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Data Processing: Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, Language Translation, And Audio Compression/decompression > Speech Signal Processing > Recognition > Word Recognition > Specialized Models > 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.11/23/06 - 20060265225 - Method and apparatus for voice recognition A voice recognition system according to embodiments of the present invention includes a recognizer; a grammar operably coupled to the recognizer, the grammar defining utterances to be recognized; a processing application configured to receive an output of the recognizer, the output including a tag element having a semantic content and ... 10/19/06 - 20060235691 - Intent-based information processing and updates in association with a service agent In various embodiments, a method for processing a request made by a requester is provided. The method may include receiving at least one request from at least one requester, the request being in the form of natural language; analyzing the request with an agent; selecting at least one form based ... 10/19/06 - 20060235690 - Intent-based information processing and updates In various embodiments, a method for processing a user request is provided. The method may include receiving input data from a user including at least natural language associated with a user request; analyzing the user input data with an intermediary agent; selecting at least one form based on analyzing the ... 10/19/06 - 20060235689 - Question answering system, data search method, and computer program A question answering system includes a question input unit, a search unit, an answer candidate extraction unit, an answer candidate inspection unit and an answer output unit. The search unit executes search processing based on an input question. The answer candidate extraction unit extracts an initial answer candidate based on ... 10/05/06 - 20060224384 - System and method for automatic speech recognition A system and method for automatic recognition of foreign speakers by performing analysis of a speech sample to produce a signal representative thereof and attempting to match the representative signal to one of a plurality of predetermined sounds to produce recognition; and determining whether a gap exists in a table ... 09/28/06 - 20060217979 - Nlp tool to dynamically create movies/animated scenes The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates integrating natural language input and graphics in a cooperative manner. In particular, as natural language input is entered by a user, an illustrated or animated scene can be generated to correspond to such input. The natural language input can ... 09/14/06 - 20060206332 - Easy generation and automatic training of spoken dialog systems using text-to-speech A dialog system training environment and method using text-to-speech (TTS) are provided. The only knowledge a designer requires is a simple specification of when the dialog system has failed or succeeded, and for any state of the dialog, a list of the possible actions the system can take. The training ... 08/31/06 - 20060195321 - Natural language system and method based on unisolated performance metric A natural language business system and method is developed to understand the underlying meaning of a person's speech, such as during a transaction with the business system. The system includes a speech recognition engine, and action classification engine, and a control module. The control module causes the system to execute ... 08/03/06 - 20060173686 - Apparatus, method, and medium for generating grammar network for use in speech recognition and dialogue speech recognition A method, apparatus, and medium for generating a grammar network for speech recognition and a dialogue speech recognition are provided. A method, apparatus, and medium for employing the same are provided. The apparatus for generating a grammar network for speech recognition includes: a dialogue history storage unit storing a dialogue ... 07/06/06 - 20060149549 - Natural language recognition using distributed processing A method and system for computer-based recognition of natural language data. The method is implemented on a distributed computer network and includes obtaining natural language data, such as digital ink handwriting, using an input device (415), receiving the natural language data on a server via a network, processing the natural ... 05/25/06 - 20060111907 - Generic spelling mnemonics A system and method for creating a mnemonics Language Model for use with a speech recognition software application, wherein the method includes generating an n-gram Language Model containing a predefined large body of characters, wherein the n-gram Language Model includes at least one character from the predefined large body of ... 05/25/06 - 20060111906 - Enabling voice click in a multimodal page A method, system and apparatus for enabling voice clicks in a multimodal page. In accordance with the present invention, a method for enabling voice clicks in a multimodal page can include toggling a display of indicia binding selected user interface elements in the multimodal page to corresponding voice logic; and, ... 05/18/06 - 20060106608 - Method and system for efficient voice-based programming Provided is a system and method for creating program code via voice input. The method includes providing a client application configured to compare a voice input to a grammar specified in a document; mapping a plurality of commands specified in the grammar to programming language commands; and enhancing the mapped ... 05/11/06 - 20060100876 - Speech recognition apparatus and speech recognition method To provide a speech recognition apparatus which appropriately performs speech recognition by generating, in real time, language models adapted to a new topic even in the case where topics are changed. The speech recognition apparatus includes: a word specification unit for obtaining and specifying a word; a language model information ... 05/11/06 - 20060100875 - Method and system to parameterize dialog systems for the purpose of branding A method and system to parameterize a spoken language dialog system, includes providing a storage area to store at least one parameter value, integrating a subcomponent with at least one module of the spoken language dialog system, and configuring the subcomponent to access the at least one parameter value and ... 05/04/06 - 20060095263 - Character string input apparatus and method of controlling same A character string input apparatus having specifying means for specifying a category of a character, and speech receiving means for receiving speech, wherein a character string is input based upon a specifying input from the specifying means and speech that has been received by the speech receiving means, is provided. ... 04/27/06 - 20060089835 - Automatic production of vocal recognition in interfaces for an applied field The device for automatic production of voice recognition interfaces comprises means for graphical input of a conceptual model, derivation means, means of providing a generic model and means of executing the grammar specific to the field of application concerned. ... 04/20/06 - 20060085193 - Context free grammar engine for speech recognition system The present invention includes a context-free grammar (CFG) engine which communicates through an exposed interface with a speech recognition engine. The context-free grammar engine, in one illustrative embodiment, handles loading and unloading of grammars, as well as maintaining a desired activation state of the grammars which are loaded. Further, the ... 04/20/06 - 20060085192 - System and methods for conducting an interactive dialog via a speech-based user interface A system and methods are provided for conducting an interactive dialog via a speech-based user interface. The system includes an auditory prompt module for generating a sequence of goal-directed auditory prompts based upon a pre-determined user-oriented task, and an error recovery module for responding to a communication error by initiating ... 04/13/06 - 20060080101 - Apparatus and method for spoken language understanding by using semantic role labeling An apparatus and a method are provided for using semantic role labeling for spoken language understanding. A received utterance semantically parsed by semantic role labeling. A predicate or at least one argument is extracted from the semantically parsed utterance. An intent is estimated based on the predicate or the at ... 04/06/06 - 20060074671 - System and methods for improving accuracy of speech recognition The invention provides a system and method for improving speech recognition. A computer software system is provided for implementing the system and method. A user of the computer software system may speak to the system directly and the system may respond, in spoken language, with an appropriate response. Grammar rules ... 04/06/06 - 20060074670 - Method and system for interactive conversational dialogue for cognitively overloaded device users A system and method to interactively converse with a cognitively overloaded user of a device, includes maintaining a knowledge base of information regarding the device and a domain, organizing the information in at least one of a relational manner and an ontological manner, receiving speech from the user, converting the ... 04/06/06 - 20060074669 - Speech grammars having priority levels In a speech recognition environment where time constraint limits the use of stored grammars in matching with a speech, the phonemes converted words are built into a number of trees of different priority levels so that the number of the trees combined into a concatenated tree for speech recognition is ... 04/06/06 - 20060074668 - Method to assign word class information An assignment device (1) assigns word class information (WKI) to one or more words of text information (ETI). Based on word-class sequence information (WK-AI) formed from this assigned word class information (WKI), actions (A) are executed in order to notify the user of conflicts or to provide the user with ... 04/06/06 - 20060074667 - Speech recognition device and method In a speech recognition device (1) for recognizing text information (TI) corresponding to speech information (SI), wherein speech information (SI) can be characterized in respect of language properties, there are firstly provided at least two language-property recognition means (20, 21, 22, 23), each of the language-property recognition means (20, 21, ... 04/06/06 - 20060074666 - Method of adaptive learning through pattern matching A method of operating a plurality of electrical and/or electronic devices connected with a data processing apparatus is disclosed as including the steps of (a) detecting occurrence of events of the devices (b) recording data relating to some of said detected events in a database; (c) ordering the recorded events ... 03/30/06 - 20060069564 - Method of weighting speech recognition grammar responses using knowledge base usage data A method of speech recognition is provided for use in searching a knowledge database. A spoken command is communicated to a system. The spoken command is responded to with a set comprising a plurality of keywords. The plurality of keywords is arranged in a best possible set of matches which ... 03/09/06 - 20060053016 - Systems and methods for managing multiple grammars in a speech recognition system Systems and methods are described for a speech system that manages multiple grammars from one or more speech-enabled applications. The speech system includes a speech server that supports different grammars and different types of grammars by exposing several methods to the speech-enabled applications. The speech server supports static grammars that ... 03/09/06 - 20060053015 - Method, apparatus and system for building a compact language model for large vocabulary continous speech recognition (lvcsr) system According to one aspect of the invention, a method is provided in which a set of probabilistic attributes in an N-gram language model is classified into a plurality of classes. Each resultant class is clustered into a plurality of segments to build a code-book for the respective class using a ... 02/23/06 - 20060041428 - Automated extraction of semantic content and generation of a structured document from speech Techniques are disclosed for automatically generating structured documents based on speech, including identification of relevant concepts and their interpretation. In one embodiment, a structured document generator uses an integrated process to generate a structured textual document (such as a structured textual medical report) based on a spoken audio stream. The ... 02/02/06 - 20060025997 - System and process for developing a voice application A system for use in developing a voice application, including a dialog element selector for defining execution paths of the application by selecting dialog elements and adding the dialog elements to a tree structure, each path through the tree structure representing one of the execution paths, a dialog element generator ... 01/26/06 - 20060020466 - Ontology based medical patient evaluation method for data capture and knowledge representation A patient evaluation method is disclosed in which non-standard input data is corrected in a syntax processing block with reference to a healthcare lexicon 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 - 20060020465 - Ontology based system for data capture and knowledge representation A system is disclosed in which non-standard input data is corrected in a syntax processing block and a resulting corrected data file is thereafter used by an ontology processing block, which references an ontology, to generate a standardized output. ... 01/26/06 - 20060020464 - Speech recognition application or server using iterative recognition constraints A speech recognition application including a recognition module configured to receive input utterances and an application module configured to select a recognition from the speech recognition module using output from a first iteration to select a recognition result for a second iteration. In one embodiment, the application module eliminates a ... 01/26/06 - 20060020463 - Method and system for identifying and correcting accent-induced speech recognition difficulties A system for use in speech recognition includes an acoustic module accessing a plurality of distinct-language acoustic models, each based upon a different language; a lexicon module accessing at least one lexicon model; and a speech recognition output module. The speech recognition output module generates a first speech recognition output ... 01/12/06 - 20060009974 - Hands-free voice dialing for portable and remote devices Dynamically constructed grammar-constraints and frequency or statistics-based constraints are used to constrain the speech recognizer and to optionally rescore the output to improve recognition accuracy. The recognition system is well adapted for hands-free operation of portable devices, such as for voice dialing operations. ... 01/12/06 - 20060009973 - Multi-slot dialog systems and methods Systems and methods for constructing a series of interactions with a user to collect multiple pieces of related information for the purpose of accomplishing a specific goal or topic (a multi-slot dialog) using a component-based approach are disclosed. The method generally includes outputting a primary header prompt to elicit values ... 01/05/06 - 20060004575 - Method and apparatus for creation and user-customization of speech-enabled services Embodiments of the invention relate to a system and method for providing speech-enabled application programs. The speech-enabled programs automatically execute requests input by users. One or more natural language variants may be mapped with at least one natural language exemplar. The natural language exemplar may correspond to a typical way ... 01/05/06 - 20060004574 - Semantic based validation information in a language model to detect recognition errors and improve dialog performance A validation routine is integrated into or otherwise closely associated with a language model such as a context-free grammar. The validation routine receives recognition results from a speech recognizer that has used the corresponding grammar to form the recognized results. The validation routine operates upon the recognized results to ascertain ... 12/29/05 - 20050288931 - Speech recognition grammar creating apparatus, control method therefor, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program A speech recognition grammar creating apparatus, which is capable of eliminating complex labor associated with preparing all rules by taking into account changes of the order of component elements of a speech-recognizing object and possible combinations of component elements including at least one component element that can be omitted. In ... 12/29/05 - 20050288930 - Computer voice recognition apparatus and method The present invention relates to a system and method for speech recognition that receives speech input and converts the speech input to data. A database is accessed to determine stored data corresponding to the speech input data. The stored data is associated with desired output data. The output data is ... 12/22/05 - 20050283365 - Dialogue supporting apparatus The present invention provides a dialogue supporting apparatus that can easily select a desired sample sentence from among candidate-sample sentences corresponding to inputted speech. The dialogue supporting apparatus includes: a speech recognition unit which performs continuous speech recognition of the inputted speech; a database unit having a sample sentence database ... 12/22/05 - 20050283364 - Multimodal disambiguation of speech recognition The present invention provides a speech recognition system combined with one or more alternate input modalities to ensure efficient and accurate text input. The speech recognition system achieves less than perfect accuracy due to limited processing power, environmental noise, and/or natural variations in speaking style. The alternate input modalities use ... 12/22/05 - 20050283363 - Interactive manual, system and method for vehicles and other complex equipment A method and system of providing an interactive manual, including a speech engine to receive and process speech from a user, convert the speech into a word sequence, and identify meaning structures from the word sequence, a structured manual including information related to an operation of a device, a visual ... 12/08/05 - 20050273336 - Lexical semantic structure A lexical semantic structure for modeling semantics of a natural language input on a computer is described. A set of lexical semantic categories is selected to model content of the natural language input. A methodology associates content of the natural language input to one or more categories of the set ... 12/08/05 - 20050273335 - Semantic framework for natural language programming A framework for generating a semantic interpretation of natural language input includes an interpreter, a first set of types, and a second set of types. The interpreter is adapted to mediate between a client application and one or more analysis engines to produce interpretations of the natural language input that ... 11/17/05 - 20050256715 - Language model generation and accumulation device, speech recognition device, language model creation method, and speech recognition method A language model generation and accumulation apparatus (10) that generates and accumulates language models for speech recognition is comprised of: a higher-level N-gram generation and accumulation unit (11) that generates and accumulates a higher-level N-gram language model obtained by modeling each of a plurality of texts as a string of ... 10/20/05 - 20050234723 - Method and apparatus for performing relational speech recognition A method and apparatus are provided for performing speech recognition using observable and meaningful relationships between words within a single utterance and using a structured data source as a source of constraints on the recognition process. Results from a first constrained speech recognition pass can be combined with information about ... 10/20/05 - 20050234722 - Handwriting and voice input with automatic correction A hybrid approach to improve handwriting recognition and voice recognition in data process systems is disclosed. In one embodiment, a front end is used to recognize strokes, characters and/or phonemes. The front end returns candidates with relative or absolute probabilities of matching to the input. Based on linguistic characteristics of ... 06/16/05 - 20050131695 - System and method for bilateral communication between a user and a system A human-machine communication method that includes the steps of receiving a first statement in a natural language from a user, generating first information based on the first statement and storing context information of at least one of the first statement and the first information. The method also includes the steps ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |