20060136193 - Retrieval method for translation memories containing highly structured documents In a translation apparatus, a translation memory (32) stores (i) source language target language translation unit pairs and (ii) structural information for at least some source language translation units indicating a structural position within a document from which the source language translation unit was derived. A comparator (30) compares a ... 06/22/06 - 20060136192 - Method and apparatus for enhanced translation in an application simulation development environment Disclosed are a method, a system and a computer program for translating an application simulation into a plurality of languages. The method comprises the steps of creating a first simulation having a sequence of frames, in a first language; adding elements in said first language to said sequence of frames; ... 06/15/06 - 20060129377 - Tread or track with mirror image word pattern and method of printing on surface A tire tread or track tread that is constructed in tessellating patterns of mirror images of words, phrases, or sentences suitable for communicating a person's identity or for advertising purposes. The treads imprint the earth or paint the road with the desired words, phrases, or sentences, adding an additional function ... 06/01/06 - 20060116867 - 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 L1 that occurs in a sentence aligned in the bilingual corpus to a sentence of language L2 in which the other word occurs. A ... 06/01/06 - 20060116866 - Machine translation system, method and program Machine translation system includes storage unit configured to store interpretation data items each including first expression element representing first expression of first language, word set element including first expression, and second expression element representing second expression of second language, first expression being to be translated into second expression, first expression ... 06/01/06 - 20060116865 - E-services translation utilizing machine translation and translation memory A system and method for translating data from a source language to a target language is provided wherein machine generated target translation of a source sentence is compared to a database of human generated target sentences. If a matching human generated target sentence is found, the human generated target sentence ... 06/01/06 - 20060116864 - Safe, secure resource editing for application localization with automatic adjustment of application user interface for translated resources Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods, systems and computer-readable media for external localization of a software product. This external localization involves loading a base product having one or more calls to an operating system (or an API) to load language specific data. The calls are intercepted after the ... 04/20/06 - 20060085180 - Scaleable machine translation A method translates a textual input in a first language to a textual output in a second language. An input logical form is generated based on the textual input. When a plurality of transfer mappings in a transfer mapping database match the input logical form (or at least a portion ... 04/13/06 - 20060080079 - Translation system, translation communication system, machine translation method, and medium embodying program A translation means determination section of a translation system determines whether translation processing of language data input from an input section is to be performed in an internal translation section or on an external translation server connected by a communication line through a communication control section. In the latter case, ... 01/19/06 - 20060015320 - Selection and use of nonstatistical translation components in a statistical machine translation framework A system with a nonstatistical translation component integrated with a statistical translation component engine. The same corpus may be used for training the statistical engine and also for determining when to use the statistical engine and when to use the translation component. This training may use probabilistic techniques. Both the ... 01/19/06 - 20060015319 - 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 rare events. ... 01/19/06 - 20060015318 - 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 corpus to produce modified translation probabilities. Under many embodiments, the translation probabilities are modified using an iterative training algorithm. ... 01/05/06 - 20060004560 - Method and apparatus for translation based on a repository of existing translations A method is disclosed of translating an input sentence in a source language to an output sentence in a target language using a store comprising a plurality of example sentences in the source language each paired with its translation in the target language. A base example sentence is chosen from ... 12/29/05 - 20050288919 - Method and system for model-parameter machine translation An invention of the model-parameter machine translation is developed for use in language translation. This invention combines certain sentence express model that is unchangeable and the vocabulary parameter within the sentence express model is changeable by user's request. Therefore, it can dispel the ambiguity in different interpretation for a word, ... 12/22/05 - 20050283356 - Data management method The present invention relates to a data management method between a mass storage device and a data capture/storage device. When the data capture/storage device is connected to the mass storage device, a connection signal is generated. The connection signal initiates the transfer of data files from the data capture/storage device ... 12/01/05 - 20050267734 - Translation support program and word association program A translation support program that makes association between words or phrases in an original sentence and a corresponding translation sentence easy. A similar translation example retrieval section extracts similar translation examples similar to an input sentence and rearranges the similar translation examples in order according to their similarity degrees. When ... 12/01/05 - 20050267733 - System and method for a translation process within a development infrastructure A system and method are provided for a translation data exchange system. In an embodiment, the translation data exchange system receives a release notification from a development environment. The release notification may indicate that one or more source files have been (or are in the process of being) released to ... 11/17/05 - 20050256699 - Method for specifying equivalence of language grammars and automatically translating sentences in one language to sentences in another language in a computer environment A method for specifying equivalence of language grammars and automatically translating sentences in one language to sentences in another language in a computer environment. The method uses a unified grammar specification of grammars of different languages in a single unified representation of all the individual grammars where equivalent production rules ... 11/17/05 - 20050256698 - Method and arrangement for translating data The invention relates to a method and arrangement for classifying the data of an input data flow containing elements by using a knowledge base containing segments. The invention is particularly suited for translating languages. In the method, the processable part of the input data flow is read, divided into elements, ... 11/03/05 - 20050246156 - Communication processing system A method and apparatus are described for automatic processing of electronic communications in a networked computer environment. The invention facilitates the appropriate form of translation of the communication to suit the circumstance. The communication is identified as a foreign language communication, a quotation program is optionally applied to calculate the ... 10/27/05 - 20050240391 - Text abbreviation methods and apparatus and systems using same Text processors are configured to shorten or compact text based on one or more abbreviation libraries or rule libraries. Messaging methods include such text abbreviation processing to reduce message length based on display properties or to enhance user perception. Message length can be reduced based on abbreviations in a standard ... 10/20/05 - 20050234702 - Translation support system, server, translation support method, recording medium and computer data signal A server having a database sequentially registers a plurality of Japanese messages to be translated into the database. In parallel to the registration, the server provides a first translation terminal with Japanese messages already registered, acquires English messages translated by the first translation terminal, and sequentially registers the acquired English ... 10/20/05 - 20050234701 - Training tree transducers Training using tree transducers is described. Given sample input/output pairs as training, and given a set of tree transducer rules, the information is combined to yield locally optimal weights for those rules. This combination is carried out by building a weighted derivation forest for each input/output pair and applying counting ... 10/20/05 - 20050234700 - Autonomic method, system and program product for translating content Under the present invention, a user will provide content to be translated to a translation engine. After making the translation, the user will be provided with the results and transaction process details specifying the context of the translation. Based on the context, the user can provide feedback regarding the quality ... 10/13/05 - 20050228637 - Universal translator/converter The Universal Translator/Converter bridges the gap in the areas of language and communication. The invention is a portable hand-held device that is spoken into. It then translates the spoken language into whatever language that is needed in the form of a voice. It will wait for a response in the ... 10/13/05 - 20050228636 - 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 repository to learn to classify a communication into one of a plurality of predefined categories. The sample response repository comprises a ... 09/29/05 - 20050216251 - Bi-lingual language display and method A coordinated language display and method including visual coordination of grammatical concepts, language structures or forms between and/or within texts. Visual coordination may be accomplished by altering the visual textual attributes of certain words or textual units or by associating an indicator of the relationship or grammatical function of the ... 09/22/05 - 20050209844 - 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, e.g., documents and/or user inputs/queries, determining valid words from the unknown character strings, and generating a transition matrix based on the ... 09/15/05 - 20050203727 - Dynamic context-sensitive translation dictionary for mobile phones A method and apparatus are presented for providing language translation assistance to a user of a mobile terminal. The terminal makes available a number of language translation services to the user, and the mobile terminal has a database for storing translation data. If the translation data is insufficient to cover ... 09/08/05 - 20050197827 - In-context exact (ice) matching Methods, systems and program product are disclosed for determining a matching level of a text lookup segment with a plurality of source texts in a translation memory in terms of context. In particular, the invention determines any exact matches for the lookup segment in the plurality of source texts, and ... 09/08/05 - 20050197826 - Embedded translation document method and system A model for a digital, computer readable document that includes a hidden layer of embedded translations for the words and phrases that occur in the overt text of the document is disclosed. A hidden layer contains translations of these words and phrases from the original or overt language of the ... 09/08/05 - 20050197825 - Personal digital assistant with text scanner and language translator A PDA (10) is provided that includes: an LCD touch screen (12) that supports a GUI through which a user selectively provides input to the PDA (10); a scanner (16) housed within the PDA (10), the scanner (16) selectively capturing an image by passing the scanner (16) over the image; ... 09/01/05 - 20050192792 - System and method for normalization of a string of words The present invention relates generally to a system and method for categorization of strings of words. More specifically, the present invention relates to a system and method for normalizing a string of words for use in a system for categorization of words in a predetermined categorization scheme. A method for ... 08/25/05 - 20050187753 - Providing assistance for editing markup document based on inferred grammar Methods and apparatus are provided for assisting a user who is editing a markup document on a computer. The user is presented with the markup document on a display of the computer for editing and provided with grammatical assistance based on a grammar inferred from current content of the markup ... 08/18/05 - 20050182616 - Phonetic-based text input method A method for transliterating languages in a computer system is disclosed. The method includes using a phonetic mapping engine to map languages to phonetic strings and vice versa. A user unfamiliar with a keyboard layout for a particular language may type phonetic strings using a known keyboard layout of a ... 08/11/05 - 20050177358 - Multilingual database interaction system and method The present invention relates to a system and method of translating stored data. In particular the present invention facilitates multilingual interaction with a data store by providing a translation component between data stored in one language and users that prefer to interact in one or more different languages. Queries or ... 08/04/05 - 20050171757 - Machine translation A computer natural language translation system, comprising: means for inputting source language text; means for outputting target language text; transfer means for generating said target language text from said source language text using stored translation data generated from examples of source and corresponding target language texts, in which said stored ... 07/07/05 - 20050149316 - Translation support device A translation support device for supporting a process of translating an original sentence in a language into another language, comprising a partial expression setting unit, a dummy head setting unit, an original sentence replacement unit, a translated sentence obtaining unit, and a translated sentence replacement unit. ... 07/07/05 - 20050149315 - 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. Alternatively, documents are retrieved as needed, translated, and stored on a Web server so user requests are serviced with a document that has ... 06/23/05 - 20050137846 - On-demand creation of java locale source A method, system, program product and signal bearing medium are provided for creating a specific Java style locale source file on demand in a computer suitable for application use. In particular the method comprises receiving a request submitted for the specific Java style locale and obtaining a plurality of localization ... 06/23/05 - 20050137845 - Method and structures to enable national language support for dynamic data Disclosed are a method and system for enabling multi-language support for data. A piece of data is captured and translated into a plurality of languages. The original data and all of the translations are stored in the same database instance, for retrieval and presentation in any of a group of ... 06/23/05 - 20050137844 - Method for generating a language-independent regression test script A computer-implemented method for generating a language-independent regression test script. A language-specific regression test script comprising at least one object is received, wherein the language-specific regression test script is for use by an automated testing tool for testing an application in a first language. A translatable string of the object ... 06/23/05 - 20050137843 - Method and apparatus for authoring documents using object-based elements as an interaction interface Text is created with a high-level interactive authoring systems by associating an object-based element, such as a graphic object, with the linguistic resources of a language processing unit, a user may interact with the system by using the object-based element as an interface. In this way, the flexibility in operating ... 06/16/05 - 20050131673 - Speech translation device and computer readable medium A translation device which has both advantages of a table look-up translation device and advantages of a machine translation device by leading the user's utterance through a sentence template suitable for the user's intent of speech is realized. Since the translation device searches for sentence templates suitable for the user's ... 06/16/05 - 20050131672 - Language-enhanced programming tools Statements of a computer program expressed using a first source natural language are made meaningful to a programmer familiar with a second target natural language. The first source natural language of the computer program is determined from the programmer, or through analysis, and the second target natural language desired by ... 06/02/05 - 20050119874 - Pivot translation method and system A method and system for translating text from a source language into a target language is described. A source word table and a source structure analysis table corresponding to the source language can be generated based on the text to be translated. A target word table and a target structure ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |