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20080319733 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DYNAMICALLY MANIPULATE AND DISAMBIGUATE CONFUSABLE SPEECH INPUT USING A TABLE - Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for disambiguating confusable speech using a table. The method embodiment provides assigning an identifier to each of at least one portion of received speech, querying a table to determine whether at least one entry is associated with the identifier, and if multiple entries are associated in the table with the identifier, then disambiguating between the multiple entries by generating a prompt to the user. Additional features include associating table entries that are not acoustically similar as confusable, presenting the items in the prompt in a sorted order, and dynamically modifying entries in the table. | 12-25-2008 |
20090030669 | Efficient Review of Data - A server may provide information to a processing device for displaying a parser user interface. The displayed parser user interface may include an input portal for inputting text input. The parser user interface may further include controls for selecting a level of compression. Upon selection of one of the controls, the server may process the text input and may produce text output which may include a placeholder symbol to replace specific words from the text input and/or abbreviated representations to replace other specific words from the text input. The server may send information to the processing device to display the produced text output, as well as other information. The server may further provide information to the processing device for displaying a speed reader user interface. The speed reader user interface may include controls for starting, stopping, and pausing a speed reading operation as well as other controls. | 01-29-2009 |
20090112571 | METHOD FOR SEGMENTING COMMUNICATION TRANSCRIPTS USING UNSUPERVISED AND SEMI-SUPERVISED TECHNIQUES - A method is provided for forming discrete segment clusters of one or more sequential sentences from a corpus of communication transcripts of transactional communications that comprises dividing the communication transcripts of the corpus into a first set of sentences spoken by a caller and a second set of sentences spoken by a responder; generating a set of sentence clusters by grouping the first and second sets of sentences according to a measure of lexical similarity using an unsupervised partitional clustering method; generating a collection of sequences of sentence types by assigning a distinct sentence type to each sentence cluster and representing each sentence of each communication transcript of the corpus with the sentence type assigned to the sentence cluster into which the sentence is grouped; and generating a specified number of discrete segment clusters by successively merging sentence clusters according to a proximity-based measure between the sentence types assigned to the sentence clusters within sequences of the collection. | 04-30-2009 |
20090119090 | Principled Approach to Paraphrasing - A principled approach to paraphrasing analyzes input text and paraphrases at atomic linguistic level, instead of analyzing the input text and paraphrases as a whole set at one time. The principled approach extracts atomic linguistic elements from the input text and identifies matching atomic paraphrasing elements to form candidate atomic paraphrasing pairs. A variety of atomic transformation types are identified to form atomic paraphrasing pairs. The candidate atomic paraphrasing pairs are evaluated using feature functions and a probability model. The principled approach scores a combination of multiple candidate atomic paraphrasing pairs using a score function which derives its value from the feature functions of the candidate atomic paraphrasing pairs. A combination which has a high score may be used for constructing a paraphrasing text. | 05-07-2009 |
20090132229 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium - The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and method, and a program storage medium which enable clustering to be performed such that the number of clusters and a representative of a cluster are determined so as to conform to a human cognition model. The notion of “typical examples” and “peripheral examples” in prototype semantics (FIG. | 05-21-2009 |
20090222255 | USING GENDER ANALYSIS OF NAMES TO ASSIGN AVATARS IN INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATIONS - A method for displaying gender-based avatar representations of users in instant messaging communications comprises receiving a username for a first user having a first user account registered with an instant messaging system; performing an anthroponomastic analysis of the username to assign a probable gender for the first user selected from male, female, and neutral; displaying a current contact area in a communication session window of a user interface provided by an instant messaging application on a client system operated by a second user having a second user account registered with the instant messaging system; and displaying the username for the first user and an avatar representation indicative of the probable gender for the first user in the current contact area while the instant messaging application is accessing the instant messaging system to allow the second user to participate in instant messaging communication with the first user via the user interface. | 09-03-2009 |
20090234632 | CHARACTER INPUT APPARATUS, CHARACTER INPUT ASSIST METHOD, AND CHARACTER INPUT ASSIST PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a character input apparatus including: a display section having a screen capable of displaying at least characters; an operation section configured to allow a user to input at least the characters; a first character input processing section configured to perform a first character input process of causing a character string to be displayed on the screen in accordance with a predetermined notation rule; a second character input processing section configured to perform a second character input process of causing a character string to be displayed on the screen not in accordance with the predetermined notation rule; a scene determination section configured to determine a character input scene; and an input process switch control section configured to switch between the first character input process and the second character input process in accordance with the character input scene. | 09-17-2009 |
20090248391 | Automated Many-Sorted Theorem prover - The present invention is a method for automatic proving using many-sorted first-order logic. Embodiments of the invention apply a modified method of resolution of first-ordered logic. The method of resolution further comprises: processing at least one first sentence (P | 10-01-2009 |
20090287469 | INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD, INFORMATION PROVISION PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROVISION PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - An information provision system capable of providing attribute information to a contextually appropriate portion as well as a linguistic unit including a specific character string expression is provided. The information provision system includes analysis means | 11-19-2009 |
20100076745 | Apparatus and Method of Detecting Community-Specific Expression - Conventional publications concerning collections of community specific expressions include collections of technical terms including nouns and compound nouns in technical fields. However, application to new expressions other than nouns is difficult. Even in the field of collection of unknown words and new words, the objective is limited substantially to nouns, and no techniques of collecting new expressions systematically have been proposed. The invention solves the above problem by (a) means for extracting n-gram collocations specific in a predetermined community from a set of documents used in the community, (b) means for selecting a radical which might be a core of specific expressions, (c) means for expanding the selected radical toward the front and back, and (d) means for screening the expanded radicals according to the grammar. | 03-25-2010 |
20100179801 | Determining Phrases Related to Other Phrases - Techniques for generating and providing phrases are described herein. These techniques may include analyzing one or more sources to generate a first corpus of phrases, each of the phrases for use as an identifier and/or for association with a user. Once a first corpus of phrases has been generated, these phrases may be filtered to define a second corpus of phrases. Phrases of this second corpus may then be suggested to one or more users. In some instances, the phrases suggested to a particular user are personalized to the user based on information previously known about the user or based on information provided by the user. | 07-15-2010 |
20110144971 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENTIMENT ANALYSIS - A system includes one or more computer processors that are configured to receive data relating to a composition of a target group, receive logged communications of the target group, extract textual information from the logged communications, analyze the textual information using statistical and linguistic sentiment analysis techniques, identify an individual or sub-group from the target group as a function of the analysis of the textual information, and display on a user interface or transmit to another processor the identified individual or sub-group of the target group and to display on the user interface or transmit to another processor a sentiment assessment of the identified individual or sub-group as a function of the statistical and linguistic sentiment analysis. | 06-16-2011 |
20110161067 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING POS TAGGING FOR SYMBOL ASSIGNMENT - Systems and methods for automatically discovering and assigning symbols for identified text in a software application include identifying text for which symbol assignment is desired. The words within the identified text and selected surrounding words defining an observation sequence are subjected to a part of speech tagging algorithm to electronically determine one or more most likely part of speech tags for the identified text. Context relations between the identified text and selected surrounding keywords may also be identified. The identified text, part of speech tag(s) and/or determined relations are then analyzed to map the identified text to one or more identified word senses. Related word senses may also be analyzed to determine if any related word senses have symbols. One of the determined symbols may then be associated with the identified text such that the symbol is thereafter displayed in conjunction with or instead of the text in the application. | 06-30-2011 |
20110301934 | MACHINE BASED SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER - A computer implemented method for performing sign language translation based on movements of a user is provided. A capture device detects motions defining gestures and detected gestures are matched to signs. Successive signs are detected and compared to a grammar library to determine whether the signs assigned to gestures make sense relative to each other and to a grammar context. Each sign may be compared to previous and successive signs to determine whether the signs make sense relative to each other. The signs may further be compared to user demographic information and a contextual database to verify the accuracy of the translation. An output of the match between the movements and the sign is provided. | 12-08-2011 |
20120284012 | Smartphone-Based Methods and Systems - Technologies involving portable devices, such as smartphones and tablet computers, are disclosed. One arrangement enables a creator of content to select software with which that creator's content should be rendered—assuring continuity between artistic intention and delivery. Another uses the camera of a smartphone to identify nearby subjects, and take actions based thereon. Others rely on near field chip (RFID) identification of objects, or on identification of audio streams (e.g., music, voice). Some technologies concern improvements to the user interfaces associated with such devices. Others involve use of these devices in shopping, text entry, sign language interpretation, and vision-based discovery. Still other improvements are architectural in nature, e.g., relating to evidence-based state machines, and blackboard systems. Yet other technologies concern use of linked data in portable devices—some of which exploit GPU capabilities. Still other technologies concern computational photography. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed. | 11-08-2012 |
20130166274 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AVATARS - A system and method for managing an avatar is provided. The method comprises receiving an initial input from one or more communication interfaces, processing the initial input using one or more processors, determining one or more initial characteristics based on processing the initial input and providing instructions to generate and display the avatar with one or more initial avatar characteristics in response to the one or more initial characteristics. | 06-27-2013 |
20160140106 | PHRASE-BASED DATA CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM - A method of classifying data is disclosed. Text data items are received. A set of classes into which the text data items are to be classified is received. A phrase-based classifier to classify the text data items into the set of classes is selected. The phrase-based classifier is applied to classify the text data items into the classes. Here, the applying includes creating a controlled vocabulary pertaining to classifying the text data items into the set of classes, building phrases based on the text data items and the controlled vocabulary, and classifying the text data items into the set of classes based on the phrases. | 05-19-2016 |
20160179781 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR READ-AHEAD ENHANCEMENTS | 06-23-2016 |