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Data Processing: Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, Language Translation, And Audio Compression/decompression > Linguistics > Natural Language Natural LanguageNatural Language 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 - 20060271353 - System and method for natural language processing and using ontological searches A search engine is disclosed that utilizes natural language processing (NLP) techniques. The search engine utilizes meaning-based natural language processing using ontological semantics in analyzing the meaning of queries and the searched text. This system analyzes Web pages and queries. The NLP method produces equivalent meanings to a sequence of ... 11/30/06 - 20060271352 - Integrated native language translation A method and apparatus provide for performing language translation by obtaining a selection of a language preference for presentation of text and/or speech on an electronic device. When data is received that includes content in a language other than the preferred language, a decision whether translation is required may be ... 11/23/06 - 20060265209 - Machine translation using vector space representations An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for automatically translating text. First, a conceptual representation space is generated based on source-language documents and target-language documents, wherein respective terms from the source-language and target-language documents have a representation in the conceptual representation space. Second, a new source-language document is ... 11/23/06 - 20060265208 - Device incorporating improved text input mechanism A device including a display screen for displaying m-words of data, a text entry device for entering data, a processor receiving data from the text entry device and causing it to be displayed on the display screen. Upon activation the processor initializes a precursor to a predefined value. The device ... 11/16/06 - 20060259293 - Computerized method and apparatus for automatically generating a natural language description of a person's activities A computerized method to gather, store and process data related to activities in which the person had been engaged, and to generate a natural language description summarizing the person's activities. The description can then be transmitted to a remote computer for use by various computer applications, such as a blog. ... 11/09/06 - 20060253275 - Method and apparatus for determining unbounded dependencies during syntactic parsing A method is provided for identifying non-local relationships between licensing elements in a text segment and a word or phrase external to the text segment during a syntactic parse. Under the method, certain syntactic rules for combining words or phrases with text segments indicate that there is a possibility that ... 11/09/06 - 20060253274 - Methods and systems relating to information extraction The invention relates to information extraction systems having discriminative models which utilize hierarchical cluster trees and active learning to enhance training. ... 11/09/06 - 20060253273 - Information extraction using a trainable grammar A computer-implemented method for information extraction includes defining a stochastic context free grammar (SCFG) including symbols and rules applicable to the symbols, the symbols including at least one output concept. The SCFG is trained on a tagged training corpus so as to determine probabilities of the rules and of one ... 11/02/06 - 20060247917 - Method for generating text that meets specified characteristics in a handheld electronic device and a handheld electronic device incorporating the same Incoming e-mails, instant messages, SMS, and MMS, are scanned for new language objects such as words, abbreviations, text shortcuts and, in appropriate languages, ideograms, that are placed in a list for use by a text input process of a handheld electronic device to facilitate the generation of text. ... 10/19/06 - 20060235677 - Language converter with enhanced search capability A weighted search program is disclosed. The weighted search program may be integrated into a translation program, or the weighted search program may be used independently with an available search engine. When integrated with the translation program, setting and weighting may be combined in a single search. In one embodiment, ... 10/12/06 - 20060229867 - Apparatus and method for deterministically constructing multi-lingual text questions for application to a data source A computer readable medium storing executable instructions to deterministically construct a text question for application to a data source includes executable instructions to allow a user to specify a second language different than a first language used as organizational schema of a data source. Language rules are loaded for the ... 10/12/06 - 20060229866 - Apparatus and method for deterministically constructing a text question for application to a data source A method of deterministically constructing a text question for application to a data source includes supplying a user with an initial text question. The user is allowed to alter a sentence component of the text question to form an altered sentence component. When the altered sentence component in combination with ... 10/05/06 - 20060224379 - Method of finding answers to questions A method and a system for automatically finding one or more answers to a natural language question in a computer stored natural language text database is disclosed. The natural language text database has been analyzed with respect to syntactic functions of constituents, lexical meaning of word tokens and clause boundaries, ... 09/28/06 - 20060217965 - Handheld electronic device with reduced keyboard and associated method of providing quick text entry in a message An improved handheld electronic device having a reduced keyboard provides facilitated language entry by making available to a user certain words that a user may reasonably be expected to enter. In some situations, certain words can be stored, for example, in a temporary dictionary for use in particular situations. For ... 09/21/06 - 20060212286 - Message data management A workflow manager application transfers message data received from an originating device via a communication network to a target application for processing. A graphical user interface displays the received message data and allows the user to view and designate one or more target applications for processing the message data. The ... 09/14/06 - 20060206310 - System and method for natural language processing in a peer-to-peer hybrid communications network An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method provides for natural language processing of communications between two endpoints in a peer-to-peer hybrid communications network. ... 08/31/06 - 20060195313 - Method and system for selecting and conjugating a verb A verb conjugating system allows a user to input a form of a verb and display the verb forms. The verb conjugating system allows the user to input the infinitive form or non-infinitive forms of a verb. When a user inputs a non-infinitive form of a verb, the verb conjugating ... 08/24/06 - 20060190244 - System and method for text analysis A method and system for generating a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) from an initial multi-chain, subject to a constraint. The initial multi-chain is expressed as a string serving as a current input string to which the constraint is subsequently applied. A provided string P expresses the constraint. P is applied ... 08/17/06 - 20060184357 - Efficient language identification A system and methods of language identification of natural language text are presented. The system includes stored expected character counts and variances for a list of characters found in a natural language. Expected character counts and variances are stored for multiple languages to be considered during language identification. At run-time, ... 08/10/06 - 20060178868 - Methods and systems for generating natural language descriptions from data The invention is directed to a natural language generation (NLG) software system that generates rich, content-sensitive human language descriptions based on unparsed raw domain-specific data. In one embodiment, the NLG software system may include a data parser/normalizer, a comparator, a language engine, and a document generator. The data parser/normalizer may ... 08/03/06 - 20060173674 - Language model sharing The sharing of language models is disclosed. In one embodiment, a language model service is provided that is shareable among handlers for input devices. The service includes a pre-processing mode of operation, and a correction mode of operation. In the former mode, the language model service is designed to receive ... 08/03/06 - 20060173673 - Speech recognition method and apparatus using lexicon group tree A method and an apparatus for selecting a vocabulary closest to an input speech from among lexicons stored in memory, wherein a centroid lexicon representing lexicons belonging to a predetermined lexicon group is generated. Two lexicons, having a longest distance therebetween in the lexicon group, are selected using the centroid ... 08/03/06 - 20060173672 - Processing health care transactions using a semantic network The disclosed technology can execute a sequence of transactions to process a request associated with a health care company and/or other entities interacting in a health care industry. Execution of at least some of the transaction sequence can result in the formation of an instance of a semantic network that ... 07/27/06 - 20060167679 - Vocabulary generating apparatus and method, speech recognition system using the same A vocabulary generating method and apparatus and a speech recognition system using the same are disclosed. In the vocabulary generating method, a new system vocabulary can be generated to increase the flexibility of the speech recognition system, so a user, when unsure of a system command, can use a specially ... 07/27/06 - 20060167678 - Surface structure generation A computer program product for controlling the computer's processor to perform responsive actions a natural language input has: (1) vocabulary, phrase and concept databases of words, phrase and concepts, respectively, that can be recognized in the inputted communication, wherein each of these database elements is representable by a designated semantic ... 07/27/06 - 20060167677 - Mobile communication terminal The invention relates to a mobile communication terminal, advantageously a mobile phone. According to the invention, the communication terminal includes input means and output means for outputting information to a user at least partially in a natural language. The communication terminal further includes means for storing natural language data for ... 07/13/06 - 20060155530 - Method and apparatus for generation of text documents A method for the generation of large volumes of text documents comprises the steps of collecting a set of unstructured text documents as training documents and choosing a language model (21). New documents are generated by using the language model and its parameters and by using additional words beyond the ... 07/06/06 - 20060149529 - Method for encoding messages between two devices for transmission over standard online payment networks A method of using a dictionary of message codes related to health care information is provided. The message codes in the dictionary have corresponding message values. The method includes receiving at least one message value at a first device. The first device then generates at least one message code related ... 06/29/06 - 20060142996 - Device and method for supporting error correction in an information processing system In a device and method for supporting error correction in an information processing system, a data acquisition device acquires damage information pertaining to the information processing system. A data storage contains information about possible damage cases in the information processing system as well as possible countermeasures. A computer linked with ... 06/29/06 - 20060142995 - Training for a text-to-text application which uses string to tree conversion for training and decoding Training and translation using trees and/or subtrees as parts of the rules. A target language is word aligned with a source language, and at least one of the languages is parsed into trees. The trees are used for training, by aligning conversion steps, forming a manual set of information representing ... 06/29/06 - 20060142994 - Method and system for detecting user intentions in retrieval of hint sentences A method of constructing a confusion set database for use in detecting user query intentions includes obtaining a bilingual database having aligned word pairs in first and second languages. Second language word pairs in the bilingual database are aligned with corresponding correct translation first language word pairs. First language human ... 06/29/06 - 20060142993 - System and method for utilizing distance measures to perform text classification A system and method for utilizing distance measures to perform text classification includes text classification categories that each have reference models of reference N-grams. Input text that includes input N-grams is accessed for performing the text classification. A text classifier calculates distance measures between the input N-grams and the reference ... 06/22/06 - 20060136197 - Method, system and message structure for electronically exchanging medical information The present invention relates to a message structure for electronically exchanging medical information between applications utilising disparate medical coding systems and record architectures, the message structure comprising an optional storyline keyword that sets the context for one or more subsequent statements, each of which statements comprise a genre selected from ... 06/15/06 - 20060129382 - Adaptive intrusion detection for autonomic systems A system, method, and computer program product for adaptively identifying unauthorized intrusions in a networked data processing system. In accordance with the method of the present invention, an intrusion detection module receives system event data that may be utilized for intrusion detection. The received system event data is processed utilizing ... 06/15/06 - 20060129381 - Language transference rule producing apparatus, language transferring apparatus method, and program recording medium When a portion of an input speech sentence contains an untrained portion or when speech recognition is partly erroneously performed, transference to the target language is disabled. Moreover, a phrase dictionary and interphrase rules which are necessary for transference must be manually produced. Therefore, development is low in efficiency and ... 06/15/06 - 20060129380 - System and method for disambiguating non diacritized arabic words in a text The present invention proposes a solution to the problem of word lexical disambiguation in Arabic texts. This solution is based on text domain-specific knowledge, which facilitates the automatic vowel restoration of modern standard Arabic scripts. Texts similar in their contents, restricted to a specific field or sharing a common knowledge ... 06/15/06 - 20060129379 - Semantic canvas A system for synchronizing a natural language input element and a graphical user interface has a synchronization engine. The synchronization engine is adapted to monitor user interactions with the natural language input element and the graphical user interface and to synchronize the natural language input element and the graphical user ... 06/08/06 - 20060122822 - Language grammar driven recognizer of similar code fragments and methods A system and method for a language grammar driven recognizer for assessing the similarity of identified source code fragments for software development. ... 05/25/06 - 20060111894 - Method and system for communication prioritization A computer system for managing workflow relating to a topic shared among a team of users includes a creation unit (109a, 109b, 109c). The creation unit (109a, 109b, 109c) facilitates creating topics (103) and assigning a priority to each of the topics. A topic assignment unit (111a, 111b, 111c) facilitates ... 05/18/06 - 20060106596 - Ranking parser for a natural language processing system A natural language parse ranker of a natural language processing (NLP) system employs a goodness function to rank the possible grammatically valid parses of an utterance. The goodness function generates a statistical goodness measure (SGM) for each valid parse. The parse ranker orders the parses based upon their SGM values. ... 05/18/06 - 20060106595 - 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 identifying a plurality of potentially applicable paraphrase alternation patterns. A context model provides an objective frame of reference in which to ... 05/18/06 - 20060106594 - 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 determine how to apply the given paraphrase alternation pattern to the input string. ... 05/11/06 - 20060100856 - Method and apparatus for updating dictionary A method and apparatus for updating a dictionary, by which documents of interest of a user are extracted through a network and a dictionary is updated with individual names and coined words extracted from the web documents, are provided. The dictionary updating method includes: extracting a document of interest of ... 05/11/06 - 20060100855 - Disambiguation method for complex sentences A method allows the better disambiguation and understanding of complex sentences by the mapping of syntactic elements to their thematic roles. The words and phrases form canonical sound patterns for comprehension which improves on basic reading strategies which rely on simple heuristics and pattern matches. The method can be taught ... 05/11/06 - 20060100854 - Computer generation of concept sequence correction rules A system generates rules for the correction of a concept sequence, a concept sequence coming from a text statement. A module determines from first text statements, a set of first concept sequences liable to be corrected and from second text statements, a set of second concept sequences deemed to be ... 05/11/06 - 20060100853 - System and method for generating grammatically correct text strings A system and method for generating grammatically correct text in a target language based on one or more text templates and corresponding context in a source language comprises a software module configured to select one or more source language text templates and corresponding context in the source language. The system ... 05/11/06 - 20060100852 - Technique for document editorial quality assessment A computer-implemented system and method for assessing the editorial quality of a textual unit (document, paragraph or sentence) is provided. The method includes generating a plurality of training-time feature vectors by automatically extracting features from first and last versions of training documents. The method also includes training a machine-learned classifier ... 05/11/06 - 20060100851 - Voice processing system, method for allocating acoustic and/or written character strings to words or lexical entries The present invention relates to a language-processing system, which includes at least one extractor as a device for the lexical assignment of the speech being processed and at least one connector as a device for linking the lexically assigned speech to form a statement. Language-recognizing systems are known, by way ... 05/04/06 - 20060095251 - System and method for computer analysis of computer generated communications to produce indications and warning of dangerous behavior The present invention is a system and method for computer analysis of computer generated communications to produce indications and warnings of dangerous behavior. A method of computer analysis of computer generated communications in accordance with the invention, includes collecting at least one computer generated communication produced by or received by ... 05/04/06 - 20060095250 - Parser for natural language processing A computer-implemented method for developing a parser is provided. The method includes accessing a corpus of sentences and parsing the sentences to generate a structural description of each sentence. The parser is trained based on the structural description of each sentence. ... 04/27/06 - 20060089831 - 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 depending on the importance of the semantic component, the context of the semantic component, the characteristics of the semantic component, and ... 04/20/06 - 20060085181 - Keyword extraction apparatus and keyword extraction program An appropriate keyword to characterize a collection of pieces of access history information is extracted without depending on the contents of documents related to the collection. In a keyword extraction apparatus for performing processing of extracting a keyword that characterizes a collection of pieces of access history information with respect ... 04/13/06 - 20060080084 - Method and system for candidate matching A method and system for candidate matching, such as used in match-making services, assesses narrative responses to measure candidate qualities. A candidate database includes self-assessment data and narrative data. Narrative data concerning a defined topic is analyzed to determine candidate qualities separate from topical information. Candidate qualities thus determined are ... 04/06/06 - 20060074635 - Systems and methods for handling multiple static query modules for distinct environments Systems and methods to indicate whether to store a database query language module in a local directory or a global directory are disclosed. An application program can be created once, tested once, and deployed in separate environments. The database query language modules can be shared among a group of application ... 04/06/06 - 20060074634 - Method and apparatus for fast semi-automatic semantic annotation A method, apparatus and computer instructions is provided for fast semi-automatic semantic annotation. Given a limited annotated corpus, the present invention assigns a tag and a label to each word of the next limited annotated corpus using a parser engine, a similarity engine, and a SVM engine. A rover then ... 04/06/06 - 20060074633 - System and method for rules-based context management in a medical environment Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for improved diagnostic reading and workflow in a healthcare environment using rules-based context management. In an embodiment, the system includes a plurality of information sources, wherein each of the plurality of information sources includes information. The system also includes ... 04/06/06 - 20060074632 - Ontology-based term disambiguation A given ontology is used to disambiguate one or more terms in a given document. The document is first scanned and the frequency of occurrence of the terms of the ontologies that occur in the document is computed. A unique path is selected to the ambiguous term in the ontology ... 04/06/06 - 20060074631 - 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 grammar and creating the grammar based on the at least one grammar configuration parameter. ... 04/06/06 - 20060074630 - Conditional maximum likelihood estimation of naive bayes probability models A statistical classifier is constructed by estimating Naïve Bayes classifiers such that the conditional likelihood of class given word sequence is maximized. The classifier is constructed using a rational function growth transform implemented for Naïve Bayes classifiers. The estimation method tunes the model parameters jointly for all classes such that ... 03/30/06 - 20060069546 - Autonomous response engine The present invention is an autonomous response engine and method that can more successfully mimic a human conversational exchange. In an exemplary, preferred embodiment of the invention, the response engine has a statement-response database that is autonomously updated, thus enabling a database of significant size to be easily created and ... 03/16/06 - 20060058995 - Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation In view of the foregoing, an improved handheld electronic device includes a keypad in the form of a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. As a user enters keystrokes, the device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants from which ... 03/09/06 - 20060053001 - Writing assistance using machine translation techniques A system is configured to provide writing assistance within a monolingual input environment based on statistical machine translation techniques typically utilized to translate from an input language to a different target language. ... 03/09/06 - 20060053000 - Natural language question answering system and method utilizing multi-modal logic A multi-modal natural language question answering system and method comprises receiving a question logic form, at least one answer logic form, and utilizing semantic relations, contextual information, and adaptable logic. ... 03/02/06 - 20060047501 - Method and system for producing variable length context models Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for determining, representing, and using variable-length contexts in a variety of different computational applications. In one embodiment of the present invention, a balanced tree is used to represent all possible contexts of a fixed length, where the depth of the ... 03/02/06 - 20060047500 - Named entity recognition using compiler methods Methods of identifying named entities in natural language text using machine or computer compiler tools are provided. A lexical analyzer generator such as Flex or Lex or an equivalent tool can be used to generate a recognizer for named entities, such as digits, date expressions, and email or web addresses. ... 02/23/06 - 20060041424 - Semantic processor for recognition of cause-effect relations in natural language documents A Semantic Processor for the recognition of Cause-Effect relations in natural language documents which includes a Text Preformatter, a Linguistic Analyzer and a Cause-Effect Knowledge Base Generator. The Semantic Processor provides automatic recognition of cause-effect relation both inside single fact and between the facts in arbitrary text documents, where the ... 02/23/06 - 20060041423 - Syntactic to semantic binding In order to facilitate automated operations with software, semantic meaning of data values is bound to the syntactic type of the data values. In a described implementation, a piece of software accepts inputs and produces outputs. The inputs have a specified syntactic type (e.g., runtime type) and an expected semantic ... 02/23/06 - 20060041422 - Methods and systems for detecting the alphabetic order used by different languages Embodiments of the present invention can gather data from native language sources to produce a valid collation sequence that is appropriate for a particular language and application. Sequences of characters in this data are tested to determine strength levels used by the given language. The data is also recursively probed ... 02/16/06 - 20060036429 - Left-corner chart parsing Different embodiments of the present invention provide improvements to left-corner chart parsing. The improvements include a specific order of filtering checks, transforming the grammar using bottom-up prefix merging, indexing productions first based on input symbols, grammar flattening, and annotating chart edges for the extraction of parses. ... 02/16/06 - 20060036428 - Language model architecture An architectural design is disclosed wherein a single reusable language model component is shared by multiple applications. The language model component is loaded once for a plurality of applications, thereby reducing the amount of memory consumed by the applications independently. ... 01/26/06 - 20060020447 - Ontology based method for data capture and knowledge representation A method is disclosed in which non-standard input data is corrected in a syntax processing block and a resulting corrected data file is thereafter used to reference an ontology in an ontology processing block to generate a standardized output. ... 01/26/06 - 20060020446 - Implementation of concurrent programs in object-oriented languages The present invention adds support for concurrency to a mainstream object-oriented language. Language extensions are provided that can enable programs to be developed that can either be run in one address space, distributed across several process on a single computer, or distributed across a local-area or wide-area network, without recoding ... 01/26/06 - 20060020445 - Differential dynamic delivery of content historically likely to be viewed Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for differential dynamic content delivery. Typical embodiments include providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; receiving a prerecorded presentation control instruction; selecting from the session structured document a classified ... 01/19/06 - 20060015326 - Word boundary probability estimating, probabilistic language model building, kana-kanji converting, and unknown word model building Calculates a word n-gram probability with high accuracy in a situation where a first corpus), which is a relatively small corpus containing manually segmented word information, and a second corpus, which is a relatively large corpus, are given as a training corpus that is storage containing vast quantities of sample ... 01/19/06 - 20060015325 - 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 - 20060015324 - Method and apparatus for natural language generation One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for natural language generation enables a language generation system to generate a grammatically correct natural language sentence by retrieving and adapting one or more stored sentences having semantic features similar to semantic features of a system-generated semantic representation. The retrieval of stored ... 01/19/06 - 20060015323 - Method, apparatus, and computer program for statistical translation decoding Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for decoding source text in a first language to target text in a second language are disclosed. The source text is decoded into an intermediate text portion based on a fixed alignment between words in the source text and words in the intermediate text ... 01/12/06 - 20060009965 - 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. task-specific training data set) and the relative frequency of n-grams in a large training set (i.e. out-of-domain training data ... 01/05/06 - 20060004563 - Module for creating a language neutral syntax representation using a language particular syntax tree A method or module for creating an Language Neutral Syntax (LNS) representation of a sentence from a language particular syntax representation such as found in the Penn Treebank for use by different applications. The method or module includes a node generator configured to create hierarchical and dependent nodes using phrasal ... 01/05/06 - 20060004562 - Relieving data marshalling overhead Data may be marshalled from a managed runtime environment to an unmanaged environment by using a compiler to calculate argument offsets and generate marshalling language code. ... 12/08/05 - 20050273317 - 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 meaning set from a first corpus. A second meaning set is generated from a second corpus ... 12/08/05 - 20050273316 - Apparatus and method for translating japanese into chinese and computer program product A Japanese-to-Chinese machine translation apparatus includes an unregistered word determining unit that determines whether a Japanese word of a Japanese sentence is an unregistered word not registered in a Japanese-to-Chinese translation dictionary. The Japanese-to-Chinese translation dictionary contains Japanese words into which the Japanese sentence is divided, associated with Chinese words. ... 12/08/05 - 20050273315 - Method for developing a translator and a corresponding system The invention relates to a method for developing a translator and a corresponding system, which translator is intended to translate the code of an input language into that of a target language. In the method, a descriptive language (V) is used to depict on a semantic level two source languages ... 12/01/05 - 20050267738 - Translation of electronically transmitted messages If the first and second languages are the same, the communication is sent by the sending system 11 directly to the receiving system 21a. The receiving system checks the language of incoming communications against that of the recipient and, if necessary, sends the communication to the translation site 31 for ... 11/24/05 - 20050261891 - System and method for text segmentation and display The present invention provides a system and method for dividing patent claims into segments for display. A segmentation engine of a computer program searches for transitional phrases or other strings and divides the patent claims into a segment for each claim. The segmentation engine also searches for dependency references. A ... 11/24/05 - 20050261890 - Method and apparatus for providing language translation A method and apparatus for enabling communication between a first user and a second user speaking different natural languages, comprising the steps of: providing a first apparatus; initiating a conversation between a first user and a second user speaking different languages; capturing a first audio file from a first user ... 11/17/05 - 20050256700 - Natural language question answering system and method utilizing a logic prover A natural language question answering system and method comprises receiving a question logic form, at least one answer logic form, and extended lexical information by a first module, outputting lexical chains to a second module, and utilizing axioms by the second module. ... 11/10/05 - 20050251383 - System and method of self-learning conceptual mapping to organize and interpret data In a computer implemented method of researching textual data sources, textual data is reduced to a plurality of distinctive words based on frequency of usage within the textual data. The distinctive words are converted into first numeric representations of vectors containing random numbers. A first self-organizing map is formed from ... 11/10/05 - 20050251382 - Linguistic object model A linguistic object model is adapted to model semantic elements of a natural language. The linguistic object model includes a set of abstract representations of semantic elements of an utterance. Each abstract representation in the set corresponds to a natural language type that is independent of any particular language. ... 11/03/05 - 20050246160 - Information generation system for product formation A system for the generation and storage of data, each of which represent a component of a technical product or a step in a formation process for the product. The system can generate types of relationships between several data object types and allocate data object types as well as automatically ... 10/27/05 - 20050240394 - Method, system or memory storing a computer program for document processing Terms (e.g., words) used in an expert domain that correspond to terms in a naive domain are detected when there are no vocabulary pairs or document pairs available for the expert and naive domains. Documents known to be descriptions of identical topics and written in the expert and naive domains ... 10/20/05 - 20050234708 - Notation enabling all activity between a system and a user to be defined, and methods for using the same An activity based notational system defines actions (or processes) occurring between a user and a system using only four classes. Inputters describe data provided by the user to the system, and Outputters are the inverse of Inputters. Selectors describe items provided to the user by the system and the subsequent ... 10/20/05 - 20050234707 - Chinese character-based parser A parser is provided that parses a Chinese text stream at the character level and builds a syntactic structure of Chinese character sequences. A character-based syntactic parse tree contains word boundaries, part-of-speech tags, and phrasal structure information. Syntactic knowledge constrains the system when it determines word boundaries. A deterministic procedure ... 10/13/05 - 20050228643 - Discovery of parallel text portions in comparable collections of corpora and training using comparable texts A translation training device which extracts from two nonparallel Corpora a set of parallel sentences. The system finds parameters between different sentences or phrases, in order to find parallel sentences. The parallel sentences are then used for training a data-driven machine translation system. The process can be applied repetitively until ... 10/13/05 - 20050228642 - Efficient capitalization through user modeling A method of automatically capitalizing text utilizes a capitalization model. The capitalization model is trained from data that is taken from documents associated with a particular user. In particular, documents that are authored by the user such as e-mails, are used to train the model. ... 10/13/05 - 20050228641 - Language model adaptation using semantic supervision A method and apparatus are provided for adapting a language model. The method and apparatus provide supervised class-based adaptation of the language model utilizing in-domain semantic information. ... 10/13/05 - 20050228640 - Statistical language model for logical forms 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 set of transfer mappings using a statistical model. At least one transfer mapping is selected based on ... 09/29/05 - 20050216255 - Electronic dictionary with illustrative sentences When two or more retrieval words are entered through an entry unit of an information display control device, illustrative sentences containing all the retrieval words are extracted from an illustrative sentence data table and illustrative sentences corresponding to source entry words identical to the retrieval words are displayed in the ... 09/29/05 - 20050216254 - System-resource-based multi-modal input fusion A multi-modal input fusion (MMIF) (200) is made scalable based on the resources available. When system resources are low, the MMIF module will limit the number of elements in each set of related interpretations. Additionally, the number of sets generated can be increased or reduced based on an amount of ... 09/08/05 - 20050197828 - Methods, apparatus and data structures for facilitating a natural language interface to stored information An authoring tool (or process) to facilitate the performance of an annotation function and an indexing function. The annotation function may generate informational annotations and word annotations to a database design schema (e.g., an entity-relationship diagram or “ERD”). The indexing function may analyze the words of the annotations by classifying ... 08/25/05 - 20050187757 - 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 depending on the importance of the semantic component, the context of the semantic component, the characteristics of the semantic component, and ... 08/25/05 - 20050187756 - System and apparatus for handling presentation language messages A method, device, chip, computer program, and system that handle presentation language messages including dividing the message into simple and complex sections. The system includes a terminal and a base station. As such, presentation language messages can be viewed by simple presentation devices while allowing the simple presentation devices to ... 08/18/05 - 20050182619 - Systems and methods 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 set of candidate discourse functions is determined based on the theory of discourse analysis. Prosodic features in the speech and a correlation ... 08/18/05 - 20050182618 - Systems and methods for determining and using interaction models Techniques are provided for determining and using interaction models. Discourse functions, prosodic features and turn information are determined from the speech information in a training corpus. Statistics, decision trees, rules and/or various other methods are used to determine a predictive interaction model based on the discourse functions, the prosodic features ... 08/04/05 - 20050171759 - Text generation method and text generation device A text generation method and a text generation device generate a meaningful text even though the number of input keywords is insufficient. In order to achieve this object, keywords are input to the text generation device. In the text generation device, a Bunsetsu-generation-rule acquisition unit acquires a Bunsetsu generation rule ... 07/28/05 - 20050165602 - System and method for accented modification of a language model A system and method for a speech recognition technology that allows language models for a particular language to be customized through the addition of alternate pronunciations that are specific to the accent of the dictator, for a subset of the words in the language model. The system includes the steps ... 07/28/05 - 20050165601 - Method and apparatus for determining when a user has ceased inputting data In a system (200) where a user's input is received by a user interface (201), users are free to use available input modalities in any order and at any time. In order to ensure that all inputs are collected before inferring the user's intent, an multi-modal input fusion (MMIF) module ... 07/28/05 - 20050165600 - System and method for comparative analysis of textual documents A system and method are presented for the comparative analysis of textual documents. In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention the method includes accessing two or more documents, performing a linguistic analysis on each document, outputting a quantified representation of a semantic content of each document, and comparing the ... 07/14/05 - 20050154580 - Automated grammar generator (agg) An automated grammar generator is disclosed, which is operable to receive a speech or text segment. The automated grammar generator identifies one or more parts of the segment suitable for processing into a natural language expression. The natural language expression is an expression which a person might use to refer ... 07/07/05 - 20050149319 - Speech recognition with feeback 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 speech using acoustic models to produce a speech recognition result. The natural-language processing unit performs natural language processing on the speech recognition ... 07/07/05 - 20050149318 - Speech recognition with feeback 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 processor. The speech recognition unit performs speech recognition on input speech using acoustic models to produce a speech recognition result. The natural-language processor performs natural language processing on speech recognition result, and includes: ... 06/23/05 - 20050137855 - Systems and methods for the generation of alternate phrases from packed meaning Techniques are provided to generate alternate phrases from a packed meaning representation. The semantics of input items in a packed meaning representation are matched against a lexicon to determine initial entries in a phrasal information structure. Context, syntax and semantic information describing each phrasal entry are added to the phrasal ... 06/23/05 - 20050137854 - Method and apparatus for evaluating machine translation quality Quality of machine translation of natural language is determined by computing a sequence kernel that provides a measure of similarity between a first sequence of symbols representing a machine translation in a target natural language and a second sequence of symbols representing a reference translation in the target natural language. ... 06/23/05 - 20050137853 - 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 ... 06/16/05 - 20050131674 - Information processing apparatus and its control method, and program A notation character string division unit acquires a word to be processed from a word dictionary which includes a plurality of words each having notation information and pronunciation information, and divides its notation into a plurality of partial character strings. A partial character string coupling unit generates new partial character ... 06/09/05 - 20050125219 - Systems and methods for semantic stenography A method and apparatus converts input data such as short notes into a global text realization to provide semantically-coherent grammatical text. In various exemplary embodiments, an individual inputs short notes into a computer system, the computer system associates local text realizations with the short notes. Subsequently, the user may select ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |