Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090012926 | QUESTION ANSWERING DEVICE, QUESTION ANSWERING METHOD, AND QUESTION ANSWERING PROGRAM - A question-answering device, a question-answering method, and a question-answering program that can obtain an answer to an inputted query with high probability are described. A score calculation element | 01-08-2009 |
20090044105 | INFORMATION SELECTING SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM - The need for a user to select by themselves a word or word string about which the user wants to obtain information from among words or word strings presented by a system can be eliminated. An information selecting system includes word string extracting unit for extracting words or word strings from input data, a statistical data obtaining unit for obtaining statistical data concerning the words or word strings extracted by the word string extracting unit from a group of electronic documents related to the user, and selecting unit for selecting a word or word string inferred to be less understood by the user on the basis of statistical data obtained by the statistical data obtaining unit. | 02-12-2009 |
20090099840 | Request Content Identification System, Request Content Identification Method Using Natural Language, and Program - A request content identification system performs an audio recognition process according to audio data inputted from an input device ( | 04-16-2009 |
20090204399 | SPEECH DATA SUMMARIZING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS, SPEECH DATA SUMMARIZING AND REPRODUCING METHOD, AND SPEECH DATA SUMMARIZING AND REPRODUCING PROGRAM - Necessary portions of stored speech data representing conference content are summarized and reproduced in a predetermined time. Conference speech is summarized and reproduced using a speech data summarizing and reproducing apparatus comprising a speech data divider for dividing and structuring conference speech data into several utterance unit data based on utterers, distributed documents, the occurrence frequency of words in speech recognition results, and pauses, an importance level calculator for determining important utterance unit data based on the occurrence frequency of keywords, the information of utterers, and data specified by the user, a summarizer for extracting important utterance unit data and summarizing them within a specified time, and a speech data reproducer for reproducing the summarized speech data in chronological order or an order of importance levels with auxiliary information added thereto. | 08-13-2009 |
20100010803 | TEXT PARAPHRASING METHOD AND PROGRAM, CONVERSION RULE COMPUTING METHOD AND PROGRAM, AND TEXT PARAPHRASING SYSTEM - A paraphrase model of a question text inputted by a user is learned, and a paraphrase expression is generated in real time. When information in text set storage unit is updated, text pair extracting unit extracts a paraphrase text pair from the text set storage unit and stores it in text pair storage unit. Model learning unit learns a question text paraphrase model from the paraphrase text pair in text pair storage unit, and stores it in model storage unit. Text pair extracting unit extracts a paraphrase text pair again from the text set storage unit by using the question text paraphrase model which the model storage unit possesses, and stores it in the text pair storage unit. In case where the stored paraphrase text pair is the same as the paraphrase text pair stored in the text pair storage unit, learning of the question text paraphrase model is ended. Candidate creating unit reads the question text paraphrase model from the model storage unit and generates a paraphrase candidate of the inputted question text. | 01-14-2010 |
20100076990 | INFORMATION ANALYSIS SYSTEM, INFORMATION ANALYSIS METHOD, AND INFORMATION ANALYSIS PROGRAM - A system includes a time-series data pattern checking means that receives time-series data from an input device and extracts a time-series pattern corresponding to the received time-series, and an effective period determination means that extracts an effective period corresponding to the time-series pattern from a time-series pattern/effective period correspondence table stored in a time-series pattern/effective period correspondence table storage means. The effective period determination means determines effective period time-series data which is a portion of the time-series data received from the input device in the effective period, according to the determined effective period and causes an output device to outputs the determined effective period and the determined effective period time-series data. | 03-25-2010 |
20100131534 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM - An information providing system comprises: an associated document determining unit that determines at least one piece of associated document data that includes an expression equal or similar to a cited section based on a cited section in document data; a limiting expression extraction unit that extracts an expression that corresponds to a condition for, correction for, addition to, or annotation to an expression equal or similar to the cited section from associated document data determined by the associated document determining unit; an information creation unit that creates an expression extracted by the limiting expression extraction unit or information regarding this expression as information to be displayed; and a display unit that displays information created by the information creation unit. | 05-27-2010 |
20100218076 | DOCUMENT ANALYZING METHOD, DOCUMENT ANALYZING SYSTEM AND DOCUMENT ANALYZING PROGRAM - To obtain a document group in which an assertion standpoint with respect to a proposition and a ground for the assertion are the same between documents constituting the document group without using an expression concerning opinions or grounds, etc., in a document. A document analyzing method comprising: determining whether a ground for the assertion with respect to a proposition is the same or not based on whether citation source documents in the form of an electronic document cited in electronic documents are common or not; and combining, based on the determination result, electronic documents including an assertion with respect to a given proposition, between which the assertion standpoint on whether to affirm or deny the proposition or whether to be in a neutral standpoint with respect to the proposition and a ground for the assertion standpoint are the same, into one group. | 08-26-2010 |