| 6307548 |
Reduced keyboard disambiguating system |
| Oct-23-2001 |
A reduced keyboard disambiguating system. The keyboard has twelve to sixteen keys, nine of them labeled with numerous letters and other symbols, and those nine plus one more are associated each with one... |
| 6292796 |
Method and apparatus for improving access to literature |
| Sep-18-2001 |
A method and apparatus for improving access to literature is described. Embodiments of the invention comprise an access mechanism that searches current and past literature (e.g., journal publications or... |
| 6282509 |
Thesaurus retrieval and synthesis system |
| Aug-28-2001 |
Thesauruses meeting users' purposes are generated by various operations as required. A plurality of external thesauruses 2 each storing a thesaurus to be retrieved are connected to a thesaurus retrieval... |
| 6282508 |
Dictionary management apparatus and a dictionary server |
| Aug-28-2001 |
The dictionary management apparatus of the present invention updates each dictionary included in a plurality of language processing system. A request section requests download of dictionary data for a... |
| 6272458 |
Method and apparatus for analyzing a language expression elements of cartoon frames and calculating points of analyzed elements |
| Aug-7-2001 |
A method of analyzing data generated by the response of a subject person to certain stimuli in the nature of cartoon images, to an extent sufficient to judge quickly the common meaning of the data in an... |
| 6269356 |
Computer system program for creating new ideas and solving problems |
| Jul-31-2001 |
A computerized idea generator and problem solver that can receive English language sentences describing a problem to be solved and generate solutions by analogy. The computer uses words in the problem... |
| 6256630 |
Word-containing database accessing system for responding to ambiguous queries, including a dictionary of database words, a dictionary searcher and a database searcher |
| Jul-3-2001 |
A database accessing system for processing a request to access a database including a multiplicity of entries, each entry including at least one word, the request including a sequence of representations... |
| 6256605 |
System for and method of summarizing etymological information |
| Jul-3-2001 |
A computer implemented system for and computer implemented method of summarizing English language etymological information. For each analyzed word, only the primary language or languages of origin are... |
| 6237033 |
System for managing user-characterizing network protocol headers |
| May-22-2001 |
A system for enabling a user of a computer attached to a computer network, and accessing sites on the network, to manage user-characterizing protocol headers on the user's computer. A particular application... |
| 6173298 |
Method and apparatus for implementing a dynamic collocation dictionary |
| Jan-9-2001 |
The present invention is method and apparatus for implementing a dynamic collocation dictionary. Bigrams and their frequency in a document are ascertained. Bigrams that are potentially collocations are... |
| 6173253 |
Sentence processing apparatus and method thereof,utilizing dictionaries to interpolate elliptic characters or symbols |
| Jan-9-2001 |
A document or sentence processing apparatus having an input unit for inputting characters, a display unit for displaying input characters and a processing unit for converting and editing the input characters,... |
| 6173252 |
Apparatus and methods for Chinese error check by means of dynamic programming and weighted classes |
| Jan-9-2001 |
A Chinese error check system comprises: an input device for inputting a sentence to be checked; a regular dictionary storing device for storing regular words and their weights; a special segmentation classes... |
| 6169999 |
Dictionary and index creating system and document retrieval system |
| Jan-2-2001 |
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... |
| 6151598 |
Digital dictionary with a communication system for the creating, updating, editing, storing, maintaining, referencing, and managing the digital dictionary |
| Nov-21-2000 |
A digital dictionary system comprising a means for constructing and maintaining a single or plurality of vocabulary data structure is represented as a selective single or plurality of alphabet, sign, symbol,... |
| 6138116 |
Method and apparatus for retrieving data |
| Oct-24-2000 |
A semantic data processing apparatus for retrieving one or a plurality of words, having a close meaning to that of an inputted word, in consideration of context or condition, comprises: a communication... |
| 6128635 |
Document display system and electronic dictionary |
| Oct-3-2000 |
A document display system displays the contents of an electronic document. If the user requests dictionary access, the electronic document is modified by attaching invisible dictionary access information... |
| 6128613 |
Method and apparatus for establishing topic word classes based on an entropy cost function to retrieve documents represented by the topic words |
| Oct-3-2000 |
A computer-based method and system for establishing topic words to represent a document, the topic words being suitable for use in document retrieval. The method includes determining document keywords... |
| 6081775 |
Bootstrapping sense characterizations of occurrences of polysemous words in dictionaries |
| Jun-27-2000 |
The present invention is directed to characterizing the sense of an occurrence of a polysemous word in a representation of a dictionary. In a preferred embodiment, the representation of the dictionary... |
| 6081772 |
Proofreading aid based on closed-class vocabulary |
| Jun-27-2000 |
A method for proofreading text generated by a speech application can include the following steps beginning with the step of finding all closed-class vocabulary words in the text. Subsequently, the method... |
| 6047299 |
Document composition supporting method and system, and electronic dictionary for terminology |
| Apr-4-2000 |
A document composition supporting method and system for the support of document editing or translation use a data-based electronic terminology dictionary which is composed such that terms in standard expression... |
| 6047298 |
Text compression dictionary generation apparatus |
| Apr-4-2000 |
A text compression dictionary generation apparatus including: a frequency guideline calculation unit for calculating, with respect to a target compression rate, a frequency guideline for each character... |
| 6023536 |
Character string correction system and method using error pattern |
| Feb-8-2000 |
A character string correction system corrects a spelling error in a character string input through the keyboard, OCT, etc. An error pattern representing frequent occurrences of errors is preliminarily... |
| 6009443 |
Electronic dictionary and language interpreter with multiple inflection display |
| Dec-28-1999 |
An electronic dictionary searching all conjugations of combinations of the person and the tense easily and quickly, displaying them, and switching the display of the inflection and the original. The electronic... |
| 6006223 |
Mapping words, phrases using sequential-pattern to find user specific trends in a text database |
| Dec-21-1999 |
A method and apparatus for mining text databases, employing sequential pattern phrase identification and shape queries, to discover trends. The method passes over a desired database using a dynamically... |
| 6002390 |
Text input device and method |
| Dec-14-1999 |
A text input device and method is disclosed which enables efficient and high-speed input of text in a pen-input computer. A pen-input computer has a liquid crystal display panel, a ROM storing plural words... |
| 5999949 |
Text file compression system utilizing word terminators |
| Dec-7-1999 |
A system for compressing an ASCII or similarly encoded text file creates an alphabetically ordered main dictionary listing all unique words appearing in the text file. A text file "word" is defined as... |
| 5995922 |
Identifying information related to an input word in an electronic dictionary |
| Nov-30-1999 |
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... |
| 5978798 |
Apparatus for and method of accessing a database |
| Nov-2-1999 |
A method is provided of accessing a database comprising a plurality of entries, each entry comprising a main entry containing a headword. At least one of the entries comprises a first subsidiary entry... |
| 5970492 |
Internet-based spelling checker dictionary system with automatic updating |
| Oct-19-1999 |
A dictionary system has a vendor computer and a plurality of client computers that communicate through the Internet. Each client computer has a word processor program with a spelling checker that utilizes... |
| 5963894 |
Method and system for bootstrapping statistical processing into a rule-based natural language parser |
| Oct-5-1999 |
A method and system for bootstrapping statistical processing into a rule-based natural language parser is provided. In a preferred embodiment, a statistical bootstrapping software facility optimizes the... |
| 5960449 |
Database system shared by multiple client apparatuses, data renewal method, and application to character processors |
| Sep-28-1999 |
In a database system that connects a plurality of user database apparatus to a host database apparatus, the database system judges whether a data record stored in each user database satisfies a condition... |
| 5959629 |
Text input device and method |
| Sep-28-1999 |
A text input device and method is disclosed which enables efficient and high-speed input of texts in a pen-input computer. A pen-input computer has a liquid crystal display panel, a ROM storing plural... |
| 5956739 |
System for text correction adaptive to the text being corrected |
| Sep-21-1999 |
A system is provided for correcting users' mistakes including context-sensitive spelling errors and the like in which an adaptive correction algorithm is utilized which is trained on not only a conventional... |
| 5956726 |
Method and apparatus for structured document difference string extraction |
| Sep-21-1999 |
A document difference extraction method and apparatus which is used for extracting the difference between structured documents properly meeting the sense of a document editor taking the logical meaning... |
| 5956479 |
Demand based generation of symbolic information |
| Sep-21-1999 |
A human oriented object programming system (HOOPS) and its debugger provide an interactive and dynamic modeling system to assist in the incremental generation of symbolic information of computer programs... |
| 5946678 |
User interface for document retrieval |
| Aug-31-1999 |
A user interface for a full-text document retrieval computerized system comprises a display with a words window in which each query word is displayed by means of a distinctive representation uniquely associated... |
| 5926811 |
Statistical thesaurus, method of forming same, and use thereof in query expansion in automated text searching |
| Jul-20-1999 |
A statistical thesaurus is built dynamically, from the same text collection that is being searched, allowing improved generation of expanded query terms. The thesaurus is dynamic in that thesaurus records... |
| 5920862 |
Beacons for locales |
| Jul-6-1999 |
In a multicast environment in which large-scale virtual environments are lt using locales and in which data from non-neighboring locales is ignored to minimize computation and local storage, a system is... |
| 5907821 |
Method of computer-based automatic extraction of translation pairs of words from a bilingual text |
| May-25-1999 |
For each word occurring in Japanese text, a set of words co-occurring with it and their co-occurrence frequencies are extracted, where two words are regarded as co-occurring with each other when they occur... |
| 5893132 |
Method and system for encoding a book for reading using an electronic book |
| Apr-6-1999 |
A method and system for encoding a book for reading by an electronic book having an internal machine-readable dictionary includes receiving data representative of text and graphical information of the... |
| 5878386 |
Natural language parser with dictionary-based part-of-speech probabilities |
| Mar-2-1999 |
A natural language parser determines part-of-speech probabilities by using a dictionary or other lexicon as a source for the part-of-speech probabilities. A machine-readable dictionary is scanned, word-by-word.... |
| 5878385 |
Method and apparatus for universal parsing of language |
| Mar-2-1999 |
A method and apparatus for natural language parsing are described. The invention includes the steps of retrieving an input string, and performing a dictionary look-up for each word in the input string... |
| 5875443 |
Internet-based spelling checker dictionary system with automatic updating |
| Feb-23-1999 |
A dictionary system has a vendor computer and a plurality of client computers that communicate through the Internet. Each client computer has a word processor program with a spelling checker that utilizes... |
| 5875441 |
Document database management system and document database retrieving method |
| Feb-23-1999 |
This invention provides a document database management system that reduces time to retrieve a structured document and improves precision of a result of the retrieving. Query input unit inputs a query including... |
| 5875110 |
Method and system for vending products |
| Feb-23-1999 |
The present invention discloses and claims a method and system for vending products which prompt a customer to enter selection criteria relating to the type of product the customer would like to purchase,... |
| 5873056 |
Natural language processing system for semantic vector representation which accounts for lexical ambiguity |
| Feb-16-1999 |
A natural language processing system uses unformatted naturally occurring text and generates a subject vector representation of the text, which may be an entire document or a part thereof such as its title,... |
| 5870702 |
Word converting apparatus utilizing general dictionary and cooccurence dictionary to display prioritized candidate words |
| Feb-9-1999 |
A word converting apparatus displays converted results and cooccurrent examples in a candidate selection menu for allowing the user to easily and definitely select converted results of words in a cooccurrent... |
| 5870700 |
Brazilian Portuguese grammar checker |
| Feb-9-1999 |
A process for checking the Brazilian-Portuguese grammar of original text provided by a user. For each sentence, a token is generated to correspond to each of the words in the sentence. For each word in... |
| 5868576 |
Language-information providing apparatus |
| Feb-9-1999 |
Several parts of speech, including sentences, words and phrases, in multiple languages, Japanese and English, for instance, are stored in a ROM; and some of the parts of speech include an addition-permitting... |
| 5867812 |
Registration apparatus for compound-word dictionary |
| Feb-2-1999 |
A registration apparatus for a compound-word dictionary automatically and suitably determines whether a combination of character strings must be registered as one entry word in a compound-word dictionary.... |
