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12. The method for selectively evolving phishing detection rules of claim 11 , wherein the at least one rule generation criterion is at least two lower thresholds.

11. The method for selectively evolving phishing detection rules of claim 10 , wherein determining at least one categorization-specific phishing detection criterion of the intercepted data further comprises determining a second phishing detection criterion specific to the second categorization.

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8. The system as claimed in claim 5 , wherein said lexical knowledge database includes frame structures identified from a corpus of text, a frame structure having one or more slots-value pairs, a slot representing a syntactic role identified by a dependency relation, wherein to apply a Generalized Frame Model, said processor device is further configured to: specify a frame cut comprising a sub-set of frames having non-empty slot-values for a given subset of slot-values pairs; specify a frame abstraction to determine a desired relationship among selected selected slot values from said given subset of slot-values pairs; and, generate, from said frame cut, plural frame vectors defining a multi-dimensional vector space from which relationships among selected selected slot values is determined; and, processing said frame vectors to determine said desired relationship among selected selected slot values as defined by said abstraction.

9. The system as claimed in claim 8 , wherein said desired relationship includes an inferred type of a slot representing one of: a syntactic subject role or syntactic object in corresponding verb and noun phrases.

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17. The system of claim 12 , wherein the common affix extraction unit is configured to extract an affix which meets common affix extraction rank parameters among a plurality of affixes.

12. A system for providing keyword ranking, the system comprising: a storage device configured to store a keyword set that comprises keywords input to search an Internet search environment as search queries; and a processor comprising: a common affix extraction unit configured to extract a common affix using a keyword set, the common affix extraction unit including, a keyword counter configured to count keywords including each of a plurality of affixes with a common attribute in a keyword set, and an affix ranking calculation unit configured to calculate a ranking of each affix using the counting result of the keywords and to extract the common affix and by applying a weight to the counting result of the keywords based on an attribute of each affix, the weight according to the attribute of each affix increases as query counts of each affix being a keyword itself increase; a keyword ranking providing unit configured to provide ranking of keywords which include the extracted common affix; and a regular expression establishment unit configured to establish a regular expression using the extracted common affix and a search combination symbol.

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1. A method for predictive coding of previously collected electronic discovery documents, the method comprising: receiving, at a computing device, a plurality of document coding inputs that each assign a review code to one of a plurality of first documents, which are associated with a case within an electronic discovery system and have been previously collected from one of a plurality of custodians associated with the case, wherein the review code indicates a level of relevancy or importance in relation to the case and at least one document coding input codes a first document as privileged; in response to receiving each of the plurality of document coding inputs, determining, via a computing device processor, if one or more second documents, which are associated with the case, have been previously collected from the plurality of custodians and are pending review, are similar to or same as the first document; in response to receiving the at least one document coding input that codes the first document as privileged, determining, via a computing device, if one or more third documents, which are associated with other cases in the electronic discovery system, have been collected from the plurality of custodians and are pending review are same as the first document; in response to determining that the second documents are same as the first document, automatically assigning, via a computing device processor, a review code assigned to the first document to the one or more second documents that are the same as the first document; in response to determining that the third documents are same as the first document, automatically assigning, via a computing device processor, the privilege code to the one or more third documents that are the same as the first document; removing, via a computing device processor, the one or more second documents that are the same as the first document from a plurality of pending review documents based on the assignment of the review code, wherein the pending review documents are included in a document review assignment currently being reviewed by a reviewer; and presenting, via a computing device display, the one or more second documents that are similar to the first document and a confidence indicator that indicates a level of similarity between the first document and a presented second document, wherein the reviewer makes a determination based on the confidence indicator as to whether the presented second document reaches a level of similarity to the first document to justify assigning the review code to the presented document.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining further comprises determining, via the computing device, if the one or more second documents include a predetermined threshold of concepts included in the first document.

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4. The method of claim 1 , wherein calling the global application update handler comprises calling the global application update handler as a result of an event invoked upon a return of the semantic interpretation of the speech.

1. A method for synchronizing visual and speech events in a multimodal application, the method comprising: calling a voice form of the multimodal application, wherein the multimodal application is run using at least one computer processor, wherein the multimodal application provides a multimodal web page to a client device over a network; receiving speech from a user; determining a semantic interpretation of the speech; calling a global application update handler of the multimodal application including exiting a voice form; identifying, by the global application update handler, an additional processing function in dependence upon the semantic interpretation; executing the additional processing function; updating a visual element after executing the additional processing function; updating a voice form after executing the additional processing function; and restarting the voice form after executing the additional processing function, wherein determining a semantic interpretation of the speech comprises determining a plurality of semantic interpretations of the speech, and wherein identifying, by the global application update handler, an additional processing function in dependence upon the semantic interpretation comprises identifying, by the global application update handler, an additional processing function for each of the plurality of semantic interpretations.

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1. A method for augmenting an audio signal comprising acts of: receiving an audio signal, extracting features from said audio signal, generating a time ordered table of dramatic parameters according to the extracted features, wherein the dramatic parameters include mood, changes of pace and incidents, selecting a story template at least in part in dependence on said table of dramatic parameters, wherein said story template comprises dramatic parameter data related to a narrative story structure, obtaining media fragments at least in part in dependence on the table of dramatic parameters by matching the dramatic parameters of the selected story template with those of the media fragments, and outputting said media fragments in tandem with said audio signal.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the generation of said table of dramatic parameters comprises retrieving a list of dramatic parameters and associated audio features, comparing and matching the extracted features with the retrieved associated audio features, and inserting an entry comprising the dramatic parameter associated with the audio feature.

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15. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the keyword categories comprise one or more of: an ingredient keyword category, a serving keyword category, and a direction keyword category.

14. An apparatus comprising: a memory unit; and a processor coupled to the memory unit and configured to execute a plurality of instructions which are configured to when executed cause the apparatus to: retrieve recipe text information from a client device in communication with the apparatus, the recipe text information comprising at least a plurality of words relating to preparation of a food or beverage; analyze the text information to determine one of a plurality of keyword categories for individual ones of the plurality of words in the text information, the keyword categories being determined based on a presence of the individual ones of the plurality of words within a database of known words for each of three available keyword categories; extract nutrition information associated with at least the individual ones of the words identified within the keyword category relating to known ingredients; organize the extracted nutrition information and the plurality of words into sections related to the keyword categories; and provide the organized extracted nutrition information and the plurality of words to the client device for nutrition logging thereat.

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2. The system of claim 1 , the operations further comprising: receiving a selection of the hyperlink; collecting and storing statistical data about the selection of the web page address; and causing the browser to be directed to the web page associated with the web page address.

1. A system, comprising: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions to direct the processor to perform operations comprising: determining that a domain name controller is authorized for keyword navigation; receiving, via keyword registration user interface, from the domain name controller of a plurality of webpages of a web site hosted by a web server, a keyword and information identifying a webpage of the plurality of webpages; storing, in a database, the keyword in association with the information identifying the webpage; receiving a search string from the web server, wherein the search string is entered via a search user interface at the website by a website visitor; locating in the database the keyword associated with the website and matching the search string based on authorization of the domain name controller for keyword navigation; determining a domain name of the webpage associated with the matching keyword, the matching keyword being generated by a domain name controller that has been authenticated as being authorized by a registrant of the domain name to set up the matching keyword for the domain name; determining a web page address of one of the plurality of web pages hosted at the website associated with the matching keyword, retrieving a description for the web page address associated with the matching keyword, and generating data used to display the domain name, the web page address, the description, and the matching keyword to the user, wherein the description is displayed as a hyperlink that causes a browser to be directed to the determined web page address of the one of the plurality of web pages hosted at the website.

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1. A method, comprising: determining, by at least one processor, an expected popularity of a file based on popularity information; assigning a popularity score to the file based on the expected popularity; adjusting, by the at least one processor, the assigned popularity score based on a time decay component such that greater weight is given to more recent popularity information of the popularity information than to less recent popularity information of the popularity information; and ordering the file relative to a plurality of other files based on the time-decay adjusted assigned popularity-score.

21. The method of claim 1 , wherein the expected popularity is determined based on the file's association to a known name brand.

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14. The method of claim 1 , wherein: the one or more values comprises a plurality of data elements; comparing the input data with the one or more values comprises comparing the input data with the plurality of data elements simultaneously.

1. A machine-implemented method for processing a query, comprising: determining, by a microprocessor, that execution of the query involves a scan operation; in response to determining that execution of the query involves a scan operation, generating, by the microprocessor, a scan operation command that includes, as parameters of the scan operation command, address data that is used to identify input data to be read by a coprocessor and one or more values that are used to compare against the input data; wherein the microprocessor is separate from the coprocessor; causing, by the microprocessor, the scan operation command to be stored in memory; processing, by the coprocessor, the scan operation command by: reading the scan operation command from the memory; causing the input data to be read from a location that is indicated by the address data; performing a comparison between the input data with the one or more values; generating a result data based on the comparison; causing the result data to be stored.

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8. Computer-executable instructions for performing the computer-implemented method of claim 1 , the computer-executable instructions stored on computer-storage media.

1. A computer-implemented method of generating a list, comprising: receiving a candidate item comprising at least one of an artist name or a title of the candidate item; for each reference item of a plurality of reference items, comparing at least a portion of respective characters of the at least one of the artist name or the title of the candidate item to at least a portion of respective reference-item characters of at least one of a reference-item artist name or a reference-item title of the reference item to facilitate determining a respective matching score, relating to each of the at least one of the artist name or the title of the candidate item, for each reference item based at least in part on a respective number of matches between the at least a portion of the respective characters and the at least a portion of the respective reference-item characters for each reference item; identifying the candidate item based at least in part on a best reference item, the best reference item is a reference item of the plurality of reference items having a matching score that at least meets a predetermined threshold amount and has a highest matching score as compared to other reference items of the plurality of reference items; associating a plurality of metadata relating to the best reference item with the candidate item, wherein the associated plurality of metadata is a plurality of candidate item metadata relating to the candidate item, to facilitate comparing similarity between the candidate item and a seed item; retrieving a plurality of seed item metadata relating to the seed item identified by a received seed item identifier; comparing the plurality of seed item metadata to the plurality of candidate item metadata; computing a similarity score between the seed item and the candidate item based at least in part on a similarity of the plurality of seed item metadata to the plurality of candidate item metadata, wherein the similarity score is computed using a list-generation computer system; determining whether to add the candidate item to the list based at least in part on the similarity score; and generating the list, which is provided to a user.

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12. The system of claim 10 wherein the storage area comprises pre-translated documents.

10. The system of claim 8 wherein the first and second translated web pages are transmitted to the user computer from a storage area.

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9. The method of claim 1 further comprising: inserting a first set of reference tags into the main electronic document to nest a first set of electronic documents including content for display therein, the first set of reference tags including references to one or more first nested electronic documents; inserting into the first set of electronic documents, a second set of reference tags to nest a second set of electronic documents including content for display therein, the second set of reference tags including references to one or more second nested electronic documents; and displaying the content of the first set of electronic documents in an overlapping manner with the content of the main electronic document when the main electronic document is displayed; and displaying the content of the second set of electronic documents in an overlapping manner with the content of the first set of electronic documents.

1. A method for formatting a main electronic document to include one or more other electronic documents for display, the main electronic document readable by a computer software application, the main electronic document including content for display, the method comprising the following steps: inserting a reference tag into the main electronic document to nest therein another electronic document including content for display, the content of the nested electronic document displayed in an overlapping manner with the content of the main electronic document when the main electronic document is displayed; with the reference tag, specifying a display layout for the nested electronic document; and with the reference tag, specifying display techniques for the nested electronioc document.

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3. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the accessibility-enabled version of the particular document comprises: parsing the first version of the particular document to identify a plurality of elements within the first version of the particular document; generating a data structure that (a) comprises the plurality of elements and (b) represents a relationship between two or more elements of the plurality of elements; and producing the accessibility-enabled version of the particular document based on the data structure.

1. A method comprising: storing a first version of a particular document in storage accessible to a server-side machine; generating, by the server-side machine, an accessibility-enabled version of the particular document based on the first version of the particular document; wherein the accessibility-enabled version of the particular document has one or more accessibility features, which are not present in the first version of the particular document, that facilitate use of a particular assistive technology; storing the accessibility-enabled version in the storage accessible to the server-side machine; receiving a request, from a client-side machine, for the particular document; determining, by the server-side machine, whether to respond to the request with the first version of the particular document or the accessibility-enabled version of the particular document; responsive to determining to respond to the request with the first version of the particular document, the server-side machine sending the first version of the particular document to the client-side machine; and responsive to determining to respond to the request with the accessibility-enabled version of the particular document, the server-side machine sending the accessibility enabled version of the particular document to the client-side machine.

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13. A computer system comprising the following: one or more processors; system memory; one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing system to execute a method for establishing a schema graph that allows queries to be answered by traversing graph nodes, the method comprising the following: an act of accessing a relational database comprising one or more database tables in a first data storage area that stores relational data; an act of extracting a schema graph from the accessed relational database, the schema graph comprising graph nodes representing the accessed database tables, the schema graph further comprising edges, which are displayed as corresponding lines and that visually represent relationships between the graph nodes, wherein at least two edges are represented as separate lines with different display attributes, the different display attributes corresponding to different relationship attributes between different nodes, the schema graph being stored in a second, different storage area; an act of associating one or more relational tables with the graph nodes of the schema graph, such that both the relational tables and the relational tables' corresponding relationships are accessible via the schema graph; an act of receiving a query at the computer system, the query specifying one or more relational tables and their relationships that are to be retrieved from the relational database; and an act of traversing the edges connecting the graph nodes of the schema graph to execute the received query.

21. The computer system of claim 13 , wherein the different display attributes include line type.

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11. The method of claim 9 , wherein said generating step includes marking portions of the left deep nested loop join tree which require transformation to generate a semantically correct query execution plan equivalent to the tree of logical operators.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: converting the query into a tree of logical operators.

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3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said analyzing the received gestural input set comprises: analyzing gesture data which represents the received gestural input set to determine characteristics of the received gestural input set; and identifying a gesture type for each one of the plurality of gestures dependent on the determined characteristics.

1. A method, comprising: displaying a digital image on an electronic device, wherein the electronic device is configured to receive sets of gestural inputs; receiving, via the electronic device, a gestural input set, wherein the gestural input set comprises a plurality of gestures, and wherein each given gesture of the received plurality of gestures: corresponds to one of multiple different regions within the digital image; and specifies a respective type of image processing constraint for processing the corresponding one of the multiple different regions within the digital image, wherein the respective type of image processing constraint depends on the gesture type of the given gesture; wherein the plurality of gestures in the received gestural input set include multiple different types of gestures such that the received gestural input set collectively specifies multiple types of image processing constraints; analyzing the received gestural input set to determine, for each region of the multiple different regions, the respective type of image processing constraint for processing the region, as specified by the given gesture of the received plurality of gestures that corresponds to the region; and subsequent to receiving the plurality of gestures including multiple different types of gestures, performing a particular image processing operation on the multiple different regions within the digital image according to each region's respective specified image processing constraint as specified by the type of gesture applied to that region.

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1. A method of selecting and presenting a subset of content items to a user based on content item selections by other users having similar preferences as determined at least in part based on analyzing the weights of relative preferences and based on analyzing intervals of time occurring between user selection of similar content items, the method comprising: providing access to a set of content items, each content item having at least one associated descriptive term to describe the content item; receiving a plurality of incremental inputs, each incremental input being entered by a corresponding one of a plurality of users of an input device, wherein the incremental input includes at least one character in a series of characters; in response to each character of the incremental input, presenting a corresponding subset of content items; receiving selection actions of content items from the user who entered the incremental input for which the subset of content items was presented; determining a geographic location of the user at the time of at least one of the selection actions; analyzing the descriptive terms associated with the selected content items to identify sets of actions resulting in the selection of similar content items, wherein similarity is determined by comparing the descriptive terms associated with any one of the selected content items with any of the previously selected content items; analyzing the date, day, and time of at least three of the individual selection actions of the sets of actions to learn arbitrary periodicities corresponding to a particular set of actions for selecting similar content items, wherein the arbitrary periodicities each comprise repeated similar intervals of time between user actions resulting in the selections of similar content items; for each user of the plurality of users, learning the preferences of each user by associating a weight and arbitrary periodicity with each descriptive term associated with the selection actions of the user, said weight being indicative of the amount of use by the user of the selected content items associated with each of the descriptive terms and said arbitrary periodicity being the learned arbitrary periodicity of the descriptive terms associated with the set of similar content items, so that the user preferences are specified as a set of descriptive terms, each with associated weights and arbitrary periodicities, the learning the preferences of each user further including associating the geographic location with each descriptive term associated with the corresponding selection actions of the user; identifying users with similar preferences by comparing sets of learned user preferences to determine if the sets of preferences of the users match within a specified threshold; and presenting content items to at least one user of the plurality of users by identifying for presentation content items selected by users identified as having learned user preferences that are similar to the learned user preferences of said at least one user; wherein at least one of receiving a plurality of incremental inputs, presenting the corresponding subset of content items, receiving selection actions, learning the preferences of each user, identifying users with similar preferences, and presenting content items is performed on a server system remote from the user.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of content items is contained on at least one of a cable television system, a video-on-demand system, an IPTV system, and a personal video recorder.

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27. The article of manufacture of claim 20 wherein said recipe editor creates a BKM driven recipe after receiving value inputs for said parameters.

28. The article of manufacture of claim 27 wherein said recipe editor requests actual configuration settings of said processing system before executing said BKM driven-recipe, wherein a comparison between said actual configuration settings and said BKM driven recipe is performed.

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2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising preparing and displaying, in response to a user request received via the search result page, a detailed information page, including relevance information obtained from a user that relates the search suggestion to the item.

11. The method of claim 2 , wherein the relevance information corresponding to the search suggestion is used to explain the relevance of the obtained data entries to the item.

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10. An apparatus comprising: a sensor array unit configured to detect a gesture constituting movements from a user in three-dimensional space; a memory; and a processor coupled to the sensor array unit and the memory, and configured to: receive data for the gesture from the sensor array unit; identify a possible electronic command associated with the gesture; generate a confidence score value for the electronic command associated with the gesture; compare the electronic command associated with the gesture with a prior electronic command associated with a prior gesture previously detected to determine a compatibility metric between the electronic command and the prior electronic command; adjust the confidence score value based on the compatibility metric to obtain a modified confidence score value; and execute the electronic command when the modified confidence score value is greater than a predetermined threshold confidence score value.

16. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the processor is further configured to: detect a new gesture after detecting the gesture and the prior gesture; generate a new confidence score value for the new gesture; select a new electronic command associated with the new gesture; compare the new electronic command with the prior electronic command to determine a new compatibility metric between the new electronic command and a most recent electronic command associated with a most recent previous gesture; adjust the new confidence score value based on the new compatibility metric to obtain a new modified confidence score value; and execute the new electronic command when the new modified confidence score value is greater than the predetermined threshold confidence value.

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11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, said computer-readable medium comprising a set of computer instructions that, when executed by a processor, performs operations comprising: storing a plurality of computer files in a file storage system, said computer files having associated meta-data comprising at least one meta-data type, each meta-data type having at least one meta-data value; generating a plurality of meta-data files, each computer file having a first filename and each meta-data file having a second filename derived from said first filename; examining said plurality of meta-data files of said plurality of computer files to identify computer files having meta-data of a particular meta-data type of a same particular meta-data value; generating a meta-data index file for indexing said computer files stored in said file storage system having meta-data of said particular meta-data type of said same particular meta-data value, said meta-data index file comprising a list of filenames of said identified computer files stored in said file storage system having meta-data of said particular meta-data type of said same particular meta-data value; and storing said generated meta-data index file in said file storage system that stores said computer files being indexed, said meta-data index file having a filename derived from said particular meta-data type and said same particular meta-data value used to generate said meta-data index file.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as set forth in claim 11 wherein storing said plurality of meta-data files, each meta-data file associated with one of said plurality of computer files in said computer storage system, said meta-data files comprising at least one meta-data type field comprising a meta-data type and a meta-data value filed comprising a meta-data value of said meta-data type.

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7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions that cause one or more processors to create documentation, the instructions comprising: instructions that cause the one or more processors to store in a data store a plurality of document schemas, each document schema corresponding to a topic of a writing pattern provided by an authoring tool as a guide for a writer to author at least a portion of a document, each of the document schemas comprising a plurality of elements corresponding to a plurality of components of the writing pattern each writing pattern is associated with several of distinct topic types, the topic types including at least one of questions for answering business-use and system-constraint questions about a task or function, conceptual information, examples of how to achieve a specific result, or definitions of at least one of application-specific words, phrases, or common business terms that have specific meaning, each component of the plurality of components corresponds to at least a portion of a document; instructions that cause the one or more processors to: for each document of a plurality of documents: receive user selection of a component of a particular writing pattern corresponding to a visual element of a visual representation of a corresponding document schema, the visual representation including a plurality of graphic pairs each having an opening graphic and a closing graphic; receive user input representative of content for the selected component corresponding to the selected visual element; and add information corresponding to the user input to the document according to the corresponding document schema; and instructions that cause the one or more processors to associate the added information from the plurality of documents together in a document collection.

10. The computer readable storage medium of claim 7 , further comprising: instructions that cause the one or more processors to designate at least one of the plurality of elements as required; and instructions that cause the one or more processors to validate whether content has been entered for said at least one element.

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11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the first characteristic comprises a statistical parameter further determined based on the plurality of first outputs of the first transformation process.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the statistical parameter comprises one or more of: a mean, a variance, a percentile, and a standard deviation.

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9. The device of claim 1 , wherein the gesture input comprises a motion in a direction corresponding to a desired direction of audio control and a tap corresponding to a skip to an end of an audio buffer.

1. A radio device comprising a gesture pad that receives a gesture input, that distinguishes between a plurality of fingers used for a gesture, that recognizes the orientation of the distinguished finger, and that performs a function that is dependent on the distinguished finger and its orientation.

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7. The computer-readable medium of claim 1 wherein the one or more abstraction layer components comprise one or more delegate components comprising one or more pointers to source code for the one or more tasks.

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing code executable by a computer processor to generate a workflow engine comprising: a Petri net domain model comprising a set of objects comprising a token object, a place object, an arc object, a transition object, and one or more trigger objects, wherein (a) each object represents a particular type of element of a Petri net model and (b) the one or more trigger objects represent triggering a transition object based at least in part on stimuli external to the workflow engine; and one or more runtime components configured for: reading source code representing a particular workflow, wherein the source code indicates elements of the particular workflow and connectors between elements of the particular workflow to sequence the elements of the particular workflow; loading the particular workflow into memory by mapping each element of the particular workflow to one or more objects of the set of objects and by mapping each connector of the particular workflow to one or more objects of the set of objects based on rules governing the Petri net model; and executing the particular workflow loaded into the memory, wherein the workflow engine further comprises one or more abstraction layer components comprising a transition layer from the Petri net domain model to an operating system, the abstraction layer configured to delegate one or more tasks associated with elements of the particular workflow of the Petri net domain to the operating system, via the transition layer, the delegated tasks to be performed by the operating system.

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22. A method of generating a customized output with a computer system to facilitate a sale of a tangible product, the method comprising: receiving via a computer system, answers to a plurality of questions related to at least one of a desired feature and a desired use by a customer of a tangible product for sale; automatically selecting by the computer system, in response to at least one of the answers, an image of the tangible product for sale, an image of an environment in which the tangible product for sale is to be used, and a text segment comprised of a description of product specifications and performances that are of particular interest to the customer; and integrating the selected images and selected text segment into a proposal for the sale of the tangible product for the customer such that a single composite customized output representing the tangible product in the environment in which the tangible product is to be used along with said text segment can be generated, wherein the single composite customized output is generated by a selection device operatively interconnected to an active database, the active database configured to electronically store customer information obtained via the answers, and operatively connected to a static database, the static database electronically storing at least one of (a) text, (b) pictures or (c) text and pictures relating to at least one product; and the computer system dynamically building a template utilizing the selection device to fill in the template to produce the composite customized output.

28. The method of claim 22 wherein the computer system stores a plurality of product specifications related to producing the tangible product in a variety of configurations, and the method further comprises linking at least one of the answers with one of the plurality of product specifications for inclusion in the composite customized output.

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10. The method of claim 9 , wherein said evaluation questions are selectable according to said profile information of said first individual and said second individual.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein at least one of said selected evaluation questions is selected from said database.

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5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the identified objects are displayed as a selectable list in a graphical user interface.

1. A computer-implemented method for selecting objects for importation, each object including data and related processes, the method comprising: receiving a search query including an object type, the object type identifying two or more key fields that uniquely identify the object type specified in the search query; receiving a filter selection, including receiving a selection of one or more filtering parameters of the specified object type and receiving values of the selected filtering parameters; searching a database and identifying objects that have the identified two or more key fields and meet the filter selection, wherein the identified objects comprise data and at least one related process; and returning a result to a user indicating the identified objects.

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30. The method of claim 18 further comprising the step of selecting a literary work to present to a reader based on demographics of the reader and the number of readers from each demographic that the literary work needs to meet the demographic reader requirements.

18. A method for providing on-line evaluation of authored literary work for potential publication of the work comprising the steps of: receiving a portion of a literary work from an author to be reviewed via an Internet communication from a remote computer system; storing the portion of the literary work along with other portions of other literary works for review at a host computer system, said host computer comprising a processor for performing the steps of: receiving a request from a reader to review the portion of the literary work; presenting one of the portions of the literary work to the reader based on the reader's request electronically over a network; implementing at least one security mechanism to limits the ability of users to misappropriate credit for the portion of literary work when the literary work were to be resubmitted by another author including a timestamp associated with a time of first receipt of the portion of literary work from the author for resolving disputes regarding original authorship; receiving an evaluation of the portion of literary work from the reader and associated with the portion of the literary work; determining whether the portion of literary work meets a predetermined reader-satisfaction criteria during a first level review, the first level review being one of multiple levels of review; determining whether the literary work has been reviewed by a predetermined number of reviewers from a plurality of reviewer demographics; and deciding to publish the literary work when the predetermined reader-satisfaction criteria is met and when the literary work has been reviewed by a predetermined number of reviewers from a plurality of reviewer demographics.

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16. A computer-readable medium as claimed in claim 13 in which at least one of said application programs is a billing program.

13. A computer-readable medium comprising an application program interface, the application program interface configurable to route information identified by content instructions in a document file on a computer to a potential plurality of application programs according to customizable transmission format instructions, said transmission format instructions being customized to requirements of each application program receiving said information.

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26. The method of claim 22 , wherein the first graphical document contains graphical content having one or more links; and an operating status of the one or more links is determined and the first graphical document is disapproved if the operating status indicates at least one broken link.

22. A computer-implemented method comprising: storing a first graphical document; comparing graphical content of the first graphical document to graphical content of a second graphical document by a processor; flagging the first graphical document based on the comparison; providing the flagged first graphical document to one or more evaluator terminals for rating information; and approving or disapproving the flagged first graphical document based on the rating information received from the one or more evaluator terminals by the processor.

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26. A computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that direct a computing system to, at least: submit a query to a plurality of search indexes, each search index associated with a relevance ranking function for ranking items according to an individual ranking scale, at least two of the individual ranking scales being different; queue a plurality of search index result sets received from the plurality of search indexes, each of the plurality of search index result sets being ordered lists identifying items related to the query and ranked according to one of the individual ranking scales; determine a query index association for each of the plurality of search indexes; and create a universal query result set that includes a list of items obtained from the plurality of search index result sets, the list being ordered based on at least a probability of those items satisfying the query, the list of items containing items obtained from different search index result sets, wherein the probability of the items of the list satisfying the query is determined at least in part by: computing an allocation score for each of the plurality of search indexes, the allocation score for each search index being computed based at least in part upon a relative number of search results in the corresponding search index result set; for each of the plurality of search index result sets, computing a universal item score for at least one item identified in the respective search index result set, the universal item score for each item being computed at least in part by normalizing the individual ranking scale for each of the plurality of search index result sets to a common ranking scale; and determining a probability of each item satisfying the query based at least upon a combination of the allocation score for the search index associated with the item and the universal item score for the item.

28. The computer-readable medium of claim 26 , wherein the instructions that direct the computing system to create a universal query result set further include instructions that direct the computing system to: compute the allocation score for each of the plurality of search indexes.

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10. The knowledge transfer system of claim 1 wherein the collaboration tools comprise one or more of: a discussion thread system, an instant messaging system, an electronic mail message system, an audio or video messaging system, a moving screen capture recording system, and a desktop capture and annotation system.

1. A knowledge transfer system for transferring knowledge, the knowledge transfer system comprising: a wizard system including a plurality of web pages to receive information about knowledge and tasks to be transferred from expert workers at a first location to apprentice workers at a second location; a memory system to store the knowledge and tasks; an engagement site including a plurality of web pages to be accessed by respective expert workers and respective apprentice workers during the transferring of knowledge; and collaboration tools for communication between individual expert workers and individual apprentice workers during the transferring of knowledge.

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16. The system of claim 11 , wherein the service agent is configured to be automatically invoked by the web service.

11. A system comprising: a first information system associated with a first ontology comprising a first representation of a common concept; a second information system associated with a second ontology comprising a second representation of the common concept, wherein the second representation is distinct from the first representation; a web service ontology describing concepts and relationships of an interface for a web service; a service agent configured to map concepts from the first ontology, the second ontology, a context ontology capturing the common concept, and the web service ontology to each other to create an augmented ontology; and a computing device configured to: search the augmented ontology for an execution path between an input to the first information system and a desired output from the second information system, the execution path traversing through concepts of the web service ontology, and generate executable code that accepts the input and invokes the execution path to produce the desired output.

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6. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 5 , wherein the information associated with each employee-use domain name includes a business name.

7. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 6 , wherein the information associated with each employee-use domain name further includes a physical address associated with the business name.

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6. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising: generating group layout information for inclusion in layout information used to identify one or more elements of the element group to be rendered for display in the display area.

13. The method according to claim 6 , further comprising: storing the group layout information; processing the stored group layout information to identify one or more elements to be rendered for display in the display area, and rendering the identified elements when the one or more elements are to be rendered in a first display state; and re-processing the stored group layout information to identify one or more elements to be rendered for display in the display area, and rendering the identified elements, when the one or more elements are to be rendered in a second, different, display state.

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35. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 34 , wherein the machine-readable computer program code, when executed by the processor, further causes the apparatus to: update said displaying of said character candidates in response to said switching.

34. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 31 , wherein the machine-readable computer program code, when executed by the processor, further causes the apparatus to: switch a designation of the first recognition mode from active to inactive and a designation of the second recognition mode from inactive to active in response to the selection of the character candidate; display in a first manner each of the character candidates for which the recognition mode in which the character candidate is obtained is designated as active after the switch; and display in a second manner each of the character candidates for which the recognition mode in which the character candidate is obtained is designated as inactive after the switch.

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8. A method according to claim 6, wherein the utility functions include a function to set a trigger event.

6. A method according to claim 4, wherein the library list forming step includes the step of forming a library list of entry points for utility functions, and wherein the attached script includes script commands to execute utility functions.

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1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a search query; identifying a plurality of matching resources, matching resources being resources that satisfy the search query; determining that a particular resource of the matching resources has an entry in a database of identified music web pages, wherein each music web page is a resource from which music content can be accessed, wherein each music web page includes markup language music data identifying one or more songs, and wherein each entry is associated with music data identifying one or more songs from a corresponding music web page; generating a presentation of respective search results for the plurality of matching resources, wherein each search result in the presentation includes a title, a snippet, and a link to a corresponding one of the matching resources, including generating, for the particular resource, a particular search result in the presentation having one or more secondary music search result links to respective music web pages in the database of identified music web pages; and providing the presentation of search results in response to the search query.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the particular search result does not include any other types of secondary search result links.

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5. The system according to claim 4 , wherein the dynamic converter further comprises: a first replacement section for replacing each of a plurality of character string output instructions which have not been converted into the second buffering instructions, with a first buffering instruction for adding a character string, which is to be outputted, to the first buffer, without converting the character code set from the first code set; and an instruction insertion section for inserting a conversion instruction into a part of the output program executed before the second buffering instruction and after the plurality of first buffering instructions, the conversion instruction collectively converting a character code set of a plurality of character strings stored in the first buffer into the second code set, and then adding the converted character strings to the second buffer.

4. The system according to claim 3 , wherein the static converter further comprises: a second replacement section for replacing a character string output instruction whose character code set has been previously converted into the second code set, with a second buffering instruction for adding, to the second buffer, a character string whose character code set has previously been converted into the second code set.

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1. A method, performed by a client, to dynamically generate an application programming interface that enables the client to access a service provided by a server, the method comprising: receiving a request to connect to the server that provides the service, and in response thereto, connecting to the server; downloading an interface definition language file, wherein the interface definition languages file defines the service; generating interface metadata based on the interface definition language file, wherein the interface metadata includes methods, data types, and messages supported by the server; storing the generated interface metadata in a local memory or storage of the client; and in response to a request to execute a method of the service: generating instructions which implement interface bindings for the method based on the stored interface metadata, and executing the method, wherein the executing of the method includes exchanging messages with the server and receiving a result of the method execution from the server.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the interface definition language file specifies at least one method and one data type.

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26. The system according to claim 16 , wherein the processor is configured to filter out position variations due to image-content.

16. A printing system for detecting motion quality error of printed documents comprising: a print engine configured to print a document having text lines comprising a plurality of characters; a scanning device configured to scan the printed document and to generate a scanned image having the text lines and the characters; and a processor configured to: determine the orientation of the text lines in the scanned image with respect to a process direction of the printing system; detect positions in the process direction of the printing system of one of the text lines and the characters in the scanned image; determine position errors in the process direction in the printed document based on the detected process direction positions of one of the text lines and the characters in the scanned image and the determined orientation of the text lines; determine at least one motion quality error of the printing system in the process direction based on the determined process direction position errors; and initiate an activity associated with the printing system in response to a motion quality error having been determined.

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15. The method according to claim 13 , further comprising: determining and adding phoneme sequence hypotheses to the phoneme graph thereby providing an extended phoneme graph, and wherein the word-phoneme graph is based on the extended phoneme graph.

13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising: converting the phoneme graph to a word-phoneme graph, the word-phoneme graph assigning a word and associated phonetic transcription to each edge.

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12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: receiving, from the business, an edited recommendation based on the one or more website recommendations, wherein the recommended content is further extracted from the edited recommendation.

1. A method for creating a website, comprising: receiving, from a business, a request for a website creation recommendation for content of the website; generating, in response to receiving the request, a post comprising a name of the business, a business owner name, and a link to a website creation recommendation page; publishing, using a social network application, the post to a newsfeed in a social network, wherein a plurality of users in the social network subscribe to the newsfeed; receiving, in response to publishing the post and from the plurality of users, a plurality of recommendations comprising recommended content for the website from the recommendation page, wherein the plurality of recommendations are manually input by the plurality of users; presenting, to the business, the plurality of recommendations; receiving, from the business, a selection of one or more website creation recommendations from the plurality of recommendations; selecting a subset of the plurality of recommendations; presenting, to the business, the subset; receiving, from the business, a selection of one or more additional website creation recommendations from the subset; receiving, from the business, a plurality of content items; generating the website creation recommendation page comprising the plurality of content items; receiving, from the plurality of users, a plurality of votes for the plurality of content items; ordering the plurality of content items according to the plurality of votes to generate a plurality of ordered content items; generating a list comprising a plurality of content types relating to the plurality of ordered content items, the plurality of ordered content items, and a plurality of ranks relating to the plurality of ordered content items; presenting, to the business, the list; receiving, from the business, a selection of a content item from the list; extracting, from the selection of website creation recommendations, the one or more additional website creation recommendations, and the content item, the recommended content; generating the website comprising the recommended content to obtain a generated website; and publishing the generated website.

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2. The method set forth in claim 1 , wherein at least one identified expression references a data provider for a selected interface element.

1. A method, comprising: providing a design interface by a computing system programmed to provide an application development environment, the design interface depicting a runtime appearance of a plurality of interface elements of an application under development, each of the interface elements defined in source code accessible by the application development environment, the source code including declarative expressions defining the interface elements, the source code expressed in a declarative markup language; receiving, through the design interface, data representing a selection of a plurality of the interface elements; identifying the expressions corresponding to the selected interface elements in one or more code segments of the source code for the application under development; defining a new declarative expression; generating at least one code segment using the identified expressions; and storing the generated code segment in a computer readable medium, the stored code segment associated with the new declarative expression.

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1. A computer program product to reduce an amount of processing required to generate a response to a first case by a question answering system, the computer program product comprising: a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the computer-readable program code comprising: computer-readable program code configured to determine that a similarity score, of the first case relative to a second case, exceeds a similarity threshold; computer-readable program code configured to identify a first feature of the second case having a first relevance score exceeding a relevance threshold, wherein the relevance score indicates that the first feature is relevant in generating a correct response to the second case; computer-readable program code configured to determine, based on the similarity score and the first relevance score, that the first feature is relevant in generating a correct response to the first case; computer-readable program code configured to identify a first candidate answer for the first case that does not have the first feature; and computer-readable program code configured to refrain from analyzing the first candidate answer in generating the response to the first case, thereby reducing the amount of processing of the question answering system.

4. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the similarity score is computed based on a context of the first case matching a context of the second case.

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10. The method of claim 9 wherein the timing ticket is a document comprising readable information in a form from a group comprising: a printed code; a bar code, a magnetic strip; an electronic transmitter or transponder; or other machine or human readable value representing the activation code printed on the timing ticket.

9. A method for activating a document handler comprising the steps of: receiving a timing ticket at an inlet in a document validator of the document handler, the ticket providing an activation code, the document validator comprising at least one of: a validation passageway for guiding the document inserted into the inlet, a validation conveyor for transporting the document along the validation passageway, and a validation sensor for detecting optical or magnetic features of the document to produce detection signals; reading the activation code from the timing ticket by the validation sensor; transmitting an electronic signal of the activation code from the validation sensor to a control device of the document handler, the control device receiving detection signals from the validation sensor to decide whether the document is genuine or not; determining a time period for operation of the document handler based on one of the group comprising at least one of: (a) a match of the activation code to a unique time code in a set of time codes accessed by the control device from a memory associated with the control device; (b) a value provided in the activation code; or (c) a value provided separately on the ticket; activating the document handler for operation for a predefined period of time corresponding to the activation code in the event that the activation code matches one of the unique time codes; and initiating a countdown representing the predefined time period in a clock to track the predefined time period for activation of the document handler.

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20. A machine-readable storage medium comprising a glyph substitution table comprising: at least one Unicode field for storing multiple Unicode representations, the multiple Unicode representations defining a collision; at least a first glyph field for storing a first glyph of a character; at least a second glyph field for storing a second glyph of the character; at least one link pointing from the second glyph field to the first glyph field, wherein the at least one link is pointing via a substitution method selected from a group of substitution methods comprising single substitution, multiple substitution, alternative substitution, ligature substation, and context substitution, and at least one additional link pointing from the first glyph field to only a single Unicode representation of the multiple Unicode representations, the at least one additional link resulting from a resolution of the collision.

21. The glyph substitution table of the machine-readable storage medium of claim 20 , further comprising: at least a further Unicode field for storing a Unicode representation of a further character; at least a further glyph field for storing a glyph of the further character; at least a second further glyph field for storing a second glyph of the further character; at least one link pointing from the second further glyph field to the further glyph field; and at least one link pointing from the further glyph field to the Unicode field.

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14. The method of claim 13 , further comprising: receiving a response to the request electronic message, the response including the prior electronic message that was requested in the request electronic message; obtaining a set of information pertaining to the prior electronic message, wherein the set of information pertaining to the prior electronic message comprises: (1) an indication that the prior electronic message is of the particular electronic message type; (2) an indication that the prior electronic message was sent by the particular participant; and (3) a previous sequence indicator that immediately precedes the particular sequence indicator of the received electronic message; accessing the electronic message conversation data structure; updating the electronic message conversation data structure to include the set of information pertaining to the prior electronic message; determining whether the electronic message conversation data structure is missing information pertaining to an earlier electronic message of the particular electronic message type that was sent by the particular participant having a sequence indicator that immediately precedes the previous sequence indicator of the prior electronic message; and in response to a determination that the electronic message conversation data structure is missing information pertaining to an earlier electronic message of the particular electronic message type that was sent by the particular participant having a sequence indicator that immediately precedes the previous sequence indicator of the prior electronic message, sending another request electronic message to one or more participants of the electronic message conversation to request that the earlier electronic message be sent again.

13. The method of claim 10 , wherein determining whether the electronic message conversation data structure is missing information pertaining to the prior electronic message comprises: determining whether the electronic message conversation data structure is missing information pertaining to an electronic message of the particular electronic message type that was sent by the particular participant having a sequence indicator that immediately precedes the particular sequence indicator of the received electronic message.

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3. The method of discovering and analyzing structures of user groups in a microblog according to claim 1 , characterized in that, the step of acquiring at least one core clique further comprises: acquiring, by the processor, a common microblog user existing among the core cliques; re-partitioning, by the processor, the common microblog user into a corresponding core clique such that there is no common microblog user among respective core cliques.

4. The method of discovering and analyzing structures of user groups in a microblog according to claim 3 , characterized in that, the method further comprises: based on the core cliques, merging, by the processor, remaining users in the microblog user association network into a corresponding nearest network core clique in accordance with a certain distance definition; consolidating, by the processor, the core cliques of the microblog user association network by utilizing a hierarchical clustering algorithm to obtain a final structure partition on the user groups in the microblog.

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11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the candidate titles including the best missing topics missing are appended to the optimized title.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein creating an optimized title further comprises: appending missing best topics to the optimized title; and comparing the optimized title to the maximum size.

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2. The system according to claim 1 , further comprising: a field posting index for said documents of the collection, said field posting index comprising a set of fields and a field posting list for each field of said set of fields, enumerating start and end positions of continuous parts of said field in said documents of said collection.

1. A computer system for processing a text search query in a collection of documents, comprising: a computer; a full posting index for the documents of the collection, said full posting index comprising a first set of index terms and a full posting list for said index terms of said first set, enumerating all occurrences of said index terms of said first set in all documents of the collection; search conditions on search terms of a given text search query that are translated into conditions on said index terms to provide translated conditions; an additional posting index for said documents of the collection, said additional posting index being related to a defined document part and comprising a second set of index terms and a restricted posting list for said index terms of said second set, enumerating all occurrences of said index terms of said second set in said document part of said documents of said collection; identified conditions of said translated conditions, which are restricted to defined document parts, for which an additional posting index is available; said identified conditions with part restriction rewritten as pair conditions on index terms of said additional posting index and corresponding document part; and a query result based on said additional posting index and said pair conditions.

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3. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the analysis component utilizes whether a candidate phrase is part of anchor text for a hypertext link for extracting the at least one phrase from the web document for generating the at least one query.

1. A system comprising: a user interface for displaying a web document to a user; a processor in communication with the user interface and coupled to computer readable storage media storing instructions adapted to be executed by the processor; a scanning component implemented by the processor to receive the web document for display on the user interface and scan content of the web document to select candidate phrases comprising at least one word in the web document; an analysis component implemented by the processor to: access at least one of a search engine query log file or a search engine cache containing a plurality of search queries received from a plurality of different users of a search engine; identify, from the plurality of search queries received from the plurality of different users, query frequency information comprising a list of words frequently submitted as the search queries to the search engine by the plurality of different users of the search engine over a defined period of time; extract at least one phrase comprising at least one word from the web document based, at least in part, on a comparison of the candidate phrases with the list of words frequently submitted as the search queries to the search engine by the plurality of different users; generate at least one query based upon the at least one phrase extracted; and provide the at least one query based upon the at least one phrase to an advertising system in communication with the processor; and a display component to display at least one advertisement on the user interface in conjunction with display of the content of the web document, the at least one advertisement being received by the processor from the advertising system in response to the at least one query provided to the advertising system.

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15. The computer system of claim 14 , wherein the determination of whether the parsed name is valid is based on the statistics and one of the first parsing technique and the second parsing technique.

14. The computer system of claim 13 , wherein the operations further comprise: determining whether the parsed name is valid; and in response to determining that the parsed name is not valid, reordering name phrases of the name to form a reordered name; determining whether to perform the first parsing technique; in response to determining that the first parsing technique is to be performed, parsing the reordered name using the statistics and the first parsing technique; and in response to determining that the first parsing technique is not to be performed, parsing the reordered name using the statistics and a second parsing technique.

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1. In a computer network having an information source and a device set comprising client devices associated with a user, at least one of the client devices being configured to receive notifications for presentation to the user, a system comprising, at least one processor, and an information agent service configured to receive a notification directed to the user from the information source, the notification comprising data regularized in accordance with a notification schema, the information agent service being configured to access user criteria to determine conditions for communicating the notification to the user, access context information that indicates client devices in the device set that are likely to be online and accessible to the user, select at least one client device from the device set based on the user criteria and the context information, and communicate the notification to the selected at least one client device of the device set based on the conditions; wherein the user criteria comprise user preference information regularized according to a preference schema, and wherein the user criteria further comprise at least one of people and groups data regularized according to a people and groups schema, extended context data regularized according to an extended context schema, or client computing context data regularized according to a client computing context schema.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the device receives the message, and further comprising a local device policy and a local notification manager, the local notification manager determining whether to output the notification based on the local device policy and metadata of the notification.

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16. A method of facilitating online transactions involving seller financing and notifying users of time limited offers in an online marketplace, using at least one computing device, the method comprising: generating and storing trust profiles for buyer users and seller users, using the at least one computing device, the trust profiles configured to allow both the buyer users and the seller users to evaluate trustworthiness of each other prior to entering into online transactions involving seller financing, wherein the trust profiles include reputation data including: reputational factors, including: at least one rating of at least one of the user's prior transactions, from another user; historical data about the user's conformance to terms of the user's prior transactions; and information about a verification level of the user; and a trust score computed based on at least some of the reputational factors, including a number of the user's prior transactions; and receiving descriptions of a plurality of transaction offerings from a plurality of seller users of the online marketplace, using the at least one computing device, wherein the transaction offerings are available for purchase from the seller users over time for at least two payments; generating a user interface presenting a plurality of listings and the trust profiles using the at least one computing device, each of the listings including one of the descriptions of the plurality of transactions offerings, wherein the plurality of listings are associated with transaction offerings across a plurality of different transaction offering categories; presenting at least some of the plurality of listings to buyer users through the user interface, using the at least one computing device; and facilitating, using the at least one computing device and through the user interface, negotiation of binding contracts between the buyer users and the seller users for transfer of the transaction offerings from the seller users to the buyer users, wherein the binding contracts define payment terms, and wherein the payment terms include prices and seller-financing terms including at least two payments made by the buyer users to the seller users over a period of time, comprising: receiving an offer from a first user of the buyer users and the seller users for one of the transaction offerings, the offer including offer details and a time limit generating an offer alert from the offer that includes the offer details, the time limit, and a customized link, which is selectable by a second user of the buyer users and the seller users to view the offer on the online marketplace; formatting the offer alert according to a preferred offer communication method for the second user; transmitting the formatted offer alert to the second user over a wireless communication network, wherein the formatted offer alert upon receipt instantaneously activates an application on a remote computing device to display the formatted offer alert and enable connection via the customized link to the online marketplace over the Internet upon connection of the remote computing device via the customized link, generating for display on the remote computing device to the second user: a listing for the one of the transaction offerings; the offer including the offer details; the trust profile for the first user; and an option to accept the offer; and receiving an acceptance from the second user.

23. The method of claim 16 , further comprising receiving a hold payment from a buyer user before receiving an offer to enter into a transaction, and placing a listing on hold for a hold period.

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5. The method of claim 1 , the constraint comprising a specified data format required by the tax authority requirement, wherein the output is generated in response to the constraint engine determining that the first electronic data is a format different than a specified data format.

6. The method of claim 5 , the specified data format comprising a data type and a number of characters of the data type.

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1. A method comprising, by one or more computing systems: receiving, from a plurality of client systems of a plurality of users, a plurality of search queries, each search query comprising one or more n-grams; identifying a subset of search queries from the plurality of search queries as being queries for visual-media items, each of the search queries in the subset of search queries being identified based on one or more n-grams of the search query being associated with visual-media content; calculating, for each of the n-grams of the search queries of the subset of search queries, a popularity-score based on a count of the search queries in the subset of search queries that include the n-gram, wherein, for each of one or more of the n-grams of the search queries of the subset of search queries, the count of the search queries including the n-gram is a weighted count that weights an occurrence of each search query based on a degree of confidence with which the search query is identified as being a query for visual-media items; determining one or more popular n-grams, wherein each of the popular n-grams is an n-gram of the search queries of the subset of search queries having a popularity-score greater than a threshold popularity-score; and selecting one or more of the popular n-grams for training a visual-concept recognition system, wherein each of the popular n-grams is selected based on whether it is associated with one or more visual concepts.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of one or more of the search queries in the subset of search queries is further identified based on whether it is a bounded search query that specifically filters for search results having visual-media content.

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5. The method of claim 1 , wherein preview summary candidates are selected from one or more of analysis of: text of the content of the target referenced by the hyperlink, HTML tags, metadata tags, concept tags, comments at the hyperlink, at least one of the preview title candidates, or the preview title.

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, from a user client device, a hyperlink to send to one or more users via a communication system; acquiring a set of data from a target referenced by the hyperlink; storing at least a portion of the set of data on a server; analyzing the set of data to automatically generate a set of candidates for each of a summary and title of a preview for the hyperlink, wherein the preview provides a synopsis of content at the target referenced by the hyperlink; ranking the summary and title preview candidates based on relevance to the target referenced by the hyperlink, wherein the relevance is determined via analysis of positive and negative signals for each candidate, and wherein the analysis includes a comparison of content from at least one title preview candidate with content from at least one summary preview candidate; selecting a top ranked summary and title from the set of candidates; and transmitting, to the user client device, a preview candidate including the selected summary and title in response to receiving the hyperlink.

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20. The method of claim 17 , wherein the first answer includes answer content and a confidence score indicating a likelihood that the answer content accurately answers the first question instance.

17. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: (e) automatically generating a first answer to the first question instance based on the first region definition in the first question instance and the data set.

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22. The method of claim 1 wherein the collective analysis comprises analyzing interactions with a distinguished document, the method further comprising modifying the distinguished document based upon the analysis of interactions with the distinguished document.

26. The method of claim 22 wherein the collective analysis determines that the frequency of text captures from a distinguished portion of the distinguished document is higher than a pre-determined frequency, and wherein the distinguished document is modified by revising advertising to the distinguished document near the distinguished portion.

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15. One or more computer-readable storage media devices as recited in claim 11 , further comprising additional instructions that are executable and, responsive to executing the additional instructions, the computing device uses an inference method to identify one or more of the query terms that are assumed to be desired by the user based on one or more other keywords entered by the user.

11. One or more computer-readable storage media devices comprising instructions that are executable and, responsive to executing the instructions, a computing device: navigates to a Web page being browsed or navigated to; identifies context information for a user of the computing device, the context information including information for at least one of the Web page browsed to or navigated to, previous Web pages accessed by the user, links selected by the user for Web page navigation, or a browsing pattern of the user; uses the context information to identify a set of keywords based at least in part on a current Web page being displayed and one or more of the previous Web pages H displayed for the user in a current Web browsing session, the context information being used to identify the set of keywords in response to a determination that the one or more previous Web pages are related to the current Web page being displayed; uses the set of keywords and at least one of previous searches by the user or current popular searches by other users to identify a set of query terms; displays one or more query terms of the identified set of query terms as part of a user interface of the computing device; and displays the current Web page concurrently with search results of a query based on the one or more query terms in the user interface of the computing device.

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8. A system for validation of a target environment, comprising: a memory and at least one processor operatively coupled to the memory; a validation module, executed via the at least one processor, and capable of assembling a validation script from a plurality of script fragments, and inserting the assembled validation script into the target environment, wherein a script fragment is a component of the validation script that links a data variable of a plurality of data variables with a definition of the data variable and places a result of the linking in a script variable; a target module operatively coupled to the validation module and executed via the at least one processor, and capable of executing the validation script in the target environment; wherein the validation module is further capable of gathering results of the executing; and a reporting module operatively coupled to the validation module and executed via the at least one processor, and capable of reporting the results to at least one user; wherein assembling the validation script comprises: determining a characteristic of the target environment corresponding to the definition; determining that a given script fragment corresponds to the characteristic of the target environment; obtaining parameters for the validation script and writing the plurality of data variables to a database; querying whether any checklist rules correspond to one or more of the data variables; querying, when a checklist rule corresponds to one or more of the data variables, whether the checklist rule has been satisfied; selecting a checklist having the satisfied checklist rule; querying whether the selected checklist has been completed; and appending at least one of a functional component and a data component to the validation script upon determining that the selected checklist has been completed.

13. The system according to claim 8 , wherein the validation module is further capable of: scoping at least a first one of the data variables globally, at least a second one of the data variables to a checklist and at least a third one of the data variables to a request.

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7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the communications server is to transmit the plurality of language constructs in the second language to the second entity with the second language construct.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processing server is further to retrieve a plurality of language constructs in the second language and the communications server is further to transmit the plurality of language constructs in the second language to the second entity.

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8. A method for helping the understanding of a target language by generating and presenting one or more modified versions for at least one sample of said target language, said method being executed upon a computer, said method comprising the following steps: providing at least a closed extract stored in said computer, wherein said closed extract is a data set that contains references to the words of said sample, and optionally also references to additional words or localizers, wherein a localizer is a string of symbols, said string of symbols not being a word in said target language, providing at least two relations stored in said computer, wherein a relation is a data set that comprises the information required to perform one or more modifications upon said closed extract, activating at least one of said relations, wherein said activation applies to said closed extract the one or more modification that are associated to said one relation, said application producing a second closed extract, this second closed extract being a modified closed extract, filtering at least one of said closed extracts to create an open extract, said open extract being a text fragment in the target language optionally containing in addition one or more localizers, wherein an open extract that is produced after filtering a modified closed extract is one of said modified versions of said sample, presenting said open extract in said display, wherein at least one of said modified version differs from said sample in one of the ways included in the following plurality of ways: it contains additional words, or it contains some of the same words in different order, or it contains localizers, so that presenting said one or more modified version provides an aid to the user for understanding said sample.

10. A method as claimed in claim 8 , further comprising the steps of: providing a list of modification types, wherein a modification type is a data entity that defines what modification would be performed upon one or more fragments of closed extracts, providing at least one relational scheme, wherein a relational scheme is a data set that performs as a template, said relational scheme containing at least two parts, the first one of said parts defining one of said modification types, and the second one of said parts being a variable that can be assigned to one fragment of said closed extracts, presenting said relational scheme in said display, detecting a user action, said action assigning a specific fragment of said closed extract to said variable, and creating a new relation, said creation-assigning said relational scheme and said fragment to said relation, so that this method provides an aid to the user to create new relations.

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34. The server system of claim 33 , wherein the instructions for providing presentation information for displaying a list of conversations include instructions for providing presentation information for highlighting a sender's name in the sender list when a message sent by the sender has not been read by the user.

33. A server system, for processing messages, comprising: one or more processing units for executing programs; memory storing one or more programs be executed by the one or more processing units; the one or more programs comprising instructions for: receiving a plurality of messages directed to a user, each message having a unique message identifier; associating each of the plurality of messages with a respective conversation; associating with each conversation a sender list, the sender list identifying a set of senders of messages included in the conversation; and providing presentation information for displaying a list of conversations and their associated sender lists comprising a set of rows, wherein the presentation information is formatted such that: conversation identifying information for each conversation in the list of conversations is displayed as a single row in the set of rows; and the sender list associated with the conversation is displayed in the same single row, along with the conversation identifying information; and wherein a displayed sender list of at least one respective conversation in the list of conversations identifies two or more distinct senders of messages in the respective conversation.

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12. The relational database management system set forth in claim 1 wherein: the container is a parameterized view that is defined using the table function.

1. A relational database management system of the type wherein a table function returns a set of result rows which are represented in an SQL statement by a container for the table function, the relational database management system executing on a processor that has access to a storage device and the relational database management system having the improvement comprising: a rewrite method in the storage device, the rewrite method being associated with the table function returning an SQL string which does not include the table function and which when executed will return a set of result rows which is equivalent to the set of result rows returned by the table function, the relational database system executing the rewrite method prior to executing the container to obtain the SQL string and thereupon rewriting the SQL statement such that the container for the table function is replaced by the returned SQL string.

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8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the selected document is one whose score or priority queue ranking is not within a range of scores or rankings associated with a previously selected document.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to manage priority queues for ranking the one or more documents of the document collection.

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12. The system according to claim 11 wherein the application provides the information to a memory of the apparatus via an SMI call.

11. The system according to claim 10 wherein the ascertaining further comprises: providing the information to an application running in the operating system.

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20. A decompression unit of executable code by a microprocessor, saved in a program memory zone in compressed form, the decompression unit being connected to the microprocessor, the decompression unit comprising: means for receiving from the microprocessor instruction requests of executable code comprising an instruction address to be executed, means for determining a reading address of an addressing table as a function of the instruction address to be executed, the addressing table localizing in the program memory certain saved compressed words, means for reading to the reading address in the addressing table addressing information of compressed words corresponding to the instruction to be executed, means for determining as a function of the read addressing information a reading address of the program memory, means for reading compressed words in the program memory to the reading address, means for decompressing the read compressed words to produce an executable instruction, and means for transmitting to the microprocessor the executable instruction, wherein each word of the executable code is compressed in the form of a part of predefined fixed length and a part of variable length, whereof the length is defined by the part of fixed length, all the parts of fixed length and all the parts of variable length of the words of executable code being combined into a program memory zone respectively in a block of parts of fixed length and in a block of parts of variable length, at least certain parts of variable length being localized in the block of parts of variable length by means of an addressing table, the decompression unit further comprising: means for determining a reading address in the block of parts of fixed length as a function of the address of the instruction to be executed, means for reading the block of parts of fixed length to the determined reading address, and means for decompressing the parts of fixed and variable length read to produce an executable instruction.

22. The decompression unit as claimed in claim 20 , in which the compressed code is organized into lines of parts of fixed length and into lines of parts of variable length, each line of parts of fixed length and the associated line of parts of variable length corresponding to a respective line of a predefined number of instructions of executable code, each of the lines of parts of variable lengths being localized in the program memory zone by means of an addressing table saved in a zone of the program memory, the decompression unit further comprising means for storing a starting address of the addressing table.

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11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the online time tracking view includes activity groups for participants where participants are grouped according to whether the participants were active or passive with regard to one or more pieces of the communication data.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the online time tracking view displays one or more communication indications, each associated with one of the pieces of communication data, where each communication indication is displayed in one of the rows respectively associated with times, wherein, for any particular communication indication, the candlesticks located along the row indicate participants that were online when the associated piece of communication data was created, and the activity groups indicate participants that actively participated in the associated piece of communication data.

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13. A shorthand symbol system for recognizing words, comprising: a graphical keyboard layout for accepting a stroke as an input, wherein the keyboard layout contains a set of characters forming elements in the word without a temporary target element being placed adjacent to a current stroke location; a storage for storing word patterns of a plurality of paths, wherein each path connects a set of letters received from the graphical keyboard layout; a pattern recognition engine that recognizes a word pattern by processing the stroke using a combination of a plurality of channels, each channel selectively processing, in parallel, a different aspect of the stroke in relation to the plurality of the paths on the graphical keyboard layout and producing an output representing a probability estimate for a candidate word, one channel of the plurality of channels processing a location-based similarity probability estimate, another channel of the plurality of channels processing a shape-based similarity probability estimate, still another channel of the plurality of channels processing a path-based similarity probability estimate, and yet another channel of the plurality of channels processing a language context-based similarity probability estimate; and a computer for producing a probability estimate of a candidate word, wherein the computer produces the probability estimate of the candidate word by first serially applying the output of each channel of the plurality of channels alone and separately, and if a recognized word cannot be identified from the output of any one channel, then the computer mathematically integrates outputs of at least two channels of the plurality of channels to produce an integrated probability estimate of the candidate word.

16. The system of claim 13 , wherein the word patterns comprise letters from an alphabet.

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21. An apparatus for automatically assisting a user to select and insert a graphic image in a presentation document, said graphic image thus inserted being relevant to a concept expressed by text within the presentation document, the apparatus comprising: (a) a presentation document generation module for inserting textual and multimedia content into a presentation document in response to user input; (b) a graphics library query module for retrieving graphics images that are relevant to a concept expressed by the text from a graphics library comprising a plurality of graphic images, each graphic image being associated with a concept, the graphics library query module, in response to a request, providing one or more graphic images based on their associated concept, to a requesting module; and (c) a conceptual graphic insertion module for detecting that textual content in the presentation document includes a conceptual word, and in response thereto, submitting a request to the graphics library query module for one or more graphic images associated with the conceptual word based on the concept associated with such graphic images, and enabling a user to select a graphic image from said one or more graphic images provided by the graphics library module in the response to the submitted request, to be inserted in the presentation document.

22. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein for detecting that the presentation document generation module has received user input for inserting a conceptual word in the presentation document, the conceptual graphic insertion module includes: (a) a concept memory for storing a list of words that represent concepts; and (b) a word comparator for comparing words inserted by the presentation document generation module into the presentation document in response to user input to the list of words stored in the concept memory.

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3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the input from the user comprises dragging a keyword on a display device.

2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising means for changing positions of the keywords on a display relative to each other based on input from the user, wherein the change in position of one keyword changes the position of other displayed keywords.

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14. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a structure in the structure dictionary takes a form of a word built using an alphabet of symbols taking a form of constants corresponding to at least one of alpha-numeric strings and characters, and variables corresponding to at least one generic data type, the word being built using formation rules of a formal language, the method of building the structure sub-collection of values matching said word comprising: storing portions of values corresponding to the same symbol in the same symbol sub-collection, the values matching the word, the portions matching the symbol while parsing the values along the structure of the word; and storing the structure sub-collection in a form of the symbol sub-collections corresponding to all particular symbols from which the word is formed using the formation rules.

18. The method according to claim 14 , wherein the symbol sub-collections corresponding to symbols of a word in the structure dictionary are accessible independently whenever resolving a query requires accessing only one or more of said symbol sub-collections.

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47. The device of claim 29 where the encoded content includes text-based content associated with one or more predetermined web content providers that are indicated in a profile associated with the device.

29. A device for presenting web content comprising: a hardware network interface configured to receive encoded content, the encoded content includes text-based content extracted from web content, and the encoded content is encoded by an encoding device in a format suitable for presenting the text-based content as spoken audio using a template automatically selected by an encoding device processor of the encoding device based on one or more of a type of the text-based content and a content provider for the text-based content, the template including placeholders to be replaced with respective portions of the text-based content, a configuration of the template and the placeholders in the template being selected based on the type of the text-based content and selectively employed to generate the encoded content; a display configured to display a user interface for requesting, presenting, and selecting web text items; an audio output device configured to output speech audio; a processor; and a computer-readable storage medium storing instructions executable by the processor to: decode the encoded content with a decoding module to access the text-based content, the text-based content being accessed, via the hardware network interface, from a content database including one or more web text tables for storing each item of the text-based content in respective rows of the web text tables, the content database including a category table for storing available categories of text-based content in respective rows of the category table, where each web text table of the one or more web text tables is associated with a different type of web text stored in that web text table, and each web text table includes different fields from other web text tables based on the type of web text stored in that web text table; display the user interface including a plurality of panels, the plurality of panels including an item list panel for displaying one or more web text items of the text-based content, and a content panel for displaying at least a portion of a selected web text item of the text-based content; generate a speech audio signal based on the text-based content with a text-to-speech module responsive to receiving input to the user interface requesting a first web text item to be output as spoken audio; and output the speech audio signal via the audio output device to present the first web text item as spoken audio.

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4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein determining the score for each of the multiple sub-pages includes: determining that a first search query term of the search query terms is located in a predetermined location in the first document, and causing presence of the first search query term in the sub-pages to less-significantly influence the scores that are determined for the sub-pages than presence in the sub-pages of other of the search query terms that are not located in the predetermined location in the first document.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 , wherein the predetermined location is a uniform resource locator in the document.

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12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first representation comprises a plurality of characters found in the original multi-word first text in a scrambled order relative to their order in the original multi-word first text, and the transiently replacing comprises displaying an animation of the plurality of characters moving into place and re-forming the words of the original multi-word first text.

1. A method, comprising: at a first electronic device with a touch-sensitive display: receiving a message from a second electronic device, the message comprising an original multi-word first text and text effect metadata identifying a text effect associated with the message; displaying a first representation of the original multi-word first text in accordance with the text effect in a messaging application, wherein the messaging application includes a plurality of content items including the first representation; receiving a user input on the displayed first representation in the form of a tap gesture on the touch-sensitive display; and in response to the user input with respect to the first representation: transiently replacing only the displayed first representation with a display of the original multi-word first text for a predetermined time period, wherein all other content items in the plurality of content items are not replaced, and without further user intervention, upon completion of the predetermined time period, restoring display of the first representation.

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12. An information processing device comprising: a communicator configured to communicate with a printer; a controller; and storage storing a program; the controller reading the program from the storage and executing steps including: receiving print information from the printer, the print information being text data written as text; deconstructing the text data and generating multiple words; acquiring keyword information identifying a keyword, and relation information identifying a relationship between the keyword information and a word to detect; and detecting from the multiple words, based on the keyword information and the relation information, the word to detect.

20. The information processing device described in claim 12 , wherein the relationship identified in the the relation information is the relative position between the keyword and the word to detect.

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1. A computer program product comprising a computer useable storage device to store a computer readable program that, when executed on a processor within a computer, causes the computer to perform operations to apply persona styles to written communications, the operations comprising: identify an element of original content of a written communication; determine that the element of the original content of the written communication is incompatible with a selected persona style, wherein the selected persona style defines a communication style; identify a substitute element, wherein the substitute element is identified based on a compatibility between the substitute element and the selected persona style; propose the substitute element for replacement of the element of the original content for consideration by an author of the original content of the written communication; and modify the original content of the written communication to replace the element of the original content with the substitute element.

3. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the computer readable program, when executed on the computer, causes the computer to perform an operation to derive a context for the written communication from system properties and application configuration variables.

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15. The method of claim 10 , where the representation of the second web page also serves as a representation of a third web page, where the third web page includes a reference to the first web page.

10. A method comprising the acts of: (a) making a first web page available on a network so that the first web page can be viewed over the network using a web browser program executing on a client computer operated by a user, so that the first web page is widely available to client computers having access to the network, and where the first web page includes content created by a first author; (b) detecting that a second web page includes a reference to the first web page, where the second web page is widely available to client computers having access to the network, and is an independent web page that is not part of the first web page, and where the second web page includes content created by a second author; (c) after detecting that the second web page includes a reference to the first web page, receiving a request for the first web page from the client computer operated by the user; (d) responding to the request for the first web page by transferring the first web page over the network to the client computer operated by the user, and including within the first web page the content created by the first author and a representation of the second web page, where the representation of the second web page is automatically included within the transferred first web page, meaning that the representation of the second web page is included without requiring the user operating the client computer to be previously aware of the second web page, and without requiring the first author to search for the second web page.

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1. A method comprising: receiving first activity information for a sender of a message sent to at least one recipient by a collection resource at a Web site, wherein the message comprises text associated with the Web site, the collection resource adds a first link to the message, and no personally identifiable information of the sender is collected in collecting the first activity information; storing the first activity information at a storage server; receiving second activity information when a first recipient accesses the first link sent by the sender corresponding to the first activity information stored at the storage server, wherein no personally identifiable information of the first recipient is collected in the second activity information; using at least one processor, using the first activity information to identify a first node in a social graph as being representative of the sender; using the second activity information to identify a second node in the social graph as being representative of the first recipient; determining a category for the first link as a first category type; identifying a first edge between the first and second nodes is representative of the first category type; in the social graph, updating a value of the first edge between the first and second nodes; when the sender sends the message to the first recipient and a second recipient, and the first recipient accesses the first link, updating the value of the first edge between the first and second nodes by a first amount; and when the sender sends the message to only the first recipient and no other recipients, and the first recipient accesses the first link, updating the value of the first edge between the first and second nodes by a second amount, wherein the second amount is greater than the first amount.

18. The method of claim 1 wherein the first edge in the social graph comprises a weighted edge.

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30. The method of claim 18 further comprising configuring a speech recognition system with the speech recognition parameters.

18. A computer-readable storage medium including software for performing a method, the method comprising: receiving a recognition set from a user, the recognition set comprising one or more text words or phrases to be recognized; automatically generating a plurality of alternate phonetic representations of each word or phrase in the recognition set; displaying the phonetic representations to the user in a graphical user interface; generating a plurality of speech recognition parameters for the recognition set based on said phonetic representations; calculating an estimate of the resources used by a speech recognition device to recognize the words or phrases in the recognition set using the speech recognition parameters; displaying the estimate to the user in the graphical user interface; interactively modifying the phonetic representations, and in accordance therewith, modifying the speech recognition parameters, wherein the resources used by the speech recognition device are modified in accordance with the interactive modification of the symbolic representations; and redisplaying the estimate as the phonetic representations are modified.

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30. The method of claim 20 , wherein said boundary display effect is one selected from the group consisting of: a fading out effect and a fog effect.

20. A method of creating a computer-implemented three-dimensional data model of an actual environment on a computer storage medium, the method comprising: collecting, storing, and analyzing element display data, said element display data enabling a processor to cause a display of a three-dimensional representation of each of a plurality of actual elements and the position of said elements in relation to one another in the actual environment, at least two of said actual elements being anchor city elements having identifiable architectural characteristics within said actual environment, the display including at least one image skin applied to at least one three-dimensional structure; collecting and storing element information predetermined to be associated with at least one of the elements, wherein said element is a place of business of an advertiser; soliciting and collecting a recurring predetermined lease payment from the advertiser during a corresponding lease period and, in exchange, enabling the advertiser to control at least a portion of the element information associated with said element during said lease period; generating a user-executable version of the data model of the actual environment from the element data and the element information, wherein at least a portion of the element information controlled by the advertiser is displayable to a user of the data model, wherein said anchor city elements encourage the user to explore any actual elements between said anchor city elements, and wherein at least a portion of the display of the three-dimensional representation of each of the plurality of actual elements includes a boundary display effect for increasingly obscuring said portion of the display; and storing said user-executable version of the data model of the actual environment on said computer storage medium.

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6. A system comprising: at least one processor configured to: determine that an input field of the Web page has been selected; determine whether a speech grammar exists for the input field; generate a speech grammar for the input field in response to determining that the speech grammar does not exist for the input field, wherein generating the speech grammar comprises: identifying a plurality of terms associated with the input field wherein the plurality of terms represent permissible input for the input field and are specified in an attribute of a markup language element for the input field; and generating the speech grammar for the input field based, at least in part, upon the plurality of terms identified in the attribute of the markup language element; determining that speech input has been received for the input field; provide the received speech input and the generated speech grammar to a communicatively coupled automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine configured to recognize the received speech input to produce a textual equivalent to the received speech input using the generated speech grammar; and insert the textual equivalent into the input field.

8. The system of claim 6 , wherein the attribute of the markup language element for the input field specifies the plurality of terms and at least one prefix for one or more of the plurality of terms that may be combined with the one or more of the plurality of terms as permissible input for the input field, and wherein generating the speech grammar for the input field comprises generating the speech grammar for the input field based upon the plurality of terms and the at least one prefix.

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1. A system to dynamically display a presentation of a time duration, the system comprising: a processor configured to receive comments associated with the presentation, the comments arranged in a first ordering, to identify a time reference comment among the comments, the time reference comment including a time reference referencing a time instant within the time duration of the presentation, and to dynamically change an ordering of the comments from the first ordering to a second ordering at the time instant; wherein the processor moves the time reference comment in the second order to an end of a listing of the comments that is closest to the presentation and; a display device configured to display the presentation with the comments, the comments arranged according to the ordering; and wherein, based on the second ordering, the display device shows the time reference comment in an area that is highlighted with respect to others of the comments during the time instant.

2. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the display device shows the comments according to the second ordering beginning at a first specified time length before the time instant until a second specified time length after the time instant based on the processor.

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5. The device of claim 1 , where the one or more processors, when performing the one or more type classification techniques, are to: perform two or more type classification techniques to infer the one or more type classifications corresponding to the unique terms, the two or more type classification techniques including at least two of: the name-based analysis, the context-based analysis, the synonym-based analysis, or the value-based analysis.

1. A device, comprising: an interface including one or more of a communication interface or a user interface; a memory; and one or more processors to: obtain, via the interface or from the memory, information identifying type classifications, each type classification, of the type classifications, indicating that terms classified under the type classification are expressed by a particular type of value of a plurality of types of values, the plurality of types of values including character strings and numeric values; obtain, via the interface, text to be processed to infer one or more type classifications, of the type classifications, associated with terms in the text, the text being included in a file associated with development of a computer program for a computer system, and each respective term, of the terms, being associated with a plurality of different possible values of a same type classification of the one or more type classifications; standardize the text to prepare the text for processing by adjusting at least one character in the text of the file; process the text that has been standardized to identify terms in the text based on delimiting characters in the text; associate at least one tag with the identified terms in the text, the at least one tag being one or more of a part-of-speech tag, an entity tag, or a term tag; extract, based on the at least one tag associated with the terms, one or more terms, of the terms identified in the text, as unique terms for which to infer the one or more type classifications, a quantity of the unique terms being fewer than a quantity of the terms identified in the text; generate a data structure that stores the unique terms; perform one or more type classification techniques to infer the one or more type classifications corresponding to the unique terms, the one or more type classification techniques including at least one of: a name-based analysis that compares the unique terms to one or more sets of name-based type indicators corresponding to the one or more type classifications, a context-based analysis that compares one or more modifiers, that modify the unique terms, to one or more sets of context-based type indicators corresponding to the one or more type classifications, a synonym-based analysis that compares one or more synonyms, of the unique terms, to the one or more sets of name-based type indicators corresponding to the one or more type classifications, or a value-based analysis that compares one or more values, associated with the unique terms, to one or more sets of value-based type indicators corresponding to the one or more type classifications; classify the unique terms by assigning the one or more type classifications to the unique terms based on performing the one or more type classification techniques; provide, for display via the interface, information associated with development of the computer program, the information associated with development of the computer program indicating a type relationship between a particular term, of the unique terms, and a particular type classification of the one or more type classifications; receive, via the interface, a set of test data rules from a user or from another device; generate test data based on the set of test data rules, the test data including the unique terms to be classified, type classifications under which the unique terms are to be classified, and values for the unique terms; apply the test data to the computer program, the computer program being designed based on the text that was processed to infer one or more type classifications for the unique terms extracted from the text, and the applying of the test data to the computer program includes input of the test data to the computer program and executing the computer program to: classify the test data to obtain a confidence score associated with the classifying a unique term, of the unique terms, under each of the type classifications determined to be associated with the unique term; and provide, for display to the user or to another device, the test data, the one or more type classifications generated from the test data, and the confidence score associated with the one or more type classifications.

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1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for tangibly storing computer-readable code thereon suitable for execution by a computing apparatus, the computer-readable code, when executed, being adapted to implement a method for visually indicating on a display those documents that have been copied from one axis of documents to another axis of documents based on a user-selected attribute, the method comprising: (a) providing a first group of documents at least some of which are associated with one or more attributes; (b) displaying documents of the first group of documents along a first axis; (c) with respect to a first user-selected attribute of one of the first group of documents that is associated with one or more attributes, (i) receiving user input representing the first user-selected attribute; (ii) copying to a second axis each document of the first group of documents that has the first user-selected attribute, one or more documents copied to the second axis being displayed along the second axis during a period of time in which one or more documents of the first group of documents is displayed along the first axis; and (iii) displaying for a predetermined time period a visual distinctive feature for each displayed document that is copied from the first group of documents to the second axis; whereby a user is able to visualize which documents along the first axis have been copied to the second axis; and (d) with respect to a second user-selected attribute of one of the first group of documents that is associated with one or more attributes, (i) receiving user input representing the second user-selected attribute; (ii) copying to a third axis each document of the first group of documents that has the second user-selected attribute, one or more documents copied to the third axis being displayed along the third axis during a period of time in which one or more documents of the first group of documents is displayed along the first axis; and (iii) displaying for a predetermined time period along the first axis a visual distinctive feature for each displayed document on the first axis that is copied to the third axis; whereby a user is able to visualize which documents along the first axis have been copied to the third axis.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium tangibly storing computer-readable code thereon for implementing the method of claim 1 , wherein the first axis of documents includes the documents located thereon in a chronological order thereof.

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16. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the program code to generate the visual representation comprises program code to select from a group comprising one or more statistical analyses of the referenced data and one or more graphical representations of the referenced data from the data source.

13. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a processor to: receive text information; compare the text information against a data source, wherein the comparing comprises applying natural language processing (NLP) to determine one or more assertion statements in the text information that references data from the data source, wherein comparing the received text information against the data source includes dynamically analyzing the received text information as the text information is received; retrieve the referenced data associated with the one or more assertion statements from the data source; generate a visual representation of the referenced data associated with one or more assertion statements, wherein the program code to generate the visual representation comprises program code to generate one or more statistical analyses of the referenced data for determining veracity of the one or more assertion statements, wherein the one or more statistical analyses comprise one or more inferential statistics from the referenced data; and display the visual representation, wherein the display is integrated with an authoring interface.

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18. The method of claim 10 wherein the first block represents one of the first component model and the second component model depending on a user's selection of the first component model and the second component model.

10. A computer-implemented method for modeling a target system, the method comprising: identifying a first block that represents multiple component models in a block diagram model of a target system; displaying a user interface in response to a user action indicating a selection of the first block, the user interface including a mechanism that provides the user with the multiple component models; and receiving a user selection that selects a first component model from the multiple component models; incorporating the first component model into the model of the target system using the block; saving the model of the target system that includes the first component model in a memory; switching the first block to represent a second component model in response to a user action indicating a selection of the second component model in the user interface; and incorporating the second component model into the model of the target system by one of copying or referring to the second component model in the block, conditionally evaluating at least a part of the component model, or executing a sequence of modifications to the component model.

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2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the blog-publishing application captures one or more of video recordings, photographs, audio recordings, text data, or graphics data.

1. A method for operating a host computing device to obtain copyright protection for a blog post within a blog-publishing application, the method comprising: capturing a user inputted blog post by a blog-publishing application running on the host computing device; based upon user input received via the blog-publishing application running on the host computing device and from within the blog-publishing application, launching a copyright registration application running on the host computing device via an Application Program Interface (API) of the blog-publishing application running on the host computing device and an API of the copyright registration application running on the host computing device, wherein the API of the copyright registration application supports presentation of an icon within a user interface of the blog-publishing application, and wherein selection of the icon supports launching the copyright registration application; and the copyright registration application running on the host computing device: receiving the blog post from the blog-publishing application via the API of the blog-publishing application and the API of the copyright registration application; obtaining copyright registration information for the blog post based upon at least one of user input and stored data; accessing a remote copyright registration data web server via the Internet; retrieving recorded user information for a user from the remote copyright registration data web server; uploading the blog post to the remote copyright registration data web server; receiving payment information via user input; interfacing with the remote copyright registration data web server to generate an electronic copyright application using the copyright registration information, the recorded user information, the payment information, and the blog post; interfacing with the remote copyright registration data web server to electronically submit the electronic copyright application to a copyright registration server; and receiving a confirmation of submission of the copyright registration application; automatically publishing the blog post by the blog-publishing application after the confirmation is received; and the copyright registration application running on the host computing device presenting an option to upload the blog post to the remote copyright registration data web server without applying for copyright registration.

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14. The system of claim 11 , wherein the instructions are executable to update all links and associated weights in the relevance map of the target user node based on the creation of the number of links and the associated weights.

15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the instructions executable to create the number of links, in the relevance map of the target user node, between the target user node and each of the number of first nodes that are ranked include instructions to: determine whether the query is a positive query or a negative query; decrease the value of the weights that are associated with the number of links between the target user node and each of the number of first nodes if the query is determined to be the negative query; and increase the value of the weights that are associated with the number of links between the target user node and each of the number of first nodes if the query is determined to be the positive query.

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5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising providing a hyperlink between the first file and the selected subset of the plurality of conversations, wherein the hyperlink influences a ranking of search results that include at least one of the first file and the plurality of conversations.

1. A method of identifying conversations of a social network system having relevance to a first file, comprising: identifying a plurality of conversations within the social network system, wherein the plurality of conversations each have a relationship with the first file, wherein the social network system provides a platform for storing and sharing conversation, and each conversation includes a conversation and associated information; generating, by a system server, a list of inquiries based on the plurality of conversations, wherein the list of inquiries includes search terms used in a search that identified the first file and the plurality of conversations, thereby establishing the relationship between the first file and the plurality of conversations by text analysis or filtering; providing, by the system server, the list of inquiries to at least one sender of the first file, wherein the sender is provided with write-privilege to the first file; receiving from the at least one sender at least one response to the list of inquiries; selecting a subset of the plurality of conversations based on the at least one response; storing information related to the selected subset of the plurality of conversations for access if the first file is selected; providing, by the system server, the selected subset of the plurality of conversations to a user that selects the first file; and identifying the at least one sender to the user.

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1. A computer-implemented method comprising: via a processor executing computer-readable instructions: extracting from a digital corpus an object; extracting from the digital corpus a pseudo-anchor text associated with the object, wherein extracting the pseudo-anchor text comprises: extracting from the digital corpus a parallel object identified with a second object identifier; identifying an occurrence of the object in the digital corpus; selecting a first candidate anchor block based on the occurrence of the object; identifying an occurrence of the parallel object in the digital corpus; selecting a second candidate anchor block based on the occurrence of the parallel object; comparing similarity between the first identifier and the second identifier; adding the first candidate anchor block and the second candidate anchor block to a common candidate anchor block set if the similarity between the first identifier and the second identifier satisfies a specified threshold; and extracting the pseudo-anchor text from the common candidate anchor block set; and making the pseudo-anchor text available for searching.

11. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the object is identified with a first identifier, the method further comprising: extracting from the digital corpus a parallel object identified with a second object identifier; comparing similarity between the first identifier and the second identifier; and treating the parallel object and the object as the same object if the similarity between the first identifier and the second identifier satisfies a specified threshold.

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7. A method for rendering a summary of a video, comprising: determining, by a processor, one or more semantic segments of the video having metadata indicating a type of the video; determining, by the processor, one or more visual tags, one or more audio keyword tags, and one or more attribute tags associated with the one or more semantic segments of the video, wherein the one or more visual tags, the one or more audio keyword tags, and the one or more attribute tags relates to content of the one or more semantic segments of the video; validating, by the processor, the determined one or more visual tags, the determined one or more audio keyword tags, and the determined one or more attribute tags by comparing each of the determined one or more visual tags, the determined one or more audio keyword tags, and the determined one or more attribute tags against one another for each of the determined one or more semantic segment of the video, wherein if a content identified by one of the determined one or more visual tags, the determined one or more audio keyword tags, and the determined one or more attribute tags is not identified by comparison with another of the determined one or more visual tags, the determined one or more audio keyword tags, and the determined one or more attribute tags, then the content identified by one of the determined one or more visual tags, the determined one or more audio keyword tags, and the determined one or more attribute tags is discarded from further content analysis; generating, by the processor, one or more emotion objects by identifying patterns of the determined one or more visual tags, the determined one or more audio keyword tags, and the determined one or more attribute tags that correspond or correlate with the one or more emotion object for each of the determined one or more semantic segment of the video for which the content identified by one of the determined one or more visual tags, the determined one or more audio keyword tags, and the determined one or more attribute tags has not been discarded during validation, wherein each emotion object of the generated one or more emotion objects specifies an emotion or a mood that a corresponding one or more semantic segments of the video is expected to elicit from a viewer; generating, by the processor, a video summary interface on the display screen for presentation to the viewer, wherein the generated video summary interface comprises of a first window display region and a second window display region, wherein the horizontal extent of the first window display region of the video summary interface corresponds with the temporal length of a frame of the video; displaying, by the processor, the frame of the video within the second window display region of the video summary interface; displaying, by the processor, a timeline object within the first window display region of the video summary interface, wherein the timeline object corresponds to the temporal length of the frame of the video displayed in the second window display region of the video summary interface; displaying, by the processor, a first indicia associated with the generated one or more emotion objects within the first window display region of the video summary interface, wherein the first indicia is displayed within the first window display region of the video summary interface at a location corresponding with the temporal position appearance of the one or more emotion object in the video; displaying, by the processor, an audio object indicia associated with the determined one or more audio keyword tags within the first window display region of the video summary interface, wherein the audio object indicia is displayed within the first window display region of the video summary interface at a temporal location corresponding with the temporal rendering of the determined one or more audio keyword tags in the frame of the video; and displaying, by the processor, a key word object indicia associated with the determined one or more audio keyword tags within the first window display region of the video summary interface, wherein the key word object indicia is displayed within the first window display region of the video summary interface at the temporal location corresponding with the temporal rendering of the determined one or more audio keyword tags in the frame of the video.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising determining a visual object for at least one of the determined one or more semantic segments of the video.

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61. The system of claim 60 , the applying of the hash function and the including of the hash value in the unique identifier are performed in association with the storing of the document in the document management storage.

60. The system of claim 59 , the method further comprising: applying a hash function to the document, therein generating a hash value, and including the hash value within the unique identifier.

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6. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the selected statistical model implements an analysis of means.

1. A computer program product for excluding variations attributable to equipment used in a semiconductor wafer manufacturing process from split analysis procedures, the computer program product including a storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for facilitating a method including: identifying one or more dependent variables related to a split analysis performed using data from a split lot of semiconductor wafers manufactured by equipment the semiconductor wafer manufacturing process; performing a test to ascertain whether or not a variation attributable to the equipment used in the semiconductor wafer manufacturing process exists with respect to any of the one or more identified dependent variables; if a variation attributable to the equipment exists, constructing a target data set and a training data set, wherein the target data set includes the identified dependent variables, a plurality of numerical variables used to implement split definition variables in split analysis, and a plurality of equipment-related variables related to the equipment used in the semiconductor manufacturing process, and wherein the training data set includes any data set from which a statistical model may be constructed; identifying a signature for the variation attributable to the equipment used in the semiconductor manufacturing process; selecting a statistical model based upon the identified signature; constructing the selected statistical model using the training data set to generate a statistical output; joining the target data set with the statistical output; adjusting the identified dependent variables in the target data set using the statistical output; and providing a graphical user interface that visually displays an extent to which at least one of the equipment-related variables impacts the split analysis.

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1. A computer-implemented system for creating a hierarchical semantic map of a document and extracted information, comprising: a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing processor executable instructions configured to cause the processor to: apportion, with the processor, the document into major sections by accessing the document and recognizing a hierarchical structure of the document, the hierarchical structure comprising multiple levels; divide the document into the major sections according to the hierarchical structure; access a machine learning model including a plurality of classifiers configured to classify portions of the document, each of the plurality of classifiers for a respective level of the multiple levels of the hierarchical structure; classify, with the processor, each of the major sections of the document by using a first classifier included in the plurality of classifiers, and map the major sections to the key elements; search, with the processor, one major section that is mapped to one key element, and identify sub-sections within the one major section, the sub-sections including granular level pieces of information comprising sub-granular clause types; select a second classifier from the plurality of classifiers according to features of the one major section, wherein the features achieve a maximum confidence score by the second classifier, wherein the maximum confidence score indicates that the sub-sections associate with at least one of the key elements; classify, with the processor, each of the granular level pieces of information using the second classifier selected for the one major section, and map each of the sub-sections to at least one of the key elements; extract granular level pieces of information corresponding to the sub-granular clause types from the identified sub-sections by using sequence modelers and linguistic characteristics provided by a data profiler, the data profiler configured to recognize linguistics characteristics of the extracted information, wherein the linguistics characteristics comprise predicates, structures, neighboring characters, and types of data that induce regular expressions of the extracted information, wherein the sequence modelers are previously trained based on an annotated corpus; generate the hierarchical semantic map of the document by using the extracted information according to the hierarchical structure, and store the extracted information and the hierarchical semantic map in a database; and present in a user interface in a user display device drop down selections of the key elements of the document, and in response to a selection of one of the key elements, display the extracted information associated with the selected key element.

5. The computer-implemented system of claim 1 , wherein the processor executable instructions further cause the processor to: regenerate the machine learning model and the data profiler to be stored in the database according to a feedback for the generated hierarchical semantic map and the extracted information wherein the feedback is received from a subject matter expert through a user interface.

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21. An article of manufacture comprising a storage device in the form of a memory or a computer readable disk, the storage device comprising programming instructions for identifying phrasal terms in a text, the programming instructions when executed causing a processing system to carry out steps comprising: receiving a text having a plurality of words; determining a plurality of context, wherein a context comprises one or more words proximate to another word in the text; for each context, determining a first frequency based on a number of occurrences of the context within the text; assigning a first rank to at least one context based on the first frequency for the at least one context; determining multiple word-context pairs; for each word-context pair, determining a second frequency based on a number of occurrences of the word associated with the word-context pair being used in the context; assigning a second rank to at least one word-context pair based on the second frequency for the at least one word-context pair; determining a rank ratio for each word-context pair based on the first rank and the second rank associated with the word-context pair; determining a mutual rank ratio based on multiple rank ratios; and identifying a phrasal term based on the mutual rank ratio.

24. The article of claim 21 , wherein determining a mutual rank ratio comprises: computing a product of the one or more rank ratios corresponding to an n-gram; determining an n th root of the product; and assigning the n th root of the product to the mutual rank ratio for the n-gram.