Patents by Inventor Ye Yi

Ye Yi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20070219793
    Abstract: A method of forming a shareable filler model (shareable model for garbage words) from a word n-gram model is provided. The word n-gram model is converted into a probabilistic context free grammar (PCFG). The PCFG is modified into a substantially application-independent PCFG, which constitutes the shareable filler model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Alejandro Acero, Dong Yu, Ye-Yi Wang, Yun-Cheng Ju
  • Publication number: 20070129936
    Abstract: A conditional model is used in spoken language understanding. One such model is a conditional random field model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ye-Yi Wang, Alejandro Acero, John Lee, Milind Mahajan
  • Publication number: 20070055492
    Abstract: To provide application developers with the ability to easily form customized grammars, grammar extensions are provided that allow application developers to selectively include portions of grammar templates and to easily combine grammar elements to form new grammar structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2005
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ye-Yi Wang, Dong Yu, Yun-Cheng Ju, Alejandro Acero
  • Patent number: 7105094
    Abstract: A method which uses a process reactor having three separate reaction stages to remove high concentrations of heavy metals from acidic wastewater and chemical solutions. During each of three stages the pH level of the wastewater is increased and sludge and flocculate organic and metal hydrocyl matters are removed from the wastewater to provide clean water which is discharged in to a sewer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: T. Richard Lee, Ye Yi
  • Publication number: 20060184354
    Abstract: A method for creating a language model from a task-independent corpus is provided. In one embodiment, a task dependent unified language model is created. The unified language model includes a plurality of context-free grammars having non-terminals and a hybrid N-gram model having at least some of the same non-terminals embedded therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Xuedong Huang, Milind Mahajan, Ye-Yi Wang, Xiaolong Mou
  • Patent number: 7080004
    Abstract: A grammar authoring system uses multiple sources of information to aid grammar authoring. This produces a semantic grammar derived semi-automatically with a relatively small amount of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ye-Yi Wang, Alejandro Acero
  • Patent number: 7048854
    Abstract: An apparatus which uses a process reactor having three separate reaction stages to remove high concentrations of 3000 mg/l heavy metals from acidic wastewater and chemical solutions. During each of three stages the pH level of the wastewater is increased and sludge and flocculate organic and metal hydroxyl matters are removed from the wastewater to provide clean water which is discharged in to a sewer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: T. Richard Lee, Ye Yi
  • Patent number: 7031908
    Abstract: A method for creating a language model from a task-independent corpus is provided. In one embodiment, a task dependent unified language model is created. The unified language model includes a plurality of context-free grammars having non-terminals and a hybrid N-gram model having at least some of the same non-terminals embedded therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Xuedong D. Huang, Milind V. Mahajan, Ye-Yi Wang, Xiaolong Mou
  • Publication number: 20060074631
    Abstract: A method for authoring a grammar for use in a language processing application is provided. The method includes receiving at least one grammar configuration parameter relating to how to configure a grammar and creating the grammar based on the at least one grammar configuration parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ye-Yi Wang, Alejandro Acero
  • Publication number: 20060069547
    Abstract: A method and system to generate a grammar adapted for use by a speech recognizer includes receiving a representation of an alphanumeric expression. For instance, the representation can take the form of a regular expression or a mask. The grammar is generated based on the representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ye-Yi Wang, Yun-Cheng Ju, Leonard Collins, Mark Cecys, Alejandro Acero
  • Patent number: 7016830
    Abstract: A language processing system includes a unified language model. The unified language model comprises a plurality of context-free grammars having non-terminal tokens representing semantic or syntactic concepts and terminals, and an N-gram language model having non-terminal tokens. A language processing module capable of receiving an input signal indicative of language accesses the unified language model to recognize the language. The language processing module generates hypotheses for the received language as a function of words of the unified language model and/or provides an output signal indicative of the language and at least some of the semantic or syntactic concepts contained therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Xuedong D. Huang, Milind V. Mahajan, Ye-Yi Wang, Xiaolong Mou
  • Patent number: 7013265
    Abstract: A language processing system includes a unified language model. The unified language model comprises a plurality of context-free grammars having non-terminal tokens representing semantic or syntactic concepts and terminals, and an N-gram language model having non-terminal tokens. A language processing module capable of receiving an input signal indicative of language accesses the unified language model to recognize the language. The language processing module generates hypotheses for the received language as a function of words of the unified language model and/or provides an output signal indicative of the language and at least some of the semantic or syntactic concepts contained therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Xuedong D. Huang, Milind V. Mahajan, Ye-Yi Wang, Xiaolong Mou
  • Publication number: 20050172808
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing volatile contaminants, such as VOCs, from water or other supplies of liquid. In one embodiment of the invention, a gas is sparged through a helical flow of liquid to strip away contaminants. The flowrate of the helical flow of liquid and the flowrate of the gas are held at an optimum ratio to maintain flow stability and maximize stripping efficiency. In another embodiment of the invention, the liquid is processed through a series of stripping stages until volatile contaminants are stripped to a desired level. A portion of the liquid is recycled within each stage, while a system flow of liquid passed from one stage to the next. The flowrate of the recycled flow and the flowrate of the system flow have a ratio that provides improved system capacity while ensuring proper volatile removal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventor: Ye Yi
  • Publication number: 20050080611
    Abstract: A language processing system includes a unified language model. The unified language model comprises a plurality of context-free grammars having non-terminal tokens representing semantic or syntactic concepts and terminals, and an N-gram language model having non-terminal tokens. A language processing module capable of receiving an input signal indicative of language accesses the unified language model to recognize the language. The language processing module generates hypotheses for the received language as a function of words of the unified language model and/or provides an output signal indicative of the language and at least some of the semantic or syntactic concepts contained therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Xuedong Huang, Milind Mahajan, Ye-Yi Wang, Xiaolong Mou
  • Publication number: 20050080615
    Abstract: A language processing system includes a unified language model. The unified language model comprises a plurality of context-free grammars having non-terminal tokens representing semantic or syntactic concepts and terminals, and an N-gram language model having non-terminal tokens. A language processing module capable of receiving an input signal indicative of language accesses the unified language model to recognize the language. The language processing module generates hypotheses for the received language as a function of words of the unified language model and/or provides an output signal indicative of the language and at least some of the semantic or syntactic concepts contained therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Xuedong Huang, Milind Mahajan, Ye-Yi Wang, Xiaolong Mou
  • Patent number: 6878188
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing volatile contaminants, such as methyl tertbutyl ether (MTBE), from water or other supplies of liquid. In one embodiment of the invention, a gas is sparged through a helical flow of liquid to strip away contaminants. The flowrate of the helical flow of liquid and the flowrate of the gas are held at an optimum ratio to maintain flow stability and maximize stripping efficiency. In another embodiment of the invention, the liquid is processed through a series of stripping stages until volatile contaminants are stripped to a desired level. A portion of the liquid is recycled within each stage, while a system flow of liquid passed from one stage to the next. The flowrate of the recycled flow and the flowrate of the system flow have a ratio that provides improved system capacity while ensuring proper volatile removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Inventor: Ye Yi
  • Patent number: 6865528
    Abstract: A language processing system includes a unified language model. The unified language model comprises a plurality of context-free grammars having non-terminal tokens representing semantic or syntactic concepts and terminals, and an N-gram language model having non-terminal tokens. A language processing module capable of receiving an input signal indicative of language accesses the unified language model to recognize the language. The language processing module generates hypotheses for the received language as a function of words of the unified language model and/or provides an output signal indicative of the language and at least some of the semantic or syntactic concepts contained therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Xuedong D. Huang, Milind V. Mahajan, Ye-Yi Wang, Xiaolong Mou
  • Publication number: 20040220809
    Abstract: The present invention thus uses a composite statistical model and rules-based grammar language model to perform both the speech recognition task and the natural language understanding task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2003
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way
    Inventors: Ye-Yi Wang, Alejandro Acero, Ciprian Chelba
  • Publication number: 20040220797
    Abstract: A NLU system includes a rules-based grammar for slots in a schema and a statistical model for preterminals. A training system is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2003
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ye Yi Wang, Alejandro Acero
  • Publication number: 20040107836
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing volatile contaminants, such as methyl tertbutyl ether (MTBE), from water or other supplies of liquid. In one embodiment of the invention, a gas is sparged through a helical flow of liquid to strip away contaminants. The flowrate of the helical flow of liquid and the flowrate of the gas are held at an optimum ratio to maintain flow stability and maximize stripping efficiency. In another embodiment of the invention, the liquid is processed through a series of stripping stages until volatile contaminants are stripped to a desired level. A portion of the liquid is recycled within each stage, while a system flow of liquid passed from one stage to the next. The flowrate of the recycled flow and the flowrate of the system flow have a ratio that provides improved system capacity while ensuring proper volatile removal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventor: Ye Yi