At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

Nec Informatec Systems, Ltd.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

At+t Corp.

Hirata Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kazuhiro Arai

Giuseppe Riccardi

Allen Louis Gorin

Toshiaki Yoshikawa

Jeremy Huntley Wright

Tadashi Emori

Junji Terada

Noriyuki Nakai

Yoichi Hirasawa

Miwa Takachi

Masaki Sotome

Yu Kameno

The present invention provides a system that transports a tray in a horizontal attitude, the tray including a plurality of work placement portions arranged in a matrix. The system includes first and second transport units, a transfer device transferring the tray between the first transport unit and the second transport unit, a shooting unit including a line sensor shooting, between the first transport unit and the second transport unit, an image of the tray transferred by the transfer device and a moving device moving the transfer device and the shooting unit in a direction to traverse a plurality of transport lines of the first transport unit.

Transport system

A method and apparatus are provided for automatically acquiring grammar fragments for recognizing and understanding fluently spoken language. Grammar fragments representing a set of syntactically and semantically similar phrases may be generated using three probability distributions: of succeeding words, of preceding words, and of associated call-types. The similarity between phrases may be measured by applying Kullback-Leibler distance to these tree probability distributions. Phrases being close in all three distances may be clustered into a grammar fragment.

Grammar fragment acquisition using syntactic and semantic clustering

A text in a corpus including a set of world wide web (web) pages is analyzed. At least one word appropriate for a document type set according to a voice recognition target is extracted based on an analysis result. A word set is generated from the extracted at least one word. A retrieval engine is caused to perform a retrieval process using the generated word set as a retrieval query of the retrieval engine on the Internet, and a link to a web page from the retrieval result is acquired. A language model for voice recognition is generated from the acquired web page.

Language model generating device, method thereof, and recording medium storing program thereof

A method and apparatus are provided for automatically acquiring grammar fragments for recognizing and understanding fluently spoken language. Grammar fragments representing a set of syntactically and semantically similar phrases may be generated using three probability distributions: of succeeding words, of preceding words, and of associated call-types. The similarity between phrases may be measured by applying Kullback-Leibler distance to these three probability distributions. Phrases being close in all three distances may be clustered into a grammar fragment.

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Kazuhiro Arai