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2251 results about "Ambiguity" patented technology

Ambiguity is a type of meaning in which a phrase, statement or resolution is not explicitly defined, making several interpretations plausible. A common aspect of ambiguity is uncertainty. It is thus an attribute of any idea or statement whose intended meaning cannot be definitively resolved according to a rule or process with a finite number of steps. (The ambi- part of the term reflects an idea of "two", as in "two meanings".)

System and method for error correcting a received data stream in a concatenated system

A received signal is first converted into a digital sequence that may contain "erasures" (or ambiguity symbols) as well as errors. Then iterative decoding is applied in order to eliminate or reduce the erasures. This decoding procedure works effectively with the associated transmitter that adopts a concatenation of an outer coder, a permutation and an inner coder. The principal of the invention is also applicable to a system in which the inner coder is replaced by a "digital modulator" that introduces some constraint, or a channel that introduces some memory such as partial response signaling, intersymbol interference or multipath propagation. The invention can be applied to many existing systems while maintaining "backward compatibility" in the sense that the transmitter side need not be modified.
Owner:THE TRUSTEES FOR PRINCETON UNIV

Ultra wideband precision geolocation system

An ultra wideband (UWB) or short-pulse transmission system that enables precise tracking or geolocation of a target over distances of several kilometers. The system includes a set of N (where N>2) untethered UWB transceivers located at fixed positions, an untethered UWB receiver at the target, and a processor at the target for resolving time-of-flight measurement ambiguities of received pulses to determine precise geolocation by solving a set of equations according to time-of-flight measurements and surveyed positions of N-1 transceivers. To eliminate a clock distribution system, self-synchronizing of pulse timing is achieved by generating a start pulse at one of the untethered transceivers. Alternatively, a timing source may be provided by a GPS or other timing generator at the transceivers in order to synchronize emissions of their pulses.
Owner:ZEBRA TECH CORP

Multimodal disambiguation of speech recognition

InactiveUS8095364B2Resolves the recognition errors efficiently and accuratelySpeech recognitionEnvironmental noiseAmbiguity
The present invention provides a speech recognition system combined with one or more alternate input modalities to ensure efficient and accurate text input. The speech recognition system achieves less than perfect accuracy due to limited processing power, environmental noise, and / or natural variations in speaking style. The alternate input modalities use disambiguation or recognition engines to compensate for reduced keyboards, sloppy input, and / or natural variations in writing style. The ambiguity remaining in the speech recognition process is mostly orthogonal to the ambiguity inherent in the alternate input modality, such that the combination of the two modalities resolves the recognition errors efficiently and accurately. The invention is especially well suited for mobile devices with limited space for keyboards or touch-screen input.
Owner:CERENCE OPERATING CO

Speech-enabled language translation system and method enabling interactive user supervision of translation and speech recognition accuracy

A system and method for a highly interactive style of speech-to-speech translation is provided. The interactive procedures enable a user to recognize, and if necessary correct, errors in both speech recognition and translation, thus providing robust translation output than would otherwise be possible. The interactive techniques for monitoring and correcting word ambiguity errors during automatic translation, search, or other natural language processing tasks depend upon the correlation of Meaning Cues and their alignment with, or mapping into, the word senses of third party lexical resources, such as those of a machine translation or search lexicon. This correlation and mapping can be carried out through the creation and use of a database of Meaning Cues, i.e., SELECT. Embodiments described above permit the intelligent building and application of this database, which can be viewed as an interlingua, or language-neutral set of meaning symbols, applicable for many purposes. Innovative techniques for interactive correction of server-based speech recognition are also described.
Owner:ZAMA INNOVATIONS LLC

System for semantically disambiguating text information

Disclosed is a semantic user interface system that allows text information to be tagged with machine-readable IDs that are associated with concepts for conveying information without any ambiguity or without being hampered by the limitations of human languages. Typically, a plurality of vocabularies are stored across a network, and each vocabulary includes a plurality of machine-readable IDs each corresponding to a concept and at least one keyword corresponding to each machine-readable ID. An input interface accepts text information, selects those machine-readable IDs whose keywords match up with the text information, and returns a list of candidates each corresponding to one of the selected machine-readable IDs and including a corresponding description. The machine-readable IDs can carry information in the form of concepts without any ambiguity as opposed to text information. This system can be applied to web and database searches, publishing messages to selected subscribers, interfacing of applications software, machine translations, etc.
Owner:SARKAR

Method For Information Retrieval

A method of retrieving documents using a search engine includes providing a reverse index including one or more keywords and a list of documents containing the one or more keywords, the reverse index further including a measure of confidence (MOC) value associated with the one or more keywords. One or more query terms are input into the search engine. The query terms are disambiguated and a MOC value is associated with each meaning of the disambiguated query term. A list of documents is retrieved containing the query terms wherein the documents are initially ranked based at least in part on the MOC values of the keywords and query terms. The list of documents may be re-ranked based at least in part on the semantic similarity of each document to the disambiguated query terms.
Owner:RGT UNIV OF CALIFORNIA

Multimodal disambiguation of speech recognition

The present invention provides a speech recognition system combined with one or more alternate input modalities to ensure efficient and accurate text input. The speech recognition system achieves less than perfect accuracy due to limited processing power, environmental noise, and / or natural variations in speaking style. The alternate input modalities use disambiguation or recognition engines to compensate for reduced keyboards, sloppy input, and / or natural variations in writing style. The ambiguity remaining in the speech recognition process is mostly orthogonal to the ambiguity inherent in the alternate input modality, such that the combination of the two modalities resolves the recognition errors efficiently and accurately. The invention is especially well suited for mobile devices with limited space for keyboards or touch-screen input.
Owner:TEGIC COMM

System and method for processing text utilizing a suite of disambiguation techniques

The invention relates to a system and method for processing natural language text utilizing disambiguation components to identify a disambiguated sense for the text. For the method, it comprises applying a selection of the components to the text to identify a local disambiguated sense for the text. Each component provides a local disambiguated sense of the text with a confidence score and a probability score. The disambiguated sense is determined utilizing a selection of local disambiguated senses. The invention also relates to a system and method for generating sense-tagged text. For the method, it comprises steps of: disambiguating a quantity of documents utilizing a disambiguation component; generating a confidence score and a probability score for a sense identified for a word provided by the component; if the confidence score for the sense for the word is below a set threshold, the sense is ignored; and if the confidence score for the sense for the word is above the set threshold, the sense is added to the sense-tagged text.
Owner:IDILIA

System and method of dictation for a speech recognition command system

In embodiments of the present invention, a system and computer-implemented method for enabling dictation may include parsing standard reports in order to identify a plurality of logical phrases in the report used for discrete sections and descriptions. In the report method, the phrases may be parsed and identifier words throughout the report may be compared to eliminate ambiguities. The method may then involve constructing text macros that follow the parsed text, thereby enabling the user to speak the identifiers to indicate full, formatted text. Finally, the report method may involve constructing a mnemonic document so both beginner and experienced users can easily read the identifiers out loud to produce a report. The result of the method is an intuitive, notes-style way to use speech commands to quickly produce a standard, formatted report.
Owner:PATCH KIMBERLY C

System using leo satellites for centimeter-level navigation

Disclosed herein is a system for rapidly resolving position with centimeter-level accuracy for a mobile or stationary receiver [4]. This is achieved by estimating a set of parameters that are related to the integer cycle ambiguities which arise in tracking the carrier phase of satellite downlinks [5,6]. In the preferred embodiment, the technique involves a navigation receiver [4] simultaneously tracking transmissions [6] from Low Earth Orbit Satellites (LEOS) [2] together with transmissions [5] from GPS navigation satellites [1]. The rapid change in the line-of-sight vectors from the receiver [4] to the LEO signal sources [2], due to the orbital motion of the LEOS, enables the resolution with integrity of the integer cycle ambiguities of the GPS signals [5] as well as parameters related to the integer cycle ambiguity on the LEOS signals [6]. These parameters, once identified, enable real-time centimeter-level positioning of the receiver [4]. In order to achieve high-precision position estimates without the use of specialized electronics such as atomic clocks, the technique accounts for instabilities in the crystal oscillators driving the satellite transmitters, as well as those in the reference [3] and user [4] receivers. In addition, the algorithm accommodates as well as to LEOS that receive signals from ground-based transmitters, then re-transmit frequency-converted signals to the ground.
Owner:INTEGRINAUTICS

System and method for processing a query

The invention provides a system and method of processing a query directed to a database. The invention comprises implementing the steps of: obtaining the query from a user; and disambiguating the query using a knowledge base to obtain a set of identifiable senses associated with words in the query. Further if the set comprises more than one identifiable sense, then the following additional steps are executed: selecting one sense from the set as a best sense; utilizing the best sense of the query to identify relevant results from the database related to the best sense; re-disambiguating the remaining senses of the set by excluding results associated with the best sense; selecting a next best sense from the remaining senses; and utilizing the next best sense of the query to identify relevant results from the database related to the next best sense. The invention also provides updates to databases for users, sessions and common data relating to the best identified results for the queries, to improve and personalize disambiguation of subsequent queries by a user.
Owner:IDILIA

Disambiguating user intent in conversational interaction system for large corpus information retrieval

A method of disambiguating user intent in conversational interactions for information retrieval is disclosed. The method includes providing access to a set of content items with metadata describing the content items and providing access to structural knowledge showing semantic relationships and links among the content items. The method further includes providing a user preference signature, receiving a first input from the user that is intended by the user to identify at least one desired content item, and determining an ambiguity index of the first input. If the ambiguity index is high, the method determines a query input based on the first input and at least one of the structural knowledge, the user preference signature, a location of the user, and the time of the first input and selects a content item based on comparing the query input and the metadata associated with the content item.
Owner:VEVEO INC

System and method for representing and resolving ambiguity in spoken dialogue systems

InactiveUS20030233230A1Efficient ambiguityEnhanced interactionSpeech recognitionSpoken languageAmbiguity
A system for, and method of, representing and resolving ambiguity in natural language text and a spoken dialogue system incorporating the system for representing and resolving ambiguity or the method. In one embodiment, the system for representing and resolving ambiguity includes: (1) a context tracker that places the natural language text in context to yield candidate attribute-value (AV) pairs and (2) a candidate scorer, associated with the context tracker, that adjusts a confidence associated with each candidate AV pair based on system intent.
Owner:LUCENT TECH INC

System and method for enhancing resource accessibility

A resource accessibility engine according to the present invention uses a resource-specific knowledge base and user preferences to convert a resource into an improved accessibility resource. Examples of a resource include a website, document, webpage image file, multimedia file, auditory file or any other text and / or non-text record. The resource-specific knowledge includes content and formatting information that reduces ambiguities, translates implied information into explicit information and improves the accessibility of the resource content. The user preferences represent the physical capabilities of the user's access device, and the user's semantic and personal preferences for how content should be displayed. An editor uses an annotation wizard to create the resource-specific knowledge base based on the original resource.
Owner:UNBOUNDED ACCESS

Method for disambiguating multiple readings in language conversion

Disambiguating multiple readings in language conversion is disclosed, including: receiving an input data to be converted into a set of characters comprising a symbolic representation of the input data in a target symbolic system; and using a language model that distinguishes between a first reading and a second reading of a character of the target symbolic system to determine a probability that the heteronymous character should be used to represent a corresponding portion of the input data.
Owner:APPLE INC

Performing a safety analysis for user-defined voice commands to ensure that the voice commands do not cause speech recognition ambiguities

The present invention discloses a solution for assuring user-defined voice commands are unambiguous. The solution can include a step of identifying a user attempt to enter a user-defined voice command into a voice-enabled system. A safety analysis can be performed on the user-defined voice command to determine a likelihood that the user-defined voice command will be confused with preexisting voice commands recognized by the voice-enabled system. When a high likelihood of confusion is determined by the safety analysis, a notification can be presented that the user-defined voice command is subject to confusion. A user can then define a different voice command or can choose to continue to use the potentially confusing command, possibly subject to a system imposed confusion mitigating condition or action.
Owner:NUANCE COMM INC

System and method for personalized search, information filtering, and for generating recommendations utilizing statistical latent class models

The system implements a novel method for personalized filtering of information and automated generation of user-specific recommendations. The system uses a statistical latent class model, also known as Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis, to integrate data including textual and other content descriptions of items to be searched, user profiles, demographic information, query logs of previous searches, and explicit user ratings of items. The system learns one or more statistical models based on available data. The learning may be reiterated once additional data is available. The statistical model, once learned, is utilized in various ways: to make predictions about item relevance and user preferences on un-rated items, to generate recommendation lists of items, to generate personalized search result lists, to disambiguate a users query, to refine a search, to compute similarities between items or users, and for data mining purposes such as identifying user communities.
Owner:OPEN TEXT HLDG INC

Method and apparatus for stereo, multi-camera tracking and RF and video track fusion

A unified approach, a fusion technique, a space-time constraint, a methodology, and system architecture are provided. The unified approach is to fuse the outputs of monocular and stereo video trackers, RFID and localization systems and biometric identification systems. The fusion technique is provided that is based on the transformation of the sensory information from heterogeneous sources into a common coordinate system with rigorous uncertainties analysis to account for various sensor noises and ambiguities. The space-time constraint is used to fuse different sensor using the location and velocity information. Advantages include the ability to continuously track multiple humans with their identities in a large area. The methodology is general so that other sensors can be incorporated into the system. The system architecture is provided for the underlying real-time processing of the sensors.
Owner:SRI INTERNATIONAL

Methods and apparatus for using a modified index to provide search results in response to an ambiguous search query

A system allows a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive potentially disambiguated search results. In one implementation, a search engine's conventional alphanumeric index is translated into a second index that is ambiguated in the same manner as which the user's input is ambiguated. The user's ambiguous search query is compared to this ambiguated index, and the corresponding documents are provided to the user as search results.
Owner:GOOGLE LLC

attention CNNs and CCR-based text sentiment analysis method

The invention discloses an attention CNNs and CCR-based text sentiment analysis method and belongs to the field of natural language processing. The method comprises the following steps of 1, training a semantic word vector and a sentiment word vector by utilizing original text data and performing dictionary word vector establishment by utilizing a collected sentiment dictionary; 2, capturing context semantics of words by utilizing a long-short-term memory (LSTM) network to eliminate ambiguity; 3, extracting local features of a text in combination with convolution kernels with different filtering lengths by utilizing a convolutional neural network; 4, extracting global features by utilizing three different attention mechanisms; 5, performing artificial feature extraction on the original text data; 6, training a multimodal uniform regression target function by utilizing the local features, the global features and artificial features; and 7, performing sentiment polarity prediction by utilizing a multimodal uniform regression prediction method. Compared with a method adopting a single word vector, a method only extracting the local features of the text, or the like, the text sentiment analysis method can further improve the sentiment classification precision.
Owner:CHONGQING UNIV OF POSTS & TELECOMM

Digital distributed antenna system

A digital distributed antenna system (DDAS) that regains the capability to perform simulcast to multiple simulcast groups while using a base station's direct digital output is provided. The User Plane data is adapted for simulcast and also for eliminating time delay ambiguities across multiple simulcast digital radios. In addition, the Control and Management Plane is aggregated across multiple remote units to allow a non-modified donor digital base station to control simulcast groups. The result is a low cost digital DAS that can efficiently distribute the capacity of a digital base station to solve coverage and capacity requirements in a manner similar to that now accomplished using a traditional base station with RF in / out.
Owner:INTEL CORP

Information retrieval

An information retrieval system, and a method of operating an information retrieval system for retrieving information from a database in response to related queries submitted by a user, wherein information relating to possible interpretations of previous queries is stored and updated such that it may be used in order to disambiguate subsequent related queries and terms therein.
Owner:BRITISH TELECOMM PLC
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