Patents

• Awarded Patents
  1. "Text to Scene Conversion".
     December 27, 2011, U.S. Pat. Num. 8,086,028
  2. "System and Method of Using Meta-Data in Speech Processing" (with M. Bacchiani, S. Maskey, B. Roark).
     August 9, 2011, U.S. Pat. Num. 7,996,224
  3. "Text to Scene Conversion" (with B. Coyne).
     June 14, 2011, U.S. Pat. Num. 7,962,329
  4. "System and Method of Lattice-Based Search for Spoken Utterance Retrieval" (with M. Saraçlar)
     March 22, 2011, U.S. Pat. Num. 7,912,699
  5. "Text to Scene Conversion".
     February 16, 2010, U.S. Pat. Num. 7,664,313
  6. "Text to Scene Conversion" (with B. Coyne).
     May 13, 2008, U.S. Pat. Num. 7,373,292
  7. "Text to Scene Conversion" (with B. Coyne).
     March 21, 2006, U.S. Pat. Num. 7,016,828
  8. "E-Mail Signature Block Analysis" (with H. Chen and J. Hu)
     April 16, 2002, U.S. Pat. Num. 6,373,985.
  9. "E-Mail Signature Block Segmentation" (with H. Chen and J. Hu),
     March 19, 2002, U.S. Pat. Num. 6,360,010.
  10. "A Method and Apparatus for Measuring the Degree of Polysemy in Polysemous Words" (with J. van Santen),
      July 3, 2001, U.S. Pat. Num. 6,256,629.
  11. "Compilation of Weighted Finite-State Transducers from Decision Trees",
      September 8, 1998, U.S. Pat. Num. 5,806,032.
  12. "Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion of digit strings using weighted finite state transducers to apply grammar to powers of a number basis" (with F. Pereira and M. Riley),
      July 14, 1998, U.S. Pat. Num. 5,781,884.
  13. "Method for conversion of phonetic Chinese to character Chinese,"
      December 14, 1993, U.S. Pat. Num. 5,270,927.
  14. "Conversion of input text strings"
      January, 3 2012, U.S. Pat. Num. US 2014/0163952 A1.
  15. "Semiotic class normalization"
      December 26, 2017, U.S. Pat. Num. 9,852,123.