| 5857179 |
Computer method and apparatus for clustering documents and automatic generation of cluster keywords |
| Jan-5-1999 |
A computer method and apparatus determines keywords of documents. An initial document by term matrix is formed, each document being represented by a respective M dimensional vector, where M represents... |
| 5850561 |
Glossary construction tool |
| Dec-15-1998 |
A glossary construction tool for generating and maintaining a translation glossary, consisting of a number of terms and their translations. The glossary construction tool includes a terminology list development... |
| 5845306 |
Context based system for accessing dictionary entries |
| Dec-1-1998 |
A context-based dictionary entry access system includes selecting and rang an entry based on the part-of-speech assigned to the given word in a sentence. The entries corresponding to the word in context... |
| 5845305 |
Index creating apparatus |
| Dec-1-1998 |
An index creating apparatus creates indexes of documents displayed on a display unit. The index creating apparatus includes an analyzing unit for analyzing a format of an index word from an input document... |
| 5845238 |
System and method for using a correspondence table to compress a pronunciation guide |
| Dec-1-1998 |
Parsing routines extract from a conventional pronunciation dictionary an entry, which includes a dictionary word and dictionary phonemes representing the pronunciation of the dictionary word. A correspondence... |
| 5832480 |
Using canonical forms to develop a dictionary of names in a text |
| Nov-3-1998 |
Descriptive canonical forms of entity types are created by scanning one or more documents in a database of a computer system to identify one or more proper names that appear in the documents as raw names.... |
| 5819265 |
Processing names in a text |
| Oct-6-1998 |
Occurrences of proper names in text are identified by scanning one or more documents in a database of a computer system to identify one or more sequences of capitalized words and other specially defined... |
| 5802536 |
Information search and display apparatus |
| Sep-1-1998 |
An information search and display apparatus substantially reduces search time required in consecutively searching a plurality of files and/or a plurality of search terms. When a first search result searched... |
| 5794178 |
Visualization of information using graphical representations of context vector based relationships and attributes |
| Aug-11-1998 |
A system and method for generating context vectors for use in storage and retrieval of documents and other information items. Context vectors represent conceptual relationships among information items... |
| 5794177 |
Method and apparatus for morphological analysis and generation of natural language text |
| Aug-11-1998 |
This invention improves information retrieval and the precision of language processing by providing an apparatus and method for organizing, utilizing, analyzing, and generating morphological data. The... |
| 5787426 |
Data sorting, data sorting tree creating, derivative extracting and thesaurus creating apparatus and method, or data processing system |
| Jul-28-1998 |
Derivatives representing character string candidates are created from a list of examples of character data. The sorting attribute of the derivatives representing character string candidate is evaluated... |
| 5787386 |
Compact encoding of multi-lingual translation dictionaries |
| Jul-28-1998 |
A computerized multilingual translation dictionary includes a set of word and phrases for each of the languages it contains, plus a mapping that indicates for each word or phrase in one language what the... |
| 5781879 |
Semantic analysis and modification methodology |
| Jul-14-1998 |
A process for analyzing the informational and semantic content of an information source, such as text, a picture, or a video sequence. After compiling a lexicon of information elements, values are assigned... |
| 5778405 |
Apparatus and method for retrieving dictionary based on lattice as a key |
| Jul-7-1998 |
A dictionary retrieval apparatus and method for retrieving a TRIE (Tree Retrieval) dictionary based on a lattice as a key, in which each candidate character of a recognition result is handled as a data... |
| 5774834 |
System and method for correcting a string of characters by skipping to pseudo-syllable borders in a dictionary |
| Jun-30-1998 |
A retrieving unit retrieves an entry of a dictionary which corresponds to an input character string while comparing input characters, one by one, with entries of TRIE tables stored in a dictionary storing... |
| 5761688 |
Dictionary retrieval apparatus |
| Jun-2-1998 |
An index structure of a dictionary retrieval apparatus includes a first index, a second index, a heading main index, and a differential character train buffer. An item for each word in the index is accessed... |
| 5748906 |
Electronic telephone directory with interchangeable listings |
| May-5-1998 |
A hand-held electronic telephone directory incorporating microprocessor control and read only memory for storage of directory information. The name of a particular party listed in the directory is typed... |
| 5745776 |
Enhanced electronic dictionary |
| Apr-28-1998 |
An enhanced electronic reference having a memory with a database of entries. The database of entries includes general entries and topic entries. Each general entry has a general word, a general definition... |
| 5740425 |
Data structure and method for publishing electronic and printed product catalogs |
| Apr-14-1998 |
The specification discloses a data structure and method for creating, maintaining, and publishing multiple renditions of both electronic and printed, single and multi-manufacturer catalogs using a single... |
| 5737618 |
Document processing system for displaying brackets |
| Apr-7-1998 |
The document processing system which performs a function of storing in a memory data of a bracket input by an input device and positional data of starting and ending points of the bracket located in the... |
| 5737617 |
Method and system for English text analysis |
| Apr-7-1998 |
A computer-implemented method and system are provided for English text analysis. A file of a plurality of English sentences is received and submitted to a parser. A unified parse structure is generated... |
| 5724594 |
Method and system for automatically identifying morphological information from a machine-readable dictionary |
| Mar-3-1998 |
A method and system for determining the derivational relatedness of a derived word and a base word. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a machine-readable dictionary containing entries for head... |
| 5715442 |
Data unit group handling apparatus |
| Feb-3-1998 |
A data unit group handling apparatus which handles a file system for storing a plurality of files defined by different kind of file formats, and at least one of the files is a data unit group which is... |
| 5682543 |
Dictionary editing apparatus |
| Oct-28-1997 |
A dictionary editing apparatus comprises a dictionary having a lot of dictionary data registered, each of the dictionary data including a headword and corresponding information such as translation, examples... |
| 5680614 |
Relational database management system |
| Oct-21-1997 |
In a database management system of the present invention, a trigger definition means which defines activation condition an contents of a triggered operation activated upon execution of updating for a table... |
| 5678054 |
Data searching device |
| Oct-14-1997 |
A data searching device has a data inputting keyboard, a primary data memory, a secondary data memory and a display. A controller compares data input by the data inputting keyboard with primary data stored... |
| 5655129 |
Character-string retrieval system and method |
| Aug-5-1997 |
In a TRIE dictionary, it is to retrieve a character string including a wild card and a normal expression at high speed. By extract a substring of M characters from the start of a word character string... |
| 5655128 |
Electronic dictionary |
| Aug-5-1997 |
An electronic dictionary includes a central processing unit which performs retrieval of a first language information and then stores the first language information in a history area. When the first language... |
| 5652898 |
Dictionary memory for text processing using word frequency and word recency occurrence information |
| Jul-29-1997 |
A dictionary memory acquires knowledge of degrees of association between words. Word units are provided, each corresponding to a word and each storing word occurrence information, and these word units... |
| 5649221 |
Reverse electronic dictionary using synonyms to expand search capabilities |
| Jul-15-1997 |
A method for the retrieval from an electronic dictionary of a word which is known or believed to exist but can not be brought to mind or a word that is thought may exist, to replace a pedestrian word or... |
| 5644774 |
Machine translation system having idiom processing function |
| Jul-1-1997 |
A machine translation system having an idiom processing function is disclosed, which includes a keyboard for inputting a word sequence of a first language; a dictionary memory for storing therein idioms... |
| 5642522 |
Context-sensitive method of finding information about a word in an electronic dictionary |
| Jun-24-1997 |
A technique of using an electronic dictionary in conjunction with electronically-encoded running text that gives the user the most relevant information rather than belaboring the user with all possible... |
| 5619709 |
System and method of context vector generation and retrieval |
| Apr-8-1997 |
A system and method for generating context vectors for use in storage and retrieval of documents and other information items. Context vectors represent conceptual relationships among information items... |
| 5610812 |
Contextual tagger utilizing deterministic finite state transducer |
| Mar-11-1997 |
A system for assigning part-of-speech tags to English text includes an improved contextual tagger which utilizes a deterministic finite state transducer to improve tagging speed such that large documents... |
| 5608624 |
Method and apparatus for processing natural language |
| Mar-4-1997 |
A method and apparatus for processing natural language and deducing meaning from a natural language input characterized by the steps of (a) receiving an ordered string of word objects having a natural... |
| 5608622 |
System for analyzing translations |
| Mar-4-1997 |
Apparatus and methods for comparing a text with its translation. The apparatus uses cognates in the text and the translation to make a list of first positions in the text and second positions in the translation.... |
| 5594640 |
Method and apparatus for correcting words |
| Jan-14-1997 |
A method for correcting recognized words in a computer system including the steps of: (a) entering an ink object into a computer system with a pointing device; (b) recognizing the ink object as a word... |
| 5583762 |
Generation and reduction of an SGML defined grammer |
| Dec-10-1996 |
A method for generating a grammar for a collection of sample documents or records which are marked up under the SGML language. Once completed, the grammar is reduced to provide a document type definition... |
| 5568384 |
Biomedical imaging and analysis |
| Oct-22-1996 |
A method for synthesizing three dimensional multimodality image sets into a single composite image with accurate registration and congruence. Surfaces are initially extracted from two or more different... |
| 5551049 |
Thesaurus with compactly stored word groups |
| Aug-27-1996 |
A thesaurus receives a word and uses a word list to obtain a corresponding number. The corresponding number is then compared with numbers grouped in sequence to represent synonym groups. For each match,... |
| 5544050 |
Sign language learning system and method |
| Aug-6-1996 |
In a sign-language learning system, the data of sign-language desired by a learner can be outputted quickly and accurately and, moreover, in the display method matching the requirements of individual learners,... |
| 5541838 |
Translation machine having capability of registering idioms |
| Jul-30-1996 |
A translation machine is provided with an idiom registering capability. If a header standing for a idiom contains two or more variable parts, these parts are represented by representative symbols. With... |
| 5535120 |
Machine translation and telecommunications system using user ID data to select dictionaries |
| Jul-9-1996 |
A machine translation and telecommunications system includes a machine translation engine for translation of input text from a source language to a target language, a dictionary database including a core... |
| 5535119 |
Character inputting method allowing input of a plurality of different types of character species, and information processing equipment adopting the same |
| Jul-9-1996 |
An information processing equipment providing easy operations of changing-over character species, and, in which characters can be entered without being conscious of the designation of a character mode.... |
| 5530645 |
Composite dictionary compression system |
| Jun-25-1996 |
A composite dictionary data compression process for use with a computer system comprising the steps of: receiving into the computer system an uncompressed input data string; searching a composite dictionary... |
| 5488717 |
MTree data structure for storage, indexing and retrieval of information |
| Jan-30-1996 |
Data storage space and data access time are significantly decreased by utilizing a tree structure to store data in memory. Only one copy of each data element common to different data units is stored. Each... |
| 5481454 |
Sign language/word translation system |
| Jan-2-1996 |
A sign language/word translation system can cope with the case where no word corresponding to a hand operation is found. The system includes a configuration for taking a countermeasure against the finding... |
| 5475587 |
Method and apparatus for efficient morphological text analysis using a high-level language for compact specification of inflectional paradigms |
| Dec-12-1995 |
A language syntax defines statement forms for statements that describe the inflectional morphology of the natural language. A set of language statements that follow a language syntax to describe the inflectional... |
| 5475586 |
Translation apparatus which uses idioms with a fixed and variable portion where a variable portion is symbolic of a group of words |
| Dec-12-1995 |
An electronic dictionary for storing a plurality of items such as idioms, where each item includes an entry string and information associated with the entry string. The entry string includes a first representative... |
| 5414644 |
Repetitive event analysis system |
| May-9-1995 |
A method of observing and comparing the visual record of repetitive or related events in nature, such as behavioral activities, recorded on a viewable media, which includes converting the visual record... |
