| 7043690 |
Method, system, and program for checking contact information |
| May-9-2006 |
Provided is a computer implemented method, system, and program for checking text in an electronic document. Words in the text are scanned and parsed. For each set of one or more scanned and parsed words,... |
| 7039868 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, storage medium, and program |
| May-2-2006 |
A graphical user interface allows a user to easily input a character via a small-sized display screen without having to use a keyboard, wherein first and second page bars are displayed in a page bar display... |
| 7032174 |
Automatically adding proper names to a database |
| Apr-18-2006 |
The correct spelling of resolved email names is automatically stored in a custom dictionary. Thereafter, a spell checker will recognize the name during the spell checking process, because the name is stored... |
| 7031909 |
Method and system for naming a cluster of words and phrases |
| Apr-18-2006 |
The present invention provides a method, system and computer program for naming a cluster, or a hierarchy of clusters, of words and phrases that have been extracted from a set of documents. The invention... |
| 7024624 |
Lexicon-based new idea detector |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A method and apparatus for detecting the occurrence of new ideas in documents or communications. The method is comprised of three processes. The first process lexiconizes all words or symbols in a set... |
| 7003725 |
Method and system for normalizing dirty text in a document |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A method and system of normalizing dirty text in a document. The present invention creates a thesaurus that evolves over time as new document collections are analyzed. This thesaurus, which is used by... |
| 6986106 |
Correction widget |
| Jan-10-2006 |
A correction tool that displays a correction widget when a user acts to correct text is provided. More particularly, if the user places an insertion point in or to the immediate left of the text, or selects... |
| 6983287 |
Database build for web delivery |
| Jan-3-2006 |
Prestructuring disparate content data types prior to receiving any access requests to provide fast retrieval, assembly, and delivery of content data. Source content data are obtained from a source data... |
| 6978421 |
Handwriting text input system |
| Dec-20-2005 |
A data is input, character by character or stroke by stroke, to form a line of text. The system looks up in a dictionary and determines a unique one in the dictionary including entered line of text data... |
| 6976214 |
Method, system, and program for enhancing text composition in a text editor program |
| Dec-13-2005 |
Disclosed is a system, method, and program for editing text in a computer text editor program. A determination is made of terms repeated in a section of text. A determination is then made of terms associated... |
| 6966030 |
Method, system and computer program product for implementing acronym assistance |
| Nov-15-2005 |
A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing acronym assistance for a user of a text editor or browser program. An acronym in a text document is identified. Then the text... |
| 6964018 |
Document editing processing method and apparatus and program furnishing medium |
| Nov-8-2005 |
A document editing processing apparatus which enables formulation of a hybrid multimedia document containing e.g., an image readily and speedily. Each time a character is input, dictionary retrieval is... |
| 6961722 |
Automated electronic dictionary |
| Nov-1-2005 |
An electronic dictionary may be created by receiving a data request action for a word appearing in an electronic document, accessing information regarding the context of the word derived from within the... |
| 6948121 |
Key word dictionary producing method and apparatus |
| Sep-20-2005 |
A method and apparatus for producing a keyword dictionary using a computer includes inputting a user's necessity or a user's non-necessity for each of pieces of information data, wherein one or more keywords... |
| 6934701 |
Using a stored procedure to access index configuration data in a remote database management system |
| Aug-23-2005 |
An index advisor specifies an optimal index configuration for use in performing workloads against a database managed by a database management system. If the database and database management system are... |
| 6922809 |
Method and apparatus providing capitalization recovery for text |
| Jul-26-2005 |
A method for capitalizing text in a document includes processing a reference corpus to construct a plurality of dictionaries of capitalized terms, where the plurality of dictionaries include a singleton... |
| 6907562 |
Hypertext concordance |
| Jun-14-2005 |
A system and method in accordance with an embodiment of the invention addresses the problems of unlinked or sparsely linked documents by linking them using a set of automatically extracted content words,... |
| 6879951 |
Chinese word segmentation apparatus |
| Apr-12-2005 |
A Chinese word segmentation apparatus relates to processing of a Chinese sentence input to a computer. A character-to-phonetic converter of the segmentation apparatus initially converts a Chinese sentence... |
| 6834121 |
Apparatus for rough classification of words, method for rough classification of words, and record medium recording a control program thereof |
| Dec-21-2004 |
To provide an apparatus for rough classification of words that allows features of words to be stored in a vocabulary storage division to be generated from character codes of the words so that the words... |
| 6826567 |
Registration method and search method for structured documents |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A registration/search method for structured documents where correspondence data is prepared between a fixed-length-string and a string occurrence position within a structured document for all fixed-length-strings... |
| 6823493 |
Word recognition consistency check and error correction system and method |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A word recognition method and system includes obtaining a first portion of a sentence and a second portion of the sentence. The first portion of the sentence is used to obtain a pointer to respective list... |
| 6785869 |
Method and apparatus for providing a central dictionary and glossary server |
| Aug-31-2004 |
A method and apparatus provides a central dictionary and glossary server. An application executing on a client is able to access a local copy of a dictionary or glossary. A master dictionary or glossary... |
| 6782510 |
Word checking tool for controlling the language content in documents using dictionaries with modifyable status fields |
| Aug-24-2004 |
A word processing tool is disclosed for checking the substance and not merely the spelling of words provided by a user. The word checker is capable of identifying potentially inappropriate word choices... |
| 6766362 |
Providing a network-based personalized newspaper with personalized content and layout |
| Jul-20-2004 |
A computer network server provides a customized newspaper to a recipient according to recipient profile preferences. The server searches for and obtains article content that is deemed to be of greatest... |
| 6757647 |
Method for encoding regular expressions in a lexigon |
| Jun-29-2004 |
Systems and methods are described for concisely encoding into a lexicon (or dictionary) and decoding from the lexicon regular expressions that can represent certain huge word lists that might otherwise... |
| 6738952 |
Navigational map data object selection and display system |
| May-18-2004 |
A navigational map data object selection system having a data retrieving and displaying system, and a storage device which stores a plurality of names as body word sets and stores, as duplicate word sets,... |
| 6714906 |
Rapid phase identification method |
| Mar-30-2004 |
The invention provides a rapid phrase identification method, especially for Spanish derivatives. The main concern of the present invention is to provide for an electronic Spanish dictionary device a means... |
| 6708311 |
Method and apparatus for creating a glossary of terms |
| Mar-16-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and instructions for processing a datastream in a data processing system is provided. A datastream is automatically scanned and unidentifiable words are detected. The automatic scanning... |
| 6675169 |
Method and system for attaching information to words of a trie |
| Jan-6-2004 |
A method and improved data structure for attaching information to words in a trie of nodes. Each node of a trie includes a single tag bit which is interpreted according to information specified in a header... |
| 6671856 |
Method, system, and program for determining boundaries in a string using a dictionary |
| Dec-30-2003 |
Disclosed is a system, method, and program for determining boundaries in a string of characters using a dictionary, wherein the substrings in the dictionary may comprise words. A determination is made... |
| 6662152 |
Information retrieval apparatus and information retrieval method |
| Dec-9-2003 |
Character data of a word or phrase in a document is designated. Desired data is retrieved from a predetermined database on the basis of the designated character data. One sentence including at least the... |
| 6651220 |
Creating an electronic dictionary using source dictionary entry keys |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A method and system for retrieving information from an electronic dictionary. The system stores all information about words that have the same normalized form into a single entry within the electronic... |
| 6616704 |
Two step method for correcting spelling of a word or phrase in a document |
| Sep-9-2003 |
A very fast method for correcting the spelling of a word or phrase in a document proceeds in two steps: first applying a very fast approximate method for eliminating most candidate words from consideration... |
| 6542640 |
Data compressing apparatus, reconstructing apparatus, and its method |
| Apr-1-2003 |
A dictionary in which a character train serving as a processing unit upon compression has been registered is stored into a character train dictionary storing unit. In a character train comparing unit,... |
| 6539116 |
Information processing apparatus and method, and computer readable memory therefor |
| Mar-25-2003 |
The structure of entered document image data is analyzed and a character string in a text block that has been analyzed is subjected to pattern recognition. Synonyms and equivalents of words obtained as... |
| 6529864 |
Interactive connotative dictionary system |
| Mar-4-2003 |
A computerized interactive language reference tool is provided which associates one or more connotative meanings with a denotative context of a given term. A data base stores the denotative context and... |
| 6523001 |
Interactive connotative thesaurus system |
| Feb-18-2003 |
A computerized interactive thesaurus reference tool is provided which retrieves connotative synonyms from a data base. Connotative synonyms are words or phrases which have the same or a similar emotional... |
| 6502064 |
Compression method, method for compressing entry word index data for a dictionary, and machine translation system |
| Dec-31-2002 |
A n-gram statistical analysis is employed to acquire frequently appearing character strings of n characters or more, and individual character strings having n characters or more are replaced by character... |
| 6493713 |
Dictionary and index creating system and document retrieval system |
| Dec-10-2002 |
A high-speed document retrieval system creates a regular expression dictionary and a word index on the basis of a retrieval document and a word dictionary to conduct retrieval to a document through the... |
| 6456209 |
Method and apparatus for deriving a plurally parsable data compression dictionary |
| Sep-24-2002 |
A combinatorial approach is disclosed for analyzing a class of plurally parsable dictionaries for predictable, discrete, memoryless sources. A class of plurally parsable dictionaries are disclosed for... |
| 6453338 |
Electronic mail apparatus and computer readable record medium having electronic mail program recorded thereon |
| Sep-17-2002 |
Previous to the sending of an electronic mail, an attached file verifying unit retrieves a mail text to retrieve the presence or absence of an attachment representation indicative of the existence of an... |
| 6442540 |
Information retrieval apparatus and information retrieval method |
| Aug-27-2002 |
Character data of a word or phrase in a document is designated. Desired data is retrieved from a predetermined database on the basis of the designated character data. One sentence including at least the... |
| 6418403 |
Translating apparatus, dictionary search apparatus, and translating method |
| Jul-9-2002 |
If a context process range extending unit cannot obtain context information required by a context processing unit, from a range to be translated, it extends the context process range. Then, the context... |
| 6405060 |
User interface with improved data entry features for telephone system |
| Jun-11-2002 |
An improved user interface for a cellular telephone system subscriber unit, including the following functions: (1) a predictive keyboard input method for speeding up input on a telephone with a space limited... |
| 6385339 |
Collaborative learning system and pattern recognition method |
| May-7-2002 |
The present invention relates to a multi-user pattern data processing system configured for various kinds of patterns, such as characters, to learn efficiently and effectively. The present invention comprises... |
| 6381598 |
System for providing cross-lingual information retrieval |
| Apr-30-2002 |
An information retrieval system providing for cross-lingual information retrieval. The method as implemented in the system causes elementary words to be extracted from a search expression. These elementary... |
| 6345249 |
Automatic analysis of a speech dictated document |
| Feb-5-2002 |
A method for automatically analyzing a document in a speech recognition system having a vocabulary and language model can include the steps of: determining whether the document has undergone previous analysis;... |
| 6345245 |
Method and system for managing a common dictionary and updating dictionary data selectively according to a type of local processing system |
| Feb-5-2002 |
A common dictionary management system that can reduce the work of data registration into dictionaries. Exchange data generated in any local dictionary of a natural language processing system is sent to... |
| 6343266 |
Anaphora analyzing apparatus provided with antecedent candidate rejecting means using candidate rejecting decision tree |
| Jan-29-2002 |
An anaphora analyzing apparatus is disclosed for automatically estimating an anaphora referential relation or an antecedent of a noun for use in a natural language sentence. A storage unit stores analyzed... |
| 6327586 |
System method and computer program product to automate the management and analysis of heterogeneous data |
| Dec-4-2001 |
System, Method and Computer Program Product for automating the collection, management and analysis of data. Research is performed according to a methodology based on four phases: Requirements; Collection;... |
