Nec Corporation

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Shinichi Doi

Hiroyuki Tanaka

Shinichi Ando

Satoko Itaya

Rie Tanaka

Taku Konishi

Naoki Yoshinaga

Kunihiko Sadamasa

Eiji Kobayashi

Peter Davis

Yoshiko Matsukawa

Takayuki Nakamura

Keiichiro Kashiwagi

Kenji Satoh

Hajime Ishikawa

Shinichiro Kamei

Takao Kawai

Yoshiaki Wakabayashi

Mika Ishizuka

Ryosuke Kurebayashi

Kazuhiko Hamada

Shinko Tamura

Takako Komatsu

Miki Kitabata

Koyo Uemura

Satoru Oga

Junich Miyamoto

The point target can be easily and accurately instructed without disturbing the viewability of the point target and its neighboring display information. A touch panel type information terminal device comprises means for displaying on a display screen a touchable pointer comprising a pointer part for instructing a point target that is displayed on a display screen, and an operation part for a user to perform a touch operation, and means for integrally moving a display position of the operation part and the pointer part on the display screen in accordance with the touch operation of the user with respect to the operation part of the touchable pointer.

Touch panel type information terminal device, information input processing method and program thereof

A Web browser capable of providing an equivalent quality of user experience to a user even with respect to access of devices differing in processing performance. The web browsing system comprises a Web browser function which is divided between a browsing client unit and a browsing server unit, wherein the browsing client unit notifies a content input to the user terminal to the browsing server unit and displays a Web page on a user terminal by using information supplied from the browsing server unit, and wherein the browsing server unit supplies information necessary for displaying the Web page to the user terminal to the browsing client unit according to the content input to the user terminal notified from the browsing client unit.

Output function dividing system

An apparatus of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus that proposes an action to reduce an energy consumption amount by users of a system when an acceptance user proposes a place for accepting users. The information processing apparatus includes an acceptance information acquiring unit that acquires a proposal of an acceptance place accepting a plurality of users, a user position collector that collects the current positions of the plurality of users from communication terminals of the plurality of users, and a guidance information notification unit that selects the acceptance place as a place for gathering the plurality of users, and notifies the communication terminal of a user absent in the selected place of guidance information to the selected place.

Information processing system, information processing method, information processing apparatus, and control method and control program thereof

An assessment device () includes: a request acquirer () that accepts an evaluation target from a user terminal (); a model acquirer () and a data acquirer () that select a main model for evaluating the evaluation target accepted by the request acquirer () from a plurality of models and select supplemental data to be supplemented for using the main model (data to be input into the main model, a sub-model, or data to be input into the sub-model) when the data to be input into the main model is insufficient; an executor () that evaluates the evaluation target based on the main model and supplemental data selected by the model acquirer () and the data acquirer (); and a transmitter () that provides a result of the evaluation by the executor () to the outside.

Assessment device, assessment system, assessment method, and computer-readable storage medium

A natural-language processing system includes a registration-candidate storage section that stores therein registration-candidate dictionary data, a judgment means that compares input data against the registration-candidate dictionary data to thereby judge whether or not the input data includes a word corresponding to the registration-candidate dictionary data, an inquiry means that inquires to a user whether or not corresponding dictionary data is to be registered in a dictionary storage section to accept a user's instruction if it is judged that a corresponding word exists, a dictionary registration means that registers the corresponding dictionary data in the dictionary storage section based on the input instruction, and a natural-language processing means that executes a natural-language processing onto the input data by using the dictionary data registered in the dictionary storage section.

Natural-language processing system and dictionary registration system

A behavior information acquirer () acquires behavior information representing the behavior of a user detected by a behavior detector (), and stores the behavior information in a behavior information memory (). How the influence of the behavior of the user indicated by the behavior information acquired by the behavior information acquirer () will spread over a network of mutual information is calculated from mutual information, user information, and a behavior list respectively stored in a mutual information memory (), a user information memory (), and a behavior information memory (). A presentation information generator () generates presentation information depicting the way in which the influence of the behavior of the user indicated by the behavior information acquired by the behavior information acquirer () propagates to other users, and transmits the presentation information to a terminal device (B).

Server device, behavior promotion and suppression system, behavior promotion and suppression method, and recording medium

A communication information registering unit () acquires communication information that contains a sender, a receiver, and a sending time of information communicated between users that are communicating, and stores the communication information in a storage unit (). A response time calculation unit () finds response time of the users from the communication information. A threshold value setting unit () finds a threshold value for determining the statuses of the users from distribution of frequencies of the response time. A current status determination unit () determines the status of a counterpart user from the response time by using the threshold value. A notification unit () notifies a user of the current status of its counterpart user.

Communication support system, communication support method, and recording medium

In order to allow the broader selection of modules that configure a vehicle, this information processing system, which is for checking a vehicle configured by combining a plurality of vehicle modules, is characterized by being provided with: a first judgment means that judges whether or not each vehicle module has been certified; a second judgment means that judges whether or not the combination of the plurality of vehicle modules can be certified; and a determination means that determines the conditions necessary for the combination of the plurality of vehicle modules to receive certification.

Information processing system, method for checking vehicle, and program  for checking vehicle

It is an object to provide an information providing support device which is capable of encouraging a person having an intention or an obligation to provide information to provide safe and good quality information. An information providing support device of the present invention includes: an information storage unit for memorizing at least information input by a user of the information providing support device; an information providing request receiving unit for receiving the information providing request without intermediation of a user operation; an internal information retrieval unit for retrieving relevant information from the information storage unit in response to the information providing request received by the information providing request receiving unit, the relevant information being information relevant to the information providing request; and an information providing request presenting unit for presenting a predetermined information manager with the information providing request for which the relevant information has been retrieved by the internal information retrieval unit and the relevant information in association with each other, the information manager being authorized to permit the provision of the information stored in the information storage unit.

Information providing support device and information providing support method

An information provision system capable of providing attribute information to a contextually appropriate portion as well as a linguistic unit including a specific character string expression is provided. The information provision system includes analysis meansfor dividing a linguistic expression into predetermined linguistic units, a dictionaryfor extracting vocabularies each of which determines attribute information and selecting a linguistic unit to which the attribute information is to be provided, attribute information determination means (first attribute information determination means)for extracting a predetermined vocabulary from the linguistic unit and determining the attribute information using the dictionary, and attribute information provision linguistic unit selection means (second attribute information determination means)for determining the attribute information on an adjacent linguistic unit, based on the attribute information determined by the first attribute information determination meansand a connecting relationship between the respective linguistic units.

Information provision system, information provision method, information provision program, and information provision program recording medium

Disclosed is an information providing system comprising a receiving unit that receives an information request from a requester, a data storage unit that stores data, a detection processing unit that analyzes the content of the information request and extracts provision candidate data corresponding to the information request from the data storage unit, a responder output device to which the content of the information request and the provision candidate data are output, a responder input device that receives instruction information on whether or not the provision candidate data is to be provided, a response control unit that determines whether or not there is providable data based on the received instruction information and the provision candidate data, and an answer generating unit that generates answer data using the decision result by the response control unit.

Information providing system, method of providing information and program for providing information

A language processing device includes first analysis unitthat subjects a natural language sentence containing a polysemic word and other words to a predetermined analysis and outputs a plurality of analysis results for the natural language sentence according to a plurality of meanings of the polysemic word, second analysis unitthat performs a particular analysis on the analysis results outputted from first analysis unit, and employs one of the analysis results, and generation unitthat generates a deletion rule for deleting one or more unnecessary analysis results of the first analysis unitwhich has been deleted from the analysis results outputted from first analysis unitbut employed by second analysis unit, according to the analysis results outputted from the first analysis unitand the employment result of second analysis unit

Removing ambiguity when analyzing a sentence with a word having multiple meanings

A system according to the present invention searches for information related to entered text and presents searched information to a user with a minimum interruption to user's document formulating work. An input analyzing module,analyzes text entered by the user and extracts a search key. A related information searching module,searches a related information storage device,for information on the search key. A storage module,stores therein the search results collected for a plurality of past search keys including the latest search key and the positional information on each search key within a document. A controlling module,searches the storage module,for the search key corresponding to the position of a cursor. The controlling module issues an instruction to change a search button to a first display format if there is no related information, or an instruction to change the search button to a second display format if there is related information. In response to the instruction, a search instruction accepting module,changes the format of the search button on a display device,When the user backspaces the cursor to a previously-extracted search key, the system searches the storage module,again for information on the previously-extracted search key and changes the format of the search button according to the search result.

Related information search method, related information search system, and computer-readable medium having stored therein a program

In order to provide a front-end processor wherein additional functions for retrieving external resources can be easily supplemented optionally without user's complicated environment setting, a front-end processor of the invention, having a main processing section (2) and retrieval sections (4) controlled through the main processing section, comprises: notification means (10) provided in each of the retrieval sections for transmitting initialization information to the main processing section when a file of said each of the retrieval sections is deployed in a main memory area; and initialization means (7) provided in the main processing section for initializing default environments of the front-end processor according to the initialization information transmitted from each of the retrieval sections.

Front-end processor with notification and initialization means

In a processor for extracting information on a specified field from a text described in a natural language, keywords and structural analysis are jointly used to improve the performance. When a set of keywords is divided in more than one sentence, this set of keywords is assembled by context defining words in a sentence. A multi-language summary generator uses this type of a processor.

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Shinichi Doi