Abstract: A concept discovery method, system, and computer program product include preparing a concept index for concepts built over a set of input data having input terms, building a vector representation of the concepts in the input data, receiving a set of query terms as an additional input, mapping the set of query terms to the concepts in the concept index, calculating at least one of a co-occurrence score for each of the concepts in the concept index by measuring their frequency of co-occurrence with the input terms' concepts and a similarity score for each of the concepts in the concept index by measuring the similarity of their vector representations according to a vector similarity measure, and ranking the concepts with respect to their relevance to the input terms by the at least one of the co-occurrence score and the similarity score.

Abstract: A display adaption method, system, and computer program product include determining an obscured area of an interface of a screen that is obscured by a user, learning a pattern of the obscured area of the screen that is obscured over a time frame, and adapting the interface of the screen to change the interface of the screen to change an interference by the user with the interface of the screen such that the obscured area is reduced.

Abstract: A terminology extraction method, system, and computer program product include extracting terminology specific to a domain from a corpus of domain-specific text, where no external general domain reference corpus is required. The method assumes that terms which share common noun token(s) in a domain corpus are likely to be very related, that terms which are very related in a domain are likely to be equally or similarly important even though there might be large differences among their term frequencies, and that an abbreviation and its corresponding expansion have equal importance as terms.

Abstract: A display adaption method, system, and computer program product include determining an obscured area of an interface of a screen that is obscured by a user, learning a pattern of the obscured area of the screen that is obscured over a time frame, and adapting the interface of the screen to change the interface of the screen to change an interference by the user with the interface of the screen such that the obscured area is reduced.

Abstract: A concept discovery method, system, and computer program product include preparing a concept index for concepts built over a set of input data having input terms, building a vector representation of the concepts in the input data, receiving a set of query terms as an additional input, mapping the set of query terms to the concepts in the concept index, calculating at least one of a co-occurrence score for each of the concepts in the concept index by measuring their frequency of co-occurrence with the input terms' concepts and a similarity score for each of the concepts in the concept index by measuring the similarity of their vector representations according to a vector similarity measure, and ranking the concepts with respect to their relevance to the input terms by the at least one of the co-occurrence score and the similarity score.

Abstract: A terminology extraction method, system, and computer program product include extracting terminology specific to a domain from a corpus of domain-specific text, where no external general domain reference corpus is required. The method assumes that terms which share common noun token(s) in a domain corpus are likely to be very related, that terms which are very related in a domain are likely to be equally or similarly important even though there might be large differences among their term frequencies, and that an abbreviation and its corresponding expansion have equal importance as terms.

Abstract: A pointing device and method include a pad occupying a region, a raised border at a perimeter of the region and an object slidably movable on the pad for contacting the border. A detecting device is configured to detect a physical contact by the object at any position on the border wherein contact with the border generates a signal indicating a contact position on the border.

Abstract: A pointing device and method include a pad occupying a region, a raised border at a perimeter of the region and an object slidably movable on the pad for contacting the border. A detecting device is configured to detect a physical contact by the object at any position on the border wherein contact with the border generates a signal indicating a contact position on the border.

Abstract: A system and method for constructing a natural language description of one or more objects in a virtual environment includes determining a plurality of properties of an object and an environment given a current viewpoint in a virtual environment. An object description is created using the plurality of properties where the object description reflects multiple display characteristics of the object in the virtual environment. Object descriptions in the virtual environment are combined by classifying objects in the virtual environment to condense a natural language description.

Abstract: A system and method for correcting mispositioning of an aiming device including extracting features from an information stream which includes position information for an aiming device and comparing the features with feature profiles to determine modifications to remediate mispositioning actions. The information stream with the modifications is provided as a basis for actions of the aiming device.

Abstract: A system and method for correcting mispositioning of an aiming device including extracting features from an information stream which includes position information for an aiming device and comparing the features with feature profiles to determine modifications to remediate mispositioning actions. The information stream with the modifications is provided as a basis for actions of the aiming device.

Abstract: A method and system that provide a central repository for client specific accessibility applications to a user from an accessible server. The repository is updated on a periodic basis with new solutions provided by the service provider, who also manages licensing agreements between the user and the owner of the accessibility application. Accessibility programs, such as page magnification, screen readers, background changes, input modification, etc., are downloaded into the client device being used by the user customer by clicking link buttons from a web page generated by the service provider's server. The accessibility programs downloaded are then resident on the client device until changed by the user. In a preferred embodiment, the service provider also provides a universal transcoding service to apply the user selected accessibility transformations to any type of client device used by the user.

Abstract: A method and system that provide a central repository for client specific accessibility applications to a user from an accessible server. The repository is updated on a periodic basis with new solutions provided by the service provider, who also manages licensing agreements between the user and the owner of the accessibility application. Accessibility programs, such as page magnification, screen readers, background changes, input modification, etc., are downloaded into the client device being used by the user customer by clicking link buttons from a web page generated by the service provider's server. The accessibility programs downloaded are then resident on the client device until changed by the user. In a preferred embodiment, the service provider also provides a universal transcoding service to apply the user selected accessibility transformations to any type of client device used by the user.